To be willfully ignorant one has to choose to ignore what is presented before them.

This is often a result of not wanting to deal with whatever it is they are choosing to ignore.

One who refuses to deal with things abuses themselves and projects that abuse into the shared reality.

The abuse comes in the form of self talk that allows for harm filled behavior to continue.

We are all connected and what we do to ourselves is felt by all on the subconscious level. It’s easy to make the decision to ignore that fact of existence.

To ignore that fact allows the one making that decision to ignore the actual harm they do and to be selfish in their desires and use many rationalizations and justifications for it. This is where the idea of earning more than others and just playing the game as it is comes into lay to absolve one of guilt.

The problem is life is not a game and the score some rack up comes at great cost for many so few can elevate themselves in willful ignorance.

Willfully ignoring that in order to climb in status one must crush others to do so and hold them down with everything it takes if they want to keep their status.

This is what makes social media so dangerous.

If you look around at all of your social media outlets from a detached view you will note it is more of a popularity contest than anything else.

Otherwise why would we keep track of how many friends, connection, followers we have?

Why even have a mechanism for counting likes and stuff?

Without the intent of producing the result, the result is hierarchy based on social acceptance or to say it’s high school rules. If you aren’t one of the cool kids, well the cool kids will push you out and work at making you see just how uncool they think you are.

You can watch the flocks as they metaphorically french kiss each others assholes.It actually gets to be kind of sickening to see. Here’s why.

They do it for image and don’t really give a shit as long as it keeps their post flowing and the numbers going they will kiss any ass they have to. If someone disagrees the flock moves in to help them ignore and bury the opposing view in a layer of asshole french kissing.

For me I see it and I see everything wrong with the world. I see grown ass men and women acting like scared little children in front of the world showing exactly how loving and caring they are not unless you agree with their every word. If not they choose to ignore you and hope you go away.

If you blow smoke up their ass and praise and praise them they will return the favor and blow even more smoke up your ass for the sake of their online image.

Here’s a fun fact about Max.

I am an Empath.

What that means is that I am so sensitive to emotional energy I know exactly how they feel behind the words they try to use to mask it. You leave an energy imprint as the energy transfer from the keyboard into the cyber world where it is stored and kept. Any reading it will feel it whether they know it or not.

It’s why I pretty much know how people feel about my writing and what I have to say in comments where ever I might be leaving one or a few regardless of what they say.

Any Empath will pick it up the same as I do. I laugh at when people think they can hide how they feel when the worst way to keep anything from an Empath is to try and repress or suppress the emotion, we key on that the hardest.

It’s why Empaths are so adept at calling bullshit and never missing.

Even more fun is if the emotion is aimed at me I can feel it even if we never speak or see each other. I may not know who you are, but I feel you.

Ignore that fact if you choose, however it doesn’t stop it from being true.

An Empath is reading everyone all the time because there is no real off switch. There is only narrowing the focus and if an Empath is focused on you in a discussion, they know everything you don’t want them to.

If it’s a Telepath you are dealing with, they have a good idea of what you are going to do before you do.

A Telepath is in your subconscious mind.

Ignore that fact if you choose however it does not stop it from being true.

The first person you abuse when you choose to ignore is yourself. That abuse spreads from you in your behavior to live your choice to ignore. Your words and actions will abuse anyone who drops the veil of that willful ignorance and allows you to see the abuse you inflict.

Willful ignorance is delusional behavior in psychological terms. Delusion behavior is not healthy behavior.

Just who in the blue holy fuck do you think you are?

That is the question that can can come up when we hear or read something we don’t like.

It is usually something that is counter to what we hold dear as far as knowledge and/or understanding of it. No one likes to be wrong and it is difficult to respond instead of react. Before one can respond one has to let what was said sink in and think about it to attempt to understand why it was said as well as what was said.

One who refuses to let it sink in reacts from a defensive stance.

The nature of the question itself is to discredit the source so the message can be ignored or fought.

Debate is a fight.

If you can’t provide a counter and choose to ignore what was said you have shown how exactly how true it was and you lost the fight.

Currently the most important war on the planet is a war of ideas.

A war with many sides as there are many with ideas to be heard and evaluated.

A war has one rule, win at all costs.

That’s what war is.

The planet is going through an evolution of thought.

This is what fuels the war.

The two main factions in this war are those who desire to keep things as they are with the same social hierarchies that allow people to act as authority and use this delusion of having a place of prominence to use behavioral abuse to maintain this delusion of authority.

The other side is tired of the oppression and seeks new avenues that allow all to flourish and destroys the idea of authority and replaces it with leadership.

Authority is abuse driven.

In order to have your authority mean something you have to provide examples in the way of actions that show there are consequences for going against the authority.

It’s the only way to keep oneself seen as the authority because their punishments get carried out. This creates a fear response in order to keep the masses docile and make anyone think twice about challenging the authority of whoever has decided they are the authority.

Academia is one of the most abusive environments one can be in. The constant fight for recognition and funding of ones research will cause one to act as if one thinks one is an authority and one will engage in abusive behavior to maintain that delusion of authority.

This retards progress as now those who are supposed be leading the way of progress will stunt it with will and intent to protect their precious research that they hope is going to fund their life.

History shows that there are many many times where progress was made because one rejected academic authority. One went against the authority and found something better. This threatens the lives of the academics who build their life with the idea of becoming an authority in their field.

History also shows many of these people who made progress were often abused at first by the academic community. Shunned and treated as if they were crazy.

It is the authority driven academic structure that does more to hold back and retard progress than any other single source.

I came to this conclusion after years of debate with academics and the experienced alike.

I find those who never get out of the academic life never understand what it is they are studying or teaching to it’s fullest extent because they lack experience. The uneducated have and advantage over the educated. No preconceived ideas to overcome and unlearn.

Experience is the greatest teach there is and it can’t be found in a book or lecture or an article.

I always wanted to be a teacher as kid. It’s the academic community that changed my mind. When i saw the epic amount of bullshit I would have to tolerate and then would be expected to dish out, I moved on.

It’s the song Are you Experienced by Jimi Hendrix that really comes to mind.

If you can just get your mind together
then come across to me
We’ll hold hands an’ then we’ll watch the sun rise
from the bottom of the sea
But first
Are You Experienced?
Ah! Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have
I know, I know
you’ll probably scream n’ cry
That your little world won’t let go
But who in your measly little world are trying to prove that
You’re made out of gold and -a can’t be sold
So-er, Are You Experienced?
Ah! Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have
Ah, let me prove it to you
I think they’re calling our names
Maybe now you can’t hear them, but you will
if you just take hold of my hand
Ah! But Are You Experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
That little world won’t let go.

That little world is a world of fear that keeps one from growing. Intellectual explorations have been know to be referred to dives. I remember in a discussion once I had mention I reached the bottom of the ocean and the response was to call me a liar.

That’s because if someone reaches the bottom they have gone deeper than you have and in the world of academics that is a threat to ones authority and therefore a threat to ones livelihood. .

The experienced meets someone who has gone deeper and asks questions to see if the experience is worth what was learned.

The academic will compare what they found in books and the experienced will tell you the story of their life.

The academic speaks in the theoretical and uses rhetoric to convince others of understanding. The experienced gives it to you down and dirty as simply put as they can. The academic will charge you cash up front and the experienced might ask you to buy them a cup of coffee.

The academic needs structure for the dialog to happen, The experienced will talk to anyone who will give them the time of day.

The academic forms circles with clones and will circle the wagons anytime the idea of their authority is challenged.

The experienced will take on all comers.

The academic is the arrogance that speaks to what might be and the experienced is the confidence that doesn’t need back up because it’s based on what is.

Academics is the sell job and first they sell themselves on the idea that they are indeed the authority.

The experienced doesn’t give two fucks about authority and is only speaking because they experienced it to understand it.

The war of ideas is the war between the academic and the experienced.

Fun part is the experienced have much greater numbers who don’t care about notoriety and fame. They are too busy teaching what they have learned in their daily life with everyone they talk to.

They reach greater understanding at much faster rates than the academic can ever hope to achieve.

I’m a straight stone cold individualist.

The moment I find people around me giving me the sincerest form of flattery by taking on some of my mannerisms of speech, I change the way I talk so I can continue to be different. Some people say this looks like a mental illness to them, however here is the sanity of it in it’s intent and purpose.

Getting lost in a sea of clones is not my idea of a good time. However at the same time no matter how independent any of us is in thought we can not escape that in reality we are interdependent on each other for life.

This is inescapable truth.

There is no such thing as being a self made anything. Other people had to exist for you to have the experiences that you used to create the idea of you that is who you are right now.

This quote sums up leadership in one shot in my opinion. Here’s why.

True leadership simply sees a need and either does something about it or finds the right people to get it done.

That’s it.

A true leader is in service by the very definition of identifying and fulfilling needs.

A true leader is in service at all times to everything around them.

You can only truly lead from the middle. It’s where you have the best view of everything going on. The view will always be skewed however from the middle you get a better idea of the needs to be filled and who can do it if you can’t.

Leadership understands the interdependence that is the reality of life.

Everything we do is an inspired action. Something inspired us to do whatever it is we are doing and at times that influence is coming from multiple places.

Even though we are independent in making the choice to engage in action, without the others, there is nothing.

We are all connected and each of us at the center of our own tribe so to speak. A tribe that is always in a circle with no one really in charge however everyone has a role so to speak.

Whether we like it or not life is a shared reality created by all of us which means we all share the responsibility of why the world looks the way it does.

I am not overly joyed about it myself some days, however it does not change this simple yet powerful truth.

Our reality is dependent upon the choices each of us make in thought and action and spoken words.

Majick is every word we speak that is the never ending spell we weave.

