To Move A Mountain: The Series

By Carl Opel

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If you enjoy the wisdom of the Roman Stoics such as Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, or the writings of Kahlil Gibran, Michael Talbot, and Jiddu Krishnamurti, then you'll enjoy this collection of messages.
To Move a Mountain the series follows the life of Arrancies from his birth in a small town, to growing up in the city, and his transition to the suburbs as a teenager. At heart, he's a city kid, loving everything the city has to offer: drugs, sex, breaking and entering, all before the age of 10. Arrancies' special quality is he's a genius! At the age of four, a vision foretold the character and image he would portray.
Lost love, family strife, and inner turmoil provide plenty of doubts and confusion. Nevertheless, he learns to connect with the origin of life, our energy. Just when he is ready to present his messages to the world, misfortune strikes and Arrancies dies. The return of his life energy to our origin reveals two important details of his death. First, it is temporary. Second, he receives messages that he must deliver to all people on his return to life. This was the vision given to him at a young age, and he must now complete the task.
"The Journey" details Arrancies' life growing up in the small town, city, and suburbs until his early 20's. We learn that he is no different from any other boy his age except for his advanced intelligence and wisdom. His psychic aunt claims this comes from elderly spirits that follow him. We are privy to his thoughts and views, rather than the detail of day-to-day living. We see the struggles he endures and learn the turning points that guide him.
"Summit" is the companion book accompanying "To Move A Mountain." Arrancies arrived at the Summit after his darkest period of despair. He organizes his thoughts by identifying the fundamental behavior of people. These notes, captured in "Common Ground" outline the basic mind-set, as he seen in the world. Returning from death, he records the abstract notes in "The Book of Explanations." These notes match the detailed writings found in "To Move A Mountain."
Because Arrancies traveled at blinding speed through his crossing, he writes everything as abrupt, condensed flashes of energy, which he must interpret as human language. The writings are raw, but the messages are clear. Join with Arrancies as he discovers and reveals the nature of life and death, and the origin of our energy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carl Opel
• Release date: Nov 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301527014

Carl Opel

Born in Pennsylvania in 1955, Carl attended the Music Institute in Los Angeles, California after his high school days in Willoughby, Ohio. Currently, he lives near the beautiful beaches in the Philippines. His many accomplishments include business-process reengineering consultant, computer science professor, designing financial forecasting systems using neural net technology, musician, commercial pilot, business owner, and writer. His interests include hiking, the beach, cookouts, traveling, movies, music, and just plain learning.

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To Move A Mountain - The Series

by Carl Opel

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To Move A Mountain Series

The Journey

Summit

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOOK 1

INTRODUCTION

BIRTH OF A CHILD

GROWING UP

THE SEEDLING

THE GRINDSTONE

GOOD TIMES

BOOK 2

INTRODUCTION

VIEWING THE WORLD

BRICK BY BRICK

FUNDAMENTALS

INTRODUCTION

DEPARTURE

TRANSITION

ENERGY

THE OTHER SIDE OF CREATION

HUMAN CONCEPT

THE MOUNTAIN

THE HUMAN CONDITION

NATURE

PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE

PROLOGUE

BEGINNING AND END

BINARY MIND

COMMUNICATION

ACADEMICS

CREATIVITY

CONSENSUS

CONFUSION

CURRENT WORLD SITUATION

IGNORANCE

LOVE

POPULATION

ROUTINE

WHAT IS MY PURPOSE

TRUTH

WORK

POLITICS

PREJUDICES

CHANGE

RELIGION

SELF IMAGE

FAMILY

TIME

MONEY

EXPECTATIONS

PROLOGUE

GENESIS TO GENOCIDE

CONTINUE

PART OF EVERYTHING

A NEW BEGINNING

BOOK 3

PREFACE

THE MOUNTAIN

DEPARTURE

TRANSITION

ENERGY

THE OTHER SIDE OF CREATION

HUMAN CONCEPT

THE MOUNTAIN

THE HUMAN CONDITION

NATURE

PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE

PROLOGUE

BEGINNING AND END

BINARY MIND

COMMUNICATION

ACADEMICS

CREATIVITY

CONSENSUS

CONFUSION

CURRENT WORLD SITUATION

IGNORANCE

LOVE

POPULATION

ROUTINE

WHAT IS MY PURPOSE

TRUTH

WORK

POLITICS

PREJUDICES

CHANGE

RELIGION

SELF IMAGE

FAMILY

TIME

MONEY

EXPECTATIONS

PROLOGUE

GENESIS TO GENOCIDE

CONTINUE

PART OF EVERYTHING

A NEW BEGINNING

REBORN

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BOOK 1

The Journey

by Carl Opel

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INTRODUCTION

The life of a messenger is not shroud in daring escapades of intrigue and excitement. The messenger learns to gather information from the day-to-day living and actions of the common people. Arrancies' struggle with life, growing up in the city during the mid-1950s to late 1960s is the setting for one such person. Interpretation and perception give the messenger his wisdom. Living a rather mundane, and at times, boring life. Arrancies' special gift allows him to perceive and see the nature of humanity. However, the conflict between his superior intelligence, advanced wisdom, and inner-city lifestyle lead him through an array of actions countering his beliefs.

