{"id":1744,"date":"2025-01-18T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneya.net\/?page_id=1744"},"modified":"2025-01-18T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T09:28:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oneya.net\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201c My purpose on Earth is to experience the beauty of life.<\/em>” Train for Heaven on Earth
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My story<\/h6>

Oneya Barbara Raj\u0161el<\/h2>

I grew up in two worlds: the first in my earliest childhood represented the daily work<\/strong> on a farm in a small village during the day, the second appeared in the evenings<\/strong> with the obligatory bedtime story<\/strong>.<\/p>

This was followed by school years in which I ‘devoured’ different books (including encyclopedias) and ‘chewed’ youth literature in the home and school library until about the fifth grade, and then started reading novels. I remember my first one very well – The Wyndspell Child<\/strong> (from the Wyndspelle trilogy by Aola Vandergriff) – and the witch who summoned the forces of wind and sea for help, still accompanies me today.<\/p>

In addition to fairy-tale-witchcraft reading, my life and writing were most influenced by Janez Jalen and his Beavers, whose events I know practically by heart to this day and admire the strength, ingenuity and perseverance of the brave Sharphorn Deer…<\/p>

After graduating from high school in economics, I wanted to study history or criminology, but the universe apparently had different plans for me. During my studies of Slovene and sociology of culture<\/strong>, I studied the Slovenian literary canon<\/strong> in detail, learned about world literature<\/strong> and studied the theories of sociologists, psychologists and psychologists<\/strong> (Freud, Jung, Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, etc.)<\/p>

After my studies, I jumped into metaphysical<\/strong> waters, began to explore spiritual literature, alternative medicine, and science. Among the many authors, I was most impressed by R. Bach, P. Coelho, S. Bambaren, J. Gaarder, J. Campbell, C. Pinkola Estes, A. Kezele …<\/p>

“Usually people don’t turn out to be what the first look shows and they hint at different stickers. I’m no exception. If the teens I teach or their parents knew …” –<\/em><\/strong> Train for Heaven on Earth<\/strong><\/p>

Biography<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0– <\/strong>1980<\/strong><\/p>

I was born in Novo mesto and grew up among fields, forests and vineyards in a small village in Dolenjska region of Slovenia.<\/p>