It’s the Karmic Law equivalent of saying we reap what we sow and that includes every word that comes out of our mouths

We also reap from what we allow to be sown within us.

Instead of thinking about planting a seed of what you want to do, think of it as throwing it up in the air with those who have similar end goals in mind. Let it be molded and shaped by as many who share the end goal view as you can find.

Each of you independent in your being and what brought you to the view that you just happen to share with those who can be of assistance in the interdependent area of building anything in life.

Any questions?

Intellectual debate is often theoretical debate with the idea that no facts exist.

Yes, you read that right, people with will and intent assert no facts exist and then expect something productive to happen.

Yes, the behavior is as childish as it reads.

To assert that no fact exists on a particular topic is to avoid actually having to take a stand and therefore run the risk of being wrong. The academic community exists in the realm of no facts when it comes to psychology and philosophy.

They are always quick with the Socrates quote that says “Wisdom comes from knowing I know nothing.” Here’s why that is a cowards cop out and not wise at all.

Aristotle said “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Max J. Carter said “If knowledge is power, than wisdom is understanding.”

To know yourself and understand yourself is to understand the rest as well. We like to pretend that not everything applies to everyone and somethings only apply to us. This is the great lie we sell ourselves on.

Those who would want to argue that would do so wanting to have something that was unique to them and would take a narcissistic view to even consider arguing.

It takes a great act of willful ignorance to create a delusion where you refuse to accept something as fact when it is indeed fact and the only reason you don’t want to agree is because it destroys the theoretical position.

What is authority?

In concept it’s when one is given or assigns oneself to a position to rule over others and or enforce rules in a variety of possible ways.

Authority in concept is about wielding power over others.

Authority in concept is the right to abuse anyone who objects to the authority

Does anyone have the right to wield power over anyone else?.

Once one has become recognized as authority one by the nature of being an authority must fight those who oppose their authority and authoritative stance or ideals that they profess as the authority.

To allow oneself to become an authority on a subject is to say one can not be challenged in any way shape form or fashion.

How could this possibly become an obstacle in the way of progress?

There are more than a few in the academic community who are shunned by the academic authorities for saying that the Theory of Relativity is wrong based on the fact that light particles have mass and therefore the strongest force of connected gravity can change the speed at which those particles move.

Or to say the assertion that light speed is fixed is false and the speed of light is actually variable.

Why does this happen?

It happens so that those who dedicated their life to becoming an authority based on Einstein’s work are now no longer the authority and their perceived power and control over the academic community is threatened.

In order to retain their authority they must have those who don not agree shunned and their character assassinated if at all possible in order to keep others from following suit which will kill their authority.

Does this create an obstacle for progress?

How could it not?

A theory is good until it can be proven wrong and then it must be abandon in order to make progress and go in new directions that allow new theories to be proven as true.

When it comes to throwing opinions back and forth in exploration at some point one must admit facts exist when they are met with them or they are choosing to live in a delusional state that is harmful for society as a whole.

To get into the exploration and deny truth as it is discovered is the act of a cowardly child who desires to have their opinion mean more than the truth and this is what is called delusional behavior driven by a narcissistic need to have the truth be their own personal thing.

There is nothing healthy about this behavior.

Truth crushes opinion as it should so that learning and growth can take place.

Truth is not built through opinion, it is discovered in proving the opinion right or wrong and this is a simple fact of life no matter how unpleasant anyone finds it.

The most dangerous thing we do in any discussion face to face, online, any discussion is to validate an opinion in order to be nice instead of correcting the opinion with the simple truth should it be known.

How this creates obstacles is that it allows for the opinion to have greater weight than the truth and progress is retarded instead of made. The growth and learning of the one who is receiving the nicety of being lied to instead of corrected is now stunted and it will be more difficult for them to accept the truth.

Now this person feels validated in their opinion they will become defensive and use the history of having their opinion validated instead of corrected as truth. This one will now experience emotional distress when faced with the truth and one will inflict harm on those who attempt to tell them the truth as they reject it in  myriad of ways.

This is why I say I am nice until it is time to be kind, you know honest.

Being nice can often lead to long suffering even though the intent is to avoid hurting someone’s feelings, all one has done is set them up for greater pain and allowed them to live in ignorance of their own suffering and the suffering they spread.

In a recent discussion someone told me there is no absolute truth.

This is a delusional statement based in fear of being wrong and losing one’s status in the eyes of others. This is delusional thinking at it’s finest. This can lead to developing a narcissistic view that says anyone declaring that truth exists is the enemy and must be stopped from assaulting people with the truth because there is no truth in their eyes.

This is the behavior that is the obstacle to progress.

My dad has Parkinson’s Disease.

My dad’s legs don’t work so well and he is supposed to use a walker, he doesn’t and at times it feels as though the roles have reversed. I get why though.

As a contractor my dad was a power horse. His own boss specializing in home remodel and repair work. Part of my inner drive to never let anything knock me down for longer than about a second comes from him. If you go around Chico and ask people my dad did work for or people who have known him, they will tell you he was one of if not thee best at what he did in town.

They will also tell you he is one of the finer human beings you could hope to meet. For along time I wondered if they knew who they were talking about. Here’s why.

I saw him at the end of the day when the tank was empty. He worked 6 days a week often. Starting to see where my work ethic comes from?

I never got to see what they were talking about until I was around 13 or 14 and I started working with him on the weekends and during the summer. My last buzz on strategizing your day as you go came from lessons of watching my dad and working with him.

The results of any job always begins in your prep work. I must have heard it a thousand times. To give you an idea of how physically strong he was at one point in time.

We working on a Church here in town and my dad handed me the hopper to spray some mud. The hopper was a big bucket attached to air hose and trigger nozzle. It looked like a ray gun with a bucket of thick heavy ass mud attached to the top and an air hose coming out the back.

I took it and sprayed for a few minutes with one hand and then had to switch. After about ten minutes and my dad seeing I was not going to get it done he took it back and then I watched. He held that thing like it was nothing and ran it for as long as he needed to.

That day I realized that if he ever hit someone full force, he had the power to kill in one punch. My dad is only 5’6″.

He taught me a lot over the those years before I went into the Air Force at 17.

One of the lessons he and mom taught me was to take care of whoever ends up crossing your path simply because you can.

My dad was a wrestler in high school and studied a little martial arts. He was his own mechanic for many years. There was very little he couldn’t fix on his own.

My dad is also one of the more brilliant minds I have ever met. He pissed people off a lot because he could pick most things with little instruction and run with them as if he was seasoned pro. Something else I inherited.

In fact with no college degree he was the top tool salesman for Hilti tools back in the early 80’s as a traveling salesman.It pissed off every single college grad he worked with, including his boss.

My dad is also a Medium and a Telepath and my mom is an Empath. That’s how I got the 3 in one at birth.

In my dads lineage is a Cherokee medicine woman who walked the Trail of Tears. Back when he was a child the court house where the records of that were kept, burned down and because of racism my grandmother kept the Cherokee lineage a secret for my dad’s sake as a child.

My dad’s dad has never been sick a day in his life, not even a cold.

Even though he is supposed to, my dad won’t stay down. He refuses to use his walker until he falls down again which is at least a few times a week. At times it takes me and my mom to get him back up. He has a fake hip and his legs are going faster and faster as time goes on.

He is still in good spirits most days as long as he can clean the kitchen and make dinner and sneak out on his own to run errands and feel productive. Without that he would have died already, just that kind of man.

It’s not easy to watch Mr. Invincible fall a part right before your eyes.

I can see how much closer he is to needing to be in a wheelchair and that will totally kill his spirit and he and I have talked about it. He was the one who told me it would probably mean his end if he couldn’t feel like he could get out on his own anymore.

There is a lot I will always carry with me that are things my dad used to say.

Work smarter not harder.

If not now, when.

I’ll call you Dr Whatshisnuts when you call me Contractor Carter.

He has no respect for title. He sees us all as equal and none of is entitled to special treatment no matter what degree you have or how many years you spent to get it. That was your choice and gains you no privilege over the rest.

Never let anyone get anything over on you.

Never take any shit.

Never start it, but finish it and there is no such thing as fair fight.

Reach out the hand of help as often as you see the opportunity.

You ever hit a woman I might kill you.

Do it better than I did.

Do it smarter than I did.

No matter what you are doing you bust your ass to be the best at it and fuck ’em if they can’t keep up.

Never stay down.

Never quit.

He taught me a lot that I still use today. He taught me a lot I still pass on to others today.

It’s going to be real weird for real long time when he goes. I will miss him however I will always be grateful I spent these last few years taking care of him as much as he will let me. We have a better relationship now than we ever did.

A lot of the issues I help people though often start with family. My dad and I lost a lot of years that some of you can still have with a father or a mother. Don’t wait until the last few years.

As dad always says, if not now, when.

I found myself in a discussion about being concrete or cementing relationships. Here’ why that is setting yourself up for failure.

The human is a emotional creature and emotion flows and never sets still. In relationships whether they are business or personal require flexibility and fluidity.

This is why we often ask “Why can’t you go with the flow?”

Often a question asked to someone who has hardened and closed their mind to what is before them.

When working with clients as a consultant or one on one for self development the term flow comes up frequently.

Let’s use beBee as an example.

The flow of your feed is quite fluid based on many factors that move things about and your passion. You make an investment of your time that is always flowing forward and at times a buzz can elicit an emotional response.

At times when we read the buzzes of others we become emotional because we are emotional creatures.

Now onto the Air Force.

I was a Combat Communications guy and there was an offshoot of this called Tactical Communications.

Their job was to be able to flow with the front line as it moved. This mean they had to be at the ready at all times as combat goes on to move themselves and their equipment with the flow of combat.

