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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Visualize: An Artistic Meditation for Creating a New World

Sol Luckman

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Visualize your ability to visualize.

This is no small or laughing matter.

Your world, our world, depends upon it.

Literally.

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Visualize your innate power of imagination to manifest the reality you desire.

Visualize hundreds, thousands, millions of people energizing

A similar vision, until one day very soon

The vision manifests as the veil parts

And the light comes streaming through.

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This is no new age fantasy.

This is how the universe works.

It is how it has always worked.

In the beginning not only was the Word.

In the beginning the Creator had a vision.

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The Creator visualized this world

In all its diversity, glory and majesty.

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The Creator visualized our ancestors.

Then the Creator visualized you and me.

In an entirely real sense

Like Athena we sprang fully formed from the mind of the Creator.

In an entirely real sense

We are children of God.

In an entirely real sense

We carry the God-spark within ourselves.

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In the words of Marianne Williamson …

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

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Or as the Master Jesus said

In words that seem to apply perfectly to these times

Of planetary and personal transfiguration …

As I do these things, so shall you, and greater things.

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Something wonderful is transpiring.

Something amazing, something truly uplifting.

A new reality is being created out of the ashes of the old.

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Some still cannot see it for the smoke in their eyes.

Yet, a new world is being visualized into existence by a growing number of people

Who are not “sheeple”

Or puppets dangling on a string

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But creators ourselves, made in the image of the Creator.

The effect is nonlocal, morphogenetic, unifying, electrifying.

And it is assisted by the cosmos itself

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Infusing us with all the energy we need

To accomplish the task of renewal we came here to do

After the passing of the old.

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Carl Jung once said that breakdown is a prerequisite for breakthrough.

This is a universal truth.

Presently, we are reaching the moment of breakdown.

The breakdown of the old hierarchical system of control and manipulation

Is to be celebrated, not feared.

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Join those of us visualizing a world with no Big Brother, no war for profit, no banksters,

No mortgage fraud, no compound interest, no taxation without honest representation.

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Let us visualize a world with no derivatives, no securitized investments,

No Big Pharma, no Big Oil, no FDA, no FEMA, no nukes, no state secrets.

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Let us visualize a new world where the earth is revered,

Freedom is respected,

Creativity is remunerated,

And genuine community is reestablished.

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Visualize letting go of fear and being in the Moment, in the Now

Of this historical transformation into a world society

That is truly ours to bring about.

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Finally, visualize answering these questions from your heart.

Now that we are on the verge of breakdown,

What will be your contribution to the breakthrough?

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How will you use your divine ability to imagine a new, better reality into being?

What will be your gift, or gifts, to the world you help create?
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Text and images copyright © 2011 by Sol Luckman. All rights reserved.

To learn more about Sol Luckman’s visionary writing and painting, visit www.CrowRising.com.

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First Breakdown, then Breakthrough

SOL LUCKMAN 

In the spirit of Carl Jung, I’ve been saying and writing for years that breakdown is a prerequisite for breakthrough (for example, here and here).

This is a universal truth, as far as I can tell, that operates both on the “macro” and “micro” scale. Or as the ancients said, “As above, so below.”

Presently, lo and behold, as seen in the crumbling-in-real-time world economy, we’re finally reaching the proverbial moment of breakdown.

Can you hear the sucking sound at the center of global finance? That’s the cosmic vacuum cleaner come to suction up the mess that has become of our social systems.

This, on the heels of the bubbling up into public awareness of such epic levels of greed and corruption on the part of the elite that the mind simply boggles.

I know people are scared we’re all going to hell in a hand basket. But I don’t think that is what’s going on here.

Something else, something wonderful is transpiring. A new world is being created out of the ashes of the old. Right now, it’s just a little hard to see for the smoke in our eyes.

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It’s happening with poetic justice, you know. After so much abuse of the planet and population by the Powers that Were, there’s something virtually archetypal about so many chickens coming home to roost all at once.

I can’t bring myself to believe—despite the arguments made by a vocal minority of Internet conspiracy theorists—that the global fiscal implosion in process right now is purely by design of the so-called Illuminati.

