1 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:18,070 my name is James Ness bomber and many of 2 00:00:22,450 --> 00:00:20,090 my friends call me Jim and I encourage 3 00:00:25,780 --> 00:00:22,460 my readers to do the same and I stick 4 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:25,790 with James as my professional name but I 5 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:29,330 had always been fascinated by writing in 6 00:00:34,210 --> 00:00:32,210 fact I at 11 years old I wrote my first 7 00:00:35,950 --> 00:00:34,220 novel of course it never was published I 8 00:00:37,540 --> 00:00:35,960 was I was always an avid football player 9 00:00:40,060 --> 00:00:37,550 and it was called reaching for the goal 10 00:00:42,580 --> 00:00:40,070 actually I was I was inspired by Fran 11 00:00:45,580 --> 00:00:42,590 Tarkenton and that went pretty well but 12 00:00:47,619 --> 00:00:45,590 so you and I and I ended up in college 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:47,629 at Kent State taking the literary areas 14 00:00:50,290 --> 00:00:48,890 and you know that I was always 15 00:00:52,990 --> 00:00:50,300 interested in writing and thought maybe 16 00:00:54,670 --> 00:00:53,000 I would go into that field well you know 17 00:00:57,759 --> 00:00:54,680 one thing led to another and I found 18 00:00:59,349 --> 00:00:57,769 myself in the US Air Force and then all 19 00:01:00,910 --> 00:00:59,359 of a sudden I was married and you know 20 00:01:03,310 --> 00:01:00,920 the car payments and we get caught up in 21 00:01:05,740 --> 00:01:03,320 life and raising children and I stumbled 22 00:01:09,310 --> 00:01:05,750 into the financial services business and 23 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:09,320 which involves trading on the stock and 24 00:01:13,510 --> 00:01:11,510 bond markets and insurance products a 25 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:13,520 lot of retirement planning and I would 26 00:01:18,130 --> 00:01:15,710 stay in that business for twenty five 27 00:01:22,030 --> 00:01:18,140 years and I'd done actually pretty well 28 00:01:24,460 --> 00:01:22,040 and I had taking my writing skills into 29 00:01:26,109 --> 00:01:24,470 that where I wrote a newsletter that 30 00:01:29,410 --> 00:01:26,119 went out monthly called retirement 31 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:29,420 insights that became very popular and in 32 00:01:35,469 --> 00:01:32,329 Ohio where I my practice was at I wrote 33 00:01:37,899 --> 00:01:35,479 a article for a regional newspaper 34 00:01:39,940 --> 00:01:37,909 called senior forum and so I was always 35 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:39,950 in the writing and I loved it and but I 36 00:01:46,899 --> 00:01:41,930 just had caught up in the financial 37 00:01:50,109 --> 00:01:46,909 services business in 2007 after 25 years 38 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:50,119 in the business I crossed an illegal 39 00:01:57,279 --> 00:01:53,090 line to recoup some some money in a down 40 00:01:58,840 --> 00:01:57,289 market by myself and clients and I 41 00:02:00,670 --> 00:01:58,850 crossed an illegal line it was a 42 00:02:03,310 --> 00:02:00,680 securities violation and I call it a 43 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:03,320 foolish securities violation foolish on 44 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:04,729 my part because I should have known 45 00:02:10,180 --> 00:02:07,250 better well an angry judge didn't like 46 00:02:12,250 --> 00:02:10,190 the fact a state judge in Ohio didn't 47 00:02:15,340 --> 00:02:12,260 like what went down and he had the 48 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:15,350 prosecutor on his side and I didn't have 49 00:02:20,230 --> 00:02:17,990 very good representation in an attorney 50 00:02:22,150 --> 00:02:20,240 and I was sentenced to 10 years in 51 00:02:26,229 --> 00:02:22,160 prison never had been in trouble before 52 00:02:27,970 --> 00:02:26,239 oh my gosh was this this jolted me well 53 00:02:32,140 --> 00:02:27,980 so off to prison I went 54 00:02:34,270 --> 00:02:32,150 while I was in prison I stumbled into a 55 00:02:38,070 --> 00:02:34,280 publication that I've that I was always 56 00:02:40,930 --> 00:02:38,080 looking for through my years in business 57 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:40,940 motivational type of a publication that 58 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:43,489 I would hear famous authors reference 59 00:02:48,580 --> 00:02:44,930 all the time and it was called a course 60 00:02:50,229 --> 00:02:48,590 in miracles' but I never never pursued 61 00:02:52,420 --> 00:02:50,239 looking into that it was always in the 62 00:02:54,250 --> 00:02:52,430 back of my mind that I need to find out 63 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:54,260 what is this course in miracles' that 64 00:02:58,780 --> 00:02:56,450 all these famous spiritual authors are 65 00:03:02,440 --> 00:02:58,790 writing about well now I was in prison 66 00:03:06,339 --> 00:03:02,450 and about after oh I'd say maybe two or 67 00:03:07,780 --> 00:03:06,349 three months in prison I won't say the 68 00:03:09,190 --> 00:03:07,790 whole story about that because I'll 69 00:03:11,559 --> 00:03:09,200 leave that for the breeders in the book 70 00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:11,569 but I stumbled into a course of miracles 