The coma carried me into a world where time and space seemed to vanish; it was a dreamlike existence in which people, places, and situations shifted as quickly as thoughts. I had a profound sense of being at a crossroads, a turning point, somewhere between death and life...
Hal Zina BennettTags: reality dream coma near-death-experience reality-of-life perception-of-reality zuni zuni-fetish
Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.
Hal Zina BennettTags: consciousness acceptance acceptance-of-oneself human-perception lens-of-perception perceptual-reality
we begin to see that we are spiritually linked with people halfway around the world, and with those who lived hundreds, even thousands of years ago. We begin to see that we emerge from, and are the expressions of, a single consciousness that is limited by neither time nor space.
Hal Zina BennettTags: consciousness spirituality other-realities spirit-guides
The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.
Hal Zina BennettTags: writing creativity writing-process solitary human-spirit
Dreams and visions are not always intended to be interpreted or analyzed. At times they say exactly what they mean, providing a set of images and meanings to be taken for no more or less than they are.
Hal Zina BennettTags: dreams visions images meanings interpreting
The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday identity. And these moments, when the characters come alive and the author disappears, take us into another world.
Hal Zina BennettTags: identity author shaman storyteller transform shamanic-journeying
in the heat of unprecedented technological breakthroughs it is easy to think that we are invincible, like gods who would rule the world. But none of us need be reminded that the future of our planet is being held hostage by our own cleverness, with nuclear physics, chemistry, agribusiness, mineral exploration, and bioengineering threatening our biosphere in ways we could never have imagined even twenty years ago.
Hal Zina BennettTags: world threat environmental-protection planet-earth biosphere ecological
Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.
Hal Zina BennettTags: writing writing-craft writing-process
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