Redefining the Publish Paradigm

I love language, words, sentences and how those elemental jewels arrive together to create stories, narratives, coherent streams of meaning. I love the human longing for, propensity toward, mastery of crafting infinite variations of these worlds.

I love that I’ve been blessed with the writerly fascination with finding that coherence in everything, in forever wondering at, asking, and uncovering the big so-what in the progression of humanity on this planet.

If this is the universe and the consciousness that animates it, refusing to be alone, infinite, omniscient, and perfect, then I must join that conversation.

Through the Full Sequence, my skill and passion for the natural interview, I will find what this drive and desire and discernment is all about, and with all the skill and powers of insight, crystallization, and synthesis that I possess, and the technology that may end us all or make us finally grow up, I’ll learn what this is, live that so-what, craft new stories, and redefine that puzzle of “publish.”

This “publish” paradigm still appears as an automatic demand to know, to have a plan, to arrive at some certainty about “what will I do with all this material?”

If we are all artists, if the writing and journalist DNA I carry and that expresses so vividly in all I am is deeply conditioned to ask and to try to answer that, then I can now consciously and deliberately reframe and redefine that. And this discovery recently that the real questions are not about publishing, they are about how I will be in the world and how I will be in my own soul, what will be my relationship with the Divine, how will I invest these assets, this wealth I have inherited, and am I willing to go write that story?

Mixed in all that publish paradigm is the old trauma of the demands of the world to defend my value, to be useful and admirable, to account for myself, and then for me, that decades-long training in business and entrepreneurialism to have a plan, to define and perform value that the world will accept and want in exchange for my financial survival.

So what about those three:

• The artists’ DNA of “publish”.
• The trauma of “be admirable, useful, and defend.”
• The marketplace trauma of “launch value.”

I am a journalist, inwardly and outwardly: I journal and write every day. I now see the imperative to engage the conversation with the Noumenal source—which I am clearly already doing—and out there, and let those mysteries answer all these questions and address the redemption from those three old paradigms, let the two interdependent conversations deal with the questions, and maybe they’ll reveal some answers.

All this time, all these years, this has been the root of my doubts and fears, because what I need to do includes but goes way beyond the traditions and conventions of Those Three above, AND does not present answers, plans, certainty, but is living all the questions inwardly and outwardly.