71 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:14,150 and I was just just about in tears 72 00:03:18,729 --> 00:03:15,950 actually literally really was in tears 73 00:03:19,330 --> 00:03:18,739 and so I I dove into a course in 74 00:03:22,750 --> 00:03:19,340 miracles' 75 00:03:26,890 --> 00:03:22,760 and I've it has become me now it is my 76 00:03:29,589 --> 00:03:26,900 everyday study and I just started making 77 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:29,599 notes and all of a sudden I realized 78 00:03:35,319 --> 00:03:31,970 that these notes were coming to bookful 79 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:35,329 I said oh my gosh I got a book here so I 80 00:03:42,670 --> 00:03:38,530 but in prison now there is no computer 81 00:03:44,650 --> 00:03:42,680 may be ill quality typewriter that that 82 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:44,660 inmates stand in line to use so my only 83 00:03:48,870 --> 00:03:46,310 option really was just the write by hand 84 00:03:51,220 --> 00:03:48,880 and that's what I started doing I would 85 00:03:54,069 --> 00:03:51,230 legal use legal pad do my hand 86 00:03:55,900 --> 00:03:54,079 scratching there and and mic equivalent 87 00:03:58,390 --> 00:03:55,910 of computer entry was I was able to have 88 00:04:00,339 --> 00:03:58,400 a friend on the outside send in to me 89 00:04:02,650 --> 00:04:00,349 composition journals you know those ones 90 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:02,660 the black and white modeled covering on 91 00:04:06,759 --> 00:04:04,970 it and so I would transfer my ten 92 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:06,769 scratch notes that I thought were 93 00:04:10,539 --> 00:04:08,450 perfected as best as I could get them 94 00:04:13,690 --> 00:04:10,549 over into neatly printed into 95 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:13,700 composition journals and those would sit 96 00:04:17,589 --> 00:04:15,260 in the bottom of my footlocker for a 97 00:04:20,020 --> 00:04:17,599 long time where I would have to heavily 98 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:20,030 guard them because I person was a very 99 00:04:23,469 --> 00:04:20,810 volatile place 100 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:23,479 well I landed a publisher on the out I 101 00:04:29,409 --> 00:04:25,849 mean I'm sorry I landed an editor that I 102 00:04:31,629 --> 00:04:29,419 had written to several editors by the 103 00:04:34,089 --> 00:04:31,639 way to help me maybe with some computer 104 00:04:36,159 --> 00:04:34,099 entry and her name was Carol and I just 105 00:04:38,950 --> 00:04:36,169 loved that woman till still to this day 106 00:04:41,330 --> 00:04:38,960 and I sent her these journals and she 107 00:04:43,250 --> 00:04:41,340 put him into manuscript form for me 108 00:04:45,620 --> 00:04:43,260 would send them back into prison for me 109 00:04:49,310 --> 00:04:45,630 to edit and say everything's okay and 110 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:49,320 and we put this together and so in the 111 00:04:56,390 --> 00:04:53,370 meantime this was in 2007-2008 I was 112 00:04:59,060 --> 00:04:56,400 still in prison two days a week I put on 113 00:05:01,540 --> 00:04:59,070 my schedule to write literary agents and 114 00:05:03,980 --> 00:05:01,550 publishers all over the world from a 115 00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:03,990 journal that I had sent in to me called 116 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:07,860 the the writers market and I had enough 117 00:05:14,900 --> 00:05:11,070 rejection letters to wallpaper the 118 00:05:16,670 --> 00:05:14,910 inside of the entire prison well year in 119 00:05:18,350 --> 00:05:16,680 and year out I would get this a new 120 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:18,360 journal an updated 121 00:05:24,050 --> 00:05:20,130 publication of the writers market which 122 00:05:25,580 --> 00:05:24,060 is a thing about this thick and it was 123 00:05:28,790 --> 00:05:25,590 in 2014 124 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:28,800 June of 2014 after corresponding with 125 00:05:32,990 --> 00:05:31,650 Dolores cannon of Ozark Mountain she had 126 00:05:34,610 --> 00:05:33,000 written me a letter and I just really 127 00:05:36,110 --> 00:05:34,620 broke down in tears when I read it and 128 00:05:38,990 --> 00:05:36,120 she says we want to offer you a contract 129 00:05:40,850 --> 00:05:39,000 I didn't know I felt as though I was 130 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:40,860 going to still be doing the entire 10 131 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:42,930 years of prison because the judge was 132 00:05:46,820 --> 00:05:44,610 set in stone that he was not going to 133 00:05:49,790 --> 00:05:46,830 release me and I was approaching eight 134 00:05:52,790 --> 00:05:49,800 years at the time Dolores Sinai offered 135 00:05:54,469 --> 00:05:52,800 me the contract well soon after I was 136 00:05:57,250 --> 00:05:54,479 offered the contract and signed it and 137 00:05:59,750 --> 00:05:57,260 things were getting under way the judge 138 00:06:02,270 --> 00:05:59,760 the example said her judge had stepped 139 00:06:04,730 --> 00:06:02,280 down and retired a new judge that came 140 00:06:06,860 --> 00:06:04,740 in saw that I didn't need to be in 141 00:06:10,159 --> 00:06:06,870 prison for all of this it