Witch ~ a novel by Susan Renee and Wilford (Wil) Spradlin, MD

Laura Rogers, Ph.D., teaches religious studies at the local university.  When she reads of Dr. Charles Compton’s theory about primordial states of attention, she feigns mental illness in order to meet with him.  While with Dr. Compton, Laura probes the doctor’s mind in hopes of gaining a clearer understanding of his realms of consciousness theories.  Laura is intrigued by his speculation that reverence might be the most basic attention state of man.  This is very much akin to her own speculations concerning the myth of Eden.  In her pretense of having a psychiatric disorder, Laura contends to be a witch and to some degree bewitches the middle-aged psychiatrist.   In their ensuing interaction, significant others are affected by suppositions that revolve around the difference and the interactions between frames of reference and frames of reverence.  Laura’s obsession with reverence is manifest in her resolution to write a fictional narrative entitled My Eden.  Laura is confident that she will demonstrate Eden as a state of consciousness that transcends the subjective and objective perspectives of our egotistical existence.

Excerpt:

..."I want to continually remind myself and others that Eden is an attitude or a reverential attention state that comes as a gift of Grace and not through our own egotistical efforts. Once I try to take credit for achieving Eden, or assume it is mine, it’s not Eden."

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About the authors:

Dr. Wilford W. Spradlin, received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Virginia, interned at the Royal Victoria Hospital of McGill University and completed his residency training at Duke University where he later became a member of the faculty. In 1978, Dr. Spradlin accepted the position of Chair at the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry.  At his retirement in 1997, Dr. Spradlin was awarded the W. W. Spradlin Chair of Psychiatric Medicine and the title of Professor Emeritus.  His scientific publications include Human Biosociology and The Search for Certainty, by Springer-Verlag. Presently, Dr. Spradlin continues to teach and supervise residents. He and his co-author, Susan Renee, pursue their shared interest in the bio-psycho-social foundations of human behavior with emphasis on the psychological, philosophical and religious aspects of reverential phenomena through works of fiction that explore human behavior in various reverential formats. 

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