Dawn

I just finished reading a novel by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight. It was your average angsty vampire novel (which I like sometimes when I'm in the mood), and it contains tons of crunchy and delicious bits for an Inner Self to chomp on, so it was quite pleasurable in that sense. The novel generally deals with vampires from the point of view of a high school girl, which was a bit tiresome in a 90210 sort of way, but as I was reading through it, I was struck by a question on the mental level... This novel makes it seem cool to be a vampire, and this girl wants nothing more than to be like the vampires she meets in the story. All throughout the book, these beings are glorified and they act as the protagonists, and naturally kids today will eat that stuff up. Where are the novels that cast the awakened beings as protagonists?

What if you had an equivalent novel to that, where instead of vampires, there was this group of kids that was Conscious? Just like the vampires, people would sort of stay away from them, yet not hate them because they couldn't quite figure them out well enough to make a decision either way. The antagonists in the story could be kids that are the opposite and instead were enticed into egoic fantasies and began playing with black magic and all kinds of other stuff.

What if this book made it seem cool to awaken?

Potentially, I know the answer, or at least part of it. Thousands of kids might read the book, and most will probably ignore it, which is fine. You'll probably also wind up with a few assholes (to use Draja's term) who thought they got it, and then maybe, just maybe, you'll inspire three or four kids who needed to hear it. In the end, I think it would be a game of statistics, but don't you think that might be worth it?

I wonder where these novels are. This is a genre that needs to be born, IMO. Dan Millman's The Journey's of Socrates is one novel that already exists along these lines but there should be more. If I was a better writer (and had time), I'd take a crack at that.