Okay, so I forgot about one other story that I quite needed to share that is quite fantastic in its own right.
Back around mid-September, I had a former client contact me about a presentation engine I had developed for him in Flash a few years earlier. He was working on a large land development deal in Costa Rica with a number of high profile partners and investors that he was looking to “wow” with a similar engine. However, he had many more grandiose ideas in mind for the engine this time around and wanted some very intense transitions, videos, etc. integrated into the presentation. In and of itself, it wasn’t an out of this world project to make happen. What made it difficult was that by the time he came down to me to get the presentation done, his deadline was less than a week away. In addition, the presentation engine I had developed previously was quite legacy and simply couldn’t stand up to what he was attempting with this presentation engine and it couldn’t adapt properly because of the way I built it. In other words, I needed to rebuild the engine from scratch.
I proceeded to work somewhere in the ballpark of 18hrs/day for the next 6 days in an attempt to make the deadline set for me. I was sleeping only 3 or 4 hours per night and my girlfriend was taking care of me making food, tea, etc. while I busted my ass to make this deadline. I managed to get very, very close to making the deadline, but it ultimately wasn’t supposed to be. There was a number of rounds of last minute changes done to the engine as well as design format that were unexpected, not to mention I got tasked with also creating a complex After Effects animation, that kept me from ultimately making the deadline. Most of that, isn’t important, what is important is the lack of sleep, the excessive hours spent in front of the computer, and the copious amounts of tulsi tea I was drinking. Sidebar: tulsi tea is an Indian herb renowned for opening up your awareness and third eye.
Inevitably, it came down to the deadline and the presentation engine simply wasn’t anywhere near where it needed to be in order for my client to use it for their presentation. I got off the computer and collapsed into bed with my girlfriend in a daze of utter exhaustion and tulsi awareness. Of course, I was completely jacked on adrenaline as well from trying to make the deadline so I ended up not being able to sleep (I think all the tulsi tea might’ve had something to do with it as well). As I sat staring at the roof, I noticed a large green orb floating about two feet above my head. Over the course of the next several minutes, this orb dissolved into a male human figure that looked remarkably like myself. This “ghost” then proceeded to float back and forth, into and out of the wall that was directly behind my head. It was the first time I had seen my higher self and it was the first time I had ever seen a spirit as anything more than a simple orb. It was definitely a very intense experience to say the least.



