LARRY DOSSEY - THE PATH TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS...

CHAPTER : CHURCHES AND CURSES
from BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR
by LARRY DOSSEY M.D.


(Note: an author who has written about the power of prayer now turns to the power of cursing... pages 26 and 27.)

"When he eventually obtained his Ph.D. in English literature, Richard felt poised for a bright future as a writer. Ten years later, however, none of his work had been accepted for publication and he felt a failure. The rejection slips contained the usual comments about "streaks of brilliance" and "great promise," but something was not clicking, something he could not put his finger on. Richard did not give up. He began to attend writers' conferences and seminars, hoping to remedy flaws in his technique that he could not see. Still nothing worked. Nearing forty, he began to console himself by recalling that many great writers had late beginnings... Following his latest rejection slip from a major publisher, he decided to set his work aside and visit his mother for Christmas.

MOM: "Richard, I know why you haven't become a writer. Since you were a teenager I've prayed to God Every night that he would give you something else to do."

Richard was stunned. "You mean that for twenty-five years you've prayed that I would fail as a writer?" he stammered....Why have you done this?" Richard demanded angrily through tears.

"His mother, too, began to cry, "Richard, I love you. I want only the best for you." Then she said, almost coldly, "Writer reveal things that should not be told - about themselves, about their families. Writers tell secrets that are nobody's business."

Note: Richard went to psychotherapy and began to pray for PROTECTION FROM HIS MOTHER'S PRAYERS. He published a novel with a major publisher three years later.

GRAHAM WALLAS on CREATIVITY

"According to Graham Wallas, a sort of re-ordering process takes place in the brain during creativity, which he calls incubation, A creative person develops interest in a particular subject, gathers supporting material, and studies everything possibly related to it. He calls this first stage preparation. After some time, the accumulated material reaches a boiling point and something incomprehensible goes on during the period of incubation that forms a prelude to the next stage, illumination. In three stages - preparation, incubation, and illumination =- the creative person receives a new insight and finds a solution to the problem, or can rearrange the accumulated material to put it under an all embracing principle."

As mentioned in THE KUNDALINI BOOK OF LIVING AND DYINIG
Gateway to Higher Consciousness
Ravindra Kumar and Jytte Kumar Larsen

JULES FEIFFER Quotation

"Success is nothing to sneeze at but failure, too, offers great possibilities."
- Jules Feiffer

TERRY MC MILLAN Quote

TERRY MCMILLAN 10 Questions Time Magazine September 13, 2010

Q: How do you feel about the label "Women's Literature?"

A: I don't like the label. It's right up there with using the term chick lit. They don't refer to books written by men as men's literature. I think its really sad that we have to use labels for anything. I'll be glad when they stop referring to me as an African-American writer and just say I'm a writer. That would make my day."

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BOOK EXCERPT : REFLECTIONS IN A SILVER SPOON : PAUL MELLON

By Paul Mellon (with John Baskett, his London based art dealer.)
page 391 C Paul Mellon Published by William Morrow

"I have been an amateur in every phase of my life. An amateur poet, an amateur scholar, an amateur horseman, an amateur farmer, an amateur soldier, an amateur connoisseur of art, an amateur publisher, and an amateur museum executive. The root of the word "amateur" is the Latin word for love. and I can honestly say that I've thoroughly enjoyed all the roles I have played...

COMMENTARY ON JAMES TAYLOR PLACES IN MY PAST

This one goes out to Karen, a friend of mine from art school days, who died of a brain tumor about year ago, leaving a daughter about the age we were when we first met and had our artistic adventures. Only distance allows me to speak of her, and someday to write about her.


"Sometimes I can laugh and cry and I can't remember why."

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ERICA JONG Quote

"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive." - Erica Jong in "O" Magazine 2003

SMITHSONIAN : THE OUIJI BOARD USING, NOVEL CHANNELING AUTHOR, Patience Worth,

Gioia Diliberto writes about PEARL CURRAN, who channeled the spirit of writer Patience Worth, who published novels and poetry in the early 20th century.

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"Speaking through a Ouija board operated by Pearl Lenore Curran, a St. Louis housewife of limited education, Patience Worth was nothing short of a national phenomenon in the early years of the 20th century. Though her works are virtually forgotten today, the prestigious Braithwaite anthology listed five of her poems among the nation’s best published in 1917, and the New York Times hailed her first novel as a “feat of literary composition.” Her output was stunning. In addition to seven books, she produced voluminous poetry, short stories, plays and reams of sparkling conversation—nearly four million words between 1913 and 1937. Some evenings she worked on a novel, a poem and a play simultaneously, alternating her dictation from one to another without missing a beat. “What is extraordinary about this case is the fluidity, versatility, virtuosity and literary quality of Patience’s writings, which are unprecedented in the history of automatic writing by mediums,” says Stephen Braude..."