New Jersey Stage 2017: Issue 4 | Page 108

I was on a 300 mile, five-hour trip home to Matawan from Utica, NY. It rained all the way. Looking back, I’m fortunate I made it home alive, for I was hypnotized by the rain and the windshield wipers. Both spoke to me and managed my creative flow. During that non-stop trip I spontaneously “wrote” in my head an entire “Broadway” show with six songs based on Red- field’s book. It was “Celestine Prophecy the Musical.” The ideas just poured out of me as pow- erful as the driving rain; lyrics, melodies and storyline. I think an experience like that is called a miracle. (It doesn’t matter if it wasn’t good. It got me home!) In no time, I was back in my driveway. It seemed like I was only on the road for an hour! The unconscious mind is a funny thing. I’m a clinical hypnotist and I know that in a very relaxed state dramatic time distortion can oc- cur. And people unknowingly, drive while hypnotized every day. My conscious mind re-en- Fine Art Photography all you need. peace/love/flower/power