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It Takes a Village: Communicating the Visionary to ‘everyday sight’
The statement below was written by a practitioner of painted visionary works, yet I was struck by how it synced with our definition of visionary fiction at Visionary Fiction Alliance and how it applies to other visionary art forms as well. Art of the Visionary attempts to show what lies beyond the boundary of our…
Finding Light Through Darkness in Dystopian Fiction – Part One
I’ve seen a meme floating around on Facebook of a Euler diagram linking together a host of dystopian movies and novels to an ominous undisclosed location. It started popping up during the start of the pandemic. Comments about the meme varied, yet I got the sense that those who responded were bound together by a…
Spirituality Within Visionary Fiction – a Round Table Discussion
Editor’s Note: A few years back I wrote this article to ask the question, ‘What is Spirituality in Visionary Fiction?’ We had a round table virtual discussion, which spurred a lot of comments and further discussion. Last month I posed the question again on our Facebook page, since we have so many new VF members. Here…
How I Use Visionary Fiction And It Uses Me
I like to use the nice stuff, the good stuff. I put my feet on the coffee table, I use my best dishes, and I squeeze every ounce of practicality out of my spiritual beliefs. I like the good stuff. Visionary Fiction is the ultimate in good stuff. You can find a far more definitive…
Theosophy and Visionary Fiction, Part Two
[In Part One of this post, we discussed the similarities and differences between theosophy and theology, the two forms of theosophy (Blavatskyian with a capital-T and generic with a small-T), and that the spirituality prescribed by theosophy has the elements of universalism and perennialism in common with the definitions of Visionary Fiction.] Theosophy (Small-t) Proper…
Babylon 5 – Visionary Fiction on the Small Screen
By, Eleni Papanou “‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’” Captain Jeffrey Sinclair With the recent passing of Michael O’Hare, I thought it was the opportune time to write about my favorite example of Visionary Fiction on the small screen, Babylon 5. The series is mostly written by one man, J. Michael Straczynski, as…