Understanding Man

Each species has a survival niche that it prospers in. This blog is about man’s niche. It is about how he got where he is and how he stays there.  It is raw nature and brutal in its life forces.  No matter how sweet a baby is, man is an animal and acts like one.  Here is his story for all that wish to understand, Man.

Man is not a plant, he is mobile and moves through his environment by the use of muscles that are controlled by a three part  brain.  This is basic, so this is where we will start  in our path to  understanding man.

Morgan’s Muscle theory explains  the ability of  the brain to structure a friendly or unfriendly relationship with the muscles of the body and if need be, renew a broken partnership between it and the structural muscles of the human body at will.  It is my belief that the three part brain, with its supporting inputs and organs, perceives and works within the human body’s muscle system through a  survival of the species based hierarchy. This  is a muscle hierarchy list, defined in Morgan’s Muscle theory,  as a muscle priority system, where one muscle is more or less favored or developed than other muscles.

For a tribe of humans to prosper there is a need for diversity in individuals, such as height, weight and face shape and a diversity in an individuals muscles within the survival group or tribe.  Different body types being necessary for the survival of the whole.  And a diversified muscle hierarchy for individuals to individually prosper or succumb.

This hierarchy of the muscles is easily observed during the transformation of babies into toddlers. As a baby grows, we can see where his muscles develop in a systemic maturation pattern, permitting the baby to first stand, then to walk. In normal human development, the brain and the chemistry of the body assigns muscles to take on different physical forms throughout a person’s lifetime. This steady muscle transformation can be witnessed as the child matures in both the female and male bodies. As the body grows and matures, different muscles in each sex are developed for a required function and may be limited in their strength, endurance and motion, while other muscles in the maturing body are allowed to be well formed and become stronger or more flexible.

Muscle hierarchy is evident in maturing adults that, over a lifetime, the muscle hierarchy of an individual entitles certain chosen muscles in her body to prosper and sentences others to decline and become painful, or worse, to be abandoned by the body. The brain stops using these abandoned muscles. This total abandonment by the brain can be observed in some elderly people whose low priority listed muscles cause their shoulders to slump and their feet to shuffle as they walk.

Over time, most people experience muscles that are limited in their duties and motion. To date, science has not discovered the overall reasons for the body’s muscle hierarchy and why some muscles are limited or abandoned by the brain. They do find evidence of a human organ hierarchy. In the human body, there is an organ that has been abandoned; that organ is the appendix. There is no known use for the appendix and many researchers believe the human appendix will, over time, not exist in the bodies of future humans. There are some that theorize that the entire bone and muscles of the fifth toe (little toe) on the human foot will be absorbed into the fourth toe in later generations of humans. There are signs of muscle abandonment in humans. The palmaris longus muscle in the arm is missing in 11% of humans. The psoas minor muscle that is used by four legged-animals, like cats and dogs, can only be found in 40% of humans. Why this is, is not known. It may be that muscle and organ abandonment is essential to the final, and yet unknown, evolving form of human beings.

While many researchers believe that micro-evolution is the reason behind muscle and organ abandonment, there is disagreement as to the cause of muscle decline in an individual over his or her lifetime. I believe it is not a future evolutionary plan for the human body but day-to-day survival that is behind muscle abandonment. I believe that our body’s muscle decline and the pain that accompanies it are part of the human survival strategy. In Morgan’s Muscle theory, we interpret the health of a muscle according to its position on the brain’s Muscle Hierarchy List. This list determines what muscles will be strengthened or decline in each individual for the benefit of the tribe/species.

I believe that in normal healthy human development, beginning as an infant and progressing to maturity, the brain assigns muscles to take on different and needed physical forms. In this process, healthy muscles are strengthened or normalized in an ongoing maturation process following the brain’s perceived survival needs. Every muscle is inventoried by the brain so that a individual human may survive. Muscles are assigned an importance by the brain based on this need. An internal “muscle hierarchy list” ranks each muscle of the body. This leads me to believe that when a muscle is not healthy, long after an injury to it has healed, or if pain comes on suddenly with no found cause, that muscle may have lost its position on the hierarchical list by mistake or purposely.