was over an 142 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:10,169 amount of money $100,000 that was 143 00:06:14,029 --> 00:06:12,510 totally repaid no one had lost money 144 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:14,039 although what I had done in the 145 00:06:17,390 --> 00:06:15,570 beginning was not right and I and I 146 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:17,400 admit that so I'm not trying to to make 147 00:06:22,370 --> 00:06:20,130 excuses for that but I was released 148 00:06:25,219 --> 00:06:22,380 after eight years from prison so I 149 00:06:27,430 --> 00:06:25,229 walked out of prison with a book on the 150 00:06:30,230 --> 00:06:27,440 market called the master of everything 151 00:06:32,870 --> 00:06:30,240 it's a story of mankind in the world of 152 00:06:34,670 --> 00:06:32,880 illusion we call life but it didn't stop 153 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:34,680 there a second book was written into 154 00:06:40,340 --> 00:06:37,050 these same journals and a third book and 155 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:40,350 on and on all the way up to twelve books 156 00:06:46,450 --> 00:06:42,810 but right now we're with Ozark we're 157 00:06:49,670 --> 00:06:46,460 concentrating on the first three and 158 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:49,680 that material the second book it called 159 00:06:53,510 --> 00:06:51,330 mastering your own spiritual freedom 160 00:06:54,540 --> 00:06:53,520 will be on the market may 1st of this 161 00:06:57,030 --> 00:06:54,550 year too 162 00:06:59,550 --> 00:06:57,040 sixteen so I'm excited about that it's 163 00:07:01,410 --> 00:06:59,560 the sequel to the master of everything 164 00:07:03,390 --> 00:07:01,420 called mastering your own spiritual 165 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:03,400 freedom although a person can pick up 166 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:04,810 the second book and doesn't don't 167 00:07:08,700 --> 00:07:06,490 necessarily have to read the first one 168 00:07:10,590 --> 00:07:08,710 although it does help to read first book 169 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:10,600 and second book and the third book is 170 00:07:14,430 --> 00:07:12,190 written that way too when it comes out 171 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:14,440 which it's called and then I and then I 172 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:17,170 knew my true abundance someone will be 173 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:19,090 able to pick that up and if they like it 174 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:20,710 and read it and say oh oh maybe I should 175 00:07:24,150 --> 00:07:22,510 go read the first one so I'm excited 176 00:07:27,420 --> 00:07:24,160 about these first three books but they 177 00:07:31,860 --> 00:07:27,430 do belong together and it's it's very 178 00:07:36,750 --> 00:07:31,870 exciting in the first book the master of 179 00:07:40,650 --> 00:07:36,760 everything I discuss it's it's much of a 180 00:07:43,860 --> 00:07:40,660 memoir about my upbringing then on to 181 00:07:47,070 --> 00:07:43,870 the things that happened that got me in 182 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:47,080 trouble to make the mistakes that I made 183 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:51,610 this book is is designed to help the 184 00:07:57,450 --> 00:07:54,730 reader to help us redirect the mental 185 00:07:59,760 --> 00:07:57,460 power of our mistakes and turn that into 186 00:08:02,460 --> 00:07:59,770 positive results such as what happened 187 00:08:04,140 --> 00:08:02,470 to me now published author going into 188 00:08:06,990 --> 00:08:04,150 prison losing my license in the 189 00:08:09,660 --> 00:08:07,000 securities industry for life I can never 190 00:08:12,150 --> 00:08:09,670 go go back to now so turning things 191 00:08:14,130 --> 00:08:12,160 around because in this world as humans 192 00:08:17,370 --> 00:08:14,140 we all make mistakes and we're all faced 193 00:08:20,010 --> 00:08:17,380 with adversity day in and day out so the 194 00:08:22,050 --> 00:08:20,020 serious reader of this book will learn 195 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:22,060 how to turn things around when the the 196 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:23,890 chips are down or things are going 197 00:08:28,980 --> 00:08:26,530 against him but they're in this book the 198 00:08:30,930 --> 00:08:28,990 master of everything yes like I said 199 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:30,940 it's a it's a bit of a memoir but 200 00:08:36,420 --> 00:08:32,980 there's many of my experiences from 201 00:08:39,150 --> 00:08:36,430 prison that I thought was necessary that 202 00:08:41,220 --> 00:08:39,160 the reader hear about and what actually 203 00:08:43,890 --> 00:08:41,230 goes on in prisons and and what 204 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:43,900 prisoners are faced with and and you 205 00:08:47,430 --> 00:08:45,130 know many of the people that I was in 206 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:47,440 prison with were doing life sentences 207 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:49,510 you know with the type of crime that I 208 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:51,850 had people think well you know he 