Hay House Writer’s Community offers a chance to enter a contest to win a book contract. Members work their way through a series of modules, online webinars, live Zoom sessions, and more to write a proposal for the contest. One of the requirements is to find books similar to the one you’re proposing Hay House publish. My nightmarish Tell All Book about the Vegas’s Notorious Doc entailed searching for authors of books about serial adulterers, narcissists, spousal abusers, and psychopaths. I found a few. One is Why Can’t I Just Leave: A Guide to Waking Up and Walking Out of a Pathological Love Relationship by Kristen Milstead. Another is Jen Waite’s A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal.

Mildred Muhammad’s Scared Silent details how she was abused.  She escaped and went into hiding from her abusive monster only to have the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives knock on her door to let her know her ex-husband was the DC Sniper!  Nevertheless, nothing prepared me for Mary’s story. There were elements similar to mine. Mary’s savings accounts, 401K, etc were drained until there was nothing left. William Allen Jordan’s other “wives” – legal and on paper were bled dry until each was facing homelessness. I escaped that fate by an unusual stroke of divine intervention!

So, what makes this book so special? Why should YOU read the book? For one, it’s scary. Parts read like a psychological thriller. Two, Mary lets the reader get inside both her head and the heads of Jordan’s victims. And three, it’s got a lot of great resources and insight into how psychopaths live amongst us. They are beguiling just like Tom Cruise’s portrayal of Lestat!

Mary’s first book about this ruthless predator was published in 2008. I skimmed it when they both arrived because I really wanted to read the Psychopath and couldn’t wait.

I recommend that anyone interested in true crime stories buy both books, watch the documentary, watch interviews with Mary, browse her website, and keep both books and go back and forth. Read one chapter in the Psychopath and then jump to a chapter in the Bigamist. William Allen Jordan was able to pretend to be a husband to two women then three then four etc at the same time, why not read two books simultaneously?

Well, thanks to Express VPN, I just discovered the YouTube will not let you watch this video in the UK but if you switch are in the US, you can!

Notice the chains on the left rising up to a soaring bird? Brilliant. I hope my readers FEEL what it’s like to be free from an abuser. Mary lived in fear – you can see stories all over the news about how she battled the effects of being gaslighted and treated like a piggy bank.

Mary became famous for losing the weight you see in this photo all because of the stress, humiliation, and constant news and interactions with women who all “married” Will thinking he was THE ONE, and that they were his ONE!

The ONLY criticism I have, and I have not discussed this with Mary before writing it, is the belief in THE ONE. It appears that all of Will’s targets and eventually victims believed in this concept of THE ONE.

When the book arrived, as the Universe would have it, I started seeing articles debunking the myth of “the one” I swear I bookmarked a couple but now I can’t find them. Never fear, Google retrieves older ones. Pun intended.

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/why-it-s-time-we-debunk-the-myth-of-the-one-20210211-p571lr.html#:~:text=To%20understand%20the%20attraction%20of,will%20live%20happily%20ever%20after.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a18346062/finding-the-one-myth/

13 Romance Myths That Will Destroy Your Dating Life

Mary does an excellent job of detailing how Jordan mirrored everything back to her so that she was totalling snookered into believing that he was THE ONE – the perfect boyfriend, the perfect lover – apparently sex was amazing – a fabulous father, a great cook the few times he ever did cook, a GREAT conversationalist, a romantic, and someone with a super dangerous job with the CIA!

There are no photos in either book. Mary’s wordsmithing, however, paints photos. For example, on page 123 in The Bigamist, Mary writes

“When I arrived at the office, it was very barren and rather shabby. There were plastic chairs and a pile of well-thumbed magazines detailing true-life stories of murder, deception and the inhumanity of the human race. . . . . The social worker was friendly but cautious, and arrived with an enormously thick file that she carried in both arms”.

This excerpt from http://udleditions.cast.org/craft_intro.html spells out how to identify a SKILLED author.

