from Night Publishing
A reader participation-experience, with stories encoded within
"Everything Beyond Thought" is a fabulous review of this book, and a chapbook, by Chris Moran at HTML GIANT. Please read it on site by clicking the link.
"Reading *Lucid Membrane* is like riding your longboard on lakes of mercury in an earthquake-prone region. Surface tensions swell, then dimple; mirrored vortices push and pop (Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid)--all while windows oddly sleep. A color-codex of Fabular!" -- Amazon Review, S Stiver-Nash
Click Sci Fi Sunday and for an excerpt:
It begins: "In the delicate balance of dream and reality lies the annihilation of illusion. Tantra Bensko’s sensual unveiling relates to the intelligence of crystals. She is adept at the unknown: dreams, twilight language where thought relates to the imaginal, emblematic of the seer’s paranoid awareness and lucid view. The lucid aesthetic is kaleidoscopic and freewheeling in its engagement with metaphysical realities that extend far beyond the realm of fiction and delve into the heart of energy, and the imagination itself. Cosmic and personal, the molecular weight of the hermetic text manifests itself through capricious and fanciful dreams through Bensko’s steady and remarkable vision. These stories are inextricably tied to alternate dimensions and mental travel, skirting at the edges of the astral plane, and Bensko desires the astral form here—in life, so that great fruits may come."
(excerpt)
"Reading *Lucid Membrane* is like riding your longboard on lakes of mercury in an earthquake-prone region. Surface tensions swell, then dimple; mirrored vortices push and pop (Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid)--all while windows oddly sleep. A color-codex of Fabular!" -- Amazon Review, S Stiver-Nash
Click Sci Fi Sunday and for an excerpt:
It begins: "In the delicate balance of dream and reality lies the annihilation of illusion. Tantra Bensko’s sensual unveiling relates to the intelligence of crystals. She is adept at the unknown: dreams, twilight language where thought relates to the imaginal, emblematic of the seer’s paranoid awareness and lucid view. The lucid aesthetic is kaleidoscopic and freewheeling in its engagement with metaphysical realities that extend far beyond the realm of fiction and delve into the heart of energy, and the imagination itself. Cosmic and personal, the molecular weight of the hermetic text manifests itself through capricious and fanciful dreams through Bensko’s steady and remarkable vision. These stories are inextricably tied to alternate dimensions and mental travel, skirting at the edges of the astral plane, and Bensko desires the astral form here—in life, so that great fruits may come."
(excerpt)
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an entry point into a new way of thinking and being
"Lucid Membrane, like the title suggests, is an investigation of the thin margin at the periphery of experience, in which every sentence, each phrase, is an entry point onto new ways of thinking and being. The whole is infused with a whimsical sense of surrealism, the breathing in, moving out through something that might even be transcendence, as embodied in the quiet moments that come in the evening, the sun rising in the morning, the cool shiver of souls in bodies…. Lucid Membrane is an auspicious debut, and sure to be one of the most adventurous things published this year (or any other, for that matter)."
"I feel like there are only a handful of people in the world (with you being one of them, actually, or Borges or Ted Chiang or--more recently--Rhys Hughes) who should even write short stories."
—Kyle Muntz
author of Voices from Enigmatic Ink and Sunshine in the Valley from Civil Coping Mechanism
"I think your stories are very important. They connect me, as one reader, to deeper places, to the wide open unseeing timeless eyes of whales drifting through eternity to the sweet wrinkled softness of my mother's beloved face to ancient loved memories of my father, a sort of book of magical fables that ties me through time and space to dear things and to what is unknowable but can be through the power of imagination and faith that everything is alive in its way; we just have to hear you do and then you write about it."
Kathleen Mckenna, author of The Wedding Gift and others including Family Matters
"Lucid Membrane makes you think, but the thinking isn't work, it's pleasure. "
Leslie Leigh
"I feel like there are only a handful of people in the world (with you being one of them, actually, or Borges or Ted Chiang or--more recently--Rhys Hughes) who should even write short stories."