Now onto managing a call center.

Our traffic or call flow required we be fluid with our management of that traffic as we could not turn the flow of incoming calls off. At times this meant asking for flexibility with the front line people to stay and work overtime or at times go home early due to a lack of call flow.

We trained our representatives to have a flow to their calls. In the medical insurance game of United Healthcare it mean training them to extend empathy with the customer and that meant at times moving at with the customers flow.

Now onto nature.

The seasons flow into each other.

Everything is existence has a flow and nothing ever exists in a state of stasis no matter how still it appears.

Change is existence and existence is change. To resist the flow is to resist the very nature of existence.

Consciousness flows in streams of thoughts.

Now onto friendship.

Our friends to tend be the ones we flow best with in various areas of life where we share passions A.K.A interests.

We work with our friend to understand the emotion flowing from them at times and that requires us to be fluid in the moment to adjust to be a better friend and give what is needed.

When we become rigid in our thinking or representation of self we often alienate people.

Now onto romantic relationships.

We flow as one in the sexual embrace when we surrender our hearts and souls to our partner.

We tend to couple off with the one who brings the best flow of emotions from us that we call being happy or content. The one we can let go and flow with without needing any structure to define it. We just flow well with this one.

In all of these examples anytime we meet with something that has become rigid or hardened it fucks up our flow as we are flowing creatures. It’s why we respond to music so well as feel it flowing through us and sometimes inspiring us to get up and dance.

The essence of the Reiki work I do with clients is all about opening their flow of energy and assisting them in balancing that flow better.

With businesses I consult with it is all about creating a better flow for their business that has less stoppage in productivity.

Everything is all about creating better flows and remaining fluid in the moment to adjust to maintain the flow we desire.

This just happens to be how it actually works no matter how much some people want to be rigid in their thinking attempting to control life when in reality everything is out of control and control is an illusion that creates delusional thinking.

Any questions or thoughts on flow?

Let’s stop and think about it.

I look back at the white lies I told out of the good intent to spare someone’s feelings and what I found out later was that it actually hurt them a lot more in the long run.

It’s why I feel that anything less than being honest is creating suffering or enabling suffering to continue.

We hurt the ones we love with the truth to get them to stop hurting themselves and/or other people.

The pain of the truth is temporary and ends rather quickly while the suffering of deceit never ends until the truth is revealed and the deception comes to an end.

This is why I always say “I am nice until it’s time to be kind, you know, honest.”

There is no kindness in lies.

There is no compassion in lies and we often will tell that white lie to avoid dealing with the reaction we think or feel we are going to get out of fear.

Their is no mercy in lies.

Their is no love for another in lies.

If you feel the need to bend the truth to accomplish a goal why?

If you feel you can’t get it done with the truth why?

Have you ever called someone negative for being honest?

Why did you do it?

The hardest part people have after their awakening is often they are called negative because they can no longer stomach deception in any form. Part of the awakening process is shedding oneself of all deception and embracing being honest in every expression of self.

Is anyone entitled to get away with lying?

I have often laughed in the face of people who tell me the world is not black and white and there are many shades of grey. Here’s why.

Right and wrong do exist.

Grey areas are the ones where we are not sure what is the right thing to do. The right things to do often depends on the situation we find ourselves in.

I often find that when I feel the need to say this is a grey area, I am avoiding taking a stance out of fear of being wrong.

I use me as an example because if I started calling some of you out by name, you might get upset and rightly so.

I use the tool Psychospirilosophy to help me figure out what the right thing to do is so I understand why it is the right thing to do.

For those unfamiliar with my work here is what Psychospirilosophy is.

Psychology: Is there anyone who thinks it’s a bad idea to understand from a psychological aspect why you are doing what you are doing?

Spirituality: As long as what you are doing does not include killing animals and people, have something.

Philosophy: For me it’s the personal philosophies we develop by saying “I always say this” regarding summing up the talk we say we are walking less we be seen as a hypocrite.

It’s a tool for self exploration and being able to better provide yourself with an answer to the question “What am I doing and why?”

I have often said there are no general catch all approaches to life and that everything is dependent on the moment. There are always exceptions to every rule we try and create as life is a fluid thing always flowing forward and never still and never moving in reverse.

When I am trying to figure out if what I am doing or about to do is the right thing, I forget about grey and go the silver mirror of inner refection.

Why do we agree to disagree?

I find it is often because we are in disagreement about what is right and what is wrong and are in the grey battlefield where the war of ideas takes place. This is often called debate.

Anyone who thinks debate is not a fight is fooling themselves.

The entire point of debate is to find out what is right and what is wrong for the issue being debated.

Unfortunately for some right and wrong do exist and the ambiguity of grey does more harm to the sum than good. Here’s why.

Often in online discussion many of the readers never comment. You never really know who is reading and how many are being influenced by the ongoing debate.

In a recent buzz I said that everyone has the power to influence everyone they come in contact with in life.

It’s why as soon as I see someone being called or referring to themselves as an “Influencer” I found someone to ignore as I will never recommend to blindly follow a title.

In this case it is a title used for marketing purposes to drive up the public image of the one being given the title.

This also degrades the rest as it is saying that if you do not have this title why should anyone listen to you?

Consensus does not make truth.

I can’t tell you how many peoples faces I have openly laughed in when they try to use the consensus argument. Here’s why.

They have just shown they do not think for themselves and act as a great fool blindly following the crowd.

The reason people do this online is all about image and lacks any true substance.

This is one time I am going to use a name without gaining consent first.

For over a year Jivana Kennedy came at me with everything she had in debate in Linkedin’s largest group.

I respect Jivana immensely because she always stood her ground and never backed down an inch. We rarely agreed on anything and Jivana never left it to the audience to decide.

She took the hard road of taking a stand on her own and never went looking for anyone to come in and back her up in a debate.

Honestly I miss her. I never had a greater adversary in the realm of debate and because she pushed so hard, it pushed me to bring out my best. This often led me to going in new directions and these debates became explorations where everyone following had the opportunity to learn right along with us as we fought it out.

Thank you Jivana, you made a better human out of me.

When you start asking your friends to come in and help you in a debate it means you know your position is weak and want to gang up on someone to shove it down their throats.

This is often what trolls do to attempt to discredit someone.

If you need back up, you are telling the world you cannot stand on your own. You are telling the world you are weak and acting from a place of insecurity and fear.

I say this right or correct based on using the Psychospirilosophy tool.

I cannot think of one spiritual path that says to lie.

I cannot think of one spiritual path that is not dedicated to discovering truth.

I cannot think of one spiritual path that says to protect your online or professional image.

We live in a day and age where the grey area has become about our image and creating an image that gets people to follow us and heap praise upon us in order to create more business opportunities.

Anytime you let your bank account make your decision you ave already lost the war of ideas.

You are operating from a fear or lack mentality. You fear that admitting that you are wrong will have people choosing to go with someone else.

It takes an act of humility, strength and courage to admit your wrong.

Someone once told me that Jivnana was giving me a lot of free work on self development and I disagreed.

I was wrong.

She absolutely did what she does as a professional in those debates and assisted me as I was helping myself to find direction and find new and different ways of presenting myself and my ideas.

Thank you Jivana and I hope you are still giving as good as you get because you are a strong and courageous human who will take a stand and never back down. While I rarely agreed with you I respect you for never agreeing to disagree.

If you don’t like my approach I suggest looking Jivana up and giving her a shot at assisting you in helping yourself.

You will never find anyone who will work as hard as I do to bring out your best. I don’t think she is on beBee, however you can find her on Linkedin and I would love to see her here on beBee as she has a true gift for doing similar work to what I do.

I haven’t spoken to this woman in well over a year and I think it is the right thing to do to show that there are people out there who disagree with me that I do respect.

I think it would be wrong of me to never bring her name up and give her the credit she earned for everything she did for me by challenging me at every turn to be better and bring it from within and find the strength I may have forgotten was there.

A credit to humanity and I will always be grateful for the battles we fought against each other in the war of ideas.

It is often that when we venture off into the online world and start talking, we are seeking validation.

Everyone does it.

We like recognition.

It feels pleasant.

So what?

Leading a life seeking that recognition builds a cage and a limiting way to live and view how of you can best contribute to any given thing at any given time.

Let’s examine 3 questions I use in Enlightened View buzz and see why I use them and call it the enlightened view.

Why one?

This sends one on an exploration of understanding what one’s intent is to even speak in the first place.

If the answer to why me is to show off and seek recognition for showing off it reduces the likelihood of one needing to speak and one having something that actually has much to do with the topic or where the discussion is and where it is going.

One is seeking to have one’s ego stroked.

Why here?

Could it be better to take it in and discuss it elsewhere before offering my view?

I’m putting something out there for all to see. How will they possibly perceive me and what I have to say?

Is it for them or me that I am doing it here?

If it’s for me why?

Why now?

Am I reacting or responding and how is this contribution valuable for everyone who will read it?

Too often in online discussion we get locked into who is commenting and forget the much larger audience who never says a word.

One of my skills allows me to set the size of the hive mind that becomes a faceless single stream of consciousness that flows through my medium mask. It allows me to get a median read on the reaction of the larger audience and gauge my own commenting accordingly.

I use this skill in everything I write.

In order for this skill to work I have to drop my ego out and often find myself taking up unpopular positions with the few who are commenting. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one and need trumps want every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

What do people need to read in order to understand it better?

That’s making it about we and setting aside the me for the sake of the we.

Seeking validation or credit or recognition is all about the me.

Why one?

Why here?

Why now?

Is it for me or we?

The enlightened view is all about the we.

They are the same thing.

