There is light, sunlight, transcendental light… look for it.
It’s always darkest before the dawn–the dawn does come…wait for it, go to it, change will come.
You can see through the dark times.
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In Tangier Gardens, CJ was submerged in dark times; but with the help of his girl friend, Sachy, he found the light.
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My secret pleasure? I find it when I see clouds forming and escaping from the mountains.
When the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure are amenable, I can see the mountains breathing.
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This pleasure from nature, the landscape, the topography, the plants…that is the heart of CJ’s discoveries in my novel, Tangier Gardens, where the student becomes mesmerized by the northwest Africa landscape and Tangier gardens. Interested? Buy the book.
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Mountain stream above the tree line, clear and white–straight flow to the pineal.
The stream takes advantage of the eyes and ears as paths to the pineal.
Words and talking get in the way–the stream continues; but the pineal flow stops.
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In Tangier Gardens, CJ discovered this flow.
He didn’t know what to call his experiences, paranormal, gnostic portals, or the answers to existential unknowns–but he knew the inputs were from nature, its landscapes and plants.
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And what is it that is the view?
An energy source seeking the pineal.
No, not the photo! Seek that energy source yourself in real life!
Don’t turn away until you feel it.
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That is the portal CJ discovered in Tangier Gardens.
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Are you an explorer?
What do you think you might find up this valley?
Death?
Inspiration?
You’ll never know till you start walking up the valley.
Do it–that’s what life is for.
Against all odds, CJ did it. Find out how he did it in Tangier Gardens.
Mountain air? Recharges the lungs, recharges the spirit.
We don’t have to look too far before inspiration beckons.
Mountains in a clear blue sky are majestic, but in low overcast? They are still majestic but also mysterious.
Take another breath…deep…feeling refreshed?
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Experiences in these countries, where, with my family, I have lived, are the foundation of the novels I write.
Landscape Middle East, in that same August 2022 issue, published a review of my book, Tangier Gardens.
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CJ tells about his living in Tangier.
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I am on a hunt.
For genre, for references.
You all know I write about landscape. In my own words, landscape that takes you to the foggy edge where normal transforms into paranormal.
I have only one writer who inspired me–Algernon Blackwood. He showed respect for the observable landscape. He also felt another side of landscape–its power. Its indefinable power that, in a fleeting second, can overwhelm.
I don’t copy him. But my experience in the landscape is similar. Tangier Gardens is about a young man just making his first discoveries beyond the foggy edge of normal. Nature is like that–if you let it.
If we look at nature, in a traditional sense, we see it as a source of human inspiration.
What about landscape? Landscape is the canvas upon which nature sits.
What about landscape architecture? Now that is confusing. It is a modern profession, that in my opinion, mistakenly moves natural elements around, often losing the traditional inspirational quality of nature. Failure.
So, in Tangier Gardens, the young man, CJ, tries to find how he, as a student of landscape architecture, can impart the inspiration of nature into his landscape design. Difficult. Tons of adminstrative regulations that bind nature into some kind of measurable pop experience. Not fun or helpful.
So I turn to a Algernon Blackwood aficionado, Eugene Thacker, who writes about Blackwood’s approach to nature and landscape:
If we are to call Blackwood a naturalist, then we must do so with caution, for his sublime awe before the mysteries of nature is always coupled with an acute awareness of the indifference of what we dutifully tag as “nature.” His novella, “The Willows”, suggests something different. Perhaps what we call the “supernatural” is simply the nature either we don’t see or don’t comprehend. It is the site of myth, religion, metaphysics—and perhaps of science as well. The strangest or “weirdest” understanding of nature is given to us not from ancient superstitions but from modern science. Perhaps the natural is supernatural, and vice-versa.
https://lithub.com/how-algernon-blackwood-turned-nature-into-sublime-horror/
If you would like to see my take on nature via the landscape, read Tangier Gardens.
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And if you know of contemporary authors in the same vein, please include them in your comment.
And lastly genre: after you have read Tangier Gardens, tell me what genre you think it fits.