—Kyle Muntz
author of Voices from Enigmatic Ink and Sunshine in the Valley from Civil Coping Mechanism
"I think your stories are very important. They connect me, as one reader, to deeper places, to the wide open unseeing timeless eyes of whales drifting through eternity to the sweet wrinkled softness of my mother's beloved face to ancient loved memories of my father, a sort of book of magical fables that ties me through time and space to dear things and to what is unknowable but can be through the power of imagination and faith that everything is alive in its way; we just have to hear you do and then you write about it."
Kathleen Mckenna, author of The Wedding Gift and others including Family Matters
"Lucid Membrane makes you think, but the thinking isn't work, it's pleasure. "
Leslie Leigh
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Review by Kenneth Wayne
_"As the many reviewers quoted in the first few pages of Lucid Membrane,
I love this intriguing collection of stories. It starts off with a
surreal situation of a man in a yellow suit witnessing lucid windows
being washed with cream. For some reason, it bought back warm
recollections of Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. Perhaps, the
seemingly simple sentence structure and word play interwoven with an
underlying humor and dreamlike atmosphere of windows that “turn their
backs to be washed on the other sides” bring out a very similar playful
reading experience. In the same story (“The Accidental Voyeur”), Besko
is able to get me to recall a Danish folktale about a fat cat that tries
to eat everything it sees. Simply, this first story is a delight and a
great beginning to a potpourri that weaves through the fringes of the
reader’s peripheral vision in which other worlds or extra dimensions may
be accessible to flirtations with rather straight-forward, in-your-face
musings like that of a young woman as she decides what best to wear to a
concert/happening in which she is to perform as a broken doll with a
clown she knows who claims he “couldn’t stop fantasizing about killing
women.” Include with this a feverish story of a lonely woman who falls
in love with a female Sasquatch she encounters in the woods and
subsequently coaxes to be a care-giver for her senile father. Then there
are ducks and stories full of hallucinogenic visions that help the
reader touch for a moment out-of-the-body realities. Of course, I cannot
forget the playing cards tattooed on the asses of self-coined dorks and
geeks in high school. Sound like a ride you want to take? So if it is, buy
this book and enjoy."
Reviewed at eTLC by Kenneth Wayne, author of Clip and An American Branch
Reviewed at eTLC by Kenneth Wayne, author of Clip and An American Branch
Review copies also available
Read an orientation at SWI?
from "The Terrace Steps"
"The rest of the story shall go unexplained, but the steps were the first token of my affection for the birds, and we shall end there. They became being. Nothing else really mattered at the time, and the steps were the most beautiful rocks I could find in the quarries of the imagination, the shapes being suggestive of alterations in the seamless. The rocks never spoke to me directly, but they called to me in another time, and often their names were apparent in a kind of transparent liquid sensation that would take me over each time I discovered a name I couldn’t understand in words.
But the circling of the rock, the lifting of it, the carrying of it, step by step, my legs moving past each other with a whish of magnetics was a way of saying their names back to them in greeting. The placing of them in the line of steps along the terraces was a way of them saying my name, as they locked into place, and they felt the strength of my name. It is a name of tradition, masculine, solid, like the sound of a rock falling into place for good. They will always be there in the terraces, surrounded by the green moss, and I will always be named Arturio."
Cezzanne’s Carrot, 2008
and in the chapbook from Naissance Press Watching the Windows Sleep, 2010
But the circling of the rock, the lifting of it, the carrying of it, step by step, my legs moving past each other with a whish of magnetics was a way of saying their names back to them in greeting. The placing of them in the line of steps along the terraces was a way of them saying my name, as they locked into place, and they felt the strength of my name. It is a name of tradition, masculine, solid, like the sound of a rock falling into place for good. They will always be there in the terraces, surrounded by the green moss, and I will always be named Arturio."
