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Smiley face Telling the tale Purpose Statement at START of project...
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PURPOSE STATEMENT at END of project:

Osiris Rows Into The Water
(poem)
He would take to the oars at first, he decided now,
because he had to test himself, he needed,
first of all,
to see how soon the fabled Ethereal Tide
would force him to rig the gull's wing linen sail
that would stand head-high,
and let himself lie back for a rest.

I want many, many more people to become good kitchen-table psychic advisors for their friends and neighbors.   Learn to soothe wounds in a stranger's soul by means, maybe, of some colored pebbles tossed on the park bench between you.   You'll be glad you did.   I want angel cards, or gazing crystals, or etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., in 51% of America's bedside tables.

Project Goal: Help facilitate a creative and joyful reality-transition for our fellow human beings and any others who request our help.

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1. Vapes Brochure/Comic Open The Pdf File

Box Top Sheets

4 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on the front and back of 2 sheets of heavy card stock.
>>Suppose you want to print out all these documents, staple all the comics (brochures) and put them in a box.
...Here are two overview sheets to put on top of them in the box.

2. Vapes Brochure/Comic Open The Pdf File

Final Document List

6 letter-size pages without covers.
>>All this same information you see on this Downloads Menu.

3. Vapes Handout Sheet Open The Pdf File

Climate Grief Salon - Audience Participation Art Performance

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>It's Autumn 2019. This Vapes project is now over and here's an advertising sheet.
... Now I'm advertising for opportunities to tell about
..... the project's very HUMANE and INSPIRATIONAL results,
..... small local audiences - book club meetings, seasonal celebrations are good etc.,
... So it's Autumn and here I wrote a performance proposal advert sheet to send to people.

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Vapes Project Brochure (Notes To J At Aw)

38 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>This is the first product of the Vapes Shops Series Project.
...Includes a note to J. at A.W. stating the project's purpose there at the start, which, incidently, caused the artist's immediate expulsion from the corrupt city government's official artist co-op club, despite the fact the artist had resigned years previous,
...Then some overview the way things looked then at the start,
...Instructions for the Performance Art Piece of the project, which occured on August 3 with wonderful results,
...Finally includes the Sixteen Original Vapes Handout Sheets.

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Vapes After-Performance Report

12 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>This is the last product of the Vapes Shops Series Project.
...Page 1: A diviner sees a path into the Good New Age  and therefore announces the American Pagan Psychic Chaplaincy And First-Aid Corps.
...Rave review for Niniann's Sacred Place Benefit Psychic Fair 2019!! (On August 3.)
...Divination's scientific explanation explained.
...Deep advice for new aspiring Diviners.
...Welcoming Oprah acolytes.
...Interesting incident at a museum.
...Maybe a family confidence broken.
...Last 2 Pages: A personal and strategic history of the American Pagan Movement so far.

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Art Lessons

22 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>A self-taught expert modern artist's suggestions and examples.
...All operating on Tagore's dictum on How To Be A Real Artist,
...Here Tagore's Dictum is explained on a sheet called "Stubborn Creativity",
...Right beside poetic snapshots of Kahlo, Solnit and Van Gogh.
...Great ideals of Beauty, and all the Holy Virtues it births, are emphasized.
...Has examples of pencil, painted canvas, digital editing, small sculpture, and mechanical drawing.
>>The sheet "Stubborn Creativity" is a Vapes Handout Sheet.

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Black And White - Free Art Lesson

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>Here's a two-page visual aid on how to choose your best ARTISTIC ATTITUDE.
...You should probably adjust your attitude pretty early in your aspiring REAL ARTIST career.

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Capitalist Confession - A Daily Prayer

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>An unsuccessful acolyte of the Prosperity Gospel.
...On the flip side, just as opposite, two randomly selected acts of creativity successful or failed.

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Cardboard Box Designs - Free Art Lesson

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>In a one-person art design team, don't let your feelings be hurt by harsh self-criticism.

