I made three videos to keep my mind off being Sued By Armstrong Steel! Click on the photo. Sometimes WordPress embeds the video and sometimes it doesn’t, sigh.
This the story I wrote in 2020 for June’s Journey’s Halloween Contest. I was one of the winners!
Pat Brook is a Facebook friend and fellow creator. She doesn’t have a YouTube Channel so I asked her if I could share her work and she said “please do”!
On July 1, 2024, I dreamt I was being given a tour of a temple complex. I looked over to the left and blurted out OMG Lord Narasimha! All I saw was a giant lion’s head, the body was behind some temples. It appeared to me that he was giving a talk to a group I could not see who were much smaller and possibly down a hill. On July 9, I was asked to take over as administrator of the PRIVATE Armstrong Steel Buildings Victims Facebook Group. On July 30, Armstrong Steel’s General Counsel Alexander Lincoln Wright sent me an email with a demand letter. I replied I had no way to make any payments, especially since the contract was null and void because the sales rep lied about what I was supposed to be getting. On August 8, 2024 Armstrong Steel sued me and forced me into arbitration.
Discussion groups about dreams about Lord Narasimha (Sanskrit: नरसिंह, lit. ‘man-lion’, IAST: Narasiṃha, or Sanskrit: नृसिंह, IAST: Nṛsiṃha) all state that it is very rare to dream about him. It’s very auspicious, but it depends on the dream as to what it all means. My friend Amandeep Singh is a TV star, model, musician, and a wizard! He is also an expert in dream interpretation. Amandeep gave me a practice to do. I sent for the lamp oils, ordered a puja lamp and wicks, and did a week or less worth of prayers when Armstrong Steel sued me and I misplaced the wicks.
I have felt guilty ever since, but with so much stress and friends needing a place to stay so I had to give up the room I was using for pujas, I had hoped I could get back to practicing.
Well, last month, I discovered Netflix was airing Mahavatar Narsimha!
There are clips on Netflix’s India’s YouTube Channel. Click on the photo to watch a trailer. The film is OUTSTANDING! To understand it, you do need to learn about what the Puranas call asuras. In the series Vignaharta Ganesh the asuras are portrayed by human actors with fierce makeup or in some cases by CGI. Asuras are translated as demons because they are usually evil. Not always but usually. Animated versions of what anthropologists and folklorists call “myths” are able to depict beings which no actor can ever achieve.
A few people who commented complained about having to read subtitles and wanted the film dubbed. I HATE dubbed films and avoid them. The actors who are the voices for this series have a range that I feel cannot be matched. Their voices perfectly match the characters. The facial expressions range from rage to pure incarnate love struck my heart in ways I cannot describe. Click and watch and see if you agree.
I took the scenes and inserted explanations for those who have never had an interest in the Hindu pantheon. The film starts off with Vishnu’s avatar Varāha (Sanskrit: वराह, , “boar“) emerging from one of Lord Brahma’s nostrils as a sneeze. The cosmic ocean is illustrated perfectly and you will see how Lord Varāha has to dig down into the rock to rescue Prithvi also called Bhumi, the goddess who IS the planet earth. If you find this all very confusing, delve into comparative religion. The belief that everything is sentient no matter how small nor how large is almost universal.
The longer version is on Rumble.
https://rumble.com/v70khxk-2025-film-mahavatar-narsimha-movie-review-and-commentary.html
With the death of Charlie Kirk, we are seeing people behaving like demons screaming hysterically on TikTok hurling insults and death threats. Free speech is being attacked in Great Britain and Europe and it’s non-existent in mainland China. People are behaving in ways that shock even the most cynical and/or apathetic.
In the ancient myths there is a battle between Good and Evil. We see battlefields populated with angels and demons in western art. Sun Wukong had to be subdued by Buddha and the Bodhissatva Quan Yin (spelled Kwan Yin, Guān yīn, Guān yǐn, Guān yìn, Guàn yīn, Guanyin, Kuan Yin, Kuǎn yǐn) depending on which language you’re translating. But once converted to Buddhism, Sun Wukong battled demons/monsters who could shape shift into humans having once been spiders, bulls, tigers, a snow leopard, serpents, a yellow-throated marten, a skeleton/zombie, nine-tailed foxes, a lion, sea dragons, a GOLDFISH!, a turtle, scorpions, a macaque, a vulture, a rat, a rabbit, and creatures that we can’t quite describe.
