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I discovered a new dissident this week.  Her name is Diana West and she is American!   The author of many books I never heard before until stumbling across her through my own research.  I immediately ordered her book entitled American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.  This book sheds light on the dark corners of American history.  What she discovers reveals a monster conspiracy that even I could not imagine.  Needless to say, her research and conclusions explain a hell of a lot about current events.  Once again, history is not what it seems.  I have a new understanding of John Brown’s perplexing historical legacy.  He sits outside any defined category of American character analysis.  He is neither hero nor villain.  Clearly, historians find him an uncomfortable character.  John Brown is a threat because of his individual stand against slavery and specific call to the slaves to free themselves.  Clearly, he stood for a progressive society but one measured within the context of the US Constitution and the bible (both new and old testaments).  There was no Marxist doctrine in his thinking.  No wonder he has been cast aside by historians.  I realize now that he is more dangerous to the left than the right and we all know the left writes (and rewrites) the history books.   Just to be clear, anyone who stands up for freedom is a threat.  John Brown cannot take his proper place in American history until the story of the Raid on Harpers Ferry is told without any political filtering.  My book imagines how that story might be told.

Free Tibet!

The monk wants to go home.

“We have to hunt the witches or else the witches are going to hunt us.”

Vladimir Bukovsky

Fisherman or mystic?  Either way, he is offering you a lantern in the darkness.   Take the journey across the river and into the mountains.  A spiritual adviser takes many forms.

“Man’s task is…to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.  Neither should he persist in his unconscious nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness.  As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”   Carl Jung

Curious to get your opinion.  Is the hiker entering the dark forest or exiting and looking backwards from where they emerged?    One situation presents a foreboding adventure  while the other represents a passage already completed.

I will tell you what the answer is soon.

As always, Michael Black displays genius in his ability to summarize hundreds of years of human history and our evolution of knowledge.   Something told me to visit his Youtube channel.  While I am a subscriber, I have not been there in months.   I was suffering yet another bout of insomnia last night and decided to watch this 26 minute video around 3:00AM.

A feeling of complete inadequacy to explain the purpose of my book still has me searching for answers.

I strongly encourage taking some time to watch this video.  Grab a glass of wine or a good scotch to go with his Scottish brogue and soak in his words.

At 25.25 he makes a statement that blew my mind.  I experienced an epiphany.

I believe I may be trying to create that myth to unite all things.  Yes, I see how that can seem like a grandiose claim.   If, however, all I am doing is taping into ancestral archetypes that reside dormant within my DNA, why can’t a simple person like me be its author?  Only time will tell.

Here is the inspiration for the magical food wagon that is pulled by two Yaks and driven by Magda the mysterious gypsy woman.

night owl food wagon – Google Search