When you allow yourself to engage in empathy you open the empathic ability each of us has to a certain degree. In doing this you learn to translate emotion and the intent behind it. This is the basis of intuition, to be able to read between the lines so to speak to understand what isn’t being said or better understand why it is being said to begin with.

As you choose to engage in Empathy more often you hone the intuitive self and create a skill in reading people and situations. Being able to intuitively take a reading of a person or group with out having to engage, merely viewing and opening yourself up to the emotional wave/s present.

For an Empath emotional intelligence is who they are personified.

When you can take on the emotions of others it gives you an insight into them and what is causing it. Think of an Empath as the equivalent of an Empathic Wizard so to speak. The etymology of the word Wizard from old English simply means Wise. Over the centuries we have given this word new meaning attaching the ideas of wizardry and magic however originally the Wizard was the wisest person around.

Wisdom often comes from understanding why we feel what we do.

I always say “If knowledge is power than wisdom is understanding.”

The intuitive self is often much wiser than the thinking self as it is often restricted by learned process. Intuition guides you from within without need for lengthy explanations, you simply “know” what is going on and are better able to hone in on the wisest course of action.

How does this aid in business?

The more you hone your intuition the less time you lose in making a decision you feel confident about.

The more you open yourself to the empathic nature we all share the easier it is to communicate and often you find yourself being more direct and simple with your communication.

You think less and your honed intuition, which could also be called your instincts, will give you the feeling as though you are thinking faster when in reality you are giving more trust to your own subconscious programming that you build over time to build faith in your intuition.

That takes experience to build and no one can teach you a course on it or give it to you in a book.

It’s simply a matter of setting the intent to allow yourself to be more open to what you are feeling coming from others and investigating through questions to learn to translate the emotion better and in doing so developing the intuitive skill.

Part of what I do is assisting people in opening up to their intuitive self and assisting them in becoming more accurate in their reading of emotion and building a honed skill.

In the thousands of students I have had I often find honing and mastering this skill gives them more confidence and they are not as easily shaken by someone projecting in an unhealthy way and are better prepared to deal with the situation and bring it to a peaceful resolution as they have trained themselves to understand where it is coming from regardless of the words used.

This is also the gateway to climbing the ladder of conscious level awareness and as you engage you will become more and more consciously aware of a lot of things. I have found that having someone to be the mirror you bounce your reading ability off of as it grows can assist in avoiding some unpleasant moments through a misread as you develop the skill.

This is also part of becoming unified in mind, body and spirit and reaching the enlightened view or what is commonly called enlightenment.

We are emotional creatures and it is only in embracing that and learning to understand each others emotions and why they are there that we become wise.

I have a reputation for being direct. This is a definite departure as I venture into the unknown.

In taking this trip into the unknown I need some assistance and welcome all who want to take a stab at seeing what we can discover working together.

Where do we start?

In my opinion I think the first place to start is the gyre.

In simplest terms a gyre is a subatomic sized singularity or black hole that works on a vortex.

In my mind the only thing that makes sense is that everything is connected through gravity.

Science has proven there is a thin electromagnetic field that surrounds our human form and that we never actually touch anything though it feels as though we do.

Key part there is the word “magnetic” for me.

A field that is a unique gravitational signature that tells existence what our form is and how to respond to it physically as well as setting limits for the physical form.

In my thinking it is the gyre that is the only thing that makes sense as the source that creates this field around our form.

As I am going here I want to take a moment here to remind myself as I type, this is all theory and I am open to the ideas of the rest.

The gyre is smaller than the DNA strands that tell our body what form to take as well as bunch of other stuff, what is it that tells the DNA strands to form?

This is where I get into the what if realm with no way to really know if I am right or wrong. I am not even sure there is a way to prove it.

What if within the gyre is a consciousness?

What if the gyres work in unison communicating with each other to work together?

That would mean that gravity is a living a force. I have never had that thought before I just wrote it.

How do we prove or disprove that gravity is a living force with consciousness that we simply do not yet understand?

This would be the jumping off point where I am asking for assistance in discovery and building the Theory of Consciousness and Connected Gravity.

For me this also answers the question of organized chaos and why the universe works even when the math can not explain it. The free will of the consciousness within gravity to screw with us when we think math will give us the answer that eludes our grasp. That little chaos factor that keeps popping up.

We have been given the ability to reason for a reason and I ask that we all bring reason to this discussion and respect that each of us in charting into unknown territory as far as I know.

Who wants to chase the white rabbit with me?

I frequently say that self talk is the most important talk there is in life.

It’s the talk that defines us and our life. It’s the perception we create of who we are and where our life is and where it has been and where it going. Self talk is the character refining and defining that we do as the story that is our life unfolds.

I use what I call The Cinematic View.

The story of one’s life will always be in the context of one’s character. One’s self talk is describing who that character is and defines at times the limits of where one’s life can go. If one is telling oneself that one is always “this,” then one will always be that.

Henry Rollins in an interview was asked how he managed to have such a varied career. He basically said that it didn’t matter what he was offered the answer was yes and he would figure it out as he went. This led to writing a script for the first time, acting for the first time and a lot of firsts that have become things Henry has done in stretches to pay the bills and what not.

A fine example of modern day Bardism if there ever was one. Never allowing oneself to become imprisoned by the idea of not being able to do something just because the experience is lacking. Telling oneself that one is capable and will always find a way to figure it out no matter what “it” is.

This is may not be good to use as a marketing point, however in life it will open doors you never thought were possible. It leaves the story of your life open ended and able to take turns and plot twists that keep it interesting and keep you moving. It is a frame of mind that allows life to be an endless adventure while picking up skill after skill along the way.

Before you can live it you have to tell yourself that you are living it and that next adventure is always around the next corner. You have to tell yourself you are capable of living it.

This is where daily mantras come in handy.

I am wise.
I work smart.
I am kind.

Say it enough day in and day out and it will become what one one truly is. Building your own mantras is an exercise in claiming your power and taking it back to manage your life in the way that suits you best. It’s the self talk you create to create your life.

To build more confidence, talk about the you that is confident and why that confidence exists. Take small steps coming out of your comfort zones into other areas. The more experience you rack up the more you have to remind yourself about in times of doubt.

If for some reason you can’t find anything good to say about you to you, hit me up, it’s one of the many things I do. I see the capability in all, the potential is in all of us. Reaching that potential takes work. It takes trial and error. It means taking our lumps and figuring out how to do it better next time.

Just remember never to discourage anyone making progress and that starts with yourself and your self talk.

For a long time I have heard the mantra “One Love” and it wasn’t until the last few years I really started thinking about it and what it means and could mean.

They idea of us all being one connected consciousness and yet still have the ability to be individuals is mind boggling at best until you really experience it. As simple as I could explain it here, it has no value unless you experience it.

There is no modern wisdom or ancient wisdom that is going to change the world in a book or a blog piece or singular performance of any kind. People who make a living off seminars and books who say other wise get really pissed off when I let that secret out in the way I shred the veil so to speak.

Wisdom can only be gained through experience and is unique to the individual view that are the stories of ones life that led one to the wisdom they guide their life by.

Love is honest in all things.

My one on one work has always been 99% charity work. I have quoted prices to 3 people in 2 years and generally if you hit me up on any social network I am on with a question I will answer it and if it turns into a discussion and more of them I never stop to think about charging.

There was a woman a couple years ago that I did a lot of session work with and it helped her career as a life coach quite a bit. When I asked her what she would charge for what she received she said somewhere around $400- $500 an hour. Her name is Amy Fiedler and she is good. She had left a recommendation for me on the profile I chose to delete when I left Linkedin for a couple months for personal reasons.

I could give a list of professional women in the guidance arena who have been my charity clients on a regular for the last 2 or 3 years.  When I am not doing that I am taking at least 6 women in my life at a time as something of a surrogate boyfriend. I do all the boyfriend jobs except sex and it stays off the table.

The faces have been changing since I was 12 however it often feels like the same 6 women are always in my life with others dropping in here and there.

I spend a lot time empowering them to be the strong human beings they are. I also hear all the broken heart stories and do a lot hugging as they cry. I also have a weird way of knowing exactly when to check on them.

These women are always the best part of my life because they always bring out the best in me.

Since embracing the one love idea and incorporating it with being an Empath it has done nothing but create more and more wonderful intimate friendships in my life with wonderful human beings who just happen to be women.

I thought I was crazy for 37 years. Then I realized it was real, the nightmare I went to sleep at night to escape.

Not knowing I was a Telepath for 37 years and not knowing I am an Empath meant when the women of my life told me the horror stories no one should ever have to live through, I saw it and felt it with them as if I was them down to physical sensations.

Waking nightmare depending on who I was around as I would also know their darkest of desires and things no human should ever want to do to another human.

When you can see where the desire comes from in the pain that created it, you really start thinking about what you can do if anything to:

1. Make the nightmare go away.

2. Never have to see it again unless it’s necessary.

I have a very twisted sense of humor in order to survive what I have seen and felt. The longer I live my life living my integrity living my individual expression of love in the flesh, the more one love is the only love we truly need and what we need to be giving more of to the sum of us all.

That love does not know age or skin color or borders or language or gender. That love is.

I am curious if there is a debatable argument to be made.

The questions for exploration in my mind are as follows.

What is the human value with the idea of keeping society going and not repeating our history of violence is there to the idea of race beyond only being human?

If we want to stop killing each other what is the value of borders?

If we are to be Pro Human why does gender matter unless sex is on the table?

If we are to say fuck it to the dark mirror of fear, what is the value of any label we use other than human?

If sex is on the table, gender and gender identification matter.

Where does it matter in life any other time if we are to treat each other with one love as one race?

What is the human value of hate?

