The World Around Us

 Some people think like slaves and some don't. Some people stay in the same place they grew up all their lives and some don't. It's not that there are not expansive people who live in the same place they grew up all their lives, it's just that they tend to be rare.

So, being exposed to ideas other than those you grew up with is most easily reached by going somewhere new and meeting new people not like those you grew up with worldwide.

Because of this often you have close minded people who off themselves or others or both and then you have open minded people who would never do that.

Because of the way I was raised I would never off other people but did consider ending my own life in my early 20s like many people do.

However, I had really good parents who helped me "along with my friends" through this phase of life to something better.

I discovered in my 20s that no one really "Fits" into the world and that you have to create the world "custom made" to be your place in the world you want to live in. 

Luckily, I had forebears who thought this way too like my great Grandfather who was a Northern Army Civil War Captain and came home from that war and realized he needed medicines along with other soldiers who survived that war so he bought herbal medicines from a local Native American Tribe in Kansas and began a drug store that he ran from the 1870s until 1925 when he sold it and then he lived well into World War II after being born in the 1840s. This kind of individualistic thinking of being your own man with your own business supporting your family continued with my Grandfather, my Father, my Uncle and myself and my Cousin. Because all of us have owned our own businesses along the way to support our wives and children.

So, whether you survive your 20s or not often has a lot to do with whether you can find a way to create a world you want to live in by starting your own businesses, having complete control of what you do 24 hours a day with no one telling you what to do during the day because you are in control of your own life. Your only boss might be God and of course you listen to the needs of your wife and children.

This worked for me too.

Over time I realized that I was "Captain of my own ship and master of my own destiny".

I suppose it is very "AMERICAN" to think this way too and many people are so bludgeoned by life that they never evolve out of thinking like a slave worldwide.

But, if you cannot evolve out of thinking like a slave then it limits what you can think and do in your life. So, I would recommend learning how to be: "Captain of your own ship and master of your own destiny".

In my writings I try to share this way of thinking that has brought me and my family safely through our lives together. Yes it is true I was born a white male with heritage going back to Switzerland before my forebears came to the U.S. to Philadelphia around 1725 here in the U.S. Now I have distant relatives living literally all over the U.S. and world from the 6 brothers that originally came to the U.S. together in the 1700s through England from Switzerland.

Much of my writing reflects this feeling of freedom and opportunity that my forebears brought to me and allowed me to have. My father was a Libertarian and thought a lot like the founders of this country who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Though the world is more socialized now and because of it many more survive now when they wouldn't have before without Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance, the basic way things work is still quite Libertarian, especially here in the U.S. where catch nets for people to survive often don't exist at all if you compare the U.S. to Europe for example. 

So, the U.S. is a country where "for the most part" you are free to succeed or die either way.

So, on the one hand we have this "Unlimited Opportunity" that doesn't exist in other nations often at all.

Then on the other hand we have the freedom to die if we are stupid about how we approach our opportunities.

What I have found is that without good parents about 2/3 of the people don't make it to any kind of success in relationships or in business which is really horrific to watch.

So, there is a new "Law of the jungle" which is what we live in here in the U.S. which allows only some to survive.

Is this good or bad? I would have to say that it is both good and bad at the same time like all systems and forms of government around the world. 

What was my experience Growing up?

I was born into a religion called The Saint Germain Foundation in Seattle Washington. My father read the Unveiled Mysteries, the Magic Presence and the "I AM" Discourses which are the foundation of this religion that started around 1930 here in the U.S. I think out of Chicago with churches starting in Los Angeles and Santa Fe and Seattle and San Francisco and Denver are the ones I'm most famliar with.

My parents were put in charge of the "I AM" temple on Hope Street in Los Angeles in 1954 so we moved north to Los Angeles at first to Tujunga up against the mountains as Dad didn't like being right into a city and preferred as much of the country as you can get which is why we lived right up against the Angeles National Forest with mountains that go up to 8000 or 9000 Feet like Mt. Baden Powell and further South Mt. Baldy and further South Mt. San Gorgonio which I climbed when I was about 21 years of age and almost died trying to do this because it was wintertime. But, then again we are all young once and do things we wouldn't do later.

At age 8 I began taking Piano lessons just like my 5 years older male cousin. This was actually a good idea. By age 12 I could play most popular tunes on the piano and I had a good singing voice like my mother. I also took violin lessons at a public grade school in Glendale as well with a man name Paul Gruss I believe his name was. I was also in the All City Orchestra of kids from grade schools in Glendale and we played a big concert at Hoover High School that year of 1960.

However, the violin wasn't really my instrument because my hands were too big and my fingers too thick really because eventually I became 6 feet 5 inches tall basically. So, I gave up violin by age 14 and didn't play much after that.

However, I played piano and organ in church from age 12 to age 21 when I left my parents church.

I also played a pipe organ in Santa Fe, New Mexico while I was attending a private church school in Santa Fe, New Mexico called "The 'I AM" school from fall of 1965 until May of 1966 when I graduated with my high school diploma.