Not all battles between beings we think of as good and beings we think of as evil are that cut and dry, but it seems from all folklore, there is a definite battle for the human mind and psyche.
What’s more telling is that the ones we label as demons are always demanding. Most do not obtain absolute TEMPORAL power like Hiranyakashipu did but all seems to demand that we “worship” them or agree with them or comply with them. Hiranyakashipu wanted to eradicate all of Vishnu’s devotees and demand total worship of himself as all powerful. When his own son would not comply, he ordered the five year old to be executed. After several attempts at trying to kill Prahlad, he finally vowed to behead his own son taunting Vishnu to try and stop him. The ending is very, very, graphically gory.
BUT there is a scene near the end of the film that, I hope, will trigger a primal memory in the viewer. The absolute selfless love and devotion between a human devotee and his/her creator.
I have uploaded the film with commentary to Rumble and short clips to YouTube. YouTube SHOULD stop blocking uploads used as part of film reviews. Alas, their algorithm and the fact that you cannot contact a human makes it very difficult to share derivative works.
I HIGHLY recommend this film. I trust that devote Christians will find the scene between Prahlad and Lord Vishnu inspirational. It’s the closest depiction of Theosis I have found. If you do not know what Theosis is, I will blog about the Eastern Orthodox and what the Roman Catholic hagiographies call “divine union”. What Prahlad experienced, however, was permanent and not a fleeting vision.
FURTHER READING:
I thought I had more or less finished this post back on September 27 and was just polishing up the videos when I discovered more information than I could process. It’s the Dark Moon – the day before the New Moon in Libra (October 21, 2025). I need to post this as it is important during Libra season to be cognizant of your relationships with members of your household, family, etc. but also your relationship with the divine. And with what I have learned about Lord Narasimha, I really need to spend time with him each day!
The giant head that appeared to be teaching someone or a group from my dream could be this version! I saw Lord Narasimha’s full profile with him facing the left similar to this but his head was huge and up nar the top of the temple in my dream. And Lord Narasimha was as real as our waking state experiences “reaI”. I was not seeing a painting or sculpture I saw real fur and teeth and a mane and he was speaking.
I had no idea there are names for each form! I also did not know how revered HE is in Nepal!
https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kwan-yin
https://iskcondesiretree.com/profiles/blogs/prahladpuri-temple-multan
https://mantrayoga.blogspot.com/2019/11/narasimha-worship-to-overcome-fear.html
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If you can manage to save up the money and purchase Benebel Wen’s Spirit Keeper Deck do so. When I still thought I had money to spend on non-essentials, I got on a waiting list and bought it. The deck scares the crap out of me.
Today is the beginning yet again of some really wild astrological alignments leading up to a lunar eclipse on September 7. People are reporting that things feel ODD – the spirit world is unusually quiet or that the night sky is unusually dark despite the fact it’s not the new moon.
So I got the deck out and did a reading. The first thing Benebel suggests is shuffling the deck and asking who is “there” to assist with the reading. Buy her books. She explains all that.
So I did. And sure enough I got one of the cards that shows up OFTEN. OFTEN! VERY OFTEN
I got sued by Armstrong Steel in Colorado and you can read all about that nightmare on my Substack site. https://armstrongsteelsuedme.substack.com/. Seeing Baphomet, I felt that awful realization that this deck has an uncanny ability to be spot on almost all the time.
“represented by the serpent with the head of an ox, goat or dog, in ancient theogonies. It is the dual serpent of the caduceus . . . the Goat of the Sabbath and the Baphomet of the Templars . . . the Typhon of the Egyptians; it is the Hyle of the Gnostics.” is not for someone with week knees.
The Demon is “that blind force which souls must overcome if they would be freed from the chains of earth; for, unless their will can detach from this fatal attraction, they will be absorbed in the current by the force which produced them [i.e., what Eliphas Levi calls the Great Magical Agent].