Does hate versus hate in your opinion do anyone any good?

Does the idea of forget the hate and heal the pain sound good to you for humanity?

Are you beginning to see why I say one love one race is to be pro human and that is what it means to be so human.

In my mid 20’s I had a fiery passionate relationship with a woman who taught me much in life.

She would correct me as we would talk and I got upset the first time until she said this “I’m trying to make sure you don’t sound like an idiot to everyone else. It’s important to get it right or you do a lot of harm.”

After that I thanked her and have often thanked people who are able to correct me if I am in error.

I work at being accurate and often upset people by correcting what they had no idea was wrong. That’s what Shaman’s do, they give you accurate guidance regardless of what any book says.

It is much more important to the sum of existence to be right than to be liked or respected. When we are incorrect and get others to follow our incorrectness we harm the sum of existence and often inflict suffering on others.

When we allow ourselves to be corrected we show true humility and a true desire to grow and learn. Anything else is defending the image we have created for whatever reason and refuse the correction out of fear of losing status.

Not an opinion. That is a statement of universal and absolute truth of living as a human being.

Shaman’s are supposed to lay it out like that. It’s the lies we live that damage our souls and allow us to inflict damage on each other’s souls. That is not healthy for the sum total.

This is why I say “Unfortunately for some facts do exist.”

It’s why I use this quote from Spock “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.”

It’s absolutely selfish to attempt to make an opinion carry more weight than actual truth. It’s selfish manipulation for the sake of self and self alone in order to gain or maintain status in any given society.

I am picky about where I comment as my brand is not about commenting, it’s about teaching for free and never asking for the donations I make a living off of.

If one sees oneself as a teacher first one has refused to learn the master lesson of teaching.

One who is a master of teaching is always the student first, yet not too humble to think one has nothing to teach.

That carries no label and is a mode of life.

While I use the title Shaman there are many who are as wise as I am and have different ways of expressing the same universal absolute truths of existence who use different titles or no title at all. My local family and friends here in Chico, California has more than a few of them. When I hang out with the people I love most, I am hanging out with peers.

The only peer pressure in our peer group is to love more and to do it from the core. One love, one race is our mantra.

We learn and grow with each other in every moment shared. We allow ourselves to be corrected by each other and often give thanks for the correction.

We meet eye to eye with arms wide open for a big ol’ love hug to keep sharing with all we meet eye to eye with open arms.

Love is honest in all things and anytime you deceive you are not loving others, you are hurting them and causing them to suffer.

Again this just happens to be how it actually works. It’s nothing new by an infinite shot.

We all float like butterflies and it is delivering the sting of the truth that transforms us from butterfly to bee in metaphor.

The butterfly is a metaphor for transformation.

When we allow ourselves to be corrected we allow ourselves to be transformed in the moment.

Here’s the instincts I changed and have been teaching people to change for more than a decade.

Fight or flight.

We are all familiar with the basic concept of the choice we each make when faced with opposition or the unknown. We either fight it at first or walk away from it and dismiss it completely.

My clients often get this simple guidance where fear is concerned. “Fuck fear!”

In fact one of my former clients got it this morning while I was having my morning coffee and a spliff, catching up with all that happened while I slept.

Using the Psychospirilosophy tool allows anyone to change this fight or flight response to a neutral investigative response. Here’s why and how it works.

The tool asks you to run through these 3 processes of thought.

Psychologically speaking is what I am thinking or thinking about doing healthy. This begins the exploration of how one got to this moment to feel the way one does about what one is thinking or feeling. It allows one the opportunity to look inward and understand oneself and one’s intent better.

I have always said that as long as your spiritual path does not require you to kill animals or people, have something, I don’t care what.

Taking the time to explore whether or not what one is thinking or thinking about doing is in accordance with the spiritual path one has chosen can reveal much about why one is feeling the way one is feeling. One’s faith is tested in walking the talk of that chosen spiritual path.

Faith is tested by life frequently and it is either strengthened or destroyed in these moments of testing and can be renewed or reshaped as experience teaches one if one’s faith is blind or false or holds true based on one’s chosen spiritual path and how one lives it.

Why does a thought or feeling about something seem to have me questioning my faith?

It is often that among different faiths and spiritual paths that the concepts are similar when it comes to living a spiritually aligned life.

Taking time to investigate the faith of another can often lead to a strengthening of ones own faith and foster understanding instead of creating friction.

My own personal philosophy that sends me on the dive to investigate first is that to understand oneself in the moment is to understand the rest sharing it with you.

Letting the understanding that we are all human and if it makes sense to me it might make sense to anyone. The key question for me is always how would I feel if someone said it to me?

Taking yourself out of the issue and taking the opportunity to engage in the exercise of empathy creates mindfulness and raises awareness.

Patience exercised is patience cultivated. The more you engage in the investigate process the more it becomes the natural instinct.

Anyone can use the Psychospirilosophy tool and most of us do without realizing to a certain extent. I just gave it a clever name.

It takes work to change oneself.

It takes a choice made repeatedly to create routine that becomes an instinct.

The power is always yours and that power is the power of choice.

The dragon that hoards is the draconian way of oppression.  The draconian way of hoarding secrets and wealth is to keep the dragon from having to use the dragons true power for its true purpose.

The dragon that creates for all is the draconian way of true nobility. It’s the draconian way of using the dragons true power for it’s true purpose as the dragon was born to keep the creating going. The dragon exists to keep existence infinite by fueling the fires of creation that keep the universe in state of constant evolution or change.

The dragons fire as it applies to spiritual growth is for stripping away that which is unnecessary to reveal new enlightenments in life. The fire of the dragon reveals new understandings and new things to view and new ways to view them.  The dragon that walks the true draconian way is the dragon that shares freely and allows those who will understand to do so and those who won’t, won’t.

The dragon teaches the power of the voice and how every discussion is sown within all for the dragons fire to reveal. The dragons lesson is to speak well to create well for the sum. Every word is an addition to the never ending spell that creates the path before us and all paths cross at some point. This is the essence of the Majick of the Black Dragon.

If you have not had a chance to listen to the album Joanne by one Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta AKA Lady GaGa then you are missing out on her best album to date. It is a soul to soul connection with every song, at least is for this Rock ‘N’ Roll Shaman.

The song Angel Down has become one of my favorites in the now and has been since the first time I listened to it shortly after the album came out. I have it on repeat while I am writing this buzz. When we get into the lyrics I think you will understand why.

I have a vested interest in social media. Keep that in mind as we go. I will be and do every time I hear this song.

I confess I am lost
In the age of the social
On our knees, take a test
To be lovin’ and grateful

I am a master intuitive and there is no lying to me and I know exactly what happens and why.

It’s too often in all of social media that people feel fine about tearing others down and doing everything they can to discredit people.

I am as honest as it gets. I do not lie.

There are times I feel lost in the age of the social.

These games that get played screw with peoples livelihoods and at some point will involve a lawsuit or worse someone will commit suicide and it will get out which social media platform they were on.

We have seen the stories of teens killing themselves over social media bullying.

I have a vested interest as a Brand Ambassador in the success of beBee.

I want beBee to succeed. I want America to love beBee the way I do.

America is the most sue happy country in the world. I do not want to see beBee go down because some people feel as though they can go around and try to ruin others.

Let’s not get lost in the age of the social and remember this is not a game and real people are on every social media site and what goes on does effect their lives.

This is a great community for building your personal brand.

Personal.

Person.

I swore an oath when I went in the Air Force to uphold the Constitution meaning I would give my life for the freedom of speech. The freedom of speech is not the freedom to slander.

I talk beBee up everywhere and that includes the radio interview I did today that was all about me. I talk about beBee with my friends and family. I talk about it every Friday night during my community service night at The Bassmint in Chico, California.

I don’t get on my knees for anyone for any reason. I am grateful to people who give me reason to be grateful.

I spend a lot of my time in charity/free work showing my love for humanity.

I live my love for humanity.

Shots were fired on the street
By the church where we used to meet
Angel down, angel down
But the people just stood around

It’s been said by more than a few in more than a few different ways that the worst thing we can do in the face of what we know to be wrong is to do and say nothing.

It’s the most damaging thing we can do and the most inhumane thing we can do is to ignore and turn a blind eye for any reason. There is absolutely no excuse if we are to say we love people and want to be seen as someone who wants to help.

The most savage thing we do is sit back and watch or laugh or join in to fit in with people who think slander is OK and find every way they can do it whether it is overt or subtle.

Even worse than that is when we meet hate with hate. This is why I have ignored everything about our president and the protesters who hate as much as he does and fill the air with rage that helps no one and brings us closer and closer to violence and the spilling of blood.

I’m a believer, it’s a trial
Foolish and weaker, oh, oh, oh
I’d rather save an angel down
I’m a believer, it’s chaos
Where are our leaders? Oh, oh, oh
I’d rather save an angel down

I have said it many time that title has nothing to do with leadership and it doesn’t. Title is authority and behavior determines leadership.

Where are our leaders who will show the people how to protest in peace. Where is the Gandhi and MLK of our day?

At times I feel the need to get involved and speak my mind to knock off all the fuckin hate and get the fuck over the past.

I quote the film Network. “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”

I am mad because it hurts.

It’s heartbreaking the things that go on in our world. It’s heartbreaking the foolish and the weak think hate is the answer.

It takes a great fool who is insecure and weak to use hate and slanderous speech thinking it will make anything better.

It’s chaos they drive with their hate speech and their slander. Causing fear to run through everywhere that anyone of us will be their next target. It makes it worse when nothing is said or done about it. That makes it look like it is OK and is supported by many.

Simple fact of humanity and how the human mind and emotions work and are manipulated to oppress.

