Transcript:
The Black Crow
In my life theres a Crow, a big, black as pitch, special crow. Sometimes hes in an oak tree, others hes on a fence post. Sometimes hes off doing what black crows do and other times, hes sat on my shoulder screaming and squawking in my ear!
If you dont know what a crow is, its a big black bird they get in the UK, like a raven. As youll read, Im quite a grounded person and dont subscribe to much in the way of conventional wisdom. Im skeptical of luck and destiny and dont really get off on the supernatural
BUT
there are things in life that we simply cant explain.
How did this crow come into my life?
We were looking to move house and came across a property that was in the hands of the receiver. The owner had gone bankrupt and this looked like a fantastic opportunity. I tracked down the agent dealing with it and opened negotiations, looking forward to the moment we signed the deal of the decade.
I was ahead of the game, had got in before anyone else, the price was good
and things just started to fall apart!
One thing after another, inexplainable things that Im not even going to attempt to explain! The more we pushed, the more the deal pushed back.My wife would often turn to me and say that things arent right, this just isnt normal
In my heart I agreed but my head disagreed with both.
Then on the last visit, as we got out of the car, an old lady appeared at the fence from the field opposite. Cheery enough but just strange. Hi, just wanted to say hello and see if I like you or not. If not Ill be putting in a toilet block here in front of you she chirped.
At that very moment my Crow appeared on an ancient oak branch right next to her head and began screaming at us. Rarrrk, rarrk, rarrk
Thats it! We agreed and decided it was all too much. We pulled out of the deal and forgot all about it.
A year later we passed the property again and were horrified to see what would have happened if wed secured the house.
A retired lawyer lived some distance away and liked to ride out on the forest on his horse. Hed been studying old maps of the area and found an ancient bridleway that allowed him to access past the house to the woods beyond. He did his lawyers thing and got the path reopened.
It passed through the garden, under the kitchen window, through the garage and out of the garden on the other side!
I have listened to my Black Crow from that point forward.
When the Black Crow screams hes telling me to walk away or is pushing me in a direction. My wife and I have a saying now when things go wrong for no reason we can fathom, its a Black Crow.
We learned to accept that when the Crows a screamin
beware! Weve learned to walk away, no matter how counter intuitive it may seem.
I grew through writing and practicing the things I put down on paper here and as my other businesses took off and life took over I put Omniscience on the back burner.
Things started to go bad with my business, my Black Crow has been squawking and Ive not been listening. Everything failed, culminating in probably the darkest day of my life
Later I write about locking horns, seeing the signs and learning to walk away at the right time. Making an enemy is the most time-consuming, energy-sapping, draining thing you can do.
Wed bought an amazing property here in New Zealand which used to be an old apple orchard. It came with three workers cottages. After we moved, the council changed the development zoning, which for us was a lottery ticket. It meant we could divide off the cottages, give them titles and sell them on.
All went well until close to the end. Wed sold a couple and just needed some driveways putting in. This is the most simple of jobs. We took on a small local landscaping firm and that must have been one of those days when the Black Crow was off in some Black Crow strip joint, smoking Black Crow ganja and getting thoroughly smashed on Black Crow cerveza, or something. Where ever he was, he wasnt where he should have been
screaming at the top of his croupy voice: Stay away from these motherfuckers, they are baaaaaaad news
Im not going to bore you with the details but the subsequent two years have been what can only be described as utter insanity. These people made such a mess of the job that they caused us to miss the deadlines on the agreements and lose a sale. They then produced an invoice that appeared to have been penned by The Brothers Grim.
Its ended up in court and caused so much upset and distress I cant begin to describe
well I can but cant be fucked!
This was only a small facet of things that were going wrong. Alone, I sank lower and lower and lower into a dank and dark place where all was black and all was cold and all was silent.
I was living life constantly below the happiness line. My moods rarely peaked above it. I went on tablets in the hope theyd at least even emotions out. Just to be able to have a life on the happiness line would be a start.
