I have to start doing a better job of keeping a record of my life here at Croton Manner. Based on life’s priorities, my writing is often interrupted by events outside the tunnel. The tunnel is that cerebral space where I work each day. It is often dark, only lit one step at a time. Though I occasionally pass by brightly lit platforms of inspiration, my peripheral vision is non-existent. The only way I know that the outside world exists is by scheduled stops when I pop my head up for daylight, or when disturbing sounds from outside the tunnel draw me to the surface. That’s the more frequent mode of interruption. There have been plenty through the month of June, but since I didn’t make a note of them, I don’t remember what they were as I’m writing this report.

This month I’ve made a change in the theme for Castaways Point, my daily devotional blog. For the past year or more, I have been following a theme entitled, The Word. It is a Bible reading from which I extract a single word and begin the blog with a definition. From there, a focal passage of scripture, a commentary, or analysis of the message, and then a prayer in closing. The new theme is based on prayers found in scripture, beginning with Genesis and following through the whole Bible. I’m currently in Deuteronomy.

Also this month, I finished the Beta draft of the second book in the Bible Book Club series. It’s called “Patriarch”. It’s a story of Abraham. Not the whole story of Abraham, that would take volumes to tell. This is a story about Abraham’s message of faith as it relates to our world today. While Patriarch is in Beta, I’m working on the second book of the Gray Empire series entitled, The Rift. This is the story of how a great treasure was stolen by the Templars from the Knights of The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and how Rick Townsend and his team must find and recover that treasure in order to save the world from an evil force that threatens to destroy mankind’s relationship to The Creator. At this writing, I am about one-third of the way through the manuscript at 58,306 words.

Also, I’ve been doing a great deal of research into various topics that relate to The Gray Empire series. Primarily, I’ve been looking into both the science and art of Cymatics, as it relates to Ley Lines and the harmonics of the earth, energy, water, and i-dee-force, (the creation force). Nikola Tesla famously said, ” If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” It’s interesting to me that both science, (quantum physics), and the Bible agree on this, that the universe and all we know resulted from the shaping force of sound. In science, it is called String Theory. In the Bible it is called, The Word. “In the beginning was the Word,”.

Cymatics is a way of displaying the shapes of sound visually so that the patterns of each tonal frequency become a unique visible pattern. These tonal frequencies have a physical influence on energies and on water and other objects, both living and inanimate. Sound can influence the polarization of crystals in rock, the shape of a snowflake, the height and color of a flame, and the direction of flow in a stream of water. Some theorize that properly applied, sound is capable of levitating heavy objects or shattering them to pieces. Everything in creation has a resonant frequency. Everything from a single-cell organism to the planets, the sun, and beyond. Knowing and manipulating that resonance can cause harm or good, depending on your purpose. One advanced study proposes to cure various cancers by focusing a pinpoint beam of sound onto the tumor, at the cancer cell’s resonant frequency, and shattering the cellular walls, thus destroying the cancer. Experiments thus far have been quite successful.

So, how does all this relate to Rick Townsend and the Gray Empire? You’ll have to read the books to find out. Begin with “The Practician“, then follow with my current WIP, “The Rift”, and that, to be followed by “Gray Empire” and then, the final book in the series, “Holy Blood”.

Thanks for following along. Press on regardless, count your blessings and do good work.