Even if this financial crisis were planned, as David Wilcock has pointed out, the world economy is, fortunately, a complex adaptive system.

A hallmark of complex adaptive systems, a concept that has been studied rigorously, is that they cannot be manipulated in a mechanical manner.

In other words, they cannot be controlled so as to produce a preordained outcome.

Think of a house of cards falling. That’s what the global economy based on debt and fiat currency is, anyway.

You might be able to make a house of cards fall. But it’s virtually impossible to predict the exact nature of the “hand” the falling cards will create.

Will you be dealt a full house? straight aces? or a fold?

See the problem with playing God? Playing God is just another way of saying playing with fire. And much more than fingers can get burned.

While we’re at it, let’s get another thing straight. The planetary economic system is a form of slavery (if not an outright death sentence) for the vast majority of the world’s population.

If you don’t know what I mean, please, wake up.

The old system needs to crash and burn. I can’t emphasize this point enough. And if we have a soul at all, we need to be willing to let it.

While I mean “crash and burn” rather literally (think: Fight Club), I definitely don’t feel we’re headed into a decade-long Great Depression or a post-apocalyptic world.

My understanding is that new systems and technologies—better systems and technologies—have been in preparation for many long years waiting for this very moment to arrive.

Doom-and-gloomers (many of whom are probably on the payroll) who insist the world will spiral into chaos and darkness in the aftermath of the breakdown fail to realize that even our existing technologies, such as the Internet, will allow us to reorganize our society—in short order and for the betterment of all—like a truly complex adaptive system.

And even in the absence of the Internet, think of all the books and DVDs on everything from permaculture to sustainable architecture to renewable energy that are available right now around which new and old communities can rally in a country minute.

The breakdown of the old hierarchical system of control and manipulation is to be celebrated, not feared.

In the words of Steely Dan, “Any world that I’m welcome to is better than the one I come from.”

Imagine a world with no Big Brother, no war for profit, no taxation without honest representation, no compound interest, no Big Pharma, no Big Oil, no nukes, no reality TV.

Join me in letting go of the fear and being in the Moment, in the Now, of this historical transformation into a world society that is truly ours to create.

Now that we’re on the verge of breakdown, what will be your contribution to the breakthrough?

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

 

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[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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June-July 2011 (Vol. 7, No. 6)

Breaking News: The Source Field Investigations Now Available for Preorder!

Author and researcher David Wilcock’s much-anticipated book, The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science & Lost Civilizations behind the 2012 Prophecies, is set for release August 18, 2011.

Please help this important text reach a huge mainstream audience!

In Wilcock’s words, “I thank all of you who have preordered my new book from the bottom of my heart. The simple bottom-line truth is that if we hit 15,000 preorders, we automatically debut on the New York Times bestseller list.

“Imagine what this can do—hard scientific proof that can defeat the Illuminati/Old World Order agenda and empower people with scientific proof that we can stop these disasters from happening with our own consciousness.

“Right now we’re just under a quarter of the way there—and we have until August 18 to make this happen.

“We had a fantastic ‘bump’ on Amazon when we first announced this and you began doing the preorders—we literally went from about 75,000 to 14 in one day, causing a nearly 500 thousand percent increase.

“According to my publisher this is effectively ‘unprecedented in the publishing industry,’ and has already caused a lot of interest. As one example, we now have the top audio book company, Brilliance, working with us, and foreign publishers are lining up …

“The preorder price lets you save a little over ten dollars from the retail price at $29.95 in most cases …

“There was some price confusion when the book was first announced, as it was originally slated to be only 350 pages. I threw in material that I intended to save for other books … because I realized it was so important to get this all out in one master work … The page count is now 528 the last time I checked.”

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THE TOY BUDDHA II: Downstairs, the Party Rages

What would you do if the Buddha suddenly reappeared? What would you do if he suddenly didn’t? 

In this seriocomic adaptation from THE TOY BUDDHA, Book II of the critically acclaimed BEGINNER’S LUKE Series, Luke Soloman’s  Adventure of an imaginary lifetime soars to mock-epic proportions in an enlightening spoof of all things held sacred in American culture. 

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“A modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND.” —Reader Views

“A mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast.” —Apex Reviews

“Definitely a spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.” —Niama Williams, Ph.D.

