Come, Let Us Gather Together And Think!

I have been thinking...

What if there is no actual difference between a dead person and an unborn person? I have many dreams at night, over the period of many years (decades), in which I am breastfeeding babies. The dreams consist of me breastfeeding a baby, for the entirety of the dream. All kinds of babies: black, yellow, white, brown... and sometimes, nearing the end of the dream, the babies become attached to me and want to stay with me. I, too, nearly forget that the baby is not my own; nevertheless, as the dream nears its end, I am able to recall that I have only one son and that the baby on my breast belongs to someone else. At the end of such dreams, I give the infant to other people.

These dreams are all similar in nature, but with different babies. After many years, I have come to wonder about what is really happening in these dreams of mine. Am I comforting the souls of dead infants? Am I nourishing the souls of the unborn? Since I hand the babies over to others at the end of each dream, it would seem that I am nourishing the unborn before they are conceived in the womb (or perhaps, right before they are born into the world). Regardless, this has caused me to wonder if perchance the unborn soul and the dead soul are one in the same.

What if we are born many times and die many times? There is no such thing as a dead soul, anyway; there is only such a thing as a dead body. But what I am saying, is, what if the unborn soul is the same as what we would refer to as "a ghost". There is a great possibility that there is no such difference between souls. Dead and unborn are the same. The unborn have died before and those who have died before become again "the unborn". What if? What if they are one in the same?

Another thing I have been thinking about, is, materialism. When people in this world think of the word "materialism", they think of the desire for material things and this, to them, is an undesirable trait. They believe that the path leading to humility is the path that runs through the absence of material possessions (or the desire of it). I, though, believe that "materialism" in its undesirable form and connotation, is the equating of the human being to a material thing. When we begin to see people as objects (chess pieces, toys, options)— this, to me, is materialism. When we take what is immaterial and equate it to what is material. When we perform a degeneration of what is sacred and pull it down to the level of what is easily deteriorated.

Our bodies are material. There are those who would say that the food of the soul is more important than the food of the body. I wholeheartedly disagree. I have taught this repeatedly: that a body without a soul is a dead body and a soul without a body is a soul that cannot fulfill its destiny. The one needs the other to the same extent. Our souls need our bodies to be healthy and our bodies need our souls to live. And so why do we condemn our bodies to belonging "merely" to the realm of the material? Are we not thankful for this material life what we have been given? Why should we not desire, and be thankful for, material objects that can bring us comfort and satisfaction? There is no sin in this. Nay, it is a grave sin to teach that this is a sin!

I have become soulfood itself, for a multitude of people. And yet, I can confidently tell you that I am carnal as well as spiritual. I am 100% carnal and 100% spiritual. My soul cares deeply for my body and my body cares deeply for my soul. But I will never take what is sacred and turn it into what is corroded. A person is not a toy, a chess piece, or an option. A person is a person.

Alchemy is the practice of turning base material (such as lead or rock) into precious material (gold). Alchemy is the Soul performing at its fullest. The opposite of this is to take a precious material and to turn it into a base material: taking what is precious, like the human soul, and equating it to the value of an object. The opposite of Alchemy is the Soul performing at its lowest.

I have been thinking about yet another topic! The relationship between sex and innocence. There are goddesses of both sex and innocence (such as Egyptian Goddess, Hathor) and one would be inclined to ask how sex and innocence are related. But the relation between sex and innocence is tight like a strong chain! This question should not even be asked, anymore. The root of innocence in this world, is sex! Who are the innocents? The infants, the babies, the children. How do we bring the innocents into this world? We have sex. Without sex, there is no innocence brought into this world. And yet, we have come to treat sex as a degenerate's activity, as a lascivious desire that is predominantly sinful in nature. Nay, sex is sacred. Sex is sacred and the root of innocence.

As usual, there is always the devourer prowling in this world: the one who seeks to tarnish any shining thing. The rust of the nations, the RUST of the people. It is this rust that tarnishes sex, that tarnishes innocence and that would tarnish all good things, if it could.

