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The School of Attraction Story
Our Founding
School of Attraction was founded by Damien Diecke in 2008. It started as a one-man band taking guys out to meet women in Sydney, Australia and sharing his strategies for free. These early experiments allowed him to create the first course focused on long-term results and men feeling great about themselves.
Early Growth
After Damien proved what he could do, by 2009, he brought in business partner Diviya Nand to focus on growth. Within 3 months, there were waitlists and demand for more coaches so we set about training handpicked students that were achieving big results through the course and trained them to become amazing coaches. By paying and treating our coaches extremely well, we allowed the community to become tight-knit and supportive of one another.
Australia's Largest Dating Coaching Company
Pretty soon, the media were very interested in what we were doing and featured us heavily in radio, tv and newspaper segments. Once Sydney was performing well, we moved our attention to other cities, running training in Melbourne, Queensland & Perth. Pretty soon it was clear we were the largest dating coaching company in Australia and moved our sights worldwide.
A New Leaf
To Infinity & Beyond
The Leadership
Damien Diecke
Founder, CEO & Head Coach
Damien started his career as a finance trainer and sales coach before delving into becoming a dating coach. He specialises in creating courses that generate results. He is also a life coach, a personal development coach and a media personality.
Diviya Nand
Co-Founder & Head Of Marketing
Diviya moved into becoming an entrepreneur after she realised that working at a law firm after law school was going to make her miserable. She joined Damien at School of Attraction and moved into marketing and sales. She loves all her students and works hard so they can have the success they dream about.
The Coaches
All coaches have completed the course, gone on to demonstrate extraordinary results and are taught leadership skills by Damien himself. It takes a serious amount of work to become a coach and coaches go on to get rewarded by making $100/ph minimum for their time and effort.
We don't show our coaches faces on our website so that can protect our students' privacy. One of the biggest reasons Damien stopped coaching personally was because he was constantly getting recognised whilst coaching. We try to prevent this happening to our other coaches by using animated images.
We are happy to put you in touch with any of our coaches.
Meet Denzel
Class Clown, Serial Monogamist, Late Bloomer
"I could make any product as desirable as 3am kebab to a piss head"
Until 28, Denzel went through life floundering from one relationship to another – always feeling like his connections with women were more of a coincidence, often ending very badly.
He read Damien's book 'Sincere Seduction' and used these strategies to get a free upgrade to first class on a long-haul flight. The idea that his life would significantly improve with learning dating skills quickly turned into a stubborn belief.
Change happened steadily and quickly – friends and family noticed the improvements.
He found a new appetite for life and focuses on using the same stubborn beliefs to bring out the best in the students he coaches.
Read Denzel's Full Story
I grew up a bit of a class clown, someone who really didn't connect with any of the group stereotypes usually found in a school. I had a flare for creativity, so once I left high school, I found myself studying design and eventually jumping into the realm of advertising.
At the age of 22 I dabbled with stand up comedy for a year and realised that I was also a very curious person. People's stories and a lateral perspective on life, made for great entertainment.
I would later find out out that this would help me in a new role as an Art Director, which I loved, and also in the world of dating.
The Struggle:
Until the age of 28 I went through life as a serial monogamist, floundering from one long term relationship to another.
I never really dated and my real connections with women always felt like a coincidence, more than a conscious decision, and that came with some disastrous results.
Despite a sound understanding of the advertising world as both a designer and art director, my ability to translate my skills were poor.
Give me a product, give me a target market, give me some insights and I could make any product as desirable as 3am kebab to a piss head.
Give me a woman and I'd be able to make her laugh at best and somehow get stuck in a relationship, whether I wanted to or not!
Little did I know, most women will test you again and again and again… and I had failed on multiple occasions with girls that I had somehow managed to get into a relationship with.
I compromised my own principles and crossed lines I had told myself I wouldn't cross on multiple occasions, It was a part of me I would come to detest.
The Change:
Despite having been "done wrong by" from women in past, I decided to take responsibility for my life and change the calibre of women entering it; choice was what I wanted.
I had been familiar with "The Game" and the PUA industry, though felt that I would have had to change who I was fundamentally to succeed using these methods. It felt a little sleazy, it didn't feel right.
Though, after seeing an interview of Damien on 'pedestrian.TV' I felt like this was my brand of seduction, more than anything else I had read.
I told my flatmate about him and we spend the next hour discussing the pro's and cons… "f**k it, let's call him" Damien met with us three days later. He ran through some scenarios and answered all our questions, it was impressive.
I was to start in January because of a trip to the states in november.
So, Damien gave me his book to read on my trip.
Excited about the skills I would learn, I chewed through the book in just under 16hrs on the flight to San Francisco.
I would then start approaching girls using all that I had recently learnt with small, but very significant improvements.
The second girl I spoke to happen to but an air hostess on my connecting flight from San Francisco to New York City. I started in coach and ended up in first class, purely through the conversation we had in a very small period of time.
The idea that my would life would significantly improve with these new skills, had quickly turned into a stubborn belief.
This belief fuelled every interaction and every lesson, every moment of study and quashed all the doubts I had prior to taking the course.
Despite the peaks and troughs, I knew there was always more to learn on the other side of a rut.
This meant I had to surround myself with like-minded people and look out for new friends (that I still have to this day) from the course.
It was time to make this change a permanent one, with habitual improvement.
Improvement that would last would last well beyond the 13 weeks the course took.
Friends, family and colleagues all took the time to mention my change (independently) after the course; it was obvious. I had found a way to show my better, more confident side to women ….
Actually, to everybody.
The anxiety that usually clouded my judgment when approaching life's challenges, turned into excitement and anticipation.
I had truly found a new appetite for life.
As a coach at SOA, I look to bring out the fire in all our students and help them get the most out of themselves, as I know we all have some much to offer, especially to women.
I was very much a late bloomer in all areas in my life, especially women.
Meet Ryan
Shy Guy Who Was Stuck After Relationship Ended
"Other people seem to get girlfriends without coaching, so why do I need help like this?"
All of Ryan's friends had settled down or moved on, leaving him without any social circle.
After a year of being single and lonely, he finally decided that something needed to be done.
He enrolled soon after and over time, his confidence and skill became so good that he was dating very attractive girls – he was loving life!
He still made plenty of mistakes, but with coaches still guiding him, he was able to correct his mistakes quickly and keep progressing rapidly.
He applies the same principles for coaching students by putting everything into it and self-reflecting after every session to uncover what he can do better next time.
Read Ryan's Full Story
Going to nightclubs to try to meet my next girlfriend didn't appeal to me all, so I had literally no way to meet new women to date. For a whole year after the break-up, I was very lonely and very single. Eventually, an ex-girlfriend of mine recommended that I consider getting a dating coach, which led me to the School of Attraction website.
I contacted Damien about my interest and his response and ongoing exchanges were very helpful, prompting me to explore this option further. Damien kindly arranged for me to meet with Shayne, one of the School of Attraction coaches. I remember how nervous and how weird I felt waiting for him. "This isn't normal," I thought to myself. "Other people seem to get girlfriends without coaching, so why do I need help like this?" was another thought that popped into my head.
I was also concerned about how out there and weird this coach could be, considering everything I read and heard about "peacocking" and other pickup practices that all seemed very unusual for me. I met Shayne (a former dating coach at SOA) at a café and was immediately put totally at ease. Shayne was confident and very friendly.
