I’m sitting here on my couch with a nice buzz, thinking about stuff. With a clearer mind these days, I’ve been thinking more and more about writing. I was thinking about all the books that I’ve written and the plot lines for all those books. That’s when it occurred to me; something peculiar, yet not so unsurprising.
I am the main character in all my stories.
It’s true, the more I think about it. I see myself in every one of these books, and I’m always the main character. But not me, per se, but a persona of me. A facet of my personality, both good and bad.
I’ve been on a spiritual quest this year, you might say. I’ve had some experiences that have changed my life, even my outlook on the universe at large. Part of this Jungian journey I’m on includes what he calls “shadow work”, or facing your dark side. Well, my friends, I dove in and I dove deep. I realized some things about myself that I never really knew or understood before. Some dark shit.
These characters of mine…they’re all me. My different personas, all hidden in the shadow. I was unknowingly doing my own shadow work for the past decade, all through writing. All through the act that I love more than just about anything else.
That’s not an accident.
The universe, god, or whatever has had me in school for years now, working through my demons and producing my books, the text within, as an artifact that can be shared by others. My demons, personified and archived in the form of the written word.
Alex Grey says that if your art is helping other people, then you’re doing God’s work. Be that the “universe” or whatever, my books help people escape for a while. They get to go on adventures and maybe some of my demons’ stories will become as parable to the reader.
What I’m saying here is that writing is doing the universe’s divine work. It fills me with joy to know that my books have contributed to the universal good, albeit just a tiny little bit.
Okay…so this shit is really hitting right now, if you catch my drift, and this might just be altered state babble, but I really just think it’s my third eye opening.
I have so much to share…