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.
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.
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.
We are a species that is evolving and in order to do that we must let go of history and become something more than we have been.
One Human Race.
That means history based on culture and location and who originated where has to be let go of so we can be one race united in human interests first and foremost.
Anything else keeps us divided and using history as an excuse to not be one race united.
One love means one race.
I myself have in my ancestry African blood, Asian blood, Middle Eastern blood, East Indian Blood, Eastern and Western European blood and Native American blood.
It could be why I don’t really care about cultural history or who came from where as my ancestors didn’t seem to give a fuck either.
What I do care about is human beings in the now.
In the United States we are on the verge of Civil War 2 because we care more about history than we do each other as human beings. We care more about who did what to who and when than we do about caring about what we can do in the now to be united as one race worldwide.
We have let history keep us divided and keep hate alive instead of learning our lesson from history that holding on to the past only keeps us divided and keeps us from becoming a one world united as one race with one love.
I am pro human and fuck anything more than that.
Anything more than that is what has led us to the brink of Civil War 2 in the USA.
If you are going to say One Love that means One Race too.
One human race.
Raising your vibration and becoming awake begins in letting go of history and living in the now. This is what I have been teaching as a Shaman for years and living my entire life. Maybe my diverse genetics has something to do with that, maybe not.
It also means that gender only matters if sex is on the table.
Every single one of us has both feminine and masculine energy to balance out in order to achieve living unified in mind body and spirit.
The shift in consciousness we are going through is about transcending duality and embracing unity. Living in androgyny unless sex is involved. That’s what living awake means.
I’m a citizen of the world.
My history spans the globe through my blood. Down to my DNA, the very building blocks of who I am screams from within to forget the hate of the past and heal the pain in the now. Screams.
It’s individual choice. I can’t make the choice for you and you can’t make the choice for others.
There is a lot we could be doing if we were not prisoners of history. If you would like me to come and speak to any size group please email me at maxpoppasmokecarter@gmail.com.
If you are ever in Chico California on a Friday night, come down to The Bassmint DJ dance club and I will be outside waiting for you, whoever you are.
If you want some one on one video session time with me, please feel free to find me on Skype. facebook:maxpoppasmokecarter
One on one I work by donation. Yeah I know people will take advantage of that and I don’t give a fuck. It’s called being a Shaman and living what that title means.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Rock ‘N’ Roll got its name because it was the music people were fucking to in the back seats of cars across the nation.
Gene Simmons wasn’t inspired by The Beatles music to become a rock star, it was the screaming women that inspired the man to become The Demon on stage.
Last night someone tried to tell me Rock was dead.
The fuck it is.
Everywhere around the world people are going out getting drunk and fucking someone they wouldn’t have sober.
You can try and wrap it up anyway you want to feel better about it, however when you cut through it all, a drunken fuck is just that a drunken fuck.
While it could happen, there is most likely no love in the carnal act of a one night stand. It’s lust driven animal behavior and it feels good so we do it and find ways to make ourselves feel better about in the morning or we hate ourselves, the choice is ours.
Rock ‘N’ Roll Shaman people, at some point you had to see this coming from a mile away.
I know most of the time I am more reserved and make attempts to be clean and proper, however this Rock ‘N’ Roll.
George Throrgood put it best “Rock ‘N’ Roll is supposed to be dirty.”
The living spirit of Rock lives in our lust and our desire to party our asses of and enjoy some good old fashion visceral experience.
I’m no moralist, I’m a humanist. It’s healthy to cut loose once in a while. It’s good to let your hair down and let the beast come out and play, all I’m saying is know there will be shit to deal with so act accordingly to what you feel like dealing with in the morning.
As long as there are people out there somewhere trying desperately to get laid in bars, Rock ‘N’ Roll will never die.
As long as there are people who have had enough of being prim and proper and want to get visceral for the night, Rock ‘N’ Roll will live on.
The human will always be a savage and will always need an outlet for that savage and that is the heart and soul of Rock ‘n Roll.
Well, I met an old man Dying on a train. No more destination, No more pain. Well, he said “One thing before I graduate Never let your fear decide your fate.”
Death is nothing more than a transformation. A graduation if you will from the pain of living.
We cling to our existence for some good reasons.
It feels good to be alive.
Look around at your life and see what it is that you cling to daily.
We are human and in that we are emotional creatures whose attachments define who we think we are. The things we cling to in life are often the things that make us feel alive and are how we give our life purpose and meaning.
When we make fear based decisions in life it can feel as though we are living in a cage. A cage we create in whose opinion matters to us. A cage we allow others to assist us in building for ourselves.
Who’s helping you build your cage and what does that cage look like?
Well, the sun one day will Leave us all behind. Unexplainable sightings In the sky. Well, I hate to be The one to ruin the night. Right before your, right before your eye
Karmic Law says that all that exists is right now.
Now is the progressive moment that never ends and is always evolving.
Science has shown us that in millions of years our sun will destroy our world.
Science has shown us our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy in billions of years.
All that exists is now and now is all that matters.
It is far to often in life that we let ourselves be overly concerned about the future that is never set. We worry endlessly about what might happen.
There are times when fear can be a healthy thing based on the life we desire to lead. For example the idea of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is not one that sounds good to me. On the same note if that plain is going down, I’ll be in line with a parachute ready to jump out the door.
I say ya kill your heroes and Fly, fly, baby don’t cry. No need to worry cause Everybody will die. Every day we just Go, go, baby don’t go. Don’t you worry we Love you more than you know.
The lyrics here say kill your heroes and I disagree. Here’s why.
Here are some of my heroes from fiction and the really real world.
Bruce Lee has had more of an influence in who I continue to become than any other source. Bruce once said “I hope to free my followers from styles,patterns or molds.” To a man who embraces is individuality these are some of the wisest things anyone who finds themselves in a place to teach can say.
Jesus Christ taught people to live love, not follow him as a savior. I think there it was mistranslated in the book. I believe what he actually meant is that there is no way to saving oneself but through my words and teachings of love and to be love. When he said I abide in the father as the father abides in me, I believe he was telling us that God resides within us all.
Ghandi showed how to be a pacifist and still be a man who stands and fights only in a different way allowing the mind to be the only weapon any needs.
John Crichton is a character from a TV show called FARSCAPE. This character had the knowledge in his mind that could build the ultimate weapon and he was chased across the stars. He was dedicated to not building the weapon as his wisdom could see it would only destroy everything. A man who often found himself in situations that forced him to do things he didn’t want to in order to survive. John was always motivated by a desire to do the right thing in the moment and the character was often at odds with himself.
Daniel Jackson was a character in both film and TV. In film it was STARGATE. In TV it was STARGATE SG-1. The character was always in search of doing the right thing. He was a humanist and also believed that other species of sentient life deserved the same humane treatment that we all deserve.
Obi Wan Kenobi let Darth Vader kill him to prove he would indeed become more powerful than Vader could imagine. Over history martyrs and their legacy have had power that can not be fought. How do you fight a legend that inspires many into action.
Gene Roddenberry gave us a view of the potential of humanity that showed us rising above and coming together to explore the stars. Joining with other species from other worlds to be explorers and defenders. Gene has inspired millions if not billions for over 40 years.
Robin Williams was the eternal clown who once said he looked for the creativity in every waking moment of life. That’s a beautiful view to take through life to be constantly looking for ways to make others laugh and share the healing energy that laughter is.
My dad has never calls a physician Dr. To him it always seemed that if he should call them Dr. Whatever, they should call him Contractor Carter as both jobs serve an equal function to the continuing of the species. Who is the physician going to get to fix his drywall or remodel his kitchen?
I believe in equality in all aspects of life.
Let me be real clear on this point.
There is no justifiable or valid reason to elevate any above another.
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Get the point?
I say become your own hero by taking those you would call heroes and finding the aspects that you admire most and add them to the idea of who you are as you continue to grow and evolve. Take ownership of becoming the hero that others will tell stories about. You may never be famous however you will be a star to those whose lives you make positive impact in by being your own hero and letting yourself define what that looks like in living action.
Behavioral psychology is one of my specialties. Please allow me to demonstrate.
The other day I was discussing the issue of using sex to sell with Candice Galek who has taken her rise in celebrity very seriously and is someone I find I agree with when we exchange ideas on some of her posts that catch my attention. One of the things I respect most about Candice is that she is making every effort to use this new found celebrity to make a positive impact.
The topic we were discussing is the use of sex, specifically the female form to sell or gain attention.
Candice told me story about a post she wrote and used two different pictures to do an experiment in what draws people in on social media.
The first post used the picture of a shirtless man. Almost no one read it.
After changing the picture to one of a woman, people couldn’t wait to read it, men and women alike.
Here’s why this happens.
Side note: Thank you Candice for allowing me to use your name. My readers are used to me not giving names.
Quick lesson in history.
Originally marketing was called propaganda.
Quick lesson in the marketing industry.
It is the art or science if you will of using behavioral psychology to influence people based on emotional triggers.
I don’t remember a time in my life where the female form was not being used to sell everything. Think about that for a moment.
We have been using women and their bodies as objects in triggering a buy now response. It works on men as they are visually stimulated generally speaking. It works on women in a different way. They want the mans attention and they see the form as one to aspire to be.
This creates a negative self body image for many women.
I do a lot of charity work in helping women rebuild their self image after abusive relationships. The one thing that is always the hardest is getting them to embrace their body as it is. Assisting them in seeing they are beautiful from the inside no matter what the outside looks like is not an easy task.
What makes it more difficult is women who blatantly use their bodies to get ahead in life. You see these women in commercials and in magazines and all over the internet.
We make celebrities out of models and pretty faces with pretty bodies. We elevate them to God like status in the attention and adoration they get from both sexes.
Question.
How many women that don’t fit the bill of beauty really get noticed?
Not all women use their body as a weapon to gain the upper hand to make a living. There are a lot of women who use their minds and are often treated like an empty shell because of their appearance.
Question.
How many models can you quote something they are known for saying?
I want to throw out a statistic that should scare you all.
In a survey 1 out of 3 college age men said they would rape a woman if they thought they could get away with it. What if it’s more than a third because some still lied even though it was an anonymous survey?
These young men don’t see women, they see objects of desire that have been used to market to them specifically. They have been overloaded with the idea of a woman being the object next to whatever she is selling regardless of whether or not she speaks.
This is the price we pay as a society for using the female form as a marketing tool for several decades to the point of brainwashing. It’s why women went to the second picture on Candice’s article as well as men. When it was half naked man not even the women were showing up to read.
That’s powerful results from the experiment.
This isn’t conjecture or opinion its documented fact based on scientific results.
Women are lining up to sell themselves as nothing more than an object because there is money to be made doing it.
What is a model if she is not a tool?
For every woman who offers her body up for marketing purposes thousands of others pay the price.
That price is those thousands having to work harder to be taken seriously.
That price is our daughters growing up wanting to be these women.
That price is too many women being treated like objects.
The real question after all of this is what can we realistically do about it?
Something Candice and I agreed on during our discussion is that it will not stop until women take a stand to stop taking the jobs that are all about showing it off to bring in the sales.
It really is that simple. I didn’t say easy.
The biggest obstacle is that on an emotional level it feels good to be wanted. It feels good to be adored by many regardless of the reason. It gets addictive. That’s how energy works.
These women and men who do it too are feeding off the desire they inspire on an energetic level.
It’s why many models and performers of all kinds often go into depression at the end of their careers. They are no longer getting their energetic fix and are going through withdrawals.
Think about the daughters of this world growing up saying they want to be Kim Kardashian. A woman who is more famous for her ass than anything else.
She has no talent to speak of and I doubt she has ever had a job. Her celebrity came from a reality TV show and her ass that she likes to show off as often as possible. She is not the only one.