Modern science does not know the history of the appendix, nor does it know the history of the toes, as there are no fossil records showing a missing link. Nevertheless, what we can assume is that the brain knows why it chooses certain organs and certain muscles to perform a function and why it chooses to abandon those muscles and organs at a later time.  For this reason, I will present my theory on muscle hierarchy and why some muscles lose their position on the brain’s list.

The Haystack Brain or Triune Brain

Scientist Dr. Paul MacLean, M.D., a neuroanatomist, theorized in 1975 that our one large brain is actually divided into three different brains. Each brain is stacked one on top of the other: the ancient brain, called the reptilian brain; the emotional brain or mammalian limbic brain; and the upper brain, called the rational thinking brain (cerebral cortex). The ancient brain sits on the top of the spine.

This ancient reptilian brain resembles and functions like the brain of the dinosaurs. Sitting on top of this ancient brain is an emotional brain called the limbic system. It is found in other mammals as well. Covering those two brains is a new but slower reacting brain that is less than two million years old: the rational brain (cerebral cortex). Before any information can reach the newer rational brain, it must pass through the other two older brains. If the reptilian brain senses a perceived threat, the reptilian brain reacts to that threat before any emotions or thinking can take place by the other brains. Once the reptilian brain processes and relays any orders to the glands or muscles, then information is passed to the emotional brain. This brain, called the limbic system, colors all messages that pass through it. This coloring is emotional. We laugh and cry because of this brain. This brain will broadly paint any information it receives. If you had an emotional experience, either good or bad, that made you laugh or cry in your past, any like occurrence will be colored the same as that first emotional experience and you can start to laugh or cry with no known reason. The cerebral cortex or upper brain is the brain that you are using to try to understand what I am writing. It is the brain where language is formed and it is the brain that tries to control the other two brains. It is the civilized brain. In Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, we read about life evolving from simple forms to complex forms. Darwin might say that man evolved from a rat-like creature. This evolution was made possible by time, chance and changes to the rat’s form, but the human brain did not evolve. As Dr. MacLean points out, it just added on new parts to some very old parts. Those old parts have not evolved or changed one bit and they are not going to be changed by thinking, reading or higher education. They are fixed. To make it easier to understand the brain’s parts, think of the lower brain as an old house. This very old house has had some major addition built on to it. The original house, with its foundation, was built in 1225 out of rock and heavy timbers. It has a large fire pit and very small windows. Much later, in 1933, the second-story children’s nursery and mother-in-law’s rooms were built above the old house. Last year a third story was built. This is where the entertainment room and library are located, as well as the computer room and music room. Like many homes that have add-ons there have been many compromises made. The major complaint of the owner is that visitors must first walk in through the heavy doors of the old house and up the narrow staircase to the second floor. They then are subject to the customs of emotional greetings, handshakes and hugs, as well as the noise of laughter and crying before they can reach the upper level. Only then can they speak on the meaning of life or watch television. It is our belief in Morgan’s Muscle theory that the old house, called the lower or reptilian brain, perceives and interacts with the muscles and nerves of the human body through a structural form and a functional hierarchy or ranking system. Muscles needed for survival of the brain have a higher priority than muscles that are not needed to survive. This is a totalitarian hierarchy and it is based solely on the reptilian brain’s perceived need for the survival of our species. The rational brain and emotional brain has no voice in the decision. All survival threats encountered by the brain are ranked only by the reptilian brain. This ranking is based on the brain’s perception of its risk of death. Because each human is raised in a different environment and perceives information differently, each reptilian brain reacts to its risk of death differently, making the muscle hierarchy in each of our bodies different. Three people can be walking in the woods and all see the same poisonous snake. One person may run from it, another person may ignore it, and another may kill the snake. We witness in our daily lives different lower brains having different reactions to the same stimuli. What we cannot see is what different muscles are used by the brain for its survival purposes when that old brain reacts to a stimulus. Only the ancient brain knows and records this knowledge on its hierarchical list. Like your muscles, each of your three brains has a form and a function. The brain that oversees your muscles is the ancient brain, which, in Dr. Paul MacLean’s theory, is your reptilian brain. His theory is about three different brains controlling three different functions in humans. According to Dr. MacLean, the basic need to survive is under the control of this lower reptilian brain. The parts of the brain are the medulla, pons, cerebellum, mesencephalon, globus pallidus and olfactory bulbs. All these parts are called the ”R-complex” by Dr. MacLean. This lower brain does not think. Its function is to react, using a threat hierarchy list as a guide. A lizard or a snake only has a reptilian brain. They are being governed only by this brain. They do not cry and they do not plan for their future. They just react. Their brain is like an internal clock. The clock goes off with an alarm any time the brain perceives danger. Your reptilian brain is different from the lizards. It has two functions. First, its function is to keep you alive and, secondly, and most importantly, its function is to keep your species alive. To keep you alive, your reptilian brain manages and controls your heartbeat, temperature and breathing. It also manages your muscles without your participation or knowledge for your survival. Many times during the day, you will not know whether you are controlling your muscles or if the lower brain is in control. This lower brain-controlled state happens during the day for many of us, more often than not when we are walking or driving our cars. This very old brain works day and night to keep us alive. This reptilian brain uses powerful forces to do its work, forces that protect not only ourselves, but also our family, our tribe and our life form or species. Our brain forces work together for our benefit. However, if there is a conflict between the individual force and the other three forces, the individual force will lose. So, when any of these forces come into conflict with the force that protects each of us as individuals, we can be overwhelmed by our very own brain with stress. An example of a conflict between the major force of protecting the tribe and protecting yourselves can be seen in times of war when we, as individuals, risk our lives to protect our tribe. Any that refuse to fight are pushed away, and those that are successful in the risking of their lives for others are made into heroes by the tribe.  Conflicts between on tribe and individuals are revealed by the belief that killing children is wrong, that genocide is wrong and that eating other humans is wrong. If we find that individuals have crossed these lines, we in fact, as a tribe, punish them. When we are in conflict with groups of people, such as our family or fellow workers, we feel the stress. This stress leads to pain. That pain is held in the muscles of our body and is turned into a signal that can be detected. The more conflict or stress we incur between these old brain forces, the stronger pain we have in our bodies. The reptilian brain has been doing its job successfully for millions of years to balance the forces so that we survive as individuals, families, tribes and as a species.

