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Why Is My Revised Jesus Novel Not Done?

• Sometimes I think having a cancer tumor to deal with now according to the x-rays is punishment for not completing my greatest work.

But have I just been lazing around for years, or have I been working at capacity?

I am about to complete the fully revised The Writer’s Interface 4, which is the recently discovered basis for how to truly write an intriguing novel that a large number of readers will read.

It is also in only the last year or so that I can see through the literary structures and issues of both movies and novels that I read.

Yes, my capacity for understanding has had to rise to the core insight level to have the breakthroughs needed.

I can testify that it is only now that I have my best chance to re-write a wonderful novel of Jesus’ life, the work of a lifetime almost.

And at the same time the doctors notify me that I have cancer and say they want to help me. But do they want to help me without diminishing my capacity to think and imagine at the highest level? This capacity I have worked my forty years now to develop.

So where is the Jesus novel?

Response: I am finishing up the novel template needed to re-write the Jesus Novel. Whether I get to write the actual novel or not is in dialogue with the cancer, another project from ‘God’ that I am given to deal with, as well as those who relate to me.

What is so remarkable about the Jesus Novel?

• It is not based on the early Christian template.

The first Christians had no answer to Jesus, their teacher, being crucified. So they imagined one, which was that he had arisen and become the son of God. God had deserted his son. Jesus could not prevent his own death. The world killed Jesus. Now with Jesus gone the disciples would create an image and a holy life to tell everyone.

Humans are always creating icons, non-living symbolic edifices, to capture the imaginations of others. The early Christians did this with their dying and resurrected god theology.

For me to write the new kind of Jesus novel I have had to nullify this symbolic edifice inhabiting my psyche. And my psyche is half Jewish and half Christian. What a split, as Elizabeth Howes, my Jungian analyst and spiritual guide, always said. Now there is cancer alive in me trying to nullify me before I can give birth to the Jesus Novel? Paradox? Of course I know sacrifice, but how do you live out your sacrifice and yet survive it?

Now, to heal my psyche, or to tear it apart, I have to write this novel and deal with a cancer tumor millimeters wide at the same time, as well as live in near poverty.

Believe me, Whomever Is Truly Listening, I am keeping at this purpose of the Jesus Novel, but cannot do it compulsively as before, driven by a great passion.

What I get done of the project is not so much in my puny little ego hands …

Please keep those donations coming as you can, as well as your kind concerns.

Like Obama, I also am running for ‘President’ somewhere in at least one of the spiritual realms.

Strephon

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