Bard of Ely Interviews waond
An exchange with a Hubber who covers topics, including mermaids, matriarchy, and the Aquatic Ape theory
Please tell us a bit about yourself.
I was born in London, England in 1946, but spent most of my childhood in Australia. I then came back to London in my early 20s. It was there I got involved in the New Age and Pagan movements, I even joined a Witches' coven for a while. The biggest spiritual influences on my life have been the ideas of J. Krishnamurti, Mary Baker Eddy, Jane Roberts and in more recent times, Esther Hicks. I finally moved to Suffolk, got married and settled down.
What attracted you to HubPages?
I was referred to HubPages by Steve Andrews. I admit I had problems getting the hang of it at first and seemed to have made every mistake in the book. So I left HubPages for awhile and went to Squidoo, which at that time, operated a far simpler system. But then things changed, Squidoo became more complicated while HubPages became easier to work with. So I ended up publishing more on HubPages.
What got you started as a writer and what inspires you to write today?
I had been a bookworm since I was a child, and have a very active imagination, so I was always making up stories in my head. I did try to write down some of the stories I made up as a child and later on as an adult. Unfortunately, I found writing wasn't easy for me and I couldn't reproduce on paper what was in my mind. So although I did try writing Science Fiction stories, they were so bad I didn't get very far with them.
The first real book I wrote was co-authored by a friend of mine called Pamela Suffield. She is an ex school teacher and so knows how to write. I had been telling her about my ideas on the Goddess and this got her so interested that we ended up writing a book together, called, "Gospel of the Goddess". I later on even got it published by a small publisher in New York. That got me started, and I tried writing other books on my own, but now have mostly published them on the internet.
What books have you written and where can people find them?
I have published a number of books
at Lulu.com.
I have also made a lot of my books
into blogs as well.
What other sites have you written for and how do they compare with HubPages?
I have tried Squidoo, and at one time preferred Squidoo over HubPages, but in the end I seem to get a lot more hits on HubPages and have even earned some money from it. So through trial and error HubPages does seem to work best for me. I have tried some other sites but never got on with them.
Please say why you think matriarchy is so important and explain what it is.
From an early age I have been concerned about why we seem to live in a world of warfare, genocide and poverty. I was also brought up in the time of the Cold War when we were worried about a nuclear war between the USSR and USA, and wondered if our leaders would be so stupid as to commit global suicide. Then I read a book called, "The First Sex" in the 1970s by Elizabeth Gould Davis, which talked about a pre-historic Matriarchal age in which there was no warfare or poverty. This book gave me hope that we didn't have to live in an insane world of poverty and war.
I have come to realise that most of the problems of the world come from the fact that it is ruled by men. If we look at animals, we see that most male animals like bulls, stags, and rams like to fight and compete with each other every spring, for dominance and possession of females. Men are similar, but men fight with deadly weapons like spears, swords, cannon, rifles, machine guns, bombs, and rockets. Also, because of their competitive spirit, there is no sense with men of sharing with others. This is why in all countries of the world there is such a big gap between rich and poor.
Women on the other hand have a powerful maternal instinct. In the theory of evolution, the maternal instinct is one of the most important factors determining whether a species of animal survives or not. If the mother does not devote her life to caring for her young and successfully ensuring they survive to adulthood, then the species will become extinct. So wouldn't it be better for us all if the leaders of our world were motivated by caring, maternal, and nurturing instincts rather than competitive, ruthless, and aggressive instincts? This could be possible if the people vote to have caring and nurturing women in positions of power.
I know many women prefer an ideal of feminism in which men and women are equal, but I cannot see how women can be equal with competitive-minded men. The reason why men rule the world at present is because they are far more aggressive and competitive than women are. As female politicians are finding out today, to get anywhere in a patriarchal system, women have to learn to be as competitive as men. So only women like Margaret Thatcher or Angela Merkel, who are as ruthless as any male politician, can achieve any success. Caring and nurturing women would have very little success in our present patriarchal system.