Cezzanne’s Carrot, 2008
and in the chapbook from Naissance Press Watching the Windows Sleep, 2010
feel freer after reading it
"Lucid Membrane is a kaleidoscope, each story annihilating space and time
only to reconjure them on its own terms. And however infinitely varied
those terms, they always radiate out from a center of compassion, humor,
and aliveness. Its a house of many rooms built on that firmest of
foundations -- our wildest dreams -- and the view is superb. You'll be
tempted to invent new words to describe this collection, and the search
itself will send you back to the fresh vision inscribed everywhere in its
pages. I feel freer, personally and artistically, after reading it.
Edmond Caldwell, author of Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant (Interbirth
Books)
only to reconjure them on its own terms. And however infinitely varied
those terms, they always radiate out from a center of compassion, humor,
and aliveness. Its a house of many rooms built on that firmest of
foundations -- our wildest dreams -- and the view is superb. You'll be
tempted to invent new words to describe this collection, and the search
itself will send you back to the fresh vision inscribed everywhere in its
pages. I feel freer, personally and artistically, after reading it.
Edmond Caldwell, author of Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant (Interbirth
Books)
from "The Boy Who is a Floating Flower"
"In one event, the boy is singing to you, in many worlds. He looks a bit different in some. He’s barely recognizable in others, certainly not a human form. Yet, though he may exist there as a flower floating in the air, hovering, changing your future, or as a twisting of enveloping patterns of some game with rules encoded on angles of movement, you know it is him. You wonder how you could have forgotten him from your future."
a Lucid Fiction story in Lucid Membrane
Cezanne’s Carrot, Solstice 2007, Editor’s Choice Prize
and Bewildering Stories 2009
and in the chapbook from Naissance Press, Watching the Windows Sleep
a Lucid Fiction story in Lucid Membrane
Cezanne’s Carrot, Solstice 2007, Editor’s Choice Prize
and Bewildering Stories 2009
and in the chapbook from Naissance Press, Watching the Windows Sleep
that rare thrill you get when you know you are reading something truly original
"I absolutely adore your stories in Lucid Membrane: simply brilliant, so individual, full of enticing imagery, fantastic detail, and true surreality. So much of Lucid Membrane is pure poetry and while reading I had that rare thrill you get when you know you are reading something truly original. Several times I actually summoned friends to my notebook screen to share a favourite outrageous image. Your dimension-threading metaphysics provides a manual for narrative deconstruction and a platform for truly dazzling moments of invention, from conversations with squirrels to glowing tattoos and dating dead writers. Most impressively, your open, questioning, warm conversational voice roots even the most surreal stories in what feels like a convincing American reality. Stories like "Photoluminassence' and 'A roadfull of ducks' evoke a deeply imagined, or remembered?, childhood world of treehouses, clowns, homecoming dances, grandmothers carrot cake. Your fathers impending mortality looms in other entries such as Sasquatch Sitter, but this merely sharpens an implicit call to be open to the wonders of the world. In other words, this is a significant and passionate book about being truly alive from moment to moment. I love that this is so accessible too. An awful lot of people could enjoy this and I very much hope they do."
--Harvey Thomlinson
Make-Do Publishing
--Harvey Thomlinson
Make-Do Publishing
. . . Membrane mirrors are mirrors made on thin films of material, and used as optics devices. . . .
from "Notes from the Nipple Saint"
"I think you squirrels might understand this. Because if you can read notes. . . well, if mice can read notes, and I KNOW you are as smart as little mice. . . then you will be interested. The book was about a woman in Russia named Rosa who could read with her fingers above letters, could feel the vibrations of the colors. Red gives off a lot of heat. That makes sense. I can see how that would work. It said ten percent of people who tried could do it. It also talked about two sisters in China. The Wang sisters, who could read with their armpits. This has left me thinking. OK, squirrels. Later.
sensual absurdity
"I loved your Lucid Membrane collection, and all of its sensual absurdity, its ludic literalisms and paradoxes."
--Carra Stratton
Starcherone Books
--Carra Stratton
Starcherone Books
from "Photoluminassance"
"And I had been saving up since I was a kid for my destiny, since I knew I had one, just didn’t know what it was. I kept my money behind my mirror, so whenever I opened the mirror box, I would see myself, tell myself, yep, dude, this is it. You’re the one. It’s happening, you just don’t know how. And the stash was huge, but not huge enough. I had to start giving tats to people in secret before I could make enough to patent it. No one could know before I did.
