June 20, 2008

“Religion is the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Religion is what forced us and keeps us, out of the Garden.”

We do good works in the name of religion and we refrain (or try) from doing bad works in the name of religion (for fear of punishment). It is a system of reward and punishment so puerile and ineffective, so childish that it is akin to a belief in Santa Claus. (He knows when we’ve been naughty, he knows when we’ve been nice, he knows when we’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake).

We are not children (this system does not work well with children either for they grow up to be like us). We do not need religion and heavenly rewards to do good, nor fear of punishment to refrain from evil. Evil rarely cares about punishment and often seeks it as a perverse type of reward.

There are millions of people who are not religious who are compassionate and do good works because it is more satisfying to do so.

There are millions of people who are religious who do bad works, despite or because of expected punishment.

Perhaps it is because most religions tell us that we are bad and the very premise is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we feel we are bad we will seek evil activities to satisfy our need to be punished.

Go figure!

June 6, 2008:

A POEM:

Last night I heard God talking
And this is what He said:
Women are just tempters
They want you in their bed.

“It’s my unchallengeable dictate
Celibate you must be
You cannot have any sex
And retain your purity.

For you to be My spokesman
For you to be My man
Whenever you get horney
Stop! Do whatever you can.

Douse yourself with ice water
Wear an iron strap
Mutilate your body
Lacerate your back

You will one day thank Me
You will bear My cross
Heaven your reward will be
The world will be your loss”

Chorus
Can you believe what we believe?
Just listen to Adam blame it on Eve
She’s the first woman and he’s the first wimp
No wonder the men are all going limp.

Last night I heard God talking
And this is what He said:
Find a bunch of pubescent girls
And take them to your bed.

Start a new religion
Justify dysfunctional need
Just tell’em that I told ya so
My order you must heed!

Chorus
Can you believe what we believe
Just listen to Adam blame it on Eve
She’s the first woman and he’s the first wimp
No wonder the men are all going limp.

Last night I heard God talking
And this is what He said:
If you join My special group
I’ll raise you from the dead.

Together we’ll hang in the clear blue sky
In rapture blessed and well
And Watch the unbelievers down below
Descend into fiery hell.

If you join you’ll never fret,
The others’ ignorance you’ll find funny
Go and preach now what I say
Collect a lot of money.

Chorus
Can you believe what we believe
Just listen to Adam blame it on Eve
She’s the first woman and he’s the first wimp
No wonder the men are all going limp.

Can you believe what we believe
Mary had a baby without having sex
To free us from the sins of Eve
No telling what we’ll believe next
No telling what we’ll believe next

Well why not write a different story
A tale that’s much more fun
Like, Moses took a toke from a burning bush
And lay laughing in the sun.
Jonah got a job with Greenpeace
Protecting all the whales
And Noah worked with the Wildlife Fund
Saving animals from floods and gales.

Can you believe what we believe…
Can you believe what we believe…
Fade out

November 17, 2007:

I suggest we start a new movement called

SCRIPTURES TO EARTHWORMS!

Scripture, especially the Old and New Testaments and the Koran, are full of violence and "god's" demands to kill those with different belief systems. They seperate us from each other and encourage delusions such as 'chosen people' and 'infidels' and 'demons.' These scriptures tell us that this earth is just a temporary stop (to shop?) between eternal paradise or eternal damnation. These scriptures that claim to be the words of god are but the words of dysfunctional priests and politicians with a bold sprinkling of psychotic visionaries who probably had very bad expereinces during toilet training and then spent too much time in the desert sun without food or water.

Earthworms, along with all other life forms (like man), are the true words of the Creator. The language of the Creator (whatever or whomever that may be, as none of us know) is the Creation, so all parts of the Creation are the Word.

Earthworms, then, are much more divine, sacred and certainly truer than any scripture.

It is logical then that we increase the number of earthworms and decrease the number of scriptures. One way to do this is to use the paper that the scriptures are written on for sheet composting in our gardens. Sheet composting increases the moisture in the soil and increases the number of earthworms. The earthworms also eat the paper and transform it into castings (earthworm shit) which is very good for the soil, increasing fertility and crop yield.

