Horse Racing in Decline

My decision to retire began on my way to the track on a horse for John Servis.

The Horse Racing Industry Is In Decline!

With Anticipation

We were living the dream- I was getting paid top-dollar to ride for one of the top trainers- part of a formidable, respected team.

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Thoughts From The Ghost:

Yes, God has made me poor in the pocketbook but wealthy in spirit.

Some Visible Ghost Nibbles

The culture we live in seems strange and weak.
People peer around and find everything to be strange while applying a weak predisposition; … scared, they are!
People seem angry in a curious way; and people seem curious in an angry way.

Men look at me angrily- a self-hating mechanism. They are angry at the unknown, jealous imagination of me.

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Resenting the Master

Revere The Teacher With Compassion.

A Short Article For Flourishing Students:

If there comes a time when you resent your teacher, you have become your own teacher; and you must relinquish your expectations of such former teacher.

Resentment is the product of contempt and the ego; both of which are cataclysms. 

After contempt for a teaching ha been acknowledged, the ego presents itself. Regardless of the validity of the ego’s claim, the added contempt limits your judgement, creating learning barriers.

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Cosmic Click

“there is no magical moment which makes everything change.”

There is No Cosmic Click.

Most people are seeking for that moment where it all, “clicks,” and everything, all of the sudden, makes sense and is correct, not realizing that there is no magical moment which makes everything change. (It’s all turtles!”)

Chip Van Hassel
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Pave the Way for our Grandchildren

The human mind is ruled-over by good and evil.

Let us not feed the fire of evil and scorch the land of our grandchildren, but be fruitful and lay vibrant, loving, true seed for them to sew.

We choose our road tonight and the next. After that, we keep on choosing.



Do we choose Truth or do we choose the Status Quo of stupidity and ruin?

Chip Van Hassel
ROMANS 12:2

Seeking Council

The “Answer,” one seeks is more simple than the question asked.

Are You Troubled?

As we seek council to acquire clarity amongst our confusion, the only true clarity we find can be described as a love for one’s self.

Seeking the answer from an outside source seems ludicrous after the fact, because the answer is accepted from inside our own heart, beaming-outwardly, not from the outside of our body, beaming-inwardly!

The “Answer,” one seeks is more simple than the question asked.

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Family of Faith

A Man Needs Three.

“A man need a three types of men in his life:

1. A Grandfather Figure to learn from,

2. An equal to share “Life Experiences,” with

3. and a Little Brother to teach and to guide.”

“… speaking of it in terms of a man’s Christian walk.
He needs mature Christian men to mentor him
He needs Christian brothers roughly the same age to walk with him through life.
He needs younger men to mentor.”

Doug Kindred

Travel to the Unknown Idea

pushing ourselves to our limits,

“Culture is missing the Grand Power of Motivation towards the unknown-
that physical action of advancing towards fear,
pushing ourselves to our limits,
so we may therefore push ourselves beyond those limits
to create more advantageous precipices from which thereupon, we we may elevate our efforts; for we are rewarded with the strength, courage and some wisdom which allows us to experience the Great Power of Motivation which operates the Sun and the Moon.”

Chip Van Hassel

Circular Connection

Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled

Make the aura around you flow of purple water-
It’s current- Strong,
Revolutionary of itself.
When you notice that your focus has been lost
Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled
down through your Sacral Chakra,
Circulating the inside of the chakra;
condensing it’s
outer physical membrane.

Dakkuan
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Be the Beam of Light

When asking How to help others, she said,

“You cannot help anybody;
all you can do is
Be the Beam of Light.”

Carolina Zachariah

In other words, you cannot help people who do not realize they need help, or do not want help.

All we can do is be the example of what we want others to be.

-Chip

Emotion: the Hinderance of the Soul

When an intellectual conversation dissolves into a self-loathing proclamation…

“The Answer,” they seek cannot materialize. Instead, the, “investigation,” becomes a self-exploration, describing the whole of humanity, fueled by pent-up emotion (which they want to share,) consequently being extinguished by the arrogant affect of being the observer attempting to objectively observe itself.
As a picture of a pencil cannot draw itself, the human attempting to reconcile with its own cognitive dissonance by way of cognition is the same as the ocean attempting to dry itself off by splashing around!

Chip Van Hassel

Nightly Scribbles

Burn relentlessly until your juice runs dry!

A Letter Written to a Lost Friend

Cold water hardens wax
to form shape.