So it had to be only the unpopular geeks, or they’d have girlfriends who would find out. I mean, no way were those guys going to get lucky any time soon. At least not until they had the tats. Then they might get notorious enough that they’d get some girl, maybe even a hottie, who knows. Luckily, it didn’t show up in the daytime, or it would be obvious during gym. And it had to be someplace that wouldn’t hurt too bad, someplace they’d like to show off when they could. They all got into the idea of a special tat on their butt. They could moon people with it. That’s the kind of thing that made Guyerson laugh so’s he’d spit around the edges of his mouth, kind of squeaked. Reminded me of the hamster. But way stretched out."
Poor Mojo, 2008
So it had to be only the unpopular geeks, or they’d have girlfriends who would find out. I mean, no way were those guys going to get lucky any time soon. At least not until they had the tats. Then they might get notorious enough that they’d get some girl, maybe even a hottie, who knows. Luckily, it didn’t show up in the daytime, or it would be obvious during gym. And it had to be someplace that wouldn’t hurt too bad, someplace they’d like to show off when they could. They all got into the idea of a special tat on their butt. They could moon people with it. That’s the kind of thing that made Guyerson laugh so’s he’d spit around the edges of his mouth, kind of squeaked. Reminded me of the hamster. But way stretched out."
Poor Mojo, 2008
a wild romp
"I absolutely adored your book, Tantra!!!
Lucid Membrane is a wild romp through the amusement park of potential
realities, with all their bright lights, absurdities, and soul-tickling
transcendence. Some stories fling you weightless into the clouds, while
others skim closer to familiar ground. At the same time, the interwoven
stories wrap around you with a quantum intimacy that makes you wish you'd
stepped onto these spinning rides a long time ago - or realize that if you'd
just look from another angle, you'd see you've been riding them all along.
A masterful collection full of Humor, Wisdom, Heart, and Light."
Barbara Jacksha
Co-Editor
Cezanne's Carrot
Lucid Membrane is a wild romp through the amusement park of potential
realities, with all their bright lights, absurdities, and soul-tickling
transcendence. Some stories fling you weightless into the clouds, while
others skim closer to familiar ground. At the same time, the interwoven
stories wrap around you with a quantum intimacy that makes you wish you'd
stepped onto these spinning rides a long time ago - or realize that if you'd
just look from another angle, you'd see you've been riding them all along.
A masterful collection full of Humor, Wisdom, Heart, and Light."
Barbara Jacksha
Co-Editor
Cezanne's Carrot
from "The Quantum Fool"
"Perhaps each moment is a meeting place as powerful as this. Each spot of space. Perhaps this is each moment, each spot. Time, perhaps, to lie down. . . . The sky, the scene before you, all seems shot through with holes. Wormholes. Scintillating. You close your eyes. Maybe your meditations on the quantum foam the scientists say makes up our universe, tiny black holes and white holes, has boiled your mind. You see them now, the little buggers, and they sound like popping."
The Angler, Issue C (Divination)
Bewildering Stories,
Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts anthology 2011
Watching the Windows Sleep
The Angler, Issue C (Divination)
Bewildering Stories,
Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts anthology 2011
Watching the Windows Sleep
lets the light shine
"Bensko's writing crackles with energy across every page of this book, a phantasmagoric collection of stories that are all at once exciting, quirky, dreamlike, startling, moving, haunting, and beautifully original. Perhaps the thing I enjoy most about the stories here is that they are so wildly and warmly personal while also managing to achieve a sincere communication of a transcendent, universal life. This leaves a dual impression: of the Other, and of a oneness that takes in everything and is everything. The barriers between character and trajectory get little holes in them and Bensko lets the light shine through, and the plants that grow in this light grow in all sorts of odd, magnificent ways. I can think of few if any short story writers today whose work is as consistently and genuinely interesting as Tantra Bensko's." Amazon Review
"Your writing hums and crackles, it bursts. I have to say, most writers... well they suck at short pieces. Nothing really comes together in them, they rarely feel complete to me, unlike yours, which always have a very alive core. And meat. And wholeness. They stand alone and together and are all wonderful. And if one were to stab them, they might fight or whimper but they would all bleed. . . . "I'll be honest -- I hardly ever read short fiction... but YOURS is fantastic. Few writers are able to tip me over and bend my mind the way you do.""
