In “Vision Speak”, a powerful matriarch leaves an explosive legacy for her great granddaughter. Willow’s expanding consciousness threatens her society but may hold the key to humanity’s future.
People have asked where I came up with the ideas for this story and what was I thinking...
When I began this journey, I was plagued by questions.
Simple ones like: Why are we here? Why do some people die young? Why can’t we live in harmony? ...and ... Why is there so much senseless violence in the world?
These questions led me in a variety of directions and some of the research underlying the concepts in this book included:
- The history and evolution of man and civilization
- World Religions – the beauty, the wisdom and the sorrow, futility and failings
- New Age Philosophies and Spirituality
- Jung and Freud, particularly Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious
- Joseph Campbell and his ideas on mythology and religion and their metaphorical value
I know this sounds heavy but it’s not really, not at the level that I was searching. I’m no expert in any of these areas, just a person like the rest of you that craves answers to unanswerable questions.
Basically, I found glimmers of wisdom and imagined the rest.
This story takes place centuries after global wars and devastation have led to a new world order. The Republic now controls and restricts all spiritual practices, intent on preventing the mistakes of the past from ever happening again.
Willow has violated her Spiritual Contract, secretly trained in “Vision Speak” by her mentor, Elzabeth. In this first reading towards the end of Chapter 1, Willow and Elzabeth are connecting at a deep, inner place…
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After that, time swept away. Despite her agitated morning, Willow reached the state quickly, effortlessly—with minimal guidance from her mentor. It seemed to go faster every time. Within minutes, she became immersed in a waking dream, a trance-like existence where she was still aware, still conscious of her surroundings and yet her inner being was animated and exposed as never before. The old matriarch and her young descendant interacted with visions and feelings, thought-pictures and senses. It was like an inner voice, a connection of directed, shared dreams. Great Bet called it Vision Speak. The two women were oblivious to the absolute silence in the room. To them, their surroundings were vibrantly alive.
