Advice — pamela jaye smith

Read the rest of the series: Part 1; Part 2; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6 Metaphysics is not for amateurs. And that's on purpose. Everything you think you know about Conscious Media, spirituality, or metaphysics is probably wrong, half-wrong, upside-down and/or backwards, out of date, or too advanced to be of any use. Just think for a moment -- are these truths really true? All the time? Without exception? "What you think about you bring about." "The full moon is the most magical time." "40 days is the optimum time to set a new pattern." "The Law of Attraction...

Read the rest of the series: Part 1; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6 Conscious Media is Transformative Media. What is that? How can you create it? Writers schooled in the ageless Wisdom have been consciously creating transformative myths and rituals for thousands and thousands of years. That's nothing new. What is new is that you don't have to go sit in a cave in the Himalayas for ten years, living on cold rice and yak butter to get the information. Much of this formerly secret information is now - on purpose - available to practically anybody with...

Read the rest of the series: Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6 Conscious Media is nothing new. Initiates of the ancient and modern Mystery Schools have always crafted stories that carry universal truths dressed up in a particular way for a particular time and culture. That's why you can even have such a thing as comparative mythology - there are consistent similarities in stories and characters whether on weathered temple walls, in spiritual disciplines, initiatory systems, the Kabala, Masonry, Mithraicism, mystic Christianity, Tarot, alchemy, etc. This extant wealth of ancient media does not mean we don't...

The Duchess was such a disappointment. Though the wigs were beyond fabulous and the sets stunningly gorgeous and aristocratically dignified, the characters were flat, their dialogue practically non-existent, and their emotions understandably absent given the dearth of any context for the story. If you're going to do a period piece, do it up right. People, this was the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Reason. The time of Revolutions. Of great philosophical, scientific, and social exploration, discovery, and change. It was a time of long, complex sentences that displayed the acumen of the speaker, who was most likely schooled in...

What is it that lures people over to the Dark Side? Your audience wants to find out how people and things go bad, so in your story, be sure to reveal some of how the characters become the way they are -- not to excuse their behavior but to get us engaged with them. In this excerpt from my book, The Power of the Dark Side, we'll explore triggers and processes that turn people bad and some of the ways things all go to heck in a hand basket. Sleeping with the enemy Since Adam took a bite from the...