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BIRTH OF A CHILD

Sock hops and rock 'n roll were the modern craze to a bold, young generation. Rebel Without A Cause stormed drive-in theaters as postwar prosperity flourished and a new wave of immigrants trickled into the U.S. On their arrival, many headed for neighborhoods where friends and relatives had already settled. Despite the typecast of their nationality, they brought the old country culture and lifestyle to the land of the free.

Arrancies came to the world on a cold winter night, in a small, northeast town of the United States. Except for being the firstborn in the U.S., it was an uneventful occasion. His parents, both immigrants, arrived in the country a few years earlier, with hopes and dreams of a better life for their new son. Nothing special and very normal, the family settled in to their new country and ways.

The Early Years

Arrancies' parents were not rich nor were they poor. They were hardworking immigrants, as were most. His father was of medium height and weight, and average looks. At one time, he may have been an outgoing, free-spirited man, full of fun and vigor. In the course of time, life in the new world made him a stern and staunch businessman, even if it was just a small, family store. His mother was not unattractive, but looked so by years of hard work and worry. She was a little shorter than her husband, with short brown curly hair, and a figure becoming that of a middle-aged woman. Like his father, she probably was once different, with a vibrant personality. Now, she did as expected of a typical immigrant wife. Her hands and face aged by a lifetime of cooking and cleaning with little joy, save for that brought about by her childbearing duty.

This was life as a child for Arrancies. His father had no greater ambition than to provide the basic needs for his family, his mother, habitually supplanting happiness by the urgency of a menial chore. Arrancies, being young and naïve respected his parents and followed their guidance without question.

Not The Normal Child

At a very young, almost freakish age, Arrancies showed signs of intelligence far greater than the other children did. His intellect excelled, but it was his uncanny knowledge of life and his environment that set him apart from the others. His aunt, who claimed to have psychic abilities, said that he had elderly spirits following him. She claimed that they channeled their wisdom through him and as a result, he was much older than his age.

He learned everything earlier and faster than other kids did. He could walk, talk, feed himself, and use the bathroom without instruction. He had an interest in things that stimulated his mind. He loved building blocks, large-piece jigsaw puzzles, and Legos. Many times building what saw in a picture in a book. He would sit for hours with books, but his favorite seemed to be the expired magazines his father brought home from the market. He loved looking through the pictures while his mother told him the names of the images. He loved music and coloring books and often astounded his mother by sitting in front of the TV singing along with his favorite cartoons.

His parents were befuddled, but since he was their first born, they saw nothing wrong and indulged his interests. He even showed signs of eagerness in family household activities, especially his father's favorite subject, work! By the age of three, Arrancies discovered something was wrong within the family. He would hear his parents arguing about money, but he didn't understand why. Everything appeared to be okay. Still, he passed it off as something yet to learn and told his mother, he would have an answer soon. She laughed when he said things like that because it astounded her that he could speak as well as he did, she always told him ‘You're my little man.' Then, they would have cookies and she would read to him, and everything would be all right once again.

Moving To The City

Years of hard work finally paid off for the family. His father's frugal nature and tight money management allowed him to save enough to buy a bigger store. However, this meant moving into the city. While it had little meaning to Arrancies, it devastated his mother. She was convinced that no-good could come of it and the news reports only served to brainwash her more. She didn't want to live in the dirty, crowded city with all the crime and people, mostly, not all the people. Nevertheless, in the spring of his third year, the family uprooted their quiet lives in a small town for the hustle and bustle of the city and a better life.

After the move, Arrancies' mother went into severe withdrawal. Being an immigrant embarrassed her enough, but now she had to be sociable. Her husband didn't help by ignoring her introversion. As usual, he viewed it as a problem she needed to work out for herself. To him, it was her problem, not his! Eventually, she changed for Arrancies' sake. Reasoning that he would be in a better school and exposed to all he needed to survive as an American. It meant the best life for him, and that's all that mattered, at least in her mind. To Arrancies, city living assured a big change since everything fascinated him. The faster pace of life, more people, buildings, traffic, even the noises incited a curiosity he hadn't known in their small town. He thought it was interesting, and he liked the idea.

The Revelation

Before Arrancies was born, his mother would sit for hours listening to classical music. She read a magazine article once about some new discovery that babies could hear in the womb, and so she thought, ‘There's no harm in trying.' After his birth, she spent all of her free time reading a variety of books, playing all styles of music, and talking to him as if he were an adult. She was a teacher in the old country and saw this as an excellent opportunity for him, as well as an escape from the drudgery of her routine. She was aware of Arrancies' exceptional intelligence and wanted to encourage his growth. She also knew they couldn't afford to send him to a private school when the time came, and she hoped this would give him the edge he needed in life. It was her way of making up for their financial inadequacies.

