The Captain & Other Stories – A Story Series on Facebook

Sometime last year, I decided to start writing about someone I called The Captain on my Facebook status messages, originally titled something like “Life with The Captain and other Stories.”  Facebook has limits on status length, which are even worse when you post via phone and I cannot include the title most times.

I released these status messages along with another set I called “The Goddess Chronicles”.  The Chronicles use the voice of a higher self or High Priestess and The Captain posts detail the intricacies and development of a relationship.

I get many questions and now have a growing fan base of people reading The Captain posts and leaving their thoughts on who, what and how.   I find the interaction on this quite intriguing.  More recently, I have posted other thoughts and had the occasional person ask me what The Captain would think on the issue!

The truth is, I started writing about The Captain because I longed to communicate something that could not be communicated in any other way – or so I thought.  I used The Goddess Chronicles as a means of expressing essential truths or thoughtforms that come to me as a priestess or spiritual person but don’t serve me to present them in my normal everyday voice but as a separate part of who I am.

I also thought of these posts as instructional or expanding in some way, food for thought or even contrast to what is normally considered a “status” message format on Facebook.  In other words, I wanted as a writer and artist to play with conventional forms of expression – ones status message – and use them as a form of communication of both a creative and instructional nature without sounding dogmatic or presumptuous.

The Captain however, is a character I developed through the medium of my own spiritual viewpoint – that we create our reality in the spiritual long before it shows up as physical reality.  I had been working with the Twinflame spirit bond as part of my spiritual work on the planet for many years – actually talking to and interacting with a spiritual form, sometimes appearing as one person or another in my life, although not necessarily of the romantic nature.

Through the medium of these meditations and telepathic conversations with someone I had not met or assumed was a particular person, I embarked on a many years long journey of self-development regarding the idea of creating the relationship (of a partnership variety) that would most benefit me and the planet.

It has since come to my attention through channeled guidance, that these relationships are intended to heal Gaia herself through the re-balancing of the Divine Masculine/Divine Feminine energies.  I am not the only spiritual practitioner creating and working with the partnership potential in this more holistic and less physical format.  I have now embarked on physical conversations with others in the same boat and there are definitely some patterns to our work which are of the common variety.

These relationships aren’t initially physical in nature but come through the medium of spiritual self-expression and understanding.  The common features so far seem to be that one partner is more awake or developed than the other and one partner (if not the same one) has the ability to perceive and/or hear their divine counterpart telepathically or feel them emotionally.

The other common pattern is that the people involved seem to come from a position of difficulty in relationship at the beginning of their lives – history of divorce, abuse, one bad relationship after another, or little perceived success with them but also a feeling that something is “out there.”

The conjoined energetic twins are housed in separate physical bodies and it is not necessary for them to be of the heterosexual variety but they would need to be balanced as in one partner is the Divine Masculine and the other the Divine Feminine of their soul group.

As the partners draw closer, the intensity of their bond is increased through the awakening process – which most often takes place separately but through the pull of wanting to meet their partner.  The difficult relationships seem to spawn the desire to “create” something better which in turn leads to a spiritual path of some sort that enables them to begin working more consciously on their contracts, which originated prior to incarnation.

Once one partner is awakened to the concept of consciously working on relationship through the medium of their telepathic-emotional bond, without the benefit of the physical presence of a person to mirror or reflect; the real work begins.   It is even at this point, that the awakened partner may meet their person physically but not be in a position emotionally/mentally or physically to do anything about the relationship.  Instead of the old paradigm – two ships passing in the night – it is more like the one ship going up and down the coast line for a safe harbor, but the harbor isn’t built yet.

There is no way to explain this process well to those who consider relationships in the purely physical sense, waxing lyrical about Match.com or E-Harmony and lamenting about how difficult it is to “find” someone.  While there is nothing wrong with such an existence or even in the building of contrast through a series of relationships, not intended to be lasting, the Twinflame is of a completely separate relationship model and is not subject to the usual physical laws.

I have even heard of people who say they understand the model and who are afraid of their Twinflame and I would also place them in the category of those only here to learn and grow in soulmate contracts (karmic) and series relationships rather than perform the divine medicine of the Twinflame.  This is not a path about “I” but one of “We.”

This path is not for the feint of heart or even of the cool variety or the person who thinks there is a choice upon incarnation about the work at hand.  Once committed, it is your path.  It is actually a separate, divine contract with Gaia and has less to do with romance than it does with balancing the Earth’s energies and restoring love as the blueprint for our creation model.

I have often described The Captain as both a person and a Spirit.  While I interact with him in the spiritual and develop the relationship through a series of processes, tests, quests and ups and downs, no different in some ways than a long-lasting marriage, I am not currently in a physical-based relationship with The Captain.

I do however, after all these years know where he is physically.  Nevertheless, I still have to be respectful of The Captain’s own process of enlightenment – a path which is wholly separate from mine, despite our energetic process.  This aught not to be public display but a private one although I am tasked with sharing some of it so that others may benefit from the knowledge we have gathered so far.

I think in the end, The Captain posts are a way to be playful and creative with my own personal version of the Story rather than an attempt in any way, shape or form to tell HIS side…It would be up to him to do that part or even to decide whether to share publically any aspect of his story.

In the end, when the time comes that the spiritual and physical become one – I may find myself either writing a different story or handling The Captain in a whole new way than what I have been doing so far.  I do not know even if I will feel the need to continue posting the story or if the story will turn into some other expression or creative outlet entirely.  That is yet to be seen.

I think it goes without saying that some of what I post is not physically accurate for the purpose of occluding the reality of my circumstance and protecting the “innocent” but the energy of the posts is accurate and intended to share the complexities of the path both heart-warming and heart-wrenching at times.