I could relate to him and see myself becoming like him, if I applied myself. He had gotten better with women through consistent action and he wanted to help me and others like me to achieve success with women as well. We had coffee together and he told me tons of helpful information, and then even helped me to talk to some girls right then and there.
His feedback, advice and support were fantastic and I decided right at that moment to sign up to the next available Sincere Seduction Intensive twelve-week program.
Once the course started, I took all the excellent advice Damien gave myself and my fellow students and applied it right away, starting by setting small goals and achieving them. Over time, my confidence and skill at meeting and attracting women became good enough that I was getting numbers and getting dates with very attractive girls.
I was loving life! Being able to approach almost any woman I was attracted to in almost any situation and do my best to sweep her off her feet was what I'd always wanted to know how to do. And now I could do it!
From there, I fully dedicated myself to getting this area of my life totally handled once and for all. My full focus for the next six months was on becoming excellent with women, and that focus still remains to this day. Whereas in the previous year I was only able to have a total of two dates in an entire year, I was now regularly having two dates a DAY and as many as ten dates a week. I was truly enjoying it.
I still made plenty of mistakes, but with Damien, Shayne and the other SOA members' support, I was able to learn from and correct my mistakes straight away and keep progressing rapidly. Before long, I had my first full seduction with a girl I had approached on the street. It felt amazing to know that I no longer had to rely on luck or friends to meet and attract girls.
I had the skill and ability to have as many women in my life as I wanted and it was a very empowering feeling. At a certain point, when my understanding of the attraction process had become very strong, I was offered the opportunity to become a School of Attraction coach.
I was flattered and a bit intimidated by the prospect of it. I accepted the offer and dedicated myself to it. Ongoing training and advice from Damien has helped me become the best coach I could be.
Since that time, I have been incredibly focused on becoming an amazing coach. I put everything into my coaching sessions and self-reflect after every session to uncover what I can do better next time to ensure that I am constantly improving. I now have over 1,000 hours of experience coaching men and I'm very proud to have developed techniques and systems to help students get really good at Day Game really fast.
I'm tremendously grateful to be a School of Attraction coach. I get tremendous pleasure from helping students achieve success in this area of their lives. I truly believe that every guy has the ability to become excellent with women. It is my job and ultimate purpose to help as many guys as possible to achieve their goals with women, creating the romantic life they desire, and helping them to be able to have excellent experiences and relationships with women for the rest of their lives.
Meet Nate
Nice Guy In Recovery Who Was Always Friend Zoned
"It's not about getting a number, it's about getting what I want in life"
Nate's only avenue for meeting women was through friends and once he was branded a 'nice guy', he was always friend zoned.
Diagnosed with depression and anxiety, he remembers the feeling in the pit of his stomach when he'd see beautiful girls, telling himself all the reasons he couldn't approach.
In hindsight, they were excuses, armour to protect himself from rejection.
His first mind-blowing breakthrough was attending a session where he realised he can talk to strangers and they'd actually have a great time.
Soon everything else became clear – customers loved him, interviews were a breeze, he got promoted at his job and finally started going after what he wanted in life – this is what he focuses on and what he instills in students as a coach.
Read Nate's Full Story
You see, I was in a long term relationship with the woman that I thought I was going to marry during my early 20s.
I would have done anything (and been extremely unhappy throughout the entire process) to keep the relationship alive.
Naive, right?
It should be no surprise that when I didn't fit into her life anymore that I was very much stuck in one place.
I'm not really an extrovert or an introvert, I actually sit in the middle of this spectrum, so at times, meeting people was rather difficult.
My only avenue for meeting women really was through friends at parties and even then I was branded with the 'nice guy' stamp and that was that.
No matter how well I thought my life was going, women didn't see me in any form of romantic light and they most certainly were not aware of any kind of romantic feelings I held towards them.
It was rather lonely, especially around other people…
Which isn't the way things should be! It feels like such a paradox.
It was at this point that I was diagnosed with major depression and anxiety and was struggling day to day just to get to work.
I was so afraid of being seen that I was flying under the radar to avoid being promoted.
My own boss didn't know what I was capable of because I hadn't felt worthy of showing it and putting myself in a situation where things would get harder.
The loneliness I experienced didn't really end there.
Living in Sydney, I was seeing beautiful women that I would have loved to have connected with each and every single day.
I remember the empty pit in my stomach that I would get when I would see a woman I wanted to speak to and instantly my mind was at conflict with this desire to connect "you can't do that", "she will feel sleazed on", "women are only interested in big muscles" and the list of reasons why I shouldn't talk to a woman goes on!
In hindsight, they were really just excuses, armour that I was donning to protect myself from rejection.
At the end of the day, I was simply standing there looking like a deer looking straight into oncoming headlights.
I ended up reading Neil Strauss' "The Game". It didn't really resonate with me and it was such a struggle to read at some points.
I got to the end and thought to myself "this bloke basically just built his confidence and duhhhhhhhh, women love confidence.
So how do I do that? I would like to be confident too".
I most certainly wasn't up to trying any of the routines in the book and didn't see a correlation in confidence and those.
And rightly so, it turns out I would have been subconsciously telling myself "you're not good enough" and done even more damage!
So what happened?
Oddly enough, I saw a Facebook ad for a free seminar for the School of Attraction.
I signed up and I was committed to attend.
Not sure how it targeted me to be honest, but I am glad that it did. Honestly, arriving at this seminar, I felt soooooo anxious!
But after chatting to Damien on arrival I felt somewhat at ease.
There was something really genuine about him.
I really enjoyed the content because it was all about being myself.
It was not about playing games, but about approaching with respect and being myself!
We live in a society where men are taught to play games to attract women and growing up, the mantra that was hammered in (even from women) was "treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen".
This was the first time that I'd been told how to do things this way over "just be yourself" (which never helped me) since I'd spent my whole life hearing the opposite and that I need to treat them mean, it really resonated with me.
I had the best time as I wrote down and absorbed so many sentences.
At the end of the seminar, Damien held up a free book for whoever grabbed it first.
You wouldn't have ever seen a white boy jump so high and fast – before I knew what I was doing, my legs had moved and I jumped higher than I ever have… almost toppling a group of chairs over.
There was a fire inside that had been ignited and I was starving for more.
I had been yearning for more and this just felt right.
I chewed through the book so quickly and found it to be rather entertaining so I signed and did a taster session.
The biggest thing I took away from the taster session was "holy crap! I can talk to these strangers and they will have a good time".
For me, that was really mind-blowing. So naturally, I had to sign up!
I wouldn't have it any other way. It opened me up to new passions as I learned that I love social psychology and helping people.
I found it all so fascinating.
As I continued through the course it became evident that I was a bit of a clown.
You see, I was using humour to keep people from seeing who I really am.
And do you want to know the weirdest thing?
As soon as I was taught how to drop that and show who I am when I needed to, suddenly I was able to connect with and take women out on dates.
And everything that I had done and learned started to ripple elsewhere too – customers at work loved me, interviews became a breeze, I started wearing the clothes that I wanted to/felt worthy of wearing, work in general started to not be such a drain and; I was promoted so quickly (just a few weeks) after I was suddenly confident enough to show what I could do.
