Welcome to my Blog - Part 1: The Birth of a Dissident Writer
About me, my background and my writing
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Brief Introduction to My New Blog
Hello Substack community, and welcome to my new blog – SteppingIntoLight, where I will be sharing stories, experiences and knowledge gained from my life journey; a journey composed both of walking through the darkness of fear which has oppressed and imprisoned the human spirit for so many countless centuries, and of stepping into the liberating light of love which is the only Power in the whole Universe capable of saving us from the destructive force that we as the human race have collectively become.
Being new here, I figured that a proper introductory post was in order before I begin posting regularly; and I have decided to break this introduction to my new blog into two parts, in order to best give readers a glimpse into who I am, why I'm here, my writing, my background as a writer and the life path/experiences that helped shape it all; while at the same time avoiding the publishing of one single excessively long piece.
Here in the first part of this installment, I will focus much more on my background and journey as a writer (and video creator), giving readers a glimpse into some of my past works, as well as how I got to where I am in life now starting a new blog on Substack; and then in Part 2 we'll dive into my background as a truth-seeker-turned-spiritual aspirant, my spiritual journey, and how that spiritual path is greatly influencing where and how I'm moving forward from here with the focus of my writing and video content. So if you’re here reading this, I appreciate your time and attention, thank you for giving me the opportunity to properly introduce myself and my work, and I hope you enjoy the read.
A Little About Me
My name is Jason, and I would say that I am and always have been a truth-seeker more than anything else; and that this ceaseless quest for truth, this relentless inner drive to discover the answers to those deepest life questions, has been the underlying theme of my entire life, which has both guided my life and spiritual paths as well as heavily influenced the focus of my research and writing – and likely always will. I suppose you could say that I am, at my core, a true philosopher – a “lover of wisdom” – in the sense that this love for higher knowledge and wisdom, though it was often masked by the many lower desires inherent to human nature in the earlier years of my journey, has ultimately contributed more than anything else to my relentless quest for the answers to my deepest questions as a truth-seeker. I would also say, beginning much more recently, that I am a developing intuitive who is naturally highly intuitive, but who has only in recent months and years begun to truly understand this gift and step into this inner power. I will undoubtedly be sharing much more on the subject of intuition and my ongoing journey of discovering my own intuitive gift(s) – and how to tap into this inner power – in future posts; as it is, I believe, a subject of great importance and relevance in the present state of our world, and one that I have become deeply passionate about as my own unique journey and connection to my own intuition has unfolded in recent years.
Also a lifelong animal-lover who is particularly fond of canines, I currently have two dogs of my own – a year and a half old abandoned German Shepherd I just rescued last year (aptly named Shep), who had been dumped at a forest service trailhead, and my five year old border collie Dakota who's been with me ever since that wintry February day I drove her home with me in the middle of a good ol' Montana blizzard at 10 weeks old. At the same time, I'm also an avid outdoorsman who's had a lifelong love for and attraction to the inherent peace and beauty found in the wild stillness of Nature untouched by the hand of mankind, and have spent many of my days exploring all that the great outdoors has to offer — most extensively in the American West. Apart from writing and podcasting/video editing, along with my spiritual practices and conscious development of my intuitive gifts; my interests and hobbies include reading, gardening, photography (especially scenic/nature photography), dancing, deep philosophical conversations, hiking, mountain biking, camping, and backcountry skiing, among other things.
As for my background, I am American by birth, grew up moving fairly frequently in the eastern US with most of my younger childhood years spent in South Carolina, and then spent the bulk of the latter half of my childhood days living in East Africa where my parents were Christian missionaries, and where I also graduated high school before moving back to the States. It was then that I decided to settle down in what has since officially become “the fastest growing small town in America,” Bozeman, Montana; where I would then spend the first 13 years of my adult life – most of that time spent building, running and growing a small lawn care, landscaping & snow removal business; before eventually being intuitively guided to make an important, life-changing decision that would radically alter the trajectory of my life and set me off on the road trip adventure of a lifetime. I call this decision of mine to transition into an entirely new and radically different lifestyle at the time my big 'leap of faith', and this would in turn morph into an epic years-long journey of faith and surrender to the flow of life which ultimately led me right to where I'm currently at four and a half years later, and which I will touch on in more detail in Part 2 of this introduction as well as in future posts.