209 00:08:56,550 --> 00:08:53,410 probably was at a prison where they had 210 00:08:58,230 --> 00:08:56,560 swimming pools and white-collar Country 211 00:09:00,060 --> 00:08:58,240 Club camps so to speak like a hero but 212 00:09:02,670 --> 00:09:00,070 no that's not this that's not the case 213 00:09:05,460 --> 00:09:02,680 in state prisons I was in with the 214 00:09:06,990 --> 00:09:05,470 hardened criminals many of my peers and 215 00:09:08,220 --> 00:09:07,000 people I talked to all the time we're 216 00:09:10,980 --> 00:09:08,230 doing life sentences for 217 00:09:14,310 --> 00:09:10,990 you know ungodly terrible things and it 218 00:09:17,190 --> 00:09:14,320 was a very violent and just a violent 219 00:09:19,740 --> 00:09:17,200 volatile terrible ugly place to be and 220 00:09:23,490 --> 00:09:19,750 it's if you could ever imagine hell 221 00:09:25,020 --> 00:09:23,500 that's what it is so this book you know 222 00:09:26,610 --> 00:09:25,030 lets the reader know a little bit about 223 00:09:29,750 --> 00:09:26,620 that and lets the reader know that when 224 00:09:31,620 --> 00:09:29,760 we go into a hell of our own when we all 225 00:09:33,210 --> 00:09:31,630 experiencing hell on earth 226 00:09:34,890 --> 00:09:33,220 that there is light at the end of the 227 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:34,900 tunnel like we say that if we just keep 228 00:09:40,470 --> 00:09:36,910 moving towards what we believe is right 229 00:09:43,050 --> 00:09:40,480 for us we'll come through this and it'll 230 00:09:45,450 --> 00:09:43,060 be okay it's about not giving up this 231 00:09:47,130 --> 00:09:45,460 book so when the reader the serious 232 00:09:48,690 --> 00:09:47,140 reader of the book puts this down and 233 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:48,700 there's a lot of words in this book 234 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:52,210 there's 86,000 words and the margins are 235 00:09:57,810 --> 00:09:54,610 narrow but I've been told it's a 236 00:09:59,520 --> 00:09:57,820 page-turner I the principles contained 237 00:10:01,590 --> 00:09:59,530 in A Course in Miracles to help the 238 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:01,600 reader understand about what A Course in 239 00:10:05,130 --> 00:10:03,310 Miracles is all about it's actually 240 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:05,140 about the one mindedness that we all are 241 00:10:11,130 --> 00:10:08,410 we're all connected in a certain way and 242 00:10:13,620 --> 00:10:11,140 deep within us if we go deep and deeper 243 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:13,630 and deeper and deeper it's it's where we 244 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:15,310 really aren't we're more than just 245 00:10:20,910 --> 00:10:19,330 connected we actually are one so the 246 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:20,920 serious reader of this book when he 247 00:10:25,170 --> 00:10:23,170 completes the last word will have that 248 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:25,180 feeling that he's one with all of 249 00:10:32,010 --> 00:10:29,130 creation and by feeling that way helps 250 00:10:34,470 --> 00:10:32,020 us when we're down and things are going 251 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:34,480 against us to get on top of that and 252 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:38,710 turn things around book two I just call 253 00:10:42,090 --> 00:10:40,510 it book two it's actually a sequel it's 254 00:10:44,250 --> 00:10:42,100 called mastering your own spiritual 255 00:10:46,260 --> 00:10:44,260 freedom there was a lot of untold 256 00:10:48,060 --> 00:10:46,270 stories from prison that I felt needed 257 00:10:52,580 --> 00:10:48,070 to be told so that's why it's a bit of a 258 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:52,590 sequel so there are some more stories of 259 00:10:58,770 --> 00:10:55,690 experiences in prison but the second 260 00:11:00,720 --> 00:10:58,780 book just expands on the oneness of the 261 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:00,730 one mind of creation that we're all 262 00:11:05,220 --> 00:11:02,530 about with interesting stories about 263 00:11:07,230 --> 00:11:05,230 everyday life of myself and friends of 264 00:11:10,350 --> 00:11:07,240 mine and and things that the reader can 265 00:11:12,390 --> 00:11:10,360 relate to once again it's about turning 266 00:11:15,060 --> 00:11:12,400 your life around but oughta maybe it's 267 00:11:17,190 --> 00:11:15,070 just a little bit another notch up on 268 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:17,200 the scale on the level scale where like 269 00:11:21,570 --> 00:11:19,210 if you if you do read the first book 270 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:21,580 you're getting really you're the 271 00:11:25,530 --> 00:11:23,770 groundwork is being set for where you 272 00:11:27,690 --> 00:11:25,540 need to go to the second book so you're 273 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:27,700 kind of graduating to another level of 274 00:11:33,210 --> 00:11:30,910 learning how to you know redirect the 275 00:11:35,250 --> 00:11:33,220 power the mental power of our mistakes 276 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:35,260 and turn that into positive results in 277 00:11:40,590 --> 00:11:38,770 the serious reader of that book to will 278 