Thank you for your reply. I think I could learn a lot from you if you are residing in the Orient.
Early life terror and torture shocks shut my mind to that reality for decades. I did not become aware that had been a mistreated, exploited, teenage hard labor slave until decades later.
Example of subsequent spiritual guidance:
During that deprived and very abusive slavery, I made the thoughtless instant decision to enroll in a college, even though I only “owned the shirt on my back.” I was surprised that I was accepted, even after having flunked out of middle school, and flunked that college’s grade prediction test in English Composition. I did poorly in other subjects as well.
Even then, I did not know how to, or think and worry about how to get a job to earn my living expenses and pay for college. One day I took my master’s jalopy… without insurance, during his absence, and took a drive. I could not go further than a tankful of gas for a roundtrip, because I could only get fuel from my master’s big farm fuel tank.
I happened to drive by a huge stinky pulp and paper mill and decided to drive down to its office. I walked in and asked for a job. They hired me and gave me a medical examination. I did not know what work I had to do and was required to buy heavy leather gloves and a leather apron with leggings. That should have given me a clue, but I did not think of that, that it might be heavy work. During night shifts.
That is how I paid for my living expenses and four years of college, during which my home address was General Delivery, to be held in that town’s post office.
Eventually experienced the ultimate best education by becoming a self-financed world traveler.
