The VFA aims to provide a home base and central clearing house for readers, writers, and researchers dedicated to this endeavor. Its purposes are stated as such:   For an art and study ripe with implications for today's evolving personal and social milieu, formal studies of Visionary Fiction are few, even including university research papers. The following existing comprehensive works on the subject are relatively unknown, even to VF authors, although some have recently been highlighted on websites like that of the Visionary Fiction Alliance. Carl Jung, "Psychology and Literature" (1929 lecture), included in the volume "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Rather than the narrow subgenre it is often reduced to, Jung depicts Visionary Fiction as a super-genre that forms one of the two major divisions of artistic production: "I will call the one mode of artistic creation "psychological", and the other "visionary"." Jung's contribution to Visionary Fiction is highlighted in a two-part series "Carl Jung and Visionary Fiction." Flo Keyes, "The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages And Today" (2006). This work explores the influence of medieval literature on modern fantasy literature as well as such literature's social function. Using Jungian theory, including his view of visionary fiction, it examines the connections between the genres and finds common ground among them in plots that often reflect the recurring cycle of life and the elements of psychological rather than literal realism. Works such as Malory's "Le Morte D’Arthur", the Witch World series by Andre Norton, and "More Than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon are examined in depth. Edward J. Ahearn, "Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age" (2011). Starting with the stark premise that visionary writers seek to explode the normal experience of the "real", through devices like prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or sex-induced dislocations in their work, Ahearn explores the work of a wide variety of authors who have contributed to the genre from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Beginning with William Blake, he traces the evolution of the form in texts by authors including Novalis, Lautréamont, Breton, William Burroughs, and contemporary feminists Monique Wittig and Jamaica Kincaid, among others. Paul Maltby, "The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique" (2002). This study aims to debunk any objective base for the visionary experience in general.