I’ve wanted to write novels since childhood so like any logical person, I pursued a career in startups to get rich quick, then retire early to write.

After a string of failures, I decided to give myself six months off. By the end, I had more than the first draft of a novel. I had unwavering faith that this is my calling. I’d found the “treasure in the field” and was willing to change everything else about my life in order to keep writing.

But writing didn’t actually come easy. What helped me was meditation, then astrology, then energy healing, and before long, I had become a full-on mystic.

Here are my conclusions:

• Writing is channeling

• Writing is healing

• To change our collective reality for the better, we need to imagine it first and fiction writers must take the lead