Andrew Poland, JEF, Gone Lawn....
"Your writing hums and crackles, it bursts. I have to say, most writers... well they suck at short pieces. Nothing really comes together in them, they rarely feel complete to me, unlike yours, which always have a very alive core. And meat. And wholeness. They stand alone and together and are all wonderful. And if one were to stab them, they might fight or whimper but they would all bleed. . . . "I'll be honest -- I hardly ever read short fiction... but YOURS is fantastic. Few writers are able to tip me over and bend my mind the way you do.""
Andrew Poland, JEF, Gone Lawn....
The Secret Womb was the password-covert transmedia section of Lucid Membrane. Unfortunately technical issues beyond my control, such as Yahoo loosing the calendar, meant I had to shut it down, Feb. 2013.
Picasso meets Lewis Carroll
"Tantra, that was cubism in words; Picasso meets Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). . . . I think I really like it. Kind of detached irreverence mingled with the euphoric sense that I always took away from 'The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock'. . . .Maybe it was more your intention to evoke the feelings rather than structured opinions. Okay, verdict's in: I must have really liked it; I read it twice."
About "Accidental Voyeur" the first story--from Night Publishing's Gerry Johnston, author of
Dropcloth Angels
About "Accidental Voyeur" the first story--from Night Publishing's Gerry Johnston, author of
Dropcloth Angels
Light
"Ingenious. Funny as heck. Wise and witty and bizarre and true. Dang you're good at turning keystrokes into light.......Check this out my friends. Brilliant stuff. Borgesian torrents of playful lucidity. Like bubbling Moscato freshly vinted. Yum.
Lucid Membrane is a starry spiral of hypnagogic narrative on-ramps converging on a pilgrim's regress toward a tender even a cozy, yet crazy sort of liberation. I had the privilege of hearing the author read from it. I felt like I had been dipped in old dreams and perhaps really old dreams that dreams dream of.""
Peter Johnstone, Giants in the Earth
Lucid Membrane is a starry spiral of hypnagogic narrative on-ramps converging on a pilgrim's regress toward a tender even a cozy, yet crazy sort of liberation. I had the privilege of hearing the author read from it. I felt like I had been dipped in old dreams and perhaps really old dreams that dreams dream of.""
Peter Johnstone, Giants in the Earth
Need to be read
_ "I have long been a fan of Bensko’s work; I love her narrative flow, her
command and construction of the non-linear language. I receive books
from her on a regular basis and have witnessed firsthand, her
development and growth as a writer, and I have not been able to put down
her work yet. I highly recommend Lucid Membrane. Tantra Bensko is a writer of the first order, and simply put, her words need to be read."
B.L. Kennedy review at Gypsy Art Show
B.L. Kennedy review at Gypsy Art Show
Lucid
"The concept is absolutely brilliant! And I love your truly lucid style and all those imagery you create both as a writer and an artist. Congrats! Love your stories, and the new book looks just terrific! You're wonderful!""
V. Ulea, Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts
V. Ulea, Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts
Watch your homeostasis
"A thrilling psychic odyssey that wreaks havoc with the reader's homeostasis and sense of all things tragic & friable, "Lucid Membrane" seduces initiates into its topological web of hamartia, hubris, and the cost of the courage it takes to live on the scythe of found time."
Rinzen Ellar--Amazon review
Rinzen Ellar--Amazon review
Phenomenal
_I
won a copy of Lucid Membrane: Black and white version through
Goodread's book give away.This book of short stories is phenomenal.
Tantra Bensko's use of descriptive words and profound subject matter
draws the reader on a staggering journey of thought and visualization.
