
Philosophy and Revelations Blog of Alan Forrest Smith
Wealth and Happiness
What Is Wealth and Happiness? noun ˈwelth also ˈweltth a large amount of money and possessions the value of all the property, possessions, and money that someone or something has a large amount or number A man takes the elevator to the 58th floor of an office block tower in New York. Once he gets…
How to write a book
So you want to write a book? Not just any book … YOUR book? If you answered yes… keep reading because what I am about to share with you is some news that can make your book dream a reality. …
The Spiritual Narcissi
The Age of The Spiritual Narcissi Recently I watched the magician Dynamo on TV walking across the River Thames in London. I did say walking across it as in walking over the water. Just by the houses of parliament there was a small path down to the river itself. Dynamo had to climb over the…
Babushka Anna
Babushka Anna This is a story about love and how that love made a crippling disability vanish. It involves 85 years old babushka Anna who lives next door to our home in Tbilisi, Georgia. Anna is less than five foot in height. She hasn’t left her home now for maybe five years, and her home…
New Years Resolution or Revolution
Resolution or REVOLUTION In the movie MONGOL the mongol called Temudjin gets into every kind of possible scrape. He is attacked, almost killed, locked up, held outside in freezing temperatures and more. As the movie goes on Temudjin eventually becomes the leader of all Mongols. Before he does he asks the old wise man or…
The Broken Man
A letter from a son to a mother. The son is the broken man. Dear mother I hope you are well yet I am broken man. Here I am today, right now, cold, and sore and sleep deprived walking along a wet empty street. It’s filled with people out shopping, smiling, laughing and doing all…
Dead Bread
If you have 100 people does that mean you have to create 100 meals? Of course the answer is simple – of course you have to create 100 meals. If only 50 meals are created that means 50 people go hungry. Yet if 200 meals are created that means you are going to get a…
Londonageddon
Londonageddon Despite a brilliant London Olympics you’d think after reading a news report this morning that the end of London was about to take place. The streets in the city are silent. West end tickets sales down 40%. Hotel rooms empty. Market traders have no one to sell to. The underground is empty. Restaurants are…
iHypnosis
Mobile addiction, screen addiction, message me addiction – this is the age of iHypnosis. Even babies that can walk and talk want in on it. It’s changing everything, it’s changing your kids, your family and even your life. You can be and will be shut down in a moment. In conversation, at dinner, in meetings.…
The Dream Stealer
The Dream Stealer by Alan Forrest Smith. One long dark night I had a dream. A dream so clear that I knew if I wrote down the dream my life could be so different. The dream was a story of success. I saw my own struggles but I saw myself winning. The struggles and hardships…
A Man Called Empty
A Man Called Empty The media loves him, the TV adores him, and the newspapers write everything about. He is the man, he is the man called empty. You’ve seen him everywhere as he walks down the streets, parades our TV appears on reality shows or is photographed looking almost god-like for a trash magazine.…
The Bridge
Every family has one, most family resist them, they are the bridge. Before I explain let me share a small story. I have a small very old book Called 16 self sketches by George Bernard Shaw. It’s a rare book, a small book but a very revealing book. George Bernard shaw was well known for…
Steve Jobs Dead iEpitath
Steve Jobs Is Dead. As I woke groggy, my head surrounded by 4 huge feather pillows, my woman arms wrapped tight around me, lips pressed against my skin I reached over to grab my …
Past Present Now
According to the BBC today, in the year 2030 food prices will double, so what are you going to do about it? Also on the BBC today they are marking the anniversary of the doomed Titanic. Interesting don’t you think? Interesting in this way. I know a man named Derek who talks about how things…
Judge or Observe
As I walked along the side streets of Manchester, I see a pathetic looking youngish man sat in his own filth, in the doorway of Aramani clothing. Ironic I thought, two extremes living side-by-side, extreme poverty and extreme blatant consumer wealth. The next day the long haired, long bearded man was there again. The very…
Salvation Searchist
So the search continues. There she goes, jumping on another plane, heading to another strange, hot location in search of something. In 3 years she has walked out of her job, changed her friends and acquaintances, flown over 3 continents, read and underlined and noted countless manuals, hired an endless list of guru mentors to…
Arab Armageddon or End of The World
Bullets fly over his head time and time again. Thud, crunch, smash each time another and other bullet hits the wall in front of him. It leaves the old man with a feeling that at any point soon the bullets will break down what remains of the wall finally ending his life.
The Anthropoid Polyhistor
This is the part of you that knows, that has always known, that has been covered, been locked away, been held back so many times by the thoughts of others.Yes you are learned and you your historical learning is your route to a better life. Even more important is the feelings within you that you have put aside, you have ignored and you have rarely listened to.This is the time for you to tune in and make changes for the sake of your own life and the lives of those around you.
Resolve The Resolution 2011
Here we go again. Another 365 days that start with a promise, a promise to self usually about how incredible, how amazing, how wonderful this year will be over the last. Jane felt that way 7 years ago and all the years since. She’d been through a horrible divorce. On the back of that her…
2010 Reflections of
It’s been momentous and wondrous, I can adore and savor the flavors of those moments looking back.
The dramas, the tribulations, the bitterness and hate of other people, the love and adoration of the few. The highs and lows, the beauty and the beast. The rich, colorful painting of 2010 and the remnants it has left within my body.