Is It Time For A New Book?

I think I have finally started my next book. it has taken more than a year of faults starts, notes, and inspirational artwork. But it looks like I have been propelled through the gates of change by a yoga studio showing interests in my various workshops. the first of which is about dreams, dreamscapes, and dream tending.

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Yes, I am Andrew Ledford.

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And today we are doing another one of these little,

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what are, what, what have I decided to call these?

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These are not quite the Andrew Ledford show

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that now is an official public access show,

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but wanted to just touch bases here.

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I finally started my new book

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and yes, I, have been putting this off

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for quite some time.

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I have been making, I have had quite a couple different

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starts last year,

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but it just, I never knew how I was, wanted to organize it.

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So for the last year I’ve been making notes,

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doing some artwork here

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and there to kind of stimulate

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my creative processes.

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And over the weekend, this is what this is, April

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I started writing.

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So it is an interesting process.

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I, I’m not sure if I’m gonna keep going this time or not,

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but it looks like, it looks like this is actually the

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start of the book.

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I believe I have most of chapter one finished.

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So generally, once I get this far into it

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and have some idea of the organizations, I am committed

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and we’re on our way to

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Spending a lot of time and not necessarily making any

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money doing it.

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Book writing is,

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you are using a lot of the use learning

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and using a lot of useless information

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that probably most people don’t even wanna know about.

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But I do have a new, workshop coming up

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at a yoga studio

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and that’s what prompted this first chapter in the book,

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which is all about dreams.

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And primarily, I think I got started in this line

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of thought, way back when Joseph Campbell,

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if any of my old girlfriends are watching this, you’ll

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probably remember me watching minting

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Joseph Campbell PBS shows.

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And then of course it evolved.

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Actually, you know, before that probably the Bible,

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the Bible has lots of dreamscapes in it, lots

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of stories about dreaming.

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So of course that was probably my first influence.

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But where I really started looking at it as,

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compar comparative religion, comparative cultures,

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what Carl Young thought of as a collective unconscious,

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which I have a little bit different take on it than that,

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was probably with comparative religions

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and myths that Joseph Campbell talked about.

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And then this is going to be actually booklet, I hope it’s,

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50 to a hundred pages,

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but there are eight sections,

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eight workshops I’m working on.

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And this is going to be the book for the first workshop.

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So I think that’s going to about do it for today.

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As always, I am wishing you the very best in life.

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Have a wonderful day. Bye-bye.