But it is perfectly understandable why and how a goddess of sex may be the goddess of innocence and also the goddess of wisdom. Wisdom does not come from knowledge, I tell you! Wisdom comes from innocence! And so, all these three are three links in a very strong chain. A chain that would be tarnished by the devourer, by the rust of this world, every chance that it could do so!

And lastly, I have been thinking lately about envy amongst women. This is something I have been thinking about for decade upon decade. It is something to ponder upon, really. Why is it that women seem to harbour envy in their hearts far more than men do? I would go so far as to say that, generally, a woman is only genuinely kind to other women whom she deems to be less attractive and less successful than she is. Then she will say, "My beautiful, successful friend" but in reality she believes in her heart that she is more beautiful than the other. Then she will say she does not care about beauty. Well, if she does not care about beauty, then she should have no problem with being kind to women who are very beautiful; that is how the logic would normally go if it were in fact true.

A woman can devote herself to a man, for the sole reason that winning over the affections of that man would prove her more beautiful and more capable than his wife or his partner. And it never even has to be about the man, in the least! It was in fact solely based upon the desire to remove joy and comfort from the other woman and to dominate the other woman. That is truly how deeply rooted female envy is!

I have had countless encounters that have acquainted me with the envy of women. Honestly, I am naturally not envious of other women. I am in fact naturally an admirer of other women. I have had, though, a tremendous number of encounters with girls and women, in which they would shun me, try to remove me from existence, try to take away my happiness and comfort, etc. I know within my heart that there are plenty of women who would like to see me dead, for no other reason than they feel threatened by my existence. Even if we do not know each other. Even if I have never harmed them. Even if we have not even spoken to one another before!

Why is envy predominant amongst women and not amongst men? Is the beauty and the joy of a woman such an incredibly desirable thing upon this planet, that the placement of this would cause such an unfounded amount of animosity in the hearts of females everywhere? This is a question I have been asking myself for a long time now and it is a question that I think there may be no answer to. It is what it is, I guess, when it comes to this particular scenario.

I hope you have enjoyed my thoughts for today and I encourage you to share these thoughts with others! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! And if you have any further mystical, spiritual insight into my dreams of breastfeeding many babies over the years, I would appreciate it if you could reach out to me and tell me what you know on the topic. Have a wonderful day, wonderfuls!

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My Message To The One-Winged Birds

     

       I have long been of the persuasion that there is a form of mental and emotional imbalance inflicted upon mankind, guided by the hand of collective opinion and popular thought patterns, which are distributed by spiritual leaders and thought influencers. And I am not the only one who is strongly of this persuasion. There are many very old manuscripts that have warned against this, to the exact effect that I am stating it now and have been stating it through my writings and in my books for years now. The collective minds of people are completely out of balance.

       The problem arises when people try to convince other people that they are "enlightened" and that they have found "the path". Immediately, proselytizing takes place and masses conform. I am convinced (still convinced, as I have already been throughout the years), that this has been used as a tool for mass brainwashing.

       When I was growing up as a child, I took pride in knowing self-defense combat techniques. I also took pride in carrying self-defense weapons. All my cousins were the same. My classmates too. It was cool to know combat and self-defense. It was cool to be equipped at all times. It was cool to know how to protect yourself. It was just cool. Nobody ever said, "But we need to respond to hatred with love." That phrase just did not apply to all areas, especially not in the area of knowing how to defend yourself. Back then, people had common sense and applied common sense as needed. Yes, there are times when responding to hate with love is the answer. It is certainly not the answer when it comes to knowing how to fight and knowing how to defend yourself.

       Today, I look around me, and kids don't know combat, they don't carry self-defense weapons. And parents don't teach them. I used to carry pepper spray and an iron glove device. I never had to use them (thank God), but I knew if I ever had to use them, I would know how to. I look around at kids today, with parents raising them in sub-reality, parents telling them that they need to repay evil with kindness. Parents who would rather lose their children in coordinated, calculated acts of terror, than teach their children how to mentally profile a suspicious individual and how to fight back in case of an attack.