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:40,600 feel as though that after he's read the 279 00:11:45,390 --> 00:11:43,690 first book but like I said the person 280 00:11:47,790 --> 00:11:45,400 the reader doesn't necessarily have to 281 00:11:49,950 --> 00:11:47,800 read the first book first but it helps 282 00:11:51,810 --> 00:11:49,960 but once finishing this second book 283 00:11:54,510 --> 00:11:51,820 mastering your own spiritual freedom I 284 00:11:58,340 --> 00:11:54,520 feel that the reader will feel like he 285 00:12:01,650 --> 00:11:58,350 is much further advanced in in his 286 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:01,660 mindfulness his way of feeling oneness 287 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:03,250 with all of creation he'll be much 288 00:12:07,590 --> 00:12:05,290 further advanced and feeling it to his 289 00:12:09,630 --> 00:12:07,600 heart with just everyday people that you 290 00:12:12,420 --> 00:12:09,640 meet on the streets or at the post 291 00:12:14,310 --> 00:12:12,430 office in the shopping mall and even 292 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:14,320 closer to your friends and family I 293 00:12:18,990 --> 00:12:16,210 believe mastering your own spiritual 294 00:12:22,950 --> 00:12:19,000 freedom book 2 brings people together 295 00:12:26,310 --> 00:12:22,960 and makes them feel unified with the 296 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:26,320 world around them in book number 3 which 297 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:28,810 the first phase of the editing right now 298 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:30,490 has just been completed and when I say 299 00:12:34,710 --> 00:12:32,530 that you know I'll I was in prison this 300 00:12:36,750 --> 00:12:34,720 book was written too and so I you know I 301 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:36,760 had done my own editing with the 302 00:12:41,070 --> 00:12:38,410 freelance editor that I found on the 303 00:12:43,980 --> 00:12:41,080 outside but we're just now working on 304 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:43,990 the manuscript editing and we believe 305 00:12:48,510 --> 00:12:45,730 that this book should be ready to be on 306 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:48,520 the market by October 1st of 16 and I'm 307 00:12:52,650 --> 00:12:50,290 hoping we can keep that schedule but and 308 00:12:54,930 --> 00:12:52,660 then I knew my true abundance is the 309 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:54,940 name of that book and I feel it's the 310 00:12:59,760 --> 00:12:57,490 best of the three I'm my heart is really 311 00:13:02,010 --> 00:12:59,770 with it it's an amazing story that it 312 00:13:04,860 --> 00:13:02,020 happened while I was in prison I was 313 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:04,870 contacted by a woman from Croatia who 314 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:06,970 found my name on a list of prisoners and 315 00:13:12,930 --> 00:13:11,050 she too ended up being a a student of A 316 00:13:15,150 --> 00:13:12,940 Course in Miracles but she had no idea 317 00:13:17,370 --> 00:13:15,160 that I was and I had no idea that she 318 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:17,380 was when she wrote me it took a couple 319 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:20,110 letters going back and forth and anyways 320 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:22,930 make so much that goes on in this book 321 00:13:28,650 --> 00:13:25,470 but once again it is just another 322 00:13:32,220 --> 00:13:28,660 another notch up in the in the scale of 323 00:13:34,950 --> 00:13:32,230 learning oneness of creation or there's 324 00:13:36,990 --> 00:13:34,960 more from A Course in Miracles that's 325 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:37,000 the reader will learn but the this woman 326 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:39,610 for example a great story she had after 327 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:41,650 we got to know each other we became sort 328 00:13:48,740 --> 00:13:43,750 of pen pals I guess you could say and 329 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:48,750 she sent me a invitation to a worldwide 330 00:13:56,130 --> 00:13:52,050 meditation conference to be held 331 00:13:58,920 --> 00:13:56,140 December 24th Christmas Eve at 9:30 p.m. 332 00:14:02,070 --> 00:13:58,930 Eastern Time which is a time where I was 333 00:14:03,630 --> 00:14:02,080 in prison worldwide were people from all 334 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:03,640 over the world we're gonna participate 335 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:05,770 in this worldwide meditation at the same 336 00:14:09,990 --> 00:14:07,810 time no matter where you were on the 337 00:14:11,910 --> 00:14:10,000 planet and she sent me this invitation 338 00:14:13,620 --> 00:14:11,920 now I didn't know how to take this woman 339 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:13,630 whether she was some kind of lunatic 340 00:14:19,890 --> 00:14:17,890 trying to you know manipulate a boner 341 00:14:21,510 --> 00:14:19,900 Belen mate or not and I went through 342 00:14:24,510 --> 00:14:21,520 this back and forth in my mind quite a 343 00:14:26,220 --> 00:14:24,520 bit so I tossed it around but I felt 344 