Book of Blue

Good morning…after short break, I am back to writing Book of Blue. During my hiatus, Anatoly and I redeveloped the website, creating pages that describe my photography services. Also, I am accepting subscriptions to Book of Blue to its forthcoming Back Pages section, and a new offering of fine art prints will be added to the one that is currently posted to the website. We are establishing contact with art collectors who are interested in the work that I’m doing. Basically, in the most tangible ways we can think of, we’re taking my photography and associated writing a step forward into the world. Anatoly, my assistant Sarah, Book of Blue model Tori and a few other key people are helping me make this real.

I’ve been invited to present at the American Psychological Association’s world conference in Toronto, as the author and artist of Book of Blue. The presentation is called The Inner Goddess, and it’s part of the women’s psychology section, one of many Book of Blue milestones in Canada and in particular Toronto. (Some of my most memorable photos were taken in that city.)

The Book of Blue itself has the same web address as it’s always had. Currently the archives remain open to all readers. We’ve built around the original core site so that it’s now more like the inner sanctum. We’re working on an easy gallery solution so that we can offer more of the hundreds of thousands of photos created across Europe and North America over the past four years. (The first Book of Blue session happened on Canada Day in Montreal in 2005.)

In the first new series, I’m exploring the nature of compersion as a way of life rather than as an erotic concept. A bit later in the summer we will be hearing from the deathing midwives in Oregon, and my nascent adventures with the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Book of Blue has an odd relationship to this ancient text, owing to the fact that the work I’ve done here in these years has deduced certain qualities that are native to that work. It seems like I found a side entrance to the matrix, through the mirror.

Book of Blue is an open project, both thematically and for participation: this is about Tantra, the weaving of a web or network. I gratefully accept suggestions for what to write about. If you feel called to get involved as a model, writer, artist or co-creator, please drop me an email at egg – at – bookofblue.com, expressing your intentions. There are many ways to participate, locally and long distance. As well, I am currently representing some of my models to the independent film industry, initiating relationships with a diversity of independent film commissions here in the Northeast so they may further their careers as actors. If you’re a director or filmmaker and interested in contacting any of the people who appear on the pages of Book of Blue, please contact me and I will pass the contact along to them.

For those who want to explore the concept of compersion, there is more coming in Book of Blue, describing the devotional aspect of the process, which is seeking liberation from the grip of emotional control and over-attachment in relationships. I’ve written about this many places; a Google search of the word compersion with my name will bring up a diversity of articles. I would also invite you to visit Compersion.org, one of our Planet Waves websites. Note, this page exists in about six or seven different sections, which are linked across the top of each page.

I am aware that though my readers don’t necessarily say much about this idea lately, the idea is reaching into the community. It is a balm for so much of the pain that we experience in relationships, because it addresses core issues of communication, life and death, change and the much greater possibilities of love that we know exist. I would encourage you to go beyond theory. The way you do that begins with a conversation with your partner or any prospective partner. And though it never mentions the word compersion, the article Jealousy and the Abyss by William Pennell Rock remains one of the most coherent articles I’ve ever seen written on the topic of jealousy. Pennell never quite says what is on the other side of the bridge, but he makes a great case for going there.