As We Create – James McCrae on His Creative Morning Routine, Meme Poetry, and Microdosing Art

Thought Catalog’s series “As We Create,” brings in author James McCrae to discuss his new book with Thought Catalog Books “How To Laugh In Ironic Amusement” as well as his creative morning routine, why he refers to himself as a “postapocalyptic psychedelic meme poet,” the importance of absurdity in creative work, his experience with psychedelics, existential crises, and humor as a form of escapism.

How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis is a timely (and often hilarious) collection of poetry + memes that meets readers where they are today – in a fast-changing world that is equal parts surreal, isolating, and confusing. It’s also a book about hope, a book that cracks a joke in the middle of an existential crisis, a book that reaches out to touch readers with moments of shared humanity.

The lesson: sometimes what seems like a breakdown is actually a breakthrough. When we transmute the old self in the fire of change, we lose only the illusions we have been taught; what remains is the radiance of the true self, finally seen.