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The Making Of The Enchanted World 8/13/2004 7:43:55 PM
Writing a book in German and in English at the same time is a strange experience ... This is a repost about the strange ways of The Enchanted World from my chat list. I have a project at the moment which is so truly amazing in its
genesis and all the way, really, I wanted to tell you guys about it!
Now first of all, clear all those terror reversals - no I'm not
writing a sales script here, this information product will be FREE
FREE FREE, free as a bird, soaring high, in the eternal blue skies
above our magical planet ...
LOL!
Do you really know or begin to appreciate how much I HATE having to
write constant advertisements for my various projects? Trying to find
a way to convince people to give them a chance, to interact with them
personally because unless you do, you just can't know WHAT they really
are?
Do you know how deeply frustrating it is to me to hear over and over
again that people think EmoTrance is some sort of lame version of EFT,
simply because they don't know what it is and are judging it according
to their KNOWN disappointments and expectations?
How it drives me crazy when folk say oh yeah, it's just Sedona, isn't
it. Or, I don't need it, I'm a Reiki Master ...
The same with Project Sanctuary. Oh yeah, did metaphor in my
psychology degree. Know all about it ...
And again with HypnoDreams. Sure I've got LOADS of meditation and
hypnosis CDs. Can't be any different, can it. In Serein? Who needs it
when we have Harry Potter ...
But the fact is that my creations there ARE different. Their
techniques are, their presuppositions are and the theories behind them
and even HOW they are executed are really different from what folk who
don't know want to compare them to.
Now I guess you would have to have been there for 25 years (this was
and is the same problem with the dog training books which are NOT
repeating what you get to read in ALL THE OTHER DOG TRAINING BOOKS!
either!!!) to have any idea of how incredibly frustrating this is,
especially over time.
But I've found a solution!
An art solution!
Or even a so-Lucian, which would be of course, my favourite kind :-))
I've written a short but rather information packed book for free
distribution which sets out the principles of my work in clear, simple
language and unambigious directness.
It is only about 30,000 words long.
66 chapters (just came out that way, no intent on my conscious side!)
of short articles which each explain a key point about a universe that
consists not just of the Hard, but is a living, multidimensional and
truly ENCHANTED WORLD.
It has 30 illustrations, many practical exercises anyone can do if
they want to, and covers the most important principles of my research
and findings since 1993.
So, I'm going to make this available as a FREE ebook first of all, and
we're going to put this where ever intelligent people gather, so that
people CAN MAKE UP THEIR OWN MINDS FROM A PLACE OF BEING WELL INFORMED
as to whether what I'm doing here is of any value to them, is exciting
and interesting, and FEELS like something they would like to do more
of.
This short book is quite enough also to understand then ALL the other
products because it forms a basis from which you can get it what ALL
the other things are about, what they are supposed to do, and even HOW
they work.
For people (like myself! LOL) this book forms also a reference FRAME
to draw that mass of information, techniques, metaphors, functions,
approaches, etc. etc. etc. I have generated along the way together in
to cohesive, useable whole. So it is useful in that sense both for
absolute beginners, as well as for the far end researchers to hold it
all together.
I will be sending this for ebook preparation tonight, and we should
have it in all the various download sections by the end of this week.
We will also make FREE (yay! chay!!!) hard copy and use the funds set
aside for advertising to produce this book instead. P&P will have to
be paid on it though.
So there's something to look forward to, and I'll give you lot the
link first as a thank you for being here!
But now to the "Making Of ..." because that's really fascinating.
Earlier this year, I thought I might like to try and write something
in German, for the first time in near enough 30 years.
Just to see if those ol' language circuits were still there for one
thing, and also if all I'd learned about semantics, hypnotic
languaging, energy languaging and neuro-linguistics would be
structural to me now and transposable regardless of the language in
which these events were taking place.
To up the ante a bit and make it a bit more challenging, I decided
that I would write a REAL BEST SELLER. Something that would be
irresistably interesting to the right crowd, something that would be
passed from hand to hand, that people would talk about, that they
would REMEMBER, and where they would give copies to their very best
friends because they wanted to share it.
As I didn't want to let it drag on or develop into some tome, I set a
word limit of 30,000 words for the whole thing, decided on the title
(but not on the content!) Zauberwelt (The Enchanted World), and gave
myself exactly one month to write it - from the 15th of April to the
14th of May.
