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Oyar
high on life

As a book author and writer I think I have found a true center and calling.
 As a man I have found my rich spiritual life in the Ontic Manifesto detailed below.
Are you interested in the famous Law of Attraction, the psychic, runes and healing then my books are for you.

  My book site (AwenMan) offers many free download items as well as my marvelous books (I'm biased :-) and a plethora of great mind training resource sources.

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I am now a
Certified NLP Practitioner

and a
Certified Life Coach

my certification is at: American University of Neuro Linguistic Programmers


If you have come here for your FREE 4 letter personality type score evaluator you will find it down below near the end of this page under the People Watching heading
my blog on Spirituality and Happiness can be found at:
http://awenman.com/learnINGblog

SVEIKS (That is Latvian for "Hello".)

Latvia is where I was born in the seaport city of Liepaja.

Above left is a picture of me, Oyar Mickevics (who else?) where if you click on it you will find a very short photo album of some pictures that are significant in my life. And yes for you fellow Latvians out there, I have Anglicized the spelling of my first name, but my last name remains the Latvian spelling of the famous Polish name. Who knows, maybe I am even related to the poet and author Adam Mickiewicz; it would be nice! CANNOT FIND A WORK OF ADAM MICKIEWICZ IN TRANSLATION SO WHY NOT VISIT AMU , A LARGE UNIVERSITY NAMED IN HIS HONOR.
OYAR G. MICKEVICS

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.


from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

translated by EDWARD FITZGERALD
MY HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL
(nutshells are those things that contain nuts, aren't they?)

Left Latvia when I was only nine months old to escape the Communist invasion and ended up in an American displaced persons camp in Wurzburg Germany. Then, at age seven, emigrated to Lachine, Quebec, a then west end suburb city of Montreal. In the beginning had my problems with being the "foreign punk" among a rather homogeneous group of anglophones but it is also then that is my earliest recollection of a prophetic vision. Still, managed to grow up there, have good memories, and graduate from Lachine High School. Did first year Engineering at McGill University and then on to night school and a career as an auditor. The Chartered Accountancy field didn't turn me on so I entered the business world and spent many years as a company comptroller. The bright part of that period is that I continued my education at night and got my Bachelor of Commerce from Sir George Williams University, now known as Concordia University.

Escaped Quebec to avoid the vanguard of another invasion, the French separatist, and resettled here in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. The trauma of pulling up boyhood roots and moving to Toronto created stronger inner connections and started my true appreciation of higher meanings of life and self. Also soon escaped the daily drudgery of being cooped up to work in an office all day as an accountant by becoming an outside salesman. Never became financially rich as a salesman but the many companies I worked for gave me a very rich and fulfilling appreciation of life and the naked ape. The sales experience did prompt a very short excursion at my own jewelry company. Tried independence by starting up my own company as a mortgage broker just in time to have the 1990 recession kill it. So pulled up my socks and spent many years in my own web design and creation company to only have to give it up in 2000 because every college student was now offering to do pages at $8-10 a page. So it was on to inside sales to make a living. Now fortunately I can call myself retired and enjoy writing just for the pleasure of it.

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH...
(...that and a loonie* will buy you a small cup of coffee.)

Am still single (as they say, close only counts at horseshoes, hand grenades, and hydrogen bombs) and still dreaming of finding love and my soulmate (some people are just eternally romantically optimistic.) On the positive side I tend to be friendly, easy going, and amiable. My main interest is my books. Other current interests are Mensa, exploring the world of the psychic, my computer and the internet, reading to explore new avenues (especially about the mind and the human condition), and in keeping the body together by studying Nia, Tai Chi and other exercise regimes like the 1977 Royal Canadian Air Force 5 BX Plan. Much enjoy picnics, long walks, educational TV, dancing, community involvement and good company.

In the past have had some interest in, and in no special order; both downhill and cross country skiing, health food and lore, karate, camping, drawing and crafts, racquetball, photography, line dancing , weight training, orienteering, hiking, chess, science fiction, electronics, listening to folk music.

*A "loonie" is the Canadians' affectionate name for our dollar coin.

 

 

AND INTO THE FUTURE 

My life now is about writing and spreading the word. It is therefore appropriate to here voice some thoughts on the creative process.

 

GENIUS  
(and then there's me)
Genius is about creating something truly original. It is the hardest thing possible for a carbon based entity, a naked ape, to come up with something truly original. Science and psychology tell us that to be able to formulate something truly original you have to be at least a bit unbalanced (to not think like the masses, though  it might be only a temporary aberration during the actual creative process.) Genius is not thinking like the masses, like someone that is "normal." What "normal" people call original thought is really what Freud called "misremembering" or else is a case of tapping into Jung's "collective unconscious." Today we might unkindly call it "false memory syndrome." The feelings of originality are real, it just that the true source is lost.

