If you read the last blog post and clicked on Ced Yong’s outstanding article, then you are prepped so to speak to read further.

In the 1987 Cult Classic “A Chinese Ghost Story” (倩女幽魂) a haplass Tax Collector falls in love with a ghost. He is helped by a Daoist/Taoist monk who uses talismen and the Buddhist Heart Sutra to battle demons. The monk does not know Sanskrit but he has internalized the essence of the sutra. I watched it first on Amazon Prime but you can watch it on YouTube in segments with English subtitles.

In the film, there are a few elements that are misunderstood. They appear in a lot of Wuxia (武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ]) films. They are important for understanding the common themes between the Eastern Orthodox Twenty Aerial Toll Houses, presented in Never Die With Your Pants Around Your Ankles: The Death of Vegas’ Notorious Doc, A Prescription for Hell . The Chinese Ten Courtrooms has a Judge who presides over a court for each set of SINS. We will see something similar in a way in the Hindu realm ruled over by Lord Yama.

In A Chinese Ghost Story, we do not see the courtrooms. What we do see is a battle between the living duo who have crossed into the Netherworld to rescue the soul of the murdered young woman from a forced marriage to a demon. In the film you see the use of blood magick to create talismen, a magical sword (My guess this is the Sword of Manjushri but that is MY guess), and the mantra which is nothing more than the title of the sutra (pretty funny if you like Buddhist humor).

The subtitles in the Amazon Prime version use the transliteration (Paó-yen Pao-Io-mi) for the mantra the monk teaches the Tax Collector. The monk has no idea what it means. It is the literally the cover title of the sutra – Prajñāpāramitā!

Click on the Sutra to watch a short Playlist to see the scenes play out.

This film has a long backstory. A MUST read is a long critique by the OUTSTANDING film critic, Roderick Heath. He doesn’t mention discuss the significance of the sutra nor the Daoist talismen but the rest is flawless writing!

The backstory and an excellent history of such films was written in A Weird History by Gene Ching.

https://sanaakosirickylee.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/the-diamond-of-perfect-wisdom-sutra-is-one-of-the-holiest-and-powerful-sutra-amulet-that-you-can-keep-a-special-recite-a-sutra-article/

The subtitles translates the monk’s instructions to the “hero” saying the Diamond Sutra defeats evil. This is odd since it’s the Heart Sutra; but I went searching to see if the Diamond Sutra is used as an amulet, voila, I found the above webpage. I can write about sutras another time. What I want to get at is the strange story the late Harry Leo Duran told me. He called me one day in a dead panic from his condo on the 22nd floor of the Ogden in the heart of downtown Vegas. He was screaming that none other than the 1,000 armed bodhisattva  Avalokiteśvara (अवलोकितेश्वर) aka Chenrezig. aka  Guanyin (觀音) had shown up out of the blue and was showing him all the suffering on the planet and next in all realms. He was hysterical. I tried to get him to listen to Guanyin’s cries and use his medical training as a physician to heal those in pain but he just kept on ranting about how awful it all was. I got disgusted.

How ironic that the physical collection of palm leaves with the Sanskrit text of the Prajna Paramita is depicted as the ultimate weapon against a 1,000 year old TREE demon! How ironic that the sutra’s first line begins with “Avalokiteśvara”. HAD Harry Leo Duran LISTENED that day, MAYBE he would not have ended up in Hell!

 GREAT WISDOM BEYOND WISDOM HEART SUTRA 

Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita, 
perceived that all five skandhas are empty and was saved from all suffering and distress. 

“Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness emptiness does not differ from form. 

That which is form is emptiness that which is emptiness form. 

The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness. 

Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness they do not appear nor disappear are not tainted nor pure do not increase nor decrease. 

Therefore in emptiness no form, no feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness; no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; 
no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind-consciousness; 
no ignorance and also no extinction of it, and so forth until 
no old age and death and also no extinction of them; 
no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path, 
no cognition, also no attainment. 

With nothing to attain the Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita and mind is no hindrance. 

Without any hindrance no fears exist. 

Far apart from every inverted view, one dwells in Nirvana. 

In the three worlds all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita and attain unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment. 

Therefore know the Prajna Paramita is the great transcendent mantra, is the great bright mantra, is the utmost mantra, is the supreme mantra which is able to relieve all suffering and is true, not false. 

So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra, proclaim the mantra that says: 

Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate! Bodhi! Svaha!” 

