Joseph Evaldi's Blog

     First I want to say thank you for follow my blog for whoever may read them. Whoever has been reading my blogs knows that I have written blogs about my book that I will release on Amazon this month or next month. I also wrote a blog about bullying and my fire within.      This month has been a good writing month for me. People are starting to know what my book A Soul Warrior's Journey is about and this leaves me to update you on what's next in the month of February for this site. I have already covered a lot of blog of some of the main and minor characters for A Soul Warrior's Journey. A summary of Part 1 and Part 2 and the settings of Part 1 and Part 2. I will discuss in future blogs more on some of the characters in the book that I have not mentioned and I will discuss about some issues and plots in the book.       Every character plays an important role in the book and I want everybody to know who they are and w...

When I was thinking of Horus I was thinking of the god in Egypt who was the god of vengence, and I was also envisioning him to look a little like Horus Hogan, who is the nephew of Hulk Hogan. Horus Hogan wrestled in WCW for a little bit. Horus Hogan was tall and about 6 foot 8 and the Horus in this book was 6 foot 8 too. Horus, ironically in A Soul Warrior's Journey is a body guard of Meir Ben-Haim. He doesn't say that much, but is ruthless. He doesn't care if he hurts someone. He is the muscle in Egypt. The name Horus fits him well. I wanted to add this dilemma to the book. I wanted to add somebody that was threatening and he plays this role. He also will play in when a swerve happens in the book. Why would this book call for this character? In any book there are good guys and villians and Horus's role in this book is no different.

     Louis DeLeone is the supervior of Joseph Woods at JP Nickels. He looks out for the best interest of Joseph Woods and cheers him up. He sees him down and advises him on how to channel his anger. He is like a big brother that Joseph needs at this time.      Louis has problems of his own such as poor finances and he drinks sometimes, but is not an alcoholic. He deals with life and figures he deals with so much suffering he might as well take more problems on.      He plays his role well and supports Joseph in his time of need and is a friend of him. His story is important and will be important as the series goes along. He is one of the minor characters in the book and one of Joseph's side stories through his life of transformation.

     Why did I choose Egypt for Part II of my book? I believe Egypt has been a mystical and a mysterious place and it is also spiritual too. Egypt has early history from the building of the pyramids and the sphinx and also with the pharoahs too. I wanted my character Joseph Woods to have past life links to Egypt and this life time would draw him back to spiritual work to try to resolve the problem in this life time.      However, I also wanted to add some of the modern day problems of Egypt such as the protest that happened in 2011 to get their ruler Mubarak out. However, this ruler's name that they want out is Meir Ben-Haim. They still fight over who has control such as if it's going to be the people, the government, or the military.      Egypt has their issues just like then, but I wanted to convey the people as being ghosts of their former selves. Where they were once promenant many millenium ago, they now strive to be t...

If you can make it anywhere, you can make it in New York. This is why I wanted the first setting to be in New York. I added the coffee house feel just as in the show Friends. It also adds to the story of Joseph Woods who is struggling through life. Plus he is going to have a spiritual battle to fight of he is going to make it. It also adds to the time of year I made it around Christmas, New Years, and Spring. That is where things start to turn around for Joseph. New York is a big city that anything can happen in and this is what I wanted to convey in the book. For Joseph Woods, who is trying to find himself what better place to find your destiny in a place where dreams can come true.

     When I was thinking of the character of General Akbar, I think the name came from the WWF when it was called the WWF. He was the manager of Sgt. Slaughter as an Iraqi solider. And I was also thinking of the general in The Celestine Prophecy, who didn't want to be bothered with the prophecy.      General Akbar was a general in Egypt. He was for the old ways of doing things and didn't want change. Meanwhile, Egypt is protesting for change. He advises Meir Ben Haim to stay on course and not to worry about Matteus Andersen, who was once a spiritual healer to Meir and he doesn't trust Darius, Meir's spiritual advisor.      He is out to keep the military in charge of the country and even rules it after Meir disappears for awhile. Meir plots the death of Matteus.      General Akbar is strong with his power and he won't let the protestor's affect their rule of Egypt.

