TODAY IS THE DAY!

Sometimes we can peek into the realm that hides in plain sight ...

We look upon the surface and think that is all there is. 

The Cosmos is not so simple.

 Life bristles with life.  All seems the same, yet everything real is concealed.

Shoreless seas, beauty that is an enchantment yet an ever-present peril,

and questions that will shut the gate behind you,

forever making you separate and apart.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely of places ... under your very nose.

“Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. 

Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, 

the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.”

- Nikola Tesla

Why do I quote Nikola Tesla?

He is one of the major players in RETURN OF THE LAST SHAMAN 

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 "Magick does not offer an escape from ordinary reality: 

rather it offers a full-on confrontation with it, 

one in which a man can easily lose himself forever.”

- Wolf Howl

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4 RULES WOLF HOWL TEACHES ABBY

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WOLF HOWL

DOOMSDAY CLOCK SET TO 3 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

All 16 U.S. Intelligence agencies have begun to prepare for WWIII.

The mysterious Project Prophecy has indicated the fall of the U.S. Dollar as the Global Reserve Currency,

equivalent to the end of the British Empire post WWII.

The endgame could be a nightmare worldwide economic breakdown and collapse.

Absurd?  Watch these scary and strange CIA programs:

THE SUN'S KISS ... OF DEATH

The sun throws temper tantrums and the White Man has become too civilized to withstand them:

 

 The White Governments could prepare
BUT
You know how their greed makes them short-sighted.

  

We have been lucky so far.
A foolish man is one who depends upon luck.

 

 

Yet, when the sun flings judgement upon civilization,

it will be Man who will carry it out.

  

REALITY HAS TEETH

BLAST RADIUS

Scientists have discovered that the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone is 2.5 times larger than thought

AND

that it does not need any external trigger like an earthquake to erupt.

Bison have been seen moving away from the park ...

In your mind I know you see them plodding along.

Oh, no, my friends, they are more like hauling their shaggy rumps as fast as they can from it!

What would happen if the Super-Volcano erupted?

In a single day, the bread-basket of America would be destroyed, temperatures would drop from the volcanic winter by 20 degrees for six to ten years:

Wolf Howl asks you if you truly think the white government would panic its people by telling them the truth?

Is a judgement coming upon the white government that broke treaties,

wiped out the buffalo (the food supply of the Plains Indians),

and committed genocide to clear land for its citizens?

MURMURS FROM THE SHADOWS

There are mysteries that murmur from the shadows ...

Did aliens visit Earth long ago?  Will they return?  Are some still here?

For the first time in 11, 000 years Comet Lovejoy is streaking across the inner solar system.  What does it portend?

Mayan carvings show starcraft landing from the stars with Mars in its midst.

In the depths of a buried pyramid. an ancient model of an airplane was found with the symbol for Mars etched upon its side.

The strange case of Vampire Countess Erzsebet Bathory

In the mid-1590's, she bathed in the blood of 650 servant girls that she raped, tortured, drank the blood of, and finally murdered.

In 1610, the King intervened.  His servants invaded the castle, finding horrors beyond description.

She was walled up, never to be released until death.

The countess "died" in 1614 and buried.

But when her grave was dug up in 1617 after countless young girls went missing -- the body of the Countess was gone!  Young girls continued to disappear until this very day!

The Lakota, Sugmanitou Hota, named Drew August 

by the orphanage that raised him --

is currently being sought by the world's intelligence agencies.

Thought to be a clever charlatan and escape artist, Sugmanitou Hota (Wolf Howl in English) 

has left a trail of slain operatives from a score of international intelligence agencies.

If you should see this man, please report the sighting to the nearest branch of the F.B.I. 

DO NOT -- DO NOT -- APPROACH THIS MAN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

THE FIRST LINE

My first line for THE LAST SHAMAN:

"When she was thunder in the distance, I awoke." 

My first line for RETURN OF THE LAST SHAMAN:

"The night had strung death like beads along the thread of its hours."

STEPHEN KING
      says the best writers hook their readers with voice, not just action.



Stephen King:

"There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line.

It's a tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft --

I just write.

To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: 'Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.'

 The opening line of It is

'The terror that would not end for another 28 years, if it ever did, began so far as I can know or tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.'

When I'm starting a book, I compose in bed before I go to sleep.

I will lie there in the dark and think. I'll try to write a paragraph. An opening paragraph.

