Good afternoon my faithful friends and droogies.

It seems auspicious that on this day we tackle a subject that needs to be addressed as much as any of the others that we have skimmed ever so lightly over..

Yes, to day we speak of independence.

Independence from the enemy, from the barking dogs of doubt that rattle around in the backyard of our minds.

The work can be a long and arduous process, one that can take us to new places and new insights, and as we have spoken of prior, not all of which will be enjoyable.
Never lose sight of the greater work. As a good friend and fellow conspirator phrased it to me ,"be the grain at the center of the grinding wheel, remain whole whilst the rest is ground away" or as in the philosophy of the Kensai ", let thee storm rage around you, you are the eye, be the center".

It will not be easy, but if it was what value would the work actually hold for us.

"So Morry, how can I be charging the life bomb and still be independent of the work? Doesn't the work require undivided focus?" you ask.

Good question, damn good in fact. I think you've been paying attention, good for you.

Yes, the work requires undivided focus, but one must not let yourself get absorbed into it. We are creating a fiction for ourselves, a life that we want to live. To do that we must maintain perspective or else we just become a cog in the bomb, not the creator.

When we lose perspective the enemy starts to take hold again. He lets loose the dogs of doubt and repetition to roam free amongst our words and to trample the prose we seek to create. When this happens we can no longer see the great fiction, only the life we have now, and only from our limited "why me?"POV. This is what we must maintain an independence from.

You see, we as fictionauts must be aware of what is actually going around us. How else would we be able to judge the results of what is taking place, what is moving forward, so we can continue our plots from actual places in time instead of from the fiction alone. We must be flexible, we must adjust for such a great work.

I will venture a guess that for most of us the fictions that we are creating will affect those around us in some way. If we only focus on the fiction from an inside POV how can we see if others are actually benefiting? How can we see the subtle adjustments to our reality that we are bringing about.

We create from the first self, from authentic places of want, we must always maintain that authenticity. If we lose that place we become sucked into the fiction we lose that authenticity and the dogs, once again, may very well jump the fence, and then we find ourselves back where we started.

No bueno mi amigos and amigettes, no bueno.

So, invest in your lifebomb, believe in it, believe in the work, want it from the authentic places in your soul, but do not let it consume you. Maintain a life outside the work for yourself.

There is nothing more beautiful to see a work of art coming to fruition. Alas, sometimes you can only tell when it is done by taking a step back and viewing it from a distance.

When next we chat dearest ones we will touch base on an unspoken aspect once again, the physical and the energies they can provide.

Till then,
Cheerio