Benebel writes “
You know you are advanced in your progress when you encounter adversarial forces and antagonism. When The Demon comes, it’s time to dig in your heels, harden that resolve, and fight your way through. You must confront the Demon and not hide from it. If you try to run away, the direction you’ll be running is backward. What you really want is on the other side of this Demon.
To fully possess your rightful power, you must first know how it feels to be disempowered. You know you’ve begun the final prong of your spiritual journey when you’re thrust into a battle with the Typhon (son of Gaia and Tartarus), the serpent who challenged Zeus.
The Demon can also be appearing to warn you that someone is lying to you or concealing important information from you. You don’t have all the facts, so proceed with caution.
GGGREAT. So I need to be beat down untilI can rise up and defeat Armstrong Steel! No wonder no one else wanted to take on this mission.
The next card – what is going to happen was
I have lost count how many times this card has shown up in the past two years! The very fact that Hypatia was one of my heroes since junior high and I have been obsessed with the Library of Alexandria and the Muses just bites when this card appears over and over.
The Captor. Eight of Swords: You are feeling bound by the Threads of Fate. You’re being pulled in so many oppositional directions that now you cannot move in any direction at all. The themes here are having to
confront the evils of oppression,
aggressions of those in a superior position to hurt those who are helpless and ,
feelings of isolation,
but also, having to learn how to overcome one’s own victim mentality.
You see yourself as the captive, but that you are not; you, my dear, are the captor. This is a first-person view of the situation. What have we been doing to falsely imprison logic, reason, free speech, higher ideals, morality, ethics, and the flourishing of the humanities? The setting is Hellenized Alexandria. You are seeing the Great Library of Alexandria; adjacent to it, the Musaeum, or research institution dedicated to the Muses.
The woman pictured here is Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonic philosopher, teacher, inventor, political advisor, and mathematician. The mob persecutes her because she reminds them of the Light, of the Reason and Truth that they are not yet capable of. When the Eight of Swords comes up, take heart knowing this will be the final outcome: degeneres animos timor arguit—fear betrays ignoble souls.
The next was the Hallowed Flame
Hallowed Flame. Ace of Scepters: A switch inside you has turned on your creativity, productivity, and ingenuity. Fire is alchemizing in your world, materializing as a creative project, an innovative new venture, a birth, entrepreneurship, or the spark of inspiration for a passion project. This is also a new direction in career development. This is the Awakening stage of your Path. New knowledge is attained. Divine Reason is the light in your eyes. Take the necessary beginning steps to transform a dream into your reality. Start a new journey and a new chapter of opportunities will unfold.
And the final piece of advice was the Outlaw
Key 12: The Outlaw. Examine your situation from a different perspective. Be the outlier. This is the spirit designating how we break from establishment to serve a higher purpose. This is the heretical, the eccentric, the dissident. This is the rejection of authority and rebellion against establishment. The Outlaw appears to you when the answer is to operate outside of orthodoxy and institutions. Do ut des: I give that you may give. This is also an omen of self-sacrifice. Here we see a human incarnation of Heru (Horus), whose right eye is the sun and left eye the moon. Coram Deo: you are in the presence of God. Across the skies is Psalm 102 (KJV 103) from the Latin Vulgate. The butterfly has just emerged from its chrysalis, resting its wings before it takes flight—an omen revealing the influence of Psyche, goddess of the soul, yearning, and personifying the breath of life. When The Outlaw appears, it prophesies that the challenger will beat the incumbent.
Well, my favorite characters at the moment are Wednesday Addams and Lidia Poët. And Horus hangs on my wall. Bought a papyrus back in the 70s and he’s been with me ever since.
Pray for me I’m fighting Armstrong Steel and trying to appeal the court which confirmed the award of arbitration without looking at all the fraud. The Anti-SLAPP as far as I know at this moment in time is still under consideration in 2025CV31315.
I am representing myself because I cannot afford an attorney and no Legal Aid can’t help at all.
And my Go Fund Me page hasn’t gotten any donations so I’m on my own.
https://www.gofundme.com/manage/armstrong-steel-sued-me-need-an-attorney-to-fight-back
In this history of court filings, I cannot find any cases similar to mine at all. OUTLIER – Oh that describes me alright!
Netlfix is airing Groenlandia‘s “The Law Accorinding to Lidia Poët” and it’s outstanding.