For me, it all became about going after what I wanted from life and feeling worthy of it. It became my mantra.
While on my journey, I recall a woman asking me as she entered her number in my phone "so, do you just get heaps of girls numbers?" to which I responded without even thinking "it's not about getting a number, it's about going after what I want in life".
She smiled and nodded her head. Wow, I didn't even realise that was what it was about for me!
All the therapy and time sitting around didn't do for me what learning to go after what I wanted in life had done.
I still smile fondly when I think back to some of the amazing women I have met.
Many, if not all of whom, I simply would never have met had I never taken the very first step.
Meet Andy
Married The First Girl That Showed Interest
"After school I was concentrating on my career, hoping that once I'm rich and successful, girls will throw themselves at me. Boy, how wrong was I!"
Andy was so desperate for 'Love' that he married the first girl that showed interest in him at 22 years old. Surprise, Surprise – it was a disaster from day one.
After divorce, he developed strong mistrust towards women which made him controlling and clingy so again, his second relationship ended.
After much self-pity, he enrolled in the course and his real pain began.
He realised how inexperienced he was in all aspects of dating and experienced many embarrassing and painful failures but with the help of the coaches & mentors, he was able to stand back up every time and keep pushing to the point where everything changed.
After 1.5 years of consistent growth, he started training to become a coach. He focuses on getting students to overcome anxiety, grow confidence and become great men.
Read Andy's Full Story
Being originally from Russia and growing up in New Zealand it was difficult for me blending in at school. I had trouble approaching my classmates not to mention girls.
They were unattainable for me to say the least.
After school I was concentrating on my career, hoping that once I'm rich and successful girls will throw themselves at me.
Boy, how wrong was I!
After my 3rd year at Uni I was 21 and desperate. Most of my friends were partying, going clubbing, had girlfriends or had girls they slept with.
I felt like I missed out on my teen years, so I had to catch up in my 20s.
I guess I was so desperate for "love" that I blindly thought that I have to marry any girl that would like me, which is exactly what happened.
I got married at 22 and a new chapter of my life had begun. Although in most countries to get married at 22 is considered to be a bit too soon, in Russia however most people marry very young.
I felt that I finally had my life sorted: a good and fun career, a wife and a possible prospect of wealth.
Of course that didn't pan out as I hoped it would. My marriage went haywire from day one and I couldn't care less until it was too late.
Not having a lot of experience with women I couldn't read what was going on in my relationship.
And she was using it to her advantage, perhaps not even realising that she was doing it to me.
Thinking back to it now I can see so many things that flagged a bad relationship from the beginning.
The whole experience did teach me a lot.
And some of those things were good and helped me to develop further in my life, but some were bad and created a big catastrophe in my next relationship.
I divorced my ex-wife after 5 years of marriage at the end of 2011 and moved to Sydney to restart my life.
I was 27 at the time and thought I would concentrate back on my career and just live for myself for a while.
And so I did for a year, but then I quickly realised that something was missing.
I craved a woman's touch and warmth.
Although my marriage was a disaster, I had a lot of good memories.
And since it was my first experience with women I wanted to find someone who can replace some of the bad memories I had about my past relationship.
And then I found her.
Back when I was 8 years old in Russia I had a girlfriend.
She was my mum friend's daughter, and because of that we used to hang out a lot as kids.
Right before my family migrated to New Zealand we were in our early teens and had a bit of silly kids romance going on, as kids would at that age.
When I was in New Zealand in our early days me and her were still keeping in touch and writing each other letters every week.
But over the years we lost contact, right around when I turned 20.
And I didn't know what she was up to since then. That was until the beginning of 2013, when I accidentally stumbled across her account in social media.
We started chatting and quickly realised that we still have feeling towards each other. She lived in Saint Petersburg, Russia, so that created a problem in communication, but we decided it will not matter and we will overcome that hurdle.
When I was with her I felt like I was with an angel. She made me feel like a real man. And for the first time in my life I was in love. Even to the day I still have great memories about her and our relationship.
Unfortunately as they say: "nothing lasts forever" (especially good things) and so as it was with my relationship with her.
After my marriage has fallen apart I have developed strong mistrust towards women, which made me controlling and clingy.
"Long distance relationships never last." – my friends would tell me, but I didn't want to hear them, I was in love. The long distance did play its trick on me and over time I became paranoid.
Scared that I would lose her, I tried texting and calling her as much as I could. To the point where I would text 5 -7 times a day everyday and would call her at least once a day.
My constant control and clinginess drove her away from me. I couldn't see it at the time and what I was mentally doing to her. She has a very patient character and so she kept on enduring my emotional attachment with her. How blind was I at the time.
Eventually after over a year of our relationship, she broke up with me over the phone.
I was crushed by what happened.
I felt like we were soul mates and even planned to marry her. That was the worst time of my life. I have fallen into a dark depression and even had thoughts of a suicide.
My life had been crushed to pieces.
Although it was a very dark point of my life I did learn from this experience, which helped me in my future endeavour.
After a long time of self-pity I have decided I need to educate myself on the subject of women and I needed to have a much stronger confidence with myself as a men.
My friend suggested that I would look in to pick-up community. He was originally from Russia, but came here already in his late 20 and had a lot of experience with girls.
He told me that in Russia it is a common skill that most men learn from various pick-up communities.
So I did a bit of research on the Internet and found a couple of places in Sydney, but most of them didn't convince me, until I stumbled across Damien Diecke's seminar on YouTube.
That seminar wasn't about pick-up or getting good with girls. It was about happiness and what does it mean to be happy.
This is that seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSDkvuWppPM
The more I watched it the more it made sense to me. I've realized this is exactly what was missing in my life.
I immediately was hooked. I decided I would do his 12 weeks dating course, so signed up online.
For me Damien was this big confident "celebrity portraying" character that I knew (at the time) I would never live up to. I saw him as one of those celebrity speakers like Tony Robbins.
And so when my phone rang and heard his voice I was over the moon, I didn't expect that Damien himself would ring me to arrange a meeting.
I thought maybe some of the representatives or assistants would make the arrangement. I was extremely honoured and baffled over this call.
After meeting him in person I was convinced without doubt, that this was a new turning point in my life.
The course started and the real pain began.
I knew that I was extremely inexperienced with women, but I couldn't even imagine how inexperienced I was with approaching.
I remember my first approach at my first practical session, which for me was the first ever approach in my life. It was day time at Pitt Street Mall.
Nick, who was one of our coaches at the time, pushed me to approach this woman, who was rushing somewhere (possibly on her way to work) I had to jog to reach her.
I stopped her by gently touching her shoulder.
She stopped, turned around and looked at me.
She looked amazing.
I still have a very vivid memory of that.
I opened my mouth, took a big breath and nothing came out.
It's like I was frozen in place.
Not a single muscle moved.
She looked at me like I was an idiot with one eyebrow raised up and kept on walking.
This was my first ever embarrassing approach, one of many as it turned out later.
Over the course of 13 weeks I had too many awkward and embarrassing moments to recall.
Likely with the guidance of our coaches and mentors I was able to stand back up every time and learn from every failure.
I had numerous one night stands and relationships during my course, but the real success started after I finished the course.
One of the rare opportunities that School Of Attraction offers is that you can stay with the community indefinitely.
So after the course I began going out with my friends from SOA and decided that I wanted to become a mentor.