A shadow is cast,
from a candle’s light,
flickering in a fleeting moment.

Without a Candle,
Marylin would have never seen
the wind blow.
Without darkness,
the moon would not wax.

Dark as her sudden silence seemed,
and as remarkable as JFK’s birthday, song’s tease,
the wick of the candle is sometimes trimmed away.

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Sharing Existence With Each Other

Today, The World NEEDS Transitional People.

What is a, “Transitional Person”?

A “Transitional Person is:
“A person who breaks unhealthy, harmful, abusive or unfortunate learned behaviors and replaces them with proactive, helpful, effective behaviors. This person models positive behaviors and passes on effective habits that strengthen and build others in positive ways.”

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Your “Why?”

Be the beam of Light.

What Is Your, “Why,”?

What Drove You When You Were Younger?

What was your, “why,” when you were in high school?
Did your, “why,” since then change?
If so, why?

Does your original, “why,” still suit you?

Dakkuan

Time Defined

“Time” is defined by a general feeling.
While focusing on a certain experience,
Using definable paradigms,
This creates a, “general feeling.”
When it feels like, “day,” it is “daytime.”
During the quiet, darkness of night,
you focus on the crickets, the frogs
and the smell of the air.
It feels like, “nighttime”!
Time is not linear.

“Durations of time”
are simply general feelings
compiled to create an overall feeling,
known as an, “era”.
The end of an era is simply
the end of one overall feeling
and the beginning to one, other,
particular, general feeling.

Chip Van Hassel

Japhy’s Correspondence

I swim deeply in the shallow waters of the minds of people- people who pass me by and leave me be, run away from me and avoid my suggestive nature.
nature…


I’ve found my spot, stay tight on the rail, yet, I’m wide-open and getting out. One Percent is me, an anarchist waging their own law against the lawmakers and the police-assholes-of-the-state. An Anarchist, and, though I don’t care if this world has a place for me in that, I still search for brotherhood and a woman. Lone traveler, as I always have been, machete in hand, whip in the other, torn between the two worlds, I swim deeply in the shallow waters of the minds of people- people who pass me by and leave me be, run away from me and avoid my suggestive nature. I scare away even me, you see? And that is ok with me, but not ok with me.

Japhy

Happiness of the Fool

When you think an option is there, optimism may cloud your judgement. When you realize
that the option was never there,
you see how happiness made you a fool!

What is important to a fool
could be important to a sage.
What is happening right now
has nothing to do with time.

Chip Van Hassel

Minor Peace

For the majority to overpower the un-peaceful minority would have to be an exercise of totalitarianism.

The loudest voice in the room is not usually the correct voice. The silence of the majority has its social benefit by virtue of compassion, however,

the silence and inaction of the majority is a fatal weapon against progress, survival and peace.

One person at a bar (a millennial,) talking loudly over others about how amazing or oppressed they are becomes annoying to the rest of the people at the bar.

It is unfortunate that society allows this!

The majority is silently annoyed, but nobody approaches the millennial to inform they that they are annoying everybody around them!
It seems, to maintain peace, the majority agrees to bear unpeaceful environments and succumb to actual abuse!

Of an entire nation aware that the government has overstepped its authority and function, no peaceful repose can be heard over the loudest, incorrect, most (not-at-peace) minority.

For the majority to overpower the un-peaceful minority would have to be an exercise of totalitarianism.

Chip Van Hassel

The Strife of the Smart Man

My Experience:

In a world where doing wrong is seen as being correct
and where being correct is treated as being revolutionary or argumentative,
those of us who have maintained our moral rectitude currently relate less and less to our fellow humans.
I have belabored, “The Dunning Kruger Affect,” to the extent of mocking my fellow man.

It confused and angered me. I did not know how to deal with people in my daily life in a cordial way anymore.
It felt like I was surrounded by idiots and that I was the only person who cared to make myself and the world around me better.

My good friend, Don Adams, explained it to me. Don said this to me:

“You are surrounded by grown men who have child’s minds.”

Don Adams

The Pareto Principle keeps bounding around inside my head. Realizing that there is no escaping this paradigm, this reality, I have sought coping mechanisms to attempt to maintain being courteous surrounded by a world of discourteous people. I have found no useful tools to dissuade my resentful knowing of these people.

You Leave A Trail of Energy Behind You Everywhere You Go

It is your choice to make it positive or negative.

