DRIFTED INTO VEGETARIANISM

I have eaten almost every part of every animal. Now I do not eat flesh of any kind. Here is how I got from there to here. One day my wife came home and said that she was going to do a 30 day raw food diet. I joined her to keep shopping and food preparation easy. We could not eat meat of any kind. Everything was raw. We ate nuts as protein substitutes. I thought that it would be hard on my body, but the transition was smooth. I had the most difficulty with not eating sugar or salt. This meant that I had no salad dressing to put on the salad that we ate every night. I made home made dressing, but craved a French or Thousand Island dressing. As we approached the end of the 30 days we discussed what we would do afterward. I said that I did not want to go back to eating flesh. I do not eat eggs or fish. I do eat sugar again and I am thinking about adding eggs back to my diet. I am less sluggish now. I can expand my consciousness easier. I also found that I do not need as much food at all. I am called Timothy and I am a vegetarian. More importantly I am not a jerk about my new diet.

GROUPON MADE US DO IT

Everyone asked my wife and I what made us start our own soap business. The answer is that it all started with Groupon. My wife had become attached to Groupon. One day she saw a Groupon for a soap making class. We took the class together. It was fun and surprisingly easy to make natural soap. On the way home we discussed trying to make a business out of selling the soap. We made a few batches of soap at home to practice and our soaps were good. I even made a mistake in the process of one batch of soap and ended up making a soft scrub instead. My wife invested in a large quantity of ingredients along with equipment to manage and cure the soaps. This business is more than a hobby, it may save our marriage. I have been unemployed for over five years. My vlogging, blogging, e-books, and educational website has not made enough money to help pitch in. We have had a good experience at a flea market selling Christmas boxes full of our soaps. Now we have a website which allows us to sell our hand made soaps all around the world. Thanks to Groupon we still have a family to start a family business with.

HUMANITY IS LEAVING

All of humanity is leaving us. The idea that a person deserves a certain kind of treatment because they are the same type of being is dead. As humanity disappears other attitudes are filling its place. On the low end there is savagery. Men are knocking people out for fun and exposing themselves to women in public. Women are twerking in supermarkets and teaching their daughters to grind. We also have low principles such as injustice and indifference. Police officers are writing tickets and the courts are forcing you to pay when you have not violated any rule. Men are going into villages to kill other men and rape women as well as children. People are acknowledging the suffering of others and shrugging their shoulders because they are not interested in stopping the suffering. We also have high principles like justice and empathy. We only exhibit fair treatment whether good or bad. We actually show the suffering a way out of their suffering. If they have the courage to do it those people get better. Many people are retreating into inner rooms as the house of humanity disappears, but you do not have to wait until the last bit of humanity is gone to choose these other options. You can move out at this moment.

THE SPIRIT REALM

We have a physical realm which is the material world and we have a spirit realm. We can reach the spirit realm by way of deep meditation or sleep. The spirit realm is much better than the physical realm. In the spirit realm we are more alive. We come across objects and symbols that can seem strange or scary, but we have nothing to fear. Once I saw a large creature resembling a hippo with multiple eyes. I was not afraid because I know she was similar to an ancient representation of something. In order to make sense of the spirit realm you have to have a system of learning. Spiritual teachings, metaphysics, and/or quantum physics will help you on your journeys. If you want to do more than wander around the spirit realm you will have to learn, but once you know the basics about who and what we are you will be able to guide yourself with inner knowledge. The only problem I have is that I have to return to the physical realm. Building a reality in the spirit realm helps to make the physical realm bearable.

IN 2014

In the year 2014 I am going to continue to expand my field of consciousness. That is what I am doing every moment. I have reorganized the Freedman School in order to provide new lessons every week. I offer reviews of music, movies, and books with purpose of encouraging others to engage with these works for themselves. I also offer lessons questioning such concepts as democracy and social events like inner city shootings. My internet library has been organized for use for about a year and will grow if it receives the proper support. In 2014 I will continue to share my ideas in my multimedia blog. I wrote a lot of short stories in 2013 and will continue to write in 2014. I started a new series called planet. I also started a philosophical series called Mind. I will build upon my body of work in 2014. Maybe I will move from starving artist to an artist who can feed himself. All I can control is what I produce. The support these productions get is out of my hands.

HOWARD ZINN SPEAKS TO ME

Howard Zinn speaks to me. We talk about how many points of view a single event can have. I always look at an event from at least three angles. I view it from the beings that inflict the event, the beings who suffer from the event, and the environment where the event happens. Zinn and I also talk about how many mistakes that we are suffering through could be avoided if we just knew the real events of the past. Not only do most of us not know what happened 100 years ago, but most do not even remember what happened 10 years ago. Some communities repeat mistakes every year. We often discuss how transformative movements have become difficult only because too many people do not want to do the mental work necessary. They would rather spend valuable energy maintaining life styles, leaving the quality of life in such a poor state.  

COMMUNITY POLICING

I have introduced the idea of community policing repeatedly for the last decade. Maybe you all are tired enough of losing your children and falling prey to the tyrants roaming our streets in uniform. Maybe now you will embrace the idea of community policing, so I will discuss it yet again. We could pay young adults to protect and watch over our children. We could pay unemployed men to protect the women in the community. This means making sure they get from their transportation into their homes safely. We could ask any strangers in the community if there is any way we could help them. The attention will scare away those who mean us harm and help legitimate strangers find their destinations. We could use our phones to record anyone violating rules of the community, even law enforcement officers. The best part about all of this is that we do not need anything from outside to help us carry out community policing. We could start right now if we wanted. I meet my wife every night at the train station to make sure that she gets home safely. I would gladly work to expand this security to others in my neighborhood, but they are not interested. Maybe you are interested.