Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
Life Force Books announces a far-reaching interview with author, JJ Semple, by book critic Araminta Matthews of Front Street Reviews. In her interview, Matthews covers both literary and metaphysical topics, asking Semple for advice to new writers and comments about his 1973 Kundalini awakening.
In today’s publishing market of narrowly defined genres, blending or crossing genres is usually considered a no-no. When he wrote Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time, Semple realized he was taking a risk trying to make the book both a memoir and a how-to book. Matthews, an insightful critic, is especially well-suited to the Mind/Body/Spirit genre. Her review catches Semple’s intentions when she states: “Self-realization begins at birth; it is the journey as much as it is the destination.”
At one point, she asks Semple about various photographs in his book, Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time, “When I first viewed it, I observed your ‘after kundalini’ image to look somewhat disconcerting -- shining eyes with a faraway look, unkempt hair and beard growing freely. How do you account for this transformation from the clean-cut academic-looking young man to the kundalini version of yourself?” To which Semple replies, “Well, I hoped to show that Kundalini does effect a transformation. However in the instance of Golden Flower Meditation, this transformation is benign; it causes no damage. In a few days the individual is back to normal. And thanks to Life Force activation, the normal soon becomes ‘metanormal.’
Asked how he “… manages conciseness without sacrificing meaning?” Semple replies, “One of the great things about the English language is that any noun can become an adjective. This allows one to avoid overlong prepositional phrases. So a prepositional phrase like “the foundation for the purity of kundalini” can become “the kundalini purity foundation.”
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