Just as a woodworker uses many tools and techniques to craft a piece of furniture, a skilled author uses tools and techniques of language and storytelling to craft a piece of writing. We have organized author’s craft into two categories, Narrative Elements and Literary Devices. We use the term Narrative Elements to describe aspects of storytelling. The term Literary Devices refers to specific tools of language that can appear in any genre of writing.

Our Narrative Elements are setting, foreshadowing, and characterization. They apply to most texts that tell a story, fiction or nonfiction, and they tend to be closely linked to an overall narrative arc. Although we have not focused on them here, other elements of narrative include theme, plot, conflict, and point of view.

Our Literary Devices are alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor, allusion, irony, and parallel structure. These are some of the techniques authors use to convey meaning. There are many other literary devices, including understatement, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia.

Mary Turner Thomson is, without a doubt, a skilled and entertaining writer. You definitely feel her fear, self loathing, horror, gut wrenching realizations, sheer desperation, mother instinct to protect her children at ALL COSTS, disbelief, more self-recriminations, compassion for the other “wives”, fear as she went to get tested for STDs, unrelenting drive to research everything ever written about psychopaths, and mental exhaustion!

It’s not funny. There is ONE sentence in the Psychopath that is humorous. It’s on page 88 and it’s a quote from her daughter. You have to buy the book to find it.

What I found infuriating was Mary’s descriptions of all the efforts to get Jordan locked up for good. What was worse were her attempts to get him on the sex offender’s lists in the United States once he got deported. All of her efforts, and the fact that he was still walking around free harming others, pissed me off. As I sat down to write this, I did ONE last search and Found JUSTICE! Note I did not find this on a news site.

And one last creepy glitch in the Matrix since this is a website about the MULTIVERSE.

The Notorious Doc, during an act of desperation, took a job with the Camden Department of Health in New Jersey in 2006. I had prayed for him to somehow get a job so he’d move out of our house in San Benito, Texas. I couldn’t take another beating while working full time. I found him an apartment in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. When he moved to Nevada, I had to fly to Philadelphia and rent a car to clean out the apartment. Read the article. You’ll see why I got goosebumps. I was born in New Jersey and didn’t leave until October 2000. My dad’s father’s parents were both born in Scotland. My mother’s mother’s father was born in Scotland. Mary is Scottish and lives in Edinburg!

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Correction: Mary’s last name is spelled without the “p”. Thomson NOT Thompson.

Excerpt from

Never Die with Your Pants Around Your Ankles: The Death of Vegas’s Notorious Doc – A Prescription for Hell

NARCISSISTS ARE NEVER WRONG!

            Surprising in June 2021, I think it was, Harry actually admitted that he lost the argument that the linghm is a phallus.  I had to bomb his inbox with articles from Hindu scholars to win that one.  Screaming that the British misinterpreted the devotion thinking the lingam was a phallus, because they had dirty minds, finally shut him up.*

            Harry also caved when he claimed to KNOW Shiva and be HIS most devoted devotee.  OMG what hubris.  Asshole (oops, sorry) didn’t even know that Lord Shiva has nineteen (19) avatars.  Couldn’t name any of them!  When I started to recite:

“Piplaad, Nandi, Veerabhadra, Bhairava! 

“You IDIOT!  You’d better know who Bhairava is!”  He did not. 

Harry’s blasphemy in front of the Shiva statue evoke Bhairava?  Anything is possible.  I sure cried out to Lord Shiva during that fight.  One of the only ones I ever won.  Harry only lived a few weeks after that.  The lingam he fantasized he’d use as a dildo during the conversation may very well have been the last straw.  I know the African fetishes were created to kill evil doers.  I brought them out of that apartment in my arms apologizing as I walked through the parking lot.  I did not care who saw me.  You cannot treat primordial spirits and gods with disrespect much less perform sex acts in front of them that they find abhorrent.  I you are not a believer, it does not matter.  The unseen world still exists whether you believe or not and they do have power.  What Harry did to them and said to them was incarnate evil.