A mentor is one of the ex-student who excelled in the course and want to give back to the community, by going out with new students as their support guy.
After a year and a half of mentoring I realised that I enjoy teaching and coaching new guys. I felt incredible every time I saw progress of one of my mentees get better and better.
So right then I knew I wanted to become a coach for School of Attraction, sharing my knowledge and experience with others.
They opportunity came in early 2016 and I began my training, which lasted around 7 months.
I have been coaching for a while now and had tremendous support from Damien and all the coaches that helped me to become who I am today.
I'm extremely grateful to School of Attraction, all the mentors and coaches for their help.
My life has changed forever.
I didn't just get better with women and approaching but also became a better man. And now as a coach, I encourage my student to take initiative and realise their potential.
I teach them to overcome anxiety, grow their confidence and become great men.
Meet Kelvin
Failed On His Own For 12 Months Before Doing The Course
"They say when it rains , it pours…!"
After being a late bloomer, Kelvin stubbornly set about approaching strangers on his own and manages to get rejected for 6 months straight until getting his first girlfriend, who promptly broke up with him after a few weeks.
He kept trying for 12 months before admitting he needed help and enrolling into the course – to find his life take a massive turn for the better.
By the end of 12 weeks, he had not only smashed his initial goal of 'I hope to get a few dates during the course' but managed to finally meet girls and have them become interested in him anywhere he went.
He realises that after doing the course, he completely changed as a person and coaches students by sharing his own personal struggles and demons.
Read Kelvin's Full Story
I'm generally a pretty introverted guy who likes to keep to myself.
So when the "safe" environment of high school had ended, and university life had begun, I found myself being one of the only guys amongst my close friends, who still hadn't had any success with women whatsoever.
Not even a single date!
In fact, I probably hadn't even talked to a girl outside the purposes of classroom activities.
It was during the first year of my medical degree that I finally decided to do something about it.
Being a pretty stubborn dude, I decided to tackle this area of my life by myself and began a year-long journey of trying to talk to as many strangers as I could on a day to day basis.
It was brutal…
I had no idea what I was doing, and with very little direction in how to improve, it took about 3 months before I got my first phone number.
Luckily, at this point, I had joined a small community of guys who also were working on this stuff and began receiving feedback on what I was doing.
Even so, it took another 6 months of consistent practice before I managed to get my first date!
From then on, I began getting a few dates here and there, but mostly the girls were not very interested in me, or even if they were, I managed to convince myself that they weren't and let opportunities pass by.
Still, being a very stubborn guy, I persisted, changed the way I dated girls, and by the end of my second year in medical school (Now a full 2 years of speaking to new girls on a weekly basis!) I finally got my first girlfriend…
Unfortunately, that ended after a few weeks too!
What was my response? I put more effort into meeting as many girls as possible… But 12 months later, I was still in the same spot. No more progress had been made and frustration had begun to set in.
After going on a long backpacking trip to Europe, where I had many opportunities with girls but saw all of them fall by the wayside, I finally decided to seek some advice from Damien after I came back.
I had already known about The School of Attraction for a while, but actually meeting up with Damien and having a one on one chat was a big step for me.
I still remember my chat with Damien quite clearly, I am a firm believer that the only way to have long term success, is to set and maintain good habits so a long 12 week course like the one SOA offers, was a perfect fit for me.
I decided to sign myself up, and also decided to move into the city during this time so that I could be "closer to the action" and be able to go out multiple times a week to meet women.
My life at this point, took a massive turn for the better.
I had spent the first 3 years of my adult life, trying to interact with women with not much success at all but this was soon to all change… VERY quickly.
On my first practical with SOA, I met up with Adam and the other students and had a discussion regarding a plan on how it's best to speak to girls during the daytime.
I was incredibly motivated and hungry for success, and did the first approach of the day while the rest of the students watched.
It was a success!
The girl who I spoke to was absolutely flattered that I spoke to her, and her friend was even insisting that she give me her number…
That was only the beginning though, for the rest of that session – which was 4 hours long – I managed to speak to about 15 girls, get 12 numbers and then later on during that following week, go on a date with about 7 of them…
They say when it rains, it pours…
This was certainly the case for me.
During the course, I continued to massively improve, and my results with women also followed.
By the end of 12 weeks, I had far exceeded my initial goals of "I hope to get a few dates during this course"…
Meeting girls, and having them become interested in me was no longer an issue at all, in fact, I had to even be selective in who I dated as my weekly timetable was packed with dates!
I had a lot of fun too with a lot of them.
Looking back though, success with women was only a small part of the whole story.
What I now realise is that after doing the course, I completely changed as a person.
I was walking and talking with an air of confidence that I had never had.
I was still the same person inside, but friends and family who had previously not seen me for a while, seemed to notice a big change in me, and always asked me what I had been up to recently as I seemed to be much more confident and fun to be around.
As a result, my relationships with people (not only girls) have improved dramatically as a result, which has no doubt served me in my medical studies, as well as my future career as a doctor.
It was about 6 months after the course had finished, that after having made such as dramatic positive change in my life that I decided I wanted to do the same for other students.
With some direction from Adam, who had now become a very close friend of mine, I decided to approach Damien about my interest to be a coach.
He set me a challenge… to perfect every "skillset" in the book.
From approaching, to making girls laugh, to building rapport, to not being ashamed of being sexual with girls…
If my journey to success with women was difficult, my journey to become a coach was even more so!
Over the preceding 12 months, I worked tirelessly going out at least twice a week to work on perfecting my skills with speaking to women, and then spent the 6 months after that, on training how to best utilise what I knew, and inspire and teach students with it.
By the beginning of 2015, I have finally managed to become a coach.
The journey here has taken nearly as long as my medical degree!!
And as a coach who began as a very socially withdrawn guy, who has been through an incredible amount of challenges and sticking points when it comes to interacting with women to get to where I am today, I believe I'm in a very unique position to help other students overcome their own challenges and achieve success with women.
I'm very grateful to be in this position where I have the opportunity to interact with and help many other guys with such a personal challenge, and I am committed to do whatever it takes to push you along your journey so that your success comes much quicker than it did for me!
Guest Coaches
We also include past coaches who have moved on to start their own companies or move elsewhere to new opportunities.
Because we're a family here at School of Attraction, they are forever a part of us and do show up sometimes to guest coach.
Active 2014 – 2017
Duncan is a British psychologist who came on board to certify that our material was the best it could be. He moved on to focus on executive coaching and remarks often how businesses love that he was a dating coach and it helps him sell his training.
Active 2012 – 2015
Nick is a network engineer who moved to Bali to take a step back and create the best lifestyle imaginable for himself. He occasionally makes an appearance to hang out with us and give support and advice.
Active 2010 – 2014
Adam was our best coach and advocate who unfortunately passed away in 2014 from a sudden stroke. He had a huge impact in many of our coaches & students so to us, he is always a guest coach in our hearts.


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Dragon Forces AR
Entrant 2016
Dragon Forces AR was presented at SIGGRAPH 2015 Appy Hour and in the Epson Developer's Corner. SIGGRAPH is the best international conference on computer graphics.
Our game was also nominated for the 2015 Vuforia™ Vision Awards.
This game proposes an innovative, different, augmented reality tower defense battle. Move the 6 different weapon multi-target boxes to create ingenious real time defense strategies and keep your castles away from dragon extermination.
