JOHN COLTRANE SPEAKS TO ME

John Coltrane speaks to me. We talk about the state of music among the melanin enriched. Today there seems to be too many sound effects and not enough natural sound. You do not know what genre you are listening to these days. Gospel spills over into rhythm and blues, rhythm and blues spills over into hip-hop. Coltrane does not mind that so much because lines should be blurred. The problem is that not much of the music motivates or touches us deeply. Maybe we need to go back to slave songs. Coltrane explained improvisation within parameters, stretching parameters and improvising again. We talk about vibrations, how important it is for artists to reach the universal vibration to offer the audience a chance to experience something beyond the structures of the five senses. John Coltrane loves to speak to the multitudes and I love to listen to him.

Get Blowed (A Poem)

Get Blowed

All you want

To do

Is get blowed

You needed fog

To protect you

From the bondage

You can see clearly now

The bondage is gone

There are no more obstacles

In your way

They put you out

Of the school system

They put you out

Of the job market

Not even your mothers

Care about you

Anymore

You are free now

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.