Earthworms are better for the world than scripture so it behooves us to

TRANSFORM SCRIPTURE INTO EARTHWORMS!Technorati Tags: scripture, jesus, second coming, revelations, earth, religion, christianity

 

May 19, 2007:

The End of Religion: Prerequisite for a New Era
By Luigi Enrico Pietra d’Oro

“Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do.
No one to kill or die for
And no religion too.

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one.
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will live as one.”
John Lennon, from “Imagine”

There have been numerous articles written and published in many magazines, both mainstream and new age, about clearing out the old to make way for the new. It seems both practical and widely accepted that to create something new, or bring something new into our lives, we have to make space for it; inviting it in so to speak. Many of us have guest rooms in our homes to provide space for new visitors, we have periodic garage sales to empty our storerooms in preparation for new stuff, and Hollywood suggested that we “Build it and they will come!”

Yet, as regards our religious beliefs, we are constantly exhorted to cling to tradition, to hold fast to the most ancient and most unbelievable ideas. We are also told to accept these beliefs on faith and never, ever question either ours or others, for that would be rude, heretical, intolerant and completely unacceptable. Scientific theories are to be constantly questioned (rightly so) while religious beliefs are to be accepted unconditionally.

As a teacher, it is both obvious and practical to me that a prerequisite for learning is the knowledge that my knowledge is limited. There is no possibility of learning if I think or believe I already know. To learn, I must acknowledge that I know little about what I want to learn about. To learn, I must also be curious to know. As Cat Stevens sang “I’m on the road to find out.” (He went on in the same song to express the essence of religious ignorance by saying “cast out the devils and pick up the good book now.”)

Religious ‘leaders’ want to tell us what is true and what to believe, without question. When we have questions, we are told it must be accepted on faith and that the ‘books’ their knowledge comes from must be accepted as divine and infallible. We are further pressed, threatened even, never to question the ‘authority’ of these books or the authority of those who have appointed themselves divine interpreters of these books.

The result is that in 2000 years of western, religious thought, we have made little, if any, space for real, current, spiritual experience. All we have are global wars between peoples with ancient, incredible, dangerous, and completely closed and defined beliefs about god, the world and each other. There is no space for learning because there is no space for doubt and not-knowing. There is no space for learning because there is only self-righteous belief. There is especially no space for learning because there is no curiosity about “finding out.”

Why do we cling to these beliefs, even when many either know or at least suspect they are archaic, based on an ignorance we no longer have, and obviously violent and destructive?

Mostly we continue to believe these archaic stories because we are afraid. We are afraid of the unknown. So afraid that we are not even curious about what we do not know. Why are we afraid? Any thorough reading of any of the ‘good books’ would strike fear into anyone’s heart. The so-called gods of the Bible and the Koran are scary fellows, full of narcissistic demands and threats, always punishing and destroying people, always exhorting their followers to kill the infidels and stone to death anyone who is the least bit different from what is demanded. These ‘gods’ are jealous and insecure and full of contradictions. “Thou shalt not kill” is contradicted by innumerable orders to kill the pagans and followers of any other god. This implies there must be other gods to compete with, or so it seems. Perhaps even the promoters of monotheism didn’t fully believe in one god? It is also written that the final glory will be exceedingly gory due to the ensuing war, famine, pestilence and death, except for those who believe.

Read this stuff enough and who would dare not believe! I have even heard agnostics say they sometimes pray to be better safe than sorry!

This can be a frightening world. Death is both an unknown and a given, so it is understandable that we be afraid. We have all seen a spider kill a fly and the results of car accidents. We don’t like pain and want to avoid it. Yet shall we continue to accept the superstitious, unfounded fabrications created by our primitive ancestors to assuage their fears? Shall we continue to sanctify ignorant, perverse dysfunctions? Shall we continue to kill because some brainwashed, indoctrinated sadists, dressed in rich, ceremonial robes or coarse linen sheets have instructed us to throughout history under the threat of eternal damnation? Shall we choose to remain so deluded?