What I have uncovered in this process includes past life relationships, hardship, working with energy, healing, healing work, partnerships with other supporters all flowing toward a more balanced energy here in the planet.  We are joined, not separate.  What one person does effects the other and we’re all in this dance together.

This is a loving Tango…unmasking love in its highest forms…letting go, letting go, letting go…FEELING.  And the more we practice, the more we are learning and developing and growing – Together.

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Reflections at the Dakota Jazz Club Roy Ayers Concert

I attended the Roy Ayers concert at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis on July 28th.  The show was breathtaking and fun and Roy is a showman of some ability.  I think the crowd appreciated his performance.  I sometimes find myself inspired to write while at shows.   Here’s the product from last night’s show.

Umbrellas

I

Love like umbrellas
Sliding in a drink
Little fingers
Coy glances

Dirty touches
Feathering my skin
Screaming ecstasy
Electric lights

Warm glow
Over a glass –
Syrah

II

Embroiled steaks
Medium Rare
Beauty like a
Red wine

Bloody sacrifice
Darker, stronger
Scanty meetings
Meaningless misunderstandings

III

White shorts
Blue striped shirt
Man from the sea
Salty

Like waves of ocean water
Sort of boaty
Escaping tall buildings
Single look over shoulder

Tawny bricks
Dakota neon sign
Escalating rhythms
Lifting me to the sun

IV

Seeking a soul
Pretending
Not looking

Third eye, perhaps?
Wisdom
Pasadena sunshine

Power of the mind
Creating
Exploding

Universe within a universe
You know
Believe

V

Jazzy sax
Up down
Thingy

Movement
Syncopation
Heartbeats

Unknown curves
Footballs
Quarterbacks

Allowing
Love
Playing a note

July 29, 2010

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Kelly Frankenberg Reviews: “The Journey of the Malevolent Empress”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press Contact:  Gina Micek

Flying Witch Media, P.O. Box 50562, Palo Alto, CA 94303

http://www.malevolentempress.com

REVIEWER:  Kelly Frankenberg

http://www.kellyfrankenberg.com

kelly@kellyfrankenberg.com

Illustrator and Creative Writing MFA Candidate Kelly Frankenberg Reviews The Journey of the Malevolent Empress: A Priestess on a Captivating Quest from Mundane to Magikal by Rev. Gina Micek

Minneapolis, MN — April 30, 2010 — “The Journey of The Malevolent Empress” is Rev. Gina Micek’s first book of her planned trilogy series and her first published book of poems and short stories.  “The Malevolent Empress’” content is dated from 1990 to the last poem ending in 2005.  Quite a span of time showing her earlier work to more present, the poems show progression and a sense of how her vision shifted along her journey.  Journey is very important to Rev. Micek. Her trilogy will have the theme of spiritual journey, and she has a lot to draw from as she has come a long way with her personal, spiritual, and occupational life.

It’s interesting to know Rev. Micek is actually an initiated Wiccan Priestess, yet one can relate to her journey and stories very easily.

Though her work is fiction, it draws from actual experiences.  For her short stories she used elements from her journey and built on them to create the three in her book.  Her poems have a very personal nature to them and are written like a first hand experience.  For example, many of the poems are made up of images that the speaker is experiencing and seeing in that moment.  There are images from “buck-toothed underwear lady” to “baby fuzzed men longing looks.”

Many images are juxtaposed in the poem creating an Imagist style to her poetry.  Rev. Micek uses nouns and adjectives in her lines with verbs far and few in between.  For example, in her poem titled, “Kilburn,” four lines go without a single verb.

Varied states of repair

Dog surprise,

Chocolate wrapper

Un-swept pink petals

Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” states, “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.”

Like Pound’s, Micek’s poems manifest their creative imagery through their words.  The words then pile up to create her experience within them.  And there is where her journey is found.

Rev. Micek’s poem, “Naked in the Rain,” can be compared to W.B. Yeats’ poem, “A Coat.”  Micek states, “I’ll tell you that I walked outside/ Without my clothes on/ I could never have done this before/ They protected me/ Separated me from myself/ From the world.”

Yeats states, “Song, let them take it/ For there’s more enterprise/ In walking naked.”  These poems have similar words and feelings, and even though are about different things, they still contain the same overall meaning, essentially about shedding your past skin and changing on your journey.

Rev. Micek is strongly influenced by music, even more so in her poems today.  Her poem titled, “Jungle Voices,” is actually reflections on Paul Simon’s “Spirit Voices.”

Rev. Micek is very influenced and inspired by music, as was Langston Hughes.  Micek’s poem titled, “The Musician,” contains many images relating to music, still in her imagist style, where her musical rhythm is in her words instead of an iambic pentameter.  For example, one strophe of  “The Musician” reads,

“Jazz tunes

Harmony

Cascading”

In conclusion, Rev. Micek’s spiritual journey may not be so different from our personal journeys, but she conveys her creative thoughts on life and art through her words of imagery in her poems and her short stories.  Rev. Micek believes that we learn something from each person we meet in this world.  One can certainly learn a lot about themselves and life through reading someone else’s spiritual journey, however partially fictionalized, and Rev. Micek’s first book is certainly one you’ll want to read and come along for the journey.

ABOUT KELLY FRANKENBERG:  Kelly has a BFA in illustration from Minneapolis College of Art & Design. She works as a freelance illustrator and teacher.  She loves to travel, learn new languages, write and sing.  Kelly plays the guitar and piano. Sometimes you can catch her painting live at a restaurant, convention or in the great outdoors.

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