Benson's Writing

 

Non-fiction

In April 2024, Ben published a memoir of his fifty-year journey with TM (Transcendental Meditation) and the TM-Sidhi program in 2024, available at Amazon (here). The blurb on the back states,

 

Black market drugs – first marijuana, then psychedelics. Ben was searching for something, a deeper sense of meaning. Then he stumbles across Transcendental Meditation (TM), which enables him to quit drugs and excel in university. While living a normal life of employment and marriage, he continues on a fifty-year journey towards enlightenment, diving into Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's teachings, joining retreats, and acquiring advanced practices such as the TM-Sidhi program. While this path sustains him, the road holds potholes as well as smooth paths. He encounters both fascinating experiences and bitter disappointments. He wonders how to resolve all this into a coherent vision, as you will see in this memoir.

 

Fiction

 Ben's learning to write publishable science fiction/speculative fiction/fantasy. He uses his full first name, writing as Benson Branch.

Fiction publishing history (most recent first)

• The Guest in the Machine appears in the anthology Write Well Award 2018," available at Amazon here.

• The Guest in the Machine was published in Liquid Imagination #34, August 2017. This publication is free and supported by donations. A direct link to the story. 

• Trinh's Void appeared in Nebula Rift Vol. 3 No. 1, February 2015. No longer available, but I've posted it here.

• Lurkers appeared in Isotropic Fiction #12, May 2014. No longer available, but I've posted it here.