BEING A SUNBEAM IN A DARK WORLD

What we believe is so, or becomes the actual case --so this tactic will work and in fact, you might actually consider MENTORING for MONEY as it entails no education, no degrees. You just become a LAY LISTENER for modest fees.

Tell folks you connect with, who ask why you spent so much time with them, I'm a mentor. HUMANITARIAN HELP is available and it's me. Here's my card. They all have problem children at home and will call you up and hire you. That's good tip money.

During the day, as you talk to folks who unburden themselves on you, think "HE'S NOT HEAVY HE'S MY BROTHER!" And take that extra five minutes time to listen and be of use to people you meet during your day. You'll be amazed that if you carry this head trip, that this is my job and I will even attract money by doing this, YOU WILL!

Why I say this is ... I stumbled on a magical URL today. The only other website I've seen where they give you the secrets of the universe and being Jesus and mentoring for money and give you those secrets, the whole training, in fact, for free. I do not know these people. Dr. Mercola recommended them. I trust him.  I went there, couldn't believe how giving the site was and I have to share it! It's about a new way to make a very very good living moonlighting in the holistic healing industry. The free manual on this EMOTIONAL FREEDOM touch assist healing technique will be found at: http://www.emofree.com/and it's FREE so when you're finished, I'll stick the URL at the end of this page,  and you can mouse your way over there, study it, or at very least send the URL to pals who might want a New-Age way to earn a good living dharmically, in the big city. I don't think it would work in Mississippi or North Carolina but in sophisticated cities, with a NEW AGE community, it would.

The mentoring job, the lay listener work, this mind-healing method uses hands' gentle touch on meridians near brain, to 'cleanse' the body of neg emotions with a light touch on meridians, like acupressure on but on the nerves around each feeling center. DR. MERCOLA on his site, refers to it, says it cures fibromyalgia, so it's very persuasive and powerful! Go to his website to see THAT article: http://www.mercola.com/2001/dec/1/acupuncture.htm

The method has healer ask the client questions, about early painful events, so it's very similar to the EMOTIONAL RELEASE method I write on at my website
http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/ in "HEAL YOUR FRIENDS" article near the top of archive.

If you charge 25$ an hour (easy, very affordable by anyone who has problem children and needs help) and do two jobs/ kids/ people a day you can live comfortably. Try four clients a day, this would duplicate almost any job in the Western World. No SSI subtractions, no HMO's but then you could do this at age 90 with ease, so you could continue making a living when other people retire! And this is a biz that grows incrementally each year as families learn your name and number.

Humans are a lot like ants. We have a certain unique, advancement-interested brain and upper body strength that enables us to attack unimaginably heavy chores. We’re not the biggest kid on the block. An ant can carry a grain of corn (to us the size of a Harley) and walk a distance (that to us would be l00 miles) without getting a paycheck. A human can only move his entire household in a day with a rented truck. He can only open a cafe, buy produce in the morning, cook it all day and wash dishes all night if forty thousand a month is out there to be earned. Except for carrying the Harley, little is beyond  a human if he's motivated.

The average man or woman has a spectacular amount of surplus power in him, the ability to do amazing feats, create spectacular effects, initiate great projects and change situations via a single idea, mutating a vacant spot in  the air to the biggest, most productive factory in the world, or the most popular restaurant.

Imagine how much ability you have in your brain, body, hands. Do you truly realize and value how much you can create any given effect in your life? The simple mechanics of this magic are that you accomplish these daily miracles by having a desire, figuring out what list of chores needs doing, then doing them, thusly creating the CAUSES that will get that effect, and you continue to create that cause that stimulus, that activity until a birth occurs, a desired change or effect occurs.

Very focused people can create change or create effect quicker than others. Brilliant, focused people not only do it with bigger, more audacious projects, but their smarts also enable them to create the effect quickly. Noisy, self-assertive, brilliant, focused people not only pick the super most audacious realities, (usually the 'hot occupations' like being a movie star, race car driver or rock singer.) By sheer comet energy, they burst upon the scene. So many egotists get into power. The Entertainment section has new ones every single day of the week. They roll around making efforts, get noticed, rise to the attention of the Entertainment section for 15 minutes and often they fade quickly.