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Corporal's Reports On Duty

38 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>The author is a clergyman, a moral thinker in our times, and an old soldier too...
...First trained as a US. child officer for US. child soldiers,
...Later a Basic Training Corporal, with my stripe patch sewn to look as if it's falling off, actively resisting war on duty.
...Later a mud-field medical corpsman in a ready-reserve of laboring suffering private soldiers during an endless horrifying useless war when human lives and souls were worthless,
...Then decades as an activist with outlook and knowledge of experienced soldier, now working largely as a chaplain to the chosen movement of that particular decade or year.
>> WHILE READING THIS COMIC, you should also look at the author's "Army Stories" book.  {Open Webpage}  That project preceded this Vapes Shops Project and helped inspire it.
...This comic book develops a new Evolution Science theory that was begun in "Army Stories", a proposed scientific theory called "Natural human anarchist martial spirit".
...That new theory explains what the author experienced, the ancient dancing ground where Honest Soldiers meet the Mighty Murder Mill, the same mill that is killing Earth.
...And explains a cheat by which modern armies rob the natural yearning of human young to do their duty.
...And offers an evolutionary basis for a moral compass for the art of war, and potentially much else.
>>"Natural Human Anarchist Martial Spirit" is also a Vapes Handout Sheet.

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Cosmic Navigation

18 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>In the question of Climate Catastrophe, this year I have switched entirely to Seth.
...I now say the Apparent Death of Our Living Mother Earth is something of a billion billion more dimensions than we can know with ordinary consciousness.
...And it is a thing of far far more good creative love and beauty than our eyes here are accustomed to see.
...For it may be this narrow and constantly constricting threshold we are rushing over can be Entry Portal of The Good New Age. That is like what Seth said.
>>To quote a poem on the subject...
..."Splint up people's broken wings, and bandage broken hearts so they can read the charts to fly away."
...Help facilitate a good transition. Help facilitate a creative and joyful reality-transition for our fellow human beings,
...And any others who request our help.

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Documents For The Reader

38 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>Companion book to all of Riley's Tarot decks, also useful with any other deck whatever and many other psychic reading methods.
...This book's first two chapters give a fully usable description of the author's core divination method,  which he has taught to many other readers for many years,  a teaching effort by which the author explicated the so-called "mental tricks for entering quantum mode",  which is immemorially natural to human beings,  and also called "high heart-sympathy".
...Note: Your experience having serious conversations with people about life's difficulties will be far more useful than any prior Tarot experience, or any fondness at all for metaphysics.
...Packed with many short strong poems, proposals for a mystic doctrine, a modern true story of two magical engineers, and more.
...This book is written for Adult and Young Adult reading level.

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Drone Strike Painting - Statement Of Morality

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>Poem 1: While Painting
...My son and his wife just had a baby, a beautiful new astonishing human child.
...Last month two women went out to a water well at night and were rendered into bloody pieces.
...I cannot pretend that these two things are different sorts of things, pretend that they are not the same type and quality of fact, for they are human facts.
...I cannot say, Oh one is mine and one not mine,
...For my one human heart strains to encompass both,
...And strains to examine them with the fear and hope and joy and shame and trembling pity,
...That are all alike the province of one human heart.

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Frontispieces From Tales Of Men And Women

20 letter-size pages including front & back covers. At Niniann's Fair on August 3 the pages with large pictures were used as Handout Sheets.
>>Here are picture pages from the Big Red Story Book...
...It's a 500 page paperback structured in seven sections showing seven great modes of thought and action in a human life.
...Each book section is led by a large picture. They are collected here, plus a sample page from that book section.
...The whole book's frontispiece and back plate, with other sample pages, are also included. And the paperback's covers.
...And also, most sample pages have a small picture.
>>At Niniann's wonderful fair, August 3, the public took very few Handout Sheets (like these) featuring pictures...
...But Handout Sheets featuring "poems, stories, brief philosophy discussions" were almost all gone at end of day,
...Indicating a very strong public desire for serious discussion.

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Little Squiggles - Local Politics

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>The artistic anti-fascist struggle for truth and beauty anywhere you live. Run the bstrds out of town.

