Celebrating and Promoting Visionary Fiction Author Accomplishments
Highlighting Visionary Fiction author contest winners, interviews, and book trailers.
Build Your Own Author Website: Maintenance Mode
It’s time to show you how to put your new website in maintenance mode, in case you don’t want anyone to see it while you’re still in the process of tweaking it. Let me introduce three WordPress Plugins that do the job for you. Ultimate Maintenance Mode This plugin displays a screenshot of your website…
Going with the Flow: Western Esotericism and Visionary Fiction – Guest Post by Isobel Blackthorn
Visionary Fiction, with its emphasis on spiritual wisdom and the evolution of consciousness, is in a unique position to explore Western Esotericism in its various guises.
Karan Bajaj and The Yoga of Max’s Discontent
A big welcome to Karan Bajaj, #1 bestselling novelist in India of KEEP OFF THE GRASS (HarperCollins: 2008) and JOHNNY GONE DOWN (HarperCollins: 2010) with more than 200,000 copies of his novels in print. He was selected as one of the “Top 35 Under 35 Indian” by India Today and was nominated for all of…
The Metaphysics of Lucid Dreaming – Visionary Fiction for Kids, Part 2
The Metaphysics of Lucid Dreaming – Visionary Fiction for Kids by Brandon Bosse Part 2 First, I want to wholeheartedly thank the VFA for the opportunity to share my story and ideas. I am grateful to be able to share my passion. Thank you to my fellow VFA members for the kind words in response to…
Build Your Own Author Website—Step 8: Playing with Plugins
One of the most rewarding things about Self-Hosting with WordPress.org is the ability to install powerful plugins to extend your website’s functionality. Compare it to accessorizing your home with all the latest gadgets and fashions to make it uniquely your own. Plugins are little programs that interact with your WordPress software in all kinds of…
The Metaphysics of Lucid Dreaming – Visionary Fiction for Kids, Part 1
The Metaphysics of Lucid Dreaming – Visionary Fiction for Kids by Brandon Bosse Part 1 There are plenty of books written about lucid dreaming, but most of them are written for the adult reader a]nd aren’t intended for children or young adults. Many younger readers aren’t interested in reading dry, philosophical, non-fiction books and easily…
Build Your Own Author Website—Step 7: Administration Panel
Before we get to the fun part of decorating your new cyber home, let’s take care of some general housekeeping tasks via the navigation menu on the left side of your WordPress Administration panel. Hover your mouse over the Settings menu at the very bottom of the vertical menu below your Dashboard and a submenu…
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What is Women’s Visionary Fiction: Part II – Guest Post by Mary Mackey
Women’s Visionary Fiction gives us something more.
Build Your Own Author Website—Step 6: Video Review
For a super quick review of what we’ve covered so far in “Build Your Own Author Website” steps one through five, here’s a video created by Daniel Piechnick, a professional web designer and trainer. In less than ten minutes, he’ll explain Domain Name Web Hosting WordPress He’ll then take you step-by-step from purchasing your domain…
Spirit Weave in Visionary Fiction – by Jodine Turner
Weaving spirituality into visionary fiction is a responsibility of visionary fiction authors as well as a craft issue.
Crowdsourcing a Novel of The Resurrection
Here’s your chance to help out a  fellow Visionary Fiction Alliance member with his MA thesis and have a little fun in the process. Robert Springer invites you to, “Add your voice. Explore your new life,” by journaling about your resurrection. In Resurrectorium 1920, the dead are being given back their lives, but they must…
Build Your Own Author Website—Step 5: Administration Panel
This is the day you log into your WordPress.org Administration Panel. For those of you who’d prefer instead to stick with WordPress.com, we part ways here, and I leave you with the following message: WordPress.com is a hosted service, which means that you don’t have to deal with finding a web host or downloading and installing the WordPress software. All is done for you….
