Book I Could Not Put Down

"Gideon's Dawn" by Michael Warden
It's about this semi psychotic grad student, i think geophysics and seismology, he's had a very nasty childhood that he represses but comes out in dreams (he kills and mutilates squirrels while in a sort of unconscious state and did his damnedest to gut himself once) but anyway he is out in the field in the Rockies and weird things start happening and he gets transported to another world (sort of) and the people there think he's their Kinsman Redeemer, sort of like Jesus.

the book was... grotesque, i suppose you could call it, but it was fascinating, the cultures, the parallels to Christianity, the fantasy... all very cool. i actually haven't read it in a while, should do that.

Getting Started

This is going to be complicated keeping two blogs working at the same time. Lets see this is Epiphanies.

Ok
an epiphany is a moment of absolute clarity into the infinite (maybe), where everything is cleared away, the veil is removed. a sort of moment when your partially filled slate is covered to bursting and then abruptly wiped clean. the tabula rasa isn't perfectly clear because it is stone but it is ground down and softened. kind of like the impressions left on an erased marker board. the image is still there but it's faded because the mind cannot handle the pressure of the infinite for extended periods of time before, not just breaking, but imploding into tiny bits of dust and ash, figuratively speaking.

so yeah there are lots of physical/emotional reactions to epiphanies but that's kind of what i understand it to be...