Jan Dunlap's Blog - Posts Tagged "after-life-experiments"
Is the medium the message or the messenger? (Or how I got started writing a supernatural thriller series...)
I just finished reading Jodi Picoult's "Leaving Time," and once again, I am blown away by this author's creative depth. I keep thinking she can't get better, but with every book, she does!
The fact that one of her primary narrators is a psychic who is a medium particularly caught my attention, since my new book releasing in June also has a character who is a medium. Part of the story's thesis is that heaven exists, and the presence/ability of mediums proves the existence of life after death since they communicate with those we know as 'dead' on earth.
This idea had been nagging at me for years before I began writing this new book - titled "Archangels Book I: Heaven's Gate". More than 10 years ago, my son Tom took a course in college that required him to read the book "The AfterLife Experiments"; his instructor was the author! Tom told me I had to read it, and I did, and it lit explosions in my imagination about the spiritual realm and life after death. I suppose that was the seed of my book, along with my own fascination with string theory from quantum physics, which predicts 11 dimensions to reality. A whole lot of research and reading later, I felt compelled to write "Heaven's Gate" as I sought for myself a synthesis of faith and science; I believe they are two sides to God's own coin, instead of opposing endeavors.
Of course, I realized that a lot of Christians aren't going to agree with the theology that underlies my books, but then again, many Christians and non-Christians alike are going to find (I hope!) much to reflect on in the course of my Archangels series, which takes different fields of science and interprets them as the work of God. As my fictional medium, the devout Khristina Tupikova, reminds physicist Dr. Michael Carilion in Book I with a quote from Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
And so, in "Heaven's Gate," Khristina and Michael push the boundaries of what we think we know...
The fact that one of her primary narrators is a psychic who is a medium particularly caught my attention, since my new book releasing in June also has a character who is a medium. Part of the story's thesis is that heaven exists, and the presence/ability of mediums proves the existence of life after death since they communicate with those we know as 'dead' on earth.
This idea had been nagging at me for years before I began writing this new book - titled "Archangels Book I: Heaven's Gate". More than 10 years ago, my son Tom took a course in college that required him to read the book "The AfterLife Experiments"; his instructor was the author! Tom told me I had to read it, and I did, and it lit explosions in my imagination about the spiritual realm and life after death. I suppose that was the seed of my book, along with my own fascination with string theory from quantum physics, which predicts 11 dimensions to reality. A whole lot of research and reading later, I felt compelled to write "Heaven's Gate" as I sought for myself a synthesis of faith and science; I believe they are two sides to God's own coin, instead of opposing endeavors.
Of course, I realized that a lot of Christians aren't going to agree with the theology that underlies my books, but then again, many Christians and non-Christians alike are going to find (I hope!) much to reflect on in the course of my Archangels series, which takes different fields of science and interprets them as the work of God. As my fictional medium, the devout Khristina Tupikova, reminds physicist Dr. Michael Carilion in Book I with a quote from Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
And so, in "Heaven's Gate," Khristina and Michael push the boundaries of what we think we know...