            I continued to recite:

“Ashwatthama, Sharabha, Grihapati, Durvasa – My GOD Harry, you never heard of Durvasa?”  Rishabha, Yatinath”.  Okay, a lot of people don’t know that one.

            “HARRY!  Hanuman-ji!  You said you read the Ramayana twice!  Krishna Darshan, Bhikshuvarya, Sureshwar, Keerat, Sunatnartak, Brahmachari, Yaksheshwar, and Avadhut”!  I am pretty sure he tuned me out early on, but he fussed and looked it up and fell silent.

In my next post, I’ll start the series on the 19 Avatars of Mahadev Lord Shiva. And in another post, I’ll upload photos of all of the African fetishes with their stories.

(*) The history of the lingam is a lot more complicated, but I wasn’t going to try to “educate” him while in one of this MOODS.

Shiva Linga

The first episode of SONY TV Series Vighnaharta Ganesh aired on August 22, 2017. After several cast changes, COVID, etc. the last episode aired November 12, 2021. I was trying to catch up but my own life took a hard left and I fell far behind. The closest Hindu temple is over 250 miles west. I prayed for a solution and the idea of watching the series as a form of bhakti yoga struck a chord. The series brought to life stories from the Puranas, presented each of the avatars of each of the deities, brought the viewer into the Ramayana, and the Mahabharata!

In addition, each avatar’s story was told. Extracting clips will take a long time so please be patient. Much of this material is buried in books. Thanks to CGI, it’s a lot easier now to do visualization and thus, devotion. Each avatar has his/her own teachings for us to learn and each has various qualities for us to emulate.

Some of the episodes dragged and others made me sit up and gasp. The story arc about the battle with Bhandāsura seemed to be one that dragged and then in Episode 340, I sat with my mind spinning. For one thing, the CGI is very impressive, but the script hit home.

I started my website and blog in March 2021 with the intent to explore the MULTIVERSE. Well, did you know that there are EIGHT (8) universes, 9 divine goddesses, 10 knowledgeable goddesses, 12 Adityas, 8 Vasus, 2 Ashwini Kumars, and 8 versions of Kumar Kartikeya?

Did you know there are 8 versions of Brahma and Saraswati, Vishnu and Mata Laxmi, and finally Mahadev (Shiva) and Parvati.

Did you know there is an Adi Parashakti and her consort?

Did you know there’s a combined form of Shiva and Parvati?

If not watch the Playlist and read the links below. This is part one of a series of blog posts about HOW all the combined deities from ALL the universes had to perform a sacrifice into order to save the universe(s).

FURTHER READING

http://www.harekrsna.de/surya/12adityas.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasu

https://omshivashakti.wordpress.com/om-shiva-shakti/shri-durga-saptashati/lalita-sahasra-namam/lalitopakhyana-the-story-of-the-goddess-lalita/ https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/indian-religions/hinduism/cosmic-parallels-hinduism/

When Facebook ads for House of Gucci first aired, I kept staring at the clips going NO WAY! That’s LADY GAGA? I never got to see the movie in the theater but I did get to watch it yesterday on Amazon Prime and a VERY interesting documentary about the murder on Discovery Channel. The movie is a masterpiece of acting and filming. And it hit home because Tom Ford, THE TOM FORD, who the Notorious Doc was OBSESSED with was portrayed in the film. On January 15, 2022, the house Harry Leo Duran used as an office, near the marina in Spring Creek, was burglarized! Several pairs of his shoes were stolen. Amongst them was a pair of Tom Ford Warrick Grained Leather Sneakers valued at $990.00 along with Tom Ford sunglasses valued at $445.00. In order to fill-out the Loss Inventory for the AAA homeowners claim, I had to spend hours on Tom Ford and Louis Vuitton and other designer’s websites to match each item to catalog listings. The late Notorious Doc, oddly enough, never bought anything from Gucci, but I did have to look through their web listings just to make sure.

If you read my last post, “Tea and Tarot”, about how I got kicked out of Witch Shop, you’ll see embedded videos on fake psychics including a link to Hulu’s incredibly gruesome portrayal of tarot readers in “Shut Eye”. Benebel Wen’s blog post is a MUST read.

