Achieving A Trance State With Madison Smartt Bell

newyorker.com:

Madison Smartt Bell’s latest novel "The Color of Night" landed on my desk with a handwritten note from his publicist: “Check out the acknowledgments. I think you’ll find it interesting.” There Bell writes that his work has always been “dictated to me by daemons. People probably think that’s a figure of speech, maybe this book will prove it literal.”

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Comments

[El Saltine]

08:03 PM on 04/14/2011

HELP! I hypnotized myself but I don't know how to snap my fingers, never did, now I can't wake up!!!

[MikeBissonette]

05:05 AM on 04/14/2011

This is a very interesting link to an article on another site. Thanks for passing that on. Wierd but makes sense in a way. As a writer myself I understand the effect that he describes. And your brain does resolve problems when you sleep. Bell may be onto something.