Lies are convenient- People find them when they need them to fill holes in their story, to misdirect or redirect people to other issues or matter. Often times people make them up as they go. They're convenient to find, mainly because they appear almost out of thin air. In fact, Lies are a fabrication, a... Continue Reading →
The communication lesson of Pictionary
Getting a group of people together to draw pictures and guess what you're drawing, without directly resorting to words is a form of symbol and sign recognition. Drawing Charades or Pictionary is something that people can play to guess what the object is, to apply a meaning to a drawing, which is how signs and... Continue Reading →
Duke’s Writing Tips 0002
Fantasy and fiction whether it be novels or stories or comics or movies or video games, are an escape for some (arguably most), and I'd like to discuss two ideas that prevail to audience appeal. Here are two ideas or themes that can draw or hook a character in; Relatability and Desirability People want a... Continue Reading →
Using Original Sin as a lens to re-examine Humanity
In (some) Christian terms, the concept of Original sin stems from Adam and Eve having sinned by eating the fruit of forbidden knowledge and thus being cast out of the garden of Eden having to suffer in the world. As such, everyone that's a descendent of Adam and Eve are born from this idea or... Continue Reading →
small blurb on Real Enchantment Magic
Michael Jackson once said; “Singers, when they sing songs: it’s like a mantra - when you repeat a chorus, over and over and over. So, when a kid hears a song, and he starts singing that chorus over and over and over, then you start to hear it in the alpha state into the subconscious... Continue Reading →
Glasses and Cups and Reality Tunnels
In the West, we use the analogy of a glass half empty or half full to determine perspective and world view. And there are many plays and derivative analogies online; In the East, they use the cup full or empty to resemble the mind and teaching. Someone with a full mind has no room for... Continue Reading →
Board games as ceremonial Magic
There are three board-game movies that come to my mind when I think about this, Zathura (2005), Jumanji (1995), and Family Pack (2024). Essentially, the theme or plot of the movies are that some people play a board game that alters reality and they can't leave until some conditions are met (they all 'lose') or... Continue Reading →
Keyhole symbolism and Doorways
There's some esoteric ideas and jazz about signs and symbols, one of which is a keyhole and doorways. In the study of neuro-architecture, -people study how architecture affects neurology and memory and consciousness. How inspiring and grandiose places impact with a sense of awe, as well as how broken windows effect our subconscious mind in... Continue Reading →
Mapping out the idea sphere
Words have meaning, and that meaning itself exists as an idea. So I've explored the idea of ideas, or concepts, or meta-narrative stories or ideologies that permeate the substrate of physical reality. There is a world of thought or smoke beyond the world of pure visible smoke and touchable maya that makes up our reality.... Continue Reading →
The fix ‘Bene-‘
'Bene' in English is borrowed from Italian which means 'good' or 'well' and stems from it's Latin Roots. You can see this fix be used as a prefix for words such as;BenedictBenefitBenedictionBenevolentBenefactorBeneficentBeneficiary As a side note, Benedict has the suffix '-dict' which is related to diction or dictionary or dictator meaning "to decide or choose... Continue Reading →