Wen writes:

“Tarot works when you manage to connect the tarot reader’s personal Qi with the querent or seeker’s personal Qi with the universal Qi. Some kind of really cool trinity goes on and by something some people call synchronicity, certain cards from the tarot are drawn that will best answer the question at hand”.

What she writes further down, however, needs to be read and MEMORIZED! Underlining and italics are mine for EMPHASIS. This is one of the best descriptions of how a crackpot can do damage that I ever could have hoped to find by an expert or any other writer!

“There are also many irresponsible tarot readers who misuse the tarot and in turn, send you faulty information. If you rely on that faulty information, harm is bound to come your way. It really is like practicing medicine or law without the intense schooling, experience, and licensure that these fields require. What’s more, the vast majority of people seeking tarot readers are those who are in a vulnerable state of grief, loss, or confusion. Pairing such a person with a quack tarot reader is going to bring about a great deal of harm to that person. That, though, isn’t any more or less sinful than a quack doctor who is practicing medicine without a license, a scum-sucking lawyer, or an accountant who has a propensity to skim a little off the top.”

The movie introduces PINA on a small TV screen seducing viewers to call her. It’s a brilliant theatrical plot device but that’s not how the real  Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) met Giuseppina “Pina” Auriemma portrayed by Salma Hayek.

This is an under 30 second clip to get started. To avoid copyright infringement clips have to be less than 30 seconds. If you want to watch the segment in full click MGM’s promo.

Oddly enough, the octogenarian that I met in the Witch’s Shop told me she had earned money working on a psychic hotline. For a great article about psychic hotlines read

Moving on, here’s the next clip.

The clip has to be less than 30 seconds. The first edit was EXACTLY 30 seconds but it got partially blocked so I had to take it down and trim off 2 seconds. To watch the entire segment, go to the MGM YouTube channel. The reason for making this clip is to show the OUTSTANDING performance by Lady Gaga! Her facial expressions as she speaks on the phone are perfect. In the movie the character is 25 years old. The real story about how they met and the fact that both are out of prison and worth millions is infuriating.

Click on the article in Mail Online for an photo of the two when they were younger.

Even though both Patrizia and Pina spent time in prison, read this and see if justice was served!

https://247newsaroundtheworld.com/celeb-gist/what-is-pina-auriemma-net-worth-in-2021-family-and-husband/

And now for the next segment in the movie where Pina walks Patrizia through the tarot reading.

I froze the frame in the hopes of 1) identifying the deck – It looks like it’s the Marseilles and 2) figuring out the spread and the reading. I found discussion boards and searched images of the decks and then voilà!

And for an analysis of the spread,

Obversa, (Amber!) is a Quora Author with 2.8 million+ views, writer, journalist, social media manager, and moderator of several subreddits. @acagoldsmith on Twitter. In the film, Salma Hayek as Pina points to a specific card. It is the Obversa writes that

Card 1: The Star (The Present) – Pina identifies this as Maurizio Gucci, Patrizia’s “great love”. Also called “L’étoile” – literally “The Star” in French – this upright card indicates purity, austerity, devotion, and obedience, all qualities that Maurizio Gucci displays in his loyalty and innocent love to Patrizia. (“The attitude of the Star is reminiscent of devotion and obedience: we kneel in front of a temple, or in front of a prince or princess.”)

The Star also indicates a giving nature, as well as pure, sincere intentions, or “nakedness”. (“The generous individual becomes a restless spring, giving and receiving in a purified movement.

From a psychological perspective, we can say that the Star, while purifying the past, also purifies the future. She gave everything to the surrounding environment, and also for herself, without asking for a return…a mysterious part of ourselves that we can trust: our ‘lucky star’.”) It might also mean “Paradise” (“Paradiso”), an aspect that Patrizia writes in her journal on the day that she has Maurizio murdered.

