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Biography
I'll keep my biography short. I grew up in Shepshed, a big village, after being born in the small town of Loughborough. Before the age of 11, I was raised by a single mother who was schizophrenic and paranoid. After my dad's affair, my parents divorced; his new wife hated my brother and me and called us zombies. My father was employed as a printer's clerk at Ladybird Books, where he published a children's book titled Flying Models out of his passion for control line model aircraft. My mother worked at Brush Engineering and as a linker in the hosiery industry. At school, they referred to me as an alien and a freak; my brother joined in and allowed these bullies to enter our house. Following the viewing of "A Clockwork Orange" one afternoon, a bully entered our kitchen, requested to shake my hand, and subsequently used a box cutter to cut my hand open from the thumb to the index finger. When I was 11, I was taken into government care (full ward of court) and put in Leicester's children's homes (the Holt, Dumblaine Avenue and the Oaks), or with foster parents, and "friends of the family".
I had 52 placements while I was in care; at 15 years old social services unoffically discharged their due of care to street homelessness. After hearing tales of the road from drunks on the streets, I decided to write my own. I did a lot of travelling in the UK before meeting the “New Age Travellers.” I lived with them in caravans, buses, and other kinds of vehicles. The Criminal Justice Act ended this life. I travelled on foot by myself for a while before joining the Road Protest movement. Beginning with a visit to Tywford Down, activism progressed to Snalesmore Common. I participated in other campaigns against Highworth's strategic housing and launched and successfully defended Hagbourne Copse in Wiltshire. At Syston Common, I met protesters from Aston Court. They introduced me to the Kebele Cafe in Easton, Bristol, where I spent two years living. I got into Ruskin College as a resident student in 1999. After learning from the Oxford Union housemaster that other Ruskin students had threatened my life, I left my studies in politics with Bob Purdy. I was introduced to the founder of Corporate Watch magazine while socially rejected alone at Ruskin College. He subsequently introduced me to activists residing in East Oxford. Next, I lived in a "hard to let flat" in Huddersfield before relocating to a squat in Brixton, London.
I worked with M11 activists who were also part of the 1980s peace convoy while I was in this squat, creating short films about demonstrations in the UK. This media was featured as a CDROM promotional addition to a SCHNEWS annual, a complilation of direct action newsletters. During my activist days, I spent a lot of time with anarchists, the majority of whom detested Marxists and Communists. Nevertheless, I was always receptive to different political ideas, which I appreciated for their viewpoint. For a couple of weeks, I resided at 60 St Agnes Place, the oldest squatted street in London. Before she got personal with a client and destroyed the house, I shared a home with Jane, a homeless service provider (for Connections in St Martins) and a Sri Lankan computer geek named Ram. The only nice people on the street were Spanish anarchists. Just three hundred yards away was a Rastafarian temple that doubled as a crack house; councillor Keith Fitchett denounced them as parasites before successfully demolishing the entire street.
A newsletter website, Road Alert!, was published by me, sponsored by Nologic. Additionally, there is a conspiracy website called Global Elite that had been inspired by Kebele coffee table discussions with investigative journalist Tony Gosling. I had previously accompanied Gosling to Park Street Lodge, a Bristol-based freemasonry organisation, on open house weekend, to locate a concealed tunnel. Coldcut, an 80s pop ground that founded record label Ninjatune commissioned me to illustrate a promotional pack of "top trump style" cards while I lived in Brixton. The Coldcuts single "Everything is under Control" came with these cards, and ten years later I got £300, for this work.
During my time in London, I attended an LGBTQ+ meditation group in Soho, which sparked my interest in Buddhism. I also meditated with the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order at Brockwell Lido. When Ringu Tulku visited London, I took refuge and bodhisattva vows; he gave to me the name Pema via a piece of paper, and a multicolour protection cord. I became interested in Hinduism after going to a Shivyogam kovil located in Tooting.
After visiting Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, I arrived at Chennai Airport. The possibility of the press waiting for me in England worried me.
After touring nearly all of London's Hindu temples, I went to Gujarat, India, in 2007. Standing barefoot next to a temple, I felt energy in the form of triangles that opened and closed like flower petals. Standing barefoot next to a temple, I felt energy in the form of triangles that opened and closed like flower petals. Upon my observation, others approached me; a woman who was leading the group touched my feet before nodding to her friends, who then proceeded to do the same. A group of priests came out of the temple and nodded to each other. Over the next three months, thousands of Hindus came to see me, and priests watched over their visits.
