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A GREAT WRITER and a VERY HUMBLE adept
My friend in Florida just sent me the link to his very first blog post. This is like reading an encyclopedia and I love to start on the first page. Hell I read the front matter in old books!
Click on the screen shot and sit back and read for days and days and days. I promise you will learn more information and be entertained in the process than must about anything else you can find on all things magical. I just checked my stats and I have had 9,921 “hits” since I started. And I have just shy of 189,000 views on YouTube. But I tend to be all over the place.
Good luck everyone, WINTER is coming in the north and it’s time to study and learn late into the night.

NAGAS – no not Snakes on a Plane but maybe
Ever have one of those days where you can’t find a video you watched and you’ve got a bombardment of dots connecting in your head and you waste an hour or more searching for what you swore you saw or read and finally it all comes together?
That was yesterday.
Two years ago today the Notorious Doc was found dead in Las Vegas and my life went from living in fear of being murdered to a whirlwind of no one will believe it “stuff”. One of which was befriending a fellow who is now a rising TV star who is also a member of an ANCIENT naga cult in Jalandhar, India.
Not long before I got to know Amandeep, I started blogging about nagas and dragons and extracting film clips for YouTube. So this may sound like I’m about to lay out a mish mash of nonsense but that’s okay.
When I was little I used to sit in class in elementary school and marvel at the moles on my wrists that were spaced in twos just the right distance to appear as if they were scares from snake bites. My mother was so terrified of snakes that in a dream where she saw one, she fell out of bed and bit the floor and lost a tooth. No such thing as a coincidence she was born in February 1917 in the YEAR OF THE SNAKE.
YEARS ago I watched a very disturbing movie. So disturbing there is one scene has haunted me ever since. The movie aired in 1973 and I swore it stared Marc Singer who was the star in the 1984 tv series V, but it was Dirk Benedict who ended up as the super hot Lieutenant Starbuck on Battlestar Galatica – so much for accuracy of my memory of actors. Anyway the character Dirk plays is turned into a king cobra and I found it terrifying. Click on the photo and read up on the film. The premise reading it now in 2023 is EVER scarier than I remembered.

And take note the 1983 tv series V which was remade in 2009 is about a race of snakes wearing human skin and contact lenses arriving at Earth in a fleet of ships in order to eat all the humans and take over. But THAT is not the intent of real nagas. So why did Hollywood vilify them?

Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin is one minute drop dead gorgeous in a business suit as Anna and the next minute a cold-blooded pun intended monster. A snake not unlike the myth of Satan as a snake in the Garden of Eden.
BUT the post Fall of the Roman Empire Western fear of snakes stems from something very different than snakes in ancient times and this is where my friend in Florida comes in with his post from the other day.

My Santero friend’s blog post, I promise, will OPEN up a lot of portals in your mind. First off get used to the idea of someone who practices the ancient Hellenistic rituals and who reveres the Greek pantheon. I fell in love with Apollo and became a devotee when I was 16 and thought I was the only one on the planet but I wasn’t and I’m not. Far from it.
So this image is discussed at length. Pay attention to the perfect ouroboro the wax formed after the ritual of uncrossing – invoking Zeus Meilichios to help a recently deceased friend pass over left on the table. The ancient Greeks used to ask for assistance from Zeus in his snake form.

Alas, there’s no index to my friend’s posts but he does use categories just not on a side bar. I tried to find his first post using the search feature on his page but never got far enough back in time. He’s prolific and if you click on this screen shot he will. accept Cash App to write about topics of an esoteric nature. He introduced me to Virginia who is the author of Neptune’s Dolphins and like Benebel Wen these two are OUTSTANDING writers with vast amounts of knowledge and occult wisdom.
The blog showing Zeus as a giant king cobra triggered the memory of a first hand account of meeting a Naga written by Sri M in his 2011 published autobiography. This excerpt which blows a lot of minds only gets better because Sri M learned how travel to the planet of Nagas in his subtle body.

