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I am asked to present some five things about myself that no one would have guessed, fun, novel, interesting even embarrassing….
Lets jump to the embarrassing part so I can get that over with, then I can get down to the ‘real nitty-gritty’….ahh never mind that would be toooo embarrassing, so what’s left?
Maybe not much… I lead such a boring life what could possibly be interesting enough about myself that people would be curious enough to read? Honestly my life the last 40 years has been nothing but a humdrum ho-hum routine’ run of the mill’ same old, same old kind of life, most boring ‘run of the mill’ type folk live. Well except for a couple of things maybe…or better to say a half a dozen, well maybe a little more than that.
Ok just to get these couple things out of the way, before I get back to the juicier embarrassing moments in my somewhat dull uneventful life, here’s a couple of (dozen) things…
I went to India in 1974 to sit at the feet of spiritual teachers, I guess I like to sit a lot because I met three great teachers at three different times, and kept going back another four times to India, 1974, 1978,1987,2011,2014… to keep sitting. You just never know what you will pick up sitting near these lofty souls, besides scabies, and intestinal problems. I was on the hunt for enlightenment though myself, still hunting in fact.
Along my travels to the three continents in 1970’s,late 1980’s, 2010’s, 2020’s I once ended up in Italy coming up from North Africa by water taking a famous smuggling route, and brought 20 kilos of hashish into Europe from Italy. I actually decided to stop a few blocks from the Vatican and a little worried about having that much illegal substance in my little VW van, I buried the ‘goods’ in a somewhat bushy area and went and found some contacts in Rome where I was able to move some of my product. My product came from Morocco by the way.( I also went to Morocco because of the James Michener book I and many other hippys were reading at that time). But while I was living in my VW camper near the Vatican, I did manage to get some touristy things done visiting the Vatican. I felt it my duty to do that while I was so close by , literally three block away. So did feel cleansed from my visit and felt very positive about continuing my trip eventually to London, where I sold much of the remainder of my ‘goods’. I even stopped in Switzerland and found some other contacts and moved more there. But I also was robbed of a couple of pounds by a nasty person with a knife there by a famous river, one fateful night in Rome. That new contact I made with the Afro-American tenor saxophonist, who I met by a fountain in Rome playing his sax, turned out to be one of my less than successful contacts. It was his friend with the intimidating knife next to my throat, that I prefer not to dwell on. I did manage to get away unscathed but lost my goodies in the process. These are just some of those typical boring hum drum experiences in the life of a hum drum traveler, as he makes his way here and there on our cute little blue planet.
I did manage to get back to my home country Canada, safe sound and in a fully functioning body, no missing body parts, and even with a couple of stores to tell. Life in Canada turned out to be far more run of the mill than those crazier younger days. That’s probably why I decided to go down a similar route and take cannabis (pot)down to the USA during the late 1990’s but make a lot more money, with no nasty knives in the night at my throat or similar unpleasant experiences. Altogether my US adventures, netted me enough to put a decent down-payment on this house I am sitting in here in Hope, writing this blog-blurb, but with my partenor who had much more wholesome and better paying contacts than that Roman adventure. Like I keep insisting It has been a dull dull life, but I put up with it. I hope it improves when I make my first ten million from my ISO 20022 digital crypto coins (XRP, XLM to be more precise, hint hint for any one with ears to hear) in 2024. And who knows I might even sell a couple or two dozen of my book “AHha…Guide To The Golden Age” while I’m waiting, getting through these monotonous days in Hope, playing , composing, recording, producing music and other frivolous daily activities. Ho-hum ho-ho ….I owe I owe… it’s off to work I go…..
This Ahha...Guide to the Golden Age with the secondary title How to Prepare for Very Big Changes on our Very Tiny Planet is a mythic journey and a joy ride of discovery based on its foundational 3 Law and 10 Step vertical structure, with each level describing a rising level of consciousness. It’s actually exactly what the two titles express. Like any good story (though it’s a non fiction, it still remains the unfolding story of the universe and Us...here on mother Earth), it has its ‘good guys and bad guys’ and naturally ascends to its climax, with its minor 'AhHa' moments as well as major ‘AhHa’ moments, leading to perhaps scintillating insights and even an epiphany or two (depending on the prevailing winds), along with quite few very bad jokes and anecdotes, triggering mild chuckles or even more serious laughter on its journey...”To The Stars”….
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There turns out to be only two main emotions or viewpoints.... you either live in fear or love. You either choose to meet each moment with fear, hate, judgement, selfishness or with love, brotherhood, and crazy compassion for the other humans who are still lost in the Maya maze. There is this present ‘apparent earth system’ under the control of the power elite on the planet, who does not want us to know the truth by the way. So they feed us their illusion (the matrix, like the film) and we eat it up until we say “No more”. Read more of this book and hopefully this will help to lift the ‘veils’ somewhat. You still will have to investigate, ponder and choose and decide which path you want to go on.... fear or love, understanding the reality or living and believing in the Big lie, the story narrative presented by the system (which by the way, controls the MSM, along with most everything else.) As long as we can begin to see the possibility that there may be more to this whole ‘Life Thing’ than meets the eye. And that the best way to approach this, is to enjoy it all like a play, find our individual roles to play, and decide on which team we want to play on” love... or... fear”. Then we just go for it. It’s set up for us each to decide using our free will. So yes I really really want this writing to contain this spirit of playfulness, the spirit of the Jim Careys, Marx Brothers, John Belushis of the world, as well as the compassionate empathetic understanding of the Jesus and Buddha’s of our world. My first spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in India in the seventies, summed it up with his phrase...''Zorba the Buddha”. It looks at life through the lens of an aware and compassionate Buddha, and yet enjoys the dance just like Zorba the Greek, living, laughing, loving while you can, while you still have a body and heart and mind that functions. There are really just “us chickens” down here, one Big Chicken in fact, clucking and pecking away, ignorant of life outside the chicken coop, but feverishly running after the food and perks, and any available chickens. It’s up to us to look up from the chicken eye view of the world, peek around and figure it out and understand what ‘really is going on’, in this noisy earthy barnyard and beyond....
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