Author Watch – Discussion with Visionary Fiction Writer Christina Greenaway

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Who is visionary fiction writer Christina Greenaway?

I was born in Mevagissey, a small fishing village on the coast of Cornwall, England, and developed an early love for the legends of our rugged land. Their mythical characters lived on in my mind long after their stories ended. I felt particularly drawn to the legend of Tamara and the Giant Brothers Tavy and Tawridge.

In a nutshell it goes like this. Tamara, spirit of the Earth, lives in a cave beneath the moors with her parents. The giant brothers Tavy and Tawridge roam the moors at night, and are generally feared by the people. Tamara’s father forbids her to mingle with giants.

Tamara disobeys him. In punishment, her father turns her into a river of tears, and Tamara forms the river Tamar, the dividing line between Cornwall and the rest of England. In my Age of Jeweled Intelligence series Tamara lives as the spirit of the River Tamar and serves as a soul guide for the human family.

What are some of the challenges that you faced while writing this visionary fiction book Time Blade?

I wrote the visionary fiction book “Time Blade” in six parts, thinking it might be better to have smaller documents than one big one. I’m not sure where this reasoning came from, perhaps the fear of losing everything in one fell swoop. Anyway, when I combined all six parts I had close to six hundred pages of the Time Blade story. I had roamed far and wide, delving into all manner of characteristics, explanations, and side ventures.

I faced a massive edit, and had to get over my fright of handling it. In the end I held one rule in mind: every scene must advance the story. What an incredible experience this turned out to be. I transported myself to the being the reader and scrapped hundreds of pages. “Get on with it,” the reader would whisper, when I paused over some wonderfully worded prose I’d worked on for days. “I want to know what happens.”

What compelled you to write Time Blade?

Time. Time fascinates me. I wanted to bring time to life as a field of consciousness that could be entered and known. Since we all live in a passage of time, everyone should be able to do this. I wrote “Time Blade” to discover how that might work.

Tell us about your visionary fiction book.

Sky Hunter, a young Californian, takes up life on the road. Born with sacred abilities inherited from a former incarnation, Sky seeks his true mission in the modern world. He’ll live by the hand of chance and work odd jobs to support himself. Chance challenges Sky’s resolve as he crosses the River Tamar in Cornwall, England.

Tamara, spirit of the river, appears to him in a body of sparkling light. She tells Sky that eons ago, he lived in the dazzling Age of Jeweled Intelligence. He wrote a sacred future back then—a promise to restart that Age on the planet when called to do so. Time calls him now. He must travel back to his ancient life and learn how to meet his vow.

What is your best recommendation to get people to step out and follow their dreams like you have done by writing your book?

Do it now. If you wait until you have the time to write a book, make a movie, or learn to play an instrument, you might never do it. Start. If you want to write a book, allot some time in the day to writing. Build the habit to write. I’ve found it takes about three months to build a new habit. Once that’s done, the habit will call you to write. Any creative enterprise unites your body, mind, and spirit. It’s a process, and you might even fall in love with it.

What is the message that you want to get across from reading the book?

Follow the call of your heart. It comes from a selfless place, and it will lead you to all the best parts of life.

What is the message in this book that you would like your audience to know?

Here’s how Time evolved as a living field of consciousness. On the journey into life, each soul deposits an atom of its highest brilliance into Time— I am. This forms a massive field of perfect impersonal intelligence—the mastermind that overseas the evolution of the human family.

In the book, Sun Lord Luca has returned from a future universe to help mankind transcend to the higher realms of his consciousness. He tells his student the message I would like my audience to know.

“The strongest force on Earth is compassion—the ability to see the whole of another person, as experienced by entering the I am of yourself in Time. A man or woman may fall far from that atom of brilliance —but that perfect impersonal intelligence still serves in the mastermind.

When you look at someone through the eyes of I am, you can know the journey that led them into a downward spiral. You feel compassion, because you realize but for the fortune of your life circumstances, it could be you. This understanding frees you from judgment of the fallen person.

What is the best piece of advice that you have ever been given and how did it impact your life?