You can watch Sri M being interviewed and talking about this day in his youth or you can watch a “re-enactment”
Or better yet watch Sri M tell his story on BeerBiceps which is my favorite because Ranveer Allahbadia also interviews Praveen Mohan about Nagas.
And if my brain is able to dig up my memory of corresponding with a lady in the Netherlands who swears up and down she is not JUST a reincarnated dragon but a human who remembers being a dragon and who can at least shape shift her eyes into dragon slits I’ll update this.
And if my friend Brent is ever able to find or draw or sketch my late friend’s head when I stepped out to take a phone call from the now late Notorious Doc while we were eating hamburgers at Muleys in Spring Creek, then this blog post will have an ending. Brent said that the late Martin Alexander Clifton, V had a bad coughing fit the minute I stepped outside to tale the call and while coughing Mart’s entire head and I think maybe his neck suddenly turned into the ugliest crocodile Reptilian sci fi REAL glaring oozing hate face Brent had ever seen in a movie or documentary or book or in a nightmare. And then in a blnk Mart returned to “normal”.
Mart died on September 11, 2018 and to my knowledge never shifted in front of anyone except that one time. I never suspected it. I did know we BOTH loved dragons. Mart watched every movie and documentary and read every book on dragons that he could get his hands on. He had dragon sculptures and posters. I just never thought of him as an actual dragon.
But then again, I didn’t know I would one day be writing a book about my husband who turned out to be a demon either.
Numerology and a Roman Goddess
When I bought 4.3 acres of heavily wooded land in Crossville, Tennessee in April 2023 it did not have what’s called a 911 address. House lots used to have a mailbox and hence a mailing address. Now with ambulance services and the need for law enforcement and fire fighters to respond to an emergency, house lots are assigned a 911 address. Mine was assigned after I had the lot partially cleared and a gravel pad put down for the 911 address technician to pull in off the road in July.
I usually always thought in numerology that you add the numbers.
3 + 3 + 9 + 6 = 21
2 + 1 = 3
So my house, It thought would be 3 = a lucky number for a writer and for anyone who wants to be creative which is one reason why I bought the land. I want to go all out and spread my crafts and art projects out everywhere.
https://www.magicbricks.com/blog/house-number-3-in-numerology/130357.html
But I never thought until a few moments ago to look up. the entire number.
https://www.ifate.com/number-meanings/number-3396-meaning.html
The numerological meaning of 3396
Looking from a numerological perspective, the energy represented by the 4-digit number 3396 is a notably positive energy. It resonates with well-defined patterns of creative power and marked vibrations of enthusiasm. It’s also regarded as a number of jubliance and fun. It spreads laughs, positivity and thrills.
The number 3396 also has a very good-natured energy as well”.
I’m not going to dwell (pun intended) on the negative aspects of 3396.
What drove me to write today was a post by

When I bought the land I didn’t look up the name of the road! Looking back in my memory I think I figured it was just a place name. I worked briefly as a librarian in a college in south Jersey located in a rural town named Pomona. I had heard about Pomona, California.
What I did NOT know was Pomona was a ROMAN GODDESS whose feast day was yesterday, November 1st and that she did not have a Greek counterpart, hence why I probably had not heard about her.

“Pomona: the muse of many
Her paradisiacal garden and the temptation of her virginal beauty made her a subject of fascination among European sculptors and painters from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Rubens, Bloemaert, Goltzius, Francesco Melzi and Rosetti all depicted the maiden in her garden, shunning her most persistent suitor, Vertumnus. This is Monna Pomona Monna Pomona 1864 painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 and can be seen in the Tate Britain, London.
Writers have written her into plays, poems and novels, even inspiring a character in Harry Potter. Interpretations differ from artist to artist but she is always synonymous with rich, fantastical landscapes and a voluptuous sensuality”.
I must have been out to lunch for decades! HOW could I not match up the first name of my favorite Hogwarts’ teacher with my street name????

I haven’t worn perfume in decades, but maybe once I get to POMONA road, I just might seek out a store and at least sniff this!

