Monday, March 31, 2025

One of the Forms of Vajrasattva sent me to Asia and to India and Nepal

This would be fall of 1985 and I was working a 6 month per year stint as a fire lookout about 10 or 15 miles form the nearest human being. Many people couldn't deal with being this remote but I sort of liked it except I didn't like being away from my family either 3 1/2 or 4 1/2 days a week. The other lookout and I alternated this schedule at this very remote lookout. also, since I wasn't allowed a gun there I had to watch for Wild Boar which will often kill an unarmed man or child. And at one point my car hit a large female guarding her babies who attacked my 1976 VW Rabbit that I was driving that day to work. I found her dead when I got off shift but I didn't know what had hit my car and driven me off the dirt road into a ditch until I got off shift either 3 1/2 or 4 1/2 days later from the remote lookout at 4000 feet elevation for the California Department of Forestry. Also, my wife and I also had two other businesses in addition to the Lookout job that I mostly took just for the health care (which was amazing) for the 5 of us. My wife and I and by then the kids were 10, 12 and 14 years old and this was a relatively easy way to afford health care for 5 people (The Health insurance). Because as small business owners we couldn't afford health insurance otherwise then in 1985.

So, Vajrasattva came to me around October 1985 at the Lookout and told me I would be leaving for India around December 10th 1985. We actually wound up leaving the 11th of December 1985 and all three of our kids went with us from December 11th 1985 until April of 1986 and we traveled to Japan, Thailand, Nepal by plane and to India by Buses and rented Cars and trains.

Nothing would have been more extreme a change in our lives except maybe going off planet than what we actually experienced in Asia at that time. Japan was the most like the U.S. then Thailand was even a little more exotic and different and almost no one either spoke English to us at all in Thailand except at our Guest Houses we stayed at in Bangkok and Koi Samed Island off the coast of Bangkok. On the island we snorked and rented a Sailboard because we found Bangkok too noisy and polluted (the Air was brown from smoke from no mufflers are all then on Cars and Trucks and motorcycles so you woke up from the incredible noise of thousands of motor vehicles every morning around 6 AM when cars and trucks and motorcycles started going everywhere. So, we were really grateful to get to a remote Island which was sort of like being on a more undeveloped part of Hawaii where I had lived already by then in 1974 with my first wife and baby son in Hilo, Hawaii. So, I felt very at home on Koi Samed Island because of my time with my first wife and son living in Hilo Hawaii.

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