I spend most my time looking for people who need someone to assist them when they are that angel down. 99.999% of the time I do it for free because of my love for humanity and my dedication as a Shaman has not one thing to do with making money.

I’ve done it that way my entire life and if anyone wants to hire someone to check my life story out use the name James Clayton Carter Jr, the name I was born with. Max is my professional name. I guarantee every word I have written in the last few years is 100% true, every word.

I guarantee you will find people who will tell you if you ever need someone go to me first because you will not have to go any further if there is something I can do to help no matter what it cost me. I have been living that for 42 years.

I am always looking for the angel down.

Doesn’t everyone belong
In the arms of the sacred
Why do we pretend we’re wrong?
Has our young courage faded?

It takes courage to embrace those in pain and who are wearing the mask of anger.

There are no toxic people, only people who are unwell in need of love and understanding so maybe they can heal and stop all the hate and anger and slanderous speech.

Everyone belongs here on this earth wherever it is they are right now because this whole planet is our home. We are one human race.

Why do we pretend that is wrong?

Why do we pretend we can say who belongs where and who should be allowed and who should be included?

Why do any of us pretend we have the right to exclude anyone from anything?

That takes being coward to exclude people. A coward is someone who let’s fear make their decisions.

Save that angel
Hear that angel
Catch my angel

We are here on this Earth to be human beings.

We are here to learn what it means to be decent human beings and to find a way to keep this thing called humanity going.

Not an opinion and I just happen to be a Shaman born connected to the infinite giving me the ability to give that answer regardless of what any book says. I just happen to be #BornThisWay.

We are here to hear each other and catch each other when we fall. We are here to save each other and not inflict the pain we feel any deserves or to take advantage of each other because we can and because it works and is legal.

Any questions.

#LadyGaga #AngelDown #ProHuman #RockAndRollShaman #BornThisWay

History is a prison.

History keeps us from growing.

History keeps us divided.

Life is not a game.

There is nothing to win.

It’s not a competition.

There are no places and no prizes.

That said.

I often meet people who do treat life as if it is a game. When I engage with these people, I make them play my game instead.

I call it The Zero Sum Game.

The rules are simple.

I win or no one wins because when I win everyone wins.

I win when you realize this is not a game, it’s life and to treat it as a game is to give yourself every excuse to abuse people without guilt and instead pat yourself on the back for your gamesmanship.

When I win, everyone wins.

We are all connected and the more of us that stop playing games the more of us there are that become intolerant of the game players. The more of us there are playing The Zero Sum Game.

At that point it’s exponential in growth and all that resist change are destroyed by those who will no longer put up with treating life as game.

Don’t hate the player destroy the desire to ever see it as a game again.

How you do that is by showing them all the damage they inflict by treating it as a game.

You shred the veil of their delusions with will and intent with the fewest words possible and let them deal with it.

Then sit back and get ready for the intellectual fight that you have already won because your intent is in the best interest of the sum.

Seeing life as a game is for the some.

The some versus the sum.

In any debate the some will always have its ass handed to it mightily by the sum.

In the fewest words possible.

Embrace life with unconditional love.

What does that mean?

When one loves without conditions one gives love selflessly to all one encounters.

Love has many faces and fear is the dark mirror of love.

Love is a fierce defender that will rage in defense of the weak and the long suffering.

Love mourns and loves the sweetness for the mourning knowing it would’t have hurt so much had so much joy not been achieved.

Love is patient to seek understanding and passes no judgement.

Love is merciful and will be quick with the brutal truth to end the long suffering of deceit.

Love knows no deception and will call it out every time love is met by it.

Love cannot turn a blind eye to suffering and do nothing about it.

Love is a friend to all and seeks to reveal the connection already there.

Love is considerate and thinks before love speaks or acts.

Love is honesty in all things.

Love is not always nice and can be down right vicious in the face of deception.

Love forgets we have an identity/ego and a life to think about protecting and acts selflessly.

This is unconditional love.

If you are going to love unconditionally you don’t think about the venue or your career or making a living in what you do and say. You do it because you love everyone and set your intent to be of best benefit to the sum letting love guide your wisdom.

This is the simplest way in the simplest metaphors that I can explian this concept. This is the simplest way I have found in all my surfing of the Universal Consciousness and all my years of studying religious text and philosophy followed by thousands of discussions on the subject.

What strikes me as curious is why anyone would want to debate it?

The only thing that bounces back when I put that out through the Universal Consciousness is this.

Fear.

Fear that it is true and one will look at one’s life and begin to judge oneself and will attempt to blame the author rather than deal with one’s guilt.

Fear that one will see the suffering that one has inflicted in life on other ones.

Fear that one will lose one’s status.

Fear that one will lose one’s possessions.

Fear that one will be injured emotionally and/or physically.

Fear that one is unforgivable.

Fear that one will standout.

Fear that one is incapable of such love.

Fear keeps one’s vibration low and causes one to inflict harm on oneself and other one’s with a list of excuses as to why.

Fear will cause one to look for fault in everything one sees so that one never has to show unconventional love.

I am sure this could be a much longer piece and in the comments I am happy to get deep into this discussion as I always have been for 42 years and counting.

Here’s why.

I started my day out with the following quote.

I didn’t think about it, I just looked for this exact quote to set the tone of my day. I look back hours later and realize I set the process of my thinking and my doing to be one of explaining that which I understand as simply as I can.

Knowledge is highly overrated. Here’s why.

You can pass a test and never actually understand the material. Without understanding the material you do not know if the knowledge you coughed up is true or false. If you don’t know how to apply it to your life the knowledge is useless and has now taken up space in your brain that could have been better used.

If there is no understanding what the nature of the power of this knowledge is one will never wield that power without inflicting mass damage. Here’s why.’

Every word is felt regardless of ever being heard and the concepts tied to that emotion are passed through all ones around the world. All ones are connected and thoughts and words and actions are felt by all ones whether they are consciously aware of it or not.

All ones are responsible for creating the shared reality.

What this means in plain English is that everything you do effects everyone else in some way and your ignorance of that will not let you escape Karmic Law in reaping what you have sown.

You can’t ignore a fundamental law of how existence actually works because you don’t like it or do not wish to face the consequences of your actions and no one ever truly gets away with anything.

All those who inflict pain and suffering will have it inflicted upon them. if you manipulate people you will be manipulated by other people.

No one is the master of any destiny in a shared reality.

No one has the right to attempt to wield authority over anyone else without facing the consequences of an uprising.

Every empire has suffered the same fate.

It is inescapable.

The moment you decide to build an empire you have sealed its destruction. The only way to build an empire and a legacy that will stand the test of time is to elevate yourself and your life above all other life allowing you to justify the means that allow you to end up at the top. The means to this end can only involve creating an enemy and an inferior that you convince other people is inferior and that you are superior.

That enemy will resist and eventually destroy your empire.

You inflict emotional damage in the form of character attacks designed to sway popularity. You create the enemy in degrading to elevate yourself. The greater suffering you inflict the less in the way of numbers it will take to defeat you. You are indeed inflicting suffering by devaluing the worth of other lives that do not see it your way.

Suffering can only be inflicted through deception.

One who wields deception wields power that understands only one thing, the attempt to control what others do or think.

What knowledge do you seek to wield as power and why?

The only reason we ever create something in a complex fashion is to show off and gratify ourselves and ask others to shower us with words of adoration and praise.

When we seek to make it as simple as we can we seek for people to think “Why the fuck didn’t I think of that?”

If you never inspire this, you never explained it simply enough.

One thing I have enjoyed being homeless the last couple years is having the perfect excuse to enjoy being the minimalist I’ve always been.

Las time I checked, life is a temporary condition and we don’t even take our bodies with us. Why is it we insist anyone needs to own anything from a what fucking good has it done our species perspective with the psychospirilosophic  view as viewed by your friendly neighborhood Rock ‘N’ Roll Shaman.

I remember George Carlin did this bit on stuff.

Your stuff is stuff and other peoples stuff is shit.

My stuff and your shit.

Here’s the pretty lies about stuff.

I worked hard to have all this stuff.

I deserve this stuff because I earned it.

My stuff shows the value and worth of my life.

My stuff shows how successful I am.

If had no stuff I would have no life,

My dad watches this reality show where these guys drive around and buy junk and resell it as antiques.

Quick lesson in value and what it actually is.

A thing only has the value that you place on it and can convince other people that it has the same value to them. You lie and get other people to share in your delusion that this thing holds any value. You tell a story and use emotional triggers and talk about how you need this in order to do this or that and create a fable to justify your ownership of a thing and what it will take for you to let that thing go.

That’s what value is in application and execution as it applies to stuff.

The only reason to argue with me is because you just started feeling guilty about all the stuff around you and it’s easier to talk shit about the Shaman than to look honestly at yourself. Or to say if you feel the need to argue I already know your argument and the inspiration or intent behind it.

I have been working on a project that is the Psychospirilosophic view of Wicca often called witchcraft. Wicca has one major thing that they call “Do no harm.”

Take a look around at the stuff around you and take a few minutes to think about where the materials come to make it and who made it so all you had to do was buy it.

If it was made in China it was probably made under slave conditions.

If is has any plastic that means that untold amounts of pollution was released into the atmosphere to create that thing.

How much harm was done to have it shipped to the store where you bought it?

Any human being alive does harm just in being alive. however that is not a license to be gluttonous and greedy. A thinking human who cares about something other than themselves works at minimizing the harm their life causes by learning to live without so much stuff.

A selfish human will go on and on about having the right to do as they will and who am I to judge them for leading such an excessive life style that takes and takes and creates more and more harm to satisfy their desire to have more stuff.

I am not offering condemnation, I am offering observation based on results.

