Hello to all that may read this. My name is Iron Francisco de Paula Junior.
I speak from Brazil and I am pursuing my master degree in Biochemistry.
I begin this by announcing my full name, because if there is anything I learned in all those years reading and interacting with Laura, Ark and others, is that a “Lion does not suffer the fate of a mouse”.
So striving to be a Lion, here I stand for the truth.
A little about my history before telling you about how Laura and the Cass guys changed my life. I always think that my spiritual journey began when I was nine years old. I saw a movie on TV portraying suicide, and that image stuck in my head. Days later, when my mother denied me some childhood random desire, I threatened to kill myself with a butter knife. My mother and Father stood powerless, my mother in tears. Seeing my mother like that I dropped the knife, and understood the power that a human being has to make another suffer as a result of one’s actions. I then vowed, to never make my mother or anyone cry again, and to understand this sorrow. Then I began to ask even more questions and seek religions. Nothing gave me satisfactory answers. So, eventualy in my early twenties, I gave up. Continue reading →