       When we were children, we were well-rounded children. We were happy and we knew our table manners and our etiquette and we believed in fairy tales (I still believe in fairy tales); but at the same time, we were prepared for the reality of this world. But how come today as we live in a time where terror attacks are becoming the norm, it seems like the more and more children (and adults) are being taught that we need to do things like lighting candles and laying flowers? This is not called having a well-rounded mind! This is not being well-rounded! This is being incredibly, inconceivably stupid! 

       I truly believe that the cause of this is false teachings. Just as the ancient books written by The Rosicrucians predicted. The Rosicrucians, Knights Templars and The Illuminati all warned against false teachings that seek to divide the human being into only one part, and then to place importance only upon that one part. For example, the teachings that will tell you that the only thing that matters is your soul and not your body: that is imbalance. In reality, the soul and the body are of equal importance while you are here on this planet. Without the body, the soul does not walk the Earth and without the soul, the body is dead. Both are equally in need of the other! The goal is to master body AND soul, equally! 

       Today, I can see with my own eyes, how people everywhere are bombarded with teachings like the Law of Attraction, which state that the only way to make the world a better place and to make your life a better one to live, is by ignoring the existence of everything negative in the world and surrounding yourself in an unreal cocoon of "everything is always right". In reality, of course, this is not true. But what does this type of teaching do to the minds of humans, everywhere? This type of teaching turns everyone into PREY while the predators devour them! When you do not see the crocodile, because you are trained not to see the crocodile even when it is there in front of you, what happens is that you will be devoured by the crocodile. 

       The teachings of today are creating a weak generation. For example, the teaching of "all is love and all are one". The teaching of forgiveness, that we must always forgive everyone their wrongdoings. As a result, we have societies that are incapable, utterly incapable of overcoming terrorism! And the catastrophic part about this, is that, these societies are fully convinced that if they love terrorists hard enough, the terrorists will change their ways! 

       People want mercy only, so they discard justice. People want happiness only, so they discard the reality of the work that still needs to be done. People want compassion so they discard respect. People want love so they discard wisdom. People want freedom so they discard protection. People want righteousness so they discard guilt. A bird has two wings, the two wings bring balance and correction, but people today are so self-entitled, they believe that if they cut off one wing and take only the other wing, the bird will still be able to fly! This is wrong. This defies science and this defies reality. A bird must have two wings in order to fly. A bird must have balance.

       The children of today are taught love, but they are not taught wisdom; they are taught compassion but they are not taught respect; they are taught righteousness but they have lost the ability to feel guilty for their own actions. Civilisation of today is raising children with only one wing, they have cut the other wing off!

       When modern-day terrorism as we now know it, truly began to reveal its horrendous head not so long ago, the minds of children and adults everywhere were already ripe for the plunder. The minds of people were already saturated in a New Age culture of "one love" and "the universe loves me because I am made of stardust". In fact, right now innocent people go to concerts, children go to concerts, and don't come out alive. You may say that doesn't happen often, but I say that if it happened to your son or daughter, one time would be one time too often! And still, regardless of the reality that we all live in now, the majority of people deal with it via escapism. Escapism is a psychological condition whereby people retreat to alternative realities in their minds, in order to avoid dealing with the probabilities of actual realities that their physical bodies are presented with. Millions of people today are afflicted with this psychological condition. Millions. 

       I have been warning about this for years. I have written about this many times. I have even documented this in my books, explaining and expounding in some of the books which I have written. If all people retreat into their minds, then who is going to tend to the actual world around us?

       Now, let me end by saying this: I am an actual Arch Magus. You probably don't even know what that means. I live and breathe MAGIC. If there's anyone who "should" be out-of-touch with reality, that should be ME! Why is this not the case though? Well, that is because MAGIC is the study of the laws of the natural world! Unnatural to those who do not understand, but only natural to those who understand it. The science of today was the magic of yesterday. Whatever they are too stupid to understand yet, they call "magic". We just call it "reality". So, I am a wielder of magic who is more in touch with reality than millions of people around me. I am concerned for the condition of mankind. 

