The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

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Comment by Clyde Grauke on December 14, 2011 at 9:21am

That is very cool Gary that you are able, successfully, to tap into the essence of a book with only a title and synopsis, to be handed intuitively an appropriate image, and to be able to hammer out a hard-edged, specific product that meets the author's intent in the real world speaks to your having a wide range of skills across the spectrum of consciousness.  Keeping your head in the sky and your feet on the ground without losing your balance is an art form in itself.  Congrats on your skills.

Comment by Gary Val Tenuta on December 13, 2011 at 11:07pm

Clyde - I can relate to your entire 2nd paragraph. I encounter that same variety of experiences. :-)

I supplement my income by designing book covers. More often than not, when the author sends me the title and a brief synopsis of the book, I get an immediate picture in my head of what the cover should look like. And, again more often than not (I'd say easily 95% of the time), the author is overwhelmingly surprised that I was able to capture the feel of the book so well. The bummer about that immediate picture in my head is that I can't adequately express it in words to the author. Even a rough sketch doesn't do it because it's the nuances that I build into the total picture that bring it to life. So I have to do the complete cover design (which sometimes requires detailed illustrations) and then hope the author is pleased. Luckily, as I mentioned, more often than not they're more than pleased.

I had to grin when you said:

"when I rationally and with linear thought formulate an idea and attempt to give it form, it nearly always ranks among my poorest work, if I don't trash it outright."

I know exactly what you mean. :-)

Comment by Norma Hickox on December 13, 2011 at 12:25pm

Hey Gary,

My songs came to me the same way back in the 80s. I would sit on the couch in the living room, (the piano was in another room) and I would write the words and music at the same time while watching television. Sometimes I wouldn't even listen to them until the next morning.

Comment by Clyde Grauke on December 13, 2011 at 11:53am

Hi Gary, your experience of receiving lyrics and melody as a whole cloth is very interesting.  I think there are intriguing things going on in the process of our "being creative" that are worth looking into.  I have the general impression that all creativity is an out-flowing of the inherent creativity of the Core Self through the "channel" of our physical being and they flow best when we get out of the way, so to speak. 

My experience is that I may (or may not) get an intuitive niggling that something is in the wings, I pause and wait with an open mind, and then I get a download of a complete package that I then memorize until I can record it or create a drawing.  Some times the flashes just pop in out of no where.   If the impression involves something more complex, I will get a sense of possibilities and then sit down over a variety of sessions to give it form and in each I move into "the flow."  If I am not able to get into the flow and continue following intuitions (which I rank among the methods that higher sources communicate) then the possibilities tend to be still-born and the fault is mine.  As a counter-part to this process, when I rationally and with linear thought formulate an idea and attempt to give it form, it nearly always ranks among my poorest work, if I don't trash it outright.  My most common thing, though, is to receive things full form and this particularly involves poetry and art.  With art I get the whole scene and then its a matter of duplicating what I saw...which leaves me feeling like a fake because I assume authorship for something I did not personally create (i.e. the original view)

I began looking at Tolkien again because on an inner journey I was talking with other personified entities about who among my "guides" would be a good resource for my learning more about the Enochian alphabet and language as well as a resource for studying the runes and in this conversation it was said to me that Tolkien had accurately received the Elvish writing and language.  So I went looking.  Tolkien is hard to pin down in regard to his internal processes but I get the impression that things came to him as a whole rather than by analytic conjecture.  I also think there was an interplay (as I believe it is with all of us) between his knowledge and intentions and the intuitive assistance he was receiving from where ever.  I personally think he may have gotten a hold of more than he realized.

Xephyr, you said "yes" in regard to your poetry.  I would be interested in your elaboration of this process and how it plays out for you sometime.

Comment by Xephyr on December 13, 2011 at 3:38am

yes

Comment by Gary Val Tenuta on December 13, 2011 at 12:35am

Interesting idea about Tolkien channeling the information. One wonders sometimes where writers get their ideas. Many songwriters have said some of their songs seem to have come to them as if they were already written. I had that experience as a songwriter back in the 80s. One song came to me in a flash as I was sitting in my car in a parking lot. I grabbed a pen and a scrap of paper and had to scribble the lyrics down as fast as I could before I lost it. Interestingly, the melody came along with it. Out of the hundred or more songs that I wrote, that same sort of experience happened probably a dozen times.

Have you had that experience with your poetry?

Comment by Clyde Grauke on December 11, 2011 at 8:56am

Hi CaSundara, I popped in between holiday season tasks and saw this group.  Thanks for setting it up and hope you are feeling better.

Congratulations Gary.  You seem to be very tenacious and your trail of synchronicities is interesting.  I tend to pop in and out of the writing mood as well as being a literary butterfly when it comes to my area of focus.  I write poetry, flash non-fiction, family history, and spiritual memoir.  I do it to share and communicate.  I feel no particular push to publish, although recently I have put it on my "back-burner to do list" to look into smashwords for epublishing collections of my existing poems and/or my flash narratives, since all I have t do is re-format.

Currently I am getting very intrigued with Tolkien and getting re-immersed in his work.  I am particularly looking at his process of accessing or creating his material.  My intuition is that he was activating inner journey methodology and that he may have been in a recipient mode of what would today be referred to as channeled information.  It is anyway a hypothesis I am entertaining until I get enough information to accept or reject it.

Comment by Gary Val Tenuta on December 9, 2011 at 3:52pm

Hi Skywriter and Norma. Thanks for the congrats. And thanks, Norma, for the heads up about booklocker.com. I'd forgotten about them. Might be a good way to go for the paperback edition of my book. Will check it out. Thanks again. :-)

Comment by Norma Hickox on December 9, 2011 at 10:43am

Congratulations Gary.

Skywriter check out booklocker.com. I did three of my books through them and they make them available on Amazon for you plus other ways. They do either paperback or hardcover, "print on demand" or ebooks. I've always found them to be a reliable publisher.

Comment by Skywriter on December 9, 2011 at 10:11am

Congrats Gary! I am patiently waiting for Amazon availability for paperback or hardcover.

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