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This will be an honest blog.

Je Maintaindrai: This is the motto of the country of my birth from which I immigrated to the United Stated 65 years ago at the age of 20. It is in French, not in Dutch. It means I shall be stead vast. This the Dutch populations has done throughout the ages. Occupied by Spain for 60 years, by the French, Germany it never lost its National Character but through every malaise kept true to this motto: Je Maintaindrai. I will also never give up on my book, Polynesian Dreams.

I promised a honest blog. My book, Polynesian Dreams has not been a best seller. Folks ask me, Johan, you blog, you do all you can to promote your book, yet it lags in sales. Many people who bought the book when it was in soft cover claimed it to be a excellent read. I am not giving up because this is not and never has been my nature. I fought the deadly disease of tuberculosis and won, the fact that I am 85 and in good health proves this. I survived WWII as a young teen and fought my addiction to alcohol, drugs and terrible moral behavior until I became healthy, prosperous and happy. Why should I give up on the idea that eventually my book will be read my untold many? Perhaps it never has been read by the person who believed it to be so strong and had the power to bring it to the attention of the media and publishers. I claim the book is not religious but I should explain that there are several chapters that do mention religious ideas. Ideas that were revealed to me via that inner voice, available to all, and strange and bizarre many might think them to  be I nevertheless wrote about. I will write here about one such chapters that made a great many folks unhappy but also caused a great many, those with an open mind, to think about.

Yes, I believe in God, not perhaps the conventional ones of bible based churches but my God is an intelligent designer of the Universe. A God who created the Universe and perhaps many more. This Universe was not put together by pure accident or the coming together of clouds of dust. It has an Intelligent designer, okay, call it God. Heaven and Hell, I believe those are on earth and follow you in the hereafter. One of the chapters deal with the crucifixion of Jesus and the immaculate conception. Jesus, I believe walked on this earth over 2000 years ago. He is the father of Christianity worshiped, as He should by millions. I was told, again by this mysterious inner voice, that it was not an immaculate conception but instead the Holy Mother was impregnated by a superior being, Angel? Alien abduction? We do not know. Jesus was a highly evolved being and did indeed spread the good tiding. He was crucified by order of the Roman emperor but did he die on the cross? My believe is that he did not. How and Why. Ordinarily the people who were nailed to the cross did not die but because they were left on the cross only to have their flesh picked to pieces by vultures and they of course eventually died. Jesus was not left on the cross but his family and followers were allowed to take him down and he was taken to a grotto and his wounds, including a nasty spear wound from a Roman soldier were tended to. In the dark of the night he was removed from the Grotto, taken aboard a merchant ship belonging to his uncle, a brother of Maria and smuggled out of Palestine to the south of France, to what is now the city of Marseille. Overland to a small village where he did succumb of the wound in his side and was buried under an enormous boulder, a rock in the village of Rennes. Is this true. It is a believe, valid as much as the story in the bible written sixty years after his death. However, if true, it would create havoc with believers. Keep an open mind, please. In my next blog I will write about evolution and the theory of who did and who did not evolve out of Africa, another controversial subject. Why was it told to me? I can only answer because I promised to write about that. The book is inspirational, adventurous, and hopefully could set you to wonder.

My book sells for $3.95 with proceeds going to a no kill animal adoption center. I love all creatures, not fond of snakes and mesquites and not fond of some of the two legged animals that are stealing our precious oxygen. However, there is hope for all. I once was considered a oxygen thief but managed to help many people by giving them a job and hope. Is there time to make my book stand out from the two million others, dear God, I hope so. Visit Kindle, Nook, Kobo, ebooks or any of the other electronic exchanges and read a sample chapter. This is all that is fit to print today.  Have a great life, greet every day with optimism and good cheer.  You can and will overcome those obstacles in your life, never give up. Johan Van Oldenbarneveld.