Prehistoric Man 101

Individuals or Parts of a Herd

Many humans want to believe that they are single, self-sufficient, well-educated individuals, living among other individuals that are either less or more self-sufficient and educated than they are. When you view the environment through the eyes of a modern human, this belief could be perceived to be true. However, at a scientific level it is not true, because a true individual, according to scientists, are single animal forms that have little connection to or need for other individuals of their own species.

In lower forms of life, single beings make no contact with each other; they even reproduce asexually. In higher forms, such as apes, the orangutang in the wild lives a solitary life for most of the year, making very brief, one-on-one contact with the opposite sex only during the mating season. This great ape could live its whole adult life in isolation from its own kind and be healthy. The orangutang is a self-sufficient individual; whereas, man is not. We need contact with other humans for our well-being and survival. If we are isolated, we will go mad.

If human life were viewed by little green men from Mars, back when the ancestors of humans walked the grasslands of Africa, long before we discovered fire, long before we hunted, these Martians would say that we were not a group of individuals living together. They would say that our muscle form and our muscle function at that time resembled more the animals that we traveled with: wild cattle, wildebeests and zebra. They would list us among the many animals in the great migrating herds. They would list humans not among the carnivores that preyed on the great herds of the African savanna, but as the lion’s prey.

Back then, our ancestors traveled as part of the great herd. Each animal specie within the great herd ate from its own niche. Zebras ate the coarse grass. Wildebeests ate the softer grasses. Wild cattle ate the low grass. Man ate the tubers, seeds and insects. This way, all the different member species of the great herd were able to survive as they moved in waves across the land. Our ancestors traveled with the herd for the protection and safety that only a herd can give to its members. But how can this be? Are we not great hunters? Have we not reached the top of the carnivore’s food chain? We eat shark. We eat bear. We eat carnivores. Yes, we watched and learned our lessons very well. We are at the top of the food chain, but that does not change the fact that our muscles, teeth and tissues are those of a gatherer, not those of a hunter.

