Sacred Foothill

Sol Luckman

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The Sacred Foothill
Becomes especially important
In wintertime

When the driving snow comes
And you can no longer see
The Sacred Mountain above

Small though it may be,
As one ascending
Out of the darkness
Toward the Light,

I need this foothold in sanity
To remain steady
In the whiteout of chaos
That is the world

Copyright © 2012 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. You can learn more about Sol’s nonfiction, fiction and art at www.CrowRising.com.]

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Manifesto for a New Fiction

SOL LUCKMAN 

[Excerpted from the acclaimed comic novel, currently available for free download, BEGINNER’S LUKE.]

The problem with much contemporary American—some would say, world—fiction is twofold. If we understand many commercial novels these days to fall somewhere on the spectrum between literary and visionary, with much in the middle that scarcely deserves mentioning, it’s hard to ignore the fact we’re living a classic Catch-22. Literary novels are just not that visionary, which is another way of saying they’re often boring and unimaginative, slaves to a dogged realism—whereas visionary novels are, typically, none too literary, which is another way of saying often poorly, if not execrably, written, cobbled together with their narrative machinery clanking and clunking.

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Historically, the exceptions confirm the rule. Tolkien’s THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS are indeed consummately both literary and visionary. These classics have also been imitated so many times—unsuccessfully, even laughably—it beggars belief. Here and there a contemporary novel pops up on the radar in this magical Twilight Zone where craft and invention seem indissolubly wedded—Robert Coover’s THE PUBLIC BURNING comes to mind—but those of us literary-visionary hybrids who scour today’s fictional landscape in search of inspiration usually come up empty.

The fly in the ointment is that old bugger, realism. Nearly two centuries after Stendhal’s novel-as-mirror traveled the tedious highway of fiction, and despite the influences of modernism and postmodernism, the majority of today’s novel readers, like Coca-Cola addicts, still want the Real Thing. I’m speaking metaphorically, of course. The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn’t have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes real it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what’s commonly referred to as reality. This is a pivotal point—that the real world probably isn’t what you believe it is, or rather, that it’s precisely what you believe it is—which, if you still don’t get it, I can only trust someday you will.

I don’t mean any of this theoretically. Theory does everything in its power to remove the living soul of literature, tear its heart out, make of the study of Art a hard-edged Science. Never mind that Art is as far removed from measurement as Science is from love. As writers confronting theory, it’s incumbent on us not to let our prose dry up in that desert, but to allow it to become a desert rose, our prose, flourishing in the heat and sands of what passes for knowledge.


We must, then, for them to be of any worth whatsoever, live our theories practically. For writers this means, inevitably, doing the deed—not just having the idea but putting it on paper, writing down not just the bones of our dreams but their flesh and blood as well. Literature, at its best, and despite the recent attempts of critics, can never be murdered and dissected, as it’s an immortal yet organic thing, drawing on the richness and complexity of Experience yet somehow managing to transcend its mundane origins like an alchemist transmuting base metals. The current twin foci on theory and realism conspire to dry up the spirit and wither the soul, blind the eye and deafen the ear, broil the brain and microwave the heart—and perhaps most disturbingly for us radical wordsmiths who still haven’t sold out to the Man, brown the nose and pucker the rectum.

If we’re to avoid becoming fiction robots in a corporate world, we must stop adding to our educational excesses, eschew the assembly line of MFAs and bottom-line publishing houses, commit ourselves to a way of writing that engages in a valiant struggle to push the limits of plot and language so as to awaken, not anesthetize, the reader. Anything rather than live in the dead world of those cold people, the Intellectuals. Anything rather than subject ourselves to the fusty chain of academic command, the savage petty politics where the arguments are so heated because the stakes, as someone once astutely quipped, are so small.

We must lay our ears back and push on into the literary fourth dimension, realm of feminine chaos and infinite possibility, forego regionalism and play with farce—and, especially, always appreciate the bizarre. Love for the bizarre is, itself, transformational. When you welcome the bizarre into the fiction of your life, anything and anybody can be transformed from dogsh*t into gold.

Let’s begin a new literary movement. I don’t care what we call it. Let’s start writing novels for people who don't like novels. Because these days who can blame them? You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can’t please all the people all the time. So let’s at least please ourselves. Years from now when verisimilitude is finally understood as a terribly limiting proposition, let our daringly experimental books (often self-published, often ignored by the mainstream) be remembered as the Rubicon fiction crossed on its journey into multidimensionality. There can be no turning back, for readers or writers, after our historical strokes of madcap genius. Or so my story goes.