Where I Am Now, A Real Life Miracle: Living on my dream property and a glimpse into the path that led me here
Currently, at the time of setting up this blog, I'm half way through my fourth decade of this life on earth, and I currently reside on a uniquely beautiful rural property in northern New Mexico (USA). When I made the decision in 2019 to sell my business and get rid of most of my material belongings, load up my Subaru with camping gear and all of the essential personal possessions I could fit, and took that giant leap of faith – hitting the road with no known final destination or real plan at all other than to enjoy my newfound freedom and let the flow of life and my intuition guide me – I could not have possibly imagined that Life would bring me here, to my dream property, in literally almost every way possible; let alone the impressive ways in which divine guidance would pave the path for me to walk that eventually led me here exactly one year ago.
And yet here I am a full year later, often still in awe at how blessed I am to be living here, in a simple historic adobe home with unrealistically affordable rent, on a 200+ acre original farm/homestead that was first settled in the 1800s; with a perennial creek flowing through it, a secondary creek (irrigation ditch) complete with a stunning waterfall, fruit tree orchards, extremely rich/fertile soil for New Mexico standards, and ample space as well as abundant water for gardening – a big deal for me being the gardener I am with the dream of someday becoming food-sustainable or at least reaching the point where I can grow the majority of my own food. At the same time, there is no shortage of trees and forested land, not to mention the most amazing views and scenery, with the mighty snow-capped Sangre de Cristo ('Blood of Christ') Mountains rising sharply out of the foothills in which the property is nestled, with the lush and sprawling valley floor lying not far below, and nearby public national forest land access as close as a short 20 minute bike ride away.
Despite being on the remote, isolated, and rustic side as far as rural properties go, it is nevertheless in every way imaginable my absolutely picture perfect dream property. It has everything the property of my dreams which I had been visualizing in my meditations for several years had – and more. That I was eventually led to my dream property no longer surprises me quite so much as the fact that said dream property was actually to be found in the state of New Mexico of all places – what with the fertile soil in a state covered mostly in clay, abundance of trees in a state covered with so much desert, and especially a perennial creek flowing through it, which is especially rare in these parts, even in the higher forested and mountainous terrain of the state.
The unbelievably low price of rent sealed the deal for me, and while the affordability of such a uniquely beautiful property indeed seemed miraculous in its own right, it was my stumbling upon this deal and the way in which life had manifested this opportunity and led me straight to it that I would see as the true miracle of the story of the synchronistic path that had led me here.
Having come out of a recent period of much transition, adversity and struggle, featuring one of the most intense emotional roller coaster rides of my life, I was elated to have found this seemingly perfect, drama-free slice of heaven to settle down in for the time being; and it also conveniently served as my escape from the city, in which I was beginning to feel trapped in after several months of the city life in a less than ideal living situation. Truth be told, I had absolutely no idea just what I was getting myself into when I made the decision to move up here last spring, or perhaps there's even a chance I would have made another choice.
Over the course of my one year here, I've been through more ups and downs than I could have ever imagined possible in so few months, including a 'dark night of the soul' type experience of intense darkness and suffering that lasted for the duration of the winter. But I'm still alive and I've managed to easily find enough work with various neighbors to make ends meet financially, as me and my entrepreneurial spirit work on forging the path ahead towards another of my lifelong dreams – financial freedom, or the ability to 'make a living' doing what I love, following my passion, and living my highest purpose. And now here I am – a whole year after moving up here – apparently finally ready on every level to get back to pursuing my passion for writing (and hopefully podcasting too), excited to have finally reached the point where I feel both ready and able to start publishing regularly again — a day I've been eagerly awaiting since I first arrived here last spring. Which brings me to why I'm here now on Substack, and a short history of my blogging 'career'.