       Stay away from people who call themselves "enlightened", for no enlightened person would label him or herself as such. Stay away from people who will tell you that the universe cares about you, because a person of knowledge will know that the universe is composed of dark energy, dark matter, and 4% matter, which are all things that are incapable of caring for you! Stay away from people who say that there is no wrong and there is no right that exists, for there IS wrong and there IS right that exists! There is evil and there is good. There are the right choices and there are the wrong ones. And lastly, stay away from people who would tell you to love at all times and have compassion at all times, for this is a religious and spiritual propaganda designed to enslave the minds of man. Of course, there are times when you should love and times when you should not love. There are times when you should forgive and times when you should not forgive. There is a time for the Sun to rise and a time for the Sun to set. There is a time for laughter and a time for tears. A time to reap and a time to sow. All has its own time. Wisdom is to indwell the perfect time as it unfolds in reality. And this is my message for you all, all you birds with only one wing!

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The Very Real Deal on Terrorism

Terrorism is just like a bacterial infection and having a terrorist problem is just like having a bacterial infection.

The treatment of terrorism, which we often observe these days, thanks to the frequent acts of terror being carried out all over the world, is also just like the treatment that one sick with a bacterial infection would receive.

As one ill with a bacterial infection would receive both anti biotics from the doctor and a bouquet of flowers from their friends and family, coupled with prayers and well wishes, so does a terrorist-stricken community receive from government and society.

We have those whose job it is to exterminate terrorists and terrorist ideology, while we have those whose sole ability is to offer prayers, flowers, candles and well wishes.

I will go on the absolute record and tell everyone right now, that love and flowers cannot cure a bacterial infection, nor can it cure terrorism. No matter how hard you believe it to be true, I am telling you, that what you believe is false. You are not going to love terrorists away.

When someone is sick, we do not tell the doctor to stop killing the bacteria through the administration of anti biotics. And yet, when a community or a nation is infested with terrorists who are equivalent to bacteria, we would like the cure to be flowers and candles. With only flowers and candles, an infected individual will surely die if the bacterial infection is already widespread (as is the terrorist threat right now). So, we tell the doctor to do his/her best (in the case of the infected individual). But why then, do we tell our governments (and ourselves and each other) that love is the only way to fight terrorism?

Love is absolutely not the way to overcome terrorists and terrorism. And I can tell you that I am very sure that they are very happy that you believe that right now!

There must be a balance. A balance of those who wish to light candles and lay flowers; and those whose job it is to shoot guns and detonate missiles.

There are many beautiful poems that have been written to the effect of loving all the bad away. But those are poems that merely sound good; nevertheless, they are empty vessels. Poems and sayings that are empty, useless, and even hazardous. We will never overcome terrorists and terrorist ideology through love and kindness. Never. This (terrorism) is a very lucrative and efficient system that must be eradicated and annihilated from the face of the Earth. Just as the doctor must eradicate every last molecule of typhoid fever or bacterial meningitis.

Please, work with reality and open your eyes. We are not all warriors and we are not all soldiers; however, we don't need to step in front of the paths of those who are. Let us all determine the role we ought to play and then work together towards the healing of our very infected global society.

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These Superheroes!

I have some remarkable individuals whom I would like to introduce all of you to; as you know, over at my esoteric society, Eltanin Thuban Draconis, we have made it our goal to advocate the plight of those who fight battles that are often overlooked. We have made it our ambition to highlight people we believe are worthy of merit. People who are important not because they are influential business persons making a lot of money or celebrities on a global platform; rather, persons who are important because they themselves are made of gold!

The other week, I introduced Huib of On Lyme Foundation. His story of overcoming Lyme disease and his fight to help others do the same, is one that everybody on the planet should know about.

And this week, we have someone very special, a young woman who was brave enough to put her own grandfather behind bars for raping her as a child. But she doesn't stop there. She actively helps others like her, to stand up for themselves against all odds and to do the same!

It is with great pride that I bring these two individuals into the forefront and I hope that you will stand with me and my society in supporting them and sharing their stories as much as you can! Help me to help important people take the center stage. We need to take down the old image of who is important and for what reasons they are important and we need to build a new image for the kinds of people we call heroes and celebrities. To me, Huib and Sara are celebrities and I applaud them to no end!

Come, read their stories!

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How Stupid Can People Become?

