What is it? A gift to humanity – a hopeful view of expanding consciousness. According to the School for Esoteric Studies, the Great Invocation is meant to be a combination of visualization (imagination), “meditation (mind), prayer (feeling and/or intuition), and affirmation (will).” It allows…
Do you often visit the same place when you dream? Those are what I refer to in the Unfolding Series as dreamscapes. Themes that are adapted from one dream to another, connected by a common thread. These may also be referred…
In the earlier imagined conversation Peeling Back the Unfolding Curtain, you were introduced to a method I employed to communicate with the select few who I trusted to comment on early drafts of Unfolding: Awakening and Unfolding: Nexus. The setting…
Derren Brown is perhaps my all-time favorite skeptic. He does not come across one of the mean-spirited debunkers who find pleasure in making the lives of True Believers miserable. His performances are a delight, full of mystery, suspense, and surprise….
How can it be proven? The best evidence I’ve come across is the stories from children who are too young to have been influenced by media and/or those stories that are so compelling they are hard to refute. One such…
The Start of a Writer’s Day I lay awake, feeling rested. My wife sleeping beside me, I allowed my mind to drift … recalling the places I’d been. There was a thought somewhere – Ah … here. A Greek theater,…
Have you ever told a lie? Willfully attempted to deceive? In communications with my test readers, I reveal little things about them to the others using pseudonyms so they may keep their privacy. The names may contain clues to some aspect…
We all dream to some extent. Have you thought about what’s different between being consciously awake and conscious when you dream? What’s the difference? For most people, dreams are a solitary experience. In the Unfolding Series characters can not only…
What’s the difference? A plot is a series of related, or causal events which have a starting point (in the beginning,) a midpoint, and an ending. At a minimum stories will include the setting, a rising conflict leading to a…
What about after Awakening – What Then? That’s another great question. The subtitle of the documentary video 5 Gateways states, “Awakening is just the beginning.” You go on with your life. It’s a changed, of course, but you go on….
That’s a good question. There do not appear to be a large number of people who have gone through the process and also been aware of it. As the ancients have said: Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment,…
Here is an early version of my work area. Today I sit in a small library located on the second floor of our home with a window that looks out on our tiny rural community. The bell in the Catholic…
Before you were born, before you had your first thought, what were you? What Are you? In preparation for the third novel in the Unfolding series, I’ve had to research these questions. When we strip everything away what’s…
Would-be photographers are told, “Take lots of pictures.” Art students are sent off to paint images of bowls of fruit or landscapes that have been done by untold numbers of people before them. Writer’s have to be able to…
We’re diligently reading through our final draft of the manuscript for Unfolding: Nexus and thought you might like to see the list of chapter names we’re considering. In this second novel, the Hopewells host lovers Tyler and Andrea at…
I used to be able to drop into an altered state at will – that is until I unintentionally went somewhere I might have best waited for a later time – after becoming more experienced. Now dreams are my…
Has anyone heard this before? I’d love to know who originated the thought. Some time ago a wag said that young writers tend to be seen in groups. Once they get going and are published, they are usually found…
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What’s Real and What’s Imagined?
In the Unfolding Series characters are placed in positions where they are exposed to new conditions. Conditions challenging the status quo and they are forced to react, to decide what to do in each situation. Without belaboring the question,…
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