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Evelyn Cole MA, MFA
Evelyn Cole Quick Facts
Main Areas: Creative Writing Accessing Subconscious MindBest Sellers: Gambling for Good Mail, BRAINSWEEP
Career Focus: Author
Affiliation: Learning strategies, Inc., Centerpointe, EFT, Wealth Beyond Reason, Joe Vitale, Simpleology
Biography
of Evelyn Cole
Evelyn Cole “taught English” for 23 years, but not in the
usual sense. You might say she pioneered
English. To get high school freshman
interested in Greek mythology she persuaded them to teach it to sixth graders
across town by email. One day she
overheard a boy at his computer whisper to his friend, “What’s a polite word
for castration?”
To get college freshman to understand why they were required
to analyze literature, she showed them how classification and structural and
operational analyses related to all subjects in their curriculum.
To get all students to relate to language she made them
write freely every day. To keep abused
high school students in school, she took them home once a week for spontaneous
writing, discussion, and creative productions.
Evelyn has read the personal journals of hundreds of
students including some from boat people escaping Vietnam,
some fleeing Iran,
but most living in affluence in Orange County,
California.
From her AB degree in psychology, Evelyn went on to earn her
degree in English, a California teaching credential, an MA in literature, and
then later and MFA in creative writing.
While a mentor teacher in the Newport-Mesa
Unified School District,
she worked with teachers to develop their own writing skills, and by example,
teach their students. She wrote and
published curriculum and conducted workshops throughout the state. In 1994 she published a semantics based
textbook that integrates all subjects in the seventh and eighth grade
curriculum.
When Evelyn was 19 and a sophomore at the University
of Massachusetts, her
brother-in-law, a professor at the University
of Kentucky, committed suicide. She transferred to UK
to help her sister with her little children, and eventually graduated from UK. Other students there, upon hearing her speak
in class, asked her what country she came from.
She has since toned down her Boston
accent, except when reading her own poetry. It slips out then.
In addition to her three published novels, short stories,
poems, and textbook, she has a self-help e-course online called
BRAINSWEEP. It’s a course of directed
handwriting exercises to access the hidden 90% of one’s brain.
She has been to Paris, France
twelve times because she loves that city.
She has been married three times. The third time is a charm.
She has two daughters from her first marriage. One lives next door. The other lives in Brisbane,
Australia. Each has two children. She is in close contact with both families.
Retired from teaching, Evelyn lives and writes in San
Luis Obispo County
which has a vibrant community of writers and poets. She reads her poetry regularly all over the
county. She rides the waves in the
summer, kayaks Morro Bay,
plays ping pong all year and cooks at least four days a week for the sheer joy
of it.
Finally, although she admires many people, she has only one
hero: Tom Robbins, the author of several loquacious, funny, and wise
novels.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Evelyn Cole
Money is a metaphor . . .
and I am going to ask you to spend some . . .
on your subconscious mind.
A metaphor is an implicit analogy.
"The Lord is my shepherd" means
the Lord relates to me as a shepherd
relates to sheep.
"Money is the root of all evil" means
that money supports and maintains
evil as a root supports and maintains
its plant.
If fiction is a metaphor for life, then
money is a metaphor for basic human
needs: security, control, approval (which
can also be called survival, power and
love.)
Money is an artifact that ranks up there
with video games and smart bombs.
Shakespeare's Iago wasn't kidding
when he said, "Put money in thy
purse." If you
can't win your love,
at least you'll have money and the
power that comes with it.
Have you ever argued about money?
If so, hang with me here.
Money can be a symbol of parental
love. Withheld and
diverted to siblings.
it's one large root of sibling rivalry.
Money gives us power, the illusion
of control. The one
in control of the
money makes the decisions, buys the
security, comfort, admiration, and love.
When aging parents give us their power
of attorney, they relinquish control.
When they die we are apt to fight over
their possessions, the metaphor for
their love.
Example: with
recognition of
each other's strengths and weaknesses,
my sister and I shared responsibility
for parents who lived five years beyond
debilitating strokes.
My father attempted
suicide; my mother begged me to kill her.
When my mother finally died at ninety
my sister told me that she (mother) had
promised the diamond rings to her.
I didn't care about the diamonds, but
I felt the old jealousy as if I were five
years old again.
Just before my mother died I dreamed
that I could kill her as she'd asked. The
next day I wrote a poem called "Matricide".
***
Example of test of the tooth:
In the '80s I found myself traveling
alone on a camel, rocking and rolling up
the path to the pyramids outside Cairo.
I was more afraid of the Bedoin leading
the camel than the very tall camel itself.
When we reach the base of the pyramid
the Bedoin would not command his
camel to kneel so I could get off. He
wanted me to pay in American money
and I had only Egyptian and British
coins.
He stormed around the upright camel
a few times and then finally reached up
for my British coin.
He bit it. It didn't
break. Satisfied, he
made the camel
kneel and let me off.
My money passed the test of the tooth.
***
Back to you. Have you
ever disagreed
with a partner on use of money?
Have you ever disagreed with yourself?
Either way, try my MONEY FIGHT SAVER
Print two copies, one for you and one for your
partner . . . or your other self.
Then go spend some money discovering all you
can about your subconscious mind, for it's your
subconscious mind that attracts what you experience
in your life.
Train it to vibrate for the best things in life.
You can, you know. I
did.
Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA
The Whole-mind Writer
