Never underestimate the power of a helpful suggestion, or encouragement. My friend Melynn Allen had an idea, and passed it along, and the result – so far – has been nearly 17 years’ worth of blog entries. Here, lightly edited, is what I find in my computer journal:
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Melynn calls, all excited with an idea. She has put together a blog and she wants to help me do the same. Using WordPress, which is what the HRPC blog is using, so I’m already familiar with it.
This really does sound like what I need. And she is enthusiastic about helping me, paying a karmic debt, she calls it. And that is precisely what I need – someone younger, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, energetic, who believes in me.
This could do what I had thought to do with my webpage (which, she points out, is static rather than dynamic.)
Photos, poems, transcripts – and it’s just what I do already – as she says.
Plus the potential to sell e-books, via a shopping cart. The shopping cart would cost money but everything else would be free, at least until we hit the limit of what they offer (20 GB she thought, which is a lot!), and then you upgrade.
This is perfect!
This really is what I want to do. As she says, I’m already doing it!
If I could sell e-books at $10 a pop (or whatever) it wouldn’t take all that many sales to provide as much money as the royalties on many more sales. $15 book – 10% royalty (net) – maybe eighty cents per book. So I need to sell a dozen books conventionally to match what I would make on one e-book more or less.
Everything would depend on my being able to get the blog out there and noticed – and she could help me do that.
Okay friends, thoughts on the subject? A theme for the blog? General commentary on the pattern of my life?
Well, choose.
Theme.
Intuition is your theme, how to live life connected more deeply. Religion and psychic affairs are two aspects of it, but intuition is the key. Misleading as a word, though, as “connection” would be, too. What you want is to lead people to realize that they don’t need to fear. Fearlessness, Fearless Frank. How about Fearless Living?
Interesting idea, not one I would have thought of. I’ll google it when I get on the machine.
What was your search for magical powers if it was not a reaching for a way to live without fear?
Fearless Living. I do like that. Or maybe Living Fearless, or Living Without Fear. No, the first sounds best. Well, that didn’t take long!
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In the event, I didn’t call it Fearless Living or anything like it, and neither did I make any great amount of money out of book sales. But for years it provided me with daily incentive to put something out there. It certainly encouraged me to post my conversations with the guys, and in a reciprocating process encouraged even more conversations.
From the habit of conversing came so much more: Chasing Smallwood, for instance, and The Cosmic Internet, and other books.
A few years after Rita Warren died, she and I began a long series of explorations, all of them posted piece by piece. Bob Friedman, following those conversations, suggested that he put them out as a book, and published them as Rita’s World in two volumes, then Awakening from the 3D World and It’s All One World.
And besides the records of my conversations, I posted other things that drew my attention, striving to produce a source of hope and encouragement for fellow explorers. Seventeen years and counting, and all flowing out of a friend’s helpful suggestion. We influence so much more than we sometimes realize!