These are the role models we are giving our daughters by making these kinds of people famous and playing into our base instincts and letting them use behavioral psychology to trigger our desires and insecurities by giving us the unattainable ideal and we eat it up.
What you all might find ironic is that Candice Galek is the founder and CEO of Bikini Luxe and had no idea when she started she would be in this position to have her voice heard and become influential.
How she has chosen to use that influential voice has earned the respect of many including me. Here’s why.
I am an Empath and a Telepath. That means I read the emotional totality of you in the moment. It means I have the ability to access your subconscious mind and know your true intent regardless of your words.
I know it freaks a lot of you out, however it doesn’t stop me from existing and doing it anyway.
Over the last month or so I have had the pleasure of having Candice as a connection on Linkedin and her updates show up in my news feed daily.
I watch this woman who became accidentally famous agonize over what to do with and about it while also making sure her business that employs 50 people stays successful. I have felt her wrestle with what to do next on a personal level as well as professional.
Sorry Candice in it’s in your energy and I have no off switch.
It’s because of what I have read in her energy that she has my respect.
It’s the questions she raises that has earned my respect.
It’s the stands that she does take that earned my respect.
That all said I want to be clear about how I feel about what she does for a living.
Bikinis are awesome and she is getting into lingerie.
It makes sense for her to use models for her apparel. It does not make sense for Carl’s Jr to have a half naked woman eating a hamburger and that’s the whole commercial.
To me it depends on what you are selling. Women’s clothes should have women models to give women an idea of what it looks like when worn.
Hamburgers don’t need a pretty girl to sell them or your burger isn’t that good.
Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains within the sound of silence
This song has been with me since high school when my English teacher used it as an example when I was in the 10th grade.
All of us venture into the darkness that is our darkness that we often try to claim does not exist. We live in a world so concerned with image that we forsake the biggest part of ourselves. Our light that we show the world is born from our darkness.
In our darkness we place the things we say we will never do, however these things are still fun to think about and tempt us in the world of fantasy that is the darkness of our own souls.
The emotions and ideas that others express about us even from a great distance always reach us on the emotional level. People with an advanced empathic sensitivity or Empaths key in on this big time and often when they sleep they wake with the feelings of all around them and the emotional concepts that have been aimed their way.
Those thoughts and emotions are planted within us whether we like it or not.
In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone ‘Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed By the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening
People writing songs That voices never share And no one dare Disturb the sound of silence
The waking dream that is life leaves many walking alone.
I find it disturbing that the easiest way to connect to anyone is through the sound of the silent communication of the online world.
People talking without speaking as they type away hoping someone will care.
People listening as they read while they judge and determine if what was said has any merit and it’s easier to turn a blind eye when no one else is watching as you are alone with your smart phone or computer.
In the naked light of broad daylight we create a great divide in silence between us as we stare at screens and find it troublesome when someone actually wants to talk to us face to face. Then we complain about the lack of face to face communication.
We have to speak aloud.
We have to listen to what is said.
If we don’t we alienate each other and stop caring as much because well fuck it, it’s online and I can block them through whatever social media platform I am using.
We are so caught up in image we ignore those who we think might cause others to think less of us. We tie our image to our career and the way we make a living, trapping ourselves in a cage we created by caring too much about what other people think.
“Fools,” said I, “you do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you.” But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence
Recent studies have shown that ignoring someone actually causes them pain.
It’s the most inhuman thing we do.
We do it because we are too cowardly to say something to them directly.
There are those such as myself who have dedicated their lives to bridging gaps and finding ways to connect that take us off line and put us front and center face to face with no where to run and hide.
We have made ignoring each other far too convenient and it allows us to be inhuman to each other and we do it all over image.
And the people bowed and prayed To the neon God they made And the sign flashed out its warning And the words that it was forming
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls.” And whispered in the sound of silence
We have traded neon lights for website names such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking platforms.
We have made these sites our Gods and the people on them our prophets.
We have made our online images so important we forget to act like a real human being online as if we were in the same room.
We elevate people to God like status and then ask them to show us the way through what they post.
We pass judgement on those who don’t measure up to the image we want to have and ignore them.
We seek the glory of having that popularity we were seeking in high school and call it business.
In the sound of silence we destroy other peoples lives by simply ignoring them.
Last night I attended the local vigil held by the LGBTQ held in response to the tragedy in Orlando.
People spoke and reminded us all that violence is never the answer and that we all deserve to be who we are no matter who that is and be able to find acceptance.
To bring it to an end we all formed a giant circle and just took a long moment of silence looking at each other with the intent of healing. There were many across untold number of cities that formed their own rings.
Rings of healing in a time of shock and tragedy.
Rings of people forgetting about the hate in order to heal the pain.
Linking rings together forms chains. We are all connected and last night there was a chain of healing created by all who attended these vigils.
As assuring as it is when we show up in time of tragedy to show our support for anyone or anything, why does it take the tragedy for us to take time out and find some people to form a healing ring with?
Anything we give our energy to we give our energy to.
What do you give your energy to that makes you feel as though you are part of a healing ring in an unseen chain?
How many chains are you connected to?
Leadership is a buzz word too often thrown around by consultants to show what they think they know.
It’s thrown around by CEO’s who still don’t fully understand what it looks like in living action.
Leadership has noting to do with business or governance, it is a quality of being and is a set of authentic behaviors that must be embraced by choice.
You can’t train it and many are born with it only to have it go unrecognized because they have no title, nor do they seek title.
No one can teach you to be a leader they can only assist you in discovering the leader you are when you allow yourself to be as it’s needed by the life you have created around you.
I have a new chain I connected to in The Change Team. A healing ring connected to many other healing rings.
A chain that spreads out like a web with many souls connected in common purpose whether they know each other or not in the flesh. Each speaking well adding to the majick that will bring us to a changed world that is already changing. It’s happening slowly and is picking up steam with every chain of healing rings that connects and simply keeps doing what they do.
We will reach a day where violence against the LBGTQ community will end and we will reach a day where we forget the hate and heal the world wide pain that is the source of the worldwide violence.
You, you may say. I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
Our numbers are growing my fellow dreamers and remember
And if you feel you can’t go on
I’ll be there to be strong becasue together we’re going to make it through
When the night turns into dawn it’s another victory won and I know I can carry on
This second set of lyrics aren’t as famous yet, so here is the rest of the song below.
I talk to a lot of people who are desperate to change the world and change it now.
It’s common among those who go through the awakening process to have a strong desire to live in a different world and to take part in creating it. I’ve talked to people from across the globe all with the same life mission. Each one going about it in a different way.
The most common thing I have noticed among these awakened souls, most of them are broke. A lot of them have grown to hate money. They tend to speak unkindly about those who are still in what is.
Karmic Law reminder.
Let go of what was.
Embrace what is.
Make changes for what will be.
There is a lot going on all over the world right now leading towards this “change” in humanity. However we can never forget to embrace what is.
Speak well, live well, talk mad shit, deal with mad shit.
I say that a lot. I like to remind myself.
There is nothing to be gained by holding hate for what is. Each of us wander and no one is lost.
I understand where the anger comes from in looking at the world today for the awakened soul.
It’s anger at yourself for not waking up sooner.
It’s anger at yourself for not recognizing everyone has the birthright to live as they will.
It’s self loathing for not being able to reconcile embracing what is while slowly making changes in the way you live to become an example by living your talk.
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.
I was trying to get back to the book this morning however this was bugging me.
I was introduced to Bitcoin recently. It’s an open source stock market of sorts and Bitcoins are security bonds that are used as currency or stock. You have to buy them or earn them or get a handout from someone. Yep, sounds just like cash to me.
It’s the same as money only no banks, however it’s the same game of the haves and the have nots. There’s nothing noble about it. In fact I’ve noticed a sense of superiority or the idea of being better than everyone not using it within the Bitcoin community.
Who are any of us to judge any other?
It is a segregated community because it does take regular money to buy into the new game with slightly different rules.
Money isn’t a bad thing, it’s what you do to earn it and what you do with it. Money is another form of energy and until someone builds something that does not require a buy in as Bitcoin does, money is not going away anytime soon.
Embrace what is while slowly making changes for what will be.
One can be blunt in ones expression of the truth or one can take one on an adventure of a story to reveal the truth with a softer touch. One can use humor to soften the blow and even music can reveal the truth with a mind at ease.
The truth is.
It’s not personal and it’s not something anyone can own. These things I’ve said before. The truth is the key to every door. In honest expression of who you think you are is where you find the freedom to be the change you would like to see in the world.
Wisdom is revealed in experience and in learning from it or that of another in how one chooses to live life. The wise are those who follow wise guidance even their own. Why wouldn’t I do for me what I am saying you should do for you?
Empathy is taking that moment to think what if it was me?
The truth is there is nothing new and everything is a rehash of something else.
The truth is you are the story you live.
Live a good story and give yourself memories worth commemorating by sharing them and allowing the story of you to live on through as many who share it.
The truth is each of us is living a tale we never stop telling. Some of us write it down for the rest to read, most don’t and that’s OK.
You are not alone and how long can you run It’s much to late if you dont know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone Once upon a time you were a child but that was yesterday Believed that magic in your heart would never fade away
But hold your head up high and let your spirits fly Keep hope alive yes deep inside and your dreams will never die
What is it you’re running from or to?
What is it around you that makes you feel the need to get away?
Everyday is a day of growth and learning and we can be the child at the start of everyday and grow to maturity throughout the day.
There is magic and there is Majick. Here’s the difference.
The magic we are familiar with often involves rituals and invocations and offerings to appease gods and stuff such as that.
Majick is the spell you weave with your every word that creates the path you follow in life. Hold the dream alive inside and allow your thoughts to be your prayers and choose how you speak carefully to bring those dreams to life through shared creation. As independent in thought as we can be, we must share in the creation process in order to bring any dream to life.
Oooh take a breath, close your eyes you’re on the road again And then you realize they’ve brought you back to life again Something’s never change but if you fantasize You’ll feel it deep inside yourself and then you’ll realize
When you feel it coming When you hear the sound You’ll always laugh when you wanna cry And then you’ll know it deep inside
When you step back far enough from your life and your view of it, you can find the cosmic joke.
You can find how the life and dream you saw dying is often brought back to life after removing some people from your life so the ones who have a similar vision can step in so you can bring it to life together.
When you have doubt in your dream you will be faced with those who doubt you in the reflections of you that pop up until you learn to say “fuck it I’m doin’ it anyway.”
At times it might require a change in direction in order to make that dream a reality. Often that change in direction allows for others dreams to become as well. The more people you have working together to bring a similar vision to life, the grander that vision and dream can become as it evolves through the Majick of your support and the work you do together.
It does take real work for real Majick. The spell weaving of our words only sets us in motion to allow the Universe, God, whatever helps you sleep better, guide us in becoming the human we need to be in order to do the work to bring the dream to life. The Majick is always in us and is about us becoming the projection of our desire, not just the wanting of it and excepting it to come, the real work of becoming so that your projection will find the reflections that have a similar vision.
Everything I know, what I know is true Everyone of us is inside of you We are one We are one
You are me, I am you What you see, is all true
I sat on a bench and talked to myself yesterday. It looked like I was talking to a friend of mine. During the conversation we both mentioned it more than once “It’s nice to talk to me.”
We are all connected and given the flesh and the ego process to develop an individual view that allows new and different ways of discovering the same universal or absolute truths, however expressing them in infinite ways.
You are me and I am you and we are one.
It’s “I’m in it for the sum” at the end of the day regardless of the work I do that day for the some that make their way to me or I them or us as one simply finding each other finally.
Far too often we question the simplicity as if it has to be more complex than it is. I work at accepting the simplicity that life can be and when I say simple I do not mean easy.
Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door
I know that I’m a prisoner To all my Father held so dear I know that I’m a hostage To all his hopes and fears
Forget blame and think about taking responsibility for things you have done and do.