One day, after I’d broken another rule at school, the head mistress summoned me to her study. I stood outside her door wobbling at the knees, certain I was about to be expelled, and that my father would kill me. I entered. She invited me to sit down. I did, trembling from head to toe. The headmistress had silver hair woven into a messy bun at the nape of her neck, china blue eyes and, although wrinkled with age, lovely porcelain skin.

Streaks of ink stained her cheeks, marks made by a ballpoint pen as she tucked it behind her ear. As the focus of her attention settled on me, fear lessoned, and I had an intense desire to hear what she had to say. The headmistress said: “Your father is a difficult man. You might never understand why, and he is unlikely to change. But you could. You could change your attitude. Would you consider doing that?”

It was a light-bulb moment. I don’t think I knew this intellectually, but intuitively, I sensed my disobedience was a way of seeking my father’s attention. I told the headmistress I would change my attitude, and I did. Goodbye Latin, scrubbing floors, and painful lectures from my father.

Hello lovely walks in the forests with my friends. Whenever I’ve found my back slammed flat against a wall that cannot be budged, I remember my headmistress. She had addressed me as her equal and with that she had empowered me to behave as such. I was eleven years old.

If there is anything else you would like to share about your life, your visionary fiction book or what your next goals are in terms of writing or personal expansion please let us know.

My life goal is to continue to grow into a kind and loving human being. I am currently working on the third book in the Age of Jeweled Intelligence series—Time Blade & the Heart of Fire.     

About the Author

Christina Greenaway is a visionary fiction writer that has authored the series The Age of Jeweled Intelligence. Her most recent book is Time Blade. Greenaway was born in Mevagissey, a small fishing village on the coast of Cornwall, England. She developed an early fascination for legendary tales that helped to spark her creative nature. She describes an encounter of writing down sagas that were placed into bottles and tossed into the sea. Then, like the legends of long ago, the stories were released to take a life of their own. Greenaway has worked in advertising in London and New York, has modeled in Paris, and partnered in a frog farm in Costa Rica. She has travelled the globe in life and with her diversified career. Her most recent work Time Blade: Age of Jeweled Intelligence can be found at Amazon or by direct link to Amazon through her website.

Excerpt from Time Blade:

Chapter 2

Waves double up, rising some thirty to forty feet high. Sky paddles toward a wall of towering green water and leaps on his board, cutting sideways into the wave. Crouching, he strokes the air, smoothing the way, then tears it up, shooting the curl. The sparkle of foam spits in his face, speed whooshes by, and time draws him in. Time, as he finds it in his sleep—beyond the measure of minutes and hours—a crisscross of filmy substance, tunneling back and forth through the cosmos.

“What do you want me with me?” Sky yells.

He hits a sudden bump in the ocean—something hard like the fin of a whale. The leash snaps from his ankle, and his board spirals away. Whitewater engulfs him. He fights the onslaught, kicking and thrusting his body up, up, up. Surfacing, he catches a quick breath then gasps for another, but the roiling waters drag him back down. Undercurrents hammer and thrash him. He’s been here before—dozens of times, but he’s always been too busy battling for his life to be afraid. Not now. Fear grips him. Death stalks the horizon, threading its needle, looping time—his time—snapping it short.

Sorry, Mom. Don’t miss me too much. You always say nothing dies.

Dad, what can I say? I wish I hadn’t fought you at every turn. I …

Light happens—oceans of it, waving around Sky—a thousand shades of white and silver—bright but soft on the eye. Sky surfaces in his body of blue light—the body he wears in his dream travels. A tall, angular man with golden eyes walks toward Sky. Long, crystal-beaded hair sways about his shoulders.

“Get back into your Earthly form,” he says. “You have much to do in this life.”

Sky’s nerves jangle and fuse together. “What do I have to do?”

“You know.”

The man starts walking away. Sky sprints after him, running across the ocean. He latches onto the man’s arm. “I know you from somewhere. Who are you?”

“Take your life back now. This opportunity will not come your way again.”

The man disappears, but his words sink into Sky’s memory like destiny carved in stone. His physical body drifts in the undertow, leaden as a corpse. Sky dives back into it, and the blue light of his dream body kick-starts his pulse. A surge of optimism rushes in, tremendous, as if coming from the whole world.

Sky surfaces the ocean, and heads back to shore, swimming for his life and for all that he has to do.

 

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