This week, I discovered two very stupid facts. The first fact, is that the Austrian President, Alexander van der Bellen, said this:

“It is every woman’s right to always dress how she wants, that is my opinion on the matter.”

And then after saying that, he then said this:

“And it is not only Muslim women, all women can wear a headscarf, and if this real and rampant Islamophobia continues, there will come a day where we must ask all women to wear a headscarf – all – out of solidarity to those who do it for religious reasons.”

His logic being, that since all women should be able to wear what they want to wear, then ALL women should be mandated to wear the hijab, regardless of their own personal religions and beliefs, in order to protect the people of one religion and one belief.

How stupid can a person become?

Then, the second very stupid fact I discovered, is that Angela Merkel eschewed the strict dress code for women under Sharia Law, while visiting with the Saudi Arabian king, Salman. She did the same while visiting Riyadh. Her reason? She said that she:

"Hopes to be an inspiration to oppressed women."

Yes, this is the same woman who is responsible for demanding that European citizens assimilate to Islamic ways in order to make the refugees feel more at home.

Her logic here seems to be, that when one arrives in a foreign land, one must not assimilate to the laws of that foreign land; rather, the laws of that foreign land must bend to the foreigner who has arrived in it. As she expected to happen for her during her own visit to the middle east. Really, because, all women of the middle east are in fact protected by diplomatic immunity and won't be run down and flogged and beaten to death for not wearing their dress code, because they are all Chancellors of Germany with their own security SWAT team following them around. Therefore, Merkel's eschewing of their dress code will really inspire them to just throw their hijabs off and stop wearing their burqas, because, one look at her during her visit is enough to make them see just how oppressed they are and I guess being lynched is a better alternative.

This woman's mind is twisted.

Merkel very famously says that, "Islam is not the source of the problem", meanwhile, she goes to the Middle East and says that she wants to "inspire oppressed women" by means of not wearing the hijab and not respecting the strict dress code (there are other dress codes aside from the hijab wearing). She is saying that Muslim women are oppressed. And basically, that she wants to invade the Middle East and inspire Muslim women to become white, to move to the EU and to reject their religions.

Do these two people have a multiple personality disorder? Schizophrenia? What is it? Because I would rather not think that people are capable of becoming this stupid!

Both of these individuals are wrong. It is wrong to require all women to dress by the religious dress code of one religion! It is also wrong to visit a nation wherein they follow a dress code and then disrespect that code which is their own law! The President of Austria should not be causing his people to feel insecure and afraid, by saying that one day all women will be mandated to dress by the code of one religion; and the German Chancellor should not be going to countries dictated by the Sharia Law, refusing to respect their laws of their own land and even calling them "oppressed"!

What is the right way here? What is the right path here? There certainly is a right way, a right path. What is that? That is to see and to abide by the simple logic that when you go to a foreign land, you respect the laws and the customs of that land. And if you plan to stay in that land, then you must assimilate to make their laws your own laws and their ways your own ways. 

Granted, we have freedom of religion and freedom of individuality and morality (most nations do, not all nations do). However, the freedom of religion means that ALL people have the freedom to follow a religion or to NOT follow a religion! That is the way that it goes! And when your religion interferes with the laws of the nation, then you must be put under check by the laws of that nation. This is very simple.

Merkel SHOULD HAVE WORN a hijab in a hijab-wearing country and Bellen SHOULD NOT be telling the Austrian people that they must all wear a hijab one day. Simple. Why do people have to twist things up in their minds and make everything so difficult for everyone?

What are these two individuals trying to do? Are they trying to facilitate the invasion of nations? Are they trying to switch things up? "Let's make Europe Islamic and then let's make Saudi Arabia into the new Europe"? Are they playing a little game out in the yard here? Are they mentally dysfunct?

Enough of this stupidity. I am done here.

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Meet Outstanding People, Join Us Hand-in-Hand

Over at my newly founded esoteric society, Eltanin Thuban Draconis, we work out our own merit by bringing the merit of others to light. We cast nominations and we make unanimous decisions on who and what we consider to be persons and groups and events of merit. Our aim is to bring overlooked goodness in this world to the light of day, thus working out our own merit in the process. We are honoured that those who create light and serve the light in the places of darkness, are eager and happy to partner with us as we bring their actions and their visions to a global platform.

