The following is an excerpt from a book I am writing titled My Conversations with Ghosts. In the book, I relate conversations I’ve had with those who have passed. These apparitions appear to me, we engage in mostly pleasant dialogue, and then I dutifully document the experience. I’d like to share a conversation I had with the ghost of the world’s most well-known citizen, Jesus Christ.

Jackson Bentley asked, “What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?”