The stories will resonate long after you are done. I loved this book. It
makes me yearn to write again. Thank you Tantra Bensko for sharing your
work. Beautiful!
Jeanie--Goodreads review
Jeanie--Goodreads review
Paul Auster on steroids
"I really loved the book and how it combined thrilling and imaginative narratives with aspects of meta-fiction and cool and weird characters. It reminded me a bit of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy but on steroids and definitely taken to the next level, or many levels higher."
""Lucid Membrane" possesses the power of enchantment. Each luminous and seductive tale draws us into realms of earthly sorrow and exquisite beauty. These states seem to exist outside our normal confines of space and time. "Lucid Membrane" challenges our sensibilities while crossing the borderlands of contemporary fiction - all with style, substance and grace. As a master of prose and description, she leads us down strange avenues of being - some lovely, some grotesque - all that soar in the imagination.
The stories in Lucid Membrane (which are crafted on multiple levels,) deliver a kind of resonant, biometric rhythm that lure us deeply into her dream. We are hooked in wondrous anticipation. The stories are well paced and demonstrate a true breadth of vision. Bensko is a new breed of writer -one who knows her craft and uses it to transform the usual into the extraordinary . . . and I'm so glad she did."
V. V. Saichek Amazon Review
""Lucid Membrane" possesses the power of enchantment. Each luminous and seductive tale draws us into realms of earthly sorrow and exquisite beauty. These states seem to exist outside our normal confines of space and time. "Lucid Membrane" challenges our sensibilities while crossing the borderlands of contemporary fiction - all with style, substance and grace. As a master of prose and description, she leads us down strange avenues of being - some lovely, some grotesque - all that soar in the imagination.
The stories in Lucid Membrane (which are crafted on multiple levels,) deliver a kind of resonant, biometric rhythm that lure us deeply into her dream. We are hooked in wondrous anticipation. The stories are well paced and demonstrate a true breadth of vision. Bensko is a new breed of writer -one who knows her craft and uses it to transform the usual into the extraordinary . . . and I'm so glad she did."
V. V. Saichek Amazon Review
Exquisite
"Lucid Membrane." You're onto something novel, something genuinely exquisite."
-- Aaron Cotton, composer
-- Aaron Cotton, composer
Read interviews etc. about Lucid Membrane, and Cabinet, in the Fascia page of this site, if you like.
_Many of the stories in this book are transgressive, the characters
irreverent, figuring out creative ways to survive in a challenging
world, and exploring sexuality and humor with costumes and props,
sometimes going in questionable directions, in this life made of
costumes and props including religion as mythology. As they see it. If
you are squeamish, or traditional in beliefs, please don't read, as you
might be offended.
Lucid Fiction literature doesn't have to all be about the most obviously transcendent stories that explore consciousness. As long as it does include those cells within the whole, or address topics normally hidden in the shadows, it can shine a light on all the ways we use our brain-waves, from the ordinary beta brain-wave functionality, through the more slowed down alpha, theta, even delta brain-waves.
Here's a quick overview of Lucid Fiction.
A good place to start reading more about Lucid Fiction: Medulla Review's submissions page, and you can see examples in the issue I guest edited. There are links there to articles about this genre. And Here is an in depth article Unlikely Stories published about it. Lucid Fiction extends beyond literature. We live in a fictional, dreamlike reality. Isn't it good to have lucid dreams sometimes? For the veil of the illusion itself to glow itself awake? For this fictional world to be filled with light and vision? You, you can read about my guest editing of the here, which goes more into the concepts.
What will you find in Lucid Membrane?
Past, alternate, and parallel lives, amazing human abilities no longer dampened down, quantum physics in a mystical tutu, ribald zaniness mooning you, conspiracies, a hair circus, a Sasquatch, non-linearity, questioning of religion, people turning themselves into other things as sexual fetishes, scatology, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, tattoos, Others, hypnosis, New Wave Fabulism, Absurdism, Surrealism, Transgressive Fiction, Weird Fiction, Bizarro, mind control, auras, energy vampires, an ancient goddess created by ritual ceremonies taking on an assistant to help hold together the illusion, a Klown, lesbianism, love for the earth as a conscious being, and for all that is on it.
