Plan Nine

By Joe Ferguson

A collection of short stories and life reflections from Dr. Joe Ferguson, PhD Psychology, Fielding University and MBA, Wharton School of Business. Dr. Joe has helped countless people with his positive and constructive approach to life's greatest challenges and joys. Go with Joe on this trip through fictional capers and learn from the many pearls of wisdom sprinkled throughout the chapters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joe Ferguson
• Release date: Apr 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476052465

Joe Ferguson

Following a business career in various line and executive roles, Dr. Ferguson now specializes in personal counseling and psychotherapy, male adolescent issues, treatment of depression and anxiety, couples counseling, divorce and other relationship issues. He also writes fun and intellectual stories like you will find throughout Plan 9.

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PLAN NINE

Joe Ferguson

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PLAN NINE

Joe Ferguson

Copyright © 2012

All Rights Reserved.

Smashwords edition.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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AUTHOR'S FOREWORD

I didn’t know this little book existed until I saw it in digital print, even though I did write all the stories that follow. This is because my eldest son Paul, who is 30-something as I write this, recently became interested in these essays and published them as a surprise for his old Pop! I love that, especially because I wrote these snippets for the amusement of my friends when I was 30-something myself! I have often fantasized about having a conversation with my own long-departed father, through some sort of time warp, so that we could both be the same age for a while. Paul seems to have figured out a way to actually achieve this! Thank you, Son!

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Hanging from a cliff, let go

and agree to accept the experience.

After annihilation, come back to life.

I could not deceive you!

Ta-hui

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CONTENTS

Symmetry

Symmetry

Yvonne

Chasing Birds

Calm Strike

Twisted Hose

Karma

Garbage Pit

Live Talk Weather

Two Dog Nights

Plan Nine

Potentiality

A Place at the Center

Shanti

Mud Wrestling & Jujitsu

In The Eye Of The Tiger

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Symmetry

Life is truly exquisite! Reality is always more subtle than it appears, and it endlessly reveals new levels of hidden beauty as it is examined ever more closely! Growth and development are inherent in all things! Evolution is the most fundamental process in nature! Even the simplest things can be interpreted from an endless variety of viewpoints! We progress forever from one extraordinary experience to the next! How can we ever hope to comprehend the limitless range of possibilities that lies before us?

Consider our health and vitality, our security and comfort, our companionship and our love! They are at the heart of everyone and everything! These things continue to be true even while we are deluded into thinking momentarily that they are not!

Reflection leads eventually to understanding and hope! Experiment leads always to opportunity! An infinite variety of possibilities exist! Labor leads always to fulfillment! All things continuously flower and advance! Everything is plainly a part of something larger, more comprehensive and more permanent than itself, without limit!

On the other hand...

Everything disintegrates eventually. Creation leads always to decay. The best that labor and wealth can achieve is survival. There is really no such thing as freedom. Anticipation leads always to disappointment. Reflection leads eventually to confusion and despair.

These things continue to be true even while we are able to delude ourselves into thinking momentarily that they are not. They are at the heart of everyone and everything. Consider our disease and pain, our greed and poverty, our violence and our hatred.

Why do we even bother? We suffer without relief and then we die. No lasting meaning is really even conceivable. Decay is the most fundamental process in nature. Death and oblivion are inevitable. Things are never what they seem and they usually turn out to be much worse than they appear to be on the surface. Life is truly miserable.

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Symmetry

Life is truly miserable. Things are never what they seem and they usually turn out to be