I probably qualify for the "unbalanced" part but what I write is what I have researched. My writing is my take, my spin, on what I have found. In the mold of the normal masses, I am a researcher or "gatherer" who then reshapes to my perspective. I also work to the Nikolai Narrative description as found in my first book RnR Runes and Remedies. It is the Muses speaking to me and then my corrupt attempts to put it into words. You can view my published efforts by clicking on the banner below:


The site includes the Train the Brain material

In my defense, there has to be at least a slight tingling of genius in me, a genius I share with many others. We have been able to overcome our genetic programming that tells us to believe in an ethereal alpha entity.

"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.  :-)

 

 

 

 

ACCESSING AWEN

Discover your deep inner self very profoundly
Manifest your desires and secret pleasures
Attract your lifelong good Karma effortlessly
These are very great Accessing Awen treasures

Do you want to have your dreams come true and do it as naturally as breathing? We'll show you how. No new skills to learn, just how to do what you already do but to do it in a constructive focused way. Accessing Awen is one of several books that I have currently published.
Clicking on the link above takes you to book support site. There you will find book excerpts as well as lots of related freebies.

the AWEN



BENEFITS OF A LABYRINTH

  • Relieve stress
  • Comfort in mourning
  • Deepens spirituality
  • Improve relationships
  • Connection to ones soul
  • Access to intuition
  • Enhanced creativity
  • Satisfies inner need for simplicity
  • Mind and body integration
  • Greater sense of community
  • Accelerated healing
  • A path of, and to, prayer
  • Achieving wholeness
  • Engages body and soul in prayer
  • Reflective time in a busy schedule
  • Mirrors your inner self
  • Concentrates attention
  • Sparks imagination
  • Cathartic emotional release
  • Concrete expression of spirituality
  • Deepened meditation
  • Quiet sanctum away from life
  • Enhanced awareness
  • Right and left brain balancing
  • Enhanced lateral thinking
  • Ease life transitions
  • Facilitate reconciliations
  • Builds sense of relationship
  • A sacred place to be

 

WEFAN WYRD
(Free excerpt from Accessing Awen)


The Wefan Wyrd Labyrinth comes from prehistoric northern Europe around the Baltic Sea and means "the weaving of fate." Here it is presented as a finger labyrinth. The link above is to a pdf file that gives detailed instructions on using the Wefan Wyrd as well as a full page labyrinth to print out and use. The Wefan Wyrd is included on this page because of the personal connection that it is a style of labyrinth that is local to the area where I was born.

Walking meditations in a labyrinth span all civilizations and time. Labyrinths are found from prerecorded historical times, to the elaborate classic one at Chartres Cathedral. Much, much more happens automatically with a walking labyrinth, but a finger labyrinth is capable of generating the same effects as its big brother, it just takes more work on your part.

 


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RnR Runes and Remedies

Grew up a "scientific type" where it had to be explainable by the science of the day or of course it just did not exist. Orwellian "double think" took care of anomalies just as it still does today for those who are "challenged," challenged as adherents to handicapped scientific rote rather than reason. The truth did win out for me and eventually led to the study of psychic Runes and their magic. A social aside observation is that generally as people get older, their roots become more and more important to them as the impetuousness of youth runs down. Runes are part of my cultural heritage.
NOTE: While my initial interest was piqued by the esoteric meaning of the psychic Runes I came to understand that the Runes meant much more to the early oral culture that originated them. It also ensconced their moral code, a code still relevant today as humans haven't changed in such an evolutionary short time.

At first it was just reading about Runes; and that led to serious study. As it is sometimes wont to be, study resulted in insight which led writing the book RnR - Runes and Remedies. RnR - Runes and Remedies is a complete treatise on everything needed to do runecasts with explanations of the individual runestones. It is different in that it clearly shows the interrelationship of the individual runes, a relationship that other authors have not seen. My original book did not include a section on Rune Healing which has been added since.

RuneCaster
Find out more by clicking on the link above

This was only a short step to my teaching myself to program in C++ to turn out the RuneCaster program. RuneCaster is a Freeware program, meaning there is no charge to download and use it, as long as you don't misuse it. The beauty of RuneCaster is that it lets you use the power of the Runes immediately without having to do any studying. Do the free download now.




the Ontic

ONTIC MOVEMENT

towards True Spirituality

(and finding your Personal Flow for true happiness)



  

MY SPIRITUALITY

Ontic is defined by the dictionary to mean "the ultimate truth" but that definition notwithstanding the two physically impossible triangles that are intertwined to make up the Ontic symbolize the impossibly intertwined and almost inscrutable nature of humanity and our world.  