This is why we need matriarchal political parties in which women do not have to compete against men for power and the voters will have a clear choice between patriarchy and matriarchy. So the voters will be given a stark choice between a matriarchal party that is not interested in warfare and have a genuine commitment to overcome poverty with a patriarchal party that likes war and has no interest in the poor. It will be interesting to know which party the majority of voters would pick.
What got you interested in mermaids?
This came about mostly through the Aquatic Ape theory as promoted by Elaine Morgan. For a long time I wondered if perhaps the mermaid myth came about when long ago some people became so aquatic that they ended up living in the seas. I then got some factual books on mermaids from my local library to see if there was any evidence of this. There wasn't any, but in reading about mermaid stories of the past, it became clear that in many sightings, it wasn't of a woman with a fishtail but simply ordinary women swimming in the sea. I then remembered a book I read years ago called, "Hekara, The Diving Girl’s Island," by Fosco Maraini. This book was about female Japanese Ama divers who have foraged the sea floor for thousands of years for marine food. So I began to wonder if perhaps there were once similar divers in Europe, where we also have mermaid sightings. I wrote an article on this, and over time I began to find out more on the internet and added it to the article, until I found I had enough material
to write a book on the subject.
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Get back to basics and learn how to type English properly. I did go to a typing class and learnt how to type properly and this has been a big help to me. Unfortunately I didn't bother to do this with grammar and writing skills. This has been a big handicap in my writing career. Also, writing a book is only half of the work you have to do; it is also about marketing. It is very difficult to get a book published, and even if you just publish it on the internet, you have to work hard, at getting your book noticed, among the millions of other books that people have published.
What sort of videos have you made for
your YouTube channel?
Just videos on Matriarchy, Mermaids and the Aquatic Ape theory. I have found it a lot easier to get people interested in mermaids than matriarchy. I have a mermaid video that has now got over 750,000 hits but my matriarchal videos don't get anywhere near this.
Anything else you would like to say or promote?
I promote some of Guru Rasa Von Werder's websites and I created a blog for her. She has done well in promoting matriarchy and my writings so I try to be a help to her when I can.
I do write articles on other things. I lost a lot of weight by simply not eating sugar and processed meals which are also full of sugar. I have come to realise that sugar is the main cause of obesity; it puts on far more weight than eating fat. The problem is that the dieting advice is a billion dollar industry and it is hard for anyone to get proper information because most of it is promoted by firms wanting to sell you their product. You get a lot of advertising for unhealthy processed meals, full of sugar, but hardly any for healthy fruit and vegetables. This is why so many people are overweight and unhealthy.
I have also written about Freemasonry and their connection to Goddess worship which I wrote down in one of my books, called "
Freemasonry and the Hidden Goddess".
I also write about economics. I know enough to know that this idea that countries are in debt and need austerity to pay back these debts is just a big confidence trick. What the economist Keynes showed back in the 1930s is that depressions or recessions are caused by high unemployment. So if you want to simulate the economy then all you need to do is create full employment. The way this works, is that if the workers all have jobs and decent wages they have money to spend in shops, creating a demand from factories for these goods. So as the factories have to get into full production they need more workers and this simulates the whole economy.
Keynesian economics was used between the end of WW2 and the 1970s where we had economic growth and stability with no depressions or recessions. The trouble with this period is that in that time the gap between rich and poor slowly decreased, which was great for the working class, but not for the rich. For this reason Keynesian economics was ditched. Since then, governments have kept unemployment artificially high. This has given the advantage to the wealthy because since the 1970s the gap between rich and poor has greatly increased.
The reason for this is that full employment gives an advantage to the workers because if they do not like their pay or working conditions they are free to leave and get a better paying job. So employers are always in competition with each other for workers and are forced to give into their demands. But when there is high unemployment the employers have the advantage. This is because if employees do not like their pay or working conditions they cannot so easily leave and find a better job. Most of the time they either have the choice of staying with an unsatisfactory job or becoming unemployed. This then allows employers to drive down wages and impose harsh conditions onto their employees. This is why high unemployment is creating an increasing gap between rich and poor.
If the people knew that high unemployment was created artificially by governments, then the people could do something about it. But while the media is willing to conceal this fact, then the rich can get away with using austerity and high unemployment to undermine the power of the working class.
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