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By the way, those rips are legit. I lived in these jeans until they ripped ~ the old fashioned way.

ABOUT ME

Not A Straight Line

My life hasn’t moved in tidy chapters or predictable steps. It’s moved in spirals, pauses, pivots and sudden leaps forward — most of which I didn’t choose and couldn’t have planned. What looked like detours or inconsistencies from the outside were often initiations on the inside but even so, they were difficult to explain to family and friends.

So here’s the ‘normal’ stuff, the certifications, the construction projects, the boardrooms, the business systems, and the decades of professional success — I was competent, reliable, and quietly suffocating — because none of it had any magic in it. And I have never been able to convince myself that a life without magic is worth the trouble.

So I left. Just left. And I went searching for the real thing. True Magic. Because without it, none of the rest of life makes sense. At least not to me.

Note: That’s a water bottle. San Pellegrino :)

What I Found

What I found was decades of rigorous research into consciousness science, quantum biology, and the mechanics of reality itself — the work of Tom Campbell, Joe Dispenza, Candace Pert, Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden. I found frameworks that confirmed what I had always suspected: that the world is far stranger, far more layered, and far more responsive than most people are ever told.

And then I found fiction. Because it turns out that the best way to tell the truth about magic is to write a story.

My novels live at the intersection of ancient mysticism and modern science — worlds where the Philosopher’s Stone is real, with real consequences, where immortality comes with centuries of grief, and where the most powerful person in the room has spent her whole life pretending she isn’t.

I write for the readers who have always suspected there is more going on than what they can see. This is for you.

Magic, light and love.

A human being built by a lifetime of direct experience, rigorous curiosity, and the kind of living that asks the big questions out loud.

I didn’t find these stories. They found me.

Not in a straight line—but toward something true.

Much Love to All of You Travelers of the Deep,
Shelly B.

Shelly Buckman

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