The 3D geometry of multi-targets will allow you to move the weapons around the world and experience a new way of game interaction with an incredible environment that includes 3D worlds, characters and animations.
There are four different levels with increasing difficulty. Each level has a main castle to defend, place the castle multi-target box and point it with the mobile's camera, the 3D world will appear. Different dragons will start to walk or fly, heading towards the castle to attack it.
To defend your castle, use the other 5 multi-target boxes which represent a weapon you may use to shoot the enemies. Unlike other tower defense games, this one allows you to move your weapons any way you like and create defense strategies depending on how much dragons are attacking. This new game-play creates an innovative, challenging augmented reality experience.
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|Posted by JACK CARY on November 8, 2012 at 11:15 AM
For those who truly understand the scientific reality of remote viewing, this experiment is tantamount to finding the holy grail. In recent months the now famous Web Bot project, conducted by Clif High and his associates( www.halfpasthuman.com), has zeroed in on a most tantalizing mystery. This mystery, which has been extracted using neuro linguistic pattern analysis on a global scale, appears to be a very real "breakaway civilization" that now considers itself seperate and apart from the rest of humanity. Richard Dolan at www.keyholepublishing.com was the first to pick up on the possibility of there being a breakaway civilization. His book is now available on the subject and it is damning in it's scholarly dissection of the issue. Now Dr. Courtney Brown and his experimental group of the world's best remote viewers has also confirmed that there is indeed "life on mars", and that their are humans living there with very advanced technology and structures. The following film is a full presentation of the experiment by Dr. Courtney Brown himself. This experiment both confirms the validity of the Web Bot findings and Richard Dolan's work on the matter. We cannot stress enough what a huge, huge discovery this is.
|Posted by JACK CARY on July 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM
A recent horse mutilation in Argentina is a text book example of why credible researchers believe that this phenomenon is genuine and not a case of mistaken predatory action. In this most recent case the horse clearly had its heart removed from a perfectly round hole in its chest. It's genitals were also removed which is a tier 1 pattern hallmark of this phenomenon. In each valid case the organs that have the highest cell reproduction rate are usually focused on. One major meta pattern of the phenomenon is that horse and cattle mutilations more often than not occur within a 2 day window of the full moon of any given month. This is the most advantageous period for using night vision equipment as the moon appears full during this entire window and casts a large amount of light that helps to aid the equipment. Whether or not this is the reason for them occurring in this moon phase time window is a matter of pure speculation originally posited by the National Institute for Discovery Science.This mutilation happened just a couple of days before the full moon of July 3rd. Below is a photograph of this most recent mutiliaton, notice how one leg is still on top of the barb wire fence that it was dropped on. The impact broke the horses leg and the photograph clearly shows it bent upward from the impact. Locals also reported that a goat and a dog suffered the same fate not far from this location.
Linda Moultan Howe, www.earthfiles.com
a leading authority on the unexplained animal mutilation phenomenon has recently published a report based on a government memorandum written in 1947 that gives us a glimpse as to why Roswell had to be kept secret in the eyes of the government. The memo is shocking and states the following:
"The most disturbing aspect of this investigation was -
there were other bodies found not far from LZ-1 that looked
as if they had been dissected as you would a frog. It is not known
if army field surgeons had performed exploratory surgery on these
bodies. Animal parts were reportedly discovered inside
the craft at LZ-2 but this cannot be confirmed."
- July 22, 1947, War Department IPU Memorandum
Recently an ex C.I.A. officer has come forward to claim that he witnessed absolute proof that Roswell happened and in our Deep Black Roswell Report located in our paranormal patterns section we show why we believe Roswell was in fact the real thing. Below is the story form TIME magazine.
We at the PIA believe this is an unfolding meta pattern of 'secrets revealed' predicted by Clif High's Web Bot. The predicton is that many shocking secrets will be revealed in the next few months. We wait with anxious anticipation of what is to come.
|Posted by JACK CARY on June 27, 2012 at 9:35 PM
Things just seem to get stranger and stranger when it comes to the Baltic Sea UFO. What is clear is that this is not just any old pile of rocks. Whatever the Ocean X team has discovered is truly perplexing and promises to be ever more interesting as events unfold. This is one of the most promising unexplained mysteries that has come about in a very long time.
|Posted by JACK CARY on June 9, 2012 at 12:55 AM
We have reported on the Ocean Explorer team going to explore what looks like a UFO at the bottom of the Baltic Sea and now from their own website they are reporting that they have found something very unusual and their divers are 'amazed'.
BREAKING NEWS 2pm, The divers are now down and investigating the circle and reports from the ship say they are really amazed. There is definitely something unusual hiding at the seabed – a Mystery Beneath. More information and pictures will be released next week.
|Posted by JACK CARY on June 7, 2012 at 9:30 PM
Recently a video has gained some degree of attention around the web in certain circles. This video is purportedly a leaked KGB film of an alien grey and in one frame multiple greys. Instantly one's hoax radar goes up. We are well aware of the multitude of lonely, dejected half wits who sit around thinking of ways to commit hoaxes for no pay off other than a gimpish chuckle between swills of semi warm soda and half melted payday bars. This video, however stands out for a number of reasons. The first is that to our knowledge at this time, no one has come forward claiming to have made this film. The production expenses for producing this piece of video, say on a set of some kind, would be enormous and outside the realm of most would be hoaxers. The amount of expertise that would be required to produce a hoax of this quality is far more substantial than most would suspect. The entities in the film show muscle movement around the eyesocket and temple area. The fingers seem to move and of course the being turns its head and blinks repeatedly. This is an astounding piece of video whatever the provinance ultimately proves to be. The one possibility that does make sense to us at P.I.A. is that perhaps this was used as a tool of disinformation by the KGB and produced by them. One must take into account however that the video posted below would require Hollywood style production and expertise and the former Soviet Union really has no movie industry to speak of. The creatures in video below seem to fit the bill as far as what most abductee victims report and yet are a far cry from the 'horror film' version of the grey seen in most modern day depictions. Could this film be real? Are we seeing what the so-called greys really look like?
|Posted by JACK CARY on June 1, 2012 at 7:40 PM
A woman named Kaye Wilson claims alien abduction happened to her and what is more, she has the first possible real tangible evidence to prove her story.
|Posted by JACK CARY on May 31, 2012 at 1:05 PM
Recently the P.I.A. has detected what could be an underlying link or connection between a mainstream news story about stolen medical equipment in Florida and the now long running cattle mutilation enigma. Mainstream news recently reported that 500,000 dollars of contaminated medical equipment was recently stolen from Florida Hospital's Orlando campus. This equipment has been used to biopsy a patient who had died of jacob creutzfeldt disease. This disease is the human form of mad cow disease or bovine spongyform encephalopathy. Many researchers including the now famous research group called the Institute for Discovery Sciences has linked this disease with the cattle mutilation phenomenon. The cattle mutilation phenomenon really took off in the 1970's in Colorado. The first recorded victim being a horse, not a cow. It is known to us that the woman who owned the horse who was mutilated often reported strange lights and encounters on her property and recorded these happenings in a diary. According to record, one day while her family attended church, she committed suicide, leaving behind only her diary. After her funeral church volunteers were tasked with cleaning out her belongings from her home. Those in the group remember two unknown men entering the home under the pretense of being part of the volunteer group. These men were seen removing papers from the home and leaving. Witnesses recall the men being dressed rather peculiarly, wearing dress pants and shoes, but with only white t-shirts. The diary was never found and it is now presumed that these two men stole the diary.