And over a period of weeks and months and even years,

I'll word and reword it until I'm happy with what I've got. If I can get that first paragraph right, I'll know I can do the book"

What do I think about first lines?

 A good first line should be as good as your favorite film quote.

Something that even when taken out of context has power – the power to make someone laugh or think or gasp or grimace.

The best opening lines, when read in the bookstore, can make or break the sale of a book arguably even more than its blurb.

I may not judge a book by its cover, but I often judge it on the first sentence.

NAMES ARE DANGEROUS THINGS

T. Powell Coltrin
http://journalingwoman.blogspot.com/2015/01/sticks-and-stones-but-names.html

wrote an interesting blog about authors choosing names.  Go visit.

She asked about how her writer friends chose names for their characters.

 
 The Native American shamans will tell you that there is power in the use of names --

and death if you use the wrong ones.

Laughing Wolf, a cyber friend, once asked what Elu meant.

He told me that in Estonian it means life. I hadn't known that. 

I did know that in several Native American languages it means "full of grace."

But Elu is only half-Apache {a name meaning 'enemy'}. 

His mother is the Turquoise Woman, who was called Gaia by the ancient Greeks.

So I was very careful in selecting the name Elu, for there is more to him than even Samuel McCord knows.

Elu in ancient Chaldean encompasses in its Semitic essence, the concept of surpassing might, immense power, and unlimited strength. 

There is more to Elu than what his surface would suggest.

As there is with Wolf Howl, but more of that later.

WHEN IS IT TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO A DREAM?

"Keeping on despite being knocked on your butt produces character ... or makes you one." 

             - Abby

We all face obstacles in pursuing our goals.  We all have our breaking points:

that moment when the potential rewards stop justifying the effort.

Usually, that’s the hump that separates the wanna-be's from the champions.

You may be facing that hump.  

Wolf Howl

would have you ask yourself these questions: 

1.) WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS GOAL IN THE FIRST PLACE & HAS ANYTHING CHANGED?

 You had a good reason for committing to this plan.

You just have stopped believing you could have them because your attempts have yet to yield results.

Now you have to ask yourself:

If you were promised you would achieve your dream within the year, would you go on?

If so, then re-double your efforts and give yourself that year.


2.) HAVE YOU TRIED TO SWALLOW TOO BIG A BITE?

There is so much you want to do.  You cannot jump up to the second floor.

You must take small steps one at a time.

Sit back and think on what attainable steps you can take to get closer to your dream, and then take them.


3.) WHAT IS THE WORST THING THAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU KEEP GOING AND DO NOT REACH YOUR GOAL?

No one ever judges us like we judge ourselves. 

Do not concern yourself with what others think of your efforts.

If you do not keep going, you will never know how far you could have gone,

and you will miss out on being the person you’d become through the effort itself.


4.)  ARE YOU REACTING OUT OF FRUSTRATION AND ANGER AT THE SLOW HARVEST OF YOUR DREAM?

Sit back from what you are feeling.  Let the fog of the feelings slip past you.

Reflect upon all that you have so far achieved.  Then, act from a calm center.  It will usually be to go on ahead.


5.) WOULD YOU ENJOY GIVING A LOVED ONE THE HONEST EXPLANATION OF WHY YOU GAVE UP?

I mean truly HONEST.

Would you enjoy telling your daughter,

"I gave up on quitting cigarettes because it was too hard, and my addiction is more important to me than spending additional years with you."

If you lay out it out like this,

odds are you’ll realize you had a really good reason for doing this difficult thing,

 and no matter how challenging the process is, it’s worth plowing ahead.


6.) HOW MUCH HAVE YOU ALREADY PUT INTO YOUR DREAM?

 How invested are you?

How much money and time have you devoted?

How many sacrifices have you made?

Are you really willing to chalk it all up as a loss because you are not feeling confident in your abilities?


7.)  WHAT WOULD YOU TELL A FRIEND IN YOUR PLACE?

Would you let them throw in the towel because they are discouraged?

Or would you spell out the many facets of her/his potential?

You need to be your own friend at this time.

You, just as much as your other friends, deserve your belief and compassion.

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The 2012 Apocalypse happened … just not in the way anyone expected.  How have we not noticed?

Simple: civilized man has lost touch with himself.  How then can he expect to be in touch with the world he smothers in a crypt of concrete and steel? 

Only Wolf Howl, a Native American whose spiritual center is still intact, notices the change.   