Once in every generation, if we’re lucky, a character shows up who can teach us about reality because he’s more real than ourselves. Melville called such a character a “Drummond light” after the type of light once used in theaters that was capable of providing illumination in many directions. May one of us create such a character. Better yet, let’s buck tradition and create a string of Drummond lights, each a brilliant facet of the Hope Diamond that is our new fiction. Let’s turn away, once and for all, from old Enlightenment tropes toward a new narrative of Enwritenment. Together let’s write light.

In so doing, maybe, over time, our inherited and mostly dysfunctional posterity urge based on ego will gradually give way to something more stable, healthier, that might be called simply the urge to be. To have been versus to be. Product versus process. In the face of a literature of monoliths and petroglyphs, we have the choice to opt for incompletion. May our new writing shine with the protean power of now. May imagination become the new faith.

Copyright © 2012 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of comic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. You can learn more about Sol’s nonfiction, fiction and art at www.CrowRising.com.]
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Must Watch: The Bill Wood Material

I encourage readers to listen to a fascinating interview from last week with a former Navy Seal about his alleged involvement with Project Looking Glass.

In my opinion, this is some of the best material out there on what’s actually going on as we approach December 21, 2012. And it’s very, very positive!

Enjoy!


And here’s a follow-up group FAQ with Wood, Bill Ryan, David Wilcock and Kerry Cassidy, which in some ways is even more profound than the initial interview …

 
Welcome to 2012!
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Are We Zealots? Occupy This!

Sol Luckman

In an argument yesterday with a family member over the festering wound that is our country, the coming Untied States of America, I was, for the first time in my life, that I know of, called a zealot.

This epithet was launched in my direction on the heels of a discussion about free will and self-determinism, concepts which my liberal relative—let’s call him Babbit—clearly felt to be out of style, old-fashioned, even a little naïve.

When I pressed the issue, arguing that no one should be forced to buy health insurance, for example, that it was unconstitutional, he replied, “You know, the Constitution is really outdated.”

Now, while I enjoy a good time, I’m certainly not a Teabagger. And I can see plain as day—along with the rest of the 99 Percent—that we live under the yoke of a corporate kleptocracy over which our elected chief has very little direct control, even if he were inclined to take a stand (which by all indications, he is not) for the greater good.

Nevertheless, I was caught a little off guard and had to massage my jaw up off the tile floor in the aftermath of Babbit’s summary dismissal of the wisdom of our well-meaning but misguided forefathers, who apparently knew nothing about fighting tyranny or preventing it from happening again and penned a quaint, disposable document in their rustic ignorance called the Constitution.

When I could speak again, and suggested that he do some homework on any number of issues  that could be addressed by following the Constitution, ranging from Fraudclosuregate to the real truth behind 9/11 to the many problems created by the Federal Reserve System to the illegal targeting of American citizens for assassination …

When I recommended that he consider how Big Pharma and Big Insurance have colluded to make a mockery of our health care system, which is really a “sick care” system designed not to cure anything but to profit from a purgatory of disease management …

When I implied that he was a somnambulist whose dangerous semiconsciousness merely helped prop up a corrupted system long based on economic slavery and genocide …

When I proclaimed that the system was broken and could not be fixed, but had to crash and burn so that something better could rise up from its ashes …

I guess I offended Babbit, because he promptly labeled me a zealot.

Not that I was unaccustomed to perspectives similar to my relative’s. The lamestream media labels anyone with ideas dangerous to the global parasite that is the system a zealot.

The media goes on, with smug faux logic, just like Babbit did, to say there is no proof of any such claims of corporate and government (one and the same, basically) wrongdoing—when there is an abundant and ever-increasing mountain of proof of all these crimes and more by our “leaders” available to anyone willing to do due diligence.

My advice to Babbit and his brainwashed ilk: stop talking, start thinking for yourself, and try using Google.

At first I was furious that anyone had dared to call me a zealot. But then I got to wondering, “What is a zealot?”

To have zeal, according to my handy Oxford Dictionary, means to have “earnestness or fervor in advancing a cause or rendering service.”

That doesn’t sound so bad. How “zeal” got turned into “zealot,” meaning “an uncompromising or extreme partisan,” is a fascinating story involving—get this—an ancient Jewish resistance movement who fought against Roman occupation until AD 70.

Now, who on earth do you think gave those brave Jews fighting to maintain their culture and dignity (not unlike today’s protesters) against an oppressive state the negative attribution zealots? Clue: history belongs to the victors.

