Tantra Bensko: Lucid Fiction

                     

 My article about Lucid Fiction in Retort Magazine was hacked but now is in Speaking Without Interruption magazine.. 

  And one in Unlikely Stories, called Trawling for Lucid Fiction in Recent Issues of Innovative Fiction.(click)

 Lucid Fiction article in Mad Hatters Review : Fiction Should Catch Up.

                   And A New Literary Genre: Lucid Fiction

 

What is the Dialog of Exerimental Fiction? at the website for www.writerscollege.com, where I offer an online experimental fiction writing class.

Interview with the Ron Bales, of the Band Lucid Fiction
I was given the chance to discuss many topics related to Lucid Fiction with the delightful Ron Bales, of Lucid Fiction, a man who came up with the term independently of me, to mean the same thing as regards to society. And while I use writing on paper, he uses lyrics song with a progressive metal band to bring attention to the spiritual awareness that helps us see past the illusions the controllers of our society are trying to maintain. But we're starting to pierce the veils, aren't we?

                    

Quantum Lucidity: I would also like to see writing that goes beyond the outdated definition of personality and reality to include the Quantum understandings of non locality, the Many Worlds Theory and Parallel Universes, non chronology. I would like to see the self include the Higher Self, other lives, and the interactions between them. I would like to see Chaos Theory applied to literature, and stop seeing the illusion of a strictly and endlessly limited incarnated personality as the whole of the self. The self is far more than that, with connections to all things. Let's break the illusions of being powerless small beings and empower ourselves as multidimensional, boundariless spirits. Let's make the fiction that we are separate beings, without guiding Higher Selves, living in a coincidental world, break apart, and shine the light from inside and become aware. Let the illusionary Matrix become lucid, aware, less co dependent on our belief in it.

Tantric Lucidity: I would like to see fiction that includes the spiritual emergence of individuals who have reached beyond the ordinary limitations through the rising of the Kundalini. The Kundalini has been recently misunderstood as sexual or pranic energy, and this is not the case. It is an evolutionary life force that resides in potential is all people, but is very rarely actualized. When it does so, the people see beyond the conventions of reality and become liberated from the hold of this earthly plane's illusions. Even for those who don't experience the Kundalini rising, there are many experiences possible that go beyond the accepted definition of what humanity is capable of. Miraculous healings, telepathy, Shaktipat, premonitions, remote viewing, lucid dreams, and experiences of higher frequencies are part of our birthright. However, the usual portrayal of humanity has given people the sense that instead, we are only capable of limited understandings and that people who go beyond those are suspect. These things are rarely included in fiction, perpetrating the sense, along with mass media, commercial movies, and the general mainstream,  that we are much less powerful than we really are. Let's claim our abilities, our insights and ecstasies, our spiritual openings.

Lucid Truth: I would like to see writers willing to tell the truth about the important things going on behind the scenes, creating our society throughout history. So far, people have only hinted at them by approximating them and putting the stories and movies out as Speculative Fiction, or Sci Fi. Writing about reptillians, entitites manipulating humanity from other dimensions, the Annunaki of history continuing in the bloodlines controlling our society today through government, major corporations, the military, religion, cults, and secret societies has not been taken seriously in realistic literature. However, these subjects have been well studied and documented, from the Sumerian culture through the Serpent cults throughout all of our planet's history. Now, people are learning more about these characters and this is the most pressing topic of our day. Who are they, how are they affecting us now, and how can we escape their control? Let's stop being shy about approaching these subjects straight up in literature. Let's shine light from our fiction on the important truths.

Lucid Words: I like to see fiction that is experimental in its presentation, so that it becomes self reflexive, and glows with its own light, becoming a lucid dream about our lucid dream existence. I like to see stories that become translucent, and help the reader become translucent, and helps his vision of reality glow and the surface of it rub off, so that he can see beyond the surface of the illusions perpetrated by the mind controllers all along.
 

My writing involves many aspects of realty, including the playful, artistic, spiritual, nature lovin', sensual, adventurous, and strong. My stories are set all over the North American Continent, the main characters living outside the rules of society, often living outside, but always living outside the definitions of what it is to be a person. They may reach beyond this space and time to include other parallel realities. They may perform miracle healings, experience their Higher Selves, have Tantric orgasms just by sitting still, and they don't buy into the consumer society and all of its insecurities. They know what is behind the religious and political illusions, but are not obsessed with confronting those things. The stories tell the tale of a life set in our real world, able to face these facts straight up without dwelling on them. They are stories to be enjoyed, characters to identify with, as they struggle with the same hard core knowlege about your world you may have discovered on your own.

I have two sets: the Kundra stories, which are part of a collection called Free Range Truth, which is well described in this page. However, I also have another set which is pure fun, ridiculous, entertaining, wild, without even delving into the difficult truths about the nature of reality. No reason to be serious all the time.