Think of it as owning your choices and giving yourself the opportunity to make different ones instead of saying “It’s the way it is.”
I talk to a lot of younger adults mostly in their in early to mid 20’s and I find the number one frustration they have is with the idea of authority. That anyone is entitled to tell them what to do or how to do it. My dad was raised that authority rules and you do as you’re told no questions asked. An idea many my age and older still hold dear as they feel as though it’s now their turn to be the authority.
Many feeling held hostage to ideas an concepts that this younger generation can’t stand and I am with them.
Crumpled bits of paper Filled with imperfect thought Stilted conversations I’m afraid that’s all we’ve got
You say you just don’t see it He says it’s perfect sense You just can’t get agreement In this present tense We all talk a different language Talking in defense
There are times in life I write things down because I need to get it out and I know that saying it out loud to someone will simply lead to more frustration. I said it in a piece a couple days ago, for some it would take an act of God to get them to open their minds to something different than what they think they know.
While the older generation tries to use authority, the younger generation responds to leadership.
The language of authority is refusing to budge and refuses to acknowledge much less answer questions about the choices they make.
The language of leadership is always looking for ways to do it better and listens to any who have an idea.
So we open up a quarrel Between the present and the past We only sacrifice the future It’s the bitterness that lasts
So don’t yield to the fortunes You sometimes see as fate It may have a new perspective On a different date And if you don’t give up, and don’t give in You may just be O.K.
As long as we argue, nothing gets done.
There is a very personal meaning for me in this second stanza.
We talk at times about people who sell out. We do it as a matter of judgement because we feel we have the moral high ground to do so. To me there is observation and there is judgement and the two can seem as though they are one in the same at times. I often find what we learn as time goes on can have a profound impact on what it is we thought we observed when then.
I always say “Rest, but never quit.”
Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It’s too late when we die To admit we don’t see eye to eye
It is too frequent that we only listen to find our opportunity to say what we wanted to say and do not allow what is being said to really be heard. We already made up our minds about what we wanted to say and no one is going to change it.
We’ve all done it and I personally work at it as I catch myself from time to time.
We always take for granted that tomorrow will come and we will have another chance at it. We never know for sure what tomorrow will bring.
This song was written by a son to his father. So many children and parents have problems in finding that equal ground. I know at times I still do with my own parents, however I work at making sure it doesn’t get in the way as much as I can.
I also work at with my son to never have it become something that relates to this song.
I work at it.
It takes work and an open mind to attempt to understand their side and find new and different ways of explaining myself.
That’s not with parents alone, that’s humanity and every human relationship regardless of the title we give to the others involved.
Family.
Coworkers.
Friends.
Governments.
It’s the choices we make when we don’t see eye to eye that define who we are in the moment. We can either work at resolution or revolution.
I choose resolution in the living years before it’s too late.
One dream, one soul, one prize, One goal, one golden glance of what should be,
What should be?
Depends on who you ask.
Each one of us has a dream, that something that if only….
It can drive us to think it’s what should be as if somehow we are entitled to it.
What’s the prize for you?
What’s the goal of what you think should be?
Who does it benefit?
In sessions I often tell people to think about what it is you want most in life and then ask yourself why you want it.
One shaft of light that shows the way, No mortal man can win this day,
You are that one shaft of light showing yourself the way. Your light illuminates your path and is what projects what reflects back at you.
When you realize it’s not a game or a war you see there’s nothing to win. We have war because we refuse to put an end to the war within. With the martial art I designed there is one core philosophy.
If you ever put yourself in the position to use it, than you need to back track your steps and see where it could have been avoided.
Wars not make one great.
Yoda
You find your own greatness in bringing peace to yourself and being a living example of it. Hardest lesson for a man like me to live. I have a warriors heart. It has never been physical combat that I sought. It was the war of ideas that is the battlefield I chose for my life for many years. As I continue to allow myself to learn and grow through the ever evolving circumstances of my life, I find no desire to even debate these days.
There’s nothing to be won.
An open mind will listen and ask questions. A closed mind will fight it and there is nothing you can do except plant the seed and walk away.
When I think about the line “No mortal man can win this day” it reminds me we each have free will and it would take an act of God to change some peoples minds.
The bell that rings inside your mind, Is challenging the doors of time,
The waiting seems eternity, The day will dawn of sanity,
Time is a location.
A set of coordinates for an event.
All that exists is now and it’s eternal and ever evolving and changing.
Sanity begins in doing something different to get different results.
This flame that burns inside of me, I’m hearing secret harmonies
Secret, interesting word to me.
The things we keep secret are for protection, whether it be for our protection or to protect someone else. I live a life of keeping other peoples secrets because it goes with the job. Part of what I do is assist you in building your life and figuring out the best way to protect that life you are building. It’s not easy to keep some secrets that you can see will have such a profound impact on the rest of the world. However it has to wait until the world is ready to hear it.
No one is unreachable, they are only on their part of their path that means for now, they are not for you or your message. We each wander and none are lost. We each make progress at the rate we learn from our own experiences. We discourage ourselves more than others when we expect them to see it our way.
There is an art to giving people the small pieces they need in the moment that will allow them to grow at their rate not ours. It is an art that I don’t think any of us ever truly masters. I haven’t and work at it daily.
It is allowing yourself to be led as a teacher by being a student in learning what the needs in front of you really are by listening. Those are the secret harmonies that allow for a connection to be built that allows for greater things to happen.
This rage that lasts a thousand years, Will soon be done, done,
Rage sown will be reaped.
Rage reaped will hurt and cause untold harm and can and often hits more than you alone.
Too often rage begets rage and on this world it has lasted longer than a thousand years.
Will it soon be done?
How will it come to an end?
One by one?
A big event that shocks the world into peace?
Global annihilation from nuclear war?
There is more than one way to bring something to an end.
It’s a kind of magic
Magic is illusion and slight of hand.
Majick is very real and easier than we want it to be. It takes no ritual, no spells, no wands, no wizards or witches, no incantations, no herbs, no sacrifices of any kind.
Majick in not black or white or gray or any other color.
True majick is as easy as speaking.
Every thing you say gives life to your life.
Every word is felt regardless of it being heard. That’s the majick that makes the world go round.
We all feel we know who is full of it and who isn’t. We like to think we aren’t even though most of us are without realizing it.
It’s the only way I can explain how Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are even in the running and why Bernie Sanders is favorites of people who dropped out of the political and corporate games and have no special interest to be served as their interest is in the sum, not the some.
That’s the closest you will get to me talking politics for very good reasons.
If we want see change in the world we have to elect people who are not the same thing we have been dealing with for decades.
Don and Hill are the same old same old and Bernie is not.
I’m all in favor of change and I’m sick and tired of the same old same old.
Your choice is your and in this we have the power to condemn each other or give each other hope by the choice of who we put in office.
For my worldwide audience, if one of the first two gets elected, who can I come live with outside of the USA?
Bernie is an end to the rage.
That’s the closest you will get to me talking politics for very good reasons.
I won’t let you down I will not give you up Gotta have some faith in the sound It’s the one good thing that I’ve got I won’t let you down So please don’t give me up ‘Cause I would really, really love to stick around, oh yeah
I’m in the business of empowering people and assisting them in lifting themselves up to the life they feel belongs to them. When I think about what it would look like for me to let someone down, the thing that keeps coming back is that if I ever quit what I do. I can think of more than a few who have told me on too many occasions to never stop because of what I did for them.
People have invested in me as much as I’ve invested in them in the emotional strength we share. A strength built on a connection of pure love. A connection built on not giving up no matter where your life or mine is in the moment that is now.
I think about the last sound I heard that gave me something to believe in and have faith in. It’s Brother from the Mother ship. He has a powerful voice and the lyrics he seeks to bring to life with his voice are truly inspiring. I have faith in the sound of his music and the trans-formative effect it has already been having on me.
I use music quite a bit to help maintain and re-align my view of life and what I am doing with and about mine.
Each of us has someone or few people in our lives that are a source of inspiration. People who get us to look inward and see what they see in us and encourage us to bring more of that to the surface. My life is blessed to have several who love me greatly and are always bringing better and better out of me by showing me what they see that inspires them.
I work at making sure I’m doing the same for them.
These are the people I love to have around me.
Heaven knows I was just a young boy Didn’t know what I wanted to be To win the race? A prettier face! Brand new clothes and a big fat place But today the way I play the game is not the same No way Think I’m gonna get myself happy
I joined the US Air Force at 17 after graduating High School 6 months early. I had no clue what I wanted to do and the idea of more school was totally unappealing to me.
As time went on in life and I moved from military life back to civilian life I found the desire to win that rat race so many run and to wear nice clothes and live in a nice home.
I had it too.
At 23 I was managing 350 people and generating $30-50 million dollars a month in sales for my companies client after I edited and rewrote some of their sales scripts. My company was getting $2-3 million dollars a month from the client due to how efficiently I ran my phone sales floor as a manager.
Where it all went down hill was a pretty face that broke my heart.
Today I don’t play games, I play the players.
One of my skills allows me to “mirror” people. I have a good idea of their intent and have an annoying way of cutting them off at the pass. It freaks people out when I call them out for what they are doing.
To them there is no way I should have a clue.
I get myself happy when I see the growth take place in front of me as I work with clients. Over the last few years I have worked with more than a thousand people as they worked at empowering themselves to be who they are and find the joy in their life or walk away from the misery. It was more of a temporary partnership and the hardest thing I face on a professional level is often clients want to stay around in my life and I appreciate them each and every one for so much more than that.
It’s bitter sweet for me when they reach that point where they no longer need me. I truly care about each and everyone of them however there are others who need what I do and I move on. What makes me happy is when I do hear from them from time to time and they tell me where they are in life and how much better their life has become.
All we have to see Is that I don’t belong to you And you don’t belong to me
As a species we are obsessed with the concept of “mine.”
My parents, my kids, my friends, my car, my house, my cat, my wife, my husband.
The only thing we truly own is our view of life.
Even these bodies we are simply using to enjoy the human ride while we are here before we go back to where ever it is that helps you sleep better at night.
I say my clients at times, I don’t own them, they don’t own me even though they do pay me.
Your company does not own you.
We belong to ourselves and we share who that is because if we think about giving it to someone then we give them power over us. We unknowingly often attempt to take power over others without realizing it.
I think there’s something you should know I think it’s time I stopped the show There’s something deep inside of me There’s someone I forgot to be
Whether we like to admit or not, we put on a show for people frequently in life.
We show them what we think will bring them in and keep them around.
We show them we are here and nothings wrong.
We show them everything except what is going on inside.
Stop the show and look within to see who you forgot to be.
For me, I sometimes to forget to simply be me as I get too focused on work and need to remember the little things I do that often touch lives I will never see in a session however needed it anyway.
You have no idea how many lives you’ve touched or inspired. Most of us have no clue. Were too busy simply being who we are from deep inside to care about numbers such as those.
It’s the number 1 that means the most to me.
Not being number 1, moving from 1 to another, 1 at a time.
Freedom You’ve got to give for what you take
There are so many ways to interpret this last one that I leave it up to you to tell me what it means to you to give the freedom you take.
While you think about it, here’s what I do and why.
I’ve always been one to like it when the odds are stacked against me. It started when I was a kid playing with the kids in my neighborhood. We played war and chased each other around with toy guns. It was usually the other kids against me until it had to be the other kids against me.
I like to look at going against the odds as the opportunity to bring forth my best in the situation.
To this day I accidentally sneak up on and scare people after learning to move quietly as a kid playing a game.
What is it in your life that you feel the odds are against you?
What is it going to take from within you to beat those odds?
These are questions we ask ourselves daily without thinking about it in these terms. We think about what need to do in order to do what we want while taking care of our needs at the same time.
Your needs and wants will be different than mine and that’s a good thing for all of us.