Let’s apply psychology to this issue of stuff and the mass acquiring of it.

One who defines themselves through their belongings sees no value in themselves.

If they did they would not need symbols of status known as stuff to impress themselves and others with their life. They idea that one needs to acquire stuff in order to have their life show value is operating from a lack state of mind. They lack stuff and only stuff will make their life whole and give it meaning.

It is insecurity based on the idea that if they do not have as much stuff or cooler stuff than others than their life has been wasted and they have no value as a human.

This is actually how we treat each other and the only goal of marketing and branding.

To shame one into keeping up with the Jones’. To use emotional triggers to convince one that if one does not have stuff or this particular stuff one has not done well as a human.

Success means you wear these clothes, drive this car, have this phone, have this house, have this and have that.

The only goal of marketing and branding is to create a perceived emotional result that the product or service is supposed to give you.

It is in being a minimalist that I study my own motivation behind every thing I buy to have as my stuff. One who understands why they do what they do understands why any human would do what they do.

I stop and think about why I want something.

What is the result I am looking for in having this thing?

If I get this thing will it really make my life better?

If I am using this thing as a reward to motivate myself, why am I not motivated to begin with?

From a spiritual point of view, I often find tales of those with much are cautionary tales of how having much does not bring joy into one’s life and one’s who care greatly about possessions will act in inhuman ways to acquire and keep what they say is theirs. Many of these tales are told to show the corruption of the soul when one becomes obsessed with acquiring material wealth and possessions to define one’s life.

For me personally the value in being a minimalist is this. I don’t worry or stress about anything happening to all my stuff.

My philosophical quote that I create to remind myself of these things is “The value of my life is the impact I make in the lives of others regardless of how much stuff I ever have.”

Life is a temporary condition.

There is no way around that absolute fact of actual truth.

Since life is temporary what makes us think we own anything if it will be here after we are gone?

The only reason psychologically speaking to acquire mass amounts of stuff is to show one’s superiority over other ones. The behavior is 100% driven by insecurity and fear of how one will be seen by other ones. Again this is an inescapable fact of actual truth.

The value of being a minimalist is being able to see the value in one without needing a bunch of stuff to validate one’s existence.

The stuff we think we own says more about us on a psychological level than most of us are comfortable with admitting to ourselves much less anyone else.

No one wants to admit they were taken in by the pretty lies when the ugly truth shows up.

Thankfully the truth doesn’t give a fuck and exists as truth anyway.

The title alone has my mind reciting The Princess Bride and I’ll paraphrase “Life is pain and anyone telling you different is trying to sell you something.”

That was my answer when someone asked me the question “What would your life be without pain?”

Here are other answers.

Over.

Boring.

Here’s why.

I’m an Empath who also takes on physical pain to give people relief as I start to feel their pain for them. Holy magical bullshit batman!

No it really happens and my Mom does it too. It runs on her side of the of the family through her father and our Hungarian ancestors.A life without pain would mean no one I know was in pain either.

As the emotional Empath I am I often take on pain for those closest to me in times of need. A life without pain means they have healed themselves too.

Hunger pains. A life with out pain would mean I had found some way to never have to eat again or at least not go hungry.

Sore muscles from working out. A life without pain means I am wrong about it being a good thing to always be a little sore to remind yourself you did work out today and got in a good one.

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Pain is a state of mind and as Queen once sang it is “so close to pleasure” you can get lost in the swirl of it all and be tossed about the ocean of emotion in ways that leave you looking for shore and solid ground.

What is a life without pain to you?

Most of my life I often held the view of “Hope for the best, expect the worst and plan accordingly.”

Not a fun way to live. It has you looking at everything that can go wrong which can cause your subconscious mind to allow you to do things to face those possibilities. I have often said you will do things behind your back in front of your face.

We all have those moments where we are looking at ourselves wondering why we just did or said that.

I accepted that in order to continually grow through life I would be continually in a state of self observation and reflection in order to find the growth opportunity in the moment. That takes work.

That takes continuous work that never really ends.

What I think is always subject to change, however how I think never changes.

How you organize your thought process is what creates the reality to give you something to think about to see if maybe some changes within in are on the menu for the day. My thought process has always been to take in everything from as many sources and views as I can find on one topic and then examine it and see what feels right for me and my life. I work to understand the emotional attachment that others apply when stating their position and make attempts to care as they do and see how that makes me feel about myself. When a new view presents itself, I take a moment to work my process to see if an adjustment is needed or desired and why.

I have worked diligently to attempt to take the idea of judgement out of my thought process even when looking at myself and instead of judging myself and finding me guilty, I instead change the process to find opportunity for inner change to promote growth that will help me feel better about who I choose to be and how I choose to represent that.

The most difficult part of my process for me is to keep it in the now and not allow history to define anything in the present. The challenge is to remember the concepts of the lessons learned and wisdom gained without having to tie it to history. Living in the now, understanding it is all that exists.

If you need history teach you over and over again the same lessons, why in the holy blue fuck did you not learn it the first time?

For me that answer is because I am human, however it’s no excuse to not make the effort to not need the history to be repeated or reviewed all the time in order to get better from myself.

At some point you just remember that your intuition will tell you if what’s in front of you feels right and why. To get there takes seeing how many times in the past you didn’t trust you and how it went. Once you learn to trust you in the now there is no need to look back.

Everything I do as a teacher and a guide is to turn you inward to build faith in you and your ability to make good choices and say fuck the bullshit in life to be the you that makes you one of your top 5 favorite people in the world. It’s not because you think that highly of yourself, you become one your favorite people because you understand you have to take care of you to be able to be a gift to those you would give yourself to.

In giving of yourself, you do that every time you are in the presence of or interact with others in any way shape, form or fashion.

What are you giving the world?

I ask myself that question throughout the day before I even dare allow myself to speak.

I set the intent in life to be love in living action and thought and speech. I set the intent for my being to be a gift of love in it’s purest form to any and all I encounter.

To live up to that intent is not always warm and fuzzy and it’s not always fun. However it produces results in life that touch lives that touch lives that touch lives. That’s my plan to change the world by being the change I want to see in the world.

Living love in every form it can take in your life gives you endless opportunities to grow and become as needed for those in need to be of service to anyone and everyone that crosses your path.

Regardless of how you identify yourself in gender these are the concepts I apply to what it means to be a King or Queen in this world. To live in service to each other in love because it takes us all to save all of us.

Love says what could go right because love will fight to fix it anytime something goes go wrong.

What could go right in your life today?

Are you gonna work for it to go right?

Are you going to align your thought process to see what could go right in your life today?

Are you going to ignore what could go wrong and instead see what could go right?

This is one of those days in life I can sincerely type this out and meant it.

Thank you to everything for everything.

It’s how I acknowledge I am grateful for everything that ever happened in my life to lead me to this moment right now. It’s a lot of work to truly have this gratitude in my heart to share with all of you and I and grateful to myself for seeing the value of doing the work in me to be this man.

Big love bomb of a hug sent out to all world wide. Pass it along as you enjoy today’s ride.

I found an incredibly good reason to spend a lot less time online and a lot more time in my community doing something locally to make a global impact.

Every community has centers that need volunteers who desire to be part of healing and growth and as a result making an impact in lives that can make an impact in other lives and it’s exponential.

What’s nice is the place I found to go be part of what’s going on is walking distance and for me that’s an added bonus. As I have been slowly rehabbing my legs my number 1 enemy to my recovery has been the car. I was talking with someone I got to for advice and a view adjustment.

Yeah I have someone I go to.

I feel like a hypocrite when I drive. If I had a bike, I would ride. In my younger years I often forsake the car in favor of a bike. It was when I started losing mobility that I found myself riding less and driving more. One of the things I missed the most over the last few years I have not been able to get around is how active I used to be.

We often run and hide from the guilt we feel for not doing something, anything to make an impact. Some of us let it beat the holy fuck out of us until it motivates us to do something, anything to make that guilt go away and stay there. Some of us dance around it, bobbing and weaving to avoid that sinking feeling our stomach that comes up every time we ignore something we could be doing to be of service to our community and in doing so be of service to own lives.

I find for myself it’s a soul saving experience to go out and give of yourself in your community and the soul you save is your own. I’m at my worst when I feel as though I am not making enough of an impact and feeling as though I could be doing more. It creates a self loathing that can sometimes fuck with my head and the way I express myself. It happens to us all. We are human and it’s how the human works to get better from the human.

We do things behind our backs in front of our faces all the time to set ourselves up for moments we might let fear keep us from.

I had one of those moments recently and I am so happy with myself for my shenanigans that yesterday, gave my life direction it sorely needed as to how I can be of better service to my community. It led me to place where there is always going to be a need for people who give a fuck.

I often put myself in a bubble and ignore the world because I do care and I often find myself wrecking myself in the way I allow it to effect me. I feel powerless to do anything and get myself locked in a cage of pain and rage that keeps me from acting.

That’s not doing anyone any good. While it is important to see what’s going on and allow it to touch your humanity and pain you as it should, that pain is not something to revel in or wrap yourself in. That pain once experienced best serves you by stepping out of it with a pragmatic view.

“What can I actually do?”

Asking yourself this one question is an act of preparation to do something. It opens you to doing instead of talking or in my case writing and then being left with a twisting feeling of guilt that binds you up from the inside and can twist your view of you and the rest.

For some it’s  going to a local Jesus center and volunteering as a server.

For some it’s volunteering at their kids school.

For some it’s spending time moving around and finding different places to be of service.

Do something, anything that gets you out in your community and away from your computer, phone and TV and I guarantee you will thank yourself for the relief from the guilt you are trying to ignore right now.

