C.C. Saint-Clair
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Naked Spirituality - A Soul's Quest
Born of French parents in Casablanca, I am a native French speaker, although I completed my formal education in the United States at The University of Texas [Austin], majoring in English Literature.
By day, a teacher of English. by night, in 2000, I launched into the writing of lesbian romance novels with a definite slant on social realism.
I went on to self-publish seven books, the best- selling ones being Silent Goodbyes, Far From Maddy and its sequel centered around an empathetic FTM character, Morgan in the Mirror.
From there, I published various short stories with themes ranging from sensual ‘fairy’ tales, The Crab-Catcher and the Fish-Whisperer, to strong spiritual writings such as Awakening, a Tao-type tale.
It is around 2006 that I chose to dedicate my writing time to All Matters of the Soul. I have since published many articles deconstructing karma, Soul, conditional love, being present in the moment – all the classic concepts of spirituality – from a different perspective, the only one that works for me.
This led me to the making a series of bite-sized video clips on these concepts.
One of my most recent endeavors focuses on the conundrum posed by Jesus of the Christian faith and his historicity.
Did such an historical figure ever really exist?
What if the Jesus of the New Testament fame had been inspired by a Hebrew prototype named Yeshua? Such questions have resulted in a long series of articles which have been posted right here, on Articlesbase.
It is commonly agreed that the gospel writers were heavily inspired by the Five Books of Moses – known as the Torah – and by the Book of [Hebrew] Prophets. So am I – from a secular perspective.
As a result of this inspiration, my current project is a short novelization of the last twenty-four hours in the life of Yeshua/Jesus, which relies heavily on research gathered while writing the above-mentioned series of articles.
This piece titled, From Gethsemane to Arimathea begins moments before Yeshua’s arrest in the gardens of Gesthemane. The last scene will take place in the garden belonging to Yosef of Arimathea for it is on this land that, hewn out of the cliff face, stood the rich merchant’s family burial chambers - one of which, it is said, he made available to the body of Yeshua.
Culturally and religiously speaking, the womenfolk closest to Yeshua [his wife, Myriam Magdalene, his mother, Myriam, and his sister, Salome] could not visit the rock burial chamber until after the Jewish celebrations of Pesach and the compulsory days of ‘sitting shiva’ had been observed.
Thus, it was on the 29th day of Nissan [fifteen days after Yeshua expired on a Roman cross] that the women, the first mourners to pay their respect, went to the chamber and were most surprised to find the it empty of his body.
It is somewhere near that point in the plot that will end this novelization of events that, real or imagined, have shaped two thousand years of secular western culture in ways that are difficult to fathom – and in that lies my newfound enthusiasm for the topic.
All of this has kept me busy - and out of trouble - for quite some time already :-)
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