Candace Lynn Talmadge

Since the age of 12, I have wanted to write a novel. That was also the age I experienced an instantly accurate prophetic dream.

One Friday night, I dreamt that my mother and I went to visit one of her friends who was in hospital dying of cancer. I had done that with my mom several times. We reached the nurses station and one of them said, “I’m sorry. You can’t visit Mrs. Smith. (Not her actual name.) She died at three this morning.”

I awoke and since it was Saturday, it was my job to set the table for breakfast. I was in the kitchen when the phone rang. Not long afterward my mother walked into the kitchen, her eyes red-rimmed. “Mrs. Smith died at three this morning.” I gulped and said nothing. What could I say?

That dream, which I never talked about until just recently, opened to me the wider realities beyond the rational-material.

Pursuing those wider realities, I spent decades researching arcane topics in order to write my novel. That ignited within me a passion for alternative healing and spirituality, while in the so-called real world, I was a business journalist.

I even participated briefly in the last of the great newspaper wars in Dallas, Texas. I wrote for the Dallas Times Herald, covering advertising, marketing, media, and retailing. I often managed to scoop the other rag even though four different business reporters covered the same beats I did. It was quite the career experience.

When the patient is ready, the healer appears. In 1986, I met my life partner (eventually my wife) and co-author of my nonfiction. I experienced storyhealing through the Sunan method. At the urging of my spirit guides, I trained to be a Sunan storyhealer working in the energy of human consciousness.

Jana and I wrote nonfiction about how storyhealing at the emotional level, with help from the spiritual body, can achieve powerful breakthroughs that traditional approaches struggle fruitlessly for years to achieve yet never attain. We also co-authored nonfiction about a way to contact a deceased loved one.

My profound transfiguration through storyhealing also unleashed the fiction I had been struggling to write. The resulting Stoneslayer series – COMING SOON! – is based on four of my past lives and the past lives of family and friends.