Religion is very much like organized crime. Religious organizations and criminal organizations do not pay taxes. They both extort money from those under their ‘protection.’ (Protection money or tithing, both done as systems of externally enforced reward or punishment). Both have distinct and strict hierarchies with godfathers and ‘godfathers,’ and each organization has the ‘truth’ and is at war with the others. Yes, I know you will object and say that this is only true of fanatics and fundamentalists and that religious people have more tolerance of other religions. Tolerance is another word for arrogance. It means ‘putting up with’ as you would do for a lesser species. Tolerance remains viable only until someone, like Hitler or George Wallace, or Bin Laden or innumerable people from every country and every religion, says it is now ok to exterminate the non-believers as they are sub-human and no better than rats anyway. Each side of every war presents the ‘enemy’ as rats, or bugs or monsters of some sort. The rule books (scripture) of most every religion except perhaps Buddhism, Taoism and Jainism (which do not claim any god at all but rather a universal, all inclusive Being), say much more about killing others than they do about living in peace with others. Every religion either directly says or implies that its followers are the chosen and saved people while outsiders are pathetic and damned.

Religion has made all of us into victims waiting helplessly for a savior to come and forgive us of our inherent sinfulness and to transport us out of this world to a better place. This is just as childish as and infinitely more crippling than Disney’s line that “someday my prince will come.” I call this the savior trap. The savior mentality is a result of religious teachings we have created and adopted, individually and culturally. The savior mentality motivates us in two very unhealthy and unproductive ways.
• We hope, wait for and expect someone else to take care of the problems we create; someone else to correct and forgive our mistakes. It keeps us insecure, full of the belief that we are too sinful and unworthy to do the right thing. We believe we are victims of either evil or divine forces, instead of perpetrators of evil and good actions.
• We consciously and subconsciously create crises and wars, creating the conditions we believe will bring a savior, or make heroes and saviors out of us. Biblical fiction, like Revelations, has influenced us to believe that the prerequisite to the coming of a savior is war, disease, pestilence, famine; nothing short of total destruction. So, we have been creating such miseries with the false hope and assurance that if things get bad enough, someone will be sent to bail us out. Even if such a ridiculous idea could come to pass, it’s better to live responsible, peaceful lives and simply eliminate the need for a savior.

Religion keeps us from ever growing up.

Religion teaches us to glorify suffering and to distrust and condemn pleasure. Religion glorifies martyrs, people who suffer and die for their beliefs. Jesus was made into a martyr who died for our sins and through his suffering and sacrifice we are saved, especially if we keep giving him our sins. Somewhere we got this crazy idea that someone else can take responsibility for the harm we create and relieve us of our due through their suffering. Suffering itself, therefore, has become deified and glorified. It became a badge of honor for a ‘saint’ to receive the stigmata (bleeding hands and legs and side) because they then suffered as much as Jesus.

Muslims love martyrdom. They believe that to martyr one’s self while killing unbelievers will earn them a place in paradise. They believe god loves them for killing themselves and others. The writers of the Bible tell Jews and Christians the same things and in the past (and likely in the future), they acted much like today’s Muslim martyrs. Today’s Christians and Jews, believers in martyrdom still, are a bit less aggressive in following the dictates of their god.

Jews have proven themselves to be the most adept at suffering; the most adept at deifying suffering. Jews consider themselves the chosen people (god told them so in the Torah), chosen, it seems to them, to suffer more than any other people. Their holocaust beats out any other holocaust in history and their suffering is greater than any other people’s suffering, greater than the suffering experienced at Hiroshima, greater than the suffering of the Tootsies and the Hootoos, greater than the suffering inflicted on women during the inquisition, greater than the suffering the Christians inflicted on Native Americans in North and South America. The Jews even seem to forget that Hitler killed millions of non-Jews as well.

Our religious beliefs are the causes of all this suffering. We are victims addicted to suffering. We are truly religious about it. We worship it.

Just look at how so many re-enact the crucifixion every year and how they wear the symbol of Jesus’ suffering around their necks. That’s how people with insane beliefs say they show their love. “I love you Jesus because you suffered for me.” People who truly love another want to relieve them of their suffering, they don’t celebrate it. Wearing a cross around your neck is like wearing the gun that killed your beloved around your neck.

Religion makes us crazy.

