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Barry Maher - The Great Dick And the Dysfunctional Demon

Barry Maher - The Great Dick And the Dysfunctional Demon

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I thought this might be of interest as an interview about an unexplained creative experience at the intersection of consciousness, imagination, and the mystery of where stories come from. After a baseball-sized brain tumor upended Barry Maher’s career, he went into surgery not knowing what kind of life would be waiting for him afterward. What he woke up with was something he never expected: a full-blown, vivid, horrific story playing in his mind, like a memory of something he had just watched. Ultimately that story became the seed of Maher’s new novel, The Great Dick: And the Dysfunctional Demon (Crystal Lake Publishing), whose title parodies both The Great Gatsby and Moby-Dick. Maher, a nationally syndicated humorist, does not claim to know exactly how the story materialized, or where it came from. Was it an anesthesia-induced hallucination? The result of a seizure during surgery? Something his unconscious mind had somehow assembled? Or something stranger? But he does know that the experience did not feel like either ordinary dreaming or conscious invention. It felt less like making something up than remembering something that had already happened. And that left him with questions he still thinks about: Is the conscious mind always where a story begins? Or is it sometimes where something already formed finally rises into awareness? Maher is available for interviews or podcast conversations diving deeper into these questions and exploring: Why he resists calling the experience a dream What the experience suggests about consciousness and where experience begins What it suggests about creativity and where stories come from How he holds open multiple explanations — anesthesia, seizure activity, imagination, or something stranger — without claiming certainty Why it’s important to pay attention to the strange material that surfaces when conscious control loosens Why the mystery may be more valuable than the explanation Barry’s bio is below. Would you be interested in speaking with Barry or receiving a copy of his book? ABOUT BARRY MAHER Barry Maher (www.BarryMaher.com) is the product of four years at the University of Notre Dame, an hour and a half in the graduate journalism program at UC Berkeley, and five befuddled weeks at the Whopper College of the Burger King Corp. In his misspent youth, his articles appeared in perhaps a hundred different publications and, in order to eat, he held nearly that many different jobs. Sometimes he lived on the beach. Not in a house on the beach. On the beach. With the sand and the seagulls. Then he started telling his stories to audiences. More importantly, he started telling his stories to audiences and charging. That took him all over the country and around the world, with a client list that is a Who’s Who of leading corporations, associations, and cruise lines. You may have seen Barry on The Today Show or CNBC, or in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, or in his own Slightly Off-Kilter syndicated column. On the downside, he’s also been incarcerated twice: once for not making a left-hand turn out of a left-hand turn lane, and once for aiding and abetting a loiterer. He’s deeply repentant.
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