It inspires people to see others step out and be the underdog. You don’t do it to inspire them, that’s a side effect of finding within whatever it takes from you to reach that goal or bring that dream to life.
I leave when others stay I never re-decide
Think about it from the aspect of what you feel is holding you back from bringing the dream to life.
At times it requires us to leave jobs, marriages and/or friendships behind.
Once you choose a goal, changing your mind is the fastest way to make sure you never reach it.
I often find the most confusing thing for me in life is narrowing down the options and finding the best course to make the dream a reality. Often we allow ourselves to be pulled in many directions as we figure out where that path is to take us on the journey we want to take.
Think about it for yourself for a while.
What do you need to leave behind to move forward?
I don’t mind if you wait But I don’t waste my time
Patience is my biggest challenge on a daily basis. However there is a time to lose ones patience based on the circumstances one finds oneself in.
Often we find ourselves saying I’m waiting on this or that in order to do this or that. We give ourselves an out to sit back and wait for something majickal or miraculous to happen.
I tend to write a lot. Here’s why.
I’m always finding inspiration that “moves” me to write. It comes in many forms. Each of us is inspired to do something by something. Following that inspiration takes work. That work can have some aspects to it that at times feels as though it is in the way of us doing more of what we want.
That work is what you were inspired to do. Instead of wasting time arguing with yourself over it, just do it.
I wear a Nike hat to remind me of that.
I remember when it used to be easy I remember when it wasn’t so hard
When I worked in the corporate world it was easy most days. However it didn’t start out that way. I had a learning curve.
It got easier because I had a defined set of parameters to work within. I do some of my best work in doing the work for other people. I find it’s easier for me to use the guidelines others need fulfilled than my own.
My problem is I am aware of what I am able to do and often try to go in every direction with it at once. I think a lot of us go through this. We see all the options and know our capabilities and don’t want to limit ourselves out of fear of missing out on something.
I won’t justify The way I live my life ‘Cause I’m the one livin’ it Feelin’ it, tastin’ it
I have no problem explaining it, however justification implies you’re doing something wrong.
Only you ever truly know what feels right to you and why.
When we allow other people to tell us it’s wrong to live the way we do, it can be for a myriad of reasons depending on the life we are leading. It’s not about us, more often than not it’s about them.
We often project our own issues on other people. When I see some one working at the life they desire, I ask what I can do to be of assistance.
Asking each other to justify the lives we lead is how we know we are not comfortable with our own life. If you are focused on your life and building your life you don’t have time to worry about what others are doing unless it directly affects you.
That’s not a license to ignore people. It takes other people to assist you in building our life. It takes being willing to ask for assistance.
With the type of work I do, it’s new to a lot of people. Mediums channeling the higher self.
I get it, when I realized it’s what I do, it was a little freaky to me too and I do it.
One thing I have been searching for is a business manager who understands what I do and can translate that to people who don’t understand it.
I have found me talking about it leaves people with mixed reactions. Here’s why.
We have a habit of wanting a second opinion or to hear about the experience someone else had. We have trust issues as a species. Me included.
We want a history or proven track record or we fear we are going to be taken advantage of.
We want something concrete we can see or touch for verification.
None of you has been on this side to see it from my side. A lot of you can’t even imagine what it would really be like to be a Medium. Sure we have some stories and movies and TV shows we use as reference instead of talking to the people who do it.
None of us has been on your side of it with what you do and why you do it the way you do.
Does it frustrate you when people ask you to prove yourself?
Honest question.
It is often frustrating when we feel as though we are in a never ending cycle of proving ourselves over and over again. It can feel as though we never stop paying our dues.
We all go through it and it often can lead to leaving behind the naysayers to embrace the people who get it and offer us support in a myriad of fashions.
I often say there is but one emotion and it’s love and the others are but it’s infinite faces or something close. I’m always looking for better ways to express myself.
People often recommend books to me. I don’t think I have ever really explained how much reading and studying I have done in my life.
I was born with an intellect that allowed me to read books and not thumb though them as the other kids did.
I read the dictionary.
I read the entire encyclopedia series.
I read every martial arts and eastern philosophy book in the Hooker Oak Elementary school library.
I read mythology books.
I read my moms college text books on astronomy.
I read books on everything.
I read a lot of fantasy fiction.
I read a lot of science fiction.
I’ve seen over 5,000 movies.
I am always looking to get into deep discussions every time I talk to anyone. That’s not new.
In some way, some form or some fashion I am constantly studying everything in the world around me. I am always seeing where I can make changes in me to allow for the life I desire to be here now.
I have talked about the Cinematic View I use. If life was a movie, your story will never go outside the context of your character.
Who you are behind the mask, your true intent behind your life whether you admit it to yourself or anyone else is the life that plays out around you.
To make changes to your story, first make changes to your character.
I hit a point where my capacity for storage is maxed out, no pun intended. I have studied so much, taken so much in, that now my learning is often done in the moment through realization of things only studied and now being understood.
I find if it’s a new process I need to learn I’m able to adapt with no problem as I often find it’s more of an update to something I have already done. Something I have already studied and now here’s the application so that I can understand what I absorbed and why I retained it.
There are somethings I studied as a child and unconsciously applied that I still live.
Bruce Lee spoke of being limitless.
I impose some limits on myself based on the story I want that shapes the character I am becoming. There are experiences I’ve never had that I can pass on thank you.
There are experiences I’ve had, I would very much like to have again. The character I choose to be in the authentic representation of me is what allows the story I desire to take shape and be filled in by The Big U or that improv creative producer out there everywhere.
You are a being of love and limitless.
You have infinite options to choose the form of love you are.
Have fun figuring out what works for you.
If you don’t like your story, make changes in your character.
The line between need and want is easy to allow to become a gray fog a mile wide.
Last night as a crowd of young adults got out of a cab, I observed their character in nothing more than a glance.
To prove me right 2 of them ended up coming over and talking to me and what I read in a glance was confirmed.
I read people that fast.
I read your soul energy which is the totality of your emotional self in the moment.
I never get details, I get an emotional imprint of who you are not what you have been through or are going through.
I don’t know you or your life experience however I understand who you are underneath all of it.
It’s what allows me to assist you in creating the true projection that is you underneath the scars of life experience.
The Law Of Reflection says the mirror always lies.
The people around you reflect who you are projecting and you reflect who they are projecting. Neither ever knowing the totality of each other and the experiences that shaped who you are projecting.
The Law of Reflection is based on making the needed changes in you to allow the life you desire to be reflected back at you.
You become your desire.
For a Brother of mine that is becoming something he has been looking for. What that is going to do for his life is going to be an honor and a privilege to be a part of.
With what I do I rarely get to be there as that life you dreamed of unfolds.
The majick that is my life is being able to watch the growth that will open the door to that hall of mirrors. It takes love and pure intent to really be what some one needs versus what they could be for you.
It takes setting aside your wants and at times your own needs. What that looks like is always based on what’s happening and what brought us to this place.
The greatest reward makes an impact and the greatest impact is never made in your life alone.
To reap the greatest reward one must sow with purpose and intent and exercise patience to allow the seed to grow.
We sow our lives with every word we speak whether we like it or not.
Our true intent is always felt regardless of the words we use or the mask we wear.
Every one of us could benefit from having a business manager to assist us in the business of managing our lives.
That person that is not only there for emotional support, they also understand your vision of the life you’re creating in becoming what you desire most.
More like a life manager.
That’s not always going to be someone you are romantic with and at times it’s better it isn’t.
The partner you share your bed with is there to ground you as well as assist you in shining bright.
We all want to have someone to share our bed with and when we find one that brings out who we were too afraid to be we find other people to assist us in being that while we look forward to sleep with the one who inspired it.
We have many partners in our life that we assist as much as they assist us.
What I’ve always needed is what I do for other people.
What I’ve always wanted was someone to do for me what I do.
I’m having it reflected back at me, what I’ve become and the clarity of my projection is why I’m at peace with my life as it’s unfolding though I’m two steps away from hitting the panic button.
Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding onto.
Faith and belief are two different things.
We want to believe.
We need to have faith in ourselves first and in others as they results come in to build it.
Blind faith can and sometimes is rewarded and usually isn’t as blind as we pretend.
Nothing happens by chance and every circumstance is an opportunity to grow.
I am wise, however I’m not overly educated.
It always seemed to me that the sign of true intellect is not what you have studied, it’s in expressing yourself in a way anyone can understand.
It’s not in making it so complex they rely on you, it’s in making it so simple they don’t need to rely on you.
With every single client my goal is make sure you don’t need me in the fewest sessions possible. I have worked with people for months and some years and some in one session.
It all depends on you and the work you put it into you before we start and the work you do as we work together.
I need clients.
I need a manager.
I want to keep pretending I can do it on my own.
We all want to pretend we are doing it on our own.
Give me what I could never ask for Give me the drug you know I’m after Connect me and you could be my chemical
Think about it for a minute.
What is it you want but could never ask for?
I have a few things on that list and I understand why each of them is on that list. I use myself as an example to create a connection through understanding. Though the experiences are different the lessons learned are often the same.
What is the drug I’m after?
I self medicate using coffee, dark chocolate almond milk, nicotine and marijuana.
Each a drug.
Each of us has a list of drugs we take and don’t even think twice about because we associate the word “drug” with substances.
TV is a drug.
Facebook is a drug.
Porn is a drug.
Movies are a drug.
Music is a drug.
Anything that causes a chemical change in the brain is a drug and is mind altering.
Sex is a drug.
Exercise is a drug.
Yoga is a drug.
Meditation is a drug.
Prayer is a drug.
Anything that causes a chemical change in the brain is a drug and is mind altering.
Any questions so far?
The drug I use other drugs for, the thing we all chase no matter how we do it is bliss.
Not love, bliss.
We search out for that blissful feeling that makes everything perfect no matter how fucked things might be. When you find that in a conversation, it’s a drug once experienced that is very difficult to let go of.
I’ve noticed people who get that blissful feeling from me often have a hard time letting me go.
For example there is a woman I’ve tried to kick out of my life who still reads all of this stuff. She did not provide that same blissful feeling in return. It was all work to put up with her.
There is no bliss within her so she has none to share and instead looks to feed off the bliss of others. My inner bliss is a connection to the universal consciousness. It’s a sea of never ending bliss that I rarely allow myself to remember I can experience at any time.
Bliss is a drug.
You can’t ask for bliss.
No matter what it is you do, the real drug we are all after is bliss.
I am the bliss for others that I seek for myself. I became what I desire most and find the ability to find it everywhere no matter how bad things might be around me or how other things may seem.
As I become my desire the mirrors of that desire keep popping up to remind me I made it to the room my projection has opened to me.
I have attracted nothing. I have even seen it everywhere I go in who talks to me and who doesn’t. I see it in the conversations we have. It’s why I feel the law of a attractions is a lie and the law of reflections is closer to the actuality of life.
We reap what we sow not what we want.
Our thoughts create our reality not our desires.
Our desires shape what thoughts we allow.
Our thoughts become the words and actions that are reflected back at us.
What is it you want so much that you would become it to have it in your life?
Figure out what that is and you found your purpose in life.
I am a man who walks alone And when I’m walking a dark road At night or strolling through the park
When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little anxious when it’s dark.
The light we become is born from our darkness. We put things in our darkness we would not want the rest of the world to see out of fear of being judged and seen as if there is something wrong with us.
We always walk alone in our darkness whether we walk the streets or take a stroll through any park. It doesn’t matter if it’s day or night our darkness is always around us.
Have you run your fingers down the wall And have you felt your neck skin crawl When you’re searching for the light ? Sometimes when you’re scared to take a look At the corner of the room You’ve sensed that something’s watching you.
No one likes to be watched unless they have put themselves at the center of things. When we sense the unseen taking interest in us it can sometimes bring about fear. You feel it there, however you can’t see it or touch it and it can be unnerving.
