***THE NONVIOLENCE RESPONSE***
Good People of America…
America’s purpose has always been to ‘Go first into The Light. Pay whatever price.’ So, others can follow our lead and see that The Good Fight is always worth the price.
American democracy is a mess today and a terrible example for The World... and our Capitalist system isn’t what it used to be. The Force for Good that it needs to be.
Economic Authoritarianism has replaced capitalism in America and instead of climbing the economic ladder, Americans are being kicked in the face as they reach for the next rung. Too many sliding backwards.
Too many wasting their talent.
We are not the shining example to The World that we need to be.
But let’s be Crystal Clear this new war is NOT about Iran. It’s about Freedom v. Authoritarianism and which worldview should be allowed to prevail.
Let’s be Crystal Clear about this too: a fight like this cannot be fought and won with bullets and bombs alone. It must be fought and won with Ideas and Moral Clarity and a vision of our future together that is worth the price we ALL must pay for Freedom to once and for all prevail over Authoritarianism...
in every nation state on Earth.
MY FELLOW AMERICANS…
We have a lot of work to do. We have plenty of bombs and bullets but our Moral Authority and Our Moral Clarity and Our Moral Compass are thin and unclear and lack what we need to truly win THIS war.
And our highest ideals are NOT yet true.
Make No Mistake… this war against Authoritarianism is a fight none of us can afford to lose.
I began crafting the Save The American Union Manifesto on the day after 9/11 when I began piecing together a nuclear war of ideas against Authoritarianism as a major part of a new leap of faith and new promise to God to craft The Nonviolence Solution to Terrorism.
Today The Save The American Union Alliance is forming and now extends an invitation to you to join us, so together we can make the most of our collective Freedom and Talent and help lead Humanity to a better place.
Let's begin here:
War with Iran in some ways was inevitable.
25 years ago, if America and The World were prepared to respond to 9/11 with a MASSIVE nonviolence response we would not be at war in Iran today.
But we did not have a nonviolence response, so we waged war after war after war and proved to everyone that in Modernity endless war isn’t the solution to anything.
Today we launch our 100% turnkey nonviolence response to two and a half decades of endless war and this new war with Iran called:
The Save The American Union Alliance.
Initially, this enterprise might not look and feel like a nonviolence response to war with Iran… but the deeper you get into and better understand the comprehensive nature of this new enterprise you will see that it is exactly what we need in this moment.
This enterprise is a nonviolence nuclear war of ideas and how we harness the negative energy of 25 years of endless darkness, division, hate and war and turn it all into a new way forward for The Whole of Humanity that will in time become:
1. The Nonviolence Solution to All Forms of Extremism
2. A Way to Save The American Union and The American Dream
3. A Way to End The Global Income Inequality Crisis in 100 Years or Less
4. A Way to Redesign Modern Education for The Age of AI
5. A Tech Startup Called The Dream Feeder
6. A Powerful Philosophical Solution Called Strategic Equality
7. A Way to Create Millions and Millions of Better Citizens in America
Join Us:
***ORIGIN***
I went fishing the day after September 11th to get away from the TV, so I could clear my head and try to make sense of the darkness heading Our Way.
I was a month away from my 35th birthday and for the first time since high school I considered joining The Military.
America was going to War and I thought about all the death and destruction and about those who would sacrifice to keep US safe.
Standing on The Rocks I could see my reflection in the water and I didn't like what 9/11 had forced me to see.
As a young man I "wanted the ball" and all the responsibility that came with it. As an adult, I willingly let others carry the ball and the burden so I could have my fun in the Cape Cod sun.
As fate would have it, I celebrated July 4th 2000 by leaving a "job" to pursue an American Dream. But on 9/12 it seemed more likely than not, that my Dream was over. My business was already on shaky ground and I was losing faith.
It was clear My American Dream was about to fall to the terrorists.
So, I decided my personal response to 9/11 would be a 'First Promise to God' to see my American Dream through to the end...
no matter what the cost.
IT'S TRUE. On September 1, 2001... my struggling business went online with a first of a kind Behavioral Health Program for college students. Having learned many lessons from the dot-com bubble, the business model included a subscription fee paid by colleges.
Trying hard not to rush into things, the previous 6 months were spent convincing eleven colleges to test the idea.
But "my plan" didn't include 9/11.
Imagine for a moment being an entrepreneur, having burned through all your savings and original investments just to get to the day that "the test" could begin... and to be in possession of a one-of-a-kind product (sparse as it was at the time) dedicated to the issues of stress, depression, anger and grief.
Well, what would you do in the immediate days after 9/11?
Most of you would do what I did... give the program to as many colleges as you could, free of charge.
After all, men and women were heading to war and some of them were about to literally give all they had to give. In my mind, the absolute very least that I could do... was the very best that I could do at the time.
The choice to offer the Outreach Program free to colleges was a fateful decision. The original business proposition proposed a test to determine if a branded website could reach "at risk" students ahead of risky, violent or otherwise dangerous behavior. Including suicide.