I couldnt concentrate on my projects. I slept for too many hours and awoke tired and drained. I dreaded the morning and lived in abject fear of what Groundhog day would bring. If it was the same as yesterday, a day filled with rejection, I didnt want to face today.
And it was during this time of crushing self-pity that I rediscovered The Omniscience Principle.
I began reading. I would read more and as it made more and more sense I read more and then I started to rewrite. I am older and wiser now and began to feel a spark as I rediscovered writing stuff in better ways. Something I found most amazing of all was just how good this shit was! Stuff Id written those years ago was still so relevant and poignant.
As I wrote, the power returned and began coursing through my every cell
Id forgotten how powerful it all is.
Nothings changed at this point except my perspective. I am still fixing a broken business, still battling demons and still fighting those unhinged landscaping people
But I am feeling good, really, really good.
And now the fog has cleared I see the colour returning. I can see the sun rising and the moon, like an obedient dog following. I can hear the bees working and the birds singing and loudest of all
Black Crow is squawking!
He was there all along
The things that failed were Black Crow. If any of a million things had gone differently, Id not be writing this now!
I would have gone on without the benefit of these words, I would have gone on to be arrogant and unpleasant and narcissistic. I would have created wealth granted but I would not be wealthy, I would not be fulfilled.
When times are bad you feel like youre stood in a hailstorm without an umbrella.
Worry no more, youre not alone and now you too have discovered The Omniscience Principle, soon well be powering your way towards something better.
A plane wont fly without the wings. Bolt all the elements together and itll soar.
I want man to be like a never-falling Icarus spreading the wings forever reaching new heights no matter the obstacles that may be in our way
You only have a limited time here on this Earth
Theres a year, a month, a day and a second on your forehead and life is counting down. You cant see it but as sure as night follows day, its counting down and once youre gone, wherever you go, youre gone from this world. The Sword of Damocles is real!
Youre going to attain freedom to think clearly in the shortest possible time and spend the remainder of your extraordinarily short life enjoying it!
I started with nothing and I still have most of it left Seasick Steve
Just a few years ago, at the age of 32, I couldnt even turn on a computer, FACT!
I went to college and learned. After being virtually bankrupted once by The Machine I chose to explore the Internet as a vehicle to attaining wealth and freedom because I believed it offered the most opportunities for someone like me
actually it offers great opportunities for just about anybody!
Having said that I want to point out that The Omniscience Principle has nothing to do with how you choose to make your money and although the Internet has been good to me, I am well aware that it isnt for everyone.
The Omniscience Principle is about attaining personal freedom and being ultimately successful at your chosen business or in your ambitions
I say business because unless youre highly specialised, highly trained or highly sought-after, a job is time hungry, not leveragable and will simply never pay enough to do all the things you want to do!
Money is a necessary evil, even if your ultimate goal is to just do good. You cant save the Polar Bears without money!
How much is enough?
Well that depends on the individual but take it from me, its bloody great fat number that very few jobs in the world will pay?
Stellios from Easy Jet (a highly successful European budget airline) suggests that anything over £10million net worth (@ $20M) is vanity.
I put a slightly more conservative figure to aim at, somewhere around
mmmmm!£4,000,000 (@$8M) free and clear
and if you think thats going to be hard to attain
youre damn, fucking right it is!
But whether that figure is a mind-blowing amount to you or something that simply seems a lot
it is attainable
The Omniscience Principle is about opening the door to Self, by doing so you open doors to a better world. Some of what I write is not particularly sensational or ground-breaking however, Id like to think that I present in new and engaging ways
Some of what I write is sensational and ground-breaking.
Ive never had a job and at my age am thoroughly unemployable. To survive, I built my business one step at a time. For years the money refused to roll, but I stuck at it. I did whatever it would take to succeed
and through these modules Id like to share things I learned about myself along the way, with you.
I truly wish The Omniscience Principle was around when I started, as life would have been far easier for me!
I started right at the bottom, so dont think for a second that YOU cant achieve Personal and Financial Freedom
YOU CAN
and will, if you consider and implement what I share and most importantly, refuse to give up.
