"Norman Spinrad - He Walked Among Us" - читать интересную книгу автора (Spinrad Norman)

тАЬBut that's like giving a detailed chemical analysis of smears of paint on canvasтАФundeniable scientific
truth as far as it goes, maybe, but not exactly a useful description of theMona Lisa ."

So what was now called the New Age Circuit had always been here in one incarnation or another, for
the sacred orgy ranches, the seminar centers, the holistic resorts, the plush retreats for artists and writers
and well-heeled pilgrims, grew naturally and organically out of this landscape like magic mushrooms and
wild marijuana.

Just as there would always be a Hollywood churning out popular culture through whatever karmic
transformations in the realm of media maya, so too would there always be the Circuit to which Xanadu
belonged by whatever name to provide soul food to spiritual seekers.

And Amanda kidded herself not, as long as there were paying rubes to be fleeced, there would be
snake-oil salesman and sleazy side-show gurus working the Cosmic Carney Circuit. Indeed, she had to
take care to avoid becoming one herself, having better tools with which to do so than most.

For few others along this circuit also acted in TV and commercials as she did, and no one else she knew
actually coached performers. And she fretted that some of the тАЬexperiencesтАЭ in her repertoire perhapsdid
have too much clever show business technique about them and too little genuine satori, like the telepathic
mind meld that was really not much more than a blend of Method acting and simple hypnotic tricks.

тАЬWell, tonight, we're going to start with the unscientific notion that the visions that come to us in dreams
are on the deepest reality levelthe same visions that come to us in the act of artistic inspiration, that the
door to the Dreamtime is also the door to our creative imagination....тАЭ

Which was why тАЬWalkabout Through the DreamtimeтАЭ was her favorite.

тАЬSo if we can learn how to open that door by act of conscious will while we'reawake , we can summon
dreams forth into our waking minds, summon inspiration forth from our own vast deeps and gain
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conscious control of our own creative powers...."

There was a bit more of this lecture stuffтАФtechniques of lucid dreaming, dreams as precognition, dreams
as arising into the human mind from the collective species unconsciousтАФbut all this was more or less by
way of convincing the customers that they were getting their $200 worth, timewise.

The real heart of it, the techniques themselves, could be explained, if hardly mastered, in a few minutes.

тАЬTonight I want you to stay awake as long as possible before you go to bed, I want you to be as drowsy
as possible. Then just lay there and watch the stream of your own consciousness. Don't try to think of
anything in particular, don't try to hold your mind empty, just let whatever happens happen. Just lay there
thinking your usual bedtime thoughts, whatever they are, but this time try to watch them without trying to
effect them...."

Amanda stood up slowly, leaned forward slightly, peered at the group, narrowed her eyes slightly, as if
watching for something.