I always say that if there was a personification of God it would make God the ultimate stalker. That idea of something or someone ever present ever watching is a scary one when we are not at peace with who we are and the things we do when we are alone.
However we always get a sense of the people we meet.
We are spirits wrapped in flesh and we are all connected.
I say everything in existence is a face and facet of what God truly is. We have a lower self that enjoys all the pleasures the flesh has to offer. No matter how dark the desire is, the flesh can find a way to enjoy it.
The higher self is our connection to what some call the Universal Consciousness and I call the Big U. I call it the Big U because it’s all of you in spirit. We are a hive mind that takes the form of flesh to enjoy what individuality is and can be.
Watching horror films the night before Debating witches and folklore The unknown troubles on your mind Maybe your mind is playing tricks You sense,and suddenly eyes fix On dancing shadows from behind.
At times setting ourselves up to be scared can be fun.
A scared woman will cuddle closer to the one next to her.
A scared man will cuddle closer to the one next to him.
I’ve had a lot of conversations about Majick recently. Real Majick not illusion, not some long forgotten secret art, something we all do every day in every way without realizing it most of the time.
The Universe manifests for us and will allow us to think we are doing it ourselves and play into our ego expression.
This often leads many to feeling as though they are Wizards or Sorcerers or Witches and for some, they go off the deep end and think they are a god or a Djinn or something other than human.
We want to feel as though we have the power because we fear being weak. Funny thing is the ultimate power in the Universe is choice. Our choices create the path before us.
Karmic Law says and science has proven, our thoughts create our realities.
I forget who I was talking to the other night who said “Our thoughts are our prayers and our words our spells.”
Wise words and a simple way to view the Majick we all do.
When one becomes their light, they leave their darkness behind.
For me, I am a recovering sex addict. So for me I became a Tantra master in order to leave my desires at home and I go out in search of growth, learning, friendship, family and pure love connections.
My darkness is nothing for any to see except those I become lovers with. I have no need to be a lover with every woman and I’m not into men. I’ve thought about it, simply not my thing. However I enjoy hanging out with gay men, they tend to be entertaining. They also have strength and courage as many of them came out to families who don’t get them.
I respect them, they have been through some shit and probably take more than they should from a world still homophobic.
What’s to be afraid of?
I often find those who experience homophobia are often denying the desires they have within them.
Courage is not the absence of fear it’s knowing you’re afraid and saying “Fuck this shit, I’m doing it anyway.”
“I’m going to be me anyway”
“I’m going to talk to ______ anyway.”
“Fuck fear!”
It’s finding a way to do what you’re afraid of not because the fear is gone, you do it because you refuse to let fear run your life. I often find on the other side of my fears is the life I never would have thought I could have.
It’s scary to do what I do in this world as it is. It’s scary to tell the world “I’ll give you the benefit of what and who I am and what I can do without ever asking for anything in return.”
My desire is to never let fear make my choice.
My choice is to stand, face my fears and do it anyway.
As for what I keep in my darkness, my peace and my side of bliss.
It’s what creates that bliss in the light I choose to be. I give all that I am to any around.
Tonight I’m taking my Magic cards out to hang with some new friends who also play Magic: The Gathering. I’m bringing bliss with me, the bliss I find in allowing my higher self to connect me to the bliss all around and within us.
I’m also looking forward to kickin’ some ass on the table.
If you’re going to play a game, play to win. The only game I play right now is Magic: The Gathering and I look forward to the gathering around the park bench tonight.
I go out in the dark because there is nothing fear but fear itself as JFK once said.
I’m also nocturnal and I spend most of my day giving my energy to my parents so they can do what they need to do. It drains me all day long and I sleep off and on through out the day.
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark I have a constant fear, thought you heard Fear of the dark, fear of the dark I have a phobia that someone’s always there.
I find comfort that there is always something or someone there. Understanding we are never truly alone and that loneliness is nothing more than a choice.
When I go out to do what I do I strap my boots on. The boots I wear I received 24 years ago in June. They’re my basic training combat boots from the Air Force.
I thought about using the song THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING, to tell this tale, however I found the song has no relation to me and my boots.
I walk all over no one and see no reason to ever to do that.
I walk to people and I walk away, to walk all over is to insist the need for vengeance or vindication or a sense of victory.
The victory is when the war within comes to an end and you can walk away because there is nothing to fight or fight for.
I wear my boots to remind me of where I came from.
To remind me that the Air Force taught me integrity.
To remind me to walk my talk.
To remind me to live my integrity.
I am in an entirely new line of service to the people and the land and my boots help me remember that.
Friday night a Brother reminded me who I was and who I have become when he said “Warrior Love”
I replied “I am on the pure love mission but you stay on warrior duty.”
It’s a new role for me. I have a warriors heart and always have. However the time for me came to be nothing more than a teacher and a guide. I am no healer and I am no protector and I am no longer the warrior I was.
I’ll confess I have studied martial arts for decades and I have the ability to rip an attackers throat out based on the warrior I was. I am not interested and if I could, I would forget everything I know about physical combat, all combat for that matter.
I’m a Hippy with a Rock ‘N’ Roll heart. A man of peace. A man of love, the pure love the world needs more of. I’m not even interested in debate.
My style of fighting for my life these days is to simply say here I am and if you can’t hang with me, walk away, because I am going now where.
I find the people who have a hard time being around me are fighting their own war and I have no desire to be apart of it. Instead I like to help people see how to end that internal conflict as this reflection has no rage to project.
There is a difference between standing your ground and refusing to move and fighting.
Look at Gandhi.
A man of peace who never fought, he stood his ground and refused to be moved. If I am in the home of another you bet your ass I leave if they ask.
However stadnin’ out on the street, I am not going anywhere. I am going back again and again. I found a new favorite Friday night place to hang out and talk to people outside. It upset some people who like to use it as their personal feeding ground.
Feeding off the energy of others. Me I find my presence negates their feeding.
Like it says in HUNGER STRIKE, I won’t feed on the powerless.
Some people have no problem feeding on anyone and the powerless make it easier and sweeter to stalk. There are Empaths who like to feed off your light to fuel their dark desires.
They often make themselves the center of things and show off and draw attention to themselves.
When you watch someone trying to feed all night in this manner it’s pathetic. You see how hollow they are allowing them selves to be the mirror of your light in order to feed on you.
It’s disgusting.
It’s the lowest form of using the gift it is to be an Empath.
It’s inhuman and vampiric in nature. These would be the energy vampires you hear about. Nothing more than Empaths who have decided to feed off the energy of people without giving back.
I stood my ground Friday night and did no fighting. I stood my ground and ruined the feeders feast and I will be around to make sure that one never feeds around me again.
I don’t have to fight, I just have to show up and let it flow.
A Taltos is often their communities early warning system, feeling what’s coming from a mile away giving the community time to prepare. In history a Hungarian King was thought to be Taltos as his early warning prepared the country to fight off would be invaders who thought it was easy pickings.
I wear boots to remind me to live my integrity and walk my talk.
I look back at the free love movement from decades ago and I can clearly see why it failed.
Today I wander about and talk with many and the common theme is psychedelic drugs and taking that kind of trip to expand consciousness and awareness. For me total sobriety is what most describe an acid trip as.
I was born with that total awareness.
The drugs are a cheat and a shortcut to use instead of doing the work. I’ve spoken with many who have taken so much LSD that it has forever changed them and not in helpful ways.
Cosmic Alchemy 101.
To receive one must give.
When we shortcut it we give up chunks of ourselves to what or whoever we are using to shortcut it.
Some use sex.
In fact there was a guy, you know someone who will fuck you because they can, that was selling sex as a way to super-consciousness with the idea that a man should only orgasm once a year.
Quick biology lesson.
For men it’s actually healthy to orgasm several times a week and reduces prostate swelling over time. It actually keeps the prostate functioning better over time.
Another part of Tantric art is to self induce the orgasmic state alone with out the pay off. To me that’s selfishness to only experience growth on your own for yourself.
The free love movement of long ago included fuckin’ anyone because “Hey man it’s all about the love so why not?”
Here’s why not.
In sex we exchange pieces of our souls with each other. Over time we become ingrained into each other and telepathic communication increases. When we give our bodies to whoever, we’re creating a chaotic mess within us and sharing those we have taken on with whoever we are exchanging pieces with now.
We are the sum of all we take on and in.
We fracture our soul and give away facets of our soul in exchange for a fuck, an orgasm that we feel entitled to because it was consensual and it was legal so why not.
You can damage your soul to the point where no matter how good you look on the outside you need to take on more and more from others. What does this look like?
We don’t always exchange the best of us for the best of them. Often one gets the best of it and the other is left with the rest of it or worse yet, left feeling hollow as if there was no return, no exchange.
People who use people for their good time rarely if ever give anything back. They take and take and take.
The other night I set myself with the intent to give pure love. I received it back up until I met one human. After that I had nothing left to give as this human unknowingly drained me out. They thought they were doing me some good and it backfired.
The intent was a good one, however they made an assumption about what I needed instead of talking to me to find out.
Then I was led into an environment that for me is harmful. Again an assumption was made without finding out why I stay outside and don’t go in.
Again the intent was to attempt to assist me, instead it injured me and required I take protective measures to protect myself.
I often find myself in position to teach other teachers and guide other guides. I often find myself showing the masters that they have become masters for themselves and need no further teaching or guidance.
If you think about the idea of community and mix it with the idea of it taking a village to raise a child, you begin to see that a lot of what we think of as a good time is harmful to the community and the children born from it and in it.
A child conceived while in altered states brought on through the use of drugs and alcohol will have a profound effect on the child created. Who you are in that moment has a profound effect on the child conceived.
Our essence begins with the emotional state in it’s totality of our parents, we are the essence of them preceding our existence in conception.
Being free with love negates protecting oneself, being free with sex gives pieces of ourselves away that may never be found again.
To me it has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with understanding how energy works.
It has nothing to do with being a downer on the party and everything to do with understanding the cost of the so called fun.
We grew up waiting for our turn to get drunk, throw up and be somebody.
We grew up waiting for our turn to take Acid or Mushrooms or DMT.
Personally I want to try Mushrooms and DMT, however I will never touch Acid.
It takes a village and this is what our villages have been producing. People, human beings hell bent on destroying their bodies, minds and souls because it’s what they grew up watching.
I heard some kids telling me How they’ve lost all the faith, in the way They’ve been talking world peace And the wars in the streets
It was 27 years ago that Motley Crue first released this song. I remember buying the Dr. Feelgood album on cassette with Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced. The first two cassettes I ever bought.
This was the last song on the album. I was 15 and I was one of those kids who had lost faith in the way. I find it disturbing that nearly 3 decades later the song is as relevant today as it was in 1989.
Look around at all the violence in the world and so much of it taking place on the streets not between soldiers, between kids with guns and the adults who hold the reigns and keep pumping them full of whatever it takes to keep them fighting whoever they want fought.
Old, tired fools tell our future With tarot cards, and lie of crime
We hear it and see it all the time, yet we keep going along with it out of fear of the unknown and the easiness of cold comfort. For the most part as long as we can watch TV or goof off online, we really don’t care to do anything that might upset that comfort.
Even when we see it right in front of us and have irrefutable evidence shoved in our faces, we would rather turn the blind eye than actually do something that might upset what is.
I feel the the future In the hands of our youth No more lies
I like spending time with younger adults in their early 20’s. I feel the honesty in them and the desire to do something, maybe not knowing what, however feeling the dire need that something has to be done.
It starts with honesty.
Honestly I get along better with people half my age than I do with people my own age. Being a teacher, it’s easier to teach a mind that is not already made up. It is easier to reach a mind that is still open to new possibilities.
