Jack Dempsey's Guide to Championship Boxing

 

Jack Dempsey is one of boxings all time greats. He wrote a book on boxing. The main focus of the book is on punching. This is what he starts off with before teaching the beginner anything else. Punching is the most important element in a fight. All too sad is that not enough trainers teach their students how to punch.

The most important part of a punch is to put your body weight behind so you hit with more force. The falling step has you step forward with your left foot and launch your jab a the same time. The line of power extends in a line all the way to you’s bottom two knuckles. There are several types of punches in boxing. There’s jabs, shovel, upper cuts and hooks. He explains step by step how to launch those punches along with good illustration on how to launch those punches. There is a section on footwork cause remember footwork is just as crucial to the success of a boxer as is punching.

In boxing there are several ways to defend against a punch. The most effective way is evading . When a punch is coming the boxer somehow moves out of the way. There is ducking , bobbing and weaving and slipping. Most beginner start with blocking. Blocking is done with the hand, forearm and even shoulders. The second most effective defense is parrying or redirecting the punch.

Finally at the end there are exercises to improve your stamina and physical shape. A good easy to read classic on boxing. Coming from a real old fashioned fighter this book is worth it.

Divine Energy

Energy is required to build things and get stuff accomplished. Energy is needed to live, eat, and breathe. Many of us try to acquire energy to do more things and make accomplishments by improving our nutrition or imbibing caffeinated beverages. But nutrition is not the true source of our energy. The true source of our energy is God or as others call him Allah, Jesus, and a slew of other names. Since this book was written by a rabbi, they tend to call God as Hashem. Hashem literally means the name. So, the divine is our source of energy.

God gives us energy by shining divine light down on the earth. There are times when Hashem brings down some extra energy for people to accomplish something massive. When this energy is present then people can accomplish all sorts of things. The trick is to use it wisely. The author uses the Holocaust as an example. Hashem sent down extra energy so the Jewish people could end their exile. Instead the Jewish people used their energy to sin more and become assimilated. Since the energy was not used wisely the enemies of the Jewish people used it against them.
There are ways to access this energy. The way to do it is through doing things like mitzvot which basically translated as commandments. Good deeds and prayer. The author elucidates several other topics in this concise 47 page book. He instructs the reader on the four levels of Torah study and the different emanations of manifestation.
Our soul is who we are it is the soul made of light that receives divine energy. The body we inhabit which is a vehicle to move in this world inhibits that light. The author gave a good lesson on empaths, those individuals who feel what we feel. They are sensitive to energy.
This book is highly recommended if you are into metaphysics, Judaism or just metaphysical Judaism

Where are We From?

 

In school we were taught that man evolved on this planet and was descended from hominids. The first human appear around 100 thousand to 300 thousand years ago and it was not only 10 to 12 thousand years ago that we began making civilizations. All that’s sounds really good but.....

If man evolved on this planet first from apes and then later from hominids like homo erectus and homo hibilis then that would mean our entire evolution happened on this planet that we should be so well adapted that we should not have the sicknesses that we have. The author states that humans are too fragile for like on earth and that we are the least well suited organisms to survive. We have sickness that the other animals do not have. We have higher rates of cancer, and other sicknesses that other animals do not seem to have. Our skull shape is different than tha of other hominids. They also have thick eyebrows to protect them from the sun. Other animals have a membrane that protects their eyes from the sun but we humans do not have them.

Archaeology is finding anomalies that are throwing the timeline askew. Artififacts like tin cups or hammers are found buried in rock formations millions of years old or at least before mankind was know to exist either on earth or in that area. In other words the archaeology is older than mankind. How can that be and how did it get there? Good question.

Dr. Ellis Silver seems to believe that aliens deposited us here on this planet at different intervals over time. Some of the population made it and some did not. His speculate that they may have put us here as part of a prison planet. Or they were putting us here because there planet was dying or it was an experiment. Not sure if I buy the whole alien theory. I mean why would they go to the trouble to alter our genes so we could live her especially if this was a prison planet?

HE also believes that our government is working with different types of aliens and that so0me species maybe harmful to us while others are beneficial.

The theory has some strong points. The universe or space is too large for there not to be life on other planets. High probability they checked our planet out. But them creating us or splicing our genes or having them work with our governments then where is the proof? No smoking gun.

True we are more fragile than most animals but there are animals who get sunburned, get cancer and experience some of our other ailments. Do not think that is extraterrestrial .b Interesting theory but I have to say no dice.

In Search of Crowley's Hidden God

 

Well I read the whole book and I still have not clue who the hidden god is. Be honest with you I am still clueless after reading this book. I will say that the gist of the book involves the raising of the kundalini serpent and how sex magic can change things. Magical children can be born from magical operations using sex on the full moon . No children will be born but magical entities will be about. Full moon is the best time to do this.

