Tantra Bensko: Lucid Fiction
New genre of fiction: new genre of reality
Lucid Fiction
Towards the liberation of consciousness, emancipation from our own and from outside manipulations. Pierce the Veils of Illusion in order to escape the matrix of the dream of the imposed dream.
You will find some fiction on this site, along with other genres: Some of my fiction is New Wave Fabulism,Magical Realism, and the majority of it is anti stories, sometimes metafiction, often multi-dimenional, going beyond the general ideas of what a person is. Please enjoy the whimsical, zany stories, the experimental, quantum stories, the literary presentation of glimpses into unusual people's lives. My favorite stories are anti stories, non linear, going against the rules of mainstream fiction. I try to take that further into Lucid Fiction in which the whole fiction of reality wakes up through the lucidity of the words.
Included within the mix are some stories which don't deny the context we live in, as our awareness grows through piercing the veils of illusions created throughout history by those who want to keep us under control.. I hope reading my work and further exploring the subjects within it it leads to new understandings about yourself and the nature of reality. And I hope it helps keep your life vivid and adventurous, full of verve and speculation.
Tantra Yoga is one way to live in expanded states of consciousness, and this is not always in the best interests of those with the agenda of keeping humanity from looking behind the curtains. Spiritual people often turn away from what's going on in the conspiracy by those in control, and feel it won't affect them if they do. Often people are not able to stand up to those forces and become active, but become overwhelmed and feel powerless. Tantra Yoga and reading literature that at least at times hints at the veil and helps integrate that life, eating a natural diet, avoiding flouride, vaccines, genetically modified foods, cell phones, mass media, and learning from alternative media, all are methods to help with doing what is most of a gift to the world that it can use.
If you like, see my site for Lucid Play, people going into deeper states of consciousness, and often within that meditation, we play with the others while maintaining that clear awareness of the empowered larger levels of the self. This is being Lila, or the play of the divine.
I hope to be able to foster enjoyable and productive lucid waking through my writing. I love the idea of becoming lucid, and seeing the fictions perpetrated around us and upon us, seeing through them. becoming clear light, following our pulsing outward and our pulsing back in. On some levels, the whole fiction of our reality is lucid. It knows it is a character in our dream. And so are we.
You will also find music and video here, surreal, experimental, avant-garde, and whimsical, absurd. Also you will see some informative videosand you can find more at my youtube sites or by buying my video, Tantra with the World. There is a bit of my art here, too, and you can see more at http:/lucidvision.mosaicglobe.com.
news flash of the scrolling moment
Galen, an activist, and I talked on Marayam's radio show, out of Bolinas, Breaking the Silence, recently and now we are all going on Daniel Kottke's TV next show. Based in Palo Alto, the show is called The Next step, cable access. We'll be discussing piercing the veils of illusion, escaping the matrix, using tantic methods to lucidify the consciousness, liberate the self. We'll be giving many facts about the nature of the conspiracy against the people and what can be done about it in specific, empowering ways. 11/25, 11/27, etc. it's simultaneously webcast whenever it airs, you
can watch it in Quicktime. go to communitymediacenter.net and click WATCH (and
the channel number).
http://www.visionaryfiction.org/forum.html is a place for discussing a new genre of fiction that overlaps with lucid fiction. My post is in this link. Let us know what you think about the ideas of including more of reality in fiction.
At the moment I'm writing this, mid November, My writing is in the Current issues of Soma Literary Review, Rose and Thorn, Retort, Unlikely Stories, Cosmopsis (print), and Alternative Approaches, Lit Chaos,
and my art is in Current issues of Ashe Magazine (along with an essay) (print), Outside (print), and CameraArts Showcase Edition (print).
Retort Magazine published one of my articles calling for a whole new genre, Lucid Fiction!
I was just nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize by Rose and Thorn magazine. Thank you Rose and Thorn.
Thank you to Bari Kennedy for featuring me as a reader in Sacramento at Luna's Poetry Unplugged event. It was lovely.
