What is Sparkle Valley Philosophy?
Updated: Oct 1
The worldview behind Sparkle Valley and Blue Flower Power
We live in a distracted world. We live in a world where mysteries are being explained to death and everything is slowly becoming a commodity. And emotionally, we are at the end.
Into this world comes Sparkle Valley with the proposition that we can do something about this, and that it begins with imagination.
It begins with pushing against the notion that wonder and imagination and all the things that make life important are kind of training wheels for children to be discarded once they become adults.
Why use a kid’s book to do this? Because Sparkle Valley started as a private gift for my daughter not as a public document. I wanted her to actually read it, unlike some kind of philosophy book. But there’s also something that’s really important about a story versus philosophy.
A story can make ideas emotional.
Because the story lets you feel the stakes that are involved, not just analyze them. So Sparkle Valley is the vehicle, the philosophy is symbolized by the various characters, and Blue Flower Power (BFP) is the practical application.
Read more about BFP here.
What about the larger philosophical context?
Sparkle Valley philosophy comes from Romanticism. But it’s a “New Romanticism.”
And it answers the question: How do we stay emotionally alive in a world that is pushing us toward numbness? Numbness, it says, does not have to be the new normal.
