What, you may wonder is an audio-visual webbook? A webbook is a book published on the web, rather than traditionally as a ebook or printed book. This book can’t be published that way because it’s audio-visual in nature, so it’s on a website. The style of it brings my art and writing together, and though it is a video, it’s also a book, a book that I narrate over the video with spaces for you to enjoy the music and visuals.
Psychemagination: Journey into the Psyche is an illustrated hero’s journey (more on that in my next blog post) kind of video-art story and a psychological and spiritual memoir written by me and set to original music by my talented husband, Kris Newland. A combination of art, video, music, and transpersonal psychology in mythic story style, it tells the story of a late-diagnosed autistic woman’s dive into her psyche to reflect on her life through the lens of neurodivergence. The cast of characters include many archetypal characters, including Persephone, Queen of the Underworld from Greek mythology.
It’s a different kind of movie, in vertical format designed to be watched on your phone or tablet in 5-30 minute chapter sections, so visit the website when you have a 30 minute time slot for watching a chapter – or set aside 3.5 hours and watch the whole thing, but here’s the 5 min inciting incident that sets the story going.
The first two chapters are on the Psychemagination.net homepage for free, and for my Patrons, and others who have purchased the key to the whole book, (for less than the price of a cup of coffee) the full story is on The Journey into the Psyche Page. There you can watch the chapter videos one after each other from beginning to end. So do take a look, and when you’re done, even if you only watch the first two videos, please do leave a review on the Review page. https://psychemagination.net/reviews/
What do you think of this style of book? I plan to release it as an audiobook, but you won’t see the visuals.
