Welcome to A Writer’s Paradise
Welcome home.
And this is a home for your self-wonder, sacred self-experimentation, sacred self-discovery.
The writing journey is inherently revelatory; inherently spiritual. We sit, as writers, in a psychic space, connecting words to energy. This is the basis of “what we do” and “how writing works”. It is automatic in the circuitry of the brain.
From the mundane and intellectual to the mystical, writing is a highly spiritual act. This is why writing is cathartic and feels like the physical release of emotional or psychic pressure when we *finally* put pen to paper after a buildup of emotional tension. In this cathartic act of writing, we are the threshold keepers of the energy that lives in our internal worlds. The heart, the body, the pen, the journal, the document representing the thresholds. The work of produced art — whether personal or for public admiration (or admonishment) — representing our internal energy.
Beyond catharsis, which, to a degree, is an act of emotional and spiritual care, writing is an efficient and effective method of self-discovery.
“Self” here refers to one’s true nature. The unconditioned, unfiltered, and also evolving self. Could be a mix of what we perceive to be the ego and what we perceive to be the soul. We can also see the Self as the current expression of our DNA, which challenges what it even means to be an unconditioned of unfiltered self — our existence as humans is primed even before conception. So perhaps the Self is more like an unfathomable concept of the limitless potentials living as the human DNA.
In any case, there is always a deeper knowing, isn’t there? Something that always remains to be seen, known, heard, felt, witnessed about the Self? There remain deeper questions to our individual existences, don’t there?
And some of us humans are designed to journey in the way of continuous self-exploration.
We can often feel this deeper desire as spiritual creatures. It is a path of remembrance, of return. It is a path of sacred wisdom and sacred nakedness. Call it wild. Call it wonder. Call it wild wonder.
Nearly 20 years of self-discovery writing and teaching of multi-genre writing has shown me the power of writing as a tool for sacred self-knowing.
It is efficient because, as a writer, you are only in your mind, your heart, your body. There is no interference but what you have allowed, or have been brain/body/heart-washed to allow with a weakened or immature ability to consent. Therefore, the internal “writing room” or inner sanctuary is often a place we first experience a distinction between what “is ours” and what “is not ours”.
This is because when we write out the emotion moving through us, we can feel it being lifted out of the body and landing on the page. It gives us clarity to read that emotion back, now in written form, and perceive: “is this a truth of my own?” or “is this perhaps the projection or expectation of another that I have internalized?”
The body will always respond with the truth, even if it is difficult to relate to the body’s signals at the start of a writing self-discovery journey. It is important to continue the process anyway. We need to become sensitive to the difference between what is *us* and what is *other”. And even as the heart’s intelligence makes it so that us and other commingle to create a shared and intimate knowing, there is, indeed, a difference. This difference between “us” and “other” is felt through the body and psychic knowing — it becomes discernible over time, with patience (presence + trust) and practice.
The idea that it takes time to become attuned to one’s own truthful essence doesn’t sound so efficient, does it?
Perhaps not — not from a fire-forward, doing, masculine-paradigmed perspective. But from a water-forward, being, feminine-paradigmed perspective, taking time to gently attune to one’s own truthful spiritual essence is indeed “efficient”.
It is efficient because it is a longevity practice.
Cultivating presence with self — no matter what is there, no matter what unearths itself — is a longevity practice.
Cultivating trust in the deeper self by respecting one’s deeper knowing — despite one’s deeper knowing at times feeling unstable — is a longevity practice.
“Practice” itself is an ode to longevity, because practice is about refinement, and to refine is to further cultivate and allow the most harmonious energy to flow.
Cultivate to what end?
To no end.
Simply because.
It is in the path of Love.
Simply because.
This is devotion.
And so the writing for self-discovery practice is effective precisely because it is efficient in the above way. It works for its intended purpose: to know Self more deeply, truly, in the Self’s evolving nuances.
We know not what exactly our infinite potential desires to create, but we can cultivate a channel to experience our potential through intentional and sacred acts of self-discovery. And then we can move to co-create external Life based on our internal cultivation.
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and writing is a solitary act. Sometimes so solitary that it can feel isolating — especially when we are deep down in the deep downs of a significant existential spiral. We know we need to be there, but would also benefit from a certain kind of community in writing.
This is why A Writer’s Paradise is here.
There are also times when we wish to nourish and lubricate our writerly selves, our soulfulness, the connection with our inner wilderness, and engage in self-care practices that specifically focus on writing, creative expression, and sensual creative embodiment.
This is also why A Writer’s Paradise is here.
If you’ve ever spent time in the tropics, you know they are an intense, lush, unique, magical kind of wild. Sometimes it rains heavily for days on end. Other times, it’s tranquil and peaceful and completely rich with potent magic; completely palpable with it. Sometimes there are tsunamis and hurricanes, earthquakes and mudslides. And always, there is a unique sense of life emerging, thriving, surviving, trying, and, necessarily, dying.
This is a *true* paradise. A *real* paradise.
And A Writer’s Paradise takes this organic, authentic, natural Earthly experience to be akin to our organic internal landscapes — our interior worlds.
In A Writer’s Paradise, you will find:
Soulful writing reflections on the sacred art of writing, poetry, spirituality, and sensuality…
Yoga Nidra audio sessions for deep mental, emotional, and physical rest & mystical transmission (from your own inner mystic)…
Guided Reflective & Intuitive Writing video practices…
Creative embodiment video practices featuring Yoga, Qigong, meditation, and sensual movement…
And as our community evolves, our practices and inclusions also evolve, in the way of organicity.
