Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic Fiction

 In a shaman's world view, everything is energy, and for them the word spirit and energy have the exact same meaning. If you look at things from this perspective, how do plants, animals, and insects communicate with us and each other?     On an olfactory level, plants call out to us from a distance by their varied aromas that form the basis for many scents and perfumes tha...

HOW THE COSMIC MOTHER AND FATHER GIVE BIRTH   Gurdjieff stated that pure knowledge cannot be transmitted, but by being expressed in symbols it is covered by them as by a veil, but for those who desire and who know how to look this veil becomes transparent. Regardless of the multiple forms of verbal expression throughout the world, geometry is solid, observable self-apparent truth in a univers...

Biologist and author Rupert Sheldrake is best known for his hypothesis of morphic fields and morphic resonance that leads to a vision of a living developing universe with its own inherent memory. Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development he came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products were not enough....

By learning to master the energies of altered states shamans embrace a multitude of experiences that alter their perception of reality by changing their subjective experience the same way a radio receiver changes the station it receives by tuning in to different carrier frequencies. The concepts of resonance and synchronization play a big part in shamanic thought and experience. In physics, resona...

On June twenty first, nineteen seventy six, the day of the summer solstice, at the age of twenty one I had a profound mystical experience that transformed me to the core of my being and changed my life’s direction forever. The battle between the energies inside of me that I thought of as good and evil had reached fever pitch, flip-flopping back and forth endlessly during the course of a day,...

Neural oscillations or brainwaves are rhythmic or repetitive neural activity occurring in the central nervous system. Neural tissue can generate oscillatory activity in many ways, driven either by mechanisms within individual neurons or by interactions between neurons. In individual neurons, oscillations can appear either as oscillations in membrane potential or as rhythmic patterns of action pote...

n0thing is titled after Jordan (n0thing) Gilbert, a top tier Counterstrike champion. n0thing pushes through the boundaries of story, genre, and reality itself while redefining literary tradition by putting real life celebrities into a fictional story. The other real life co-star in this tale is renowned psychologist Dr. Stanley Krippner. Based in the near future, n0thing is the long awaited sequel...

All of our senses, including our sense of touch ultimately bring us to the mouth, our organ of sustenance located below and intimately connected to the nose, which is directed by retronasal smell, retronasal olfaction, or mouth smell, giving us the ability to perceive the flavor dimensions of foods and drinks. Retronasal smell is a sensory modality that produces flavor bes...

CHAPTER oNE A fuzzy sensation blurred Tom’s thoughts and numbed his body. His vision clouded as a cool gray haze enveloped him, soft and shimmery, like meadow mist, then his surroundings snapped into focus, sharp and clear. He smelled the fresh scent of pine, heard songbirds warbling in the conifer thicket across a sun dappled pond. A dragonfly, fanning crystalline wings, sunned on a twig at the t...

In a mechanical medium sound vibration is perceived in the motion of a tuning fork, a reed in a woodwind instrument, a harmonica, or the cone of a loudspeaker. In the audio spectrum, sound or pressure waves are generated by the previously mentioned vibrating structures, and in our own bodies by the vocal cords, our main transmitting instruments of communication. These pressure waves induce vibrati...

 The genius inventor Nikola Tesla is quoted as saying, "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.", which is something shamans have known intuitively since time immemorial.      Another quotation often attributed to Albert Einstein, is widely believed to come from a channeler who assigned t...

The World's Oldest Profession is not what we have been told by popular culture. The real world's oldest profession is shamanism, which is an amalgam of the world's oldest professions with roots that range well beyond our historical stereotypes of witch doctors, wild men, and demonically possessed primitives. Among other things, shamans were the first doctors, performing artists, musicians, storyte...

     Who or what are we really?      How do you define yourself?      Good? Evil? Sinner? Saint? Lover? Fighter? Christian? Muslim?  Buddhist? Atheist?      Conservative? Liberal? Anarchist?      Executive? Artist? Lawyer? Musician? Firefighter? Cop?    &...

Two Burning Down The House I have a yellowed cartoon cut out from The Dorchester Reporter titled “The Power of Perception,” by an artist named Gus D’Angelo that characterizes Dorchester well. It shows a clean cut guy in a suit and tie extending his hand in greeting, saying, “Hi! I’m from Dorchester.” Beside him a wide-eyed guy with his hair standing on end has dropped his paper and...

A Waking Dream I am outside of time and space where the normal rules of perception no longer apply. Colors with hues that defy description bombard me, then unfold in multicolored geometric progressions that could be microcosmic quantum expressions, or unfolding galaxies. Within these realms I have lived as an insect devoured by still bigger insects, which have in turn been devoured by li...

Completely still and almost silent, the only hint of sound coming from the soft whisper of liquid nitrogen pumping through the storage banks. Dark, except for the muted red glow of digital readouts blinking in the surrounding blackness like so many eyes. Solitude, the way Norton liked. Peace and quiet. A break from the bitchiness of his never happy wife, Vera.

Leroy leaned back against the wall in the shadows of the underground parking structure and admired the shiny red paint, sleek lines, and chrome of the brand-fucking-spanking new car. The little antenna in the back told him it had a phone. He’d never seen one of these. Didn't even know the make and model which made him want it all the more. He pictured himself behind the wheel calling Janika and le...

TRICK OR TREAT I’m wearing my ghost costume tonight.  Of course I always wear my ghost costume.  It's dark and the cold wind’s blowing dead leaves around my feet, but I don't notice the cold.  What leaves are left on the trees rattle on the branches like whispering monsters.  It's really spooky.  There's even a full moon.  I love Halloween.  It's the only time I...

“Look at the cute little bunnies, Terry.” His mom pointed to the pen and Uncle Will's back yard. Terry ran to it, leaving his mother behind to talk to Uncle Will. He stared at the four little puffs of fur nuzzled against their lop-eared mother. The rapid up and down movement of the air tiny ribs fascinated him. He reached in and picked one up...

I can hear the beep of the life support and the soft rhythm of its pumps from somewhere behind me. Only a visit from Jessie can make them go away. I hope she comes back like she promised.

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Jack's Better Half contends with Man's Best Friend.

What they needed was an original, not something like thins. This thing was a poor imposter - it was cleverly done, but too clever. Too neat. A legitimate Jivaro tsantsa is held closed with coarse fiber, not neatly sewn like this. But Rodrigo said he knew where to get the real ones, and Vasquez was just desperate enough to ...

Amanda struggles with a life or death decision, as her memories haunt her. An emotional story about the choices we make, their consequences, and how we must face them.

Eric stepped back, admiring the old hearse. A gleaming silver '63 caddy with a black vinyl top. Cherry, if not for the engine problem. Though the car acted strange, he had no doubt he'd find what was wrong. Eric had a way with cars. He wiped his finger on his sleeve before caressing the fender. "Nothing I can't fix, old girl. That's why you ended up here. Everyone knows I'm the best."