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Serendipity Happens and Visionary Fiction
KEY TO VISIONARY FICTION AS A GENRE Here’s a few of my thoughts, feelings, and experiences with the newly emerging genre of Visionary Fiction. For me Visionary Fiction is Soulful writing. Why? Because this type of writing emerges from a very deep place within the author. I know from personal experience. Its writing requires an open heart, open mind–so very open that one…
Interview: John A.A. Logan
Michelle Gordon interviews John A.A. Logan Do you believe that we are all, every one of us, connected on an energetic level? Why? I suppose my instinct tells me that this is true. Twenty-four years practice and study of meditation and yoga also predispose me to see the world from that viewpoint. I was brought…
Sliding Door Moments
In December 2020’s In Style magazine, writer, producer, and comedian Jordon Firstman said, life is “…all about finding the balance between letting change happen and pushing yourself to achieve major progress…” I agree, but how does one find the balance between taking charge and letting go, between pushing and allowing, between will and surrender? In…
Tom’s Adventures in Audiobook Land
The following is a post by Tom Hoffman about his experience with producing an audiobook for Orville Mouse and the Puzzle of the Clockwork Glowbirds. FOUR MONTHS BEFORE TOM BEGAN: “Hey, I should produce an audiobook for Orville Mouse and the Puzzle of the Clockwork Glowbirds. I wonder how that works?” Share this… Facebook Pinterest…
Visionary Fiction: New Views of an Old Religion
I think that Dan Brown, Kathleen McGowan, and Kate Mosse all write visionary fiction. They have taken Christianity and given the world a new view of it. They’ve explored something we all thought we knew and made it mysterious, something that needs to be investigated and re-experienced, not just accepted at face value. Many were…
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.