00:14:29,130 --> 00:14:26,230 yeah what the heck there's no harm I'll 345 00:14:33,450 --> 00:14:29,140 just trust her and counting the fact 346 00:14:36,810 --> 00:14:33,460 that she's a real good passionate caring 347 00:14:38,490 --> 00:14:36,820 woman so she sent me the invitation and 348 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:38,500 wanted me to send it to whoever I could 349 00:14:41,910 --> 00:14:40,330 well in prison she asked me to make 350 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:41,920 copies and sent it out whoever I could 351 00:14:45,390 --> 00:14:43,450 well in prison you can't make copies 352 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:45,400 there's not a photostat machine handy 353 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:47,830 for US prisoners but they do sell carbon 354 00:14:52,530 --> 00:14:49,450 paper in the commissary 355 00:14:54,870 --> 00:14:52,540 so with carbon paper I hand wrote this 356 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:54,880 brochure that she had sent me to send it 357 00:15:00,510 --> 00:14:56,890 out to people I knew on the outside and 358 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:00,520 a good friend of mine who I had met in 359 00:15:06,030 --> 00:15:03,310 prison who had gotten out of prison was 360 00:15:07,590 --> 00:15:06,040 out now I sent the flyer to him and this 361 00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:07,600 is all contained in the book in detail 362 00:15:10,950 --> 00:15:09,670 how things happen and here in Ohio I 363 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:10,960 sent it to him and he sent me a nice 364 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:12,730 letter back saying it wasn't this kind 365 00:15:16,620 --> 00:15:14,710 of thing wasn't for me he had said he 366 00:15:20,070 --> 00:15:16,630 goes but my sister who lives out in 367 00:15:21,570 --> 00:15:20,080 Idaho she is interested in these kind of 368 00:15:24,570 --> 00:15:21,580 things well he sent it through his 369 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:24,580 sister one thing led to another I we 370 00:15:30,810 --> 00:15:26,770 were approaching Christmas Eve and 371 00:15:34,110 --> 00:15:30,820 Christmas Eve for I got here I was on my 372 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:34,120 my bunk in in prison participating this 373 00:15:40,410 --> 00:15:38,170 worldwide meditation and a funny thing 374 00:15:42,590 --> 00:15:40,420 was at forgotten about my friend sending 375 00:15:46,020 --> 00:15:42,600 this to his sister in Idaho 376 00:15:48,210 --> 00:15:46,030 well she had went to California for 377 00:15:49,430 --> 00:15:48,220 Christmas and we 378 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:49,440 - this wine and cheese tasting 379 00:15:55,020 --> 00:15:52,450 conference in the in the Napa Valley the 380 00:15:56,780 --> 00:15:55,030 the wine area in California well a good 381 00:15:58,860 --> 00:15:56,790 friend of mine who had met in Florida 382 00:16:01,170 --> 00:15:58,870 because I had done some business in 383 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:01,180 Florida moved to the the wine country 384 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:04,690 out in California and his group of 385 00:16:08,990 --> 00:16:06,490 people in the company that he worked for 386 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:09,000 were put on this wine and cheese tasting 387 00:16:15,630 --> 00:16:12,370 contest John Phillips my good old friend 388 00:16:18,150 --> 00:16:15,640 and he would correspond with me and in 389 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:18,160 prison well here Christmas had gone by 390 00:16:22,470 --> 00:16:20,770 the meditation had gone by I get a 391 00:16:24,990 --> 00:16:22,480 letter in prison after the first of the 392 00:16:27,540 --> 00:16:25,000 year and John writes in the letter I 393 00:16:29,970 --> 00:16:27,550 can't believe it you're connecting with 394 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:29,980 me you're connected i present he went on 395 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:32,410 and on in this letter i will my wife and 396 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:33,730 i Becky were at this wine and cheese 397 00:16:38,010 --> 00:16:35,410 tasting conference and on this bulletin 398 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:38,020 board was this handwritten flyer by this 399 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:40,210 prisoner and here you looked at it and 400 00:16:47,550 --> 00:16:42,910 it was you he's AIDS I can't believe 401 00:16:49,230 --> 00:16:47,560 this and so because at the wine and 402 00:16:50,870 --> 00:16:49,240 cheese tasting conference the person who 403 00:16:54,210 --> 00:16:50,880 led up the wine and cheese tasting 404 00:16:56,340 --> 00:16:54,220 session made a note to everybody we're 405 00:16:58,230 --> 00:16:56,350 gonna toast to this man that's in prison 406 00:17:00,600 --> 00:16:58,240 he's sponsoring this worldwide 407 00:17:02,370 --> 00:17:00,610 meditation and John didn't know that it 408 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:02,380 was me but he just thought as soon as 409 00:17:06,179 --> 00:17:03,730 that he said a man in prison of course 410 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:06,189 it made John think