If we look at the muscles and tissues in mammals that are hunters, for example, inside the mouth of an African lion we see 30 teeth. Every tooth in his mouth has a form and a function. The muscles in his jaw are also perfect in their form and function. They will drive his fangs through the thick leathery hide of his prey. Remove any of those teeth and you have lessened his chances of survival. Remove his large incisors that he uses to kill and hold his prey and he will starve to death.

Look into your own mouth. Like the lion, your teeth are in sets. Each tooth has a purpose for being there. They are just the right number, the right size and shape, as are the muscles in your jaw, for you to survive. You will notice that your teeth are not at all like the teeth of the flesh-eating lion. Your teeth are not like the teeth of any predator. You might be able to kill a mouse or small bird, but beyond that, your teeth and jaw muscles do not have the right form and function for killing. Human teeth are made for eating fruits, nuts, tubers and soft foods.

Your jaw muscles are still functioning as they did 100,000 years ago, and your muscular form is the same as your prehistoric plant/ insect-eating mother who gave birth to her likeness, who, in turn, gave birth to her likeness, and so on, until your mother gave birth to you. Same form, same function. Their DNA is your DNA.

Muscle form and function in the Understanding of Man

The Form and Function of a Muscle in the Understanding of Man:

Each animal species has a unique shape or form to its body so that it can act or move within a niche in its supporting environment. Mammals have adapted a vast array of differing muscular forms to take advantage of niches in their supporting environments. The form and function of bats, elephants and whales are an example of this ability to vary the mammalian body form and function. Their muscles and tissue make up the exterior form of these three mammals. Their bones modify to hold these muscles and tissues in place. The total muscle form of each of these mammals is specifically designed to live or function in either a combination of environments such as water, land or air, or in the case of the whale, a specific environment, water only.

Three Life Forces on Muscles

We understand that life comes from life. No matter what name man gives to a life form, it did not come into its present state from isolation. It carries information for its survival and body form in its genes.

Morgan’s Muscle theory theory begins with the hypothesis that three major environmental forces form the muscular form of mammals. The first environmental force on the mammal’s form is its supporting environment: air, water or land.

The second environmental force on the mammalian form is the food source or niche from which each animal will receive its life-giving energy. These food niches are made up of energy sources existing in the water, air or on or under the land.

If the food in the energy niche lives under the land, such as ants do, then any mammal that needs to eat from that food niche will find that its body comes under natural forces that will re-form its muscles and tissue into a new form. As it will take many ants to feed a mammal, this force will continue to adapt the mammal’s form to the eating of ants until it reaches a point where this form is in balance with its peak energy form. There it will stop evolving its muscle form. An ant-eating mammal reaches its peak muscle form when the energy that it uses to exist and produce offspring is less than the energy that it burns from finding and eating ants. When that energy balance is reached, scientists call that mammalian muscle form a Myrmecophaga tridactyla, or giant anteater.

If the food source for a mammal will be a woolly mammoth, then the muscles and tissues of that mammal will adapt for the hunting and eating of mammoths. Scientists have called that body form that eats woolly mammoths a saber-toothed cat. Again, what they are naming is not an animal but a muscle form that a mammal has adopted so that it can eat a specific food. If a food niche is no longer available, the body form of a mammal will change to eat from a new source of energy. That mammal’s body form may no longer be called an anteater or saber-toothed cat, for that species may have to change its muscular form so drastically that it is not recognized in that form. Its new muscular form will change it into a totally different muscle form so it can eat from a new energy source. If it does not change, it will become extinct as most muscle forms do.

We see the form of mammals changed by this force in fossil records. The ancestors of the great whales once walked the land as another muscle form of a mammal that scientists call a Mesonychid. The Mesonychid looked like a house cat with a long face. They changed their form over time to seek the food niche of the sea. If today a whale form tries to come back to land and is beached, it will die. Its muscle form can no longer support it as the land mammal it used to be.

