unwriting: mastering engagement into subconscious word sourcing

Daniel Penengo
2 min readMar 23, 2019

Habits bend to the will of the subconscious when they get to do the choosing. For words appear from where but the deepest recesses of subconscious being, nestled somewhere far off in the dark abyss of a syntactical metaphysical playground, whirling about unfettered, awaiting allowance and the room to engage the world as words. One by one the letters scaffold unto each other allowing themselves room for spaces and the subtleties of grammar rules needing breaking.

In the meditative contemplative ego free release that is unwriting, practice’s only prerequisite is: shut yourself up, for you no longer exist. Dismantling the many layers and decades of influence takes less time than one might imagine. We all crave freedom, though seldom allow ourselves the will to disengage from ego-self.

In unwriting, release dictates the course, non thinking the curriculum, and allowance formulates the bread and butter: allow the words to flow unhindered, trust them, they know why they have released themselves from the dark inertia, which has been hosting them there in an inertiatic deep unknown.

A few tricks remain for recognizing:

  1. when to end: when it is done, each piece its allotted momentary space. Some long. Some short. Some riddled with punctuation. Others liberatingly diffused of such grammatical and rule based behavior(s).
  2. How to not judge: subconscious word sourcing can never be wrong, so do not ruin it by proposing any judgments. It is best left free to enjoy. A dandelion rearing its earthen life in a field or in a crack in the pavement. Be the dandelion.

“writing isn’t trying it cannot be this over edited curriculum … let the flow be the master and the energy of it let the ecstacy of fully orgasmic cnsciousness, there unsettled into manner and way, free to live as eclipsing earth shattering meta realistic happenstance… yes, it is writing, unfiltered and unadulterated release from constraints of rigid edition, of the force of habit.

did you begin yet? unconscious release? are you there yet within the riddled mystery of self…now i say goodbye to certain past withholding me from a more majestic paradigm of mind” (these two pieces come from the typewriter version of this free piece).

Edited today 1/19/21

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Daniel Penengo

d. a- canepa: Nacido en Uruguay, con años en eeuu. encontré amor en la tierra (huerta). Born in Uruguay, years in the states, found love in the earth (farming)