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Like Build-a-Bear, Build-An-Erotic-Partner

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Interacting with AI simulations of humans is becoming standard. Those include encounters of the erotic kind. The Institute for Family Studies  found that 20% of adults have already tried out AI relationships. Among teenage boys that 33% and among teenage females 25%. And before you put the knock on this because it involves fantasy, know that, overall, experts in human behavior salute the positive role of fantasy . That alternate form of consciousness can generate everything from clarifying what you want/need to a safe release of anti-social impulses. Businesses involved in this niche have been busy - and imaginative. For example, at fantasy.ai an option facilitates your building your own erotic companion. Much like the fun of Build-a-Bear.  At fantasy.ai click on information about that feature and the scoop is that the service is a: " ... go-to platform for creating and connecting with the virtual companion of your fantasies. Powered by advanced AI, you can fully custom...
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God Is Back Great, Christopher Hitchens Isn't

After its founding in 1935, twelve-step program Alcoholics Anonymous eventually realized that using the term "god" could block problem drinkers from joining. So, it substituted "higher power." That usually did the trick.  Essentially that concept involved surrendering to the reality that there were things humans couldn't control. Trying to do just that - control that which can't be changed - could trigger the return to addictive drinking. Many outside AA know of that idea as radical acceptance . I use that frequently in tarot readings and intuitive coaching.  Now, "in the rooms," as meetings are called, there's less of a backing away from the original term "god."  That could be a sign of the growing popularity of Christian evangelism. Meanwhile, Christopher Hitchens who was on the front lines of mocking the belief in "god" per se would, had he lived, been the one mocked. Or much worse.  In 2007, Hitchens achieved unusual lit...
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Serial Killer in Our Midst - Not Like on "Criminal Minds " Or Currently in Houston, Not Back in 1969

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During 1969, in the university towns of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan there was a suspected serial killer preying on young women. So? I was there as doctoral student. Unlike the intense fanfare on former broadcast hit "Criminal Minds" and the current supposed hysteria in Houston, Texas  (never believe media), I wasn't freaked. And neither were those in the large number of circles I traveled in. They consisted of myriad generations, not just trusting 20-somethings. When you're there. at least back then, you could be enveloped in the assumption of being somehow special. Surely those in this dimension and other dimensions (I was already exploring mysticism) got it that I had much to accomplish yet on planet earth. No way could I, so purpose-driven, wind up dead at age 24.  In addition to the Ph.D. (I was first-generation college so such as wow for the family) and a long future career enlightening minds about the renaissance ideas embedded in the dramas of William Sha...
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"The Lost Bus" - A Man Forgets Himself, Saves Himself

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  This year we get the film version of the 2018 Paradise, California wildfire, the worst in the state's history. That's "The Lost Bus."   Almost 100 people died. But none of them are the elementary-school children and the teacher on Kevin McKay's school bus. Or, the driver McKay.  In doing what it took to save them, McKay saves himself. It's the age-old spiritual saga of getting out of yourself to find yourself. That dates way back to the Prayer for Peace of St. Francis of Assisi and to the more recent Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Since his teenage years when he couldn't sort out his relationship with his father, McKay has "gone lost." His marriage breaks up. He and his own teenage son can't connect. He can barely survive financially on driving a school bus. And he isn't doing all that great in the job. A tipping point in his despair is that he has to put down his cancer-ridden dog.  Then the fire in the Paradise area breaks out ...
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Age 14 to 80+: Taking Indirect Routes to Making a Good Living, Like GM's Mary Barra

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 GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra started out her career journey checking fenders and hoods at one of the automaker's plants. She was 18. That helped pay for college.  But for many other young people, that kind of early opportunity to get to understand a business and how a particular company goes about making its money hadn't been even considered. They went off to college, didn't work for income in college, graduated from college, likely are saddled with student loan debt, can't find paid work and are featured in media articles like this one in CNBC about a generation "crashing out" emotionally.  Some of them, like: " ... recent Boston College grad Michael Hartman ... recently  sought insight from a psychic  about his career trajectory after around 10 months of unsuccessful job hunting." No, Hartman hasn't been one of my clients but other Gen Zers who are usually don't understand the profound shift in the labor market. Maybe over forever is the ...
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"Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale" - They Come Together and Adapt

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  "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale" opens with a panning by the camera of faces from that loved television series.  Attending a theatrical event are Lord Grantham, American wife Cora, Mary, Edith/Spouse and more. How much comfort that brings. It's simple and instant, like hearing the whistle from a tea kettle.  But there's a hole. Missing is Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess. She has passed over. SPOILER ALERT Darkness Falls But, soon enough we're pulled into the pall overhanging the old world order. It is 1930.  Much of the Crawley money has been lost. Cora had entrusted that to her American brother Harold Levinson and he had been conned by shady Gus Sambrook. Debt has to be paid off. What's left has to be used prudently.  Lord Grantham hasn't bounced back from his mother's death.  Mary gets hit with a divorce decree from Henry Talbot. As soon as that intel gets out, she mutates into a social pariah. High Society shuns her as well as Downton Abbey....
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Ohio's State Parks: Anyone from Any State Can Chill for Free, Not So in Michigan

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  Lake Erie is the jewel of the Midwest. Yes, it even has waves. Some winters the waves freeze in motion. The designs are awesome.  Well, throughout Ohio you can gaze at Lake Erie, have a picnic or family celebration near it or swim in it. Sure, bring the dog. Mine, who is now passed over, had run on the beach.  There is no fee. Not for entrance to the state parks and not for parking in them. It doesn't matter if you're not a resident of Ohio or if your license plate is from another state. Clients love to have tarot readings there and then afterward reflect standing by the water.  That's Ohio.  Today I traveled from Toledo, Ohio to Michigan to experience Lake Erie in what I hoped would be a different way. That was to Sterling State Park in Monroe. I hoped for something a bit different.  Shock. As I drove into the park there was a gatekeeper. Wow. I stopped my car and asked if I needed a sticker or something. They inquired if I was from another state. I ans...
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