My point? It’s a good thing to be a zealot, by God, to have some fire in your veins … to possess a human spirit that is still alive and kicking ... to desire to be of service in freeing humanity from centuries of enslavement.

If you want to be something grand, to do something with your time here on this planet worth celebrating and remembering, be a fanatic: for truth, for liberty, for life, for love.

I’m not in a position at this moment to join the Occupy Wall Street protests (learn more here, here, here and here), which in my opinion are the best thing the world has seen in decades and will end up making the 60s look like the 50s.

For now, this is my contribution to this fabulously amorphous and eclectic movement. If you feel as I do about it, I encourage you to support it in your own way, large or small, public or private.

And if you run into any Babbits, try to love them—I know it’s hard—despite themselves.

Things are going to get really tough for them soon when their precious world and worldview come crashing down around their pink little ears and they start to wake up.

And then the fun begins. Because after years of being made fun of by the Babbits of our slumbering species, we finally get to rub the light of truth we’ve known all along in their blinking, sleep-crusted eyes. Or not.

Copyright (c) 2011 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD  and the newly released POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE  Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. You can learn more about Sol’s nonfiction, fiction and art at www.CrowRising.com.]
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Gripping down, Beginning to Awaken

Sol Luckman

As an undergraduate studying literature back in the 1980s, I became fascinated by the poetry of William Carlos Williams. The incredible starkness, its iconoclastic nature, the startling beauty of its lines.

Years ago I put Williams behind me, as I went about developing my own creativity and style.

But late last night I heard a strange sound when the crazymaking April winds finally calmed up here in the dustbowl of the high desert: tiny, almost rhythmic notes emanating from the metallic vent above the hallway like a tin drum.

At first, I failed to recognize what was happening. “What’s that sound?” I asked Leigh, before answering my own question in one of life’s miniscule epiphanies.

Realizing it had been half a year—at least—since I’d heard that welcome tink-tink-tink, I opened the sliding door to the back patio. Sure enough, a soft atmospheric rain enveloped the nearby mesa and distant cañón.

Raindrops tapped against my outstretched face like unexpected blessings. My senses buzzed with the divine incense of rain-stirred sage on the humid breeze, mixing with the equally indescribable piñon smoke from the kiva, and I went to sleep with the certainty that the seasons, at long last, were changing … for the better.

This morning I awoke to a new world, where globes of crystalline rain hung like microcosms from the bare naked silver of aspen limbs.

“This is the kind of rain that brings on spring,” I whispered, surprised by my own joy, as it seemed I could actually perceive, in a sort of time-lapse, winter loosing its grip on the moonscape it had made.

Then I remembered “By the Road to the Contagious Hospital,” a poem by Williams that constitutes a section of SPRING AND ALL which I once wrote a paper on. Here it is:

By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches—

They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—

Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of
Entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken 

I instantly felt, gazing out on my local environment in such inarguable transition, while contemplating the greater world experiencing its own massive transformation, that I was living this poem from my past.

Spring is happening to us—on the inner as much as the outer—as we feel ourselves entering a new world naked, uncertain of everything except that we’re entering it.

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The process can be painful at times because it is, literally, one of birth—or rebirth.

Do we choose to contemplate the hardened, calcified paradigms of yesterday’s winter—the twiggy, dead stuff of our past?

Or do we embrace spring’s possibilities, even probabilities, as we push up through the crust (hard as that might be) with stark dignity and begin to awaken to a new life?

Perhaps we have no choice, and must learn to adapt to this unprecedented season of the world, and as best we can embrace the profound change that will soon be fully upon us.

Copyright (c) 2011 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and the newly released POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. For information on the “revolutionary healing science” (NEXUS) of the Regenetics Method, check out www.PhoenixRegenetics.org. Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. Characterized by Reader Views as a “modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND” and by Apex Reviews as a “mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast,” BEGINNER’S LUKE is also, as literature professor Niama Williams has written, a “spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.” Share the Adventure of an imaginary lifetime by visiting www.BeginnersLuke.com. View Sol’s paintings and learn more about his work at www.CrowRising.com.]

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The Quickening of "Ener-genetic" Awareness

Sol Luckman

You may or may not be conscious of the important fact that our planet and all her inhabitants are approaching a historical Galactic Alignment at the end of next year on or around December 21, 2012.

This powerful alignment with Galactic Center was detailed in scholarly fashion by John Major Jenkins in MAYA COSMOGENESIS 2012: THE TRUE MEANING OF THE MAYA CALENDAR END-DATE, as well as in subsequent books by the same author.