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Malcolm X - More Reflections - A Memoir Essay

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>In America in the 1960's and 1970's there was a civil war of countless sides, fought across the nation with 5 particular weapons:
...Massed 6-bullet police pistols,
...Homemade terrorist bombs,
...Huge propaganda plus nuclear bombs,
...Secret service employees and stooges with sniper rifles,
...Weaponized love.
>>And Imam Malcolm X was a chaplain to the whole struggle.
>>There is a different version of this story in the "Army Stories" book: {Open Webpage} 

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Micro-Smoking For Cannabis Patients - A Free Tip Sheet

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
This is exactly what the title says.
...In fact the herbalists at Worcester's best natural food store have a copy of this sheet, and studied it, and one recognized me.
...But meanwhile, also, since military veterans are prominent among advocates and users of medical cannabis,
...Includes a bit of old time cannabis-related medical-corpsman military memoirs.

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Natural Human Anarchist Martial Spirit - Human Behavior

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>Print this sheet and read it, fold it up and put it in your pocket, then go out and see how well this proposed scientific theory clarifies your struggle against war.

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Old British Lives

40 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>Here is presented "The Matter of Britain"...
...That's what scholars call the King Arthur tales,
...The Stonehenge Country tales,
...As if that vast dense web of scenes, characters and plots,
...Living new in every generation since very long before King Arthur coalesced into a single name,
...As tho those stories are the substance of a land.
...And indeed the ageless worldwide Triple Goddess, She who always is the land, permeates those tales for good and all.

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Old Greek Lives

36 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>In a far distant corner of the same vast Culture-World, far from distant Britain...
...Ancient Greece, the Western World's culture-crossroads island gate to/from the whole world's colossus, South Asia.
...Ancient Greece, its islands seeming step stones to riches. There male humans and gods together often wander off to piracy or war.
...So the Triple Goddess there, ruler in that land's soul as everywhere, rules there in open opposition to the Male deserters.
...Meanwhile the Old Hinduism of the Ancient East floods thu, teaching Her acolytes pure arts of Spirit.

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Pathway To Heaven - Fine Art Graphic Novel

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>These pictures tell of a "Chemical Marriage" in my own life. That is the title of a famous old book in the mystic faith of Alchemy that came to Europe from the East.
...So my real life event held the same mysticism as sung by the great poets Rumi and Lao Tsu in the East. They famously sang of Holy Spirit in our daily lives and in our erotic love.
...And actually this fine art is friendly. You can safely set your eyes free to guess. Just look, read the text and look again. Maybe you've felt what happened for my beloved and I.

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Plentiplex As New Word In Magic - Public Notice

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>Simply this: The vastness of spiritual vision and the faith in its truth.

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Performer's Kit

20 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>Instructions, guidance and supplies for any Performer in the Vapes Project's Performance Art Piece, the first or only performance of which occured at Niniann's Fair on August 3.

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Poems For The Reader

4 letter-size pages meant to be printed on front and back of two sheets.
>>A treasure of tools and encouragement for any Reader who wishes to pursue the high ideals of the Psychic Arts.
>>This is a chapter from the book "Documents For The Reader", which is also available in its entirety on this menu.

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Shamanic Vision Dance And Other Stories

38 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>The American Pagan Movement...
...My clearest exploration yet, thru a gathering of my own memories, of how our religious path began half a century ago.

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Stubborn Creativity - Free Art Lesson

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>Here is TAGORE'S DICTUM, the central teaching of Bengali revolutionary Art Professor Rabindranath Tagore. I tell it to students like this:
...Everyone always asks How can I become an artist, a Real Artist, and well it's a simple process but it's HARD TO DO.
...First look around you deeply in the place where you are, and see there what is MOST UGLY.
...Then, knowing that, deeply look around again and see what is MOST BEAUTIFUL where you are.
...Now decide how you can SERVE THAT BEAUTY.
...And simply by actually thinking this you have become a real artist.
>>I first heard this dictum late in life, late in my art career, but I recognized at once that is exactly what I did to get the flow of work and inspiration started.
>>This sheet includes poetic portraits of Kahlo, Solnit, Crabapple, and Van Gogh. Plus information on harmonicas.

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Socialist Paganism In America

28 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>An unfinished manuscript for a scholarly history book...
...You may be surprised that a political analysis of America's Pagan movement is being proposed.
...But in fact our movement has been an anarchist freedom struggle in the working class of a dominant empire's dominant ethnic group,
...And it is large scale and successful, and it has improved the Ground Of Struggle in significant ways.
...And these facts should be better known.