I also decided that as it needed to have a decent "spine presence" on
bookshelves, it would have to have illustrations - but in black and
white so this could be printed on mass and for the least amount of
trouble or expense, or even photocopied - so we're really talking
monochrome compatible rather than grey scale here.
So on the morning of April 15th I sat down with my laptop at the
kitchen table and got started.
It was a bugger at first. I had to stop and get some paint markers to
paint the German letters over the English ones on my keyboard so I'd
know where the !"£$!! semicolon was to be found. Then I had to
endlessly backspace because after 25 years of fast typing on an
English keyboard, I just can't hit a z and remember that it's actually
a y when I'm typing in German - LOL.
I also needed a good dictionary, and found a superb online one from
the Munich Technical University which proved a real life saver.
But even so, the book SIMPLY WROTE ITSELF.
The headlines just appeared, the sequence and order, and the phrasings
stunned me time and time again, because German is a lot more
uncompromising than English and I'd NEVER heard my theories expressed
THAT concisely or precisely before, that straightforward. In English,
I'm always saying, "It is possible that ...", "It could be so that in
my opinion the likelhood exists ..." and all sorts of disclaimers
which were simply absent in the German version, where I would say
things like, "I have learned that ..." and move straight to the point.
The illustrations also just happened, immediately and without a hitch.
It even closed itself very neatly on 30,000 words and was all done on
the 8th of May, and I signed and dated it much like you would sign a
painting instead of a book.
I edited it as much as you can without a spell checker or much
conscious remembrance of German punctuation rules (LOL!) and then
forgot all about it.
Until around July, it occurred to me to TRANSLATE IT into English.
Now I can't begin to know what caused this but I have a wide screen
monitor, so I put up one Word document on the left, one on the right,
and just set about matching all the headlines, images and words - just
in a different language.
That was a very strange, very mindboggling exercise in "actual
submodalities" - especially when I decided to switch the documents
around every other chapter or so.
I just got involved with translating it more or less word for word, to
keep the interesting energy of the original document alive, but still
noticed that I was nonetheless "softening the blows" for the tender
English readers again - making the illustrations smaller by 30%, for
example, and turning down many of the German metaphors to be a little
more ... hm, perhaps a little less CONTROVERSIAL.
Still, I finished it last night and I must say, that book, short as it
is, is REALLY SOMETHING.
Apart from the perfect free gift it will also make a really superb
AUDIO book. It READS aloud like a charm in English, very nice indeed,
and after timing myself reading some sample chapters and doing some
calculations it turns out to come out at exactly 6 hours - the
standard length of a Nightingale Conant cassette set, of all things, 6
tapes, one hour double sided, 30 minutes either side.
What a remarkable "co-incidence"!
Especially considering that I had for the last two months, on and off
struggled with a layout for ... a basic NC EmoTrance 6 hour tape set!
LOL. I just got so bored shuffling the contents around the 12
sections, I gave up on it at least a dozen times or more along the
way, and all that time, I already had the German document, ready to
go, sitting on my hard drive!
Also, that thing with the "masterpiece". Here I was wondering what it
might be. Thinking it was something I had to construct from scratch.
Wondering if it was going to be the NC ET set. Or something else, like
a weightloss book. Yes, honestly! I did think that for a day or two!!!
And the reason I was even thinking about the NC set and the
"masterpiece" construction was - that I was engaging at that very time
in making it already.
Only I didn't know that ...
It is really astonishing! I HAD to write it in German to strip all the
nonsense out, to get OUT of my entrained ways in English
communication, and in order to produce not a German, but an ENGLISH
LANGUAGE MASTERPIECE that functions as a book, as an information
device, as an audio book, as a neat presentation of skill and craft,
as a first introduction from stone cold, as a portal to my work, as a
bug fix for all the already existing objects and projects, as a
framing device for them all, as an advertising device - and in a few
years most likely even as a "best seller" because that was its
original structural brief.
So.
Is THIS an indicator of what happens when the HEROS systems come
online a bit more?
I can tell you that I am, after all I've been through, truly
astonished at how that worked out in the end.
How incredibly EASY that was. And it really was, I'm not kidding, it
wrote itself, it translated itself, it illustrated itself and it even
proofread itself so quickly, so EASILY, so smoothly - I've never done
anything like that, in that way, ever before.
This is a real threshold shift for me in every way.