For most of us good, gentle folk, getting an effect requires repeated effort and a certain toleration of failure. As it's unpleasant, rigorous, even hard to focus again and again in the face of failure, many of us stop trying. For that reason, sometimes we don't achieve our final effect but it is generally acknowledged that if the plan is good and a person continues to ply a certain creative activity, generally he will get an effect sooner or later. The universe seems to reward the repeated struggle and help comes and the job gets done.

Now, what I'm getting to is this. Over the eons, humans have noted when they can get a group to work on the project; the effect is easily achieved. One person alone is limited. He gives up, he gets bored but with a group handy, another person spells him immediately and the work continues. The more  people that come in, the more surely the project advances. The snowball effect kicks in. As the project rolls it gathers more mass, more people. More people equal more excitement, and when this group thrill syndrome kicks in, it is quite visible not only to participants in this group, but  onlookers that people are having fun here, the work is rewarding, and more people join in. Then this extra high level of energy gets commented upon in wider circles, which attracts more and better people to the labor, more muscle, more bodies, more weight, more brains, more speed, more intent and more success. Team effort really works. So here's what I'm getting to. I think I just got there, anyway.

What if you had a magic wand and could wave it and get any effect? NOW. What would you wish for? List ten things you might do. A.) Make a million. B.) Buy real estate. C.) Think of the next product the world needs that could make you into Bill Gates. D.) Eradicate world hunger. If you kept making your list, sooner or later, you'd probably turn your attention to eradicating the chaos, sorrow and danger of modern, urban life.

There are a lot of loose screws out there. In people. Sooner or later one of these subterranean nuts could rise up out of the machinery, throw a spoke and seriously affect your family, your children.

Lately, headlines tell us of plenty of ordinary good people who suddenly (not really, but seemingly, overnight) turn into schoolmate-shooters, post office marksmen, serial murderers, serial rapists, gang bangers, shooting up innocents, pedophiles on the loose, child killers and arsonists, drunk drivers plowing down a dozen people. Think TOTAL MENACE.

Wouldn't it be nice to get to that kind of nutcake early, before he or she turned into a witless menace and wouldn't it be cool to rescue him, thusly eradicating the increasing dangers of the big city?

You ask, what could you as one person do to change that? Plenty. What if, as an example, you had been waiting at the bus stop, seated in the sun in Sacramento late in 2001 and started chatting with the Ukrainian, Soltys, two weeks before he shot and stabbed his family of six? Imagine you were chatting and this jobless despondent man suddenly starts talking about the unusual way he came to America. A Christian Evangelical church group in Sacramento had been broadcasting sermons to the Ukraine. It did such a good job converting people across the  world that 75,000 Russians moved to Sacramento to be near this church. One believer brought her jobless husband who'd always been an outsider. In his own country, the army noticed his mental dents and wouldn't let him be drafted. This didn't make him happy, he continued to have an attitude. Once in California, the Church caught wind of his sour attitude and wouldn't allow him in the front door. The wife advanced in it; he wasn't allowed in the door. That situation became like an open wound in that family.

If you'd met Soltys at the bus stop, heard this much and happened to be community oriented, you'd have known about a specific jobless fair (held often in big communities) where they had the Russian Free School New Immigrant Support, as well as the California, state-run Department of Rehabilitation phone numbers, (free training available). If you'd gotten his phone number and that night happened to go online and found the jobless fair, and called Soltys to give him those numbers, six people related to this sore thumb fellow, might be alive today.

Imagine if you belonged to a group that did nothing but seek nuts out. Imagine being sensitized to the aroma of craziness sufficiently that, in your average day, at work, at the park, at the bustop, you could detect, attract, find, chat with and get them the specific kind of help they required, either by working with them as an unobtrusive lay minister or lay listener. But imagine that you belonged to a secret club ---a team, a group of public mentors that with one E-mail could dredge up the names of the low cost or free mental clinics, the magic phone number of the Social Security Office which gives impaired people immediate access to a free doctor. No visit of any kind is required. The phone number that you dial, the information taken on the phone, starts the process of free mental health. Do  you know that phone number? You should but the 800 Info operator has it. Learn that fact.

