Content
There are two ways to look at this site.
One way is to look at it as a collection of stories.
Another way is to look at the site as an ongoing collection of personal explorations into the hidden and extraordinarily powerful part of the mind that is often called the unconscious.
Some people call this part of us the Energy Mind.
The Energy Mind operates through metaphor, and, some of us believe, can touch upon realities and possibilities invisible to us in our everyday life.
My explorations are done using a variety of techniques from Silvia Hartmann, a brilliant woman from the UK.
And the results of these explorations are recorded as stories.
Silvia refers to these sort of explorations as Project Sanctuary.
These explorations are not exactly games, lucid dreams, out-of-the-body experiences, virtual reality, or fiction, but there are similarities to all of these.
If Project Sanctuary is a kind of game, then, so is all of life.
The key books that teach her techniques are Project Sanctuary and The Genius Symbols.
Another place to get more information is at The Project Sanctuary Site.
For more information about me, see my Fearless Dreams Personal Growth Blog
Structure
There are various ways to use WordPress to display books.
I use the In Series plugin, along with categories, and some custom code in pages, and text widgets.
Here’s how it works.
- I divide each book into several parts (story collections). For example, Book 1 (Traveling Home) is divided into four parts.
- I define a series using In Series for each story collection. Their names are:
- Part 1:Watchtower
- Part 2: Apprentice
- Part 3: Visions
- Part 4: Healing
In Series provides each post with its own table of contents for all of the other posts in the related collection.
I configure In Series, so it displays the table of contents for the story collection (part) on the single page for each post, but not on pages which show multiple posts. - I define a category for each book, and a subcategory for each story collection. Each post is categorized with the main and subcategory relevant to the story collection.
- I define a page for each book, and a subpage for each story collection. The names I use for those pages are the same as the names that I’ve used above for the four series.
- I put PHP code on the book page (and use the Exec-PHP plugin so the code is executed) to list all the subpages within a list. For example: wp_list_pages(‘child_of=875&sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’)
- I put PHP code on the subpage for the collection to list all of the posts with the category associated with that collection. For example: query(‘cat=43&posts_per_page=-1&orderby=date&order=ASC’)
- I create a text widget for each book (with links to the collection pages), and a text widget for each collection, which pulls in all the post titles for that collection. The PHP code for each of these corresponds to the PHP code that I used on the pages and subpages
I title the text widgets slightly different than the series name (I think it looks better for a sidebar TOC):- – Part 1: WatchTower
- – Part 2: Apprentice
- – Part 3: Visions
- – Part 4: Healing
Theme (Atahualpa Customizations)
single.php
- I commented out previous_post_link and next_post_link references. This removes the next post and previous post links at the top of the single post page. I did this because we will primarily rely on the link navigation in the left sidebar, and the series navigation at the bottom of each post.
If a reader wants to navigate in posting order, independent of series, she can use the main page.
index.php
- I commented out the standard code for the appearance of the read more link, and replaced it with:
the_content(__(' [Continue reading: ' . get_the_title('', '', false). ']', 'atahualpa')); } else {
