From Nonfiction to Fiction: My Transition

June 15, 2013
 Although I enjoyed writing Beyond the Power of Now, The Book Eckhart Tolle Does Not Want You to Read, and Electrical Christianity, it’s a nice change to be able to focus my creative energy on my novel, tentatively titled Super Jesus.  I’m hardly a Stephen King fan—I don’t read his novels (or anyone else’s for that matter)--and his Big Government politics are about 180 degrees from my Objectivist/libertarian thinking; but I have found his insights on the creative process to be spot on. In his book On Writing, King says that novels pretty much write themselves—and that, much to my surprise, has been my experience. It’s almost as if I’m channeling my book, and when I examine the results so far (about 60,000 words), I see only a vague resemblance to the original concepts I had for the project; but I love the results. Although I don’t care for most other writers’ fiction, I’m enamored with my own because it’s totally, yet intelligently and humorously, over the edge, with zero regard for political correctness or establishment taboos.
 
Stephen King thinks it’s essential for a fiction writer to spend hours every day reading other fiction writers.… Read the full article

Welcome

June 7, 2013
Welcome to Electrical Spirituality, the website of spiritual teacher/mystic-philosopher L. Ron Gardner.  I named my website Electrical Spirituality because the spiritual Dharma I teach and write about is electrical in every way—radical and demystifying and correlated with Ohm’s Law. And because I’m an electrical guy (Sun conjunct Uranus in my natal chart), when I turn my attention to subjects other than spirituality--politics, culture, and health, et al.--my radical (gone-to-the-root) and sometimes revolutionary viewpoints can best be described as electrical. To learn more about me and this website, click on “About” on the menu bar.

Directly below this Welcome piece are my Current Posts. At the top of the right column are my books, which you can learn about and read samples writings from by placing the cursor on the titles under “Books” on the menu bar. Below my books are my Recent Posts (which, when no longer “recent,” can be accessed in “Archives”).

Feel free to comment on anything on this site, but please keep your comments civil and to the point. Site-readers are welcome to join my Facebook Group -- Meditation-Consciousness-Spirituality, which provides ongoing dialogue on spiritual matters.… Read the full article

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