Lucid Fiction takes us into our glowing selves, often through absurd laughter, forbidden knowledge, and we cast our light on the world, revealing what's hidden in the shadows.
Lucid Fiction literature doesn't have to all be about the most obviously transcendent stories that explore consciousness. As long as it does include those cells within the whole, or address topics normally hidden in the shadows, it can shine a light on all the ways we use our brain-waves, from the ordinary beta brain-wave functionality, through the more slowed down alpha, theta, even delta brain-waves.
Here's a quick overview of Lucid Fiction.
A good place to start reading more about Lucid Fiction: Medulla Review's submissions page, and you can see examples in the issue I guest edited. There are links there to articles about this genre. And Here is an in depth article Unlikely Stories published about it. Lucid Fiction extends beyond literature. We live in a fictional, dreamlike reality. Isn't it good to have lucid dreams sometimes? For the veil of the illusion itself to glow itself awake? For this fictional world to be filled with light and vision? You, you can read about my guest editing of the here, which goes more into the concepts.
What will you find in Lucid Membrane?
Past, alternate, and parallel lives, amazing human abilities no longer dampened down, quantum physics in a mystical tutu, ribald zaniness mooning you, conspiracies, a hair circus, a Sasquatch, non-linearity, questioning of religion, people turning themselves into other things as sexual fetishes, scatology, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, tattoos, Others, hypnosis, New Wave Fabulism, Absurdism, Surrealism, Transgressive Fiction, Weird Fiction, Bizarro, mind control, auras, energy vampires, an ancient goddess created by ritual ceremonies taking on an assistant to help hold together the illusion, a Klown, lesbianism, love for the earth as a conscious being, and for all that is on it.
Lucid Fiction takes us into our glowing selves, often through absurd laughter, forbidden knowledge, and we cast our light on the world, revealing what's hidden in the shadows.
_Inside Lucid Membrane are hidden triplet stories. These stories are
connected not only to the author simply by immaculate conception, and
the body of the book by living inside it, but to the readers who chose
to participate and help it reach to the outside world.
Readers can piece together the embedded stories in color just by flipping through the pages. And readers who chose to explore more in the Secret Womb will have surprise secret little worlds that open up with a little coaxing.
This book is transmedia (enter The Secret Womb with the password found in the book) and what I call "trance-media". The method of stories within in stories is based on how a hypnotherapist can put her head to one side to emphasis certain words that add up to a hidden message to the subconscious. And many of the stories are good for putting you in an altered state. They are addressed to all the different parts of the self.
In the color coded part of the book itself, "Release Party," may make you laugh. One kind of release. This blue story has infantile tendencies.
The other story "When Belief Waned," curled inside the flesh of the book proceeds by red ink.
This story is longer and more integral, as it wafts together different ancient traditions still being echoed today in a more hidden, but equally bloody form.
"Becoming Lucid" is not a fiction story. It's trance-media at its most direct. A kind of subliminal that is based on the hypnotherapist's method of off-setting certain words to create a secret story for the subconscious. In this case, the color yellow is programed into your subconscious to trigger more clarity and lucidity. Don't bother trying to piece this story together consciously unless you really want to, as some of the words that make grammatical sentences are missing, and some words are spread out letter by letter.
Want to read an incredible article about how language works with our DNA, which is similar to language itself?
"According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.......
This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. While western researchers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects....
The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in the vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).? These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hyper communication is most effective in a state of relaxation. Stress, worries or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper communication or the information will be totally distorted and useless."
excerpts from "Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies" By Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf
Readers can piece together the embedded stories in color just by flipping through the pages. And readers who chose to explore more in the Secret Womb will have surprise secret little worlds that open up with a little coaxing.
This book is transmedia (enter The Secret Womb with the password found in the book) and what I call "trance-media". The method of stories within in stories is based on how a hypnotherapist can put her head to one side to emphasis certain words that add up to a hidden message to the subconscious. And many of the stories are good for putting you in an altered state. They are addressed to all the different parts of the self.
