I simultaneously look at myself as subject and object.

nepantla as an actant, a strange collaborative endeavor:

The aim of good writing is to decrease the distance between reader, writer, and text without “disappearing” any of these players.

The mind does not make things up; it just imagines what exists and tells the soul to remember.

But the snake of my imagination is female: Serpent Woman, another name for la Llorona whose ghostly body carries el nagual

imaginal.

You could say that the writer, through her interactive participation, merges herself in the conscious / unconscious processes and gains possession of her characters by allowing them to possess her. Imagination is an active, purposeful creativity.

perception that produces knowledge and conocimiento (insight).

“dreaming body” to describe a sense of self untied to space, time, or society.