Diana’s Blog

CNY Seekers Treasurer and Researcher

Diana Brown often feels that she exists in a dreamworld of beauty and potential joy. She wants to try to grasp it, sink her feet into the ground. She sees the whole world as real real and also as a symbol and an evocation. She has a lot of ideas about the way we communicate and maybe create spiritual realities. She’s interested in translation and the phenomenon of language and the way language evokes and builds knowledge and nuance through its slipperiness, and associations through its separateness from and relatedness to the things it describes. She thinks a lot about the way concatenations of language create and invoke as well as allow for others to communicate with us through a shared medium. She loves cats and dogs. She loves music and books, yoga and meditation, prayer and walking. She wants to ride her bike and swim more. Diana holds a PhD in religion from Syracuse University, wrote a dissertation on Helena Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled and has published a book chapter on Dion Fortune. She became interested in alien phenomena and experiences directly through the works of Whitley Strieber, but the groundwork was laid by long-term interest in the occult.