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Talking With Birds - Do-It-Yourself For Humans All Ages

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>It's actually not hard talking with your local song-birds in Bird Language. Most people can if they think and pay attention.
...How? There's something they really want to know so tell them that: Who you are. Decide what your Bird Name is and "tweep" and "keek" it to them, same way every time you go out.
...And if you pay attention to the conversation, of course it really works. Once they know you, they will all go about their business chatting sparsely much like busy human people.
...But what is your true bird name? It's you who must decide. Try this maybe: Imagine flying with the birds and imitate whatever aethereal notes you hear that seem brightest.
>>ON THE FLIP SIDE:
My true strange, powerful, beautiful, empowering first experience of Yoga, welcome healing for a weary soldier.

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The Case Of One Cadet - A Recovered Memoir

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>US. Army trained me first to be a child officer for child soldiers.
...Our adult instructors chose me as a senior leader in our slummy Houston high school's ROTC Cadets. We trained with army books and films and weapons.
...But I felt myself to be, there among the city's many poor, a Revolutionary soldier of some kind, from the very start.
...A deep instinct awoke to serve, and a deep apt wish to know the Good Soldier's Path, but too an instinct not to serve the masters of this neighborhood and world around me there.
...This powerful small tumult of contradictions, me so very open and large-hearted, and yet so very young, the moral hopes and compromises in some form perhaps not often seen so clearly, yielding rare insights maybe.
...Writing this, I thought about it better than I'd ever done before.

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T-Shirt Transfers

11 letter-size pages including front & back covers. At Niniann's Fair on August 3 these were among the Handout Sheets featuring pictures.
>>Some are bold pictures per se while others are bold poems set in bold typography.

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The Passing Of Uther Pendragon

20 letter-size pages including front & back covers.
>>Script for a one-act play in King Arthur's time...
...Tragic agonizing death of Arthur's father, king before him in ceaseless wars, dying of an old wound now re-opened.
...And the riddling final blessing from his one-time royal lover, the noble Countess Igraine, Arthur's mother very secretly.
...And the weird old Druid Merlin, summoned to Lady's castle chamber, carried newborn Arthur safe away from all the horrid wars, away to hiding unknown to the world, and now reveals the secret to his dying royal friend in parting.
...So in flowing blood and tears the New Man is called and comes.
>>A one-act drama arranged for dramatic reading, with a little acting, with scant rehearsal, preferably under a night sky, by two people on stools.

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The Proper Contents Of This Cardboard Box - Public Notice

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>A visual comparison of pregnant silence and futile noise.

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Website Instructions - Do-It-Yourself Maybe

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>I'm sorry I called this sheet "Website Instructions". Should have called it "Performance Operating Instructions" instead.
...It gives my starting concept of Operating Instructions for the project's Performing Art Piece, which was eventually done with fine success on August 3.
...Reading this sheet now it still seems good, different as our tent at Niniann's Fair turned out to be from my original idea of a retail space on a vapes shop glass counter as given here.
...So if you feel any wish to replicate our August 3 in your place and time, then you surely should examine this Handout Sheet.
>>And if you are embarked on a REAL ARTIST career:
...The notion of DADA here is seldom stated by other teachers.
...In this art work Dada consists of using human beings, plus a cardboard box, plus magic objects in the box, plus reality-level randomness,
...To conjure a Divine Intervention plea that seemed to work.

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Winging With Birds - Do-It-Yourself For Humans All Ages

2 letter-size pages supposed to be printed on front and back of one sheet of paper.
>>I first heard in 1959 the world might end from Global Warming, and six decades then I watched that threat grow into near-certain death of all the life we see on Earth.
...But I always loved small light trucks and bikes and planes, and my body dreamed of winging over oceans.
..Those vivid minutes, vivid vivid minutes, in light small aircraft co-pilot seat and my controls on, a kite-work machine.
...Those vivid minutes my hands were the wings.
>>Recent morning early, midnight and a quarter hour plus, doing art and step out back for a refreshing smoke.
...Suddenly here's our MIDNIGHT TEMPLE YARD.
...Little song bird migrating thru, up above asleep in tree, but wakes and stretches wings, I see thru its eyes it's watching me.
...And suddenly again my hands are wings.
>>Death shall not have us for there is no death.

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