The Omega Course

I’d like to update my readers on The Omega Course, a fictional blog narrative which takes the form of a first-person “diary” blog. It is testimony to the realism of the story told by its author, Helen Ingram, that I found myself extremely worried after the final entry, in which the main character expressed her plan to follow a (potentially) suicidal course of action.

For those who may not have encountered this blog before, Helen is an academic, whose research is on Jesus as “magician,” and this theme is one that her blog explores in a variety interesting ways, and with a realism that made at least one reader worry that the main character’s proposed actions might in some way be indicative of something beyond the fictional narrative!

I apologize for any panic I may have caused (although I hope I’d panic again if I found myself in a similar situation in which it was unclear whether a fictional blog reflected a real-life cry for help). I hope that the positive effects of all this will be twofold – first, that the expressions of concern will provide indication that bloggers care about one another’s real-life well being; and second, that readers of this blog will have had their interest sparked and will read The Omega Course!