Mount Townsend
Clearing my head
I headed out of town for a day this past weekend to disconnect from the crushing and unrelenting inundation of bad news. It was just what my soul needed.
The craziest thing happened out there in the mountains - something I cannot recall ever having experienced before.
Absolute and total silence.
There was no wind. No birds. No planes. No sound of running water. Nothing. I mean absolutely nothing.
I’ve been in the mountains and the wild places of this earth probably close to fifteen thousands days in my life. As far back as I can recall though there’s always been some sort of background noise.
During this trip there was none.
It was profound.
In the silence I was reminded about how noisy my mind had been for too many decades of my life. It made me appreciate the newfound freedom I recently discovered has given me a chance at happiness and peace I did not think was possible…
A huge part of my evolution as a writer has been my deconstruction and deconversion from xtianity (I have been writing about the process a bit over at eandp.cc [if that genre is your cup of tea - I won’t bore you with the details here]). With the release from the phobia indoctrination, dogma, shame, guilt, and self-loathing I’ve been free to explore other ways of thinking.
One of those spaces I’ve been exploring is Buddhism.
Before I discovered it a lot of what I had in my head, which was trying to make its way into the pages of the Wormwood Saga, were central tenets of Buddhism. Convictions regarding reincarnation, enlightenment, compassion, altruism, and karma were swirling about in my brain. However, with no coresponding vocubulary to describe what I felt I struggled with how to put those ideas into my saga.
When I discovered Buddhism though every corner I turned during that spiritual journey was like making a new discovery but knowing all along it was there. The revelation wasn’t new - rather it was like stumbling upon a long lost friendship I had forgotten I had made.
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I’ll dive more into this personal journey of unearthing and awakening as I continue publishing chapters from Wormwood Saga. We still have fifty-nine chapters to go (over seven more parts and two more books) - so we have plenty of time to get to know eachother.
You can read the latest installment of the saga here
Aion Book II Chapter 5 - Two + Two = Four
