For most of his already long life, Victor E. Smith has considered himself a generalist. From childhood on a communal farm in Pennsylvania, to adolescence in a Catholic seminary, into adulthood with occupations that ranged from counselor and teacher to entrepreneur and corporate trainer, Vic has remained flabbergasted by both the wonders and terrors of human existence. Awe of such opposite has compelled him to write: poetry, journalling, nonfiction, and lately in the visionary historical novel genre.

An avid proponent of human spiritual evolution, he has become focused on paranormal phenomena and their manifestations in the past, present and future. Travel to his topic settings, no matter how remote, is to his research what fingerprints are to a detective. He has two published novels, THE ANATHEMAS and CHANNEL OF THE GRAIL, and a third in the works, all of which explore aspects of reincarnation and the paranormal in known history. All his writings reflect the optimism that, despite the dark side embedded in the human character, there is already a godlike nature in every one of us straining to emerge.