A revolution, or reach out And touch the day We’re overdue, child
Change Now it’s time for change Nothing stays the same Now it’s time for change
I’m a man of peace. When I speak of revolution I speak of a revolution of ideas with no violence.
If we look at history, violence begets violence. It’s undeniable. Yet still we fight thinking at some point it will achieve peace.
What in the holy blue hell is wrong with us?
It’s time for change. A change in philosophical ideology. A change in allowing religion to be an excuse for hate.
I am a man of God and I can see where religion has done more to bring us to the brink of destroying ourselves more than any other influence.
History is littered with the deaths of millions over whose God is the right one and whose book is the right one.
In my opinion every organized religion should be banned.
I am a man of God and not an atheist and I am not suggesting a new religion by any means. I use Rock ‘N’ Roll.
I talk to more and more people who are against religion and for spirituality. Spirituality is an individual relationship between you and God and does not need a hall or a choir and God doesn’t need or want our money.
Change is inevitable. The options for us is to change our ways or destroy ourselves. Seems pretty simple.
The future is in the hands of our young however we need the old people to get out of the way and step down and let the new blood run free.
In my twenties I got a fortune 100 company to do it my way. At twenty I had the Us Air Force telling me they were going to do it my way after seeing the results.
I am not that special. There are a ton of people in their 20’s that could have mass influence in turning this around if we just get out of their way. Give them guidance, however let them do it their way and see what happens.
Change is inevitable. Change is existence. With out change there is no existence.
Perhaps the greatest impact that can be made in this world can be made by the 20 somethings of the world.
As an Empath I can feel the rebirth that is spring. I can feel life coming back to that which lay dormant for the winter. I can feel that urge to get it on and produce more life.
I feel as though we originally came up with the Goddess Ishtar (pronounced Easter) to give us a metaphor to explain this overwhelming feeling of fertile of life all around us as the seasons change.
We have the opportunity to renew or lives every day, however we often wait for occasions such as full moons and the like to give us a structure to transmute ourselves through. We are obsessed with the timing of things.
The simplest way to encourage our own renewing of our life is to simply embrace the following Karmic Law.
Accept what is, let go of what was and make changes for what will be.
If we are holding on to the past we are not allowing ourselves to move forward and we keep ourselves stuck. We often want everything to change except us. My biggest continuous struggle with my own path is to make changes in me.
When we accept ourselves for who we are we can become complacent. We can become bored and we seek out something to spark life into us again.
Often we seek out the same old vices instead of trying something new and letting our life become something different the moment we make that choice. That choice sets our subconscious into motion for us to do things behind our back in front of our face to create the desire to change our projection to match the reflection of our desire.
Simply wanting it will bring it to you in a way, a form or a fashion, however until we become what is needed to have our desire it will never live up to it and always leave us wanting more.
This is why I do not support the law of attraction, it seeks to be a work around to actually doing the work to become your hearts true desire to turn the reflections around to match your projection.
Think of it as a character in a film. When the character says or does something out of context for that character, we call it bad film making. Life is about becoming the ever evolving, ever changing character that allows for the pursuit of your hearts true desires.
The Cinematic view simply stated says that our character, our projection of self will allow what story unfolds in our life. Who we show ourselves to be is what allows The Big U to manifest the opportunities to take our character on an adventure.
In my research on myself and what a Taltos is, I came across something that explained me to myself however I did not want to readily embrace.
I was a workaholic most of my life. I liked working 70 hours a week and that it gave me the excuse to be recluse. I like my solitude, always have.
A Taltos never asks for anything in exchange for whatever it is we do for you. We take what is offered and if nothing is offered, oh well. Embracing my being in a world that revolves around getting paid, well let’s say it’s not as easy to accept.
We live in a society of compensation for everything. I did something now give me my reward. Sometimes that compensation is in telling people about that thing we did just because we could. We seek to have our ego stroked and have recognition for being us.
In this time of re-birthing maybe we should slow down and think about what our hearts true desire is and what changes to make in ourselves to become to projection that will turn that reflection around.
A memory that once hurt to think about can become a lesson.
It’s often not easy to see the lesson to be learned through the pain that was endured that is attached to that memory. One must detach emotionally from the memory and look at it from multiple angles and examine the depth of the situation.
We got hurt and we hold onto that emotion to stay shallow in our understanding of that moment. In order to dive into the depth we must let go of emotion and attempt to understand what we see as a result.
Grosse Point Blank put it best.
I say forget about forgiving and just accept.
At times the lesson is to see what we survived, not as a victim, as a survivor who was in a situation and found a way out.
That takes strength and acts of courage for some who survive horrific things and find a way to keep on keepin’ on.
I always say “Forget about the hate and heal the pain.”
Often our anger stems from pain. We use the mask of anger to feel strong. Feeling hurt, feels weak at times. We use anger to feel strong and seek retribution.
Somehow we think this will make the hurt go away or at least now they hurt too.
This kind of thinking will destroy humanity.
Big picture view shows if we are all acting like this, it explains the wars and the clear path we seem to be on to destroy ourselves in the name of whatever is the reason to kill this week.
When there’s nowhere else to run Is there room for one more son One more son If you can hold on If you can hold on, hold on I wanna stand up, I wanna let go You know, you know – no you don’t, you don’t I wanna shine on in the hearts of men I wanna mean it from the back of my broken hand
I will never know how many people I have actually helped.
I do know that each of them was at a point where holding on felt like an option that was being taken away.
The energy work I do allows me to take the total emotional you in one shot and give you strength and peace and clarity in return. It’s something most Empaths do simply as a matter of their being.
Another head aches, another heart breaks I am so much older than I can take And my affection, well it comes and goes I need direction to perfection, no no no no
Most Empaths have a life that has them seeing people coming to them when they are heart broken for a myriad of reasons.
You start to feel old when you have taken on so much and given so much.
It also tends to give Empaths an edge.
People will want to spend time with an Empath and not realize why they are doing it.
They want that good feeling they get every time they are around or talk to the Empath in their life. At times as an Empath you develop personality quirks that discourages people from wanting to be around you.
Every interaction for an Empath has the potential to be a drain on them.
We do it to protect ourselves. If we don’t we spend all our time working out your emotional issues.
Yeah, you know you got to help me out Yeah, oh don’t you put me on the back burner You know you got to help me out You’re gonna bring yourself down
No one ever says “Yo my life is fucked, however take your sweet ass time to getting around to me.”
We can become even more frustrated when no one seems to see the urgency we feel.
We can feel ignored or even as though we may not even exist.
When we don’t get what we are looking for, what we feel we need, sometimes we can get spiteful.
These changes ain’t changing me The gold-hearted boy I used to be
My mother tells a story that even when I was 3 and 4 I could just sense she was feeling sad and I would come give her a hug. Being an Empath means I feel what you need emotionally much clearer than you could ever tell anyone. At times a hug isn’t it. At times it’s a hammer shot of clarity.
People will wallow in self pity and misery and the best thing you can do for them is to give them that hammer shot up side the head. It’s not an easy thing to do as we often get a lash out reaction.
Tough shit, if you care enough to be there, you care enough to be honest instead of feeding the suffering.
Love is not always a cuddly thing and sometimes tough love comes in the form of hard truth.
We often don’t want to hear the truth we want to stay in the hell we created for ourselves.
We don’t want to do the work ourselves, we want someone to show up and save our ass.
I got soul, but I’m not a soldier
The difference between a warrior and a soldier is a soldier is ordered into battle a warrior chooses their battles.
Life is a war.
The battles are fought daily and the war never ends.
Life is a war of ideas.
Look around and see the truth for yourself.
Do you fight the battles you are told to fight or the ones you choose?
Your only weapon is your mind.
How sharp is your sword?
Who wields the sword you are?
Over and in, last call for sin While everyone’s lost, the battle is won With all these things that I’ve done All these things that I’ve done
To win your own inner battles at times everyone else has to lose so you can take care of you.
Your life is a culmination of all these things you have done. However this does not absolve the rest of the world for turning their back on you.
No one accomplishes great things on their own. No one.
Anyone in history or in current day that has notoriety for their accomplishments has not done one damn thing on their own. They had assistance, a lot of it.
For you to get where you are you had assistance and a lot of it.
How often do you think about the assistance your life has been given from a big picture view?
How often do you step outside yourself to look at your life?
How often do think about yourself as it was someone else and then think about what you would think about that person?
And the men who hold high places Must be the ones who start To mold a new reality
If those we give authority over us to rule do not begin the change at the top it takes a lot longer and looks more like a revolution.
That raises the chances of something violent happening.
I’m opposed to violence.
If you look back at the French Revolution it was those at the top who refused to mold a new reality for the betterment of the sum that were executed.
Again I’m opposed to violence and will never support any violent action taken by anyone, though it can’t be ignored that I am a rarity and many people don’t have a problem with violence.
In fact our leaders in the USA encourage it through the wars they send our troops into and ask the American people to support the choice of violence.
The men and women who hold high places must be the ones to start to mold a new reality to put an end to the violence and find solutions that don’t involve dropping bombs and sending young adults to die.
The blacksmith and the artist Reflect it in their art They forge their creativity
Film makers, TV content providers, musicians, gun makers and others forge the mentality that comes from the top.
I see the newest gun looks like a cell phone.
It has a handle that folds down and fires two shots.
I wonder how many people will get shot for pulling out a cell phone that isn’t a gun.
If I was a cop I would be scared.
Our obsession with finding new and different ways of killing each other is a direct reflection of the wars that go on for whatever reason.
We have the technology for building non lethal combat weapons. Yet we have people using 3D printers to create firearms.
The blacksmith is merely reflecting what the people who hold high places have in their hearts.
We have a ton of movies and video games dedicated to killing. Celebrating it even. Desensitizing us all to violence.
Even in music there are those who sing to burn it all down or rise up against.
Philosophers and plowmen Each must know his part To sow a new mentality
Political pundits do a great job of giving the public reasons to support wars and violence. The press in general.
Philosophers offering their interpretation of world events and why it should be happening or why we should look at going another direction.
They sow the ideas in the minds of many. They also have the power to sow better ideas aimed at finding solutions to help us all get along and see we are all in this together as one world whether we like or not.
We don’t need a captain and we all draw the chart with our every word and thought and action.
I write a lot on the topic of love.
If we are not going to mold a new reality closer to the heart now, when are we?
If we are not going to forge with creativity that new mentality closer to the heart now, when are we?
If we are not going to sow a new mentality closer to the heart now, when are we?
There was a time in my life a few years ago that I considered suicide as an option. Here’s why.
I had awaken to my being an Empath and Medium. I lost every friend I ever had and lost my marriage all because I refused to hide being what I am. There were 3 songs that kept me from doing myself in.
WE ARE THE OTHERS by Delain is one of those songs.
Just so you all know, as a symbolic gesture to commit to never thinking about suicide again, I took the dagger I was going to use and wrapped it up and tossed it in a dumpster.
As simple as air in your lungs, As simple as words on your lips, And no one should take that away, No one should argue this Now with our heads up high, We’ll carry on, And carry out, That we won’t let them get us down Or wear us out ‘Cause we are not alone…
Originally this song was not written to be an anthem for those who feel different because they are Empaths and a lot of people still don’t get what that is and treat Empaths as if they were crazy.
A big part of my life the last few years has been working with people who are awakening to being an Empath.
I’ve seen groups as big as 20,000 and was an admin in a group of over 1,000.
A lot of people who are full blown Empaths who don’t realize it are often misdiagnosed with conditions such as bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia and others. They are medicated and told they are ill and that something is wrong with them.
If they assert anything else they run the risk of being hospitalized.
I have 2 causes that I dedicate my life’s work to.
Raising the awareness of what I call the Genetic Jump. As I see it we are in the midst of our species taking an evolutionary jump forward. Empaths are just a natural result of our evolution, no more no less.