We are told by followers of monotheistic religions that there is one god and that everything that exists was created by him. Yet the rule books for these religions tell us to kill each other. So, god created all of us and god wants us to kill some of those he created? And then there are evil forces that compete with god for our souls. Were these evil forces also created by god? They must have been, but why? It doesn’t make much sense. And if all creation is created by god, and therefore sacred, isn’t it logical that the creation is the language of god, the word of god? So why do we continuously kill and destroy the real words (creations) of god by following the dictates of the words of men disguised as sacred and divine literature which we call scripture? What is sacred, life itself or these books we revere so much?

Religion makes us crazy.

Now you might object to all I have said on the grounds that religion has brought much good to the world.

Such as?

Whatever good has come from religion has not been the result of the religion but simply an outbreak of enlightened and ethical human behavior. We can and do engage in ethical and/or unethical behavior without god or the devil’s dictates. Every religion and indeed many secular philosophies have put forth the Golden Rule. Few religious scriptures support its practice. Even physics explains the law of karma. We have finally realized (a few of us, anyway) that we are not separate from the world and everything in it. We breathe the same air, share the same atoms and molecules and depend on the global systems of water circulation, air circulation, heating and cooling. Yet even today, religionists deny their humanity and physical dependency on this earth by claiming their home is in heaven (The sky? The name of a shopping mall? Another planet?), thereby relinquishing any responsibility or accountability for what they do here.

There has been a great deal more killing than saving in the name of god. The hungry can and should be cared for by the well fed without concern for religious rewards in heaven. Islam considers killing nonbelievers a good deed as have Jews, Christians and Hindus.

Perhaps our ancestors needed ethical imperatives motivated by the fear of an avenging god? More obvious historically is that the fear of an avenging god was used as motivation by unethical people to achieve their own ends. Has this changed very much?

We don’t need religion.

Religion is a curse, not a blessing. It does not come from those who have spiritual experience but from followers who would use and manipulate another’s spiritual experience to promote their own ideas, agenda and power; use them to promote and sanctify their own egoistic dysfunction (political/religious agendas). Jesus did not create Christianity. He had spiritual experiences of loving his neighbors as himself and the experience of being one with the Father. His spiritual experiences even put him at odds with the religious and political beliefs of his time, so it was religion and politics that got him killed. He had no intention of starting a new religion, rather he wanted those he taught to experience their own divinity, not create new rules and laws and dogma and churches. We can learn from his experiences without a religion. To learn something from Jesus’ experiences, we do not have to be or become ‘Christians.’ Jesus’ followers created the ‘church’ and convinced so many that the dictates of the ‘church’ are synonymous with what Jesus taught. It is highly doubtful that he would be pleased. It is our own egos that are eager to accept the half-truths and lies put forward by religionists. It is our own egos that urge us to accept that we are the special, chosen people/religion/nation/tribe, etc. The god of the Bible and the Koran are projections of our egos. The ego is an identity each of us develops as a means of protection. It is an idea, a construct that is made up from past and usually misperceived, misinterpreted experience. It is also a compendium of ideas told to us and modeled for us by others for their own convenience. We have been told who we are by others and often encouraged to accept what we are told without question, often with threats of death and damnation. If our daddies were intolerant despots, our concept of god is likely to match that described in the Bible. Our curiosity has been thwarted, repressed and buried. You are a good boy/bad boy depending on what you do in someone else’s estimation. You are a believer; you are an infidel, etc. We come to accept these identities and then we defend them if they are challenged either by life or by others. These identities become so strong we go to war to fight for them. Religious identities are among the most rigid and crystallized and unassailable structures possible. These identities separate us from reality and from almost any possibility of opening to any reality we are unaccustomed to. That is the nature of the ego. It is contracted, defensive, illusive and deceiving. We must recognize the lie of it, relax it and let it go. We must let go of all of our religious identities to be able to allow space for a truer, larger, more inclusive identity as humble and necessary parts of a whole creation, a whole consciousness. We have to at least explore and understand our beliefs and let go of those that tell us to harm others and our world. If we persist in keeping Bibles and Korans and Vedas around, we better rewrite them to reflect our current need for love, acceptance and stewardship of all life. This connection and participation in a total reality is truer and is even scientifically evidenced. Our religious beliefs are founded on ignorant and dysfunctional fiction.