I just have to deal first with getting a water tap, getting my deposit back from Armstrong Steel because the land will not support a red iron (steel) structure of ANY kind not even a garage, and put my house on the market, sell it, and move. Hopefully, the Goddess Pomona will smile at my efforts and tell Mars to postpone World War III at least until I can have a greenhouse erected and the rose garden I always wanted planted!
A Yurt in the Woods on the Cumberland Plateau
When I bought 4.3 acres of heavily wooded land across from a mom and pop gas station that sells the best broasted chicken in Cumberland County, Tennessee, I knew the land dipped down from the road. BUT my realtor thought the middle was level enough for a barndominium. Once it was cleared, however, we discovered it would need 78 loads of dirt for a 30 x 60 steel building, an RV pad, and a garage. Plus it would need 5 loads of gravel.
Another contractor went out and said that the land was NOT conducive for a barndomiinium much less a steel one – too steep, the cleared area wasn’t large enough and to widen it to the east wasn’t feasible because that was the area marked off by the state environmental engineer for a secondary drainage/leech field for the septic. To widen it to the west won’t work because there is a gully there. Cumberland County does not have a sewer system except in the downtown areas and my land is “out in the country” a term I learned in San Benito, Texas and here in Spring Creek. TOWN versus – well I don’t know that’s pretty far out there (wait what? five miles is far???
So, I got referred to a family owned business that builds sheds, small barns, and cottages and that’s how I learned about shed homes. Hours and hours of research and doing cost estimates and I still could not find anything that could be built quickly so I could drive 2,100 miles from Nevada to Tennessee with three dogs of my own, three cats of my own, and Ännie’s two dogs and have a place to stay with a bathroom, a catio with an insulated cat house, and two dog exercise areas with insulated dog houses. Bandit plays well with my dogs for awhile, but he’s been known to “go off” on a playmate especially if another dog gets too close to his mom. Oz is food aggressive but plays well – you just can’t feed her anywhere near another dog.
Ännie is coming with me to live for up to a year while I write her biography and she helps me set up the property and teach me how to live off grid in the event the nationwide grid goes down. We also plan on going ghost hunting on Bimini and in the surrounding areas. And I said that with a straight face. I want to get the high speed camera Joshua P. Warren recommends, and go exploring while I still can walk – with a cane but I can walk.
When I started this project of moving, so I could get out of my mortgage and downsize and prepare for my last 15 – 20 years – something you MUST do when you get close to age 70, Russia and Ukraine were at war. Yesterday, Israel was attacked and this morning they declared war. The vision I had in 1972 of the United States ceasing to exist by 2025 is no longer some 17 year old’s flash in the pan “vision of the future”. And so I’ve decided on a yurt.
Crossville is much cooler than the rest of Tennessee. It gets humid, but not as bad as Knoxville nor Nashville and nothing compared with Memphis. They do get snow – up to a foot, but it usually melts. They get a lot of rain. A LOT. And they get E1 tornados. Everyone who advised me on this or that failed to understand windstorm certification requirements. Plus, there is a private restriction on my land – no modular and no mobile homes. I also can’t have a pig farm.

Freedom Yurt Cabins are wooden structures – not fabric – and they are permanent – not portable. The best part is they are currently certified up to115 mph but they are working on getting them up to 155 mph which would be absolutely marvelous. And yurts are aerodynamic anyway.
Unlike Armstrong Steel who conned me into signing a contract with them, Trust Pilot has wonderful reviews of Freedom Yurt as a company. And I found one review from someone who lives in his yurt year round which is what I plan on doing.
What I hope to do is put my house on the market, hopefully FOR SALE BY OWNER, with my friend Brent using his new drone to film the cul de sac, fly over the house and back again and then fly around in a circle, and move the minute the house is out of the contingency period. By Spring I’ll have had all the carpet replaced with peel and stick vinyl flooring that looks like wood, and hopefully, I’ll have sold the African sculptures and Native American art and artifacts. I want to switch gears and stick to Smokey Mountain and woodland art.
I’ve reserved a Penske cargo van to transport the cats and my dogs, and Ännie can drive my Ranger with her two dogs and I’ll have a moving van move the rest. Everything can do into storage and we can board the dogs and cats for a week while a yurt is being erected and an attached shed is built for a bathroom.
This is EXACTLY what I want only in blue and tan like the one nestled in the aspens and pine trees.