In searching for details about the film, I stumbled upon an “action figure”! Who knew?

I use the 1987 film to introduce the reader of the Notorious Doc‘s Journey through the Aerial Toll Houses because we can’t be ABSOLUTELY certain that he was sentenced to any of the punishments you will see depicted in the 2016 Thai series  Pitsawat. Get ready because in the next blog post, we will visit Thailand.

In the Tell All Book, Never Die With Your Pants Around Your Ankles: The Death of Vegas’ Notorious Doc – A Prescription for Hell, the Notorious Doc travels through the Twenty (20) Aerial Toll Houses.

The above is an excerpt from the 1,112 page masterpiece of scholarship on the Eastern Orthodox and early Christian church belief that when you die, angels and demons escort you through a life review. They didn’t call it that back then. As “scientists” decide to “study” Near Death Experiences, the life review MIGHT get more people’s attention.

Alicia Young, was interviewed by Raymond A. Moody Jr, Ph.D., MD. about her book,

The idea that you will be met on the other side and made to relive your entire life both through your own “eyes” and through the “eyes” and “ears” of everyone you ever met, and possibly have every thought uttered aloud is found in other religions as well. And in each case, there are WITNESSES to every thought, word, and deed! AND a price to pay.

Ced Young has a FANTASTIC article about the Chinese Gods of Hell published on January 6, 2022 sixty (60) days after Harry Leo Duran, the Notorious Doc’s soul entered the Bardo names each judge and his role. Pay Attention!

Qinguang Wang (秦广王): does not sentence punishments but instead separates the virtuous from the sinful.

Chujiang Wang (楚江王): is responsible for punishing swindlers and violent criminals.

Songdi Wang (宋帝王):  is responsible for punishing the disrespectful, the untrustworthy, and the seditious.

Wuguan Wang (五官王): is responsible for punishing tax and rent evaders, and those who were dishonest in business dealings.

Yanluo Wang (阎罗王):  is responsible for punishing those who have obstructed generosity or who have slandered the monastic community.

Biancheng Wang (卞城王): is responsible for punishing the resentful and those who were disrespectful to heaven.

Taishan Wang (泰山王):  is responsible for punishing rumormongers, those responsible for the separation of families, and alchemists who used corpses to make elixirs.

Dushi Wang (都市王): is responsible for punishing those who did not honor their parents and families.

Pingdeng Wang (平等王):  is responsible for punishing sinners who have committed the gravest crimes.

Zhuanlun Wang (转轮王): does not sentence punishments but instead, oversees reincarnation.

In my next blog post, I’ll elaborate on an excerpt from Never Die with Your Pants Around Your Ankles about the Hindu depiction of what happens to sinners on the other side. Stay tuned. If this didn’t scare you to DEATH, the next trip will!

FURTHER READING

The Fathers on Aerial Toll-Houses – Part 1

WORDPRESS is either acting up or the DEVIL really doesn’t want the links to work.

Adding links to the photos for the 3rd time, this time praying!

I NEVER let anyone take my photo. I used to be VERY VERY beautiful and VERY photogenic. Model level. Older folks gushed about how pretty I was yada yada but when you are too intense to be around, being pretty only makes it worse. Now that I’m well, SEASONED, and overweight, damn If don’t get guys, young, old, hot, not hot, women, old young, little kids, just want to get to know me.

So, I’ve decided to lose weight. A lot of weight. Regenerate and freak everyone out. I liked the old me.

I was fearless. I studied ballet, and I taught figure skating. I went horse back riding on Malcom Forbes’s estate! I had an inflatable boat and went rowing on the Cranford River – with my dad or alone. I went hiking alone. I drove all over Texas ALONE. Today, when this photo was taken, I was afraid to step over the railroad tie because the lumbar 5 operation damaged the signal for my leg to lift more than 3 inches.

BUT If I can heal people remotely, as I did today with my friend in Australia by doing a visualization and well, projecting myself to Australia for 3 minutes, then my the GODDESS, I’ll heal my spine and be awesome. So awesome, people will leave me alone in the supermarket!

4:32 a.m., Pacific Time, Monday, May 30, 2022 New Moon Spring Creek, Nevada

Problem was it was Memorial Day so the energy was all focused on remembering FALLEN HEROES. Not a good day to submit a book proposal about a dead fiend from hell!

Tuesday, May 31, 2022 2.3% Waxing Crescent Submitting Proposal to Hay House in the hopes of being awarded a $10,000 advance and a book contract.

