ROAD MAP 4 SEEKER'S WITH GUEST FRAN SHAW

Fran Shaw, Ph.D. is a longtime practitioner in a spiritual discipline, a professor teaching writing at the University of Connecticut, and an award-winning author whose works include Notes on The Next Attention, Writing My Yoga, and 50 Ways to Help You Write. Her new book Lord Have Murphy: Waking Up in the Spiritual Marketplace explores with great fun how contact with a finer Attention awakens us to a completely different level of being.

A talented editor and writing coach, Fran teaches at the University of Connecticut at Stamford and conducts workshops across the country. She engages people in writing experiments that begin with a shift into greater awareness from which words freely flow. Some of these exercises appear in her books Writing My Yoga: Poems for Presence and the all-in-one guide 50 Ways to Help You Write.

A fan of the poets William Blake and Walt Whitman, in college Fran studied mysticism and world religions. When she was in her twenties, friends told her about the Gurdjieff Foundation and introduced her to a spiritual guide who worked with her for many years and also encouraged her to create 30 Ways to Help You Write (Bantam), the first book to combine expanded awareness and “free-flow writing.”

Lord Have Murphy: Waking Up in the Spiritual Marketplace came about when Fran was on sabbatical wanting to write and looking at drawings by Bruce M. Sherman. Seeing the phrase “Lord Have Murphy,” she typed the words “Murphy here,” which unlocked a unique work on attention in the form of an illustrated humor book.

What interests author Fran Shaw most is writing from a conscious state—writing as a vibrational practice—to become and help others become a transcribing agent serving higher