About the  Samurai Ruach BOOKS

        Samurai Ruach has a few different types of books. If you want to know more about the overall writing process, click here to go to that post. There is also a page dedicated to the whole History & Development Of Samurai Ruach, if that's what you were looking for, which is linked in this line here.

 

         As far as the finished published titles, honestly, it started a long time ago, with spirituality and philosophy writings, most were centered on restructuring society based on understanding how poverty is a planned, organized thing (an inevitable part of economics), which is a pretty soulless system, yet used to manage souls. TO ME, that was unfair because in limiting those with poverty, even though it does "make diamonds" with its pressures, there is a lot of loss and waste, which is counterproductive, but allowed in the grand scheme. So, suggestions on alternate, "more balanced" ways of being and living were developed in titles like "The Guerrilla Wing Manual" and "The Art of Chillin'." Those writings led to the creation of a facebook page, THE UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA, which started to get into more spiritual matters, seeing how the law and spirituality were connected-- all of it just a way of chronicling personal development, and sharing the experience for whomever was on a similar path, or just whomever could benefit from the information. Life being what it is, namely a largely economically pimped and drained beast, through distractions and the economic games, I kept up with that as best as i could. Other projects came about, and some of the other writings became songs. ALL OF THE MUSIC IS AT www.littlebyrd.bandcamp.com if you were interested in that, or a lot is linked to the music page here. Here's a Cheat-Sheet for you. If you go to the "READ ONLINE" tab a the top, or button in the revolving slider menu at the bottom of every page, it takes you to a directory listing of ALL of the Samurai Ruach reading material. It's all categorized and linked by platform. It's an organic process, so some things may be linked, and some may not. Some things may be draft versions, so you get a sneak peek at things before they're done. There's a lot there. "READ ONLINE"....

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THE ALL-GENRES SCI-FI SERIES SCRIPT
         Samurai Ruach The Series was first written as an all-genres script: vampires, werewolves, faith-based, ai-zombie-robot-world war apocalypse, dystopian... originally written for a tv show/web series. It follows BEN, who emerges from the tunnels and underground world after "The War", where AI and humanity went to war, at the same time those plotting to overthrow all governments were warring, which also at the same time tore the veil spiritually and other beings from other realms entered the fight... nothing major. While living "topside" he explores the world and discovers himself, and spirituality, eventually finding out his connection to a group who was planning to overthrow the ruling family. All of those groups get wind of each other's vulnerabilities, and with BEN unknowingly holding a key to the undoing of "The Family," all of the beings (dragons, vampires, werewolves, robots, AI ruling family, elves, demons, angels, corporations, gangs, etc.) all begin the hunt to get the key from him. This leads him to discover the Samurai Ruach, a secret order thought to be eliminated, who are spiritual warriors, and he stays with them and learns their ways to see if it is something he would do, and if he'll even take part in this whole huge battle to save mankind, given what it's done with the world. One scary thing is how everything in this story, which is supposed to be sci-fi and fiction (hence, "-fi" ...as in SCI-ence FI-ction) is  becoming more and more real, second by second, in this world... Yeah, that needs to stop. But that also makes me want to really do well telling this story, so that if there is a warning in it, it can do whatever good it will do. There are a lot of stories out there that are... well, real. Not saying this is one of them. I really would not like it to be, but it keeps finding ways to become more and more real. A lot was based on dreams, so maybe that might have something to do with it too.

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THE ALL-GENRES SCI-FI SERIES NOVEL/BOOKS

        Anyways, after the first season was completed (8 episodes), it was converted into a novel, which had a similar, yet different storyline. In a book/novel format I could add more detail. That sounds off, because it's not visual, but the visual stuff actually limits you. 10 people could read the same one line and see 10 different things, meanwhile the same 10 people look at the same 1 picture and all 10 see the same 1 thing. The end result was a whole new vision and version of Samurai Ruach. It hit harder, dug deeper... each single episode of the series (scripted) turned into at least 3 episodes. The novel version even added more characters, like Aminah (in the background picture) who introduces Ben to Mind Over Matter (The Game of 7's). They play at her shop seen here in the background (if you can see it). It's in chapter 02. There are plans to do even more alternate versions, graphic novels & web series-- a different spin on the story with a different outcome, each in it's own medium. That way, whatever version you pick up, you get an alternate reality for the same story. Seeing the heroes as villains, or the version where AI beings are the main characters, etc..