oh my buddy Jim is 411 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:08,170 back in an Ohio prison and him and his 412 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:10,089 wife Becky go over to actually Becky was 413 00:17:13,650 --> 00:17:12,610 looking at the this thing posted over 414 00:17:15,569 --> 00:17:13,660 here on the board first 415 00:17:17,610 --> 00:17:15,579 and she says John you got to come over 416 00:17:20,370 --> 00:17:17,620 here and see something and she like 417 00:17:21,809 --> 00:17:20,380 there was my name the the brochure by me 418 00:17:23,819 --> 00:17:21,819 just an amazing story 419 00:17:25,620 --> 00:17:23,829 so the events of how that carbon-copy 420 00:17:28,100 --> 00:17:25,630 there's a chapter in the book called the 421 00:17:31,230 --> 00:17:28,110 Carbon Copy how it made it to California 422 00:17:33,330 --> 00:17:31,240 and just a you know how it's just a 423 00:17:35,310 --> 00:17:33,340 reason how things happen but the whole 424 00:17:38,010 --> 00:17:35,320 book is not centered around that it's 425 00:17:40,170 --> 00:17:38,020 about how people end up meeting and the 426 00:17:42,180 --> 00:17:40,180 book was on about how the girl in 427 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:42,190 Croatia the woman in Croatia actually 428 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:45,370 did get my name which is which was in a 429 00:17:49,350 --> 00:17:47,290 church she was sitting next to in Staten 430 00:17:51,470 --> 00:17:49,360 Island New York while she was in the 431 00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:51,480 u.s. doing business I later found out 432 00:17:59,940 --> 00:17:57,130 who who was sitting next to in church a 433 00:18:01,460 --> 00:17:59,950 guy that played the cello in a the 434 00:18:03,529 --> 00:18:01,470 Atlanta Symphony and or 435 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:03,539 stro who's from Alabama that was in New 436 00:18:06,710 --> 00:18:05,220 York who's also writing me 437 00:18:09,409 --> 00:18:06,720 they sat together in his Church in 438 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:09,419 Staten Island and they exceed my address 439 00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:11,250 she went back to Croatia and started 440 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:14,190 writing me just an unbelievable twist of 441 00:18:17,570 --> 00:18:16,770 how things go but it's an absolute true 442 00:18:23,870 --> 00:18:17,580 story 443 00:18:25,370 --> 00:18:23,880 described the events of this many 444 00:18:27,799 --> 00:18:25,380 lessons that the Course in Miracles 445 00:18:29,990 --> 00:18:27,809 teaches us and you know and of course in 446 00:18:32,899 --> 00:18:30,000 miracles' really is about miracles how 447 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:32,909 every day miracles happen and really how 448 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:34,890 miracles happen every day it's really 449 00:18:40,279 --> 00:18:38,130 about forgiveness and not the kind of 450 00:18:42,169 --> 00:18:40,289 forgiveness that we think of when we 451 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:42,179 stand over someone and say you should be 452 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:44,370 glad I'm forgiving you or but it's the 453 00:18:50,450 --> 00:18:47,370 kind of forgiveness where we we overlook 454 00:18:52,430 --> 00:18:50,460 the errors that people make and we look 455 00:18:54,770 --> 00:18:52,440 beyond that to the wholeness that that 456 00:18:59,480 --> 00:18:54,780 person is that part that we connect with 457 00:19:01,880 --> 00:18:59,490 so if I forgive a person I'm overlooking 458 00:19:04,250 --> 00:19:01,890 the errors that something they may have 459 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:04,260 said that offended me because we all say 460 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:06,090 things we don't mean at times so I'm 461 00:19:10,010 --> 00:19:08,190 looking beyond that to the natural 462 00:19:12,380 --> 00:19:10,020 wholeness that that person is connected 463 00:19:14,149 --> 00:19:12,390 with me and I think the world is getting 464 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:14,159 to that point where we're really coming 465 00:19:19,669 --> 00:19:17,490 to a more modern day meaning of 466 00:19:21,529 --> 00:19:19,679 forgiveness and as the younger folks are 467 00:19:24,380 --> 00:19:21,539 coming in and the older ones are dying 468 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:24,390 out I see a big shift going on I believe 469 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:27,330 the third book explains how this shift 470 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:31,049 in consciousness is happening and I once 471 00:19:36,470 --> 00:19:33,510 again I believe if the readers of my 472 00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:36,480 first three books if the reader will 473 00:19:42,169 --> 00:19:39,270 seriously read and I've been told 474 00:19:45,230 --> 00:19:42,179 they're all their page turners book 1 475 00:19:49,010 --> 00:19:45,240 book 2 book 3 they will have taken their 476 00:19:51,890 --> 00:19:49,020 consciousness to an extreme level above 477 00:19:53,390 --> 00:19:51,900 where they were before and that is my 478 00:19:56,299 --> 00:19:53,400 hope and I really know that that's the 