I would like to introduce you to our second Person of Merit, Quintus Andradi, a man who dedicates his time and hard work to the care and protection of his nation's ex-servicemen. Please read his story here and join us in uplifting him. His nation, Sri Lanka, is a small, developing country that is often overlooked. I am so glad that Eltanin Thuban Draconis is able to serve with this man and his fellow workers.

I would also like to introduce you to a Group of Merit, called For The Love of Wildlife (FLOW). This is an Australian-based group of animal advocates who work towards the implementation of anti-canned hunting laws and animal and wildlife protection acts. We at Eltanin Thuban Draconis believe their works to be honourable in nature. Come discover the efforts of this Group of Merit and join us in uplifting and supporting them. 

There are very simple but very impactful ways that you can join my society and I in the upholding of individuals and organisations of merit. Read their stories, follow them on social media, and if you want, you can even contact the people involved to have a chat with them and see if you could work for/with them! Even simply clicking "like" on their Facebook pages is a very helpful action to make. Or simply sharing the blog posts in which they are being endorsed/promoted. All of these actions make a big impact and we invite you to contribute to our meritable cause in simple and in creative ways. Thank you.

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Introducing Jacquelyn Lamont, Outstanding Person of Merit

Today, I would like to proudly introduce you to an outstanding individual named Jacquelyn Lamont. My esoteric society and I— together, unanimously— we have come to an agreement that Jackie is not only an outstanding individual, but is also a Person of Merit, one that the world is blessed to have. It is with great anticipation that I give you her story, a story which I really hope everyone who discovers it will share, share, share, share everywhere! People like Jackie deserve and are worthy of recognition.

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For Positive People: What Kind of Positive Are You?

"Be not afraid, your darkness has a home." Here you can see these words taken from my book, The Conversation of Dragons, and tattooed into someone's flesh. Her name is Jessica James and she is the founder of ICARUS Inc.

These words are also what I say to suicidal people. Whenever someone is suicidal and they come to me, it is always the feeling of their darkness not belonging in this world, which makes them want to end their lives. We live in a society obsessed with positivity (or the appearance of positivity) and light. Anyone with a blemish, anyone with darkness, with a heaviness, is seen as a hindrance to the positivity that people want to attain. Thanks to teachings like the law of attraction, people are not taught how to get their hands dirty and transmutate darkness into light. Thanks to the teachings of today, we are living amongst a spiritually weak generation of people, who do not know how to face the darkness in the world and transform that darkness into light. The attitude today, of people, is that they believe that they are entitled to positivity and they are entitled to all of the light and the goodness, but they are too weak, afraid and unskilled to work with the darkness into order to create light. In our universe, the cosmology and the astronomy of sciences all point to the fact that light proceeds from darkness. In our universe, the greatest amount of space is taken up by dark matter and dark energy. Only 4% of our universe is taken up by light and objects of light that we are able to name and to recognise (planets, stars, nebulae, people). 73% of our universe is dark energy; 23% of our universe is dark matter.

In our current society, where people don't know what to do with negativity, they feel like they no longer deserve to live in this world the minute they experience depression, anxiety, other forms of heaviness in their lives. They want to kill themselves, they feel like they are not welcome.

But they are welcome. The only way to create light is to create it from darkness. Dark energy has the most potential to produce the most powerful forms of light. People need to know that they belong, that they are welcome, and that they are in fact WARRIORS.

In our day and age, people want to see everybody without sickness: this is a form of positivity. But they are not taught that in order to heal a sickness, you must touch the sick person. So, people want to live in a world free of sickness, but at the same time they do not want to heal the sick person. But for the world to be free of sickness, you must heal the sick person. See?

Today, people want to have flowers. Flowers nicely cut and placed in their homes. But they don't want to dig holes in the ground with their hands to plant seeds.

People want to have a clean world, but they will not bend over to pick up a piece of trash at their feet.

People want to worship the image of Jesus Christ on the walls of the church, but they forget that Jesus died a very violent death in order for them to be able to do that. Jesus walked with the sick, the lost, the bruised. Jesus did not for a single moment turn his face from the negative darkness in the world and in other people.