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THE ALL-GENRES SCI-FI SERIES SHORT STORY SERIES

         After the storyline was developed, and I noticed how much more open things were with the story and how it could be expanded, I started doing the short stories series, which added more color and foundation-- more background to the whole world of Samurai Ruach the Series. Things like the whole New Haven digital domain, which is an online multiverse created by AI where humanity uploads itself to escape the world, though you can visit and experience earth as a hologram (depending on your subscription plan), and telling the stories of the Reaper Crew, and other gangs that were formed that pop up in the story-- this allowed me to tell those stories in full detail. It's a work in progress, because doing EVERYTHING when it comes to this project, with not-so-advanced or properly working tech gets to be tricky for one person... who has yet to figure out how to use AI assistants to get things done. I'm keeping everything as human as possible, so, all of the creative aspects are just me.. even designing the patterns for the clothing in the store... when the photoshop feels like behaving. Anyways, the short stories are still in the works, and take on various forms (scripts, diary like entries, even text conversations, along with traditional short story formats), and it's proving to be a very fun process and project.

 

THE SPIRITUALITY & PHILOSOPHY WRITINGS

         After the written versions of the series, I noticed how some of it tied into books, essays, manuscripts, and other writings I'd done before this series. I incorporated those works into this project after giving them an overhaul. They were more spiritual in nature, but still practical at the same time, with perspectives that were widely accepted on other platforms, so I polished them off, updated them, and added them to the catalog here. Those became The Book of The Samurai Ruach, which is a book of thoughts and philosophies inspired by the diary/journaling writing style of The Hagakure. That, The Bible, and a few other texts are the core philosophy of the Samurai Ruach group in the story.

 

THE MUSIC BOOK PROJECT

         So there's a fiction series, and a philosophy series. Later on, as a fundraiser, I did a compilation album, just gathering all of the "stringed" instrumentals I'd done (bass, guitar, etc.) and put together "Byrd Mess On Strings," which has over 60 songs. I got the idea to do another book for that, which gives the backgrounds of the songs, the cover images (album artwork) since I'd done all of it myself (music and artwork), and even putting in some unreleased material, and alternate and clean images (images without all of the titling, so it's just the clean picture). That project is also still in the works, but will be included in a planned "Blacklight Version" of the album, which is just extra tracks and the book. The regular version of the album is out on littlebyrd.bandcamp.com/album/byrd-mess-on-strings-collection-01-instrumentals which is a long link, but I linked it for you. IN THE STORE it's available, but that page still links to Bandcamp, because bandcamp doesn't link to Wix. When I finish the Blacklight Version, I'll more than likely just add all of the files in a .zip format so you can get all of the images, the book, and all of the music, with those extra tracks.

         As far as making more music, and one reason the other versions of the series are not completed is because my DAW (digital recording studio, basically) shut down on me, and it's been a headache getting it to work, along with the computer slowing down and doing more and more interesting annoying things. There are loads of issues with this project, and that was a major one. There's a PayPal link, if you want to help, and a STORE, and MUSIC. Or you can just watch the whole horrific story unfold right outside of your window, and see the world swallowed, while keys to stopping it just sit in this computer because I'm doing my best, but so is life...

 

THAT'S ALL OF IT... so far...

         So, yeah, there are a few different types of books here, and each one in different formats. You should see all of the covers below that go to a page for each book with a link at the bottom to read or purchase (A page for that one book so you can get to that one book in every format). I'll update the book cover listing below as new books come out. "I HOPE THIS HELPS", the spiritual, esoteric, religious and [other] "cheat sheet" listing opens directly to that page in Patreon, which is open to the public. The READ ONLINE links are an excellent way to get to EVERYTHING on every platform that is readable. The Patreon page is always a great place to find everything as well, since it was the first page, and intended to be the main page for the Samurai Ruach project. I was having issues with social media, but Patreon hasn't failed, and actually has improved, so I focused on that page, even though the other socials (in the menu at the bottom of the pages here)  do exist. THERE'S A  QR CODE linked to PAYPAL, if you wanted to donate to contribute to the project, and to the Patreon page (collections) so you can easily get to everything on that page.