My other cause is putting an end to Domestic Abuse/Violence.
The abuse does not have to be physical to leave its scars. Many of the Empaths I’ve worked with have also been survivors of domestic abuse.
Every time I share this song with another Empath or group of Empaths, they feel as if they found an anthem to cling on to and inspire them to keep on keepin’ on.
We are the others, We are the cast-outs, We’re the outsiders But you can’t hide us We are the others We are the cast-outs You’re not out there on your own If you feel mistreated Torn and cheated You are not alone We are the others
I’m not sure if I could ever truly find the words to adequately describe what it’s like to feel so different from so many yet at the same time still be just as human as any other.
Feeling like an outsider and a cast out is something I dealt with on a social level off and on throughout my life. Typical school shit and what not.
It wasn’t until I publicly said “I am an Empath” that I truly began to truly feel what it’s like to feel cast out.
I also found that I was not alone. I have been in several groups over the last few years where Empaths support each other and teach other how to manage our being better and make the gift less of a curse in our lives.
None of you are alone.
Normal is not the norm, It’s just a uniform… (We are the others) Forget about the norm (We’re the outsiders) Take off your uniform, (We are the others) We are all beautiful, (We are the others)
Normal is an idea, a dream that never was.
None of us is normal.
We’ve created this idea of what normal is and wear the uniform hoping no one will find out how not normal we are.
You don’t have to be an Empath to feel not normal.
Many people feel not normal.
Fuck normal.
The truest beauty of anyone of us is what comes from within us.
Fuck the nifty flesh suit.
It’s what’s in your soul that brings the beauty from within to the surface.
IN THE MEANTIME by Space Hog is about the we as much as the you and me.
When I do Soul Readings I channel your higher self and the me becomes the we. It has given me and interesting view to see the world through the eyes of so many over the years.
It has also given me as much appreciation for the we as I have for the me and the you. It’s being able to this that has me saying 1 and makes 3, you, me and the we.
Think about the relationships in your life. Does your projection change based on the nature of the relationship?
The ego steps back and becomes what will get us through this situation or in essence we cease to be the me and become the we.
This song gives me the reminder of how much more gets done for the sum by the we than the me could ever do. Here’s why.
And in the end we shall achieve in time, the thing we call divine When all the stars will smile for me Then all is well and well is all for all, and forever after Maybe in the meantime wait and see . . .
We shall achieve.
Well is all for all.
Enough said.
We love the all, the all of you Our lands are green, and sky is blue When all in all, we’re just like you We love the all you
Human is human and I don’t care if you’re male, female, hetro, homo, trans, undecided, young, old, and I really don’t give a shit about the pigmentation of your skin, human is human.
I don’t care about religion or what this god or that god or this prophet or this holy fucker over there said.
Human is human.
We are all human and any other label pass that point is egocentric identification to create our individuality and really doesn’t makes us any better or any worse than anyone else.
Human is human.
And when I cry for me I cry for you, with tears of holy joy For all the days you’ve still to come And did I ever say I’d never play, or fly towards the sun Maybe in the meantime somethings missing
We all cry for the same reasons.
No one had tougher than anyone else.
Emotional pain is not a competition sport.
We overcome ourselves more than we overcome anything else and the first one to start with a “What about this person over here…..”
Fuck off and find something better to do with your time.
Human is human.
Sure there are people who do some extraordinary things, however every human is capable of the same thing, doing something extraordinary.
We give our ability to do this away every time we let it be me and you and not the we we can be.
We love the all, the all of you
Find the we in the me and find the way to create better future days.
Time is more or a less a figment of our imagination.
We created it to make sense of our memories and to keep track of our lives.
All that really exists is now and it is infinite.
I call it the never ending now or the progressive moment, whatever you want to call it, we’re always in it right now.
RIGHT NOW by Van Halen (Van Hagar) captures the essence of what now is. Here’s why.
Don’t wanna wait til tomorrow, Why put it off another day? One more walk through problems, Built up, and stand in our way ,ah One step ahead, one step behind me Now you gotta run to get even Make future plans, don’t dream about yesterday
Our ego or who we think we are is defined by the things we allow ourselves to become emotionally attached to.
As long as we put off letting it go and hold on to it, maybe we can do something about it tomorrow or when we feel better about it, however for now, we are holding on to it.
We often are what stands in our way due to our unwillingness to let it go and change our view and move forward.
We cling to the past as if it is some sort of shield against what is happening right now.
We cling to the past to define who we are and why.
We cling to the past to avoid making any real changes in our lives and our projection of self or ego.
We spend so much time dwelling on the problem we miss the solutions and find ourselves falling further and further behind in where we think our life should be.
Our life progresses upon the path we lay out for ourselves. We make that path with our words and our thoughts in every moment of the never ending now.
We get stuck when we stop planning and dreaming ahead to revel in the history of who we have been or sometimes lost in it trying to figure out who we have become.
Miss the beat, you lose the rhythm, And nothing falls into place, no Only missed by a fraction, Slipped a little off your pace, oh, The more things you get, the more you want, Just trade in one for the other, Workin so hard, to make it easier,
Life has a flow and a music to it.
When you are in time or in step with the beat of your life, things move well and right along. When we stop we lose our rhythm and find ourselves out of place for what we were heading to before we stopped.
The endless hunger of want is something each of us deals with. I have noticed for myself the truth of the lyrics in my life as it has been and is on occasion.
There is a cosmic alchemy of sort to life.
To get “________” what are you willing to give up?
My old man always said work smarter not harder.
How I’ve used that in life is to realize I have a sharper intuition than my conscious mind could ever think me into or out of. I’m usually as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth. I trust myself to say what is needed more or less and not worry about offending or insulting anyone, just trusting whatever comes out will be honest.
When we stop to think before we speak it is usually so we don’t have to deal with the reaction or response we think is most likely.
Right now, hey It’s your tomorrow Right now, C’mon, it’s everything Right now, Catch that magic moment, and do it right, Right now Right now, oh, Right now It’s what’s happening? Right here and now Right now It’s right now Oh, Tell me, what are you waiting for Turn this thing around
THIRD EYE by Florence and the Machine is not only on my “ME” playlist, it also is one I use frequently to kick off my “Turn the mirror inward” playlist I listen to each night as I recenter myself. Here’s why.
Hey, look up! Don’t make a shadow of yourself, Always shutting out the light. Caught in your own creation.
Our life, whether we like it or not is something of our own creation. Science has proven in recent years that our thoughts do indeed create our reality. We have a shared reality and that means this world as it is, we created it.
We can keep creating and create better than we’ve done.
Hey, look up! You don’t have to be a ghost, Here amongst the living. You are flesh and blood! And you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given.
So many feel like they’re stuck in the background and no one notices. Fuck that noise.
Too often we question the good things that come to us in life.
Too often we are looking for romantic love we forget to feel the love without romance all around us.
We are love at the core of our souls and to feel the love we give the love.
‘Cause your pain is a tribute The only thing you let hold you Wear it now like a mantle Always there to remind you
If you never cared it wouldn’t hurt.
As long as you let it hurt, you definitely give a shit.
There is no escaping that.
As long you mask that hurt with anger, you ain’t dealin’ with jack shit or letting go of anything.
As long as you keep you there, there’ ain’t nobody that is gonna be getting close to you any time soon . You keep that reminder going so you revel in the pain that gives the reason to get angry and feel powerful.
As long as we own the pain we have a reason to hate.
‘Cause there’s a hole where your heart lies And I can see it with my third eye. And oh my touch, it magnifies You pull away, you don’t know why.
As long as you hold onto the pain that perpetuates the hate there will be a hole in your heart. I look into your eyes and I can see straight into your soul.
Not as cool as it sounds, some of you are really fucked up inside. It is what is and some of you are incredible to look into.
I can see the pain through the hate no matter how hard someone brings it or throws it up as their mask. You can try to lie to this guy all you want and I don’t give two shits how many years you been doin’ it, I see right through you.
When we hurt, we feel weak and we attempt to project strength through anger and rage. We lash out as the savages we are. We pull away from that which could heal the hurt and we don’t know why.
It’s because the anger and rage makes us feel powerful.
There are few songs I have heard that are what I would call a perfect inspiration of hope.
IMAGINE by John Lennon is one of those songs, however that is not the one we are going to talk about today.
Bruce Ciccarelli is a friend of mine and the song he wrote, CARRY ON is one I call the perfect companion piece to John Lennon’s IMAGINE. Here’s why.
There’s a light that’s shining and there’s no denying it’s burning bright in my soul
There’s a light that’s shining and the warmth it’s providing is bringing hope to me Can I carry on
There is a light in us that we forget to acknowledge. It’s that light from the core that we often dim to fit in. The times I have been at my lowest in life, it was my own inner light that kept me going to just get through another day the best I could.
Too often in life we forsake our own inner glow to trade who we are for who “they” think we should be. Yes the infamous “they.”
Who are “they?”
If you feel like you can’t simply be you around some people, you found “they” or “them” as they are also known.
There’s a song that’s singing and the words it’s bringing are ringing loud in my mind
and the songs that’s singing keeps me believing in dreams of happy times can I carry on
There are so many songs that each of us cling to that just seem to make everything better, even it’s only for a few minutes. There are songs that each of us listen to when we hit that point and need some hope and some inspiration to keep on keepin’ on.
And if you feel you can’t go on I’ll be there to be strong because together we’re going to make it through
There’s no shame in needing a helping hand as you help yourself.
As a Taltos part of what I do is work with people as they get it back on track.
As an Empath I often give my strength to those I find in need while I hold the emotional turmoil for them.
It’s what an Empath is and what an Empath does.
When the night turns into dawn It’s another victory won and I know I can carry on
I woke up today and the rest is gravy.
It doesn’t matter what happened yesterday because I survived to make it through to see another day.
For some, some days just waking up still alive is a victory in and of itself.
Break those chains that bind me Break those walls that confine me To a world spinning out of control
I often find the chains that bind me and the walls that confine me are my own doubts of whether or not I can do it.
How many Shamans you know that quote Rock ‘n’ Roll as the holiest of holy scriptures?
Another voice has spoken to heal this heart that’s broken with words of hope to carry on
It’s the words we speak with the emotion behind them that can be the greatest healing that anyone could ever need. Our words have more power than we are comfortable with.
It means having to ignore the idea of saying “well don’t take it so personal.”
There are things that should be taken personally and some ignored, however when someone reaches out with a helping hand using words of hope, that has power to help you carry on. Shut the fuck up and listen.
Let it sink in.
Let the emotion behind the words wrap around you and move through you to give you that inspired and hope filled feeling that says
“Hell fuckin’ yes! Not only will I carry on, I’m gonna rock this bitch til the break of dawn and then do it again and again.”
DON’T DAMN ME by Guns ‘n’ Roses is the first song on the playlist simply titled “ME.” Here’s why.
Don’t damn me When I speak a piece of my mind ‘Cause silence isn’t golden When I’m holding it inside ‘Cause I’ve been where I have been An I’ve seen what I have seen I put the pen to the paper ‘Cause it’s all a part of me
Be it a song or casual conversation To hold my tongue speaks Of quiet reservations Your words once heard They can place you in a faction My words may disturb But at least there’s a reaction
Experience is the greatest teacher there is. We like to share our experiences with each other to show what we’ve learned. We also shape our opinions based on our experience.
How often do you remain silent simply because you figure the person or people you’re around will probably give you some shit?
We start doing this in grammar school and continue through middle school/junior high and on through high school and throughout life. Try and deny it all you want however think about the last time you held your tongue and why.
We often seek to validate ourselves through sharing our experiences and our views with other people in hopes of finding someone else who sees that way too. When we find an opposing view we often too quickly damn people for thinking the way the way do.
Some people say if you have nothing nice to say don’t say a word.
Fuck that noise. I say if have nothing nice to say, make damn sure it’s true. Here’s why.
