Fear is everywhere.  Were it not, life on Earth would look very different than how it appears now.  There would be much more honesty, health, joy, freedom, abundance and prosperity on this planet than you can possibly imagine were we all not so afraid.  Humans might actually decide to live much longer lives.  As it stands, 70 or 80 years is about as much bullshit as we humans can collectively take before we decide to check out.  So many of those lives end in fear and regret as well, which really is a tragedy for a place that was designed to be Heaven on Earth!

I’ve only recently turned 54.  For me, there is a conscious recognition that I am in the last chapters of my life.  The best years of my body’s youth are behind me, and there is no reclaiming them, no matter how many hours I spend in the gym or manage my diet well.  That doesn’t mean there is less joy to be gained in my life, but each major stage of life requires a radical readjustment of vision and priorities if one is to make the most of wherever you find yourself in the flow of time.  Trying to hold on to things or relationships that are past their season is a guaranteed recipe for suffering!

From my current vantage point, I can say that I’ve lived a pretty awesome life so far.  Others who judge me from the outside may say such a statement is delusional.  I don’t give a shit!  We are all the authors of our own story, and we have the ultimate editorial input.  If you want to suffer and be miserable, let someone else write your life story for you!  That’s what the mainstream media, the political class, religious leaders, academics and the scientific community are all designed to do for you.  Take a poll amongst yourselves….how are they doing?  Congress has had an approval rating in the low teens for most of my adult life.  You think I’m going to let them have any say over my life, let alone the TV-addicted people that inhabit your own personal circles of friends?  HA!

A large part of the satisfaction I have achieved has to do with the fact that I learned something at a much earlier age that I would like to share with you now.  Regardless of your age in life, it is never too late to learn this very powerful piece of occult knowledge:

“DEATH IS YOUR LOVER!  WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO FEAR?”

Marjorie Cameron is credited with that quote, but the knowledge behind it comes from a long and sacred tradition too old to establish any date for it.  The secret to a great life is to EMBRACE DEATH!  Please ponder this long after you’re finished reading my words.  Make a sign and place it somewhere you can look at it every day.  Don’t forget it!  Dive deeply into it!  Absorb it into your bone marrow!

Like Fear, but also like Love and Sunlight and Air, DEATH IS EVERYWHERE!  The number of people who have DIED on this planet is uncountable.  Every single one of them is FORGETTABLE….in time!  I can hear the Christians say that Jesus is the exception to that rule.  I tell you now, HE WILL BE FORGOTTEN, TOO!  The Jesus people pray to today is FAR DIFFERENT than the man who actually lived, I can say that for certain!  So who is it that is hearing your prayers?  He’s DIFFERENT in each one of your IMAGINATIONS.  Same for Yahweh, Krishna, Buddha, Mary, Durga and Jimbobalu!  Getting the picture yet?  Probably not, because I’m just getting started!

Death is NATURAL.  Death is UNAVOIDABLE.  It will not come when you want it to, unless you are a conscious murderer, and you try to wield death as a POWER.  I’m not recommending that course of action, but it is a spiritual practice mastered by some and practiced by many.  Pharmaceutical companies and militaries come to mind.  Sorcerers and religious zealots, too!  I’m only saying that if you ACKNOWLEDGE the presence of Death, she can be allowed to LOVE YOU and turn your fear and grieving into victories!

What victories has DEATH brought me in life?  I will start by illustrating a very powerful instance of it in my past.

For most of the 1990s and into the early 2000s, I was a high school teacher both in New York City and close by in New Jersey.  I absolutely LOVED my work and I thought I would be doing it for the rest of my life.  Since I also coached baseball, I could see a future where some building or athletic facility might be named after me in honor of a long career happily serving our youth.  It was a beautiful dream.  I loved challenging the kids to be the best they could be, and despite the meager salary, I loved the Summers off!  New York City and The Jersey Shore were my adult playgrounds.  Life was awesome for most of my 20’s, even though both my parents and twin brother passed away during that decade.  Death was making herself known to me early, preparing me for the many deaths of mine that would follow.

At the peak of my career, September 11^th, 2001 happened.  I was on top of the one of the World Trade Center buildings just 9 days before, so this event rocked my soul like an earthquake, or rather, it was a SOUL QUAKE, that shook me down to my core!

It did so because I soon realized that our government’s version of events that day was absolutely full of LIES.  Exploding planes and burning jet fuel did not cause those Towers, and the untouched Building 7, to come crashing down as they did.  They were CONTROLLED DEMOLITIONS, meaning this event required a lot of EARLY PLANNING and tightly coordinated STORY TELLING in order to get away with the lie that a bunch of poorly trained Arab hijackers could wreak so much damage on the most powerful nation on Earth and bring the whole world into a generation-long PHONY WAR ON TERROR.

