Ask the Author: Edward Fahey
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Edward Fahey
No specific titles in mind, but I am working on a dystopian novel set a couple decades into the future about the degrading aftermath of horrors now being forced on us by the current DC administration. So, I will continue to research the rise of the Nazi's in 1930's Germany, which so closely parallels what is happening now among the ruling party there.
Will also continue along with my usual reading fare: theosophy, and books of deep insight and wisdom, as I am hoping to find if not a happy ending for my book, then at least a hopeful (and yet believable) one.
Will also continue along with my usual reading fare: theosophy, and books of deep insight and wisdom, as I am hoping to find if not a happy ending for my book, then at least a hopeful (and yet believable) one.
Edward Fahey
I have detailed some of the metaphysical/psychological aspects of my travels to such places in the Coda at the back of "The Gardens of Ailana" but generally it feels as though some spots on the planet have a certain pull to them. Early man may have sensed this and built ceremonial centers there. Early church leaders may have built majestic cathedrals on those same places. There are hundreds of stone circles and mounds scattered around Europe and, as with churches, temples, and ancient cemeteries, each may have its own distinct personality. We have journeyed inside Newgrange; a 5,000 year old mound near Dublin, Ireland. There is a pleasant but reverent feel to that one. Stonehenge feels almost over-powering and is the heart of a wide range of crop circle activity, ley lines, and legends. Not far away are Tintagel (the legendary birthplace of King Arthur and the caves of Merlin). Also relatively nearby is Glastonbury, where Joseph of Aramathea (the great uncle of Jesus) built a church on the grounds of which the remains of Arthur and Guinevere were found centuries later. The Isle of Avalon is there.
In such areas one is consumed by almost palpable mystery and an overpowering need to tell others about it. If they don 't build circles or temples there, they may create great myths such as the Arthurian ones; but one way or another these spot tear at our deeper spirits. At our ancient and undeniable belief in Magic.
In such areas one is consumed by almost palpable mystery and an overpowering need to tell others about it. If they don 't build circles or temples there, they may create great myths such as the Arthurian ones; but one way or another these spot tear at our deeper spirits. At our ancient and undeniable belief in Magic.
Edward Fahey
The novel I’m currently developing – tentatively titled “The Soul Hides in Shadows” (a reference to Atma) – focuses largely on characters who for various reasons feel themselves cut off from others, their lives without purpose.
Slowly they begin to suspect that maybe some Higher influence, or deeper urge, is guiding them into new situations that may ultimately be beneficial in their own development – or maybe even to some growing world need. That maybe we sometimes lose friends or connections, “happen upon” new ones when the time is right to burn off some karma or reach Higher.
Slowly they begin to suspect that maybe some Higher influence, or deeper urge, is guiding them into new situations that may ultimately be beneficial in their own development – or maybe even to some growing world need. That maybe we sometimes lose friends or connections, “happen upon” new ones when the time is right to burn off some karma or reach Higher.
Edward Fahey
Hey, Tina; Thanks for the intriguing question!
These stories may sometimes be described as Magic Realism but I tend to balk at that. Partly because anyone who has read more than one of my novels knows that each is very different and can not really be crammed into a genre. But also because that term seems to imply that they seem realistic except for one otherworldly element. But in my life, astral projection, past life memories, laying on of hands and such aren't magical at all; they ARE my everyday life. And I don't believe anything is truly a miracle. If something can be done, then it is done within the parameters of natural laws; we just most of us maybe don't understand these laws as deeply as we could. So within the course of my stories the characters start figuring some of these out.
Having said that, though, I learn from my characters' discoveries as much as they learn from their own. If someone dies and passes over to some other dimension I have to climb into that character's soul, and into a deep state of meditation/contemplation to join him there. Is that then experience or inspiration?
I tend to think of myself sometimes as largely taking dictation from Higher/Deeper sources, but I still have to work out the plot structures, emotional continuity, varying dialects, and such.
"Entertaining Naked People" follows my own life story, but is probably almost half fiction. "The Mourning After" is totally fictitious. So yours was a great question to which I'm afraid I may have no definitive answer.
These stories may sometimes be described as Magic Realism but I tend to balk at that. Partly because anyone who has read more than one of my novels knows that each is very different and can not really be crammed into a genre. But also because that term seems to imply that they seem realistic except for one otherworldly element. But in my life, astral projection, past life memories, laying on of hands and such aren't magical at all; they ARE my everyday life. And I don't believe anything is truly a miracle. If something can be done, then it is done within the parameters of natural laws; we just most of us maybe don't understand these laws as deeply as we could. So within the course of my stories the characters start figuring some of these out.
Having said that, though, I learn from my characters' discoveries as much as they learn from their own. If someone dies and passes over to some other dimension I have to climb into that character's soul, and into a deep state of meditation/contemplation to join him there. Is that then experience or inspiration?
I tend to think of myself sometimes as largely taking dictation from Higher/Deeper sources, but I still have to work out the plot structures, emotional continuity, varying dialects, and such.
"Entertaining Naked People" follows my own life story, but is probably almost half fiction. "The Mourning After" is totally fictitious. So yours was a great question to which I'm afraid I may have no definitive answer.
Edward Fahey
Two possibilities:
1) Just ignore it. Keep writing and writing until something inspired and worthwhile starts to trickle through again.
2) Draw, dance, sing silly lyrics, but keep expressing yourself creatively until that creativity starts giving you ideas for your story again.
1) Just ignore it. Keep writing and writing until something inspired and worthwhile starts to trickle through again.
2) Draw, dance, sing silly lyrics, but keep expressing yourself creatively until that creativity starts giving you ideas for your story again.
Edward Fahey
I'd go crazy if I couldn't be.
Edward Fahey
Just write. Establish that as a habit until you think about it waking and sleeping. It doesn't matter if what you write sometimes is garbage, just keep putting ink to paper, as Balzac said.
Edward Fahey
In a tiny ancient town in Northern England, I looked over the walls of home dating back centuries. A healer had lived and died there. As I gazed into her gardens her spirit came to me and suggested I write a book about a healer who seemingly "dies" but in reality merely steps out of her form and lays it aside. She continues to heal.
As I wrote this book, someone took me over. I learned so much about what lies beyond life and death. What it is like to be a healer. What a mystic feels and sees.
As I wrote this book, someone took me over. I learned so much about what lies beyond life and death. What it is like to be a healer. What a mystic feels and sees.
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