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08/07/2025

“What a peculiar thing it is to see when I am able to pause, that the thoughts my voice gives life to simply appeared inside. I did not think upon them until they were there, like a bubble rising up within. They simply were. And just as easily as they appeared, they vanished in a moment only to be replaced by a new thought bubble that I also did not conjure.
I can feel the separation. The voice is not mine. It is a fable once told to me, passed on down the line. Repeated for so long, few would stop to question. But I did.
I sensed something amiss. The aching void refused to abate. There was an awareness within, a longing to be whole again. I knew I was not complete, no matter how many battles I won. I played along in the game, caught up in its noise. But every so often a stillness would take hold, and that was when I knew.”

Blog Post Excerpt from The Play by J. Franco ByAndre July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 “What a peculiar thing it is to see when I am able to pause, that the thoughts my voice gives life to simply appeared inside. I did not think upon them until they were there, like a bubble rising up within. They simply w...

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03/07/2025

Clint Sabom doesn’t just meditate — he manifests. While your average life coach might encourage a vision board and a green smoothie, Clint teaches you to breathe fire through your pores. Yes, you read that right. He’s not interested in self-improvement so much as self-initiation — preferably the kind that takes seven years, messes with your body temperature, and might result in levitation. Welcome to Hermetics: the magical path where spiritual enlightenment and the manipulation of reality are part of the same to-do list.

Sabom, a spiritual coach, Hermetics teacher, and author of the occult fantasy novel Panic Magic, joined host Philipp Kobald on HolisticCircle’s “Spiritual Conversation” podcast to explain why magic isn’t just for caped stage performers or teenage wizards with trust funds.

Based on the “Spiritual Conversation” podcast by HolisticCircle, hosted by Philipp Kobald with guest Clint Sabom Not Your Average Self-Help Guru Clint Sabom doesn’t just meditate — he manifests. While your average life coach might encourage a vision board and a green smoothie, Clint teaches ...

30/06/2025

Q: J. Franco, thank you for joining us. The Play – an act of Awakening is introspective and philosophical. Let’s start with the basics: What inspired you to write this book?

I have always enjoyed writing and for many years had a desire to write a book; however, the theme of this book is not something I would have ever imagined writing before. Through a series of personal events, I found myself on a path of wanting to know more about how the mind works. I think mainly because I had been experiencing a lot of anxiety throughout my life, and it was something I was trying to resolve.

I believe it was that thinking that led me onto a more spiritual path, as I searched for ways either to work through whatever fears played in my mind that caused my anxiety, or instead find a more peaceful way of dealing with my perceived issues. After speaking with David Bigham in March 2024 and obtaining more clarity on what it was that I was going through from the perspective of non-duality, the idea of putting my journey in writing started to form.

Blog Post INTERVIEW: J. FRANCO ON “THE PLAY – AN ACT OF AWAKENING” ByAndre June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 Q: J. Franco, thank you for joining us. The Play – an act of Awakening is introspective and philosophical. Let’s start with the basics: What inspired you to write this book? I have always...

26/06/2025

🖤✨ THE PLAY — an act of awakening ✨🖤
by J. Franco

In this introspective and poetic narrative, the soul descends from pure awareness into the illusions of separation, struggle, and forgetfulness — only to rediscover, slowly and tremblingly, the truth that was never lost.

Guided by the haunting voice of fear and conformity, the protagonist journeys through the rites of Infancy, Adolescence, Adulthood, and beyond, in search of something forgotten but not destroyed.

A work of esoteric wisdom wrapped in a heartfelt literary style, The Play invites us to awaken from the hypnotic game of doing and striving — and to return to the effortless presence of being.

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18/06/2025

The Cameron Journal Podcast had a conversation with Clint Sabom about his new urban fantasy book, Panic Magic. The book is about a magician who completes various feats of magic in ever-larger venues until he gets recruited by an intelligence agency. The conversation goes over Clint’s writing career and his writing journey.

Today on The Cameron Journal Podcast we are in conversation with Clint Sabom about his new urban fantasy book, Panic Magic. The book is about a magician who ...

15/06/2025

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11/06/2025

The Play by J. Franco invites you to a narrative that mirrors your own path to self-discovery. Published by Star Lore Publishing, this tale intertwines fiction with insights, guiding readers toward an understanding of their own innate wisdom.

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28/05/2025

"Upstairs, August heard the muffled deep tones of adult talking and he heard his mother sob, and the house creaked and groaned. His ears were alert in the deafening quiet of his room. A short while later, the front door closed and he smelled her cigarette smoke through the window. The air felt heavy and oppressive and the boy burrowed under the sheets. He lay for a time under the covers, inexplicably sad, peering out a peephole he made between the comforter and the mattress. It felt to him as if the air carried something just around the corner. Something that would make him older, and he didn’t want it."

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23/05/2025

Foreword to The Play (an act of Awakening), by J. Franco
Foreword by André Consciência

From the ancient mystery schools to the teachings of the Hermetic and Gnostic traditions, the path of awakening has always been a paradox: the effort of forgetting, as a way to remember. The Play stands within this lineage, within the esoteric principle that reality is a plane upon which consciousness experiences itself.
The very structure of this work depicts the initiatory path through Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, and ultimately, Rubedo. It sings of the great occult principle of as above, so below, that the macrocosm of creation is within the individual microcosm. The stages of these pages align with the rites of passage found in mystery schools, from the descent into material entrapment to the recognition of one's divinity.
Recurring in The Play is thought and its creative power, a Hermetic and Theosophical idea. The protagonist experiences the shift from unconscious manifestation to conscious creation, paralleling the teachings of Neville Goddard or of the ancient magicians who understood that reality is but a projection of Mind. The voice within (the great deceiver and yet the ultimate teacher) may be found to be none other than the dweller on the threshold, a shadow-self that must be confronted before enlightenment is.
Perhaps the reader may notice, as I did, the book's Vedantic, Gnostic and Kabbalistic insistence that the world is an elaborate illusion. The play of existence, like the maya of the East, is a dream and a lesson, a space to forget and remember. In this Fool’s Journey, the soul, innocent, then burdened, and finally awakened, returns to its source a bearer of wisdom.
In terms of literature, we experience a transformation in words, an internal dialogue of perennial questions, a door that opens to have us remember what was never truly lost.

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17/05/2025

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The Play: An Act of Awakening is a luminous adventure through the dreamscape of existence, where life is revealed as a stage and the self as both actor and audience.

In this introspective and poetic narrative, J. Franco traces the soul’s descent from pure awareness into the dense illusions of separation, struggle, and forgetfulness — and its slow, trembling rediscovery of the truth that was never lost. Guided by the haunting inner "voice" of fear and conformity, the protagonist moves through the rites of Infancy, Adolescence, Adulthood, and beyond, searching for something forgotten but not destroyed.

This is esoteric wisdom with a heartfelt literary style, The Play invites the reader to awaken from the hypnotic game of doing and striving, and to return to the effortless presence of being. It speaks to anyone who has felt trapped in cycles of doubt, who has glimpsed the silence beneath the noise, and who longs to reclaim the freedom that lies just beyond the veil.

Most of all, The Play is an act of remembrance and a ritual of return. Out of the shadows of our own creation into the light of our essence.

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