What possible experiences might arise if we accepted as a starting point that what we think we know about god, the soul and the universe, is wrong? What might arise if we looked at our beliefs about god, where they came from and how both absurd and dangerous they are and let them go? If John appeared today on a street corner proclaiming what he wrote in Revelations, even those who pray for the predictions of revelations to come true, and those who capitalized on religious elitism by writing left behind books would just consider him for what he is, chicken little in robes. Yet so many believe in and long for his prophesies of 2000 years ago!

What experiences might arise if, instead of defending beliefs laid on us and accepted by us from others, we inquired into our own experiences in relation to the world and each other? What if we looked into how we are all interconnected? What if we started to directly experience and wonder about this mysterious and wonderful creation, what it is, how we affect and are affected by it? What might arise if we inquired into the nature of consciousness itself? What might we learn if we approach everyday and every experience with the humility and truth of our not-knowing combined with interest and wonder and curiosity?

Better to read Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White than the Bible by who knows who.

It is, however, difficult to let go of self concepts so deeply entwined in our being. We believe that we are actually Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Americans, Saudis, etc. As hard as it is, it is vital to the continued health of creation and the future of our world to challenge these self concepts. It is also incredibly freeing to realize that we are not limited to who we think we are.

So, begin asking yourself who you think you are. Look carefully and lovingly at what you do and what that tells you about your beliefs. Look into what you feel when someone says something about you or another person. Do you become defensive? Are you protecting something you believe about yourself?

If you have ideas about whom you are, look into where they came from. Those who gave you those ideas about who you are were most likely wrong. Reassess and discover, find out something new taken from your current experience.

Let go of religious identities. Make space for consciousness to expand. Open minds and hearts to the wonders of creation and take part in it. It is all happening right now and, for now at least, this is where we live. Don’t desecrate the gift of creation, the gift of life, in the name of some dubious, concocted, fear-based theology. Don’t kill your brothers and sisters to fulfill the spoken or written prophesies of lunatics.

Make room in OurSelf for a new era.

Some suggestions for letting go of religion and religious beliefs:

For Christians:

• Create a ritual to lay Jesus to rest. Jesus has suffered for our sins long enough. How would you like one of your relatives or loved ones who has died to be plagued, even symbolically, by millions of living people’s childish and selfish demands? That’s what we have done to Jesus. Isn’t it about time we let him rest in peace?
• Take a picture of Jesus, wrap it in nice cloth, put it in a nice box and bury it. Give him your thanks for hanging around so long. Tell him that by his example, you have become more mature, realizing that he was your brother and he taught you what you needed to know to become your brother’s and sister’s keepers. Tell him that you do not need to be saved and he is free to move on. Invite friends to share in the ritual and perhaps to take part. They can be of any religion. Perhaps they will move on too.
• Write Jesus a letter of gratitude and say goodbye. Say to him what you would say to someone you truly loved who has passed on.
• Remember that Jesus had nothing to do with Christianity. It was developed and sold to the people after he was dead. I doubt he would be happy about what has been done in his name. Jesus and Christianity have as much to do with each other as 9/11 and the Iraq war. Christianity was fashioned and sold (and continues to be sold) by politicians and priests, emperors and televangelists based on insufficient and manipulated intelligence. Jesus didn’t create Christianity. The Iraq war was initiated using the lie that Iraq was connected to the 9/11 attack. It was fashioned and sold (and continues to be sold) by politicians and would be emperors based on insufficient and manipulated intelligence. And do not kid yourself, it is another religious war pretending to be otherwise, based on arrogance and ignorance.
• Disassemble the cross as a symbol. It will be a great relief for this world to end the constant crucifixion, to refrain from laying the responsibility for our suffering and poor decisions on a savior. I would guess that Jesus, having been a loving man and a carpenter, would never have taken a job making crosses to use for crucifixions. If he wouldn’t do it and we claim we are trying to be like him, we shouldn’t do it either. Take the cross(es) you carry apart and use the wood for something else, perhaps whittling a different symbol of interdependence.
• Develop a less hierarchical, more egalitarian attitude. When you see pictures of the Pope or bishops, or priests all dressed up in their impressive, gaudy ceremonial robes designed to instill a sense of authority or piety, imagine what they would look like in their birthday suits. If that is too gross or weird for you, imagine them in oversized shorts carrying a skateboard. Would their grand proclamations and hierophantic demeanor mean as much or exert as much influence on you if they were skateboarders? Besides, they don’t know more than you about your relationship to divinity and to creation. The books their ideas come from are pretty incomprehensible and their official lives run parallel to the story of The Emperor’s new Clothes. Develop the eyes of the child as Jesus recommended and you will see right through the costumes and masks.
• Give the money you would give your church to environmental groups or to feed the hungry or prevent disease. If you have a fish on your license plate, help save the oceans and the real fish before we run out of food. No one is going to do a fishes and loaves thing except for us.
• Tell your religious ‘leaders’ they should pay taxes like everyone else.
• Tear out the pages of your Bible and use them for sheet composting. The ink and dioxin in the pages are not good for the environment but then religion is worse for the environment. Sheet composting keeps the soil moist and increases the number of earthworms. Earthworms are healthier than religion. (or, finally read the whole thing and recognize its absurdity and destructiveness and then compost it).
• Go on a hike into nature (creation) instead of to church. Nature is the True Church of Creation. Redwoods are much more inspiring than any man-made architecture.