The Birth of a Writer
Although this will be my very first post here on Substack, I've actually been writing and publishing my work fairly consistently ever since I first discovered my gift for writing all the way back in February of 2016, first on Blogger for several months before discovering and joining Hive (formerly Steemit), a relatively small but growing blockchain-based crypto/blogging community, where I polished my writing skills and grew into this gift of mine as I also grew a decent, interactive following and eventually a decent side-income from the crypto rewards when I was writing more full-time. That is until a well coordinated campaign comprised of the platform's 'elite' targeted myself along with a host of other anti-establishment folk for daring to voice evidence-based views that challenged the establishment COVID narrative, effectively depriving me of all post rewards for many weeks – simply the price of speaking truth to power in an age of universal deceit – and this is where the vast majority of my past work can be found – hive.blog/@jasonliberty, peakd.com/@jasonliberty.
To this day, I will never forget that otherwise ordinary week in my life when I was suddenly intuitively guided to begin writing and to thus embark upon my writing journey, starting that very week with the compilation of the story I was then currently researching into the very first written piece I would ever publish. It was about the ambush and murder of rancher LaVoy Finicum who had been shot to death following a prolonged armed but until now nonviolent 'standoff' between protesters and government agencies in Oregon – which seemed to me to be the story of a pre-planned ambush and murder of a courageous, honest and then-unarmed man by state and federal police carrying out their corrupt orders from on high.
In all honesty, it really wasn't a great piece of writing on much of any level, but surely at the same time it was also one of the most important pieces I ever wrote; for it taught me that I had the ability to transform any story I was researching into a story of my own, and that experience awakened within me what I would quickly discover was a uniquely powerful personal gift and passion of mine. Meanwhile, as I grew into this talent for writing I had discovered with my first few posts of my writing 'career' published on that very first blog of mine, aptly named What Happens When Criminals Run This Country, history eventually vindicated my initially conspiratorial take on that original story I had written, a pattern I would witness playing out time and time again throughout the years.
Such were the circumstances in which my life as a writer was born, and the rest is history, published on my blog(s) for the world to see. And while much has changed between then and now, especially seen in the radical evolution my worldview would undergo in the following years, two things would remain the same: My dedication to truth, justice, freedom and peace for humanity; and the inherent corruption of government and politics, the American political system, and the institutionalized global power structures of this earth.
My First Awakening: Waking up to the inherent corruption and deception of institutionalized western power structures and the matrix-style prison-system society this deeply entrenched web of darkness has spawned
As you may have guessed by now, I am indeed unabashedly anti-establishment; and, unlike many who only first began to wake up to the inherently corrupt, tyrannical and deceitful nature of our planet's present global power structures during the insanity that the COVID p(l)andemic was, I have myself been outspokenly so for just about my entire adult life, thanks to an awakening I went through in my earliest years of adulthood.
My first major awakening occurred in 2007-2008, almost immediately after I graduated high school and struck out on my own; and although it was not a spiritual awakening, it was nevertheless an important milestone on my spiritual journey, for it forced me to start questioning all of the religious programming I had absorbed while growing up that I would eventually have to let go of before consciously beginning my spiritual walk. The months-long experience also left me entirely incapable of ever seeing the world in the way I once had; for I was awakening to the inherently corrupt and deceitful nature of the government, the western corporate media specifically and Corporate America generally, the current global power structures of the earth including especially the private global financial/banking system that controls the bulk of the world's money supply, the Zionist occupation of Palestine, and especially the imperial western war machine and its unhealthy addiction to perpetual war and global domination. Even at the young age of 18 I was already anti-war – though not yet close to embracing pacifism or nonviolence as the most direct path to peace as I would later in life – but it was my research into the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the conclusions I arrived at based on my research that really triggered this initial awakening of mine, and formed the foundation upon which the worldview through which much of my writing would eventually be filtered was initially shaped and formed.
