People often ask what inspired me to write The Man Who Met Moses.
The answer began long before I wrote the first page.
That journey began many years earlier. My doctoral dissertation explored the relationship between the unconscious and the Bible. In the decades that followed, my work as a Jungian analyst continually brought me back to the same realization: the human psyche speaks in symbols, and the Bible is one of humanity's richest symbolic narratives.
I wrote this novel because I wanted to explore what might happen if two great traditions—Jungian psychology and the Bible—entered into a genuine dialogue.
What if the search for Moses were also the search for one's deepest Self?
What if the journey through the desert were also the journey toward inner wholeness?
What if the language of psychology and the language of faith were describing the same human mystery from different perspectives?
The Man Who Met Moses is my attempt to explore these questions through the language of story. Fiction gave me the freedom to bring biblical history, psychology, and spirituality into conversation in a way that neither scholarship nor theology alone could.
I hope readers will discover not only an ancient world, but something of their own inner journey reflected in it.