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Carl Jung and Visionary Fiction (Part 2)
To read or review “Carl Jung and Visionary Fiction, Part 1, click HERE. “Universal in Worldview and Scope” The VFA characterizes Visionary Fiction as “universal in worldview and scope.” The Jungian visionary novel “is not concerned with the individual even when it is written about an individual,” Keyes says. “Exploring the individual experience is a…
Climate Change Requires Consciousness Change
The Goodreads book giveaway will be going on until November 30th, 2014. Click here to enter. To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone talks about climate change but no one does anything about it. No one, particularly those in power, wants to make the necessary sacrifices. For example, the US government refuses to comply with international environmental agreements. And…
Two Tales of Visionary Fiction
By Ellis Nelson Rea Nolan Martin is an award-winning author of visionary fiction novels. She has also written numerous short stories and poetry published in national literary magazines and anthologies. Her inspirational blogs have been published in HUFFPOST and SIVANA EAST. It is my pleasure to introduce you to two of Ms. Martin’s novels. One…
The VFA marks its 300th post
We are pleased to announce that the publication of Brad Swift’s excerpt from his novel is both the first post at our new site, and also the 300th VFA article since we started it all way back in 2012. Serendipity! Thank you to all our regular and guest writers for making this possible. Share this……
Visionary Fiction Challenges Our Species to Evolve – Michael Sussman
Michael Sussman Human nature is not fixed. It has evolved over the course of millennia and is capable of further change. Is it overly grandiose to suggest that visionary fiction could help play a role in such a transformation? Most likely, but I shall nevertheless make the case. Visionary fiction overlaps with several better established…
Fables, Italo Calvino, and Visionary Fiction – guest post by Stephen Weinstock
This summer I saw Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. Teiresias was in drag, the Chorus intoned like gospel churchgoers, and the blind Oedipus appeared in the nude (an email warned us ahead of time). Despite the wonderful theatricality, I was put in mind how powerful the Oedipus myth is, with…
