[Mynder]

No. I'm just realizing that fiction is where you get "first traction". Medium. Ghost Whisperer. Supernatural. All TV series dealing with the paranormal.

Things like this are slowly becoming "acceptable" parlor talk. The number of people labeling you "crazy" aren't as overwhelmingly large anymore as they used to be even ten, twenty years ago.

Who would this be for? Predominantly for those young people who sense there is something more "out there", especially those who discover they experience "odd" things. They will be looking for explanation and validation. Plus, even though it is "fiction", if it is made to be "realistic fiction" in the sense that it shows and describes the paranormal the way people actually experience it, they will identify with it, and have an easier time accepting this part of themselves.

Hell, I know I thought I had some very strange and unlikely beliefs about how the universe works for a long time. And there weren't that many people I felt comfortable mentioning them, or even just HINTING at them for fear of being called a lunatic.

All in all...I think what I'd like to give people is this: hope. And a hint of excitement about what might be beyond what we see every day. Or beyond our current dreams and visions. There is always more, and since this is all very individual, it is in many cases truly "where no one has gone before".

I can't claim these things as facts and expect them to spread around the world like wildfire (we're getting there, but not quite yet). Make a good entertainment program out of them, though, and you get to both spread the word AND TOUCH PEOPLE. Emotions are powerful. The more you get faced with these kinds of things, the more they "seep in". It will take a long time before this will reach wide-spread acceptance. But if the majority has seen this stuff often enough and intensely enough, their subconscious will "accept" them eventually, and open their minds to the possibility.

I'm just rambling right now and writing this out just the way it flows from my mind, so don't expect a well-thought-out concept or idea behind it.

So again, no to your original question. It's not to make it easier for me to go through with my "outing". I've been a queer sort of person all my life, so I guess I can handle the ridicule. It's about reaching the people in need who still, despite the internet (wish I'd had that in my youth!), need reassurance, validation, and the message: you are okay. What you experience is okay. It's real (otherwise, how would people know how to make an entertainment program so similar to what you experience?).

There are lots of young folks out there in "spirituality hostile territory", with families, friends and communities where they can't really talk to many people (or even anyone), and in general find rejection instead of support. So I think it is important to send a message to people like this (they're going to only get more in number in the coming years), and if some can pick up a little trick or two that helps them figure out their gifts, or to control them better (or learn about protection), then isn't it worth creating something like this?

Star Trek fueled many peoples' dreams for generations. "What's out there?" was answered with "lots of great sruff and folks".

Why not explore our spiritual nature in the same way as outer space? Roddenberry had a vision of the future, and Star Trek wasn't simply about the "futuristic technology". It was about ideals, about what "humanity" truly means.

I think this can be transported over to the inner world.