At this stage in my life I already had very little trust for the government which I could already recognize was clearly corrupt and not serving the interests of the People; but I still wasn't quite ready to acknowledge or accept the possibility that forces within the ranks of our own government and its intelligence agencies were directly responsible for what I now believe without a shadow of a doubt was demonstrably a pre-planned false flag attack both staged and carried out by malevolent forces within the US and Israeli intelligence services in order to form the justification for the creation of the security state apparatus (Homeland Security, PATRIOT ACT, NSA wiretapping, etc.) and to propel the US into the endless war it has waged — upon Iraq, then Libya, Syria, and Yemen.
As much as I was initially unprepared and unwilling to accept this seemingly insane conclusion, the more I researched, the more the evidence all seemed to be leading my mind in one single direction. The official story was a lie, that much I was easily able to acknowledge; but that members of the highest ranks within our own government not only intentionally allowed the attack to take place but even authorized and carried out the attack themselves – I just wasn't ready to accept the possibility of such a disturbing, life-shaking reality. There was a period of time as I wrestled with the mounting evidence and my own beliefs, in which I clearly recognized what the evidence was suggesting but refused to consciously accept it as 'my truth', as the implications were simply too great for even my own open and inquisitive mind to initially accept. This inner tug-of-war continued for some weeks, the battle between what my eyes were seeing and what my mind was willing to accept. Eventually, however, being the dedicated truth-seeker that I am, the weight of the accumulating evidence in front of me was destined to eventually overpower the stubbornness of my cognitive dissonance; and months after I first began my research into the subject, I officially accepted within myself what I already knew all of the evidence I was seeing clearly indicated – that the official 9/11 story was a big fat lie to cover up the truth that 9/11 was an 'inside job' , most likely a CIA job with a little help and support from their friends in the Israeli Mossad.
At about the same time I was coming to this deeply disturbing realization, and having been brought up in Evangelical Christianity myself, I was also struck by the key role that the American Evangelical Christian Church plays in supporting the western war machine and its perpetual wars-for-oil-and-Israel-and-global-domination. So it was that I also entered a long period of seriously questioning the veracity of the religious beliefs I had once held so dearly throughout my early life; for I couldn't get over how it was that millions of the same Christians who dutifully worshiped the 'Prince of Peace' on Sundays also formed one of the most influential parties among those directly responsible for fueling, igniting, and offering their unconditional support for the entirely baseless invasion, war, and ongoing occupation of Iraq. It was out of this period of discovery and integration of newly acquired knowledge that I would eventually come to the understanding that just like the Roman peasants of old, here I was living in the heart of an empire.
So began my initial awakening journey – a journey into the corruption of institutionalized power – corporate, political and religious; and for years I felt like I was either 'preaching to the choir' or to deaf ears when I attempted to share the unpopular truths I was discovering about the world through my research. Until 2020, that is, when the COVID insanity rolled around and flipped our lives upside down so blatantly it couldn't be ignored, and the whole world began to see the inherent establishment corruption and blatant deception of the corporate media that I had been screaming about from the rooftops (not literally) and attempting to expose for years – first by sharing my findings with friends, family and acquaintances, and then through writing and video making when I first began publishing the findings of my research and sharing my political, geopolitical and various other worldviews with the public.