In the color coded part of the book itself, "Release Party," may make you laugh. One kind of release. This blue story has infantile tendencies.
The other story "When Belief Waned," curled inside the flesh of the book proceeds by red ink.
This story is longer and more integral, as it wafts together different ancient traditions still being echoed today in a more hidden, but equally bloody form.
"Becoming Lucid" is not a fiction story. It's trance-media at its most direct. A kind of subliminal that is based on the hypnotherapist's method of off-setting certain words to create a secret story for the subconscious. In this case, the color yellow is programed into your subconscious to trigger more clarity and lucidity. Don't bother trying to piece this story together consciously unless you really want to, as some of the words that make grammatical sentences are missing, and some words are spread out letter by letter.
Want to read an incredible article about how language works with our DNA, which is similar to language itself?
"According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.......
This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. While western researchers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects....
The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in the vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).? These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hyper communication is most effective in a state of relaxation. Stress, worries or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper communication or the information will be totally distorted and useless."
excerpts from "Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies" By Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf
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- Paperback: 180 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 11, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1466210079
- ISBN-13: 978-1466210073
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
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Lucid Membrane: watch while windows sleep. By Suzy Wildwood on January 6, 2012Format: Paperback Reading *Lucid Membrane* is like riding your longboard on lakes of mercury in an earthquake-prone region. Surface tensions swell, then dimple; mirrored vortices push and pop (Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid)--all while windows oddly sleep. A color-codex of Fabular! Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 1 of 1 people found the following review helpfulEXTRAORDINARY DEBUT By V V Saichek on December 5, 2011Format: Paperback Amazon Verified Purchase "Lucid Membrane" possesses the power of enchantment. Each luminous and seductive tale draws us into realms of earthly sorrow and exquisite beauty. These states seem to exist outside our normal confines of space and time. "Lucid Membrane" challenges our sensibilities while crossing the borderlands of contemporary fiction - all with style, substance and grace. As a master of prose and description, she leads us down strange avenues of being - some lovely, some grotesque - all that soar in the imagination.
The stories in Lucid Membrane (which are crafted on multiple levels,) deliver a kind of resonant, biometric rhythm that lure us deeply into her dream. We are hooked in wondrous anticipation. The stories are well paced and demonstrate a true breadth of vision. Bensko is a new breed of writer -one who knows her craft and uses it to transform the usual into the extraordinary . . . and I'm so glad she did.
V. V. Saichek is the author of "Bloodlines" published by The Legendary literary magazine. Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 1 of 1 people found the following review helpfulEnchanting writing for the post-ironic post-apocalyptic age By Good True Beautiful These Three on November 16, 2011Format: Paperback Prepare to be trance-ported to strange and strangely familiar worlds. Reading Bensko, one is reminded of E. T. A. Hoffmann, Borges, Calvino, Cummings, and Patchen. This surprising voice covers ground that so much of the worn out terrain of the contemporary ironic stance misses. Transgressive, reverent, playful and compassionate. Bensko's prose feels silly sad tender noble kind (madly pure and lovely) like Dulcinea's sweet perfume wafting over Sancho as he stumbles into Quixote's distant stare. Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 1 of 1 people found the following review helpfullucidity By Andrew Poland on November 6, 2011Format: Paperback Amazon Verified Purchase Bensko's writing crackles with energy across every page of this book, a phantasmagoric collection of stories that are all at once exciting, quirky, dreamlike, startling, moving, haunting, and beautifully original. Perhaps the thing I enjoy most about the stories here is that they are so wildly and warmly personal while also managing to achieve a sincere communication of a transcendent, universal life. This leaves a dual impression: of the Other, and of a oneness that takes in everything and is everything. The barriers between character and trajectory get little holes in them and Bensko lets the light shine through, and the plants that grow in this light grow in all sorts of odd, magnificent ways. I can think of few if any short story writers today whose work is as consistently and genuinely interesting as Tantra Bensko's. Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No
- Paperback: 180 pages black and white version
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 11, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1466209992
- ISBN-13: 978-1466209992
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