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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Archer, Bishop, Kirsten entitled The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
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conversations.value: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer: Set in the late 1960s and 1970s, the story describes the efforts of Episcopal Bishop Timothy Archer, who must cope with the theological and philosophical implications of the newly discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments.\nThe character of Bishop Archer is loosely based on the controversial, iconoclastic Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who in 1969 died of exposure while exploring the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea in the West Bank.\nAs the novel opens, it is 1980.\nOn the day that John Lennon is shot and killed, Angel Archer visits the houseboat of Edgar Barefoot, (a guru based on Alan Watts), and reflects on the lives of her deceased relatives.\nDuring the sixties, she was married to Jeff Archer, son of the Episcopal Bishop of California Timothy Archer.\nShe introduced Kirsten Lundborg, a friend, to her father-in law, and the two began an affair.\nKirsten has a son, Bill, from a previous relationship, who has schizophrenia, although he is knowledgeable as an automobile mechanic.\nTim is already being investigated for his gnostic, allegedly heretical views about the Zadokite scrolls, which reproduce some of Jesus Christ's statements about the world, but have been dated to the second century before the birth of Christ.\nJeff commits suicide due to his romantic obsession with Kirsten.\nHowever, after poltergeist activity, he manifests to Tim and Kirsten at a seance, also attended by Angel.\nAngel is skeptical about the efficacy of astrology, and believes that the unfolding existential situation of Tim and Kirsten is akin to Friedrich Schiller's German Romanticism era masterpiece, the Wallenstein trilogy (insofar as their credulity reflects the loss of rational belief in contemporary consensual reality).\nThe three are told that Kirsten and Tim will die.\nAs predicted, Kirsten loses her remission from cancer, and also commits suicide after a barbiturate overdose.\nTim travels to Israel to investigate whether or not a psychotropic mushroom was associated with the resurrection, but his car stalls, he becomes disoriented, falls from a cliff, and dies in the desert.\nOn the houseboat, Angel is reunited with Bill, Kirsten's son who has schizophrenia.\nHe claims to have Tim's reincarnated spirit within him, but is soon institutionalized.\nAngel agrees to care for Bill, in return for a rare record that Edgar offers her.\nTransmigration is one of Dick's most overtly philosophical and intellectual works.\nWhile Dick's novels usually employ multiple narrators or an omniscient perspective, this story is told in the first person by a single narrator: Angel Archer, Bishop Archer's daughter-in-law.\nDick's work was often criticized for its flat, stereotypical female characters, so Angel may represent his effort to prove he could create a rich and believable feminine voice.