I’m off to finish preparing for my day at a local community center giving what I got to whoever shows up.

I feel better already knowing that’s my plan to act locally understanding it will make a global impact.

Your life, make your choices and live with them accordingly.

For those of you wondering who is the Life Coach Max goes to?

More to come later after she’s done with me.

My human selfishness.

We act in inhuman ways towards each other daily without realizing that we treat people as prey and we are the cunning predator.

Our eyes are in front. We are a predatory species. Killing is in our DNA. It’s in our nature to kill.

Vegans can french kiss my ass hole on their stance that they don’t kill to live. Here’s why.

Animism simply stated, every thing is alive and has a soul. Even studies have shown that plants, even the ones we eat, respond to emotional stimuli which means yes they are emotional beings that we kill and eat no different than a cow or pig or chicken.

I love a rare steak or burger and if it’s bloody, all the better. I’m never going to feel bad about that and at the same time if you can’t stand eating meat I don’t care, however don’t go all fuckin’ holier than thou about it making you a better human being and that you no longer kill to live.

End your delusion vegans and grow up.

God made us predators so it totally fails the logic filter if you try to tell me God said we need to be vegetarians or vegans or whatever the new trend is this week.

I made a killing!

I killed them!

I am going to kill it!

None of these are referring to people or animals however are expressions commonly used. Even in our language in life and how we view it, we are killers, every last one of us.

That we don’t run around killing each other is a very good thing and what makes us inferior to the animals is we will kill each other when there is no need to. I meant to use the word inferior. Here’s why.

A superior species lives harmoniously within it’s ecosystem and modifies itself to maintain balance and harmony with its surroundings. Governments have been shutting down research since the 70’s that would’ve already had us off oil completely.

Tesla’s free energy technology was suppressed in the name of greed alone. It means we never needed nuclear energy and could have avoided 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukishima, all nuclear meltdowns that we will not know in our lifetimes what the true damage done is.

We are killers. We are killing our world as long as we allow things such as the internal combustion engine and nuclear energy. We are killing our world as long we continue to ignore using hemp to replace oils based and wood based products with a renewable resource that renews annually.

Marijuana was made illegal so that the logging industry would thrive as well as the emerging pharmaceutical industry. A known cure for cancer suppressed so people could be tortured in the name of greed.

Predator preying on the weak and sick.

The human is a savage and all you have to do to see it is get real honest about the damage we do simply to get through the day and get over it.

Next, do better than we did yesterday or die trying.

If I had to kill my own food, I would live off eggs for protein. I like that someone gets paid to butcher meat and love that I can pay for the blissful ignorance of never meeting my meal. If I did, I know me, it would become a pet and pets are family and we don’t kill our family or so I’m told.

How many times have you thought about doing something you would never actually do?

How many times have you been scared by your own dark side?

How often do you really feel like a savage emotional creature who just happens to be human?

How often do you lie to yourself about it and pray no one ever finds out how savage you can really be?

Romantic love is who you share the savage with because the beasts play well together. It’s driven by primal lust we call seduction and passion but awakens a sexual beast that must be satiated. When you find that with someone, learn to adjust over time as it will be rough at first, however for that kind of lovemaking, definitely worth it.

I was born long ago
I am the chosen I’m the one
I have come to save the day
And I won’t leave until I’m done
So that’s why you’ve got to try
You got to breath and have some fun
Though I’m not paid I play this game
And I won’t stop until I’m done

The spirit within crying out from within.

The spirit that connects us all has been there since the beginning and lives through us all.

Everybody trying to teach you anything about the never ending quest to being the best you that you can be will tell you to breathe. Letting go of your body and allowing it to control your breathing can set you in a relaxed state really fast.

Fun usually involves laughter which we have all heard for a long ass time is the best medicine. Life is not a job and you are not going to get paid for being you alone. We play the game to have a life to show off when we are not doing what we do to afford our life.

None us ever stops until we hit the final dirt nap.

I don’t know why we always cry
This we must leave and get undone
We must engage and rearrange
And turn this planet back to one
So tell me why we got to die
And kill each other one by one
We’ve got to love and rub-a-dub
We’ve got to dance and be in love

Look at your life and what you have in it.

Look for the things in your life that make you happy.

What is it again you have to cry about?

Sure you can come up with a list if you want and it will all be valid.

So what?

You have to build your recovery from within.

You have to find the strength from within to overcome.

You must let go of the past and the ideas that anything is holding you back before you can propel forward.

The best way to learn more is engage with real people in discussion about real things if we are every going to fix the issues and make it better for the sum.

I’m a pacifist. It does not mean I don’t know how to defend myself if needed, it means I choose to find every other option first and let my own skills only come forth when everything else has failed.

Dancing is the best soul and body in one nourishing exercise there is. It allows the mind to let go of the body and let the music move you.

But what I really want to know is
Are you gonna go my way ?

Something no one can deny is that we all know better than we often behave and it won’t get any better until we find the way through peace and love and understanding and stop the violence.

Wandered the dark
Made it my home

Kick back the lights to their home
That wander in lost and alone

Went to the light
For the first time experienced fright

Decided to walk the silver line
Keep things from crossing from time to time

Found my way to the forest
I needed the rest

Time off from the endless war
That for me is such a bore

I wander through the trees
Looking for others like me

‘Tis the masters that I seek
Those who know how to be meek

With this forest as my home
Never am I alone

There is life at every turn
From the birds to the fern

I came here in despair
Unable to find any like me out there

I come to the edge from time to time
To look for another coming down the silver line

Come now and take your rest
Prepare we do for the final test

To go back from whence we came
To help them all become the same

The band who wrote this song might use the name Placebo, however I guarantee you can find a true cure for what ails you in the lyrics of this one.

Love on an atom, love on a cloud
To see the birth of all that isn’t now
Can you imagine a love that is so proud?
It never has to question why or how
Total abandon the love in my dreams
When I wake up I’m soaking in my sheets

From the fabric of existence in the smallest part of us to the outer rim of existence one thing binds it all together, love.

Take a step within yourself and look for the core of who you are and find the birth of who you are ever becoming and find the true being of love you wish you could be. That bright shining star that makes no excuses and laughs at fear and dives head first when you feel that drive from within.

Be who you wish you could be.

That takes a profound acceptance of just how amazing each of us can be when we get out of our own way and make it about giving the love not searching for it. A love so proud it walks in and spreads itself around any and every where it goes.

You bring that kind of love from within and the fire that burns never ends. It will fill your dreams with wondrous sights and when the flame burns that hot you can’t help but to sweat from your own heat.

When you live that kind of love and you meet a reflection of your projection that matches it in every way, dive away into the love found and know its a shared heart and two souls that can start to build a connection of a unified projection. A we that is a little of each and a sum of both. However before you can unite with another and have it be a flow of ease, one must unify one within.

That is the proud love of self love that is born of all that isn’t now.

Now is the expression of that love as it has grown from within.

Now is never ending and ever changing.

It’s a flow of life and a flow of love that always leaps with out a shove. It sees and feels where it is needed and moves one into word and action from within. Not caring why or how, simply flowing and growing and letting the flow determine the nature of the show.

The show is life’s theater and we are all stars on the stage.

For all of our youth
We have craved them
Their beauty and their truth

So we name them
And somehow they pull us through
We have craved them
For all of our youth

The reflections of ourselves we find ourselves in love with over the course of life each have a beauty and truth that reveals who we were back then that leaves us ever craving to be that person again. The face will always change but the love is always the same.

It’s the ones that brought out our best and put us tho the test to really be it from within. The only way to have it now is to let go of days and love gone by and embrace who you are on your own.

To see you can be that person with or without the love you think you need.

Once you do that and you find another who seems to make it less work and more fun to be that human being and you find you speak each others minds, that is the partner in life you find while you’re busy doing something else.

When that love connects it can be loud beyond loud.

Breathe
Believe
We are loud like love

It’s been a rough day for a lot of people who are grieving lost ones.

Yet another round of senseless killing in France and what is it that drives all this death and destruction?

Pain.

I always say forget the hate and heal the pain.

The hate comes from pain and suffering.

When we live in suffering the only thing that can make the pain stop at times is anger and rage. It gets used to spread that pain and suffering around as it did in Nice France.

It has been happening around the world a lot more frequently. We have had it happen in Turkey and other places around the world.

Why?

Pain.

The thing we never look at in violent crimes is the total history of what led to the event.  We fail to look at all the details that create the desire within one to strike out in rage and take life.

The one thing that none of us wants to admit is that any of us are capable of committing acts of atrocity. The one thing we want to turn a blind eye to is looking deep into the issue to find the source of pain that blurs the lines and brings the rage that only knows how to do one thing, destroy.

Days like today will have many calling for blood and laying blame so vengeance can be taken.

Violence begetting violence.

At some point we have to break the cycle or we will destroy ourselves.

How do we do it?

The bottom line is that we have to set aside the idea of countries and race and embrace the truth of one human race and act accordingly.

In steps what that looks like is forgiveness through understanding.

It’s the last thing any who lost someone wants to hear. I understand why.

I would ask of all to not only send the healing love and prayers to those who lost people in France but to also put the intent into sending that healing energy to every man woman and child on the planet.

I would ask all of you to stop asking for more violence.

I’m a veteran.

I’m a warrior.

What a warrior desires above all else is peace.

I look at my update feed on all my social media outlets and the thing that disgusts me most of all is those who ask for violence to be carried out.

Violence begets violence until we say “No more.”

No longer will we let violence beget violence.

No more will we cry out for vengeance.

No more we will ignore the pain that brings the violence.

No more violence.

Dive within to your very core to find the love that is there to send to all those in need.

I am.

If you don’t agree with me, please tell me why.