You will make it, maybe not overnight, but I promise, it will happen.
Well, I think youve worked out for yourself by know that I dont beat around the bush and I say it like it is! I dont suffer fools and get right to the point, so lets get right down to it
A Note From The Author
Omniscience (the state of knowing everything), is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known including thoughts, feelings, life and the universe,
and the realisation that you actually know bugger all about very little at all!
Everything we think we know, the teaching, doctrine, theories and facts are not all they seem, they are ephemeral. They are mostly other peoples ideas taken on board and re-presented as fact
until a new, better suited, better fitting proposal prevails.
For instance, Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher was so respected that his works formed the basis of most knowledge for nearly two thousand years.
No one thought to question his fact that flies had only four legs and that snot was brain matter! (Snot is the green slime that dribbles from your nostrils on a cold day if youre not familiar with the word!).
Even Christmas and 25th December being the date of Jesus birth is not what we think!
His birth, which is the basis for the Anno Domini system of dating, has been determined by modern historians as having occurred between 7 and 2 BC. The date of celebration is not thought to be Jesus actual date of birth, and may have been chosen to coincide with ancient Roman solar festivals that were held on December 25 worshiping their sun God Mithras.
Now on the subject of Mithras, it appears that many stories attributed to Christianity are nothing of the sort and are actually adopted from older, pagan beliefs. It has been said that if the growth of Christianity had been arrested by some mortal malady, the world would have been Mithraic!
After the triumph of the church over paganism, artists continued to make use of stock images originally devised for Mithras in order to depict the new and unfamiliar stories of the bible. The way in which Mithras was depicted shooting arrows at rocks causing fountains to spring up was adapted to represent the biblical story of Moses striking Mount Horeb with his staff to release drinking water, according to Cumont. Likewise the Heavens, the Earth, the Ocean, the Sun, the Moon, the Planets, signs of the Zodiac, the Winds, the Seasons, and the Elements appear on sarcophagi, mosaics, and miniatures in the fourth to fifth centuries using the same sort of iconography used for Mithras earlier.
The scene of Mithras ascending into the heavens was apparently incorporated into Christian art: after Mithras had accomplished a series of miraculous deeds, he ascended into the heavens in a chariot, which in various depictions is drawn by horses being controlled by Helios-Sol, the pagan sun god.
In other depictions a chariot of fire belonging to Helios is led into the water, surrounded by the God Oceanus and sea nymphs. Vermaseren argues that Christian portrayals on sarcophagi of the souls ascension into heaven, though ostensibly referencing the biblical scene of Elijah being led into heaven by fiery chariots and horses, were in fact inspired by representations of Mithras ascent into the heavens in Helios chariot. The sun god, provided inspiration for the flames on Elijahs chariot and the Jordan River is personified by a figure resembling the God Oceanus.
And this is often the way!
Columbus didnt discover America, it has been there since the beginning of time and merchants had been plying the oceans for hundreds of years before he trundled up their established trade routes and began torturing and slaughtering natives.
Apparently, the Indian Squanto who met the first Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, Massachusetts asked them if they wanted a beer!
He spoke perfect English having been to England several times!
The fact that he spoke to them at all is is remarkable because he was actually thrice kidnapped and enslaved in Europe before returning to America to find that his entire tribe had been wiped out by a plague brought by the European explorers.
Were taught that Captain cook was a gentleman hero who discovered the New World. Pacific tribes had made this their home two thousand years ago. Then I see on the History Channel that he was nothing but a murdering pirate, ultimately responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Maori!
Apparently, the romantic Hollywood version of the West being won by cowboys shooting Indians is nonsense, it was won with blankets infested with smallpox
and the original cowboys were in fact Scottish farmers thrown off their lands by the aristocracy.
The Santa we know and love is a character from a Coke advertising campaign.
The Crusades were state-sponsored terrorism. King Arthur and Merlin didnt actually exist and man didnt land on the moon, which is actually made of cheese!
