How To Make A Monster

An instructional guide and recipe

How to make a monster: 

Step 1: Determine there is a need for a monster

(This may have been deeply embedded in the consciousness through such narratives as the hero’s journey or other such stories masquerading as children’s stories or soap operas.) 

John Kenn Mortensen

Step 2: Define that a monster is bad

(Option 1 for getting out of the how to make a monster story:  Realize that you have landed in the story of separation, othering, denying the shadow, avoidance, etc. This is not your fault, as this is a most powerful story. Plant a seed in a garden, and commit to watering and learning from it as your service to life grows).

Step 2.5: Tell the monster they are not welcome at the table to communion, throw a big party that you don’t invite them to, and lock them out if they come anyway.  

Step 3: Tell everyone at the party that the monster is bad

Step 4: Tell the monster how to be bad (this can be handled via post it notes, facebook posts, x messages, voice memos, texts, or through your thought waves.

Step 4.5 Feel right when after being banished and abandoned, and called names their parents did not give them, when the being formally not known as a monster, now believes and acts like the monster you say they are. 

John Kenn Mortensen

(Option 2 for how to exit the how to make a monster story: Start wondering what you feel bad about in your own life, and what this person is showing you about yourself that may be ugly, unattractive, or so big that you don’t want to look at it.) 

Step 5: Tell everyone around you the monster is bad

Step 5.5 Tell everyone around you that the monster is bad 

Step 6: Channel every bit of righteousness and project it onto the monster

Step 6.5 Enjoy the endorphins of the release of energy

Step 7: Access harbored resentments, sacred rage about global injustices, untended inner resentments about every mistreatment you have experienced, and project it onto the monster, feeling right and righteous.  

Step 8. Feel the climatic endorphin surge that appears during a crisis and storm

Step 9: Know that you are right

Step 10: Live with the consequences of a monster in your life. 

John Kenn Mortensen

Epilogue: 

How to Collaborate with the Monster: 

Ingredients:

1 cup of grace, 3 cups of commitment to life, a shake of a fancy tail feather, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon, 6 strands of wind, a bucket of kind words gathered from underneath the autumn leaves that are still bright with the yellow, orange, and red of change, and an openness to look for, find, and name your own inner monster (extra points if you can think up a cute name)

10 pounds of Gratitude to Monster for all that it has to teach about destruction, chaos, jealousy, frustration, and rejection.. and what ever else it has learned along the way. *

3 pounds of milk, sung to under the light of a full moon. 5 tips of pine needle dipped in honey.

Stir gently, with more honey, brags apple cider vinegar, and an open heart. 

Fold with care, wonder, and curiosity. 

3,000 pounds or 3 centimeters of forgiveness, for: 1) what they did to inspire the monster archetype, 2) for yourself, 3) and for a world that is entertained by the fear of monsters.

Bake slowly, with a vision of a world that knows how to have peaceful conflict. 

Look them in the eye, see their humanity, and sip gently.

Explore how you can both harness your energies and what cool things you can create together.

*It is advised to get two extra pencils so you can write copious notes, so you will have something to remember the next time you get inspired to create a monster.

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Hello dear reader.

I hope to hear your wonderings and wisdom about how monsters are created and what you know about befriending the monster within.

Tomorrow at 10am PST You are invited to an introduction class to Sacred Storytelling:

This is a free class and is shaped to the interests of those who attend live. If you are curious about how to engage story for healing and personal transformation, I look forward to sharing this time with you.