It’s a subtle change of emphasis, this. I move from referring to ‘the book I’m hoping to get published’ to ‘my forthcoming book’.
It’s still a long way off, of course, but now at least there is a publisher, a contract, and what was once an aspiration has become what passes in this 3D existence for a real future; the quantum wave of all probabilities has collapsed into a future event.
A Mind Beyond Words is going to be published by 6th Books and I’m celebrating.
The whole process of conscious creation is easy to follow in this instance as it moves from a thought to an intention and thence through the cyber world of emailed proposals and acceptance towards the many stages of production. Gradually and inexorably it will manifest as paper and ink, pages and covers, which others can hold in their hands, read and return to the domain of thought. There’s a pleasing symmetry to all that.
Words
Those are what will lie between my book’s covers, and that in itself is perhaps the greatest wonder of all.
Oh, some of it was created with words from the outset, but by no means all; hence the title.
There are memoirs in there — 25 years’ worth of memories of an extraordinary friendship, a narrative charting our adventures and forays into psychic phenomena. There is laughter and tragedy, commentaries from myself and from Asher. The deep discussion started, though, where the words stopped.
When Asher stopped speaking, my lone voice became the sound of one hand clapping. Either it had to stop there or a new form of communication had to begin.
There are the parts that did not begin as words, the parts that arrived in some telepathic bubble as pure thought passing between the two of us. Removing words opened the door of his cage and released Asher, allowing free range to the concepts and knowing he’d never been able to express before.
The real work started then. My task was to absorb that numinous connection between us and to ‘wordise’ it — translate it into the words that were my first language from the telepathy that was his.
Only then could they become a manuscript that will now become a book. Some detail and richness will inevitably have been lost in translation, but enough has passed through the filter to produce the book.
I look forward to sharing A Mind Beyond Words with you in the coming months.