It’s an interesting interpretation but it doesn’t fit very well. Maurizio ends up dumping Patrizia for an old flame. The fact that Patrizia wote Paradiso in her diary, for me, means she felt she was FINALLY free from the torment of seeing Maurizio in the tabloids with his mistress. Lady Gaga’s portrayal of a woman scorned is intense. In the interview with Patrizia in the documentary, you can sense this is not a woman that would tolerate infidelity and she didn’t!

FURTHER READING AND VIEWING!

https://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/marseilles

https://www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2022/08/26/maurizio-gucci-et-patrizia-reggiani-un-divorce-fatal_6139126_3451060.html

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leylamohammed/lady-gaga-patrizia-reggiani-swarms-of-flies-house-of-gucci

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-03-15/allegra-gucci-opens-up-about-her-fathers-murder-my-mother-is-attracted-to-darkness.html

https://www.newsweek.com/house-gucci-tv-psychic-pina-auriemma-where-now-1654017

If you watched the movie and the documentary, please comment below! And please click follow, thank you.

Every true story should start with a Who, a What, a Where, a When, a How and a Why if known. Alas, to avoid having a hex put on me or sued for defamation (if that’s even possible in this case), I will leave out specifics. Why, you ask?

I recently went to a small strip mall to buy a designer donut. Whoever thought that there would be designer donuts? The first time I heard of such a thing is when Dunkin Donuts opened up. My parents would have pitched a fit if they had lived to see a donut costing $2.59 but that’s what I had paid for a rather large, disintegrate the minute you bite into it chocolate covered Bavarian creme. As I left the store to get back to my truck I spied a sign in a window that said “Tea and Tarot”. I used to be a HUGE devourer of the Cozy Mystery series. One good thing that has come out of this tale is I discovered the mystery series by Kirsten Weiss. Hopefully, the library has purchased Tea and Tarot. The promo sounds fantastic!

Thinking there really might be a place as cozy as all the Cozy Mystery books portray, I opened the door and stepped into a huge retail space with very little merchandise, a couch with a very old lady at one end, a large coffee table with no sign of a teapot in sight, and a chair with a late middle aged, bleached blond. My first thought was how on earth can this business make a profit. Commercial rent is astronomical. There was a cash register and counter a good 12 feet from the door, four-five shelf units and a kind of bookcase in the rear, a bathroom, and what looked like a massage or reiki room and that’s it. There was a sparse offering off books, tarot cards, a few crystals, and not much of the usual paraphernalia.

My favorite crystal shop in Salt Lake City just expanded. The main room has floor to ceiling displays with so many crystals for sale there is almost a glare from all the glittering offerings. They have professional lightening and low volume music that lulls you into an alpha brain wave state. There’s incense and the tinkling of windchimes and they have so many books and expensive meditation musical instruments – cue example – that you could get the urge to take out a home equity loan!

The store where I was told to get my things and LEAVE NOW was nothing like Sacred Energy Empowerment Center and the staff couldn’t hold a candle snuffer to Janet! So, WHAT happened? Well, as soon as I got through the door, the blond started in with the usual fake psychic fake nice hello routine. The older lady was quite striking and she told me two fascinating stories of paranormal experiences. The blond reminded me so much of an episode from Absolutely Fabulous that I will let the clips speak for themselves.

And just in case you are like I am and you don’t know your fashion designers, I searched for the transcript. You can thank me in the comments below.

I love old cheesecloth!

That’s Nicole Farhi. Could you put.

In case I have not YET made my point there are two more videos to drive home the point. As a side note, when I first discovered JP, the late Notorious Doc decided I had to ABSOLUTELY watch the Bondi Hipsters. I did! I wrote to JP on Facebook and I wrote to the Bondi Hipsters and suggested that when JP made his annual trip to Australia that they all meet up. They did and I got a thank you from both set of comedians. I think that’s cool. JP is now so famous, I doubt he would have had time to read my message.

The octogenarian didn’t look healthy and the blond kept dabbing her eyes with a facial tissue which had out served its purpose long before I arrived. The blond was also a fidgeter and she’d stand up, then sit, then smile, and then looked oh so pained, then act like she had just remembered where she had left her checkbook. 