In reality, the current state of humanity's obsession with positivity, is the thing destroying people on the inside, and the planet on the outside.

Show me a person who will touch the sick, eat with the lost, and not fear the darkness in others, and I will show you a holy person.

I believe strongly in positivity and light. The difference with me and others though, is that I believe in producing light, not just basking in it. I believe in making diamonds out of rocks. It's positive, but it's not surface stuff. It's roots stuff. Rootwork.

To have a beautiful rose, make sure the soil is good. Others may want to have a garden full of roses and I want that too, but I know that a garden full of roses comes from a good soil and long roots. I am the maker of the garden, I am not just the one who wants to walk through it. And I believe that there should be more makers of gardens.

Darkness enshrouds the seed where the rose will emerge from. Remember that!

Do you consider yourself to be a positive person? A positive influence? Before you continue on with your day, stop and ponder upon these words. I do hope this will be helpful, have a wonderful day ahead!

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For Everyone Who Has Ever Had A Goal: Don't Chase It!

     

       When I first started out as an author, I naturally (like every other author) made my first attempts to network with other authors. In doing so, I found myself stuck with a bitter taste in my mouth and a negative energy all around me. You see, even when people do things in the name of positivity, often they are still forming a negative energy atmosphere around themselves that is churned out from the mechanical makings of competition, comparison, and "user-friendly" relationships. By "user-friendly", I mean: "Let's be friends because we can use each other to one another's advantage." So even if you gather together as a group of people for a positive motive, the energy that you produce around yourselves could very well be very negative for the other people in the vicinity. I became drained in that atmosphere of constant comparisons and constant competition between authors. That is when I decided that I would not even stop to look over my shoulder when I walked out that door. And I did walk out that door. And like I planned, I didn't even look over my shoulder.
       I became a "grassroots author." I reconnected with those inner roots that are buried deeply into the soil stuff of WHY I was doing what I was doing, in the first place. Why was I writing? I was writing because I wanted to talk to people. End of story. And so that is exactly what I did. I wrote to people, I answered them when they wrote back to me, I listened to their stories, and I forgot about being an "author." The rest is history. The next time I checked, I was advising presidential candidates, movers and shakers, and people that I can't even name due to their involvement in national intelligence and defense services. The next time I looked, people were coming out of rehab after reading my books, people were having my words tattooed into their skin, people were thanking me for their life. Yes. For the reason why they are still breathing!
       People are not going to trust you and come to you and open up to you because you have networked with enough big shots in the world to have earned a reputation. People are going to trust you and come to you and open up to you because they feel you, because you touch their hearts, because they know that's where their mind and soul is leading them— to you and to your work!
       If you have a LinkedIn account and if you are an active user of this method of professional networking, you will probably be familiar with the whole user-friendly, look-at-me-I'm-so-great, look-at-me-I'm-competition scene. It's a place where people gather not just to do professional networking, but more often than not, it is a place where people gather to try and be something that they're not, or to prove what they are, to be validated by other people. To compete. They talk about positivity but while they build positivity projects together, they dispense an incredibly negative, competitive energy into the atmosphere around them.
       The problem with focusing on your goals and forgetting about other people, is that you end up without other people. Simple. You end up (maybe) with your goal, but nobody actually loves you. Maybe the people who can get something from you will still be there in the end, but, do you ever stop to ask yourself if you are touching hearts? If you are healing lives? If you are hurting people? If you are forgetting people? People will run over others and forget about their word of honour, all in a bid to chase after their goals. Why? Because global society has placed such an immensely, immeasurably large amount of value on the goal itself (and on the process of reaching it), simultaneously forgetting about the human being, in the process. Both the human being going after the goal and the human beings surrounding that person going after the goal.
       Seven years ago, I dropped the goal and I held hands with the people all around me. And I never left anyone behind. Before I knew it, I had attained goals that I didn't even know I wanted! I didn't even know such goals could exist! I didn't even dream of them! The goals dreamt of me, the goals attained me, the goals reached for me.
       Sometimes, today, I can get caught up in the negative byproducts of positive projects and positive people (it happens more often than I would like to admit), and when that happens, I close my eyes and take a step back, I remind myself of the same things I reminded myself of when I first started out writing. I didn't look for anything, somehow everything looked for me. Why? Because I looked for people.
       Going forward, I want to continue to be this way. I don't want to be "an inspirer", I don't want to be "a leader", I don't want to be "an influencer", I don't want to be "a thought leader" and I don't even want to be "a good person". Then what do I want? I want to be me, then I want to meet people, then I want people to tell me what/who I am to them. That is what I have done throughout my career and that is what I will continue to do. I have found out who I am, through what I have become to people. I will find people, and they will find me, and they will tell me who I am to them and I will discover who I truly am and who I am truly capable of becoming.
       The next time you are told to "be who you want to be", answer that by saying, "I want to meet people, feel people, know people; and then I want them to tell me who I am to them". I believe we can change many things, simply by changing our workplaces through the renewal of our minds in this way. And yes, I am going to post this article to LinkedIn! Now, I hope this article has been helpful, do have a very wonderful day!

