So.
You’ve woken up in an insane asylum. Feeling hazy how you got here. Faces so familiar, hiding strangers you thought you knew. Lies bleed from the plasma screens, while only yesterday they seemed like fresh spring truths. You look around, but see no way out of here.
Don’t recoil, traveller, into that shell prepared for you, the mould to fit this sleepwalker’s dream. Nor settle for another crappy meal in a different padded cell. Fight the Piper’s scream singing, “I’m too busy to reach for the light
of the light of stars…”
…within.
Our Work
Independent
Here, we view our collective home from a different place, through the lenses of prose, poetry & short fiction.
Beyond the Norm
We ignore the etiquettes of political-pseudo-science-AI-fact-checker, official correctness, and prefer the rugged journey to the truth.
Inspiring
It says, look around you, understand your place in the bigger picture, then reach for the higher ground—always.
Sure, I could babble on about why you should read my stuff. I could bang my fists on a podcast about how we’re living in the times of the signs. Pluck those emotional strings until you feel all gooey inside. Flick those psychological triggers to make you believe. But I thought I’d give you a free book instead, so you can make up your own mind:
Still not sure? Then read through our blog:
Something to Graze On
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Ashkenaziland. Author’s Preface—Why I Wrote This
Read more: Ashkenaziland. Author’s Preface—Why I Wrote ThisWe’re born into a hermetic system that dribbles certain information and ideas into our brains, while repeating throughout our lives that all other information and ideas are false. This becomes our norm, our sense of reality.
What the FAQ!
Write stuff… about freeing the mind, to free yourself, for crying out loud!
It’s thoughts, protests, and lamentations; inspirations and encouragement; standing on toes and no sugar-coating about the realities (and illusions) of our time. I share what I discovered during a 20-year journey of personal transformation, and my stumbling around through the forgotten art of being since then. It’s planting seeds of encouragement toward better things in a world that’s forgotten how to grow. It’s for those who have come to mistrust the image we’ve been sold about the world, about ourselves, about everything; for those willing to sit with thoughts for a while, have a concentrated look at things, and question your sense of reality.
It’s not singular; it’s plural. It’s rediscovering and applying our unique art of being in a collective movement that says we’ve had it with this insanity sold as normality, the hypocrisy, the lies, the pop-culture spirituality going in circles, the mass-lethargy in the face of the greatest atrocities in history shaping the future.
We stamp our feet (or is that hooves?) and say, “Enough!” with being treated like an object everyone higher up the food chain pushes around, exploits, makes money from, then disposes of as they please.
But it’s not about rage and destruction. Rather, it’s understanding what we’re up against, then taking these sentiments and finding the way to transform it into something constructive, something that others can use. It’s how the “me” becomes the “we.” If you know what I mean? The antithesis of this insane asylum called “normality.”
It’s also satirical. As well as a paradox. See The Awakening of Fedup Sheep.
Each of us has that… thing… an inherent creative principle… either lying dormant because we’ve been convinced it serves no purpose (other than a hobby) or we’ve accepted a replica thereof. The thing that turns work into art, art in being, and which changes things.
But I don’t fool myself.
To think society is going to change is turning up the nose to the message screaming at us from past millenniums, while ignoring what’s happening all around us.
Yet individually? Now, that’s a different story. This is the one we’re interested in.
And from there, who knows could happen?
Fedup Sheep unmasks illusions and encourages rediscovering the forgotten the art of being as the true means of individual and collective progression.
Download my free book Independent Journeys. Or test drive my growing amount of free stuff and then download my free book.
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Of course!
We’re looking into a YouTube Channel, to add another experience.
Fedup Sheep merchandise would be cool—don’t you think?
Providing a bit of space for others to list their works (some free advertizing, if you will) could prove enlightening. And maybe poetry competitions.
But each of these takes time (and funds), and I’m a one-man band (and presently with no funds).
If you’ve clicked all the links on your way down here, and browsed through the menu at the top over there, then you have a clear-enough picture of what we’re about.
My work is an invitation to join us where things naturally should be, once waking up from La-la land.
Or maybe it’s just something different to read, something to graze on?
But if none of this gels with you, then perhaps you shouldn’t bother.
The Next Step:
Don’t settle
in this wasteland ‘cause it’s green.
Keep going, keep going.
Follow the stream
to mountains there.
You feel the breath
now
touch your soul? Here.
And still
keep going, keep going…
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