Sometimes, Imagery of Profoundness Comes To Us In Our Dreams!

Words of Wisdom

“Everywhere you go,
you leave a trail
of energy behind you.”

Arch Kingsley

“Every breath is a chance at a brand new beginning;”

“A brand new, ‘You,’!”

Arch Kingsley

“Every morning I wake up,
I am grateful,
‘I have hands. I have feet. I have legs’!”

“Every breath is a chance at a new day!”

Arch Kingsley

A Reminder to Myself

“We give our power away as humans- we blame others for things that happen to us,…”

“You’re probably not even at the halfway mark in your life, and if you think about it the first 25, you probably didn’t know much about anything.

Point being, your life up to this point has prepared you for this.

Now, you need to have the integrity of self to make decisions which align with your vision.”

Arch Kingsley
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Weak Men Drive Cars; Strong Men Ride Camels.

…more normal than they even know how to be!

I ate at a restaurant today; and there was no knife on the table. I used my pocket knife. The owner of the place got all nervous and started acting scared and giving me the “side-eye”.
I’ve used my knife

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What is Dynamic Tension?

“Dynamic Tension is the iron wire of Kung Fu, retaining the flow of Tao, as rocks give way to water, but only over time.”
-Chip Van Hassel

Dynamic Tension is a self-resistance exercise,
(or method,) which pits muscle against muscle.

The practitioner tenses the muscles of a given body part
and then
moves the body part against the tension
as if a heavy weight were being lifted

To Increase Your Power, watch this short clip:

Abigail Riding Her Donkey

The end of Nabal

“Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.

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You Are Safe With Me

“But one son of Ahimelek
son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, 
escaped and fled to join David. 
 He told David that Saul had killed the priests…
 Then David said to Abiathar,
“That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there,
I knew he would be sure to tell Saul.
I am responsible
for the death of your whole family.
 Stay with me; don’t be afraid.

The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too.
You will be safe with me.'”

1 SAMUEL 22:20-23

Never-Ending-River of Breath

“No need to block beyond the shoulders.”
—Master Brian Gray

“Always thinking about the River-
The unchangeable, the constant, not-judging-
forever-force.”

Dakkuan

Exercise:

Watch breath right now,
visualizing pushing the Chi down
Constantly.

This dynamic tension
is centered.
(Iron Palm,) Pushing down on the Upward chi of Earth.

Breathing is the never-ending river that orchestrates chi wherever it is instantaneously needed.

“Make the entire body solid and reactive.”

Dakkuan

“No need to block beyond shoulders.”

Sifu, Grand Master Brian Gray

The Difference Between a Blog Page and a Blog Post

“Posts are the pieces of art which you put onto canvas.”
-Chip Van Hassel

Bread and Butter


Pages are the bread.

Posts are the butter.

By; Christopher A. Van Hassel

You always put your butter on top of your bread.

You never put your bread on top of  your butter!



Holding Both Science and Religion Accountable

“…it renders everybody equally responsible for the structure adopted by the group…”

If both
Science and Religion
have become a disservice,
What is left?

Chip Van Hassel

To allow “scientists,”
to retain the privilege which
they have gained
in some measure over time,
without holding individual scientists accountable for their words
would accomplish
these two things:
1. It would render science a disservice.
2. It would render society a disservice.

Allusion to:

The Day The Universe Changed. Copyright; 1984, James Burke. NY ISBN: 0-316-11706-4
1. page 337

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-Ride Tight

“If you follow what’s meaningful and you do it honestly,

it will take you somewhere you really do not want to go;

and until you go there,

you’ll never be able to climb up higher

on the other side.”

-Jordon B. Peterson

The World Around Us

“…There is a secret In the simplest things, 
a wonder in the plainest…”


“A world of spiritual objects, influences,
and relations lies around us all.
We all vaguely deem it to be so;
but he only lives a charmed life,
like that of genius and poetic inspiration,
who communes with the spiritual scene around him,
hears the voice of the spirit in every sound,
sees its signs in every passing form of things,
and feels its impulse
in all action,
passion,
and being.

Very near to us lies the mines of wisdom;
unsuspected they lie all around us.
There is a secret In the simplest things,
a wonder in the plainest,
a charm in the dullest.”

Albert Pike

example of peace(-in-action)

Shaolin Monks’ Celibacy

As the Monk chooses celibacy,
his focus shifts.

