The Pantheon of Dreams

Pastoral authorization and given leeway- jokes and riddles aside -from my standpoint the hysteria of Covid-19 left many folks in depression and anxiety. The most susceptible are those who are borderline dementia and other various mental health conditions. My expertise from studies as a Faith Therapist are more for stories to convey truth as to map the brain and using biblical profiling models to provide answers and methods dealing with stressful triggers and emotional regulation. The signs I look out for were more concerns for pathological neural stimuli resulting in PTSD and Mania -those were my concerns. There are countless biblical models that I search for: Sarah “the good girl complex,” Abigail, “the rescue savior god complex,” Lot “estrangement to unabashed same sex attraction,” and Mary Madelyn, “the unclean to clean developmental/sanctification processes,” and so on and so forth. My line of work is taxing to say the least: I’ve seen many people, each with their own complex situations, embarrassments, and unhealthy habits, come to faith in Christ and have personal relationships where things are difficult to explain without confidentiality. All I can advise is, set up good personal boundaries: know the difference between: social, personal, and professional. An example? I know a pastor that had brought up his kids to go to him for two things: 1) As a kid to their father 2) As a person to their Pastor for guidance. Not defining expectations, or guidelines toward future progress only robs a person from the experience of functional livelihood. Great Expectations is a good book that illustrates false expectations and were that could lead to. I've done Children, youth and Adult ministry, so I've paid attention to everything within my resources and tried to bridge a gap using small group settings online, utilizing a formatted small group curriculum I utilize in personal development. Now, A Dame to Kill For was a letdown to say the least. John Keat's Poem illustrates that as I mention in Nehomanna Podcast #1 on Youtube.

Obviously, the first movie is way better. Now, for how the brain is wired, please feel free to utilize the resources I provided to the public on the website. Just go to blog and you'll find the rudimentary information you'll need. Those will help you along the way. A word of advice: Don't do anything that'll violate your conscience. Save the girl. Cognitenance. Robin Hood of Locksley and Miriam is a good character based literary analysis of the story of Cupid and psyche, the story of love and the soul, told by the Latin writer, Apuleius. A story of “dark secrets of love, betrayal, and unbreakable bonds” as told in the Legends of the Fall, and the well known book saga, Twilight, are such analogies, motifs, and paradigms of cognitive biases in regard to irrationalities and dissonance. Men in black is to represent the brain’s abnormalities of the brain’s central nervous system (the parasite becoming the cockroach man and the agents tracking it down = self awareness of your sinful tendencies).

Example, My pet peeve is the driving force behind cultural Marxism and its victim mentality based manipulative tactics. Now growing up, I was always a mature kid, well over the average child’s mentality. At age 3, I was assisting as a teacher’s assistant for special needs kids – I might still have my honorary badge. So what my brain registers as “childish,” the manipulative tactics, I naturally get upset and the result is my old friend, “anger management issues.” Being self aware has led me to come to terms with my own sinful depravity and need of other influences in my own life. As a faith therapist I advise the best productive form of counseling is peer counseling. For more complex, self hazardous, and serious – maybe embarrassing - issues, please seek professional help.

Now the sea shanty, Haul away Joe, is a retelling of that as well. "Well I had an Irish girl that was fat and lazy" is to represent unrequited, lazy, failed planning (visions), dreams and unrealistic expectations. "Now I have a Bristol girl" is a renewed vision - "Bristol" means to bridge the gaps. Dreams and realistic expectations with good standards that bridge the failed attempt, towards realizing the result you wish met, is nothing short than functional living. Wisdom is winning. You are either learning something, or you’re achieving. From what I found is that working those things out is the best thing you can probably achieve, if not ever anything else! Then the next question I’d like to ask is reflective: take some time to think this through. You’re familiar with short essay questions? Format your answer with this in mind: 1) What kind of person do you want to be? 2) What kind of person are you now? 3) What event in your life, or rite of passage, have you completed that makes you passionate? In other words, when is the time you found yourself?

I’ll go first: 1) I want to be a father, a great husband, an intellectual giant in this 21st century, a “world class” caliber coach, a leading therapeutic pioneer, and a philanthropist 2) right now I’m getting my qualifications, though opportunity isn’t the best for my line of work. It’s difficult though my cognitenance is solid. 3) My football accident has the biggest influence in my life - I personally didn’t have the means to go through therapy and that has guided me to search for traditional medicine + and other therapeutic means. In college I joined the Corp of Cadets at Texas A&M University where I learned how to time manage my time better - that guided my desire to be organized and manage my time and energy better. Going to university for ocean engineering brought a type of awareness toward work ethic and sustainability and visionary leadership, which is never a popular pursuit. Just made sense: Passionate about therapy, leadership, visionary thinking, and sustainability. Finally, I return home and had the opportunity to be a pastor for a while at a local church - they needed an operations pastor and I was a reliable pick. Learned management and further solidified my leadership philosophy - learned how to in a smaller skill from being in charge of the band’s drum line - but I learned a servitude type of leadership. All these factors have led me to my destination now. One of my main concerns is linking generational gaps. Now I personally love war movies and other romanticized action tale of heroism, such as “The reign of Fire,” I love obstacle courses, I love the fitlife. I love coaching! I want to be a dad that isn't estranged to his kid. These are few of the variables I go in with intentional living! WITH THAT LOGIC, I've studied developmental psychology. Stories of heroism are great defining identifiers of the human relation to the world around him. What are your personal tales of heroism? What are good influences in your life that you can pass on to your child? How will your legacy, your line, play out?