I was invited to the homes of Hindus, where I was introduced to their families. They prepared me food, and as I ate, their neighbours would arrive and extend the same hospitality. This happened repeatedly. At times, my feet were immersed in a stainless-steel tray of red paint and subsequently placed on silk cloth that had been pressed together within a picture frame. I visited India on two separate occasions: the first was on a tourist visa, and the second was on a Vedic Purpose X type visa. Unfortunately, the latter was revoked when I attempted to renew it in Delhi. I was treated with hospitality at the Buddhist temple adjacent to the famous Laxminarayan Mandir after my presence caused a disturbance. I was requested to leave India.
I slept behind Lambeth Palace in Bishop's Park. Fox urine steamed up from the ground and got on everything, even my clothes.
I ended up homeless and displaced in Westminster, London, in 2010. I was assaulted and abused while I slept in storefront doorways. I was sleeping when one of my attackers kicked me in the face. No matter how hard I tried to block them, the blows kept coming and broke my radius bone. I was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Borderline Emotional Personality Disorder after being locked up 74 times under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.
Hours after I did this to myself I was discharged from Lakeside Mental Health Unit. People with Borderline Personality Disorder frequently harm themselves. The darkness that ritualised abuse had put into me made me want to bleed out. Apart from a dose of Lorazepam to help me forget, no one helped me with this illness as I faded into nothingness.
Emergency services discovered me nearly lifeless in the snow, and I also suffered panic attacks near the road. My anxiety was so intense that I was unable to speak or remain seated. I would characterise the abuse I endured while detained in the police stations in Aylesbury, Derby, and Melksham as "five techniques torture.". In Melksham, I was punched to the ground and stripped, exposing my nakedness to a CCTV camera. My handcuffed wrists were so swollen that they required an X-ray. In Derby, I was left locked inside a cell without contact for 13 hours. Many officers in Ayesbury put me in stressful positions until I lost consciousness.
Plantar fasciitis caused a rainbow of pain, making it difficult to walk and causing unyielding anxiety to rest.
While I was living on the streets and homeless, I noticed that strangers were coming up to me. When I brought it up to a police officer, they instructed me to use my phone to snap pictures of them. By checking Exiff data, I learned that they were coming to see me every hour at 22 and 45 minutes past the hour. Thousands of times over the course of a year, I would hide from them, they would find me, faces would peek over walls, etc. They affixed consequences on emblems worn on apparel; associated to trauma, these emblems became triggers of consequential anxiety. Emblems used were: Tap Out, Nike, Chicago Bulls, L A Raiders, Red Bull and New York Yankees. Psychosexual eating of bananas and ritual abuse with spring water were both inflicted upon me. Misgiving, a false charity akin to Christ's vinegar sponge, destroyed my trust. While in London, I was unable to comprehend the events that were unfolding around me. I was aware that I was being subjected to psychological abuse, but by whom? Years later, after a lot of research, I found the responsible people.
Apostolate of Martin dePorress insurgency active in Richmond, London. When the Chicago Bulls logo is inverted, a picture of Saint Martin dePorress is a perfect match; the triple Latin cross that appears on the logo is carved into a stone on the Isle of Martin, Loch "Broom", Scotland.
Operational psychology, in methodology akin to Zersetzung served as the source of psychological abuses. The Ministry for State Security (Stasi) used this form of psychological warfare to silence political opponents in East Germany.
Bastard Adele, Paul Epworth and Leonie in Trafalgar Square, London. I didn't know these people were there when I took this selfie. I knew that the rough trade was going on around me, though. Despite my best efforts to stop it, people simply disappeared.
Baby, I have no story to be told,
But I've heard one on you, now I'm gonna make your head burn,
Think of me in the depths of your despair,
Make a home down there, as mine sure won't be shared.
My father died of brain cancer in 2013, and my mother died of a heart attack that same year. My brother ended our relationship in 2014, so we haven't talked in eleven years. As a result, I've never talked to my niece. Since I didn't know about my parents' funerals, I wasn't able to grieve. Even though I have done nothing wrong, my relatives avoid talking to me. They treat me as if I do not exist.
Some people don't believe that I was homeless for thirty years; they take my experience with homelessness lightly. It is as though I am living in a state of preexistence, abandoned to a life of ostracism, deemed profoundly unholy, a ghost that haunts those who harbour animosity toward my existence. The methodology that underlies my detachment, concealed behind a faceless façade of social normalcy, always unkind, and disparagingly cruel.