The Making of a Dedicated Writer and Rise of a Self-Proclaimed Dissident
Over time, as my worldview and opinions on certain matters began to shift in response to the knowledge my research was leading me to along with various life and spiritual experiences, the subjects of my research and focus of my writing began subtly shifting. In time, my work became relatively less political and more spiritual, though I continued to focus much of my energy on exposing the corrupt powers that be: the greed, lies and false flag attacks fueling the US-backed wars; the inherent corruption of politics and the two-party political establishment; and the blatant, heinous crimes against humanity committed by US-backed forces, such as US-backed Israeli war crimes against illegally occupied Palestinians and US-backed Saudi slaughter of Yemeni children including the notoriously despicable bombing of a Yemeni school bus filled with children in the middle of a crowded market – with a US guided missile no less – but even that wasn't heinous enough for 'our' politicians to halt the US government provision of precision weapons to the murderous and highly oppressive Saudi regime.
Until 2020, the Syrian war was by far one of my deepest fascinations and biggest focuses of my writing and research; and once COVID was officially declared a pandemic, I largely shifted my focus away from Syria and other geopolitical affairs back to the homeland and the insanity I was seeing increasingly unfold right in front of my own eyes as this biosecurity state 'new normal' began to take hold of society. I then spent the next two years dedicated to heavily researching, writing, and creating videos primarily about COVID; though I still managed to find enough time to publish a number of posts both documenting my journey and about developing stories abroad I had previously been following much more closely, as well as on a handful of various new developments in the States along with an increasing number of more spiritually oriented pieces.
My coverage and research of COVID during those two years included evidence of its actually being a Plandemic; the demonstrably harmful and anti-scientific nature of the vast majority of the so-called pandemic measures; the blatant lies, fear-mongering and corrupt actions responsible for countless unnecessary deaths; the worldwide tyrannical agenda behind it all including 'The Great Reset' and associated technocratic takeover of society; the massive wealth re-distribution that took place under cover of the pandemic pandemonium and the epidemic of poverty it orchestrated; along with the risks/dangers/harms of the experimental mRNA injections, the ensuing 'vaccine' rollout, the insanity of and popular resistance to the following mandate madness, and the murderous crime against humanity that relatively short-lived injection coercion campaign demonstrably was, etc.
And though I continued to write prolifically about national and world events and that which would be classed as political (though in reality by now it was much more health and medically oriented than political), at the same time I was also gravitating towards writing more and more about my life and spiritual journey, spirituality in general, self-empowerment, practical non-political solutions to the numerous problems facing humanity at this time including means of effecting positive change and attaining peace and human freedom on this earth, the importance of self-sufficiency/sustainability and building community in turbulent and uncertain times such as these, and the importance of individual inner work and personal transformation over external political activism and mass protests.
While this was definitely a time of unprecedented change, uncertainty and insanity in the world, the COVID era was actually a really great time for my writing 'career', the high point in fact; as I had all the free time in the world and was practically writing and publishing my work full-time, my following was steadily growing and my work gaining in popularity, people seemed to be waking up to the inherent corruption of 'the system' faster than ever before, and I was consistently earning enough in crypto rewards to at least financially scrape by comfortably enough.
One of the highest high points during this time for me was the entering and subsequent winning of a writing contest with one of the most comprehensive and well documented deep dives I had at that point ever written, and perhaps remains so to this day. The contest was hosted by a small group of independent researchers for independent researchers, and the theme of the contest was “conspiracies that turned out to be true.” Being that I had spent countless hours researching and reporting on the alleged gas attack targeting civilians in Syria and allegedly authorized by President Assad and carried out by the Syrian Arab Army in early April of 2018, and was thus intimately familiar with and deeply interested in this story; I decided that this was just the motivation I needed to finally compile all of the research and evidence I had gathered over the months of my dedicated research into this event, along with all of the newer evidence that had surfaced between then and now, and assemble it into a convincing piece that would prove without a doubt (to my standards, at least) that this story/event was indeed one of those fringe 'conspiracies' that had turned out to be true – as only time would illuminate so clearly.