It is also known to the PIA through the research of NIDS and others that at some point in the early 1960s a research scientist working out of a secret facility in Fort Collins Colorado began researching the Kuru virus of New Guinea. He travelled to site of an outbreak and took live samples and transported them back to Colorado. He and his team then injected certain species of wildlife with the virus in order to determine what the outcome would be. One of the animals, a deer, escaped from this facility and made its way into the wildlife population. Not long after this event was the first ever recorded cases of chronic wasting disease in the deer and elk populations. The NIDS believe that this is the same virus and it is the same virus as mad cow disease. They have been able to successfully predict the outbreak of new cattle mutilation cases based on the outbreak areas of chronic wasting disease that occurred the season before. We now believe that what is occurring is that the deer and elk herds are grazing on the same lands as the cattle. They leave behind contaminated saliva deposits on the same grass the cows later feed on. This contaminates the beef supply completely. The fact that the animals are left behind has long stood out as a major red flag. We now believe the animals are left behind as a brutal warning that the food chain has been compromised and that the eventual outcome of this will be widespread disease outbreak as the straiin grows more virulent. There are only a couple of known patterns when it comes to cattle mutilations. The first is that they always occur on or around areas where chronic wasting disease is reported. The second is that in most of the cases, the mutilations all occurred within two days of a full moon. This implies to the PIA the use of night vision equipment. This would have especially been true in the 1970's when thermal imaging was not known to the military. The third is that the animals are always left behind. We believe that the food chain has been compromised by so called Prion Proteins and that this will have a devastating effect on the population. Below is a link to the medical equipment story and excerpts from the NIDS report which has now been mysteriously removed from the internet.
Unexplained Cattle Deaths
And The Emergence Of A Major
TSE Epidemic in North America
National Institute for Discovery Science
Note - Because of the length of this outstanding report and that it is in a 'pdf' format, many may not read it all or successfully access the file. Therefore, I am posting several excerpts here which, hopefully, will encourage more to access and carefully read this entire precedent-setting scientific work... -ed
We present evidence that a correlation exists between reports of animal mutilation and the emergence of a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) epidemic in North America.
* We show that sharp instruments are used in animal mutilations. Our data contradict the conclusions of the 1980 Rommel Report that claimed predators and scavengers could explain reports of cattle mutilations.
* Using data obtained from a NIDS nationwide survey of bovine veterinarian practitioners, we show that certain organs are preferentially removed during animal mutilations.
* We focus attention on the temporal and geographical overlaps between the animal mutilation and TSE epidemics in NE Colorado. The most highly publicized TSE epidemic in North America, chronic wasting disease (CWD), emerged in NE Colorado in the late 1960s.
* We show evidence that patterns of animal mutilations conform to covert but classical wild life sampling methodologies for infectious diseases.
* We show evidence in support of an epidemic of prion disease that is both subclinical in cattle and clinical in deer/elk in North America.
* We describe evidence from two laboratories that a number of prion diseases in humans are misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease and therefore currently escape detection.
* The historical record shows that high levels of infectious TSEs were imported from New Guinea into research facilities at Fort Detrick and Bethesda, Maryland after 1958 and were used for intensive cross-species infectivity experiments.
* We hypothesize that animal mutilations represent both a TSE-disease sampling operation on domestic animals AND a graphic warning that the beef and venison food chain is compromised.
Overall, the evidence suggests that animal mutilations are a long-term, covert, prion disease sampling operation by unknown perpetrators who are aware of a substantial contamination of the beef and venison food supply. Although this paper presents evidence in favor of a motive for animal mutilations, there is still insufficient evidence to identify the perpetrators.
The hypotheses described in this paper yield a number of testable predictions. Examining these predictions in the coming months and years is increasingly urgent because they have considerable public health implications. Secondly the recent (May 2003) announcement of a case of mad-cow disease in Alberta, Canada has brought the issue of the contamination of the human food chain into sharper focus.
Cases of unexplained cattle deaths, also known as animal mutilations, are characterized by the deliberate removal of organs from domestic and wild animals by unknown perpetrators. Testimony from veterinary pathologists, law enforcement officials and cattle inspectors clearly distinguish animal mutilations from death of domestic and wild animals by infectious disease, predation, and other natural causes (1). The phenomenon has been unsuccessfully investigated by law enforcement and by a variety of researchers since the early 1970s. Animal mutilations emerged into the glare of media attention beginning in the late 1960s, intensified in the 1970s and since then have waxed and waned in intensity. Although animal mutilation research has been immersed in a miasma of wild speculation, false claims and unscientific methodology, there is considerable evidence that the phenomenon is real.
The two central and unanswered questions that have dogged research into this phenomenon are (a) Who and (b) Why? The purpose of the present paper is to focus on the second question and to review evidence suggesting a link between the intense animal mutilation waves of the 1970s/1980s and the emergence of an epidemic of infectious disease in North America during and after this period. The issue of the contamination of the North American food supply by an infectious prion agent has come into sharper focus since the announcement in May 2003 by Canadian authorities of a confirmed case of mad cow disease in Alberta, Canada. This paper hypothesizes that patterns of animal mutilations are consistent with a covert infectious disease monitoring operation in the United States and elsewhere. It is not the purpose of this paper to ask the question: "who is killing and mutilating the animals"?
Lines of Evidence Suggesting the Animal Mutilation-TSE Linkage
1. NE Colorado was a Major Animal Mutilation Epicenter 1975-1977 In a two-year period, (1975-77) in two Colorado counties alone, there were nearly two hundred reports of mutilated cattle (1). Governor Richard D. Lamm flew to Pueblo Colorado on Sept 4, 1975 to confer with the executive board of the Cattlemen's Association about the mutilations, which he called "one of the greatest outrages in the history of the western cattle industry." The Governor added, "it is no longer possible to blame predators for the mutilations" (2). In the 1970s, in addition to the scores of cases in NE Colorado, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of animal mutilation reports were investigated by local law enforcement with cases occurring in 15 states, from South Dakota and Montana to New Mexico and Texas.
2. Since 1981, NE Colorado has been the epicenter of a CWD epidemic Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion associated neurodegenerative disease that is a part of a larger family of fatal conditions that include Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, scrapie in sheep and sporadic and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (sCJD or vCJD)/kuru in humans (3). Prion diseases are described in more detail below.
CWD afflicts mule deer, white-tailed deer and American elk (waipiti) in several states and in Canada. CWD was first seen in 1967 in captive deer at a Colorado State University research station in Fort Collins, Colorado. Shortly after the animal mutilation epidemic in NE Colorado died down, beginning in 1981, cases of CWD were found in free-ranging deer and elk, initially only in areas in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. Recently, however, surveys in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska have documented an astoundingly high CWD prevalence in some wild deer herds (3). By February 2003, additional CWD cases have been documented in Kansas, Minnesota, Utah, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada. In spite of strenuous culling efforts by state wildlife agencies, CWD appears to be spreading rapidly.
