Headspace Essays

Have you ever been enchanted by stories that focused on psychological or imaginative geography, such as American McGee’s Alice, Ib, Inception, Mentopolis, or Psychonauts? Have you ever wanted such a place for yourself, or just a bullet-proof means of entertaining yourself while waiting for the bus? Well, in this handy dandy zine, you can learn!

Included within are LB’s essays on:

• Building a headspace table! (Seriously, start with the table.)
• Dealing with lively, volatile, or downright aggressive headspaces!
• Creating defenses individually, as a group, or with the landscape itself!
• Building headspaces with aphantasia! (AKA: inability to visualize.)

Never be bored again! Meet your mindscape and make friendly!

32 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", black and white. At print date, most (but not all) of this content is available for free reading online:

• On Building Headspace: What are inner worlds good for? Do you want to build one? Here's a start.
• Headspace Discovery and Defense: Dealing with a living, volatile, or aggressive headspace.
• Building Headspace, Aphantasia Edition: “Most people, perhaps 80 percent, primarily see their parts— they interact visually. […] Between 10 and 20 percent of people almost never experience any internal visual imagery. Ironically, Dick [Richard Schwartz, the founder of Internal Family Systems] is one of these people. All of the sense modalities are ways we can experience our inner world. People feel body sensations, hear voices and sounds, see things, and experience intuition beyond normal sensory modalities. Pretty much everybody is capable of experiencing this inner world except perhaps in cases of organic brain damage, and there I am uncertain.” —Bob Falconer, the Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession, pg. 123