It's not hard to see the value to the schools...
if it worked.
Reaching just one student could be very valuable.
I didn't know it at the time but giving the program away free meant that instead of needing to reach a troubled student, two or three... any successful new business model required that I reach millions... maybe stressed... but otherwise very healthy young people with commercial health messages that they didn't need.
Over time I came to believe that a healthy person not only doesn't need to hear about the symptoms of depression... but that general mental health education that distributed vague and sometimes misleading "symptoms of depression" could possibly plant the seeds of depression or at the very least- feed it.
In the Fall of 2007 just as I was preparing a HUGE business launch... I woke-up from a dream to the idea that my work, no matter how well intended...
Well, if it all worked as intended... my business could do a great deal more harm than good. And I could NOT live with that.
Face to face with that DARK reality... I eventually pulled the plug and flushed all of my hard work down the cyber drain.
To make this long story short...
Somehow, I lost the ability to give-up on my dream.
Each day that passed I learned a little more about what it takes to make a dream come true... so I stayed true to my dream, believing that one way OR another it was only a matter of time before my dream finally came true.
I started sharing what I was learning about The American Dream in April of 2003 when the earliest version of W.A.Y. was posted free online.
The simple act of 'sharing' fed the part of me that wanted to become a part of 'the solution' in any way that I could.
I didn't know what to expect at the time... but I certainly didn't expect to receive so many emails from people who said the book helped them to regain their Faith in God or that because of the book they found reason to hope again and how grateful they were that I had posted the book free online.
It was because of the readers' words and emails that I began to develop a deep sense of responsibility to make sure the words... weren't empty words.
So, I decided to live by the words.
That was easier said than done, but over time I found that some of the original words were wrong and caused by faulty beliefs.
I worked very hard to find and change the beliefs that needed to be changed.
The more change and pain… I… was willing to embrace... the deeper and better the words became and W.A.Y. became a much different book as it became part of a much bigger plan.
And that's the true story behind how I became the guy who self-sacrificed everything and learned how to harness...
THE POWER OF REDEMPTION...
so, that today I could share with The World this MASSIVE strategic plan to Save The American Union and The American Dream.
***DREAM WRITER***
On New Year’s Day 2023… I watched Fareed Zakaria’s interview with Billy Joel on CNN.
Why does this matter?
BECAUSE…
AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT…
Billy Joel and I are both ‘dream-writers’.
In his interview with Fareed Zakaria, Billy Joel shines a very bright light on the idea that a lot of his music comes to him in his nighttime dreams.
To him it’s just a matter of fact and not something to hide or be ashamed of. And he clearly isn’t worried about what some people might think or say about the origins of his music.
He just writes the songs that float in his head.
He says he doesn’t really understand how it works.
Wait until you see for yourself how Fareed Zakaria responds to it all.
I don’t write music.
I share… THE POWER OF IDEAS… that come to me in my nighttime dreams and that makes me, not any different than the countless writers, scientists, world leaders and of course musicians that came before me.
I just write about different things.
Remember, just because some people choose to keep the origins of their best ideas a mystery… it doesn’t change the fact that humanity’s best ideas all come from the same place.
A place with infinite possibilities.
A place available to ALL who grow strong enough to harness their SHARE of the possibilities.
TODAY… I am very grateful to have found Billy Joel’s interview with Fareed Zakaria. Because I’m finally sharing the contents of my most amazing dreams and ALL the powerful ideas that came directly from my dreams… and knowing that I responded to my dreams in much the same way Billy Joel responded to his…
Well, you should really listen to Billy Joel explain the power of ‘dream-writing’ for yourself. It will help you better understand the very real dynamic of dream-writing... and who knows, it might even open your mind to all the possibilities… that have been trying to make their way into your conscious mind, through… your nighttime dreams too:
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On the day after 9.11 I took a leap of faith and began crafting The Nonviolence Solution to Terrorism... and that night… my nighttime dreams literally began to change.
Ideas for how to complete my new task were being turned over to me in my dreams.
For the last two and a half decades day and night Inspiration has been pouring into me the most incredible ideas.
At the expense of just about everything I did my absolute best to capture each and every Inspired word and idea as The Nonviolence Solution to Terrorism became a WAY to end The Endless War… and then a WAY to Save The American Dream… and then a Way to Save The American Union… and here we are today and I now have The Nonviolence Response to The War in Iran.
All together I now have… THE BOOK… God wants me to SHARE with The Whole of Humanity today.
***FREE ONLINE***
Broken down idea by idea into shareable social media posts so each and every person can become a part of The Solution this moment so desperately needs.
By paying the price for the most important ideas Humanity has ever seen WE now have exactly what we need in this impossible moment… to begin working our WAY out of this mess... together.
But remember this incredible new WAY forward will not work without YOU because now you must share it all too.