479 00:19:59,990 --> 00:19:56,309 way it will be for the serious reader of 480 00:20:01,789 --> 00:20:00,000 these books I live by a theory that I've 481 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:01,799 I've learned see the Course in Miracles 482 00:20:08,350 --> 00:20:04,610 I study every day it's very abstract 483 00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:08,360 psychological data and it's about 484 00:20:14,990 --> 00:20:11,760 getting us to understand it with the 485 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:15,000 how we're all connected and I look at 486 00:20:22,690 --> 00:20:18,810 creation as one huge light that we all 487 00:20:25,190 --> 00:20:22,700 are of that light so when we make airs 488 00:20:28,340 --> 00:20:25,200 we're making airs from the darkness 489 00:20:31,340 --> 00:20:28,350 that's not real light is eternal and the 490 00:20:34,130 --> 00:20:31,350 the darkness where our airs come from is 491 00:20:36,580 --> 00:20:34,140 really not real because the part of us 492 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:36,590 that is whole the light that we are 493 00:20:43,310 --> 00:20:40,250 creation never dies it is eternal what 494 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:43,320 is outside of that light that is really 495 00:20:58,630 --> 00:20:46,290 not outside that light at all it's just 496 00:21:01,520 --> 00:20:58,640 a hallucinatory and and I want to say 497 00:21:04,220 --> 00:21:01,530 acknowledge and every day miracle today 498 00:21:06,950 --> 00:21:04,230 in my life a little brief meditation 499 00:21:09,860 --> 00:21:06,960 that I will go through and just close my 500 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:09,870 eyes and taking a couple of deep breaths 501 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:13,770 and calmly just say to myself I am the 502 00:21:19,670 --> 00:21:17,250 light of the world I am the light of the 503 00:21:23,570 --> 00:21:19,680 world and then I can take it even 504 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:23,580 farther and say yes I'm the light of the 505 00:21:29,450 --> 00:21:26,370 world because I'm the light of the 506 00:21:32,270 --> 00:21:29,460 universe I am the light of the universe 507 00:21:36,980 --> 00:21:32,280 it's not that I want to be part of that 508 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:36,990 light it's I am the universe if I am the 509 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:38,970 light of the universe that means I am 510 00:21:49,670 --> 00:21:43,850 the universe not my body what is within 511 00:21:51,620 --> 00:21:49,680 my being which is created to you who is 512 00:21:54,260 --> 00:21:51,630 listening and watching this right now 513 00:21:58,580 --> 00:21:54,270 that is the universe that connection 514 00:22:01,100 --> 00:21:58,590 between you and I so I can say I am the 515 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:01,110 universe you who are listening to this 516 00:22:05,810 --> 00:22:03,450 can say to yourself I am the light of 517 00:22:10,340 --> 00:22:05,820 the world because I am the light of the 518 00:22:13,010 --> 00:22:10,350 universe I am the universe if you think 519 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:13,020 deeply on that because once you leave 520 00:22:17,150 --> 00:22:14,970 this planet which we're all going to do 521 00:22:20,780 --> 00:22:17,160 the planet really doesn't exist it 522 00:22:23,570 --> 00:22:20,790 cannot go on without you because you 523 00:22:25,370 --> 00:22:23,580 make this planet with your elusive 524 00:22:28,190 --> 00:22:25,380 thoughts and the projections 525 00:22:31,250 --> 00:22:28,200 of how you think things are to be so 526 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:31,260 when you leave it all goes with you the 527 00:22:39,770 --> 00:22:35,690 light darkness really doesn't exist so 528 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:39,780 if we can just consciously and 529 00:22:44,870 --> 00:22:42,090 consciously as a human thing so if we 530 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:44,880 can consciously when we're upset and 531 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:46,530 we're trying to redirect the mental 532 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:48,570 power of our mistakes and see where we 533 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:52,010 went wrong just relax a little bit and I 534 00:22:58,580 --> 00:22:55,710 am the light of the world because I am 535 00:22:59,450 --> 00:22:58,590 the light of the universe because I'm 536 00:23:02,540 --> 00:22:59,460 the light of the universe 537 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:02,550 I am the universe and when you 538 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:04,890 contemplate that and just let that be 539 00:23:10,370 --> 00:23:08,130 and you resonate on that it makes life a 540 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:10,380 lot simpler in this world it takes the 541 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:13,290 pressure off of you there really is no 542 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:15,510 need to be in a hurry or impatient over 543 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:19,050 anything because I am the light of the 544 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:19,710 world