His eyes are no longer
clouded-over
by selfish yearnings
of lust.

His newly-found perception
differs from that of the laymen’s’;

for the monk is removed from selfish ambition.
{Therefore,}

The Monk’s frequency is non-combative.

Non-combativeness
nullifies the natural,
aggressive
synapses
by which most men
are predisposed

Chip Van Hassel

The Occasion Always Comes to Us

“The hour of proving one’s self is always afoot!”
-Chip Van Hassel

“The million occasions
will come to us all,
in the ordinary paths of our life,
in our homes,
and by our firesides,
wherein we may act as nobly,
as if, all our life long,
we led armies,
sat in senates,
or visited beds of sickness and pain.
Varying every hour,
the million occasions will come
in which we may

restrain our passions,
subdue our hearts to gentleness
and patience,
resign our own interest for another’s advantage,
speak words of kindness and wisdom,
raise the fallen,
cheer the fainting and sick in spirit,
and soften and assuage the weariness and bitterness
of their mortal lot.”

Albert Pike

Stability

“Want” and “need” know nothing of love.

Changing your life means Doing what is necessary.

Human nature is funny
in that two people can read
the same words on the page,
and, even though they are on the same page,
they still read the words differently.

There is always an independent variable-
which is not open for interpretation.

The soul
deep down
in a person’s heart
never

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Manic Depression

The Manic Depressive Person
Must stay in the middle.
The higher they are,
the deeper Low they will go.
The Lower they go,
the higher they are-
both causing crashes.
Going too low keeps them low.
Staying too high helps to raise.

chip Van Hassel

Neuro-Muscle Memory

Mental processes induce physical processes.
Example:
Being annoyed tenses muscles.
Allowing yourself to stew in annoyance creates muscle memory which becomes physically stressful.

Strength Until the Last Hour

Jesus comes down and touches someone’s heart
and someone’s soul;
and they will show mercy.
A lot of people don’t have the strength
to hold their faith until that last hour.
Jesus held his faith until the last hour on the cross.
That’s when miracles happen-

In the last hour!

dakkuan

A Dent of Deed

…”the body, the mind, the spirit,
flows as does water.”…

It starts with the in-breath and begins in the out-breath.
The continuous cycle is it’s own revolution,
it’s own change.
Hardened by it’s own hardness,
the body, the mind, the spirit,
flows as does water.
Water can wear rock away
even though rock can stop water.
Perserverence of the flow
proves phusical changd-
Maybe just a dent,
of deed.

Chip Van Hassel

The Power of God in the Head of Penny

“… United us as,
‘The New Family Among Us’.”


Where is the Power of God In the Head of a Single Penny ?

It had been a long day,
turning into a long night
when I walked in to a gas station,
counting a stack of quarters
I had in my palm.

Upon my arrival,
the clerk made eye contact
with me;
and she had angry eyes.

She was pissed off.

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1 Samuel 25:4-44

While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name.

Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!’

Ignoring The Divine

“They do not investigate the material of corruptible bodies; their generation operates independently of any foreign action, sustained by prayer and divine grace.”

The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (page 451)
"...The symbol of chemistry is drawn from creation..."

“…who save and purify the divine soul enchained in the elements, and, above all, who separate the divine spirit confoundedy with the flesh.”

The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (page 451)

The Answer Pits Itself In The Apple.

“…If you ask for Wisdom,
God’s words are Silence…”

If you ask for strength,

He will give it to you by weakening you.
If you ask for guidance,

His guidance is usually wrought through confusion.
{DISCHORD}

If you ask for Wisdom,
His words are Silence.

Dakkun

The One That Got Away

“The yearning to comfort me…
I had not felt somebody’s eyes
do that for a long time!”

The look in her eyes,
When she listened to my plight

The wet eyes,
The yearning to comfort me…
I had not felt somebody’s eyes
do that for a long time!

Taxation Without Representation

“87,000 new IRS agents.

By the way, those agents will be trained to use armed force.

That can’t be good!!””

We sent a letter to one of our collogues requesting advice.

The response from our collogue was a bitter taste of the truth; supportive, inspiring, and reminding us

Rome was nether built, nor torn down in one day!

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Sharing Existence With Each Other

“Transitional People transcend their own needs and tap into the deepest, most noble impulses of human nature. …
…these responses are the synthesis through which we all experience each other…”

Today, The World NEEDS Transitional People.

What is a, “Transitional Person”?

