Surviving to Create Your Dreams

Who would I have been if I’d been raised in a supportive environment? If I hadn’t felt like I’d be killed if I was successful, or crushed if I wasn’t? What a question. The answer, I suspect, is most closely answered in my new graphic novel THE EIGHTFOLD PATH, hitting stores on March 22, 2022.

I can’t say EIGHTFOLD PATH is perfect. I can’t say ANYTHING about its quality, other than admiring the contributions of my collaborators. What I CAN say is that I think it might well be more “Steve” than anything I’ve ever done. It might well reflect my actual interests and tastes. I don’t think it would be possible to read it and not have a sense of who I really am, and what I yearned to be in life, what I yearned to create.

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ENERGY might be the single most important quality for success in life. After all, in a very real way the Chakras are just a map of energy modulations, like radio stations, but the “carrier tone” is your life force. You have to have something TO modulate. One of the very first patterns I ever saw that made this clear was in a book I got maybe forty years ago from a dear friend, Marty Brastow (Marty Corbett back then!)

It was on financial success, but there was a fascinating chapter on breaking bad habits. And it laid out a specific pattern that I immediately began to…