give us this day our daily Lead

So how am I connected with W.C. Leadbeater? He's sort of a Vonnegutsy comic book fan in my self-published novel, The Mind-Warp Era (available at amazon.com). Since the character's life, as he lives thru diverse Mindstorm moments, roughly parallels my own life, the question becomes, have I changed into Lead, in reverse alchemy? No. Lead is a projection, an autonomous complex which split off from my mind the day in my mother's old house I first holed up in the upstairs with a typewriter to write an epic. Lead is distinct, separate. He will become more separate, once I return to work on the rewrite, mainstreaming/mainlining Mindstorm.

Strange days have found me, & they won't go away until the mind-warp is complete. I tarry there a little longer, & then there will be a return to the mundane -- & the transmundane. Diverse ideas of God operate in my SF, as well as the material world. Whole universe as a backdrop? Hell, yes, I'll go for it -- as soon as I remove some more of the SF elements from my book. Work on it comes in spurts, between short stories.

Like Ulysses, it will be remembered.