The Artist And The Fundamentalist Both Confront

Reading Is Alive And Well And Will Get More Alive And More Well. Reading On Tablets (or Whatever The Next Tech Device Will Be) Is The Future - And The Future Is Now.

Writers Think In Metaphors. Editors Work In Metaphors. A Great Reader Reads In Metaphors. All Are Continually Asking, "what Does This Represent? What Does It Stand For?" They Are Trying To Take Everything One Level Deeper. When They Get To That Level, They Will Try To Go Deeper Again.

Like A Magnetized Needle Floating On A Surface Of Oil, Resistance Will Unfailingly Point To True North--meaning That Calling Or Action It Most Wants To Stop Us From Doing. We Can Use This. We Can Use It As A Compass. We Can Navigate By Resistance, Letting It Guide Us To That Calling Or Action That We Must Follow Before All Others. Rule Of Thumb: The More Important A Call Or Action Is To Our Soul's Evolution, The More Resistance We Will Feel Toward Pursuing It.

In The Hierarchy, The Artist Faces Outward. Meeting Someone New He Asks Himself, What Can This Person Do For Me? How Can This Person Advance My Standing? In The Hierarchy, The Artist Looks Up And Looks Down. The One Place He Can't Look Is That Place He Must: Within.

The Part We Create From Can't Be Touched By Anything Our Parents Did, Or Society Did. That Part Is Unsullied, Uncorrupted; Soundproof, Waterproof, And Bulletproof. In Fact, The More Troubles We've Got, The Better And Richer That Part Becomes.