The third major force on an animal’s muscular form and the functions of their muscles is the animal’s position in the food chain. The reality of “Eat and be eaten” is part of most mammals’ daily experience. Animals that prey on the mammal force that mammal to adapt to an evasive or other defensive form in order to survive. The horns of the Cape buffalo, the spray of the skunk or the razor sharp teeth of the hippopotamus all defend their muscle forms from being eaten.

Zebras, rabbits and horses evade predators by fleeing. The next time you see a horse, look at each part of the horse. Each part contributes to the survival of the horse as an individual and as a species. When you are looking at a horse, you are seeing a mammal that was formed by where it lives and what it eats and by what preys on its muscle form. Because the horse is hunted, there is no other reason for the horse’s body shape or its size, speed, strength and on-edge senses than to protect it from being eaten. What you see when you look at a horse is an muscle form that, for the most part, was created solely to evade and flee a big cat.

When an animal is eaten by a predator, it is not because it is an individual and is being singled out on the menu of life. It is because it is a member of a species that is the energy niche or life source for another species. If the predator becomes faster than the prey, then the prey must adapt either to become faster or find another way to counter the speed of the predator. Mammals, including man, must adapt and have adapted their forms to protect themselves as a species from predators. To adapt, the species may get faster, grow larger, climb higher, and add camouflage or produce more offspring than can be taken by the predator so that they can survive as a species. They can also adapt their defensive strategies as to how they are perceived by the predators.

It could be said that all herd animals are not individuals, but are cells in the body of a larger form. A herd of zebras use stripes to lessen their chances of being killed. Stripes do not help a lone zebra survive. Stripes only work as a strategy when many zebras are running together. They confuse the predator as she tries to keep her eye on one particular animal, only to see a moving wall of black-and-white stripes. We can safely state that without the lion, the zebra would not have stripes, and because the zebra needs the big cats to see its stripes and the big cats see only in black and white, the zebra’s stripes are black and white. Furthermore, without the big cats, there would be no zebra, as we know them in that muscle form.

Predators also are forced to adapt. When large prehistoric mammal’s populations declined, so did the numbers of saber-toothed cats. The saber-toothed cat had formed muscles specifically designed to hunt only these large mammals, like the giant bison and mammoth. During this decline of the large mammals, the many subspecies of this big cat could not adapt their muscle form or their function fast enough to hunt other prey. They could not compete with other meat-eaters who were already well adapted for killing food in their own niche. The saber-toothed cats died off because they lacked the adaptability to change their form rapidly and to find a food source that was unclaimed by other predators.

The Kill

Many animals that are carnivores have the ability to sense weak or hurt prey from long distances. The mako shark can sense a distressed animal miles away through its ability to perceive the electrical impulses of its prey’s muscle contractions. It could be that the reason behind unpredictable shark attacks on humans is linked to the muscle conditions of those people who are attacked.

It is thought that some extinct big cats had and that the African lion of today has the ability to receive and read energy waves sent out from the herd animals she hunts that tells her the physical health and condition of those animals. Using this sense on the darkest of nights, the big cat can locate a few animals in a herd of hundreds that are suffering sore, torn, tired or weakened muscles from an astounding 100 feet away.

These muscle-sensing big cats hunt mostly at night. Night hunting is dangerous for the big cat. While these big cats have excellent night vision, their night vision is limited. They cannot see the strength or read the body language of their prey at night. An unseen kick from an aggressive bull or protective mother can break a tooth or a jaw or crack a cat’s skull. Any injury can lead to the big cat’s death. When hunting, lions use this special muscle sensing to select the weakest, most easily killed animals from among the stronger and life-threatening animals in the herd. In the pitch-blackness of the night, this ability to sense weakness protects her from the risk of injury and death before she makes her attack. She can sense the weakness in men, too

We can see that most animals have an obvious defense against predators. It may be running, flying, chemical spray or it may be fangs, claws, hoof or horn. Less obvious to the eye is the defenses that predators use against their prey. Even the great white shark, the killing machines of the seas, closes its eyes just before it bites. Then it runs off and lets the prey bleed and weaken before returning to eat. It knows the risk it takes by attacking its food source. Reading weaken muscle signals is the lion’s defense against its prey’s defense, because there is no safe, large prey that can be taken without risk to the lion, in fact, it is known that cape buffalo bulls will stalk and hunt for lions at night, hoping to kill them with their horns and hooves.