According to Enkindle Wellness,
a, “Transitional Person is:
“A person who breaks unhealthy, harmful, abusive or unfortunate learned behaviors and replaces them with proactive, helpful, effective behaviors.  This person models positive behaviors and passes on effective habits that strengthen and build others in positive ways.”

Stephen Covey
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Ghost Post!

The Ghost Continues

So, after the Doug Fout Debacle, I ended up dealing with the frustrating pain and anguish of dealing with the Florida Gaming Commission.
The red-tape of bullshit brings a man’s tolerance to it’s knees
as he listens to people tell him,

“I understand. I’m sorry, and I understand; but I cannot help you.

Lemme transfer you to somebody else who understands, is sorry, but,… they won’t help you, either!”

Every Asshole on the phone

They act like,

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Things Are Not What You Had Planned They’d Be!

The world will never be the way it has been taught to be!

Keeping yourself removed from the world
while being completely enthralled by it
all at the same time
has become my realized paradigm. 

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-Purple Water Chakra

Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled

Make the aura around you flow of purple water-
It’s current- Strong,
Revolutionary of itself.
When you notice that your focus has been lost,
Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled
down through your Sacral Chakra,
Circulating the inside of the chakra;
condensing it’s
outer physical membrane.

Chip Van Hassel

Use Your Hands; Not Your Mind.

“You don’t get paid for having the idea;
you get paid for producing the Result.”
-Chip Van Hassel

“Culture is missing the Grand Power of Motivation towards the unknown-
that physical action of advancing towards fear,
pushing ourselves to our limits,
so we may therefore push ourselves beyond those limits
to create more advantageous precipices from which, thereupon, we may elevate our efforts;
for we are rewarded
with the strength, courage and some wisdom
which allows us to experience
the Great Power of Motivation
which operates the Sun and the Moon.”

Chip Van Hassel

“You don’t get paid for having the idea;
you get paid for producing the Result.”

Me

Gary Vaynerchuk scrolled past this!

“LEGACY IS GREATER THAN CURRENCY.” -Gary Vaynerchuk

I’ll Never Get Gary Vee’s Attention This Way!!!

Mr. Vaynerchuk,

Your time is valuable!
I spend hours building my website
Who would pay
to build their sites using wordpress? Would you in any capacity?

Check out Gary’s Site:

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Feel like You’re Surrounded By Idiots?

Feel like You’re Surrounded By Blank Personalities?

Feel like You’re Surrounded By Idiots?

Written in a fit of realistic rage in the Jeep:

I’m tired of being surrounded by idiots
Arrogant, loud people
Who want your attention
By way of being annoying.

These people are so

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Where Are Fellow Poor Young Soldiers Of Christ?

…However, the Poor FellowSoldiers Of Christ are not young; they are all old men with grey beards.
-Enter: The Young Tyler.
He calls himself a, P.F.S.C.,” yet he has zero poverty; he has food on his plate, shoes on his feet and a roof over his head.
Neither is nor.
They Young Tyler is Apprenticed into Entership- the state of arriving to an unfamiliar environment, thought paradigm and yet-to-be (if ever) -seen set of circumstances.
This “Entership,” is an internship into the realm of: “Void of Ego and Personal Gain,” therefore, is the most honorably practice!

Dakkuan

A Crossed Sojourn

“Chaplain Bob smiled as he handed me a ten dollar bill from his wallet.”

His name is Chaplain Bob Miller. I cold-called him, asking for help one day. When he returned my call, he was driving back from the airport with his wife; they had just arrived home from Cuba.

Bob was warm and inviting. He understood my situation. He had a lot on his plate at the time, but he took a couple of moments to meet with me and briefly listen to my quandary. Little did he know,

The Day the Crossed Sojourn Began

“I’m giving you the last bit of cash I have.”

His name is Chaplin Bob Miller. I cold-called him, asking for help one day. When he returned my call, he was driving back from the airport with his wife; they had just arrived home from Cuba.

Bob was warm and inviting. He understood my situation. He had a lot on his plate at the time, but he took a couple of moments to meet with me and briefly listen to my quandary. Little did he know, I hadn’t told him

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Overtly Shining the Lamp of Diogenes Through Example via Action

Notes on reigning-in the Aggressive Power of The G.A.’s Intention:

QUANDRY:

Meritocracy is dead.
How does a (an operative)
Laborer survive
in a selfish (Inactive/Apathetic; speculative) World?

