Alan Joshua

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It__ packaged. We don__ live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Paranormal phenomena are only acollection of abilities that challenge known science.Physical lawsdon__ explained them. You have to go beyond the limits of traditionalcategories to make any sense of them.Beau Walker--The SHIVA Syndrome

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to leave the entrapment of "normal" beliefs to understand them much as zero gravity can't be understood when you are earthbound.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Myths grew from the ancient tradition of passing on knowledge orally, the only means of doing so before writing.They__e narratives of human existence. They helped our ancestors interpret reality, solve problems, and guided social behavior. They structured natural and social information into patterns using symbols, and embedded fact into story form. This increased their impact, making information meaningful and personally involving__ot just cold, detached facts.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they__e aware of it. I choose the second group.