But that same spirituality and the power derived from it has made the last Lakota shaman a hunted man. 

Now, he finds himself teamed with the Turquoise Woman: the Spirit of the Earth,

A Mossad agent named Shadow,

A young killer: Abby,

And the amazingly still alive Nikola Tesla. 

Together with the ancient star exile, Bast, they must find some way to stop a menace that cannot be stopped by any known physical force.

The answer lies in the strengths of the Lakota:

• Transformation—how Wolf Howl learns to preserve what is fundamental even in the frigid void of Space.
• Simplicity—the lesson taught by the Turquoise Woman that “the more you know, the less you need to carry.”
• Strength and Resiliency—what the history and lore of the Lakota taught Wolf Howl about growing through adversity.
• Purpose—how the world unveils our purpose to us if we but listen.  Sacrifice is a part of life. It is supposed to be. It is not something to regret. It is something to aspire to.

RETURN OF THE LAST SHAMAN … A Native American Fable for Our Age.

MORE STRANGENESS

THE TAOS HUM

Some residents and visitors in the small city of Taos, New Mexico,

 have for years been annoyed and puzzled by a mysterious and faint low-frequency hum in the desert air. 

Oddly, only about 2 percent of Taos residents report hearing the sound.

ZONA DE SILENCIA

 There exist a number of "accursed sites" on the surface of our planet.

 Drive 400 hundred miles west of El Paso, and you enter into

an unforgiving section of foreboding semi-arid desert landscape

that begs for mercy but offers none.

The Zone of Silence was first identified in the 1930's by pilot, Francisco Sarabia

when he claimed his radio stopped working and the plane's instruments went wild

while flying over the area in northern Mexico.

It was later deduced that radio waves cannot be transmitted in and above the area

 due to local magnetic fields.

In 1970 a faulty American Athena missile fired from the White Sands Missile Base

 in nearby New Mexico went off course inexplicably

 and crashed into the mysterious desert region

and made the world aware of the unique and apparently unusual properties of the area.


Subsequently a team of U.S. Air Force investigators, with Mexican government approval,

journeyed to the crash site and made an unexpected discovery.

Within an unspecified and sometimes shifting area within the Zone,

radio signals fail to travel through the air, creating a type of dark zone.

No television, radio, short wave, microwave, or satellite signals seem to penetrate this zone.

The name, Zone of Silence, was quickly adopted,

and researchers began flocking to the remote location shortly thereafter.

INVASION!

As America was reeling from Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941,

the West Coast was invaded by something mysterious:


Early morning on February 2, 1942:


Incoming craft sirens were first heard in the Los Angeles area.

 Many Americans were expecting another wave of Japanese fighter planes,

and thought this is what they would see as they left their homes, and ventured outside.

How wrong they were!

The first sightings of a large UFO would be made in Culver City, and Santa Monica.

 The whole California southern section was searching the night skies in a matter of minutes.

What they saw were beaming searchlights illuminating the night sky,

all of them converging on one thing: a UFO.

The beams of light would soon be accompanied by tracer fire from anti-aircraft artillery,

all of the rounds aiming at the invading craft.

The giant UFO would take direct hit after hit, yet without damage for over an hour.

The next day, the military claimed it was that all too convenient explanation: a "weather balloon."  

To suggest that the Coast Guard continued firing at a balloon for over an hour

implies a degree of incompetence, to say the least!

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“To be Lakota is to know that in the end 

the world will break your heart.”

- Wolf Howl

“Myth remains. 

Like the horizon,

 it ever looms ahead of a People.

Myth lasts long after the events 

and the people in it are dust 

and dreams upon the wind. 

That is the power of Myth.”

- Turquoise Woman

MORE EERINESS

                  When you were born, you cried
              and the world rejoiced.
               
              Live your life
              so that when you die,
              the world cries and you rejoice.

              - White Elk

Here is more eeriness related to the events depicted in my latest novel:

The Spanish soldier Gil Perez in 1593 lifted his right foot up from the dust in front of the Governor's Palace in Manila only to place it down on the cobblestones of Plaza Mayor in Mexico City. 

 In 1959 tourist Rick Stevens stepped out of his car in Reno only to place both feet on the grass of Juarez, Mexico.  

 Space can bend like fabric.  It happens.  Rarely.  But it happens. 

Wolf Howl was born with the ability to do it on demand, along with other disturbing talents.  Don't envy him.  Because of that fact he has been hunted all his life.