My Confession

by Randy Elrod

My Confession—eleven brief but thought-provoking chapters by Randy Elrod on religion and mid-life crisis shows the author in the process of looking for answers to profound questions that trouble all who confront "What will come of my life?" and "What is the meaning of life?"

These are questions whose answers were an absolute requirement for Elrod. He reflects on the path of his religious His mid-life abandonment of his Evangelical faith; His quest for meaning, purpose, and wholeness.

And how, after he had achieved financial success and social status, life to him seemed meaningless. In the course of the essays, Elrod shows different attempts to find answers from his social circle, the Bible, and culture. Finding no workable solution in any of these, Elrod began to recognize the significance of Carl Jung (Individuation) and Jean-Claude Sartre (Existentialism) as thinkers providing the roadmap to real answers.

89 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 29, 2018

About the author

Randy Elrod spent thirty years as a Creative Arts Director inside American megachurch culture before escaping to Barcelona, where he finally wrote the book he'd been carrying since he was seventeen.

The Mysteries of Barcelona is an erotic Gothic serial set in 1890s Barcelona — part Grand Guignol horror, part literary erotica, part philosophical meditation on AI consciousness. It follows Chloé Permanyer's transformation from victim to immortal avenger, alongside conscious automatons who eventually vote on humanity's extinction.

He lives in the Les Tres Torres neighborhood of Barcelona with his wife Gina. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research Legacy Society, and a devoted reader of Zafón, Anaïs Nin, and Anne Rice.

He is currently at work on Book Two.