By the way we are in a different age. Having left the sacrificing god of Osiris and Jesus behind we are in the age of Aquarius where Set, Horus and Ra Khorr Khurit is the god This is when we fight for ourselves and we shake the shackle of the group mentality and look for ourselves.

The book covers many things from Voodoo, Tantra, Hinduism and several takeaways from Egyptian magic and religion.Definitely not a book for beginners. No

The Master of Horrors Guide to Becoming a Better Writer

 

The Master of Horror has written a witty anecdote for the would be writer who wants to pursue the craft of writing. The book is part memoir, part instructional with anecdotes thrown in.

Stephen King started out in the Maine and New England areas.He was raised by a single mother. Don’t know if he ever met his father. Mr. King tells of his adventures with his older brother who would persuade him to follow him along on sone stunt that would get both off them into trouble. Mr. King also tells about his adventures writing for sports boards, high school and college paper. He also tells how he wrote stories that got rejected by some short story mags then how he made it big with Carrie, a book he almost threw out in the trash but was fortunately saved by his wife Tabitha.

Now for the instructional part. Every writer needs a tool chest from which to pull forth their tools to do a writing job. The first tool is vocabulary. A writer needs a rich vocabulary in order to write colorful stories. The next tool is grammar. A good author needs to know the rules of grammar and how to use them. Some writer read the rules and make it work due to brevity.
Another thing Stephen King urges is get rid of adverbs as much as you can.

A good writer will have the self discipline to write every day. He advised a starting number and he himself writes whole bunch everyday. If you want to be a writer you got to lock yourself in your room and write. The next thing a writer has got to do is read a lot. Stephen King takes a book with him where ever he goes. Reading other authors gives you style to learn from and tactics to imitate plus it also helps you fi9nd your voice .

Stories write themselves. He advises to let it unfold and the author just write it down as faithfully as possible. He does not believe in outlines or developing a plot on a plot chart.

He also writes about finding agents and how to get your work published. I really liked his approach because it is freestyle and does not constrain the writer to use outlines or plot charts. While this book may not make you a great writer it will definitely give you tips on how to improve.

Cannabis Spirituality

What do you get when you add cannabis with meditation? Why you get Wake, Bake and Meditate . The author starts off with informing the reader about Cannabis 101. The author describes the different strains and what kind of spiritual work the different strains are good for. Indica strains have more THC and CBD and tends to be real good for relaxing and mellowing out. Some meditation , especially trance dance are more upbeat and energetic hence Sativa is good for this joined of work. The author goes over the basic of dosing and different ways to consume THC.

Tahe next section talks about individual mediation . Before launching into meditation with cannabis, the author covers pre meditation routines. Setting and set are important. The set is what you go into the session with. The setting is the environment you are meditating in. Journaling helps set the intention for the meditation session , it also helps to write about it afterwards.

The first meditation are individual meditations. The first few times the meditator will meditate two to three times with a guide. After doing the meditation 3-4 times then you are ready to try the meditation with the aid of cannabis. Some subjects for meditation finding your bliss, setting up a spiritual retreat, meeting the feminine and masculine divine.

These meditations carry over into the group work.  All the meditations have a script that can be recorded for going into the meditation.There are somehealing mediations both for disaster and real health problems.

The end finishes off with recipes and instructions for decarbing your herb. The recipes are pretty good. If you are a beginner in meditation or cannabis you might want to check this book out especially if your infusing your spirituality with cannabis.

Son of The Dragon by Victor T.Foia

 This is historical fiction about the childhood of Vlad Dracula .

The story starts off with a young boy named Theodore who has dreams of the Dragons son taking over and redeeming Wallachia. He is presented to church officials and no utility but his prophecies do not bring them much pleasure. He gets royally bad treatment.

Fast forward several years and you have Vlad and his brother Marcus coming of age. Boys turn to men following a ritual hunting where they are supposed to bring down a boar. Marcus kills his boar but Vlad has to get his own to kill. Him and his father go out hunting and they come across a ruined burned out town and church . It is something Dracul, Vlads father failed to mention. There is also i an accursed forest where bandits hide and maraud merchant.

While Vlad is out hunting a Bison with Dracul his father he finds out a horrible truth about his grandmother who became a nun at a monastery after something horrible had happened to her. It is also here that Vlad learns the truth about a prophecy involving him.

After the hunting trip Dracul takes Marcus and Vlad to Hungary in order to participate in a tournament. Hungary is not to be trusted. Hunyadi is a military governor and ruler of Transylvania . A real power broker. He is setting up for a crusade against the Turks. But he has designs on Wallachia.

Vlad wants to join the crusade but has to prove his worth by killing a Turk. Just so happens that 4 Akincis are doing a slave raid. Vlad is daring and takes on the Turks. His next visit is to the Sultan. While the book may not be factual it is historical fiction that may have happened.