Marketing Techniques: Using Intuition + Common Sense

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I have thrived as an entreprenuer and in most endeavors in life running on intuition and inner hunches.

I greatly admire Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, but admittedly am what I am: an artist and writer and musician who experiences the world in perhaps a different way, in one that honors emotion and feeling and does not place heartless logic alone on a pedestal.

I believe we're speaking the same language, and am prepared to quote Einstein as deeply as I can recall to validate the direction I believe science and secular people can shake hands with the religious of the world.

Unfortunately, if I were to humor my own understanding of other's beliefs in reincarnation or being born into a life based upon karma or action, than it would be inevtiable that if sent her for a greater spiritual purpose, as some may believe, it was clear I was to eventually have to pipe up about religious belief, and other fun taboo topics like sexuality and suicide and other out of the ordinary circumstances to discuss with the masses.

Looking around at the depressed and addicted and obese of my own communities: we can connect immediately and vastly on the world wide web, and clearly what our culture is in need of is some actually nourishing content.

Don't get us wrong, Big Brother! The machine is still needed, but as a more conscious populace we may be able to grow into an abundant and thriving economy based on supporting ethical products, people, and services!

For instance, whoever's making bank on yoga pants right now: neat-o! But what if the $100 someone used for a pair of pants could be shifted into a person purchasing a $100 yoga pass to actually practice yoga.

The yoga pants are still needed; no threat to awesome products around the world.

But as the #1 Incarerated, Addicted, Obese Nation in the entire world, let's fix our shit, America.

Trump being our president speaks loudly and on many levels that as a culture: we've got some soul searching to do, U.S.A.

As a bookworm who has silently rebelled against mindless television for decades, who in reality-show-obsessed America is SHOCKED at this outcome?

Anyone else notice how nasty and petty the majority of our friends seemed to get on Facebook over the cycle of the 2016 election?

It was f*cking UGLY.

On both sides, human beings, "we" the people of the "United" States of America were acting shameful AF.

Admittedly, my Bachelor's Degree is intertwined with social studies, history, culture, and representation.

And my biggest validation in thinking I could be financial successful one day was to watch handfuls of uneducated and offense celebrity figures shell out bills with zero ethics.

If those people could reach fame and status, why could I not in my own form, as an author?

Certainly not a perfect person, but a person who is choosing to peer back the feelings and emotions hovering like a thick cloud beneath our country's counciousness.

Collective consciousness.

My greatest role is as a writer. Not only have I always wanted this, badly, but I also feel it is inevitable.

This is my purpose and what would happen if I just… let it all out?

What if I finally published my words and there was an audience and I too left a legacy as large as Walt Whitman?

I wasn't setting out to not be like my greatest heroes.

I didn't want to be half of Viriginia Woolf or a quarter like Emerson. I wanted to be an all out Walt Whitman.

Be careful what you wish for.

I've been careful. But what I really wish?

To publish colorful and thoughtful books that help people process things like grief and pain and anger and still find a greater purpose in life that has little to do with dogma, and much to do with the simple and profound present moment.

I hope to help people help themselves, to teach them how to fish for themselves, to tell strange, ironic, or entertaining tales that serve the purpose that any novel or story serves… which is what?

To shape the soul of the reader. To share a story or perspective that can make them see through new eyes or feel in a way they didn't think possible.

Unlike a show or movie, words still force the mind to create its own unique images.

What does a big white house in paradise look like to you?

Reading, in a way, is creative.

And what I see in a book may not be what another sees.

As my "Writing for English Majors" course in college taught me: depending on the specific lens you choose to scan from, you will find different triggers to target in on.

So, actually, I would like to claim this further: as a writer and thinker, I think: there certainly is a feminist lens that we are seeing expressed in modern times.

As a Women's Studies major, I find it intriguing, I do.

But I remember there are many ways to perceive reality around us, and I believe some of the Western feminist movement is too limited in their focus and that over-labelling the world around them is in fact more harmful than helpful.

I am indeed a feminist but I have no desire to slap that label upon myself to the world.

As an author, one generally has a subtle bias in one direction or the next, and I too have opinions and perspectives in the years I've lived.

If I were to die tomorrow, what I would wish to express the most in the collaging of studies of my greatest Greats: Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gloria Anzaldua, Walt Whitman, etc.

Aligned with ancient knowings of Kashmir Shivanisma

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