Wisps from the Dazzling Darkness: Job Done!

“Wisps from the Dazzling Darkness:a sceptic’s take on paranormal experience”

is now published in full, after appearing as a serial for most of 2010. The memoir has been laid out on this site in a form which is easily accessible for people who wish to ‘dip in’ to the various true stories, as well as for those who wish to read the whole book. The whole sequence is set out via sections 1-16, as listed in the black panel above.

It has been important to me that I have told those stories, partly to ‘make peace’ with many very unsettling experiences for which the contemporary reductionist paradigm has no satisfactory explanation. As a stubbornly sceptical (in the open-minded sense of the word!) rationalist, whose spiritual life and occasional but persistent paranormal experiences did not retreat as a result of being ignored, I finally decided that the way forward was openness.

Carl Gustav Jung

“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”

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What I have presented in this memoir is a range of my personal experiences which many other people have also had, as part of the whole experience of humanity down the ages – but which most conceal, for fear of being thought mad or deluded. I no longer harbour that fear. (And my nearest and dearest find me boringly sane, if mildly eccentric….)

My hope is that my openness will help people in a similar position to be more open themselves – and to feel less peculiar as a result. As a famous scientist once observed – we live in a universe which is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we CAN suppose.

So – do read my stories, and my reflective musings on what their function and meaning may be. There is an extensive and interesting booklist to help you in furthering your own explorations.

As long as I am given a credit for my work, and there is a link included which takes the reader back to my main site Writing from the Twelfth House, I do not mind any of this material being re-published, unedited, on reputable sites under my name and URL. I would appreciate those readers who find this material valuable, and wish to tell their friends and networks about it, passing the site link around.

Nor would I be offended if any prospective publisher were to approach me with a view to giving “Wisps….” an airing in print!

Thanks again to those readers who left comments and sent me supportive emails. I have found this most affirming. Please do continue to let me know your views and reactions to the material in this book.

email: info@anne-whitaker.com

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