Update on my Books

September 13, 2019
I have finished two books—one on power-of-now meditation and one on Zen—but I have decided to wait until 2020 to publish them. This is the case because I am currently preoccupied with various non-related problems and projects; hence, I don’t have the time or energy to devote to the publishing and marketing process. Moreover, I prefer to devote whatever free time I can find to refining and finishing my Dzogchen text. With this in mind, my goal is to consecutively publish all three texts next year, then start Facebook groups on power-of-now meditation and Buddhism.

After I publish these three books, my plan is to start work on a Kabbalah/Qabalah text. I had originally planned to next write a book on the Buddha’s teachings, thereby completing my Buddhist “trilogy” (Paleo, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhism), but I need a break from Buddhism, and working on a hermetic Kabbalah/Qabalah text, which should be fun and challenging, will provide it.

Finally, if time permits, I will also edit my 300 or so deleted-by-Amazon spiritual book reviews, and put them together into a Kindle text. Moreover, I also plan to write a half-dozen or so new book reviews, and include them in the Kindle text.… Read the full article

A Brief Update

April 9, 2019
If you click on the Book Reviews tab at the top of the page, you’ll see that I am now (gradually) posting my 300 + reviews that Amazon unceremoniously deleted. These (or at least 90+ % of them) should all be posted by summer of 2020. And eventually, I’ll edit them and also publish them as an inexpensive Kindle book.

I have finished writing two books—"The Power of Now Meditation Guide” and a Zen Book—and I will start the publishing process on them within the next few months. I am also 75% done with a Dzogchen book, and that should be published no later than early next year. To complete a Buddhist trilogy, I also plan to write a book on Original (Pali) Buddhism, but because I’m a little burnt out on Buddhism right now, before I write this book, I’m going to write a couple of others—a Qabalah book, and “A Letter to Sam Harris” (which I’ve already done some work on). After I finish the Harris book, I plan to start doing YouTube videos , which should prove challenging and fun, especially since I’ll be deconstructing clowns like Sam “the Sham.”… Read the full article

Amazon Has Deleted My Book Reviews

February 11, 2019
Without notice and without providing specifics, Amazon, a few days  deleted my 350 + book reviews, which took me thousands of hours to write. Although I doubt that it will do any good, you are welcome to complain to Amazon and ask that they re-post them. Below is their final response to me on this matter:

"We took this action because your Customer Content violated our guidelines and Conditions of Use. We won't reinstate your posting permissions for this account.

For more information, see our Customer Review Guidelines (and Conditions of Use:


I understand you're upset, and I'm sorry we haven't been able to address your concerns to your satisfaction. However, we won't be able to offer any additional insight or action on this matter.

Thanks for your understanding."

However, all is not lost. I have about 90% of the reviews in a Word document (though the reviews often don't identify the title or author), and many are available through the Way Back Machine. In the coming months, I will gradually post the reviews that I can salvage and that are worth posting. After I'm done posting all of them, I will arrange them in categories.
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Geistians, Zeitgeistians, and Trans-zeitgeistians

November 8, 2018
The word “Geist” is German, and means Spirit or Ghost. A “Geistian” is a person who lives in the timeless Holy Spirit (or Ghost). Such a person lives in the world, but is not of the world, is not of the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times. A Geistian is, spontaneously, a trans-zeitgeistian, for he always transcends, and is not implicated by, the zeitgeist, the temporal sociocultural milieu.


An individual can be a trans-zeitgeistian without being a Geistian. Such non-conformists and esotericists are “outsiders” who recoil from the madness and mediocrity of the mainstream sociocultural milieu, but their alienation is devoid of a Transcendental Abode that offers Sanctuary from the time-bound madness. These individuals understand the “phenomenology of the spirit (of the times),” but until they grok the “noumenology of the Holy (or Sacred) Spirit,” they will be stuck in “no-man’s land,” a place between the zeitgeist and the Geist.

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Causation, Correlation, Science, and Astrology

October 28, 2018
Is astrology a science? Yes and no. The astronomy of astrology is scientific, for it objectively identifies the positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars in relation to a specific time and location on the earth. But how an astrologer interprets these positions (usually in relation to person) is subjective and an art.

It’s always fun for me to have conversations with naysayers of astrology, because these people are always ignorant on the subject. Typically, they insist that the stars can’t influence human behavior. When I reply that I practice tropical, rather than sidereal, astrology, which is about the correlation of the positions of the sun, moon and solar system planets, and not the stars, in relation to time and location on earth, they sometimes become silent. And when I tell them that the planets may not influence human behavior but merely provide (as a watch does for time) a correlative “map” for reading it, they seldom know what to say.


When Isaac Newton was asked by a fellow scientist how he could believe in astrology, he replied, “I have studied it, you haven’t.”
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