The point is, that our knowledge base seems increasingly fragile doesnt it? All that we think we know is not always the way it is.
Every day we argue with someone on some level and a settlement is generally brokered by the mighty Google. Im right, youre wrong
the opponent hooks into the entire knowledge of man and will pull out information to support their point of view. Immediately, the argument is settled. Yet how do we know that information is correct? If we took the time, we would find information to support both sides of the argument in equal measure.
The information that settles often fractious arguments is written by others, it is of the moment, it is often wrong or biased. Yet we treat it is fact and it forms the basis for all we hold dear.
For years there were authoritative papers written by clever men in white coats presenting conclusive argument that smoking was not harmful
reports that were commissioned by tobacco companies!
And this is repeated time and time again.
I recently refurbished a cast iron pan because the Teflon was flaking. I looked up to see if it was harmful and found a very convincing video to say that it was not
the video was made by Dupont, the company that make Teflon!
I did a bit more digging and found a wealth of information reporting that Teflon in my food is bad! The only way to know for sure would be to commission my own scientific study.
I am often surprised at how my knowledge and the facts I hold dear are contradicted
The date December 25th is apparently not even in the Bible! (I maybe proven wrong as Ive never read it!)
Isaac Newton argued that the date was chosen to correspond with the winter solstice. Although the modern solstice date is December 21 or 22, the Romans marked it on December 25.
Who knows!
What I do know is that some will have read the last few paragraphs as fact and be jumping up and down, confident in their opinion that Ive got it all wrong.
Im beginning to think I should have called my book Anti-Omniscience!
Much of the work is written from the way I see the world because thats the only thing I know to be true, and even then there are cracks. Theres a ton of research gone into The Omniscience Principle and thats an issue because Im relying on what Ive read and watched and I have no clue if its all good and correct. I cover many things and present them as fact or knowledge of the moment
but I dont know!
Just because its on the net, in a book or relayed verbally does not mean it happened that way or is even correct
as youll learn!
I was born in the UK and went to school, college and then Polytechnic, finally graduating with a HND in Art Direction and Advertising. After being forced to move to London in search of a work placement because this was where the agencies were based, I soon decided that The Smog was not where I was going to spend the rest of my life!
So
after years getting educated at the tender age of 20 I left the UK. After various non- advertising related jobs in the Canary Islands I ended up in Greece where I set up as a sign writer and was introduced to sailing. This was to become a lifelong passion as I accumulated many thousands of sea miles cruising, racing and delivering yachts as a freelance skipper
and that would have been that, spending my years sailing the seven seas but something was stirring within, I felt I needed something more fulfilling.
I chose direct marketing and publishing as this catered to my skill set and fitted into my transient lifestyle. I came up with the ideas and outsourced the work, which was all managed from a laptop whilst sipping Sangria in Spain or Rum Punch in the Caribbean.
The first venture into publishing was in 1999 with a series of wholesale related directories known as Sourcebook. These detailed trade sources worldwide. During this time I built other websites that would hone my Internet Marketing skills; skills that contribute to the success of the site today in these increasingly competitive times.
I found I have a natural talent for copywriting and design and over the years Ive has helped create extremely busy sites for my own portfolio and on behalf of clients.
Government Auctions UK was described as an experiment. Originally, it could be bought as a printed document or downloaded as an ebook. Due to the limitations of the web in those days it was pretty basic and gave people a starting point, a place from where they could enter the secretive world of Government and Police Auctions. There were no sophisticated features, yet it contained everything someone needed to track down No Reserve auctions.
The book sold well and over the following couple of years proved to be a great success. The Government Auctions UK website took on a life of its own, growing organically through search engine exposure and by word of mouth. However, it became apparent that visitors wanted a grander product than a directory of auction houses so as the web grew more technical, GAUK programmers started to develop a system to better deliver the auction information.
It was this demand that drove site development towards something much more comprehensive and targeted. What you see today is a powerful aggregation platform and the culmination of literally years of research and development.
After spending a number of years based mostly in Cyprus, I now live with my family in New Zealand.
