Are you, or a character you're working on, figuring out what a fair sum for the piper is? And are you or they prepared to pay it?
Creative Ignition: Board Members of Utopia
You are being interviewed by a panel in front of an entrance that leads to your "Utopia." It's a place that meets all your expectations, satisfying each and every one of your desires, where a prolonged state of blissful intoxication waits for you every. Single. Day. What will you do to prove you're worthy? Or... are you?
Creative Ignition: Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Mate, an addiction specialist who uses alternative spiritual frameworks in his practice, uses the term "realm of hungry ghosts" in his discussion of codependent realities and how a person develops addictive tendencies. Conceived in Buddhist spirituality, the realm itself is one among the several that we pass through in a lifetime and is described as hellish. Dr. Mate describes the addict as someone stuck being a "hungry ghost," like the one you see in the picture above, monsters with long, scrawny necks and huge bellies that will never be satisfied.