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The Conversation of Dragons: A Book Review by Jim Crotty

It’s time to meet Jim Crotty. Jim is a photographer, business man and former US Marine. In his review of The Conversation of Dragons, he has actually compared my book to a required reading for the US Marines. Read his review, you will be moved by it:

"The analogy that came to mind right away after reading C. JoyBell C.’s The Conversation of Dragons was the memory of being handed my copy of a Guidebook for Marines as a new recruit so many years ago on Parris Island. However, with C’s insight and wisdom are the general orders that are life-changing. Through the narrative of the 'conversation' the reader is imparted with a new way of being and just not thinking; an entry so to say to the higher realm of what I would attempt to identify as the cosmic alchemy of the soul. 'Love as fire loves' best summarizes the essence of what it means to be a dragon, and in and through that fire aren’t just simple words of encouragement but rather a full awareness of both the realities of life with the underlying foundation of both the mystical and spiritual energies that pull and push one’s soul out of the comfort zones of simple existence. It’s in these pages the reader will discover a transcendent wisdom that lifts one above the constraints of the everyday and obvious and into the wondrous ether of what is to truly live and love not as flesh but as a soul with a heart set free from the temporal bounds of the prisons we often build for ourselves, be it guilt, shame or fear.

All dragons carry and protect the sacred fire of each person’s potential to move beyond the stagnation of comparison (which I believe has become even more of an issue given the nature of instant social media) and the acceptance of socially convenient labels. C. JoyBell C. gently adjusts our common perception of light and darkness, of good and evil and of love and hurt to help us guard and grow the true treasures of our lives with the power and majesty of the dragon that resides in each of us."

More about Jim:

Jim is the Owner and Photographer at Picture Ohio, LLC. Aside from Jim’s involvement with the arts and entrepreneurship (he comes from a long line of entrepreneurs), he also gained a firm foundation in perseverance and determination while serving as a United States Marine. Jim’s evidence of loyalty to the United States Marine Corps Reserve includes the following: Honorable service including active duty training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC; graduate of USAF Security Police Academy at Lackland Air Force Base, Marine Corps Detachment; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Ft. Carson, Colorado Springs, CO and Camp Kinser, Okinawa, Japan. Corporal E-4 with Selective Marine Corps Reserve Award.

Jim has been a Marketing Communications Manager, a Journalism Teacher and a Speech Communications Teacher. His true love, though, goes to his two daughters, Emma and Chloe; and also to his son, Philip. His love is also evident in his affection for the arts. Jim says about his photography: “Life is art and a love for the art of living infuses every project I become involved with, from commercial photography assignments to teaching photography to capturing images that effectively express my appreciation for the beauty and wonder of nature. What I do as a profession and avocation resides deep within my being.”

You may connect with Jim here.

Jim is courageous and sensitive. Be courageous and sensitive like Jim. 😊

The Conversation of Dragons is now available for purchase on Amazon and other online bookstores. If you would rather, you can always place an order at your local brick-and-mortar bookstore and they will ship in the book for you within a few weeks.

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