From my perspective, the establishment western narrative was quite demonstrably a fabricated deception, as there was very little evidence that the alleged gas attack had even taken place, and not one shred of credible evidence that the Syrian regime itself was responsible even if there had indeed been such a chemical attack as was initially reported. And here was the perfect chance for me to use my passion for truth, my knowledge of the story, my skills as a researcher, and my gift of writing to prove it – and possibly win a cool contest in the meantime. And so I did, both complete the project to my satisfaction, and then won the contest with my epic piece – Red Flags and False Flags: Syria 'Gas Attacks' and the Real Douma Conspiracy — a two-part masterpiece for sure.
It was during this stage of my writing that I would even begin to feel at times like a real, up and coming independent journalist, something I did from time to time indeed aspire to become in those days. This particular golden age of my writing ‘career’ lasted from early spring of 2020 into February of 2022, culminating in the latter half of that time and producing by far the majority of my best and most popular, most shared works — below is one of the very last ones, and one of the best, a great example of the kind of work that made me as a writer in those days.
But then a major shift in life circumstances towards the end of 2021 into early 2022 would soon leave me far too busy with other matters to be able to write much at all, and so my writing tapered off and was for the most part put on hold from that time until now...
Expanding Horizons: From Writing to Video Creation
Next to writing, I've also been making videos of various types – from amateur documentaries, to podcast style recordings, to short video compilations and montages – on and off from shortly after the same time I initially discovered my knack for writing. And were it not for an aggressive YouTube censorship campaign that cost me my original channel – when by chance one of my earliest videos went viral in early 2017 and led to an explosion of new subscribers and channel activity for those few short weeks of YouTube fame as I cranked out daily videos – I have no doubt that I would have become a YouTube star. As it is, however, to this day I have never been able to rebuild that originally fast-growing following on YouTube despite creating new replacement channels; and from that time on I began to consciously put much more of my time and energy into writing than recording and creating videos. But that doesn't mean I haven't also put out my share of decent video content over the years; for I setup a Bitchute channel and eventually began posting videos both there and on the Hive blockchain on 3Speak.
Probably one of the most important (and most difficult, heart-wrenching) videos I ever created was a little documentary I put together with a video editing app on my I-phone (which was a first for me) high in the Tobacco Root Mountains of southwest Montana in the summer of 2021. It was a video montage documenting COVID 'vaccine' injuries and real life testimonies from among the millions of the 'vaccine'-injured whom the establishment shamefully both censors as 'conspiracy' and disparages as 'fake news', at times even going so far as to accuse the injured witnesses as being 'anti-vaxx actors'. The video quality isn't the best, with some lag causing slight video/audio discrepancy at times due to the processing power of a mere phone I suppose (or limitations of the app) – but I had successfully created my first documentary-style video without using my computer; and I for one was impressed, not only with the difficult feat I had accomplished but also because it quickly became the most viewed video I had ever published (at least since that very first viral video of mine that led to my original YouTube channel being permanently taken down anyway) – linked below for those who might be interested in checking it out.
Silenced and Censored: The Untold Story of COVID 'Vaccine' Injuries – A Documentary:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dGiNjS6zGZH1/
As for why I’m here...
So why am I here, then, and why am I only just now in 2024 joining this apparently quite successful and thriving community of writers? Long story short, upon increasingly feeling quite strongly that it was time to get back into writing after a two-year hiatus from near-daily blogging and 1.5 years since publishing my last 'real' post, while finally beginning to have the time and ability to do so again, and also sensing that it was time to expand my writing to new horizons; when I was finally ready to take the first serious step upon this new path I would be treading, my intuition immediately led me straight here, and I promptly went about setting up my very first Substack in February. Due to serious chronic health issues that I've been struggling with daily since November of 2023 – a return of long Covid from one year prior, I believe – it's taken me a little longer than I would have liked to make it to this point of actually writing and publishing my first post here. But now that I am finally finding real physical healing and a return of mental clarity along with it, I must truly be ready to get back to writing, and hopefully podcasting soon as well, as here I am – finally! It is certainly a long-awaited, most exciting day for this writer, to finally be getting back into the writing game. And I'm not gonna lie – the prospect of making a side income from pursuing one of my deepest passions by way of accumulating paid subscribers is pretty exciting as well! I will say, however, that I have no intention of paywalling any of my content, as that is simply not my style...
