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Janis Harper

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Janis Harper is a writer, editor, singer-songwriter, actor, and former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in her 2021 philosophical-spiritual novel, "Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story" (Sacred Stories). Although fictional, she considers it to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis's writing can be found in literary journals and anthologies, including in two creative nonfiction anthologies that she conceived and edited: "Body Breakdowns: Tales of Illness and Recovery" and "Emails From India: Women Write Home." She has presented her work in Canada, the US, and India, and lives in British Columbia. https:// ...more

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Janis Harper I open my inner senses wide and listen quietly, attentively. If I'm lucky, something might arrive that wants to be pursued. Something sparks a passion…moreI open my inner senses wide and listen quietly, attentively. If I'm lucky, something might arrive that wants to be pursued. Something sparks a passion that needs to be expressed. Or I might get obsessed by a particular idea... or an unfinished conversation... Or reading another writer's work will inspire me. Or I engage with another arts modality--dancing, singing, drawing--or I just go for a walk and clear my head. Inspiration is a magical, mysterious thing; it can't be harnessed. But it can be invited.(less)
Janis Harper "Jonas and the Mountain" (forthcoming in October 2021 by Sacred Stories) was a way to get the protagonists to figure out a long-standing central quest…more"Jonas and the Mountain" (forthcoming in October 2021 by Sacred Stories) was a way to get the protagonists to figure out a long-standing central question I had regarding enlightenment / nonduality and metaphysics / creating reality. Can these two approaches to "truth" meet? The novel poured out after a retreat in India with an enlightened guru and some life-changing experiences.(less)
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A fascinating dance of ideas

Reviewed by Margaret Miller in The British Columbia Review

An eastern mystic and western psychic walk into a bar…

Not too much surprises me these days, but this book did, in the best possible way. Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is one of the most original and compelling books I have read in many years. As the subtitle suggests, this is a story about ideas and the love of ideas – a Read more of this blog post »
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“Everything is symbolic, and the meaning of the symbol lies within you. Interpret it.
There is a message there for you.”
Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“Death is a shift of focus. There is no loss; no one disappears. The people who are important to you are like constellations of stars in the night sky. What you see shifts depending on your vantage point. It doesn’t mean that the stars you can’t see have disappeared. We each exist this way to each other, flickering in and out. Death is but another flicker. The constellation remains—the relationships, which are, ultimately, a kind of love.”
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“We are always seeking ourselves. -- Anamika
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“We are always seeking ourselves. -- Anamika
(from Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story)”
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“When you die you don’t leave anything or anyone. The world as you knew it falls away because it only existed in your perception. No one is left behind. You’re all still there, stars in a constellation, just flickering in a different way because you’ve shifted your perspective.”
Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“Death is a shift of focus. There is no loss; no one disappears. The people who are important to you are like constellations of stars in the night sky. What you see shifts depending on your vantage point. It doesn’t mean that the stars you can’t see have disappeared. We each exist this way to each other, flickering in and out. Death is but another flicker. The constellation remains—the relationships, which are, ultimately, a kind of love.”
Janis Harper, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story

“Breakdowns literally break down old modes of perception, break them apart. In that way you can walk right through them, into a new way of seeing and being.”
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“Everything is symbolic, and the meaning of the symbol lies within you. Interpret it.
There is a message there for you.”
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Janis Harper Happy to see my visionary novel, "Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story," available for pre-order on Amazon! Coming October 20. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/194...


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