Margaret A. Harrell

Margaret A. Harrell is a woman of many trades: a writer since age seven, a cloud photographer, an editor, and a "light body" teacher. The areas are interrelated creative outlets, part of being multidimensional. Most recently she exhibited her cloud photography in Montreal. Stacey Cochran Books is about to bring out her two-ebook memoir, the first one titled: Keep This Quiet: My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert. It focuses heavily on her days at Random House, where she was copyeditor of Hunter's breakthrough book, Hell's Angels. The three men are "outlaw" authors, that is to say, who broke the mold. Milton stars in her Love in Transition series and helped introduce her, at his death, to startling glimpses of the afterlife. Jan, a Belgian "poete maudit," was her husband for some years, introducing her to life in Morocco and Europe. Hunter, she never wrote about till now but has a stack of letters he sent her, which will be in the memoir.

Toward a Philosophy of Perception showcases Harrell's cloud photography, and the Love in Transition/Space Encounters series explores what it means to be multidimensional. Marking Time with Faulkner was adapted from her master's thesis at Columbia University. All of these books except Toward a Philosophy of Perception were published in Sibiu, Romania, when she lived in Belgium.

For years writing unconsciously, she developed an interest in dreams and spent three years at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in the 1980s, to learn what her unconscious had been telling her about self-discovery and Jung's "individuation process," by which we become whole. In her books she draws from a very exciting life, dotted with fascinating people and events, including initiations (first at the Jung Institute). The spiritual initiation at the Jung Institute changed her life.