The Hay House Writer’s Community Pathways have weekly homework to complete. I fell behind because I was working on the book and book promotion. I’m catching back up. I am doing the assignments for “Aspiring Author” and for the pathway called “Publishing Author”. The cohort I’m in has a June 5, 2022 deadline to submit a proposal. First prize is a $10,000 advance and a book contract. I really want to win.

Monday, May 2, 2022

Pathway #2 – Aspiring Author / Step 4 / Writing Prompt

What I want for my readers is to travel with the Notorious Doc through the Twenty Aerial Toll Houses and examine their own conscious as they hear first hand how the late Harry Leo Duran violated all of his oaths both professionally and spiritually.

I want the readers to take to heart the admonitions about sin and the effect it has on the soul of the sinner and on everyone who comes into contact with the sinner. The book includes passages from the Bible, the Quran, the Hadith, Hinduism, Buddhism, and literature about soul contracts. It forces the reader to travel backward in time to see a man with so much promise lie about almost everything that ever happened to him or about everything he ever did.

Some readers will want to learn what I discovered about the man they swore they knew. Others will want to be titillated by the discovery that a board certified physician with such impressive credentials could be such a despicable and depraved human being. Those that had sex with him may be shocked to learn that they were not special and that they meant nothing to him at all. Others will learn that he lied about his HIV status and that he was deliberately infecting as many men as possible.

Those who sold him designer clothes and shoes and expensive collectibles will be horrified to learn he was penniless and that he had no way to ever pay off his credit cards. Realtors who were eager to take him on tours of expensive homes will be horrified to learn that they were suckered. Realtors should always demand a pre-qualification letter before wasting their time but Harry had a way of bluffing everyone into thinking he was very wealthy.

I want my readers to be shocked, horrified, saddened, sickened, and perplexed. I want them to experience the abuse I endured and then to celebrate at the end with me as I piece my life back together, meet many of the late monster’s friends, sell off his possessions, get my piano that he destroyed repaired so I can play it again, and how I went from relative obscurity to helping set up a 501c3 non profit for the sculpture who Harry commissioned to do his portrait in scrap metal!

I want them to marvel at how I interviewed an oil painter from whom he purchased $9,100 worth of art. I want the readers to grasp that the monster left me a wealth of knowledge he had no intention of leaving me. And I want the reader to feel the power of the Divine that intervened when Harry was trying to get me to commit suicide upon his death and/or that he had planned on murdering me had he not succumbed to COVID. I was saved by a DIVINE COSMIC intervention. And I want the readers to have that point driven home into their hearts that there is a DIVINE force in this world and they need to connect to it. I did and I am alive and well and happy at last.

One of the Late Harry Leo Duran aka NOTORIOUS DOC’s favorite movies was

Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios.

If you could have seen me on the phone earlier (Pascha Sunday, April 24, 2022), you would have thought I was the lead character.  Why?  Because I was trying to tell my friend, Luann, that I had a June 5 deadline to enter the Hay House contest to win a $10,000 advance and a publishing contract.  To do so, I have to submit a cover letter and a proposal.

Not one to try to blather on from memory, I wanted to read from one or three successful proposals we, in the PRIVATE MEMBERS only community were given.  I KNEW I had downloaded them.  What I had named them, or what the original file names were, I couldn’t remember.  And, if anyone in their right mind is anything like I am, that triggered a panic attack.  DOWNLOAD FOLDER?  Nope.  The folder I created for all of the Hay House assignments? NOT SEEING IT.  Keyword PROPOSAL – nope.  OH GOD NO PLEASE!

Breathe, apologize, hang up, break into a sweat.  Breathe.  Do a keyword search on the site.  Nope.  NO NO NO!  Search the community discussion – someone must have asked this, right?

VOILA and someone answered with a link.

AH HA!  I’m not crazy – yet – well, maybe a little – more than a little.

FILE NAME   = . . . . And with that I found both files safe and sound WHERE I had saved them in the folder with the Hay House file name.  I just couldn’t see them while on the phone.

Uh, oh, but if you’re writing a memoir, one text exchange said, you have to submit the completed manuscript.

AND THAT was what I had stored in the back of my brain.  I have to finish the entire book because it’s half memoire of my life with a psychopath and half biography of a pervert narcissist board certified physician!