When I think of the ancient times, I think of the name Darius. And I was thinking of a character in Highlander The Series when I was thinking of this character. The holy man, but has a past by being an evil ruler. Only difference between this Darius and the one in the Highlander is that this Darius is truly evil.      He has a few years of training from the Vatican and is a spiritual advisor, but who knows what kind of spiritual advising he does. He took over advising Meir after the botch healing attempt of Matteus Andersen. However, Darius changes his tune when he meets Joseph Woods and goes on the mission they are trying to accomplish. He is out to sabatage Joseph and inflict hurt on him. He is working with the spirits who are out to haunt Joseph and won't stop until he gets their revenge. He is just good at hiding it though.      Darius might be another kind of spiritual healer, but it's not the good kind. He has pure evil in his heart and ...

     Picture that jackass friend who always goats you and isn't out for your best interest. This is Shawn Williams. Another thing about Shawn is that he was a controlling person and a womanizer as well.      His story starts at the beginning of the book. Where he is friends with Joseph Woods and Paul Franks. Joseph Woods and Shawn Williams were friends for a long time, but what happened after Joseph's illness changed the landscape of their friendship.      5 years later Shawn is coming down hard on Joseph Woods for his addiction problems and his depression. Shawn was controlling wondering where Joseph was and why he wasn't there to hang out with them all the time. This drove Joseph to get upset.      He later brought back Emily Dickens, a woman whom Joseph Woods had a crush on. Shawn didn't care that it might hurt Joseph. His plan was to hurt Joseph and get some action for himself. He later went w...

     Who is Emily Dickens? In A Soul Warrior's Journey she is the woman whom my character in the book Joseph Woods loved, but she didn't love back. Like many love stories you can't force love and this one didn't happen. Joseph Woods tried hard and was pushing the issue. He couldn't get her to like him in that way. This story is similar to a woman that I once like, but didn't like me in that way back. I'm glad it didn't happen because I'm happier now and it worked out for the best for both of us to.      Here is the story of Emily, in the beginning of the book Joseph has a crush on Emily like I mentioned, but she has feelings for Derrick Nylander. Joseph's rival at the time. Joseph liked her because she was his array of hope when there was none for him, but Joseph got burned bad and snapped. He later went into the hospital for his actions.      A few years later Joseph is depressed more so, is a gambling addict and is a sex ...

     Yesterday I wrote of the many cases of bullying and what it's done to me, but this situation has affected others. How many of us are laughed at or discriminated against because of the color of your skin, because of if your "fat" or "skinny", because your "slow". or have a "mental illness" and are categorized what illness you have or what disability. We are even bullied for financial status or what position we have or even how much money we make. For example, I'll use retail, the guys in the back aren't accepted by the people on the floor, the supervisiors and mangers have their own click and it goes up from their. In every click their is a boss of others. And the big boss has the power to cut your hours at free will. It's a messed up system.      That's just one aspect of hierachal bullying. Is any group any better. Is the function of the boss any different then the function of the low level employee and who are they to...

     What inspires me to write or live? Well if you look at my life that was filled with tragedy I bounced back and I'm driven more then ever before. I want to first start where I was in grammer school. I was bullied like many. It wasn't physical, but it was mental. They teased me because I "was slow enough" to catch on and they ganged up on the weakest link. But I had emptiness and an aura of grief surrounding me, maybe it was from my family. I was discplined like my and feared doing the wrong thing and this made me suspect to bullying because I wouldn't do the wrong thing or feared it. I was teased by my cousin and pushed around by my brother, but this was normal I was the youngest in the group and I wasn't quick by coming up with the jokes. I remember having my wars with my cousin. But the teasing in class was bad.      I remember one year at the end of the school year I agreed to say something bad about someone I didn't want to say but was m...

