If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

He is survived by his immediate family: wife Gale Prather his son from a previous marriage Perry Scott Prather and their two sons John and Jordan. While he could be categorized as a New Age writer he drew on Christian language and themes and seemed comfortable conceiving of God in personal terms. Prather died on November 15 2010 in the hot tub of his Tucson Arizona home apparently of a heart attack.