Keep in mind that I had to download all of the photos and text messages and Facebook Messenger screen shots to the late fiend from hell’s laptop because that is the PRIMARY source material for the book, sort through several file boxes with dumped paperwork that we found laying all over the apartment and/or the condo, and sort through 65 years worth of my late husband’s life to write the book!  And Apple’s  FINDER isn’t all that great.  I often have trouble finding what I need to file the taxes, pay bills, you know, LIFE!

When the Notorious Doc died, and I unlocked his cell phone, I realized I had a book that should become a best seller.  Page Publishing advertises on the radio all the time, so I used the contact form and got a reply.  Because my book is not like anything that has ever been written, I sent the Literary Development Agent an email introducing myself and the book and added a PDF of the first 38 pages.  The agent called and said he had submitted the draft to the review board, and they were very interested in publishing my book BUT the author has to pay all the upfront fees.  ALLEGEDLY the review board only accepts a very very small percentage of submitted manuscripts.  That said, I still couldn’t afford the up front fees.  I also had only just started.

Less than a month later Hay House offered a free Four Day Writer’s Workshop.  Free is great.  FREE gets me hooked.  Before the four days were over, I signed up for their membership to the Writer’s Community and it has been worth every penny and then some!

Within the private site, we have a Facebook like comment area where people within your Pathway can share each other’s homework assignments.  THAT is INVALUABLE.  It’s where we can promote our books before they ever get underway or while they are well underway and get lots of feedback and constructive criticism and recommendations and pats on the back.  Over on the Facebook page just for us, we can use Messenger to share files, or friend each other or do group chats.

It’s within these forums, that I’ve tried to use my years as a college librarian and college library director to share websites.  What, for example, is an AUTHOR PLATFORM?  I had no clue.  Most of us didn’t.  This webpage answers that:

I had started this website and blog thanks to Yasmin Boland in March 2021 so step one was done and I have, thanks to all of you, an international following.

I got up the courage to start a Facebook page and it took off.  I had a YouTube channel to support my blog so I read up, scanned in photos, launched PowerPoint, created a slide show and spent half a day trying to figure out how to do voice over and by the late afternoon, I uploaded my first video.  It also took off. 

From the feedback I’ve received I do NOT want to use a voice actress to read the audio version.  My voice sounds fine, although everyone said I need to get a headset mic, and some wanted subtitles.  I like to ad lib so that might take awhile.

Facebook ads bombed my timeline and I signed up for several free presentations and bought one.

 I also started posting about my book and about narcissism on Quora and met a FANTASTIC writer named Valentina Blažek.  Not done much with Instagram.  One of the people who knew my husband REALLY REALLY REALLY well wants me to get on Tik Tok.  The Notorious Doc was killing him by giving him injections of insulin.  He’s fine now and we’re beasties!  I can’t make this up!

One of the writers in the group posted that we should buy our own ISBN numbers.  To do that I found this

My biggest hurdle will be to see if Hay House finds my Tell All Book to be uplifting because like all horror movies and fairy tales, if there is a happy ending – and mine is incredible if I do say so myself, it is both cathartic and it gives victims hope.

What types of books are you in the market for?

Some of our best-selling titles are: Medical Medium Cleanse to Heal, by Anthony William; Food Babe Kitchen, by Vani Hari; The High Five Habit, by Mel Robbins; Becoming Supernatural, by Dr. Joe Dispenza, Light Seer’s Tarot, by Chris-Anne; and African Goddess Rising Oracle, by Abiola Abrams.

We are interested in a variety of subjects as long as they have a positive self-help slant to them—no negative concepts that aren’t conducive to helping/healing ourselves or our planet.

We are not accepting proposals for poetry, quotation books, or children’s books. However, all genres, including those mentioned above, are accepted for our workshop and membership contests.

Note that we publish mainly nonfiction in the areas of Self-Help, Mind-Body-Spirit, New Thought, Metaphysical, Spirituality, Psychology, Health/Wellness, Business, Finance, and Inspirational Memoirs. Subjects include social issues, food and nutrition, education, nature/the environment, alternative health/medicine, money/personal finance, entrepreneurship, tarot/oracle/affirmation card decks, religion, men’s and women’s health, spiritual growth, and fitness.

https://hayhouse.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/227066427-Manuscript-Submission-Guidelines

For further reading, click on these links below

How to Build an Author Platform: 8 Important Steps for Beginners

PS I paid for this course.  I found it quite useful and relatively inexpensive.