The fear that was in the air in those early days post 9/11 were as palpable as what everyone experienced during the more recent Covid Scamdemic.  Blame the Boogey Man!  Stay Strong!  Don’t make any noise!  Do what the government and the TV are telling you to do!  Go Shopping!  Forget about it and move on, if you know what’s good for you!

Luckily, I did know what was good for me!  All my religious and moral education taught me to always STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH.  I did not fail the test!  I stood up, spoke up and watched as my very highly respected and earned reputation was torn down to the ground!  “Conspiracy Theorist!” “Whacko!” Nut Job!” “Lunatic!” “Un-Patriotic!” Most of all, people said, “BE QUIET!”

I soon realized that my stance for the truth had EVAPORATED my dreams for the future.  It may have also put my LIFE in jeopardy!  History is full of truth tellers who get murdered or “disappeared”.  Me?  I was getting MARGINALIZED and SHUNNED.  I’m not telling you any of this was easy.  I was frightened and scared.  All of a sudden, my career was at an end, and I didn’t even know where to go from there.  Teaching was all I LOVED to do.  Many students respected me for my stand, but many more went along with noise, and joined in the public humiliation of me.

I had made the decision that I would rather DIE than to be part of such a heinous lie.  When you make BIG DECISIONS like this, LIFE will TEST you, so choose carefully.  I offered up my teaching career to God, and stepped into the unknown.

In 2002, at the end of the school year, I only knew two things about my future.  The first was that I needed to go on a trip to Scotland.  Love called me over there.  And while no romance with a human came about, my SOUL and SPIRIT were RENEWED by an encounter with the FAERY POWER of those magickal lands, though it would be quite a few number of years before I would even know that.  Despite my Irish upbringing, my sensibilities about this part of life were limited to the usual fantasy stories about Leprechauns and Tinkerbells, which I did not take seriously.

The second part of my summer agenda was to attend one of the retreat programs at the world famous Monroe Institute in central Virginia.  As my soul was searching for a possible future post 9/11, I had read a book that mentioned the place and the OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES of its founder, Robert Monroe, which absolutely fascinated and captured my imagination.  If I could learn to see reality OUTSIDE OF MY OWN BODY, what kind of power or truth would I discover that could help me navigate my future, and possibly be of help to my human family in this time of growing deception?

There, in July, I understood just how powerful of a LOVER Death could truly be!  Not only did that retreat program blow the doors off of what I thought reality was, it set my life on a course towards a new chapter in time that was more fulfilling and rewarding than my teaching career turned out to be!

I was ultimately led to a new career THERE, at TMI!  Thank you forever to Laurie Monroe for hiring me (upon the prompting from her deceased father, she would later tell me.)  It was impossible to think of at the time how all that might be arranged.  But you learn to COMMUNICATE with life differently there than you’ve ever known before.  That place unlocked TALENTS in me, both psychic and professional, that I would never have discovered had I remained stationed at my Teacher’s desk, selling my soul for a paycheck just to go along and get along with everyone who decided to play it safe and trust the lies coming out of the TV and George Bush’s mouth on an everyday basis!

Thank the GODS I had stood up for myself!  I was now being rewarded not only with a new career, but also an incredibly loving and talented partnership with a sexy lover to boot! Thank you to the Goddess Macha!   My work in the classroom was impacting the lives of a few hundred students each year.  My work at The Monroe Institute, and the then connected Hemi-Sync business, was reaching THOUSANDS of people each year!

I left my work there in 2011.  Even today, the work I was a part of is still reaching lives all over this beautiful world and altering their view of what’s possible.  What a legacy!  It remains one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, and I’ve had lots more!  That’s because I keep trusting DEATH to love me each time my Soul’s INTEGRITY gets challenged by the evils of life.

This is just one example of what standing up for my truth, living to face my fears, and TRUSTING that DEATH, which is just a scary name for CHANGE and TRANSFORMATION, did for me.  I have lots more of these kinds of stories to tell.  I hope those of you who need to hear this kind of thing right now are receiving it well.  There is one FUNDAMENTAL, underlying belief that really makes my occult advice all the more powerful.  Add this to your equation when I say that DEATH LOVES YOU :

“YOU ARE A DIVINE CHILD OF GOD.”

This is the only way Death can be made to serve you, for Death is an ANGEL, and angels were created to serve God.  For an advanced lesson, we’ll put the Devil in there, too, but that’s for another time.

The process of giving up your old set of perceptions and belief systems is a process that I call UNLEARNNG.  I did not invent the term.  I picked it up from one of my spiritual mentors, Anthony DeMello, and just applied it to other areas of life he did not.

If you embrace unlearning, and the challenging process it brings into your life, there is no telling what kind of TREASURES you can unlock within yourself.  For me, it turned me into a MAGICIAN, and I now work with the power of THE STARS to guide my self and others to DIVINE and HEAVENLY shores.

I pray you come to your own INTIMATE LOVE AFFAIR with DEATH.  If you need assistance, I’d be happy to help!