WARNING: THE TOY BUDDHA may cause vertigo, euphoria, lunatic laughter. May fundamentally alter you so the old rules no longer apply, so it’s okay if clothes become optional, okay to make love not war, okay to set fire to your country club, dig up your neighborhood golf course, plant an organic garden and build your new community one puff at a time …

Luke’s signature obsessions with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious, and life-changing, point: CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination—for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world.

Visit the official BEGINNER'S LUKE website at www.beginnersluke.com.

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Riverwalk

Sol Luckman   

I have seen two Crows
Locked and spinning
A tempest in a tempest
Across the windswept sage
Up over the Cañón rim

I have met the Otter Woman
By the riverside and
Felt the gift of her watery Medicine
Heal the worry inside

As for my feminine side
Downstream the Beavers are no joke
Just in the nick of time
As May approaches
They dam a swimming hole
For me and mine

My son will think it the Brandywine
I do not have the inclination
Or the heart
To contradict him

Not being myself so motivated
I thank the Beavers for the industriousness
That flows riverlike
Through the floodgates of
Their white buck teeth
Shaping gnarled driftwood and brush

The Rio flows from a wormhole
They say
The Indians call Blue Lake
Cascading down through the adobe Pueblo
Into what is known as the Riffles

From time to time
Following the water’s leaping edge
I commune with a Blue Heron
Seeming to wait for me
Perched high and hieroglyphically
On the sculpted lava rocks

I wonder if the Heron comes from Tula
If he flew up out of Blue Lake
A stargate bird
Bringing messages of hope
From a world beyond
A better one, where we all are headed

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

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[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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Breaking News: The Frequency Increase of the 9th Wave of the Mayan Calendar Has Thrown the World into the Chaos from which the New World Will Be Born 

On March 9th, 2011 the ninth and highest wave of the Mayan calendar system was activated. This was the beginning of the final countdown to the date of completion of the Mayan calendar: October 28, 2011.

This new wave, made up of thirteen … periods of 18 days, meant a twenty times increase in frequency compared to the 8th wave of the Galactic Underworld that had been activated in January of 1999.

This frequency increase has become evident to everyone as an extraordinary amount of significant and dramatic events compressed into a very short period of time.

The Ninth wave immediately manifested in the earthquake in Japan and its first day included not only the aftershocks of this quake and the ensuing nuclear crisis, but a new war in Libya against the background of revolutionary processes going on in twelve different Arabic nations.

Previously, any one of these events would have soaked up all the attention of the international community, but as they are now all happening simultaneously our attention is split between several equally dramatic developments. Thus, the cover of Newsweek magazine exclaims Apocalypse Now.

Whether people are aware of the background of these events in the Ninth wave or not the frequency increase that it has brought has shaken almost everyone alive […]

I believe the Ninth wave of the Mayan calendar is the time of the Great Purification as has been talked about for instance in the Hopi Prophecy.

SOURCE: Carl Johan Calleman, www.calleman.com. Read more here.

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THE TOY BUDDHA I: Say Goodbye to Kansas

What would you do if the Buddha suddenly reappeared? What would you do if he suddenly didn’t? 

In this seriocomic adaptation from THE TOY BUDDHA, Book II of the critically acclaimed BEGINNER’S LUKE Series, Luke Soloman’s  Adventure of an imaginary lifetime soars to mock-epic proportions in an enlightening spoof of all things held sacred in American culture. 

 http://crowrising.com/images/stories/the_toy_buddha.jpg 

“A modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND.” —Reader Views

“A mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast.” —Apex Reviews

“Definitely a spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.” —Niama Williams, Ph.D.

WARNING: THE TOY BUDDHA may cause vertigo, euphoria, lunatic laughter. May fundamentally alter you so the old rules no longer apply, so it’s okay if clothes become optional, okay to make love not war, okay to set fire to your country club, dig up your neighborhood golf course, plant an organic garden and build your new community one puff at a time …

Luke’s signature obsessions with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious, and life-changing, point: CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination—for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world.

Visit the official BEGINNER'S LUKE website at www.beginnersluke.com.

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