Now, I am not a particularly well educated or read man, in fact Im slightly dyslexic and very numberlexic. Ive never had a proper job, mixed with corporates or run with the rats
and I as I said, am probably unemployable. I am a family man with amazing kids and a doting wife who takes too long getting ready and is late for absolutely everything!
I am not as successful as some but certainly more successful than others.
BUT, I do get up when I want, do pretty much what I want, when I want and the older I get the more I realise just how lucky I am
Actually, thats total bollocks (english for shite!), because Im not in the slightest bit lucky (apart from the elements outside of my control such as the kids health and their genes which I stacked in my favour as I chose the best woman for the job! Oooh, thats gonna hurt!).
Luck
Get up you lazy bastard!I have worked damn hard to be able to get up when I want. I developed an end game and steered
MY destiny towards it.Luck is relative
most of us feel we are hard done by when things dont go right, regardless of
where we are in life.
Are some supernaturally lucky whilst others desperately unlucky?
Well there are exceptions to the rule where luck is concerned
Paris Hilton seems to have it pretty easy for example!
A friend of mine said that we should be grateful for every day in our life because a street urchin on the streets of Brazil would consider us very lucky.
Conversely, a starving African child in the depths of famine would consider the street kid lucky!
Luck is a state of mind for most people
there really are desperately unlucky people out there
YOU are not one of them.
Gods and Ghosts
Like the laminar flow of smoke rising from a burning candle, life is unpredictable. But
its the only one youve got and how it plays out is all down to you, the decisions you make and the things that you do.
I am not religious.
That does not mean that I do not believe in anything, I do. Im just not sure what it is! We all believe in something, even if its as tangible as life and the energy that flows through everything.
This uniquely human (I think) compulsion to believe there is something else appears to come down to the fact that the thought of being alone is utterly unbearable. We are comforted and supported by the thought that there is something.
Over the two hundred thousand years of human evolution, the need for a Tribal Identity has become braided into our very DNA.
We need to be part of something and at its most basic, we need to believe that we are not wholly alone. However, the problems started when megalomaniacs took advantage. Over the last few thousand years, basic human instinct has been massaged and manipulated into something dark and maleficent through conditioning, fear, persuasion and indoctrination.
Weve come to believe that belonging to a group defines us whereas, the ultimate irony is, it confines us.
When I say I am not religious I mean that I do not subscribe to a set of confines built and written by man to control us. Writings that are blindly followed, no matter where that leads.
The moment we subscribe to a group, we are labeled and it forms our attitude towards all other groups. Once that Sticky Label is slapped on the forehead, a pedestal is formed beneath our feet from where all further opinion and argument is called. That viewpoint is formed by the confines that define that group.
This Christmas, Wifey bought me a laughing Buddha because it made me happy. I placed it on a shelf only to find that it wasnt the right shelf, it had to be placed on a specific shelf in a specific corner of the room at a specific height where I could rub his fat tummy.
During the placement my wife said to me I thought you didnt believe in God anyway and I said I dont and this isnt God its Buddha and Buddhists dont believe in God and I am right and you are wrong. The simple act of placing a happy Buddha on the shelf had an immediate affect on my reasoning and perspective.
And this is how dangerous this all becomes when manipulated by man.
I am right and you are wrong and
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brothers keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee
Pop a cap in his arse!
Thats a Pulp Fiction thing!
So I dont subscribe because I am defined by I, not confined by them.I find that the questions Ive asked with regard to the teachings of man have never satisfactory been answered.
Progression and Reward is something we will explore throughout The Omniscience Principle. Its an extremely powerful technique used by man to manipulate man and it employed in all its vibrant glory by the megalomaniacs.
As a boy I perpetually questioned the tales we were taught, the scripts, the stories, the promises, the reprimands and the motivations. And the question I asked most: How can a wholly mysterious entity give me the things I want in my life today?