3. Predators, Scavengers or Sharp Instruments?
An oft-cited study throughout the history of animal mutilation investigations has been the famous Rommel Report. Written in 1980 by retired FBI officer Ken Rommel, the report purports to show that simple predator and scavenger activity was mistaken by ranchers and law enforcement officials for "mutilations" (19). There have been numerous criticisms of this report, not least of which was a complete lack of forensic or veterinary pathology expertise on the part of the senior investigator. In fact, before being appointed to head Operation Animal Mutilation, Rommel's prior career expertise had focused on the investigation of bank robberies.
Rommel purportedly investigated about 20 mutilations in the state of New Mexico during a six month period in 1979. Given that NIDS has (so far) spent seven years continuously investigating cattle mutilations, arguably with far greater resources than those given to the Rommel investigation, the tiny scope and extremely short time frame of the Rommel study demolished it's credibility as a serious scientific study. Nevertheless, the NIDS investigations of animal mutilations in northern New Mexico have confirmed at least one aspect of the results published in the Rommel Report. Using veterinary pathology and bacteriology analysis, NIDS found a majority of reported animal mutilations in northern New Mexico 1996-2002 were false positives. Animals had died of Clostridial infection (blackleg), under-nourishment, as a result of the inappropriate application of the organophosphate insecticide Warbex (64) or from other natural causes.
The NIDS investigations found that scavengers had subsequently attacked and devoured parts of these carcasses. Where the Rommel Report and the NIDS analysis part ways is that NIDS has also conducted field investigations, including necropsies and tissue sampling, of animal mutilations in other states, including Utah, Montana, Nebraska, California, Oregon, Washington etc. Where the Rommel investigation used a few isolated cases of false positives in New Mexico that were gathered over an extremely truncated time frame to generalize that all animal mutilations in the United States were simply the result of predator or scavenger activity, it could be argued that the NIDS approach has been more scientific. It is also noteworthy that the Rommel Report has been widely cited by some law enforcement groups (although, as time goes on, increasingly fewer), university laboratories, and veterinary groups as justification for not expending resources on investigations into animal mutilations.
NIDS has investigated several mutilation cases where evidence for the use of sharp instruments was documented using veterinary pathology techniques (20 and references therein). In this report, we will cite just two examples; others can be found in (20).
Case #1: Circumstances and Preliminary Investigation
March 10, 1997 ó 10:00 AM: Two ranchers on a remote pasture in NE Utah began the daily tagging of calves born the night before. The weather was bright and sunny, temperatures in the 50s. The ranchers estimated they tagged and weighed the 87-pound animal about 100 yards from the fence line. There was a ring of snow surrounding the pasture where they tagged the animal.
After tagging the animal, they walked about 300 yards west to another newborn animal and went through the process of weighing and tagging that animal. The two were accompanied by their blue heeler dog. About 10:45 AM, the heeler began to growl and act strangely with a focus on the area they had just left.
March 10 ó 10:45 AM: The blue heeler began snarling in earnest and arching his back. Without warning, the animal ran west across the fields, away from the direction he had been looking. The heeler was never seen again.
March 10 ó 10:50 AM: The rancher and his wife, looking back, then noticed a grown cow running frantically back and forth towards the fence line while dragging her leg. Both then walked back to investigate. The rancher reported seeing the recently tagged newborn calf lying eviscerated in the field (see photos), close to where it had been tagged about 45 minutes previously. In a 45-minute period in daylight, 100 yards from any cover, with the rancher about 200-300 yards away, the calf had most of its body weight removed, including entrails, and appeared to have been placed carefully on the ground with no blood present on or near the animal.
March 10 ó 4:00 PM: In one of the most rapid turn-around times in NIDS' investigative history, two NIDS scientific investigators and a veterinarian were standing over the dead calf only a few hours after receiving the call from the rancher. The photo below (Fig 1) is an accurate representation of how the animal was found:
[Figure 1. The animal was found spread-eagled on the grass with no blood on or underneath.]
The investigators confirmed the eviscerated calf as reported by the rancher. The veterinarian began the necropsy. Investigators videotaped the necropsy and photographed the procedure. As the veterinarian performed the necropsy, he said a sharp instrument, possibly a knife, had been used to remove the ear. He also reported there may have been evidence of chewing on the animal. The initial observation made by the veterinarian regarding the use of a sharp instrument on the animal's ear (see photograph below) was later confirmed by an independent veterinary pathology lab.
[Figure 2: The animal's left ear had been cleanly cut with a sharp instrument.]
[Figure 3. Close-up of ear.]
A close-up of the ear (Figure 3) showed that the cartilage, hide and all connective tissue had been cleanly sliced to remove the ear. A detached femur bone from the animal was sent to one of the top forensic pathologists in the country who confirmed that two separate sharp instruments had been used on the bone: a heavy machete-like instrument and a smaller scissors-like instrument.
Within 24 hours, an experienced tracker who makes a living tracking game animals arrived and quartered an area nearly a mile radius from the dead calf. No tracks were found.
No blood was found on or near the animal. The veterinarian who conducted the necropsy opined the animal had been exsanguinated very effectively. In order to test the hypothesis that blood may have seeped from the animal into the soil, NIDS obtained about 3 liters of fresh blood (the approximate blood volume of the exsanguinated animal, using the standard assumption that blood is approx 7% of body weight) from the local slaughterhouse. The blood was poured on the ground where the calf was found. Videotapes and photographs were recorded of the blood on the ground at regular intervals for 48 hours following the initiation of the experiment. Even 48 hours after the blood was poured, the bright red stain of hemoglobin was very obvious on the grass.
The following is a portion of the Summary remarks at the end of the NIDS report:
Why Leave the Body?
This question has plagued investigators ever since the first well-publicized investigations of mutilations began back in the early 1970s. As any reader familiar with the animal mutilation topic will agree, a plethora of hypotheses have sprung up about the perpetrators and their motives for animal mutilations. One of the most quoted hypotheses involves a government operation to monitor radiation or biological warfare testing. But the question "why leave the body?" has never been adequately answered by these hypotheses. The government can just as easily test their own herds, the counter-argument goes, or obtain carcasses from a slaughterhouse if they wish to covertly monitor radiation. Thus, for this and many other reasons, the evidence points away from the government as perpetrators of animal mutilations.
Vallee (56) and Smith (57) have suggested intriguing hypotheses that leaving the cow carcass on the ground constitutes a deliberate message. In common with both these authors, we suggest that implicit in the deliberate lack of an attempt to conceal the carcass on the part of the perpetrators of animal mutilation, is a brutal warning. We suggest that attention is being deliberately focused on the mutilated animals. Further, we suggest the warning is that the human food chain is compromised, probably with a prion-associated infectious agent that still remains mostly undetected.
|Posted by JACK CARY on May 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM
The world is still at a loss to explain these noises. To some they sound like trumpets, to others like grating noises accompanied by physical vibrations that shake their house or body. After a period of silence it seems they have returned. This video was taken by a gentleman in England out walking his dog.
|Posted by JACK CARY on May 6, 2012 at 9:35 PM
One of America's most enduring mysteries may have been solved. The mystery of the lost colony at Roanoke. The only clue up till now in this historical mystery was the now famous word 'Croatoan' that was carved into a tree by the missing colonists. Now a map has surfaced that may solve the mystery once and for all.
|Posted by JACK CARY on April 24, 2012 at 9:25 PM


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A Cancer Story: Waiting for the Hammer to Fall
**To celebrate Colon Cancer Awareness Month and my six-year anniversary being cancer-free I'm giving away a book a week this month. To enter to win, just leave a comment on any of my "Cancer Story" posts.