This date may well mark the arrival of a “galactic superwave,” to borrow a phrase from physicist Paul LaViolette, potentially capable of much damage to our electromagnetic grid.

But such a superwave, referred to in Vedic literature as the purifying and regenerative “soma varta fire” (sometimes called “somvarta”), may also engender a radically positive genetic shift in our species—one quite possibly underway ever since our solar system entered a zone of heightened “torsion” energy some years ago.

Numerous ancient wisdom traditions grasped the profound “ener-genetic” quality of this window of time and its associated wave, or waves, of background energy designed to upgrade the human race—spiritually and even physically.

I believe it is this movement of conscious energy, intelligently directed by Galactic Center as a series of accelerating precursor waves heralding the arrival of a transformational superwave, that Carl Johan Calleman tracks (without admitting as much, and with debatable accuracy in his timeline) in his version of the Mayan calendar.

While many fixate on a plethora of shadowy phenomena—ranging from Planet X to pole shift—with the potential to greatly disturb our world, in my opinion the ener-genetic upgrade we’re presently experiencing at the level of consciousness is the only real game in town.

In addition to a galactic superwave engendering an evolutionary transmutation of our species, we also must consider a complementary scenario that is occurring even as I compose these words.

In the new physics model elaborated by David Wilcock and others, the universe is compartmentalized into discrete zones of torsion, or hyperdimensional, energy—which have been mapped (albeit accidentally) by way of “red shift” explored in traditional astrophysics.

Thanks to this new interpretation of red shift, it is highly plausible that the personal and collective chaos we’re currently witnessing is a natural result of entering an enhanced zone of cosmic energy in the process of reinventing everything in our world.

When I say everything, I mean everything. As recently intimated by scientists stumped by the suddenly mutable nature of heretofore immutable elements such as Carbon-12, even so-called natural laws are starting to change.

I’m reminded of a passage by physicist Lee Smolin in THE LIFE OF THE COSMOS, where he suggests, as a scientist, that the “idea that the laws of nature are immutable and absolute” may actually be wrong.

Indeed, many ostensible constants in our world are morphing faster than most of us can keep up with. The shifting sands of our crumbling world(view) include massive reevaluations of our leaders, institutions, systems, beliefs, and ideologies.

Though I acknowledge we may be in for a bit of a wild ride in 2011, my overall take on the world situation remains decidedly upbeat. Right now the world is quickly breaking down so that, just as quickly, it can break through.

It is common for conspiracy theorists to stereotype the planetary population as “sheeple” being led to the slaughter, and for new agers to dwell somewhat nebulously on spiritual “awakening.”

While both of these opposing viewpoints offer some insight into current events and the myriad responses to them, really, the most basic reason behind the people’s revolutionary changes in perspective is that we are simply getting smarter.

Never in history has it been truer that you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Before long it will be observed by those in power (and soon not to be) that you can’t fool any of the people any of the time.

The widely discussed Flynn Effect indicates dramatic, unprecedented increases in human IQ over recent years that—having to do with symbolic thinking—just cannot be explained by better education or improved technology.

Why are we getting smarter? Because we’re changing genetically, as both the galactic superwave and hyperdimensional energy models sketched above explain.

Research by anthropologist John Hawks, focused on genetic information in the fossil record, led to the declaration that for the last 40,000 years—and even more shockingly, in the past 5,000 years—humankind has experienced “supercharged evolutionary change.”

Hawks is referencing measurable changes in DNA so exponential in the modern era that a human from 3,000 B.C. is more genetically comparable to a caveman than to anyone we might encounter today.

Can you feel this quickening of ener-genetic awareness in yourself? Have you experienced increased intuition, greater synchronicities, triple digits everywhere seeming to say that more is going on here than meets the eye?

Then have some faith that, appearances notwithstanding, we hover on the brink of some profoundly positive twists and turns as our consciousness soars to radically new heights.

And as our consciousness rises in response to influxes of higher galactic energy, it is inevitable that our world will be uplifted as well.

Copyright (c) 2011 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and the newly released POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. For information on the “revolutionary healing science” (NEXUS) of the Regenetics Method, check out www.PhoenixRegenetics.org. Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. Characterized by Reader Views as a “modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND” and by Apex Reviews as a “mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast,” BEGINNER’S LUKE is also, as literature professor Niama Williams has written, a “spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.” Share the Adventure of an imaginary lifetime by visiting www.BeginnersLuke.com. View Sol’s paintings and learn more about his work at www.CrowRising.com.]

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