Aside from his advanced acumen, Arrancies had a normal childhood. He played with other kids, had toys and birthday parties, and enjoyed many of the same activities. He identified the difference between him and the other children, and for that matter, between him and his parents. To him, he could see things that his parents or the other children could not. What puzzled him was that his parents ignored him when he tried to help with problems they didn't understand. For some reason, to them, young meant that his capacity to grasp and deduce a solution was impossible. Since they chose to ignore him, his only recourse was to continue on his own way without them.

At the age of four, Arrancies had a profound revelation regarding his life. With exacting clarity, he saw the person he would become as an adult. This didn't mean the job he would have, or college, or getting married, or where he would live. He saw the character of the person. He envisioned his life's design, how others would perceive his image. He even saw an estimated timeline in which events would take place, but this was not startling to him. It was just normal, and as far as he knew, the same happened to everyone else.

At first, he thought perhaps this was the result of some religious influence since his parents considered themselves devout followers. However, from what he understood of religion, it spoke of nothing more than life. He wondered, how could something as basic as life influence him to this insight? What's more, it wasn't the fact that he had the vision. It was his lack of understanding why he had it. He only knew that from that point on, he must think, learn, and live the life revealed to him. If this was a dream, then he must follow it.

Putting Two And Two Together

Arrancies never questioned the vision about his life, but he wondered why it was that particular path. He was curious, if his parents were scientists, would his purpose be to discover life from another planet? From here on, he would become a devoted student of all that life, and the world holds. He would ask the questions that no one dared ask, and seek the reality that people hide in the fantasies of their dreams. He would understand that which is incomprehensible and learn that which is unattainable by others. Most of all, he would learn to simplify the confusion and make the answer available to those in need. He would do this in an effort to better the struggling world. Surely, if people understood how simple life could be, their tainted image would vanish. We would live in the garden intended for us.

The Inquisitive Side

Arrancies loved learning. There was so much more to the world that he hadn't seen, and he wanted to know everything. The more he learned, the more he stood out as a contradiction between his childlike appearance, and his adult persona. His innocent demeanor was hilarious when he explained his ideas to adults. Somehow, he knew what people saw when they looked at him as he spoke. He recalled a time when he was watching a western show on TV. By now, he was used to seeing people on TV shooting each other, and he knew it wasn't real. But, it dawned on him, what if he shot someone inside the TV? Would they die? When he presented this scenario to his mother, she stood in shock for a minute gazing at him. Then, she started laughing so hard that it brought tears to her eyes. Arrancies thought he said something wrong to make his mother cry, so he just stood, stiff and quiet, watching her next reaction.

After a few minutes, she breathed a sigh of relief and snatched him up in her arms. Hugging him and kissing his forehead, she thought ‘My little boy is a little boy after all.' She explained how his TV premise couldn't happen and just when she thought he understood, he looked at her, and in a very adult and authoritative voice said ‘Did you ever try it? How do you know it won't work if you never tried?' Her mouth fell open and her head tilted to one side. Perplexed by his quirky and immediate sophistication, she realized, her little boy is a genius. All along, her son, who they heard but never listened to, had been right about so many things. To Arrancies, it was just another interesting question.

Enter The Public

The year theatergoers were cringing to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, the world population climbed to a little over 3 billion people, and John F. Kennedy would become president. A young, Olympic boxer named Cassius Clay won his first professional fight. Change was in the air, but no one was ready for how far-reaching the future was about to grasp.

The family was in the city for two years at this point. Arrancies rapidly outgrew his mother's capability as a teacher, so he began using every resource available to expand his awareness of the world. Art had caught his eye, and it intrigued him how the lack of words could express so much meaning. Still, he needed more exposure, more contact with people and the outside world. Finally, he reached the age when formal education begins and he was going to school. His mother, knowing his inquisitive nature and advanced intelligence, made a vow to supplement his education with all the things he asked for as a way of making up for their inability to send him to a private school. She told him that, no matter what he needed for school, they would get it. As he was not yet privy to much of what the world had to offer, he viewed the ordeal as something exciting and rewarding.

Fear and curiosity exhilarated him the first day of school. He had never been away from his parents and he wasn't sure how to act without them. On the first day, Arrancies and his mother walked to school with all the other kids, and a few of the parents. It struck him as unusual that she acted differently. She was dressed nicer and looked prettier than many of the other moms, but she still felt inferior. ‘Oh well, it was her first day of school too.' He thought. For now, he was too busy laughing at the crossing guard, whose giant ears were ready to lift her off the ground into flight.

They arrived at school and walked through the playground, which consisted of cracked asphalt. The building was aged and made of brick that had blackened over the years, giving it the appearance of Dracula's Castle. As they approached the sizeable double door entrance, the smell of old wood flowed out of the building as students in front of them open the doors to enter. Inside, four metal steps cascaded up to a large foyer that extended up to the roof of the three-story building. Each room had a separate door that connected to the foyer and a