Now that doesnt make me a bad person, a heretic or an infidel. For me, the rules and rewards outlined in the various bibles, gospels and texts seem more driven by control, fear and manipulation than altruism
do this or you will live eternally in hell and damnation. Or do that and youll live blissfully in wine and orgy
when youre dead!!!
If man is to be believed then, God, The Ultimate One, Jesus or Jehovah, Allah or Shiva, Brahma, Ganesha, Mahavira, Vishnu, Durga, Krishna, Odin, Athena, Zeus, Coatlicue and the multitude of deities
arent very fair or even particularly nice!
And the appalling acts committed by man in their name are pure evil. Its always been a paradox to me that horror is rarely perpetrated in the name of The Devil!
Were taught by man that worship of, or sacrifice to, a particular entity will bring reward in this world or the next. Remember Progression and Reward? Its comes up a lot!
Is it really sat on high waiting for our call, watching our every move, listening to our every word and begging request? I say save your breath, you might as well spit melon seeds into the face of a hurricane.
So many calls for help coming in, is it any wonder so many dont get answered?
My mother-in-law (wholl slap me for writing about her!) and I often have debates about her Roman Catholic God. She once told me that she often starts her prayers with sorry to bother you because I know youre busy
When I asked busy doing what she answered, helping the starving!If he was busy doing that they wouldnt be starving would they? I replied smugly! (and for that I get another slap!)
The various faiths documented by the many and varied men, appear to me to be utterly elitist. If a follower does not fit into the template they are excluded from everything. They are de-throned and excommunicated from The Tribe.
And for those who say I should research more before making sweeping statements, my answer is that I have other things to do, I have found my religion, I have found I.
I am convinced that there is nothing in this life, in this place, in this time
more accountable, more able and with more vested interest in me
than me!
I feel that to believe in something, is good. It brings great comfort to millions. Subscribing to a religion is not necessarily a bad thing. The conflicts only start to arise when one decides to become free.
In that case, worship must be accompanied by awakeness. The realisation that the belief structure forming the identity and understanding, argument and viewpoint comes from man not a God. And the fundamental understanding that God is absolutely not responsible or accountable for the good and bad things that happen in our lives.
You are a good person, you know what is good and what is bad.
When we pray, the simple fact is, our prayers are not answered by it. It is through affirmation and prayer that self conditioning is effected.
Thats important so Ill write it more importantly!
IT IS THROUGH AFFIRMATION THAT SELF CONDITIONING IS EFFECTED.
The more a person prays, the more that desire (if achievable) becomes reality:
Dear it, Help me become a better person.Dear it, Help me get a better job.Dear it, Help me heal.
Its not an entity fixing stuff (most of which is petty, selfish and indulgent). Its the process of affirmation, calling the prayer, and THE ACTIONS WE TAKE that generates the outcome
Ultimately, YOU make the difference YOU desire.
Before the control of governments, control was orchestrated by the Church and were still living with that mindset hundreds of years later. The issue I have with the various books by man and mans interpretation of things we dont understand, is that only the worthy are allowed reward for good things they do in the name of
and if that entails strapping several kilos of Semtex to a back and walking into a crowded cafe to detonate it, then so be it!
Good has many faces depending on mans interpretation. Good can be manipulated in so many ways, all the way down the scale. An underlying agenda of control and manipulation of man by other men and women.
There was a time when priests were all powerful. If it didnt rain for a month they would take life and sacrifice it to a deity of their making. The Aztecs would roll the heads of their human lambs down the sacrificial steps of their great pyramids. People would go willingly to the chopping block on the promise of many wonderful things
in the afterlife!
Over time, this proved to be a little extreme and pissed off the peasants, especially when the rains didnt come. Its also not wise business to kill off your customers. So the priests looked to other methods of control. Nowadays, the church elite take life energy and sacrifice it to their various deities. These organisations of which there are many thousands, are self-serving, they take to further their own goals. The reward is a pat on the back and a promise of many wonderful things
in the afterlife! And many people go willingly to the sacrifice because it makes them feel good in this life.
Why arent animals allowed into the various Heavens? Does God not have time or i
