I have always sought to develop my writing as an expression of what I consider essential in living my life, including working with others on their core issues and identity in life.
I have been very much in the world working with thousands of people by now because in my thirties I found that "just writing" was too ungrounded for me. My ideas and images seemed too strong for me, too "crazy making."
Thus, I even gave up writing for several years in order to use my creative energy to analyze myself and heal myself of some terrible problems developed in a neglected and brutalized childhood in which I lived in constant fear for years.
Is it any wonder that I say now you can live your life without fear if you live your life in the present moment?
I have gone through a lot of analysis and healing, so I want to bring this kind of process to the world so that all who choose to can benefit.
My books that have sold well are the Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual, The Elements of Dreamwork, and Dreamworking, all at about 35,000 copies each in English, with many more thousands in eight other languages. My Dream Cards have been a best seller at 110,000 copies by Simon and Schuster and foreign publishers.
Essentially, all these books are collections of tools for self-healing and positive growth and development, following your dreams and the challenges they give you.
This fulfills my purpose in life to contribute positive development and healing to the world at whatever levels possible.
I have no interest in a name being preserved. Essentially when I die that dies with me. What I am interested in is that the consciousness techniques I have further developed are used if found useful.
I have also written The Practice of Personal Transformation and Transforming Childhood, which have also done well in sales, not to the really popular audience but to the smaller more serious audience of those who really take themselves seriously.
I have a number of unpublished book manuscripts, largely because in these my prose is serious, realistic and challenging. Reading a book on Love, Sex, and Intimacy, and on Battle Principles is going to be a challenge to the reader because these are not surface issues that can be dealt with by authors making unreal promises for happiness in their books, and so they get large sales that give them money and reputations that make them happy.
I, on the other hand, can be known as an "unhappy author" if you go by the much less amount of money I have earned through my writing books of depth and integrity that are not surface, easy-read books. I had to work hard. Why should not the reader have to work hard with my books? For most people the challenge is too great and too serious from reading my works. Thus I am not popular and have an easier life as a writer.
Even when my millionaire friend and consultant came up with the fad trend of the day to write about, I simply could not do it. I was dead on the nail. No words would flow. Within my soul are the many lives that have been shared with me and the interventions I have had to do with them to help cause healing and transformation. These are extraordinary cases, the basis of which I have put in my serious books. But to read the books and not go through changes? Impossible!
Now at the age of wisdom and vitality based on the practice of centeredness I have embarked on a new venture of turning the process I have lived with my students and clients into literary fiction.It takes courage to read a book that wants to change your life. I don't want to change you! I as author don't exist after the book is out. Each book has a life of its own and lives in the reader's heart and soul, if it lives at all.
My Memoir on my parents is indeed a study in transforming my own childhood and facing the failures and successes of my parents, and their influence on me. It is a colorful book but imagine the emotional barrier I have had to break through to do it.
Then next in line is The Jesus Novel because in this work of fiction I will be able to freely portray what I think was the real wisdom teacher, Jesus who was killed as a pacifist activist bringing a new message of Love to the world. He was betrayed by his own followers! Do I know betrayal? You bet I know betrayal in my own life in the world!
Another novel will be about modern psychological and spiritual people trying to live by the wisdom teachings of Jesus and how they fail and succeed at this due in part to a strong leader of their community and the weakness of themselves as followers. Can Jesus' true teachings be lived in modern times? Is Jesus as a person and wisdom teacher relevant? I set out to dramatize that this new Jesus is even more relevant and needed today than ever before. We as a people through the generations have not begun to live the real teachings of Jesus. Now it is time to put out the challenge to do so.
I love the writing itself, the thought and feeling process, the grand use of words to convey an experience of meaning. I seem to be good at it, despite what my parents told me years and years ago. I don't write to prove my parents wrong, I feel, but I write for the passion and the love of writing well and inspirationally.
I am a published writer. I have proven this much. I have proven to myself that all those years of "practice writing" are leading somewhere and that I may have my best books yet flowing out of me.
Judging by what has happened so far to me, I am one of those writers who will be better and more read after his death than in his own lifetime. Perhaps I have sought out relative obscurity in my life as a sort of protection from those who would cultivate celebrities, or otherwise project onto me. My parents sought fame. I seek the opposite.
I have my support team. I am not alone. I have my readers and students. If the island is small, the continent is not far away!
Strephon Kaplan-Williams
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