The following is the presentation with three short readings from the ”Vision Speak” Book Launch in February. 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...
Read more →Excerpt from “The Joinings“: As we were born into new bodies and new capabilities, we walked upright and surveyed our world. Our instincts and intellect drove us forward. We built tools and fire. We mastered the planet and its creatures. We became self-aware and questioning. We formed tribes and worked together to build homes...
Read more →I’ve always been a little uncomfortable with organized religion. As someone who’d never attended church, always looking from the outside in, the assertion that scriptures written millennia ago contained the ‘words of God’ seemed ludicrous. How could there be billions of rational people around the world, in diverse groups, claiming that their particular book,...
Read more →After Grandma died, when my aunt was sorting through her belongings, she found a well-worn paperback novel on the bed stand. Inside the jacket cover, in Grandma’s distinctive handwriting, was inscribed: “My favourite book of all times”, signed: “Jean Thompson”. For a family of curious women, this old book with Grandma’s declaration has intrigued us. I don’t...
Read more →Consciousness and Evolution, these two concepts together can stimulate great discussion. Type them into your favourite search engine and you’ll find a rich assortment of groups and books and information. When I was researching and writing “Vision Speak”, I was first struck by Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious and Campbell’s writings and dialogs on the topic, especially with...
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