     Power in leadership corrupts and with Meir Ben-Haim in A Soul Warrior's Journey his ruthlessness in Egypt as ruler he carries out his actions as follows and is hated by all of Egypt. When he is written into the book his speaking role starts in Part II of the book. To paint a scenario for you, he is the ruthless leader in Egypt and like the Arab Springs and revolution that took place in Egypt for freedom, they want Meir and his regime out. They don't like how things are run and they want a new regime to take over. However, Meir and his chief general, General Akbar believe otherwise.      They believe in keeping things the old ways and also they believe that the people don't know what's best for them. They fight for this, but the people revolt. At the same time, Meir wants to carry out his vendetta against Matteus Andersen. It was his understanding that Matteus had botched a healing attempt on him and he wants revenge and he wants blood....

     Matteus Andersen is introduced in this book in the second chapter of this book. He gets bumped into by Joseph Woods, who is battling his addictions. He then develops into a mentor to Joseph. When I was thinking of a mentor of this character I was thinking of Socrates in the Way of a Peaceful Warrior and Wil in The Celestine Prophecy series. He helps him with his dilemmas and helps him unlock some of his past lives that he has had.      Matteus also like Joseph Woods has dealt with his own issues of revenge or the refrain from it. His wife was burned alive by the authority of Meir Ben-Haim, the leader of Egypt. He is said to retaliate do to a botched healing attempt which made him become the evil dictator he is right now. Matteus and his daughter Ericka later fled to the United States and Matteus started to practice Acupunture in the US in New York. He vowed not to return to Egypt, but Joseph Woods past life memories lead him back ...

     In my upcomining book A Soul Warrior's Journey, here is a bio of one of the characters in the book Joseph Woods. Joseph Woods is battling many issues. He had an episode where he went to the hospital and he was battling depression, but it developed into anger and later he was heavily medicated and wasn't the same again.      A few years later, he became a gambling addict and a sex addict and he was on a downward spiral going nowhere and it was eating him alive. Then one day he bumped into Matteus Andersen, who was an acupuncturist. This chance meeting had changed his life and led him on a spiritual journey or a soul journey.      In this journey he finds out about his past lives through dreams, meditation and acupuncture. Some of the dreams and meditations in the book are some dreams and meditions that me as a writer have had and experienced.      These dreams, meditations and acupuncture sessions ...

     Part II of A Soul Warrior's Journey takes place where Joseph Woods, Matteus Andersen, and Ericka Andersen have a journey to Egypt and they need to fulfill a mission in the seven pyramids and the sphinx. This is a mission to free the spirits that are haunting Joseph Woods. They all need to perform certain ceremonies to free those spirits. However, they are in the territory of Meir Ben-Haim the ruler of Egypt and he is out for revenge on Matteus Andersen. It was his understanding that Matteus messed him up with his healing.      Meir has General Akbar to hunt Joseph, Matteus and his friends down. Meir seeks advice from Darius his spiritual advisor now. Meir has connections in the Vatican and has practiced for years, but can Darius be trusted. As the book reveals, he is on a mission of his own.       This part of the book is an adventure and it is a good read and will set the stage for book number two. The next blogs...

      What is A Soul Warrior's Journey? It is a book that I have written that is yet to be published. I started working on in September 2010 and I finished it in the Summer of 2012. My plans are to release this book on an ebook, but let me explain or give a brief summary of the book. Then in future blogs I will discuss about the characters in the book and the themes.       In A Soul Warrior's Journey, the main character is Joseph Woods. He is a gambling and sex addict who one day bumps into Matteus Andersen, who an acupuncturist. It's the one day that changes his life and sets him on a soul journey. Matteus counsels him out of his addictions and through his various problems and with acupuncture he discovers his past life memories which lie in Egypt. He was a benevolent ruler and he is paying karma in this lifetime as spirits haunt him.      At the same time, he is dealing with his friend Shawn Williams, who remind...