Psychomystic

By Bruno Zogma

Psychomystic is an investigation into the origin and meaning of catastrophic life change. Some life changes are stressful enough to cause intense dreams or hallucinations. Proper understanding of these visions may require new modes of thought. Psychomystic uses the metaphysical structure of Tadgett Laborwitz’s auto-drama Neverending Knifefight (Manticore Studios, 2015) to interpret why change happens to us, how it feels, and what it requires of us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781387591718

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Psychomystic

Psychomystic

Bruno Zogma

Copyright

Copyright © 2018 by Resplendent Tree Productions

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: February 2018

ISBN 978-1-387-59171-8

Resplendent Tree Productions

Boston, MA 02132-6050

United States of America

Cover art: Sacrifice by Bruno Zogma.

What is This?

Psychomystic is an investigation into the origin and meaning of catastrophic life change. Some life changes are stressful enough to cause intense dreams or hallucinations. Proper understanding of these visions may require new modes of thought. Psychomystic uses the metaphysical structure of Tadgett Laborwitz’s auto-drama Neverending Knifefight (Manticore Studios, 2015) to interpret why change happens to us, how it feels, and what it requires of us.

Building the Castle

There is a castle of family and tradition, a castle of nation, a castle of your raw physical body. In this castle, the noblemen like to talk about themselves. People play by the rules to earn their way to closeness and belonging. To build the castle is to conform, to have the psychology of attachment, to enact the ethics of what is right according to the rules of your particular system.

But the castle has a circulatory system and a lifeblood that runs invisible. The lifeblood is the secret hope that you will get something wrong. All the castles in heaven have been stood upside down with their turrets staked in the cloudbottom and their drawbridges waving high in the ether. That is how you get to heaven: staring down the rules and finding out who you really are. That, in all probability, is who everyone else wants and needs you to be, anyway: the one who turns the castle upside down. They may feel shame, they may perceive a threat, and they may execute you, but you will have done good by them and behaved according to your destiny. But let’s not discuss that ending quite yet. Something else comes first.

Before you can break it, you have to help build it. If you do not help build it, you will never understand it right-side-up or up-side-down. Forget your private wants. Believe in the common project. Own your power to make it a reality. Discipline your body. Commit. Practice. Excel. Refine. Once in