 

 

 

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank file has already earned my contempt. He was given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.”

Albert Einstein

The Way of Flow for Naturalistic Spirituality

Most atheists recognize that the gods of religion are fantasized (and so perfect) ethereal alpha-males. But they then sometimes make the mistake of rejecting everything related to established religion. To me that is the proverbial "throwing out the baby with the bathwater." Religions did not develop in isolation from the human condition and reality. Relatively recently researchers found the genetic component of religion, the VMAT2 gene, and its forebrain adjunct the "God Module." This shows that the core human values that religions ascribe to are fundamental truths adjusted to the contemporary ecology. Religions just err in what they attribute as the source. The Manifesto Ontic Movement (or more simply just the Ontic Manifesto) is my elucidation of the soul and what there really is. "The times they are a changin" so the Ontic Movement is the Flow of a living journey and dynamic quest for ever changing discovery and greater self-actualization. (A companion supporting cosmology, W-Universe Unfolding, is included in the download copy.)

As an illustrative example of historic error. Combustion today we know as a thermal chemical reaction. Before this was understood the educated scientific view was that certain matter contained "phlogistons" and that burning was the release of these phlogistons.  Burning is very real, just our thinking about the underlying theory has evolved. Spirituality is the same way. Spirituality, including many of what are considered religious tenets, exists but just like phlogistons we erroneously describe the source as a god. Gods can be called the phlogiston theory of spirituality. Intelligent thinking is to believe in spiritually and leave behind the troglodyte thinking of believing in gods!

As a spiritual odyssey the Ontic Manifesto follows the basic human truth that while: “Success is getting what you want, happiness is liking what you have.” It is the realization that success means nothing if you are not happy with yourself. A Buddhist monk with his begging bowl is happy while there is no shortage of stories of the rich and successful committing suicide to escape their devils. The objective of the Ontic Manifesto is to find the true happiness in each of us of living in Flow with guidelines such as the Ontic Trinity Creed of spirituality, as well as paths of a slower and simpler living and love of family.

A lesson is to be learned from humanity’s earliest known literary work written more than 4000 years ago:

“When the gods created man, they let death be his lot; eternal life they withheld. 
Let your every day be full of joy, love the child that holds your hand, let your wife delight in your embrace, 
for these alone are the concerns of humanity.”

Gilgamesh Epic

 

the Ontic

W-Universe Unfolding
Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past. Wisdom is of the future.
-- Native American Proverb

 

The explanation of our spirituality comes from the human genetics of our being social animals. This state is not in isolation but is ameliorated by what is explained in the Ontic Manifesto as the Ether Universe or W World. In plain terms it what is known as the psychic affects us. The second half of the Ontic Manifesto is W-Universe Unfolding and is a cosmology that supports the Ontic Trinity Creed.

The ultimate truth for our minds to seek as thinking and probing sentient beings is the pursuit of the psychic. It is the Undiscovered Country of the mind and so is ultimately more important than anything in the physical world. The psychic is currently science fiction to many but our goal of a crowning moment is the same as that of the Krell in the movie Forbidden Planet, total personal control of our environment. (Our goal is to be in control and not consumed by the “monsters from the Id” as the Krell were.) Science does not support the psychic at the moment and holds it to be the same way that it held the “preposterous” ideas of electricity and circulation of the blood only a few centuries ago. Science should not be too smug as it still does not know what something as basic to out lives as electricity actually  is (depending on whom you ask it can variously be anything from a moving particle to an energy wave) and according to the very best scientific aerodynamic theory it is a proven fact that the bumble bee cannot fly.

Our approach is to paraphrase Shakespeare a bit:
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Mr. Scientist, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

My personal involvement? It has often been found to be true that a person will follow a noble calling such as that of a physician, psychologist or priest to not only help others but to also help themselves with their own perceived shortcomings. I may be far from perfect, but I am trying to better myself! If I can help others by improving myself, then more power to that quest.

You may not agree with the views expressed here but it works for me. I fall back on a philosophic viewpoint passed on to me by one of my early university professors: "Find the explanation that best explains things and then hold on to it until you find something that explains more."

 

view and download a PDF version of the Ontic Manifesto
Manifesto Ontic Movement

KNOW YOURSELF to BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE
The Ontic Movement to truth and happiness is one I hope others will join me in

 WARNING: if you are an ardent believer dedicated to your religion then do not read this manifesto, you will find it offensive. See the excerpt below.

