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The Hidden Abbey by Jodine Turner – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Romuald Dzemo
A Guest Review by Romuald Dzemo originally published at Readers’ Favorite The Hidden Abbey by Jodine Turner is both fantasy and visionary fiction, with a historical setting in the worlds of Avalon and Glastonbury Abbey, split between two separate timelines and skillfully developed to explore two lovers from a distant past reborn into modern day…
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Stefan Emunds
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma has a compelling storyline: A rich and successful lawyer drops out and travels to Nepal to find enlightenment. There, he searches for a mysterious group of sages that live high up in the Himalayas in order to acquire their ageless wisdom. This storyline functions as…
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Victor Smith
A possible dream With almost 3,000 reviews on Amazon for this book, will another make a difference? Likely not so much, but there are certain works that one should not read without leaving the author a note of appreciation for a book well written and thoroughly enjoyed–as has been the case for every Mitch Albom…
American War by Akkad, Omar El – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Victor Smith
Not a happy romp, but still a must-read A no-holds-barred dystopian novel set towards the end of the 21st century, which features the continuation of the perpetual wars of current times, but in reverse: America, in the midst of a 2nd Civil War, is the third-world nation in disarray while a prosperous Middle-Eastern empire provides…
The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness by Stephan Schwartz – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Victor Smith
Fiction can be an effective teacher I am an avid reader of Stephan Schwartz’s non-fiction and I follow his opinions on what is newsworthy in his SchwartzReport, which consistently promotes human well being. I also enjoyed his earlier novel, Awakening; so his latest, The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness, was a must-read, which…
The Illusionist by Anita Mason – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Victor Smith
A mind-bending look into the magical world of the notorius Simon Magus The Illusionist by Anita Mason is an intriguing fictional novel about a dark fringe figure of Simon Magus from the Acts of the Apostles and other early Christian source documents. Like most characters from that era, it is difficult to separate fact from…
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Victor Smith
Fiction too close to fact to be ignored Philip Roth may have written The Plot Against America back in 2004, and it may be about an alternate rendering of American history in the early 1940’s that found the pro-Nazi Charles Lindbergh in the White House instead of FDR, but every American who cares about the…
Interviewing Jesus: The Man by David Collis – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Victor Smith
A heart-to-heart talk with a very human Jesus David Collis’s work, Interviewing Jesus: The Man, is a work of scholarship, imagination and, might I say, of personal love and affection for his subject. As a writer and novelist who has worked for decades in the milieu of “alternate” biblical history and meaning, I sensed David…
Star Family by Theresa Crater – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Victor Smith
A fascinating novel that is also an education in a little known esoteric religion I grew up in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, notorious for its unusual religious communities, heard of Moravian College in neighboring Bethlehem, but never gave the name a second thought even though I went on to study and write about most…
The Story Behind The Fringe Candidate W Bradford Swift
“I don’t write political fiction,” I told MyMu. “I’m strictly a science fiction or fantasy author.”
The Winged Bull by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater
The protagonist in The Winged Bull is Ted Murchison, who served in the war and endured joblessness, and now doubts conventional religion. But this unlikely character has a vision of the Winged Bull in the British Museum. As this is occurring, he encounters his old commanding officer, Alick Brandwyn, who is of course a magical…
The Demon Lover Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater
The Mystical Qabalah gives the theory, but the novels give the practice. Those who study The Mystical Qabalah with the help of the novels get the keys of the Temple put into their hands. – Dion Fortune, Moon Magic I was browsing in the Theosophical bookstore tucked in a small street off Broadway, in Seattle’s…
The Sea Priestess Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater
Many people are familiar with Dion Fortune as a spiritual teacher in the Western Metaphysical Tradition, the founder of Fraternity of the Inner Light (later renamed the Society of the Inner Light). She was born Violet Mary Firth in Wales in December of 1890. Dion Fortune showed psychic abilities as a child and later reported…
The Secrets of Dr. Taverner by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater
In The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, Dion Fortune’s short story collection featuring the magical adept and psychiatrist by the same name, we met many interesting characters in the throes of mental crisis that have a spiritual cause, or the families of seekers who want to throw their relative who is not behaving according to social…
The Anesthesia Game by Rea Nolan Martin – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Ellis Nelson
Teenager, Sydney, has a fatal disease that her mother, Mitsy, won’t name. Mitsy increasingly relies on Pandora, a spiritual advisor to meet the daily challenges of dealing with the illness. Pandora is a likable mystic but fraught with her own personal problems and hang-ups. As the situation grows ever more serious, Aunt Hannah steps in….
The Sublime Transformation of Vera Wright by Rea Nolan Martin – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Ellis Nelson
What if your neighbor was a saint? This was the question Rea Nolan Martin asked herself in creating this masterpiece of visionary fiction. Her main character, Vera Wright, qualifies for the senior discount but is still working as a beautician. She has a grown daughter and a teddy bear of a husband, living a normal…
Are Fairy Tales Turning Visionary?
Editor’s note: This article (slightly edited here) was originally published at the VFA in November 2014, before the sequels to either Disney’s Maleficent or Frozen were made. Although visionary fiction often has magical and fantasy elements in common with the fairy tales of old, the two differ in some fundamental respects. The themes of the conventional fairy…
Gerald R. Stanek
Gerald’s work focuses on the interplay between the mundane and ethereal worlds. “As I write I seek to be an active participant in the exchange
Video Interview – W. Bradford Swift on The Fringe Candidate
Brad Swift (aka W. Bradford Swift and Orrin Jason Bradford) sold his veterinary practice in 1989 to pursue a dream to be an author and personal development coach. He and his wife were co-founders of the Life On Purpose Institute during which Swift wrote the Life On Purpose series that includes the award-nominated Life on…
W. Bradford Swift
As I studied the emerging self-publishing trend, I realized that was how my entrepreneurial spirit could best be nurtured as I pursue my encore performance career as a writer of visionary fiction and nonfiction.
Gordon Keirle-Smith
Gordon has lived many lives in the course of his present one.
He loved writing from the outset: poems, dramatic monologues and also began developing his instinctive artistic skills.
Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch, born in Northern Ireland, has had a technical career in electronics and computer programming and network maintenance. He studied theology and later went on to explore the depths of universal consciousness.
The Goat Foot God by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater
Paston fastens on a book about the Eleusinian Mysteries and takes it into his head to evoke Pan. Jelkes is the shop keeper, of course, an adept, who guides him along. Understanding Paston cannot be stopped, Jelkes undertakes his instruction. Paston has become fascinated by some books that might be dangerous to him, as Alex…