As of May, 2021, my new fat book on New Age thought is done.
How did this happen? I thought I was done with fiction, for a while. Goofed off.
Felt done with big wishes. Went to a meeting about Near-Death Experience, and the questions
people asked made me frustrated. I wanted to explain how many of these things are part of one belief system that has some coherence. Then I thought: so EXPLAIN IT.
I joined the club: “explainers of the esoteric.” Turns out, a loooong tradition, of hearty souls like Dolores Cannon, who wrote and wrote and spoke and spoke, tirelessly. (A LOT OF CRAZY ADMIRABLE PEOPLE whom I got to know better.) Each of them put out extraordinary effort—decades of thought, research, writing, with a passion for THE PARANORMAL. I could AMPLIFY it. Be a librarian, which I am.
They say, "Write the book you want to read." I wanted all the New Age stuff on a historical timeline. My mind was spinning for decades.
Now I can contemplate my decades and the ones before them, and see how people make history and culture and inspire each other.
How did this happen? I thought I was done with fiction, for a while. Goofed off.
Felt done with big wishes. Went to a meeting about Near-Death Experience, and the questions
people asked made me frustrated. I wanted to explain how many of these things are part of one belief system that has some coherence. Then I thought: so EXPLAIN IT.
I joined the club: “explainers of the esoteric.” Turns out, a loooong tradition, of hearty souls like Dolores Cannon, who wrote and wrote and spoke and spoke, tirelessly. (A LOT OF CRAZY ADMIRABLE PEOPLE whom I got to know better.) Each of them put out extraordinary effort—decades of thought, research, writing, with a passion for THE PARANORMAL. I could AMPLIFY it. Be a librarian, which I am.
They say, "Write the book you want to read." I wanted all the New Age stuff on a historical timeline. My mind was spinning for decades.
Now I can contemplate my decades and the ones before them, and see how people make history and culture and inspire each other.
My ethical will, a.k.a. letter from the grave, is included in
My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History
published by the Association of Personal Historians and edited by Paula Stallings Yost and my writing mentor Pat McNees.
Pat teaches a very unusual class at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, on writing life stories and legacy letters.
My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History
published by the Association of Personal Historians and edited by Paula Stallings Yost and my writing mentor Pat McNees.
Pat teaches a very unusual class at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, on writing life stories and legacy letters.