The temporary sting of the truth hurts less and is over rather quickly where as the suffering of deceit even in lies of omission is cruel and long lasting.
I often think about the words I know will disturb when I am posting a status update on any particular topic and sometimes find myself in debate with someone who I pissed off.
Honestly I just told all of you that most of you still behave as children no matter how old you are. I am self aware and realize that might hit a nerve, at least it’s a reaction and it means there must be some truth to my words.
Sometimes I wanna kill Sometimes I wanna die Sometimes I wanna destroy Sometimes I wanna cry Sometimes I could get even Sometimes I could give up Sometimes I could give Sometimes I never give a fuck
No shit really, me too. Who hasn’t lived this list?
It’s only for a while I hope you understand I never wanted this to happen Didn’t want to be a man So I hid inside my world I took what I could find I cried when I was lonely I fell down when I was blind
No one ever really wants to grow up.
To grow up and become a man or a woman is put aside childish things and take responsibility for your actions and words.
For me to become a man, I became a father.
I look back at my life and at 25 I was with a woman who was 10 years older than me and she had 3 teenagers. I stepped up and into the role of stepdad. At 25 I took it very seriously. To this day when I run into that woman’s sister, she still tells me I was the best thing that happened to her sister and her kids.
If you want to know what it really means to man up, it means to step and be a father even if the kids aren’t yours. That wasn’t the only time I took on that role and I do have a son of my own.
In life we often find ourselves locked into our own world trying to figure it out and find some way to do something about it. In life there will be tears on occasion, we’re human. In life we will stumble and fall. It’s unavoidable.
Life moves forward, never in reverse and there is no pause button and we get no do overs.
How can I ever satisfy you An how can I ever make you see That deep inside we’re all somebody An it don’t matter who you wanna be But now I gotta smile I hope you comprehend For this man can say it happened ‘Cause this child has been condemned So I stepped into your world I kicked you in the mind An I’m the only witness To the nature of my crime
I take a lot of shit for being very honest about being a Taltos and what that means.
It means as an Empath, I know what you’re feeling regardless of what you say or try to show.
As a Telepath I can see into your subconscious mind.
As a Medium there are things without bodies that use my mouth to speak on occasion.
In all honesty, I simply share my experience to show my understanding. Since I started being public and honest about those things above 4 years ago, I lost everything including a marriage. Just the historical facts of my life.
I also spent those 4 years working with many Empaths and teaching them how to better manage the gift to make it less of a curse.
I’m proud of the work I’ve done to help other people simply because I was there and so were they and I just happened to be able to give them what they needed.
There are times in conversations that we miss what someone may have said at the conscious level, however the idea still gets planted and has time to grow.
But look at what we’ve done To the innocent and young Whoa listen to who’s talking ‘Cause we’re not the only ones The trash collected by the eyes And dumped into the brain Said it tears into our conscious thoughts You tell me who’s to blame
Look at kids these days carrying smartphones and looking down and not looking at each other or talking to each other.
Look at what we teach our young through our example.
Even if you don’t have kids, they see you and want to be like you. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to be a role model, to any child any adult they see is a role model and you don’t get to choose, they do.
Monkey see,monkey do. What do the monkeys see you doing?
I know you don’t wanna hear me cryin’ An I know you don’t wanna hear me deny That your satisfaction lies in your ILLUSIONS But your delusions are yours and not mine We take for granted we know the whole story We judge a book by its cover And read what we want Between selected lines
I have seen these people who insist the meaning of life is to be happy. Do you have any idea the state of total fuckin’ delusion it takes to be continuously happy?
I do, I tried it and my response is fuck that noise. Life is messy and you are not always going to be happy. Get the fuck over it.
How often do you dig deeper into any issue before runnin’ at the mouth about what you think?
How often to you only pay attention to that which reinforces your view and ignore that which might give you pause?
Don’t hail me An don’t idolize the ink Or I’ve failed in my intentions Can you find the missing link Your only validation is living your own life
Vicarious existence is a fucking waste of time So I send this song to the offended I said what I meant and I’ve never pretended As so many others do intending just to please If I damned your point of view Could you turn the other cheek
No one deserves to be elevated above any other for any reason.
No one else is living your life.
No one else is there when it’s you all alone.
No one knows what you know about you and why you do the things you do. So fuck anyone off who can’t take you being you, doin’ it your way because it works for you.
I realize it’s probably difficult to accept a Shaman who says fuck as much as I do, doin’ it my way anyway.
George Thorogood once said “Rock is supposed to be dirty.”
The true difference between debate and argument is this. In debate you can listen to someone damn your point of view to hell and back and instead of getting pissed off, you find the counter point to their every point. It really is that simple, not easy by an infinite shot, however quite simple.
But don’t damn me When I speak a piece of my mind ‘Cause silence isn’t golden When I’m holding it inside ‘Cause I’ve been where I have been An I’ve seen what I have seen I put the pen to the paper ‘Cause it’s all a part of me Don’t damn me I said don’t damn me I said don’t hail me Don’t damn me
This song is one I have been listening to for so long that the lyrics have become a part of how I view the world, though I would choose different words to describe my view.
Find your view in your words that makes sense to you and fuck ’em if that can’t hang with it.
Nikki Six is a prolific songwriter as the main writing force in Motley Crue for over 3 decades. As Motley wraps up their career, Nikki isn’t done and SIXX: AM is his new band. When he wrote his autobiography called THE HEROINE DIARIES, well of course he wrote and recorded an album to go with it.
I remember the first time I heard LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. I heard the road map to life in Nikki’s words. I listen to the song at least once a day. Here’s why.
You can’t quit until you try You can’t live until you die You can’t learn to tell the truth Until you learn to lie
Perfect lyrics filled with absolute irrefutable truth. It takes wisdom to understand the truth of these words. Nikki Sixx is the kind of cat who lives it before he ever puts the pen to paper.
Some would say how could live after dying?
Ever kill your ego?
It’s a metaphorical death of self that leads to greater understanding of who you truly are and what your options are to do something with it.
As the Shaman I am, I had to go through the process of totally destroying my ego and reconstructing it. It’s taken about 4 years and this blog is the result.
I’m a spiritual guide and teacher and it is something that I never wanted to be. I was born a Taltos which comes from Hungarian history and is a genetically born Shaman. The me I had become before I learned this about myself 4 years ago, was not happy to learn this.
To become who I am, I had to kill who I was so to speak. Your ego is the definition of your projected self or to say the idea of you. You can kill that and bring it back to life as many times as it takes to finally bring forth the true you from within. Until you do that, you don’t live, you survive life.
I know some things that you don’t I’ve done things that you won’t
I’ve noticed something over the years. When someone says I know things you don’t, people tend to get defensive automatically. Here’s why.
You challenge their ego and everything they might hold sacred and dear. To most people the idea of learning something that changes everything is a scary thought. We like to have what we think to be the truth to never be altered because it is part of what gives us comfort in life.
It is our source of strength to an extent, this view that may or may not be totally out of whack with what actually is. The only way to know the truth of any one thing is to detach from it and view it with out bias.
Some say that’s impossible. I have done things that you won’t such as destroying my ego removing all attachment from all things.
The cruelest thing we do as human beings to each other, is to insist that since we ourselves can’t do it or haven’t done it then neither can anyone else. We throw up walls and cast insults on those who can do what we can’t instead of accepting it. We do this out of fear of being inferior.
None is any better than any other. It doesn’t matter what anyone is capable of, they are no better and should never be elevated above the rest. When you do this to a human you inflate their ego and give them the potential to become narcissistic or develop a God complex.
This why I call physicians by name. It’s why I refuse to use any title when addressing anyone. The work you chose to put into your life to become what you are does not require the rest of us to treat you any better than anyone else.
It disgusts me the way our society treats celebrity as demi gods.
I dig Nikki’s music, however he’s also a dad and I would be willing to bet that being a husband and a father has become a bigger part of who Nikki is compared to who he was before that first child was born.
I have watched masses of people quote celebrities as scripture bearing prophets. I don’t see musicians as prophets. They are people with a gift for teaching through experience and then singing about it.
In days long gone it was the Bard and the Minstrel who traveled from town to town to share their tales through story and song to teach and entertain the people.
The modern day Bards have become our rock gods and goddesses and we do this to them unfairly. They are just as human as we are.
Just open your eyes And see that life is beautiful. Will you swear on your life, That no one will cry at my funeral?
Speaking for myself, looking back at my life, at my funeral there won’t be a dry eye in the house. Some say that is an arrogant fuckin statement. I say talk to people who’ve known me over the years and ask them if it’s true.
How do you feel about your own funeral?
It’s the life you lead and how beautiful you try to make it for those around you that will determine how many eyes are dry and how many let a river of tears come forth because of the hole now left in those lives.
That life is work, it doesn’t just happen, it’s created through the living example of you that you allow yourself to be.
As a Taltos, (Hungarian genetically born Shaman) I have a way of finding the spiritual truth in just about anything. You would be surprised how much of our life is spiritually driven even if we don’t think of it in those terms. I am not talking religion, in fact I would like to see every religion wiped off the face of the planet.
Let’s take a look at HEAD LIKE A HOLE by Nine Inch Nails and see if there might be some spiritual truth.
God money I’ll do anything for you. God money just tell me what you want me to. God money nail me up against the wall. God money don’t want everything he wants it all.
“God money” is a concept that we live without even thinking about it. We need money to live in this social paradigm of human existence right now.
What can you do without money?
Think about what it is you put yourself through for a job or to just survive another day for some.
People sell their bodies for money.
We justify selling our lives to our jobs because we need the money.
Some of us never stop doing whatever it takes to get God money in our pockets because we want it all and right now God money is the only way to get it.
God money’s not looking for the cure. God money’s not concerned with the sick among the pure. God money let’s go dancing on the backs of the bruised. God money’s not one to choose
Pharmaceutical companies have been working to keep Marijuana illegal for several decades because it cures cancer and all they do is treat it with expensive drugs and torturous treatments such as Chemotherapy. If you have never seen what someone goes through when they are receiving Chemo treatments, it’s inhuman.
What does it take to accumulate large amounts of money?
Typically speaking you will have other people working for you and make that money off their backs as your slaves. We call them employees and even though it is their work that accumulates our God money we keep the biggest chunks for ourselves and pay them the bare minimum of what we can get away with while worshiping our God money, because as long as we have it, we can do whatever we want.
Get a good enough lawyer and you can get away with murder, just ask O.J. Simpson.
Got enough money and you can make sure you don’t have to pay taxes, ask Donald Trump.
Money is our God in this current social paradigm. Everything is about the bottom line and how much will it make me.
Head like a hole. Black as your soul. I’d rather die than give you control. Head like a hole. Black as your soul. I’d rather die than give you control. Bow down before the one you serve. You’re going to get what you deserve. Bow down before the one you serve. You’re going to get what you deserve. You know who you are.
Think of the CEO’s and the like that run businesses large and small. I have seen the same behavior from the guy who owns a local bar or two as I have from the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Their head is like a hole, a black hole sucking in everything around them for them. They feel good about the way they don’t have to do jack shit but can tell everyone that works for them what to do or take their livelihood and basically their life away.
Take away a human beings ability to afford to live and you take their life.
Think about the number of massive lay offs over the last several years. Think about the number of people in the USA alone who had to apply for extensions on unemployment benefits.
The rich bitch about the poor living off the government tit when they are the ones who put it in our mouth by taking away the God money and keeping it for themselves.
If you want to bow down and worship the God money, you’ll get what you deserve, that cold lonely empty feeling that won’t go away no matter how many things you buy or fake friends you have because, well you have money and they should be lucky you even let them hang out with you.
If you look at the idea of greed and then look at our current socioeconomic landscape, it’s hard to miss how soulless we are as a people in search of God money.
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