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Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”

“…the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,…”

Hamlet

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:

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Sharing Thoughts With Elon Musk

(Book) where people communicate telepathically; and it is like the internet- where predictive text starts “tweeting,” faster than people think, sending incorrect telepathic messages. (Be careful not to beat the dead dog about this by over-using it in the plot;) Incorrect tweets sent cause catastrophic damage. (That is the main suspense of the plot)


I got this idea wondering if I could telepathically communicate with Elon Musk right now, (considering our current technology). Upon wondering this, I realized the current technology we use today would have this above mentioned idiosyncrasy.

Why The Powers Of Man Must Be Self-Regulated

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Ore Well 2084

“Group mentality is the monarchy of the new era, and freedom is the new terrorist against consciousness expansion.”

The only danger we face in life is acceptance of any way other than the way of the individual. As a doormat cannot wipe its own feet on itself, the common man can only be common when he accepts the norm. Group mentality is the monarchy of the new era, and freedom is the new terrorist against positive consciousness expansion. The way to change reality is to Be the change within one’s own, individual mind.

Chip Van Hassel

We will never convince the people as a group; we can only convince the people by being an example for the group to follow. To follow the group is to be a lemming jumping off of the cliff.

To accept the common man's reality is an individual choice to sleep. To awaken is the greater energy, tapped-in to by free thought and purposeful action. 

Wealth can only be distributed when there is a definition of, “wealth”. Distribution only occurs when there are those who distribute. Subtract “wealth,” from the equation; and subtract distribution from common man’s mentality, and the true answer becomes screamingly apparent.

Modern man- the evolutionary betrayer.

Individuals who are free thinkers will be ridiculed by their current peers, only to be recognized for their genius long, long after their deaths.

Society is never ready for the truth. Positive thought is always ready for society.

-Chip Van Hassel

Trick Or Treason!

“…The change that has occurred within the racing industry is not something that is lasting.”

-Retired Journeyman, Christopher Van Hassel

I had always planned to train racehorses after I retired from my riding career, but I had not predicted that the racing business would change the ways in which it has. The change that has occurred within the racing industry is not something that is lasting. Why do I say that?

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Journalism OR Conjecture?

As for the news-watcher, history proves that there are three types of people in our community…

As of the year, 2020, wisdom is no longer the storefront of the nation’s success. Timing is the new emperor. The journalistic profession is no longer graced by the fact-telling anchors of Walter Cronkite who used to read the straight news and finish by saying, “That’s the way it is.” Instead, the profession now begins episodes.

Chip Van Hassel

Knights’ Love of Meditation

“Recognize with gladness that we are neither lost, nor strangers to God, but one of His good creatures, and in our Temple we shall meet people from many nations and religions. There is no shame in seeking God; forget not when we ponder that God’s Temple is our own being. God will not look for us, but we first must seek Him. Each day, time must be put aside for meditation and prayers for our Order and its work.”

Stick With A Big Walk.

The easiest name for, “Ego,” is, “I”. What war, or which weapon, shall a man wage against himself, albeit the teeth of the snake devouring its own tail?

To, “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer,” in order to know thine enemy, fails survival if thine self is thy enemy. To know your enemy, or to know your own ego, is a most prized attribute of war and is the most powerful utensil for serving peace. To know how to avoid developing an enemy avoids war, but to know what your Loved Ones love most equips you with the prize which outlasts war. Chip Van Hassel

Intellect: The Muscle That Needs Exercise Through Humor

“Should we investigate this stupidity? … May we point it out with the purpose of teaching the younger generation about these people? We MUST!”

“It is a waste of journalism
to describe the everyday instances
where their petty, selfish stupidity
interferes with the success of business.
There is a higher level of thinking to exercise.
There is a better way to live;
there are smarter ways to
conduct ourselves.”

Dakkuan

The Conspiracy Within

…worked so hard over the years to achieve …

“My common-core disgust had been skewed to a a new side. This disgust for people’s meanderings, never disheveled, (this core-disgust,) but always evolving, a metamorphosis from disgust to utter disgust permeated all emotional plateaus which created another level of judgement of my fellow man.

Not that it helped anything or made anything worse, however, became a conspiracy of sorts between the Mental State which I had worked so hard over the years to achieve and the positive Psyche which was the ablative of means by which I had arrived at that mental state (on it’s continuous level).”

Chip Van Hassel