Interest in ethnic origin searches and genealogical DNA testing has become one of the most popular hobbies in the US. Over-the-counter genetic test kits alone have developed into a billion-dollar industry. Just give your personal information to one or more genetic databases, and, in exchange, sites, such as myheritage.com, genealogy.com, ancestry.com, and genealogybank.com offer easy […]
Spirituality
Transpersonal Psychology and Visionary Fiction; their time has come
Transpersonal Psychology and Visionary Fiction help us realize that we are spiritual beings in physical bodies and our consciousness exists on more than one level, making it easier for us to reach self-actualization and self-fulfillment.
Enter the Between
In my last post, my protagonist Marjorie Veil enters the Between (aka The Pathway to Self, Psi field, The Zone, Quantum Field, Collective Unconscious) by letting go of her task-oriented, controlling self and following her instincts. In other words, she crosses into the Between via Surrender. The Between is a place of inner knowledge and breakthrough experiences, where the gates […]
Spiritual and Emotional Freedom
A subject that fuels my writing is the universal struggle for spiritual and emotional freedom. While composing my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series, I often asked myself, “What is freedom?” In the process, I’ve discovered that there are as many answers to this question as there are human circumstances in this world. Viktor E. Frankl […]
DIVERGENT and Visionary Fiction, Factions Apart
Violence aside, I would gladly welcome the dystopian sci-fi novel Divergent into the visionary fiction “faction.” Veronica Roth deserves her New York Times Bestselling Author status. She deserves her book’s 13,236 Amazon reviews (9,524 of which are five stars). She deserves her book sales of over eleven million. All these accolades are merited because Divergent […]
Ugly or Beautiful: In the Eye of the Beholder
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what about ugliness? How do we define ugly? What repulses us? And why? I posed these questions at Visionary Fiction Alliance in a review of Dean Koontz’s latest release, Innocence, in which little by little, stepby step, Koontz immerses us in ugly, until we are in ugly’s head.