Lidia Poët’s life is a must read, although Susanna Menis in her essay” The untold story of the first Italian-Turinese female lawyer: Netflix’s The Law According to Lidia Poet“ disagrees. If you love to read footnotes and track down primary sources, Ms. Menis links to some outstanding research including a doctoral dissertation.
I find the acting to be so intense you get sucked into each scene. I don’t like graphic sex scenes and there are a few. There’s not much left to the imagination at the morgue either. The costumes are gorgeous. There are some intense scenes of drug use which are very graphic and disturbing.
The Duke’s ball rivaled any historical drama depicting an aristocratic waltzing.
What I find inspiring is that Lidia Poët is able to argue before the court and not lose her composure. Having been sued by Armstrong Steel and clamming up during the American Arbitration Association’s Evidentiary Hearing held on February 4, 2025, I wish I had strengthened my throat chakra beforehand.
But what is most impressive is a scene in which Lidia is drapped in this gorgeous deep purple suit riding a bicycle. Netflix has enhanced its Digital Rights Management (DRM) and copyright protection so you can’t record even so much as a clip nor a screenshot. However, someone managed to post on YouTube so I was able to make a 16 second clip from a clip to focus on the suit! Oh, I want this skirt suit!
Besides the color, notice her belt and how she has tiny bags hanging from it. It’s like Steampunk only it’s not. The story begins in 1883. Costume designer Stefano Ciammitti is a genius. I wish he’d make clothes for those of us who wish to wear real linen and dress like this! Women’s clothes today make us look like zombies in comparison. Hell, young people even buy denim jean’s that already have the knees slashed out!
But what if the color purple was picked because Hekate was letting us know that Lidia is an icon in the realm of liminal space and time!
“Liminal is from the Latin word ‘limen’, which means threshold. A liminal space is the time between ‘what was’ and ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a time of waiting and not knowing the future. Richard Rohr describes this space as, “where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown. There alone is our old world left behind, while we are not yet sure of the new existence. That’s a good space where genuine newness can begin.” Most people feel completely overwhelmed and confused when going through a major life change. They feel raw, vulnerable and uncertain. And most of us, if we’re honest, will take just about any answer to get out of the discomfort that comes with a liminal space”
Does that not perfectly describe Ms. Lidia’s effect on everyone in the film?
READING LIST
https://www.inaliminalspace.org/about-us/what-is-a-liminal-space
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field
somewhere and don't notice it". excerpt from Alice Walker's, The Color Purple (Dialogue between Shug Avery and Celie, Pages 194-196)
My mother was obsessed with African violets which she kept in the bay window in the house we lived in until she developed Alzheimer’s they died.
My favorite color has been purple since I was a toddler. My late aunt Dot’s favorite color was purple. We loved to color dark purple Easter eggs. I often wear purple. I love lavender. I have several items I bought over the years that I wanted because they were purple. What I If did not know until the other day is that PURPLE is Hecate’s favorite color!
Amandeep Singh sent me an image to try to work on, but I didn’t have the right software. It’s one he uses for meditation.
Google Violet Flame Meditation and you will find more videos than you can watch in a day.
I wore Joshua P. Warren’s purple pendant based on research by Nikola Tesla to Berlin to Wooga’s studios.
Wooga’s logo is PURPLE!
One of my favorite gifts they gave me in Berlin is this logo on a keychain I hang now from my crossfit bag.
So now that I got all that out of the way, I was scrolling through TikTok and this video started to play. My jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe it. Watch this video. This is one of those WOW “THEY DO EXIST” moments. Everyone seems to be encountering Hecate in one or another but to MEET her in person, watch the video. There is a lot to unpack.
Then PLEASE comment!
https://www.tiktok.com/@unclebirch/video/7534824181620411679?_r=1&_t=ZP-8zKKjrGKzTa
Uncle Birch’s sacred grove store link doesn’t work and most of his videos seem to be about politics. This was the only one I could find about Hecate.
Sorry if you read this, I was writing to Uncle Birch and Delta Burke popped into mind. OMG!
DELTA BURKE in Designing Women wore PURPLE often! In trying to picture Hecate in that witch’s shop, an older version, possibly plumper Delta Burke!
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