A mother and daughter came into the store by accident. They were trying to find a place to wait in the air conditioning until an appointment elsewhere. That gave me a chance to hear a ghost story from the older lady. I’ll post that in its own post. What happened later after the mother and daughter left was very odd. A woman I had met two weeks prior elsewhere in town came in and I thought OMG what are the odds! And it is this woman that triggered a lot of research into reiki and chakras and woo.

This woman I will not describe because it would be too cruel to put into words. Think of the scene about a boggart. I didn’t realize until just this second after a brief introduction, something in me snapped and I burst out laughing. In my mind I saw a boulder creature that existed about a million years ago. She had a very, very old soul but not one you’d ever want to meet. I said, OMG “You’re SO OLD!” Instead of asking me what i meant, she took an immediate offense despite the fact that I was trying to gain control of myself as I said, “no no for Pete’s sake we’re about the same age, it’s your SOUL! She still was appeared miffed. “The last time I saw you was a million years ago!” Flat affect response.

After I met that woman, I discovered that she had blocked me on Facebook so when she came into the store, I was rather creeped out. I do not know how long she was in the back corner but it seemed like a half hour. She then said, so we could all hear it, “I need help getting out”, and the shop clerk rushed over and they were then outside in the parking lot for a very long time. When the shop clerk came back in, I thought well, all the fishing around for confirmation for your intuition, let’s see if you can “see” an answer. I asked a question and with that was told

“You need to get your things and leave now!”

“What?”
“As a representative of the owners of the store, I need to ask you to leave now!”

“What did I do?”

“Get your things and leave!”

I looked at the old lady who had a blank expression. I got my orange juice bottle, my bag, and stood up and walked straight to the door. As I opened it one of them said “Have a safe trip”.

I fussed about writing this up until last week when another of the women I met at the other business sent me a text using Vanish Mode in Facebook Messenger. I did know such a thing existed. As I scrolled to read it, it vanished! Facebook let’s you send whatever and then deletes it like some sort of “Get Smart”, self-destructing cassette tape in “Mission Impossible”!

What is said was that I was to stop going around “stealing” energy and if I didn’t stop I’d have to “deal with her”. WHAT THE BLEEP?

What I had asked about was something I found very disturbing. This woman, not the blond, had claimed she could SEE chakras. Yes, SEE chakras. And all my colors were way off. My throat was red, I had a white beam of light coming out of my right eye and no light coming out of the left, and on and on it went. She claimed she could see spirits of deceased relatives and entities around me.

BUT THERE”S MORE TO THE STORY!

After I left the store, I drove for about an hour and stopped in a trading post. The fellow there said that the town I had just been to was a creepy town and no one likes it. Odd you should say that I said and I launched into my story. His smile was huge as he said, “MY NIECE got thrown out of there last year”? “Really”? “Next to the donut shop”? “THE VERY ONE”, I said.

HIs niece had gone in to get advice about a VERY bad day and got told to leave. As we compared notes, they all assumed it was because the niece is very dark skinned and a Native American. Nope, I said. Cause I’m well, white. We both thought for a minute and then figured they were fake psychics. And there’s nothing a fake psychic hates more in this world is someone who really IS psychic.

So, I returned home and did MORE research. This is a FANTASTIC article by a Sanskrit scholar with whom I really want to study with when I can afford his courses. The video is by a corporate lawyer who has one of the best blogs I’ve ever read.

And the last two videos – a summary of Hulu’s “Shut Eye” and a clip from my all time favorite show, Bewitched, to lighten the mood.

I’ll post the ghost stories later in the week. They were almost worth the discomfort of hearing “LEAVE NOW”.

UPDATED September 3, 2022 – Video clips had to be remade to avoid copyright infringement. YouTube’s flagging algorithm is inconsistent.

Updated July 26, 2023. Good Omens 2 is airing tomorrow so I rewatched the entire first season and realized I left this scene out. It is hilariious!