January 11th, 2019

Hey, I hope everyone is having a great day! Today I would like to talk to you guys about one of the goals that I have for this year, which is to write not just one book, but I intend to write and publish TWO books this year. In today’s post, I will quickly explore the general idea for each book, as well as my planned method for how I will be approaching this goal. I have written and published a book each year for the past 3 years, but this year I felt like seeing how much more I can accomplish, without necessary pushing myself too far, but to have an approach that this will be “easy” for me.

The first book that I will be writing this year will cover my philosophy tour when I left for Europe during the summer of 2018. This tour had a triple purpose: 1) to visit the graves of 24 philosophers and meditate on my own mortality as a philosopher, 2) to explore how these philosophers had an influence and different views in regard to Education and pedagogy and 3) to be a traveling philosopher and become more self-aware. For this 4th book, I had kept a journal that explored not only my ideas around mortality, pedagogy and my own Being, but also how each of the philosophers thought about these ideas. I will be using this journal written during my stay in Europe, coupled with research on each of the philosophers’ ideas around education.

The second book that I will be writing this year will be on the topic of Lucid dreaming. I am not certain if this will take on a more “How to” approach, or if I want to integrate this approach with some storytelling about my journey with Lucid dreaming. As for a method for how I will write this book, I will be doing a month or two of intensive immersion into lucid dreaming. In other words, I will be documenting every dream, lucid and not lucid, for those 2 months to gather data on my own dreams. I will then interpret these dreams as well as write about the process on how I became lucid in my dreams, in the hope that I will be able to show someone else the steps necessary so that they themselves can become proficient in lucid dreaming.

In conclusion, this year I will be attempting to write two books. To accomplish this, not only will I have to write very consistently, but I will also have to have a detailed game plan on how I will write and conduct my research so that I can accomplish these tasks. The first book to be written this year will cover my philosophy tour where I went to Europe to think, understand and question the Self, human mortality and pedagogy or the art and science of education. The second book to be written this year will explore lucid dreaming and how someone can become proficient in this skill, as well as a documentation of my own lucid dreams after putting myself through a period of immersion. I hope that by working on these two books, I will not only be able to offer some value to the world that I have been thrown into, but that I can also continue moving towards becoming more self-aware.

I hope you guys have a great day!

Talk soon!

-PJH

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