Imagine a group that meets at the local park or church which preps lay listeners, teaches them such phone numbers and addresses of clinics and which offers free speakers, practicing psychologists who teach the ways a lay person can create trust, win affection, gain patient transference and thusly be safely able to prod the apple barrel and detect the rotten ones, and working as a kindly programmer, using the principles of affirmation, teach the good stuff to sociopaths who are carrying a heavy load of anger which they will feel better dumping.

Dr. Richard Alpert tells a story that he heard from a friend, a student who had been studying Martial arts in Japan when he found himself on a trolley full of people cowering as a drunk was yelling, abusing, muttering, grabbing hold of women. The student decided that God had put this horrific scene in front of him so he could start to use his flying fists to heroically achieve change. He set down his packages and took off his coat, about to stand up and do a knee kick when an old man sitting there leans over to the drunk and says 'ahh, I can see you've had some sake tonight. I like sake. I used to drink it with my wife, sit and watch the sunset. Do you drink it with your wife?" And the drunk frowns and starts muttering sadly about how he did once but he couldn't afford a doctor for his wife and she died. And how he's alone now and drinks his sake alone. And the drunk begins to weep so the old man goes and sits next to him. Upshot was that the old man rode the streetcar to the drunk's street and the whole situation was defused. A wise man saw a fight about to happen, a duality ready to explode on a public bus, and he created a harmonizing, third point. We can easily learn the effortless jujitsu method of peaceful, ‘third point-creating' for any dualistic spat, and become the harmonizing  interventionist for people caught in painful dualities.

If it interested you, you could start small. Next time there's a fight, step in gently. You could volunteer to be a relative's child's mentor. When two people are thrashing it out (your sister and her kid) you could become that third point to the triangle. Volunteer to be the mediator. Become a skilled de-fuser of any fight you see. Then, join a group or create one called Third Point. Its members would do nothing more than that, practice being a third viewpoint, out in the field. Later, they'd bring stories to the group to share, so the multiple events of single people become study material for all.

As you become extremely successful and are all cheered by the many stories brought to meetings, let it be known outside, publicly, with cards or newspaper stories, that your group members will volunteer a mentor for free to any parent suffering with an oddball loner kid, or any wife with an abusive drinking husband as most typically these are the people who never can afford to seek professional help, and end up with horror stories.

I'd amplify that to include the hiring of nice old granny types who do lay listening, who create a dialogue, first with the child alone, then when the child accepts his weekly meetings with this granny from nowhere, the meetings open eventually to the mother and child and granny, finally to the father, as well, building trust slowly but surely. And as the group moved inexorably on its snowball way, mentoring and detecting, referring stressed people to miracle worker orgs, being hired by Low income parents to deal with strange children and eventually paid a 'lay mentor' rate, members of this group could in fact change the destiny of many people on this planet. Their services would be affordable to ordinary working people. The rich can afford the best psychiatrists and boarding schools and can throw endless money at the problem of getting the kinks out of family members. Poor people cannot. So mentoring fills a public need and invariably would attract grants and funding.

Now, whenever we choose to act, we ought to look at the obstacles that will be ahead of us that trip us up. It’s going to be something like this: Stuff you are passionately attracted to doing which tires you out. I call it the ‘hot fudge sundae’ activities. This could be eating in fine and costly cafes, travelling to costly cities so that you have to work 80 hrs a week for years afterwards, to pay the bills. It’s rolling around in a hypnotic mindless trance in someone’s arms and sheets for a few months or years, until sweet passion turns to bitter ash. It’s going shopping with false friends who make you spend too much money. (I don’t count garage sales with true friends, although I should probably toss most of what we buy  in the waste basket. I know my daughter will throw out most of what I bought.) Last, it’s movies, dime novels and concerts. All of it is so totally dispensable. It is! If you just think backwards over how you’ve wasted the years til now, what you were wasting time with ---it’s all that stuff. All those people, all that Jazz. On the other hand, the hours you spend doing something like this will be filled with friendship with angels, miracles of the Gods, libation poured to the highest level of your mental cup, accomplished with other, amazing, worthy, exceptional people.

There is a vacant space in history waiting for such a mentoring group made up of insightful amateurs* like yourself.

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* Amateur, from old French, ammez, to do a thing for love of itself, not just for money. Not, as popularly believed, referring to an untutored jerk.