Excerpt from the opening of the Manifesto Ontic Movement:

"Ontic is defined in the dictionary as the ultimate truth and here it describes the study of the ultimate nature of our universe, as we perceive it. Today many people utilize our human Higher Self intellectual prowess ability to understand the truth about religion and the non-existence of an ethereal alpha-male god. Religion as practiced today is mid/animal brain thinking of following through and acting upon genetic generated propensities. Central to this current religious practice is the VMAT2 gene and its satellite sibling 'God Module' in the forebrain, with then parental and social push giving it credibility for adherents in well socialized and socially controlled daily lives. People in the lowest social echelon espouse the classic lower class 'them' god and as an atheist I want to do more than just say that I am above this lowest proletariat class thinking. As someone who prides himself as an independent thinker I want to do more and say what I do believe in. The Ontic is the guidepost symbol of a journey on the path to know the truth about ourselves and our lives. 

"As a note for those who may not have come across this before: science divides the human brain into roughly three parts or stages that are all interconnected. Our brain's most basic component is the innermost core reptilian brain which reflects who we are furthest down on the evolutionary scale. Then comes the 'animal' or mammalian brain that grew on top to extend functionality and facilitate the existence of the creatures in the next evolutionary stage. Finally very roughly about two million years ago,concurrent with our discowery of controling fire and cooking, the human line broke off from the animal line and we grew our human forebrain, the neocortex or grey matter which is now the bulk of the brain in two symmetrical hemispheres, on top of the animal brain. Physically as animals we are pretty puny and evolving a conscious, thinking forebrain is what gave us our evolutionary advantage.

"In the best religious church tradition the Manifesto will first concern itself with a Trinity Creed of spirituality and morality. Then again in good religious church tradition a genesis to support that creed is explored in W-Universe Unfolding."

 

Happiness & Spirituality
Happiness and spirituality go hand in hand and are explored in my blog:
learnINGblog



PEOPLE WATCHING

People Watching is a pastime that I find fascinating!

My earliest recollection of actively contemplating the human condition go back to my pre-teen years. I came across the gag line: "Man, a strange animal whose head swells when you pat his back" and I couldn't stop thinking about the actual truth behind it. A later realization, on a completely different philosophic bend, was that people often said things without realizing the implications in the background. "He who hesitates is lost" and "Everything comes to him who waits" was a trigger. This consciously put me on the track that there is often a hidden implied time frame to aphorisms rather than contradiction. Things like this have put me on a life journey of watching the human condition; the antics and foibles of the naked ape.

On a practical note I also became interested in personality types and what this means. Directly below is an early program that I did to determine what your personality type is according to a popular four trait model that gives sixteen personality types. (The source material that I based this program on is in the pdf file.) The test is included here because by eliminating the second trait you now have the three trait model of the  Neo-Enneagram as primarily described in Accessing Awen. Below you can look at a detailed analysis of the Neo-Enneagram as either a PDF or MS Reader file. Directly after the test is a short summary of what your Neo-Enneagram type is according to the traits.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!
If all you see below is the chart and don't see the personality program above that, it could be that you don't have the Java(tm) Platform plug-in installed.
You can download it for free at www.java.com (automated installation)
If you have the plug-in and still don't see the program then check to see that don't have a security block active.
 
ETJ Vanguard EFJ Giver
ITJ Expediter IFJ Loyalist
ETP Doer EFP Performer
ITP Creator IFP Dreamer
000 Consumer

 

 


Neo-Enneagram

The Neo-Enneagram is a study of personality types that is very important in manifesting. You must know how you relate to the world so as not to ask for the wrong things. If your personality is that of a "back room boy" that organizes and gets things done then don't ask the Law of Attraction to make you the knight in shining armor that is leading the charge. Your subconscious mind that knows you well will thwart any such incompatible request. Knowing your personality type does not mean that you cannot be anything you want to be (people do display different personality types in different environments), it is just means you might have to do some extra steps to achieve your goal. BUT YOU DO NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE WORKING WITH TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES AND PROGRESS!

This monogram is a collection of related materials from a few of my books.

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SOME THOUGHTS THAT HAVE HELPED:

Man, a strange animal whose head swells when you pat his back.
Life is trouble...only death is not.
And this too shall pass.
Why is there always time to correct something, but not the time to do it right in the first place.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but at any given moment the sword speaks louder.
It is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.



IN CLOSING:
A short poem...

Eat Right
Exercise
Stay calm
Die anyway.

as a reminder that the quality of life is the watchword, not the creed of Ozymandias : He who has the most toys when he dies, WINS. So remember to take time to smell the roses along the way as no one has ever had written on their tombstone that they should have spent more time at the office.





My heritage is very important to me but first and foremost I am
PROUDLY CANADIAN
a Canadian flag
I AM CANADIAN!




SVEIKS (It also means Au revoir)
and Good-Night

e-mail: oyar@oyar.ca




 

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