Humans have no obvious defensive strategy against the lion. Even though we think we can run fast (5 miles and hour), a two-ton elephant (25 miles an hour) can outrun any man. Humans do not use fangs or claws to defend themselves. It would appear that humans could not survive the attack of any large animal that sought to kill us, yet we do survive. That is because we have two hidden defenses, one is our upper brain and the other is deep within our lower brain. While other animals also use the instincts of the lower brain to survive, our prehistoric ancestors used the upper brain to learn to hunt by watching animals that hunt and learned to fish from animals that fish, and learned to survive by watching other animals survive. We have no obvious defense against the lion because we learned one defense and evolved the other deep within the lower brain.

Today, we humans seldom think about the influences of our primal lower brain. We live and think as if we only have an upper, well-educated, rational brain and that it alone is responsible for our great success. We perceive ourselves only in terms of the modern self made man. Therefore, most people believe that ancient history ended the day before their grandparents were born. There is little thought given, as each of us looks into the mirror, that what stands naked before us is a human life form that was adapted by what he ate and what ate him.

To understand man, we need to realize that we live in a life form adapted to survive in the prehistoric environment of 75,000 years ago. Our body and mind has not changed since that time. Even though both the upper brain and the body that we live in today stopped evolving and peaked in its form and function long ago, not a thought of this fact passes through the average person’s mind. Most of us view every event in life based on how it affects our modern lifestyle and not what effect each of life’s changing events has on our 75,000-year-old brain and its muscles. For down deep in our lower brain is the seed of man’s destruction. That seed in the past protected us from the lion but now it puts us at great risk. What is it?

Inflation, By the People from Transylvania DC

Keeping your money is paramount to building your very own life path.  It is well known by Washington insiders that people don’t like paying taxes, but those sneaky congressmen love to spend money, so what are  they to do to get your hard earned dollars into their empty pockets? Well, they make money. It is the cause of inflation and it starts by the government secretly printing money  to pay bills and promote those pet pork projects that get them reelected.

The facts are, it costs only 2 cents to print a new 100 dollar bill.  Again, that’s two fake copper pennies that are actually zinc discs with a thin copper coating.
You need to look at every, two-cent, 100 dollar bill in your bank account as a  storage devise for your work energy. Your daily sweat labor or work product is measured for value by the market and then transfered into paper money. You take your stored-energy paper money to the store and transfer it to others when you buy your daily bread.  Your two cent paper money has a real value to them because it holds your one hundred dollar stored work energy.   Dollars are much like   storage batteries that are fully charged by the fact that you are running full speed in your squirrel cage.

What the government does is drain your energy out of your battery by secretly transferring your energy from your dollars into their worthless dollars, then instead of one fully charge battery being able to start your car it takes 2 or 3 drained batteries to turn over your engine. Washington puts their tax on you,  draining your life energy out of your money and into their worthless money. This is done by quickly placing millions of worthless energy draining dollars into circulation before you or the market realizes what has been done.  Their dollars appear real because they are made by the people entrusted to make real money, but their not counterfeits, instead, they are little green vampires. They look real in your wallet or purse just like the ones you poured your sweat into but they are the sons of political parasites.  You unknowingly take these drained dollars for your work or for your products until while shopping in the supermarket you are asked for  20 cents more for this or that item. When ask, “why?”, you are told inflation in the wheat or milk or fuel cost that are passed on to you.  This is bunk.  The price of these item did not go up, it was your money that went down.  Your money was sucked dry by those Washington Vampires who next year will make a billion more little green vampires to attack you.

