POETRY - NAKED NOW
Shula writes in her poem ‘Naked Now’ - (This is sensual, this is spiritual and when there’s no difference between the two, you have quietened the ego-mind and allowed the heart, time to be).
FINDING PARADISE WITHIN
For people to flourish, they need to locate paradise within. This is the lesson of taught to us by inner-experience and not by State sponsored religion.
I SLEPT WITH KAFKA’S GHOST
Shula waxes poetical about her life with Jack and the birth of their son, Nic Ticorax (Strix). Jack to her is like Kafka’s ghost. The politics of control lead to the mass descent into compliance.
POETRY - A WISE WOMAN SAID
Shula’s poem, A Wise Woman Said, gives a nod to Joy Harjo. She tells us that she is like the Tree of Life and shuns black and white perspectives.
POETRY - THOUGHTS AFTER A FUNERAL
Geoff Hall - A poem for funerals called ‘Thoughts After a Funeral’, with all the emotions of loss and thankfulness.
NEWS - GEOFF’S BOOK RECOMMENDATION FOR NOVEMBER
Geoff’s November book recommendation is ‘James Baldwin: The Last Interview’.
RESISTANCE - THE STATE AS ULTIMATE REALITY
Jack Stanza’s article ‘The State as Ultimate Reality: and the ideology of the inferiority complex’, closes our Blue October focus on political change through non-violence.
un diablo roto llamado Marx (abridged)
Jack Stanza - Marx is a broken devil, whose words of hate offer us nothing but destruction.
BLUE REVOLT (PART TWO)
The Blue Revolt, part two. Ends with a poem by Shula, called ‘In the End’. Jack at his acerbic best and Shula at her most mystical, when she writes about human origins and the death of the ‘I’.
NEWS - FACEBOOK REVIEW FROM DANI MOLINTAS (IN THE PHILIPPINES)
FACEBOOK review from Dani Molintas in The Philippines, calling for the novel to be rendered as a graphic novel!!
WRITING - BLUE OCTOBER
This month we are celebrating freedom, with Blue October, a time to rethink our allegiances to the ideologies of State. Written by Jack Stanza.
WRITING - AND THE ART OF SURRENDER
On Writing: considers the world of ‘Prodrome’ and the art of surrender.
BLUE REVOLT (PART ONE)
The Blue Revolt, part one. The stuff of urban legends and how the link between mysticism and resistance is described by Jack Stanza and Shula.
NEWS - KWAIDAN: JAPANESE GHOST STORIES
Kwaidan, is a collection of Japanese Ghost Stories from the renowned Director, Masaki Kobayashi. Thank you, Eureka Entertainment.
NEWS - GEOFF’S RECOMMENDED READING - (OCTOBER)
Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘Japanese Ghost Stories’ is published by Penguin Classics #enterthevisionspace
SIGNIFICANCE
We all want our lives to count for something. We would love to have PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE. How does the ‘toxic’ poet, Jack Stanza, find his.
RESISTANCE - ‘WE CAN BE PART OF SOMETHING’
Promo event - 18th September, 2021. Resistance - We Can Be Part of Something - music, poetry and so much more.
If I had not been published…
Jack Stanza wants a post-disillusionment world to be born, so that we are released from the mythic pretensions of the State and its Church.
NEWS - GEOFF IS INTERVIEWED ON NEWS WORLD INC.
NEWS WORLD INC - Interview with Geoff Hall about his new novel, “0w1:believe” which is NOW AVAILABLE on Apple Books! #enterthevisionspace
NEWS - GEOFF’S RECOMMENDED READING - (SEPTEMBER)
Awakened Cosmos by David Hinton recommended reading for September. Taoist/Ch’an Poetry and Meditation