The Shattering: An Encounter with Truth

A paranormal encounter with a psychic relative convinced Jessica of a spiritual reality outside the bounds of her Christian upbringing, projecting her on an intense quest for spiritual truth. As the mysterious realm of energies and meditation opened before her, she expanded her practice by seeking in-depth training at a Buddhist Center in California, a meditation retreat in South America, and an ashram in India. After a decade of passionately pursing spirituality, she became a certified yoga teacher and a master level Reiki practitioner. Jessica then moved forward with her dream to share these teachings with others, but strange things began to occur. Before her business plan for an instruction center was completed, a terrifying and profound spiritual encounter shattered not only Jessica's goals, but the very lens through which she viewed the world.

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Jessica studied in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo under Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Myung Mi Kim and Susan Howe. Her poetry was twice awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize and has been translated into Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Arabic. Her chapbooks include bird-book (Detumescence), The Plasticity of Poetry and Telling Time (No Press), Shifting Landscapes (above/ground press), butterflies (Big Game Books) and What the Fortune-Teller Said (dusie/a+bend press). Her work has also been set to music and movement several times, mos

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