Coil of the Snake


                                    The Purpose



          I wrote the book  for many reasons.  I've  always wanted to be  a
     writer.  As I have already said, I had two high school teachers sit me
     down and try to talk me into becoming a professional writer when I was
     just a  teenager.  So  I love to  write.   If you've hunted  around my
     websites, you know I've written a great deal on many different topics.
     Some  articles and booklets have even gotten  me into trouble.  That's
     nothing new for me.   This book is  different, though, and for a  very
     good reason.  Oh, sure, it will, I'm sure, get me into trouble somehow
     but I wrote the book for you.

          In  the  first  week  of  June, 2002,  I  had  a  total emotional
     breakdown.  This  was the second time around, too.  The first time had
     been  twelve  years  earlier.     I  was,  this  second  time,  nearly
     incapacitated and could  barely think independently for myself.   As a
     born again Christian, this did not spiritually compute.  It also  made
     me  feel as if I were a total failure.   Far worse, it made me feel as
     if I somehow, and in some  way, had failed God.  Now, as  I often say,
     try and carry that weight around for  awhile and see just how heavy it
     becomes.  By the way,  neither break down was demonically orchestrated
     but  demonics   played  a  very  powerful  influencing  role  in  both
     experiences.

          If you are  thinking I wrote the  book for therapy, you  would be
     totally and utterly wrong.  If you think I perhaps wrote it for money,
     then you can send me a donation after you have  read the book.  Please
     be generous, too, because I enjoy making money.   If you have the idea
     that I wrote it for entertainment, then three strikes and you are out.
     I would love, in fact,  to become a best seller but more  than that, I
     just want to please God.   That is the book's purpose, therefore,  and
     that means  it is written  for you and  where you are  right now.   In
     other words, I want you to be healed.

          Some  of you  reading this  know  what depression  is all  about.
     Nobody asks for it  or wants or desires it,  and most who have it  are
     told, "Well, just snap out  of it."  Thanks for the free  advice.  Now
     go play in the traffic and leave me alone.

          Some of you  know quite well what an anxiety attack feels like or
     what a  panic attack can  do to you.   Some of you  are quite familiar
     with horrible nightmares, frightening dreams, and  the voices you even
     heard in your  head while wide  awake.  Me, too.   It certainly  is no
     picnic.    Finding  even  a  family member  who  understands  this  is
     generally next  to impossible.  So  you are on your own.   This means,
     this book is, to some degree,  for you, but then again, maybe not.   I
     say, maybe  not, because  it may stir  up old  emotions and  fears and
     doubts and shame and rejection and guilt  which you don't want to feel
     any more.  I had one of my proof readers tell me that one chapter made
     her  so ill, she  ran for the  bathroom and puked  her guts  up in the
     toilet.  What  a lovely book!   Why did this  happen to her?   She was
     stirred  up by  something  in  the story  that  tapped  into some  old
     woundedness and out rushed the raw fearful emotions again.  I want you
     to be aware that you, too, may be stirred up emotionally  in some area
     of your life  just by reading  this book.  This  will be a  good thing
     because it means you recognize you are in need of inner healing by the
     True Lord Jesus Christ.

          I realize  that few people  reading this  book are  members of  a
     coven or international Satanic criminal cult.  Shoot, half the readers
     of this book probably aren't even  members of a church.  Maybe  you've
     never been born again.  That's ok.  You very likely will  see yourself
     somehow and somewhere in  the pages of the novel.  When you do, you'll
     know it and when you know it, call me because it will be time to begin
     your healing journey with The True Lord Jesus Christ.

     Phil Scovell
     October 2004