First Ring of Life

Morgan’s rings of life have one purpose and that is to protect the human species for extinction. They do not protect you or me from extinction and this failure to protect individuals from death is the universal cause of human misery. (Can we all get along? Can we—Can we get along?) Rodney King 1992 LA riot’s speech

Morgan’s rings of life look like a target with a bullseye in the center. This bullseye is the first ring and it holds all children up to the age of thirteen. This first ring is the safest, most loving and protected place within the human defensive structure.

Too much freedom can hurt for a life time.

Raising  children in a home that is without structure makes overcoming “scattered thinking, tardiness and a scattered business and personal life” a major adult task for those once free-as-a-bird children.  So how can free-spirit parents make a structured home?  The easiest way is to use 6 alarm clocks for the children.  Parents can set alarms for bedtime, meal time, bath time and for early rising.  Once that has been accomplished for 21 days then add clocks for art, music and exercising.  At the end of 42 days add reading, writing and planning the next day/month/year.

Life Has Many Key Stones

Building a life is much like building a Great house. A sound foundation is necessary so that the walls don’t fall down around you. The Path has a proven foundation for your life’s construction. It is based on a foundation developed over the last 5000 years by successful people. To build yourself a successful life all you have to do is follow their blueprints and then decorate it to your taste.

Milestones Along Your Path

For happiness, your Life Path needs many life building stones as time permits you to gather.  Each stone adds worth to your life.  Each is a life lesson.  Together these stones placed securely, build a path for you and for others, such as your friends, children and others in your  community, can follow.  Here are a few to gather and place on your Life Path.

You need to know three Arts and two languages.  Such as painting, pottery and poetry; Chinese and French

You need to know three dances and how to keep a rhythm.
You need to know three occupations for yourself, one of the three should require papers, it should need a certification to practice, such as, but not limited to, a contractor, real estate agent or lawyer.

Know how to play an instrument that can be played with a group.  Such as guitar, drums, sax etc.

Know three Leaders.  “Know,” means to be on a first name basis with them.  Clergy, political, military, business, farming

Know three Teachers and reward their efforts
Know three Artists and buy their work.
Know three Farmers
Know three Professional Soldiers
Know three Business People. Two of your sex and one of the opposite sex.
In the beginning, don’t waste your time with the non-self issues of the day such as politics or giving out your opinions. This can be done after your path is built. Don’t get distracted from your Path Building to help others. After your path is built you will have plenty of time to help others plus you will have the experience and credentials to do it justice to those that you give advise, unlike the Donner Party who took advise of an eager-to-help know-nothing, who wrote in his guide book:  The most direct path would be leave the Oregon route— bearing west-south west, — and thence continuing down to the bay of San Francisco. (Hastings, p. 137-138)  This “helpful” advise ended up with the Donner’s cooking themselves for dinner.

The Maui Path is a compilation of the best path stones man has assembled.  Your path also  contributes to the Maui Path.

Morro Bay Music — Central Coast Music on Main Street

Just walk in to this music store and you will hear, “Hi, Guy” and you just feel right at home.  There are few people in this world that have that kind of affect on strangers but here, in Morro Bay, is one of of those special people.

Everyone who meets him calls him friend. His name is Ed.

I visited Haight-Asbury in the times of the hippies (1968). There were flowers everywhere and there was music being played on the streets and friendly people were wearing bright colors of cloth and long strands of beads and they had yellow and white garlands in their hair.  It was just as the song lyrics of, “If your coming to San Francisco” that was written by Papa John and sung by his best friend Scott said it would be. It was real.

But, that all changed within a year as drugs and free-loaders found easy access to these open-hearted people.  Later, Haight looked more like skid row than the Eden that I had found there in the beginning.  So, what does this have to do with the, “Hey, Guy” of Central Coast Music in Morro Bay, California?
Well, that feeling of belonging, that deep love of music and true welcomeness are still alive in this store. It is truly knarly, Man. Go See.  And tell his wife, Sunshine and daughter, Rainbow “Hi, Guys” from me.   You will love this place because, Ed is one of the “people worth meeting” in this short life of yours.