3 Quotes by Peter Levenda

Science fiction authors have made contributions to science, such as Arthur C. Clarke and his invention of geosynchronous satellite, among other ideas. Fantasy and horror authors make (unconscious) contributions to occultism and magic by identifying information at deep levels of the human psyche. By focusing on fear and horror, these authors directly address our most hidden nature, which is another way of saying that they open a Gate into the Mauve Zone.

What difference is there, after all, between the narrative we find in fiction and that which we find in the myths and legends that make up scriptures and Tantras? If a story works - if it conveys a truth, elicits an emotional response, tells us something we did not know before and allows us to own that something - then it has much the same function as a scriptural text. The first dramas were religious in nature; the first theatrical performances were rituals.

[T]his revolutionary, multi-disciplinary approach that includes books, art, music and film: all as individual facets of a single polished gemstone of revelation. Some truths -- as Nobel Lauret (and science fiction writer) Doris Lessing reminds us -- can best be expressed in fiction...From the Afterwordby Peter Levenda