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Amorella here. Since the topic is curiosity, I think a photo of a cat is appropriate. This one is named Jadah, for her jade eyes, is presently alive and well. Richard’s daughter, Kim, recovered her from a cat shelter last November for the entertainment and well-being of her retired parents. Jadah is a well-mannered and curious American domestic short-hair, a descendent of the English short-hair and the ancient Roman short-hair at least according to some experts.

Human beings are curious by nature also. After being taught self-hypnosis to help control his blood pressure in the eighties Richard began writing experimentally using the subconscious motor control in his fingers to see if he could discover what his unconscious mind had to say. I am a partial result of this experimentation. Richard is not afraid of his unconsciousness because he imaginatively thinks that when one dies physically the mind is reversed and the immortal part, so to speak, has to deal with what it has suppressed for a lifetime, you know, so that one can become more aware and honest with herorhimself.

In fact, sometime earlier this summer, he realized that the three selections of stories in the books, The Present (The Brothers), The Past (Grandma’s Stories), and The Future (Better Human-like Aliens) are in Freudian terminology basically the Ego, the Id, and the Superego.

This is only because I have read several books by Freud when I was younger and I had a particular graduate course at Bowling Green State University where the visiting professor in my psychology class was from Vienna and had done extensive work in Freudian psychology in the original German. Not everyone agrees with the Freudian concepts and I accept that; however, the stories still fit, and why not, as they came out of my head/mind. That is all Amorella can work with. It seems reasonable enough to me.

Richard assumes that I can only work with his mind, that I do not have other resources.

I stand corrected. It is my assumption. Here is why this is important to me. If Amorella is as an independent mind within my own then perhaps she can dwell into the human spirit of which we are all a part. Moving deep into the human spirit is not something I can readily do. I have no evidence she can do this, but as I think about it, I must feel it is possible, otherwise, why would I have the need to share this with others? Sharing makes me free, that is what I get from it. I am saying, “Here I am. Read my mind if you like. I don’t care. I really don’t have anything to hide.”

Writers, by nature, give their minds away when they write. Others can poke and prod and make this or that out of a poem or other creative work. Frankly, I don’t really care. The books and this blog are who I am. That is the reason I am hopeful of taking the memory of them with me when I die.

Richard is not as nearly as curious about ‘the other side’ as he once was. This is one of the benefits from writing from a similar mental state that one dreams from. I gathered up his post death concepts and used them in the books. Nothing much to them. Tomorrow I’ll lay out the logic.

That’s fine with me, Amorella. They are just concepts but they fit in the context of the three books. That was the important thing. Everything had to fit in context otherwise it wouldn’t be so good as fiction. At least this blog is a freebee.