This being the history of Jill and Jeff and Quintessence,
the current publisher of Jeffrey J. Michaels’ books.
Quintessence first appeared in Crystal Lake, Illinois in 1999 as a tiny shop offering hand-selected crystals and minerals, jewelry, music, and books, creating space for inspiration and delight. It expanded to become a full-service metaphysical center with a complete line of crystals, jewelry, incense, oils, books, music, art, gifts, and décor. When Jeff left Borders Books and partnered with Quintessence full time, his classes in Astrology, T’ai Chi, Past-Life Regression, Tarot, and Crystals became popular. Meditation groups, services such as massage and tarot readings, and guest presenters further enhanced Quintessence.
Our Fairy Land and Zen Land sections helped to inspire Jeff’s writings – he could take a break from his office above the shop and be still within the sparkling pine woods to hear what the fairies and dragons wished to convey. The center of Zen Land was Big Buddha – you can read his story here.
We sold the shop (note Big Buddha story) and journeyed to our next adventure in a colorful California beach town. The Crystal Lake storefront still exists as Evolve for Inner Peace.
As Jeff’s writing became more prolific, Quintessence’s focus organically started to shift to editing, designing, and publishing Jeff’s books. This was at a time when self-publishing was new. Everything was learn-as-you-go as publishing platforms rapidly developed. Jeff’s channeled and metaphyficional writings were attractive to a niche market, mostly through our own presentations, his decade of published monthly articles through Light Emergence Technology (the Sedona Journal of Emergence magazine), and at his speaking events. The flexibility of self-publishing worked well for us.
The seven Onereon books of collected channels are available on Amazon under the author name of Jeff Michaels. You may wish to check out the most recent, The Age of Change: A Challenging Path to the Future. An informative review on this book, by author Dana Taylor, can be found here. Recently, after re-experiencing the enduring quality of the first four books of Onereon channeled materials, I combined them into a single book, Together: As Above, So Below.
Onereon opens every channel with the phrase, As Above, So Below, expressing that we, human and spirit, are together on our spiritual journey. I love when they state that, at this point in time, they exist As Above and we exist So Below, and they’d like to clarify the lines of communication so that when we are As Above and they are So Below, we are already talking! Their intention has always been to offer us assistance from their higher perspective as we navigate life on this planet. Together: As Above, So Below
We are now, again, relocated, this time to the quiet, open spaces of the Arizona desert as Jeff begins to complete work on his huge Mystical Histories project. The world has changed dramatically since he began this series in 2005. The Mystical Histories offer insight, inspiration, and hope for us in the challenging times to come, written within a fantasy genre.
Quintessence is not committed to remaining a publisher if a more professional opportunity presents itself. We are, however, committed to getting his stories into an available format to share with readers. While Jeff considers these as Fairy Tales, I see them as our once and future story on Gaia, if we can see through the veil which surrounds us and separates us from our true spirit.
We are pleased that you have found us here. The intent of Quintessence is, as it always has been, to create and expand space by presenting new ways of viewing your world.