Literature and the Flow of Consciousness – Part 2
This is part 2 in a series about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.  Author, MR Neer addresses some questions that are related to the Yogi’s theory about the connection between literature and the evolution of consciousness.  Please read the previous post where MR Neer offers some insight about literature, how we experience it, and how it develops human consciousness. How does…
Literature and the Flow of Consciousness – Part 1
Maharishi and States of Consciousness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, often considered the leading scientist of consciousness in our time, brought out the TM technique from the ancient Vedic tradition. That tradition of teachers for millennia has maintained the knowledge of frequencies of sound and how to use them for the evolution of life. The sounds were…
Build Your Own Author Website – Step 4: Installing WordPress
Now that you’ve registered your domain name and found a home (Web host) for your website, you only need to follow one more step before you can begin working with WordPress.org., which is: Installing WordPress on your domain and hosting account. This is a one-time procedure, so hang in there. You’ll be amazed at how…
Visionary Fiction and Transhumanism: Wrap-up
Visionary Fiction, mindful of our dual nature, now steps in, not to make a villain of technology, neutral by nature, but to transcend its current hegemony and restore it as the balanced and cooperative partner to our spiritual aspect.
Build Your Own Author Website – Step 3: Domain Name
When you hear the word “domain,” you likely think of something you own or master like an estate or territory. In most cases, your domain amounts to your home, to which you attach a name and address so that people can locate you. When it comes to your website, you, too, need to claim ownership…
John Nelson Interview, Part 2
We continue our 1997 interview with pioneering Visionary Fiction author John Nelson. He addresses biotechnology’s role in our present and future culture.
John Nelson Interview, Part One
A special treat this week! We have been given permission to republish a 1997 interview with pioneering Visionary Fiction author John Nelson. An authentic piece of VF history.
Visionary Stories and Brain Chemistry – Guest Post by Leonide Martin
Leonide Martin – Visionary Fiction stories promote a shift of consciousness, which is accompanied by chemical changes in our brain.
Visionary Fiction and Transhumanism, Part 3
If, to paraphrase Joni Mitchell’s lyrics in “Woodstock,” we are indeed stardust and golden, we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden. When faced with paradox, which our condition inherently is, we humans tend to jump from one extreme to the other. Only after we get dizzy enough from swinging between either/or does it occur to us try both/and.
Build Your Own Author Website – Step Two
If you’re still with me after Build Your Own Author Website – Step One, I assume you agree that, as an author, you need a marketing hub open twenty-four seven as the foundation for your marketing platform. With an author website as your base, you can incorporate all the strategies available to you as an Internet…
Visionary Fiction: The Call to Awakening, An Interview with Rea Nolan Martin – Part 2
This is part two of Robin Gregory’s interview with author Rea Nolan Martin. For part 1, please click here. Robin: “It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware,” Albert Einstein said. Some of your characters have contact with non-physical beings. Can you talk about…
Visionary Fiction: The Call to Awakening, An Interview with Author, Rea Nolan Martin -Part 1
An interview with author Rea Nolan Martin, author of The Anesthesia Game. A collection of Rea’s most inspirational essays, WALKING ON WATER, will be released in 2016. By Robin Gregory Mother of two sons, professor, editor, novelist, and regular contributor to Huffington Post, Rea Nolan Martin is a visionary writer, one who writes stories of transformation…
Visionary Fiction and Transhumanism, Part 2
We ended Part 1 stuck between the opposites of Matter, represented by the infernal machines, and Spirit, as epitomized by abstract ideals. Transhumanism, by definition, seems positioned in the former category, the Dalai Lama’s “half machine,” and our visionary viewpoint in the latter, what His Holiness calls “a stream of consciousness.” That these two elements, one inanimate and the other animate, might join in some unnatural marriage to rival or supplant the current human model was seen, to put it kindly, as far out.
Build Your Own Author Website – Step One
When I was asked to speak at the California Writer’s Club/Sacramento last year about how I’d built my website and decided on my platform and marketing strategy, my first thought was: Hold it! You’re talking to a technological greenhorn here—Miss trial and error, Miss whoops that didn’t work out too well, Miss if you don’t at first succeed, try, try again. In…