For Jews:

• Stop circumsizing (genitally mutilating) your male children. We do not need to brand our children as a sign of either possession or specialness. If you want your child to feel special and chosen, tell him you love him and leave his penis alone.
• Have a ritual to become unchosen and an equal part of the rest of humanity. Chosenness hasn’t done much for the Jewish tribe.
• Release yourselves from your covenant with Yahweh. Renegotiate. There wasn’t any time designated in the Bible so just tell god that you’re out and you want to just be like all the rest. Put a picture of your son on an altar and then tell god that you won’t sacrifice your children no matter who suggests you do, god or criminally insane presidents all included. Take the picture off the altar before an angel appears to save your kid and regain your own integrity and authority.
• Write a letter to Moses telling him you have become vegetarian and animal rights activist because he suggested we should not kill.
• Have a potluck get together and invite gypsies, homosexuals, transvestites, intellectuals, artists, the disabled and simple-minded, and all the kinds of people Hitler tried to eradicate. Celebrate your lives together, dance and feast and give thanks for life. Let everyone know we are ALL chosen by Life to live and make a pact that you will never let anyone do what was done and never do to others what was done and never wait around for some fictitious god to come to save you.
• Recognize the suffering of all peoples, animals, etc, letting go of your belief that you have a monopoly on suffering and that your suffering is the worst (best?). Dismantle your mental altars of suffering.
• Dress better, especially the men.
• Give the money you would give your temple to environmental groups or to feed the hungry or prevent disease.
• Tear out the pages of your Old Testament and use them for sheet composting. The ink and dioxin in the pages are not good for the environment but then religion is worse for the environment. Sheet composting keeps the soil moist and increases the number of earthworms. Earthworms are healthier than religion. (or, finally read the whole thing and recognize its absurdity and destructiveness and then compost it).

For Muslims:

• Tear out the pages of your Koran and use them for sheet composting. The ink and dioxin in the pages are not good for the environment but then religion is worse for the environment. Sheet composting keeps the soil moist and increases the number of earthworms. Earthworms are healthier than religion. (or, finally read the whole thing and recognize its absurdity and destructiveness and then compost it).
• If you want to be a suicide bomber, do it alone.
• Have a funeral and going away party for Mohammed, letting him rest in peace.
• Go for anger management counseling and stop taking offense at everything and anything anyone says about your beliefs or your religious ‘leaders.’ Develop a sense of humor.
• Create college scholarships for women and give them the respect they deserve. Listen to them and learn from them.
• Take some seminars on dressing for success.

In conclusion:

None of us are Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc. These are belief systems (unbelievable ones), mental constructs we have learned, lies and suppositions we have accepted as true. And we have colluded with each other never to challenge our own or other’s beliefs, under penalty of death and damnation.

For right here and now (where life is occurring), we are all brothers and sisters. Humans, animals, plants, all things are parts of an interrelated, magnificent, wonder-full creation. This is our world to live in and share and it was not created for us alone.

We are all in IT, TOGETHER.

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Luigi Enrico Pietra d’Oro is the author of The Second Coming, The Last Parable of Jesus, A Movin-On Novel published by Revolving Door Books.

He is available for radio and television interviews, book signings, speaking engagements and workshops.

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