We recently connected with Shytei Corellian and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Shytei, thanks for joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

After my divorce at age 30, I sold the condo I was living in, gave away everything that wouldn’t fit in a friend’s minivan, and set out on the road. I’d always been a writer; couldn’t help it. Long before I considered myself an Author, I was writing. I wanted to live on the road for as long as I could and just write full time. Using the money from the sale of the condo I lived on the road. I slept in the minivan, my few possessions stacked along one side in the back. I parked over night in neighborhoods, truck stops, and campgrounds. I found a coffee shop every day, grabbed a latte, and wrote. It was a terrifying, exhilarating time. As a child, I was prone to visions and mystic dreaming. One night, in the minivan just outside of San Francisco, I had a set of these dreams. The next day, in a coffee shop, I began Googling Shamans living in Sedona, AZ. Onto my laptop screen popped up a handful of shamans in the Sedona area. I recognized one of them from the dream I’d had the previous night. Penning down the man’s number, I closed my laptop, jumped into the minivan and called him from the road. I told him I’d had a vision and that I was heading to Sedona and would take the soonest appointment he had for a Spirit Walk. I went into one of the Sedona vortexes with this Shaman and ended up living in Sedona for a time. Being able to write and follow my dreams, literally, and my intuition without hindrance was one of the most life-changing and profound times of my life.

Shytei, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

As an Author the work is foremost. I found out very early that I do not follow the script for how novelists should write novels. I don’t plan a novel, I don’t plot a course. As a visionary, the books I write all come from the same place—as downloads from other lives that my Soul has lived. Every life we’ve lived becomes a part of our Soul’s Journey. As a child, I didn’t have the words for all of this, I just knew I remembered being other people, mostly on planets that were not Earth. All of that knowledge was either crazy or unacceptable back in the seventies and eighties, when I first began to write. It’s more acceptable now. What I’m most proud of is persevering. The writing comes easy. Publication has been a very rocky road. For traditional publishers, categorizing my work has been very difficult and led to my first few rejections. I was finally picked up by a Vizia, a small start up company looking to publish Visionary Fiction. Unfortunately, for our little band of Visionary Fiction Authors, the owner of Vizia passed away suddenly, and we were all thrown back out into the world. I was lucky enough to be picked up again by a larger, though still independent publishing company, only to have the rising costs during COVID force them to drop the fiction branch of their company. At this point, I returned to self-publishing through my own small imprint: Arcturian Spacegate Imprints.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

When I first began to write, I was a child. I wrote, in secret, hiding the pages for nearly a decade from age 9 to 19, never telling anyone I was writing. I didn’t even have the courage to say: I am a writer. It took even longer to say: I’m an Author. When I finally had the courage to be open about what I did (though not where the ideas came from), everyone had something to say about it and how novel writing should be done. I was young and impressionable and eager to get it right, so I listened. I’m not saying taking others’ advice is not a good thing, but for me, it took a very long time to trust my own voice, my own method, and my own creative path more than what others had to say. It took a long time to realize that the loudest voice in my head should be my own. We should give ourselves permission to take or leave what others say, because they are speaking from their lives and their own experience. None of us are here to live someone else’s life or to walk someone else’s path. We can help one another, but ultimately, we should first listen to our hearts and our voices and trust our own path. I wasted a lot of time trying to do what others said I should do; well intentioned as most of those voices were. But now, I trust my own path, my own way, and I trust that Life will be just as it should be.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My particular path in this life is marked by: “Remember. Remind. Record.” This answer came one day while writing and wondering to myself: What is my main goal for this life? What is the purpose behind remembering other lives and writing them down? In answer to that question I heard, “You’re here to remember other lives, remind others of their starry origins, and to write it all down.” After that, I added, Remember, Remind, and Record to my logo.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.shytei.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shyteicorellianauthor/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shyteicorellian/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shytei-corellian/

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