Road
Trip Mind
By Uncle Tantra
Interview
With The Author
Description:
True stories
by a fictional author, Road Trip Mind is an extremely subjective,
sometimes challenging, infuriatingly irreverent, and hopefully
funny collection of one former Rama student's travels on the
pathway to enlightenment.
Why
did you decide to write a book?
I
had nothing better to do that day.
No, really,
because:
*
Rama asked me to write it and I said Yes and even though he
was dead I said Yes.
*
I wanted to write a SEEKER'S tale, not Just Another Blissed-out
Book About Another Perfect Teacher.
*
In the aftermath of Rama's death many of his students seemed
to be in a great deal of pain trying to deal with his loss;
since I had left his study and thus dealt with that loss several
years before they did, I thought maybe some of my insights might
help; I was naive.
*
I had nothing better to do that incarnation.
What
did you learn by writing a book?
*
That it's more difficult than you think it will be.
*
That it's worth it.
*
That you should not expect any positive response from the universe
for writing it.
*
That it's worth even the response you do get.
Do
you have any suggestions to help others publish their books?
Nope.
Thanks to the folks at Ramalila, I was able to give mine away
for free.
How
do you inspire yourself to write?
* By imagining that there is an audience out there somewhere
who might benefit from reading it if you do an impeccable job
with the writing.
*
By, having gotten over the above as the raging egobabble it
is, trying to do an impeccable job with the writing just for
the fuck of it.
Do you have any funny stories about things that happened to
you while you were writing the book?
In my case, because I wrote almost all of the stories
in my book in one sitting, spontaneously, the "funny stories"
are the stories themselves. If any humor and/or flow of consciousness
is there for the reader, it was there for me as the writer.
Do you have anything you would like to add?
After
all these years, I still want to know what was in the big pink
box, man.
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