Immediately after seeing the surgeon I was sent for a CAT scan. This would show if the cancer had metastasized to any other organs. The scan was no big deal, a lot of "hold your breath, now breathe, hold your breathe, breathe." The hard part was waiting for the results.
And waiting.
And waiting.
It seemed like an eternity. The results would determine the final course we would take for treatment. They would also be the messengers of hope or doom.
A couple of days later I got the results and they showed there was no visible metastasis.
But it was only the beginning. More tests would follow–x-rays, ultrasounds, internal ultrasounds, scopes, blood work–and more waiting for results. Waiting for the hammer to fall.
By the time I was diagnosed I'd worked in the medical field for ten years and now I knew what it was like to be the person whose life revolved around the next test, the next result. The waiting became almost unbearable, one day ran into another, but each test brought the surgery that much closer.
Through that jungle of tests and results and interpretations and explanations one truth pointed the way and guided my course.
Be still and know that I am God.
I'd repeat it to myself constantly. Frankly, the being still part was difficult. That peace that surpasses all understanding was hard to find. My worry meter was stuck on maximum. But the know that I am God part? Ah, now there was something tangible I could grab onto.
I knew that no matter how I felt about the situation, how I worried, how I fretted, how I impatiently waited for the next result, God was still God, He was still on the throne, He was still calling the shots, He still had me in the palm of his hand.
That was a truth emotions couldn't manipulate. It was a lighthouse upon a solid rock in the midst of the storm beating against me.
What was the one truth you clung to when the waves swelled and the rain fell?
Posted on March 13, 2014, in Cancer, Life in General and tagged blood tests, Cancer, cancer story, Cancer survivor, CAT scan, Colon cancer, colon cancer awareness month, God's sovereignty. Bookmark the permalink. 13 Comments.
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences, Mike! It is so refreshing to read of your real, human responses rather than putting on a "front". So may times, Christians put on an "act" of pretending hardships are okay because it must be God's will. We don't have to be okay with things, but we know that God will make everything okay and will be with us through every step. Thank you for your example!
These articles help me to understand better what my friends fighting cancer are going through… even or should I say especially the Christians
My SIL is going through chemo and then will have radiation. I can't imagine. But I do know how it is to fight for your life. I think I posted before about almost dying. I had an experience I KNEW was from God in the middle of all of it, at a point they still didn't know if I would make it, but I knew things were gonna be alright. In fact I was trying to calm family members when they were allowed in my room. ICU has its strict visiting hrs. Prior to my experience I was terrified of dying. Now I know without one doubt what is on the other side and am not afraid. He will be with me to comfort me when the time comes.
Your post hit home Mike. That waiting is as hard to deal with as the chemo. Thankfully God really can give that peace beyond our understanding.
Mike, beautiful brothers, brother. Be still and know that He is the unchanging God. Loving this series, Mike.
Mike… Being able to share your story is Amazing. You help so many people, just by sharing your words!! I am inspired by your posts, just as so many are!! Keep up the great work that you do!! You touch so many people in so many ways!! We all benefit in one way or another just by meeting you, or reading your posts. You are an Amazing person… And thank you for sharing your experiences with all of us!!


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Big Kids
Em started 2nd grade today. SECOND. You know, like not even close to being the youngest and littlest kid in school any more. Like, a grade where California requires standardized testing. Like, her classroom has its desks in ROWS rather than cute little we're-really-only-playing-at-being-in-school groupings like in kindy and 1st.
She got the teacher she wanted, and two of her best friends are in her class, plus a girl she's only previously known through the aftercare program, and who she really likes. She got right in line this morning, and the teacher came and basically dismissed all of us picture-taking, anxious parents and told us, in nicer terms than I'm about to use, to get our asses out of there, because we sure as shit weren't getting to go into the classroom with the kids. Who, to be honest, didn't need us to follow them in anyway because, you know, they're big now. Second graders. Very, very grown up school kids who don't cry on the first day like they did in kindergarten. Unlike their moms. Sob.
But really, I'm here to talk about N, who's made these totally astounding (to me) leaps in the past few weeks. N, who at 3.5 is now writing his name--and three out of the four letters are totally recognizable! N, who is now playing Candyland with actual rules, and following the actual trail, and stuff like that. (He cheats, of course, but what self-respecting 3.5-year0old doesn't?) N, who yesterday stood several feet away from me with a plastic bat in his hands, and swung at a ball I pitched at him and not only connected, freaking me out, but hit that sucker way the heck over my head. And then proceded to do it several more times. Did I mention he's 3.5? Ha! Tee-ball be damned, I'm sending this kid straight to training camp. Of course, there's that little problem of his being 3.5. And the other literally little problem of his predicted full adult height being around 5'3", if we're lucky and he grows to his full potential. Sigh. Damn those ever-pervasive short genes. I'd'a had me a baseball prodigy who could buy me houses and cars and keep me in the style to which I'd like to become accustomed, if not for them.
But that's not all. He's also taken a number of very significant steps toward the ultimate in Big Kid-dom: He's potty training. In fact, yesterday he wore underpants to school for the first time ever (though he had to be changed into Pull-Ups after nap time because he'd had a few accidents), and over the weekend, he was in undies the whole time. Plus, today, for the first time ever as well, he demanded underpants when given a choice of undies or Pull-Ups to go to Em's soccer practice. When he made that momentous choice, Baroy and I looked at each other with wide eyes, as it hit us both: We're just moments away from not having a child in diapers...for the first time in SEVEN YEARS. (Yes, my children are slow potty trainers. Do the math. If N trains in the next month or so, he'll have beaten his sister's record by a full two months.)
Another Big Kid Breakthrough these days is clarity of speech. My mom recently commented that she can almost understand everything he says to her on the phone, even if she has no idea what it means. My sister and stepfather said similar things. And I've noticed that not only is he easier to understand, but his comprehension is soooooooo much better. He's starting to understand concepts of time and sequence, and to even deal with some semblance of abstract thought. The other night, he asked me to tell him the story of "when N borned" which I had told the night before when two of Em's best friends came for a sleepover. He laid there and just grinned with that sort of "she's telling a story about ME" pride that he's just never had before. He'd never shown any curiosity about himself as a baby. Now he wants me to tell N stories all the time.
And to wrap up this child-centric post (which is hopefully banal and level enough to show that I am leveling out a little myself), just a cute little conversation between N and I this afternoon. (We kept him home from preschool today so that he could walk Em to her first day and because he's kinda sniffly...not that that's unusual. Preschool, after all.)
Me: Hey, N, you must be hungry. Would you like some lunch?
N, looking up from his Maisy viewing/idolizing: Um...sure. That would make me very happy if you do dat, Mommy.
Me, amused: Well, then I will. Do you know what I want?
N, looks up again: Um...yeah. Macawoni and cheese. Because that's my very favorite.
Hee! Check that out, folks. Vocabulary. Responsiveness. More than a one-word answer. Absolute cuteness. That's my boy. My Big Boy.


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