Oh, and for those who have never been afflicted by a debilitating chronic illness or serious chronic pain of any kind, words cannot express the beautiful feeling of finally tasting the sweet freedom of healing! It honestly feels like coming back to life after spending months in a grave, and, given the circumstances, like a miracle in its own right. That being said, I do plan to share more about my battle with long COVID, what I learned in those dark times, and this recent healing journey of mine in future posts. In fact, I expect healing will be the focus of a good number of posts here. After all, alternative healing was already a subject of great interest to me before this personal health struggle of mine; but since witnessing the incredible level of incompetence, corruption and blatant disregard for human health and life inherent to the profit-driven corporate medical establishment revealed ever so clearly for all to see during the COVID debacle, I have become increasingly interested and focused upon alternative methods of healing. From natural medicine and healing herbs to energy and faith healing, the placebo effect and spontaneous healing of all kinds, I have over recent years become increasingly ever more fascinated with the world of alternative healing; especially the key roles that our diets, beliefs, and emotions play both in contributing to our dis-ease as well as to our physical healing.
Healing is certainly one major reason why I’m here - my own recent physical healing enabling my ability to write again along with a desire to help others find the healing they are looking for, but the reason I’m here isn’t exactly singular in nature. I love writing, and podcasting, and generally using my voice to speak truth to power, as a 'voice for the voiceless', and to help empower individuals to free themselves from the mental/emotional/spiritual prison-construct of fear responsible for enslaving the human spirit, and the whole human race right along with it – created by the insanity of the human ego and the insane ego-driven forces of darkness now present upon this earth. And now that my personal circumstances have again changed, finally allowing me the time to follow this passion and utilize this gift of mine once again, I can't help but continue doing what I love and currently feel called to do in this life; which includes teaching what I've learned, sharing impactful stories from my own personal life/spiritual experiences, and spreading the knowledge I've gained in my few short years upon this earth in order to help uplift, empower, and liberate awakening individuals through the power of love and the path to inner peace and healing, which, when realized by enough of mankind, will also bring about peace on earth and much-needed healing to our planet.
For as I have learned in time, in order to change the world, we must first be willing to change ourselves, because changing ourselves on the individual level is the only way the world ever changes; and yet most people are either entirely unwilling or seemingly yet unable to affect the positive changes within themselves which would in turn bring about the external changes in the world that they seek. This and many other such practical lessons of this school of life can only be truly learned, or at least truly realized and integrated into our life experience, experientially. So it was for me at least, that these much-needed life lessons and the associated knowledge, wisdom and awareness gained through these lessons which are such a fundamental necessity to the growth, development and liberation of the human soul; these would only ever come about through walking the spiritual path – that frequently rocky “narrow way which leads to life,” as well as to that state of inner “peace that passes all understanding,” – and all of this would only begin to be fully realized once I consciously embarked upon my own unique spiritual journey.
And that journey, my friends – which includes my religious upbringing, the day I first heard 'the voice of God', my deconstruction of fundamentalist Christianity, a spiritual awakening, and eventually that giant leap of faith I was destined to take that would set into motion a long and synchronistic series of events, which would in turn all serve in leading me straight here – is its own uniquely interesting story and inspiring adventure which I will be sharing a somewhat condensed version of in the next and final installment of this written introduction to me, my life, and my writing.
So stay tuned for Part 2; and if you resonate at all with this journey of mine or the things I speak of – many of which will be topics of future posts here – then I invite you to join me in this, my journey of navigating the present darkness on our planet by stepping into the Light — one small step of faith, one liberating instant of true forgiveness from the heart, one brief moment of transcendental inner awareness born in silent presence, one selfless act of unconditional love at a time.