My land, I think, can easily be graded so I can have a series of yurts, possibly connected to one another. I’m assuming I’ll need French drains and a series of retaining walls which are recommended anyway by Vastu experts when there is a downward slope from the road.
Vastu is similar to feng shui. There are many vastu engineer consultants now along with feng shui experts – Moni Castenda lives in Tennessee but she does not do house calls.
https://www.vastutruth.com/vastu-tips-directional-slope-topography-of-properties
My idea, if the land will cooperate and because land and trees and rocks and earth are all energy like everything else, I do mean IF IT will cooperate, is to imitate what’s called “Vernacular Architecture” a “style that is designed based on local needs, availability of construction materials and reflecting local. traditions. At least originally, vernacular architecture did not use formally schooled architects, but relied on the design skills and tradition of local builders”. Specifically, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
I have fantasized about having a small fortune some day so I could build covered walkways like I walked through in the Summer Palace in Beijing in 1987 which went all the way around a lake. Years ago I watched Japanese tv series where the main characters lived in a traditional house with a courtyard and all the rooms opened into the courtyard. One. room was for cooking, another was a bedroom – there were several – another a Shinto shrine, and there was a sitting room. I was hooked. If can have one yurt as a bedroom with a guest room in a loft with an extension into a traditional stick built “shed” which will house the bathroom, then I could have another as a kitchen with a huge pantry behind a wooden screen or with doors, and a dining area, another would be for my 1904 Knabe grand piano so the cats can no longer damage it and I can play it, with my living room furniture, another for a library, craft room, office, and finally a small one for a “yoga” meditation room for the Tibetan thangkas where I can escape the dogs and cats and immerse myself in spiritual pursuits. It’s next to impossible doing that now with a cat hurling and a dog wanting to go out.


If I could have covered walkways or breezeways built between each yurt, then ths layout might work:

No more sweating about the slope. Click on each photo for the full article plus descriptions and other photos.

I have the platt survey when the land was registered as a two-lot subdivision, and the survey I just paid for. I have the septic permit and I paid for the water tap on July 25. There is a four to six month waiting list. I sent a formal request to Armstrong to refund my non-refundable deposit. There is a class action lawsuit against them that was sent to arbitration but that’s because no one compiled all the complaints into one color-coded dabase showing a pattern. I have. That battle is yet to be won, but I’m certain I will win.
My 2013 Ford Escape decided to not want to be driven anymore so it got towed to my friend’s monastery where it waits for me to get it fixed. Here is is on July 31, 2023 parked in the gravel. Thanks to Brian, I got to hear first just how steep the land is. Others then went out and said the same thing.

BUT that does NOT mean I cannot erect yurts and live in the woods.
The land is covered in white oak, red oak, maple, one chestnut unless it got cut down, and a lot A LOT of hickory. The wood pile is at the back where I’m told there’s a bluff that slopes down to a 100 acre farm. There’s a church next door and my property wraps behind the church lot and the farm wraps around both properties. A stream ends a few hundred yards west of the church. I wanted enough land so I would not have to deal with neighbors but I didn’t want to live so far out that there was NO ONE around.

The septic drain field aka leech field is apparently on the slope behind those logs. Not sure, but the waste will literally go over the edge once a toilet is up and in use.

I just have to make sure the septic tank is lower than the “BATHHOUSE” OMG I never thought I’d have a bathhouse. Better than an outhouse though.

Further Advice
https://chiceco-yurtliving.blogspot.com/2013/07/yurts-feng-shui.html

A SPECIAL THANKS to Ännie Schade who has been trying to get me to think YURT for months and to Adam Leech and his father of Limitless Construction who wrote an email I forwarded to Armstrong Steel letting them know my land CANNOT support a steel structure of ANY kind no matter how small.
