Anarchist Knight Apprentice

A Science-Fantasy Adventure

What happens when a young man discovers that the world he thought he knew is not the world he actually lives in?

Tobal Kane has grown up in the privileged enclave of Tavistock Township, raised by an uncle who carries the scars of a troubled past. Haunted by fragments of memory and the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths, Tobal feels increasingly out of place in a world governed by rules, expectations, and secrets.

Beyond the walls of civilization lies the Wild—a place where independence must be earned, practical skills can mean the difference between survival and failure, and every new experience opens the door to unexpected possibilities.

When Tobal enters a life far removed from the one he has known, he must learn to live off the land, master the challenges of the wilderness, and help others discover their own strength. Along the way, he begins a journey of self-discovery that will challenge his assumptions and reshape his understanding of freedom, responsibility, and what it means to become a knight.

Anarchist Knight Apprentice is the first book in an epic science-fantasy trilogy about courage, friendship, self-reliance, and the making of an unconventional hero.

The apprenticeship is only the beginning. Now available as paperback, Kindle and audiobook.

The OAK Matrix: The Living Current Within

Discover the living patterns that connect your inner world with the world around you.

What if personal growth, human relationships, and the deeper patterns of existence were expressions of a single living current?

The OAK Matrix: The Living Current Within invites readers to explore the connections between presence, inner authority, energy, embodiment, emotion, action, relationship, and freedom. Drawing together insights from science, psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality, the OAK Matrix offers an integrative framework for understanding ourselves and our place within a larger, interconnected reality.

This is not simply a collection of ideas to understand. It is an invitation to experience them, put them into practice, and discover how greater coherence can emerge when our feelings, thoughts, words, and actions begin to work together.

Through practical concepts and a unified perspective, the OAK Matrix explores how awareness becomes action, how relationships become opportunities for growth, and how apparent opposites can participate in a larger wholeness.

Rather than prescribing a fixed path, The Living Current Within offers a framework for exploration—one that encourages personal responsibility, conscious choice, and the continuing development of human potential.

The current is already within you. The journey is learning to live it. Now available as a paperback, Kindle and audiobook.

The OAK Matrix: Most systems ask you to disappear to be good, or to win so you can exist. This one does neither.
The OAK Matrix walks one living current from the ground up. First you inhabit an ordinary life. Then you learn a clean no and a clean ask. Then a map of love. Then the larger pattern: two complete trees facing the same day, inside one grove.
It is not doctrine to memorize. It is a house with a door at ground level. Use the scaffolding while it serves. When the hum becomes audible, let the explanations fall.
The womb is always open. The grove is patient. Paperback,

Der Orchideengarten Vol 2 No. 12 Contains the following authors and stories: Grazia Deledda, The Shepherd’s Dream; Ernst Penzoldt, Vinzez Volker’s Hands; Edgar Allan Poe, The Valley of Unrest; Arthur Conan Doyle, The Silver Mirror. Stories and poems translated by Joe Bandel. Layout and design by John Hirshhorn-Smith. With the original artwork. This is the first time this magazine has been translated into the Englishlanguage.

OAK Assertiveness Training Course

What if assertiveness isn’t about becoming stronger, louder, or more forceful?

What if it is about becoming more coherent?

When your thoughts, feelings, body, words, boundaries, and actions begin working together, communication becomes clearer. You don’t have to overpower another person to be heard. You don’t have to disappear to preserve a relationship. You can be fully yourself while allowing someone else to be fully themselves.

The OAK Assertiveness Training Course offers a practical path toward that kind of presence.

Drawing from the principle Duality as a Loving Embrace, this course explores assertiveness as reciprocal relationship rather than competition, boundaries without hostility, listening without surrender, and personal sovereignty without isolation.

You won’t be asked to adopt a doctrine.

You won’t be asked to become someone else.

You are invited to notice what is already happening inside you—and discover what becomes possible when you bring more of yourself into the moment.

Be present.
Become coherent.
Speak clearly.
Act from what you know.
Let others remain free.

And when the lessons have become part of your life, you may discover that you no longer need the lessons at all.

Put the system down.
Walk outside.
Live.

Der Orchideengarten Vol 2, No 11 contains the following stories and poems with the original artwork: Charles Lamb, The Convalescent; Alf von Czibulka, A Remarkable Sequel to Camille Flammarion’s “Komet And Earth”; Karl Hans Strobl, Post Mortem; Claudius Collini, The Elevator or The Paternostra; Richard Riess, Ecarte in Paris; unknown, A Vision. Translations by Joe Bandel. Edits and layout by John Hirschhorn-Smith.

This video shares more about my new OAK Tarot of Love and Romance deck and guidebook. Getting a guidebook is easy, getting an actual deck is still possible but not so easy. This video shows you what you need to know. There are two versions of the deck (framed with text or unframed without text) and there are two versions of the guidebook (a deluxe version with high quality paper and a standard color version.

Der Orchideengarten Vol 2 No. 10 is the first English translation of the world’s first illustrated fantasy magazine that was first published in the German language in 1919. This issue contains the following authors and stories: It also contains the original artwork. K. Roelinghoff-Raskolnikov, Iwan The Gambler; Lucrezia Borgia, Love Rhyme; Hanns Fischer, The Wardrobe; Ferdinand Weinhandl, The Goldminers of Oberzeiring; Karoline von Gunderode, Timur. Translation by Joe E Bandel and edited by John-Hirschhorn-Smith.

The OAK Matrix Unleashed is a two volume collection of self-empowerment concepts and techniques that I have collected over the years. These concepts are not a part of the OAK Matrix itself: but are one-off concepts that are not in conflict with the OAK Matrix. In fact, they support it. Book 2 includes chapters 66-113.

I have included the distilled version of the OAK Matrix for those wishing to explore it further. You will find it at the end of the book. This highly condensed material is highly refined and forms the core of a genuine Unified Field Theory that integrates science, psychology, philosophy, metaphysics and spirituality.

The OAK Matrix is solidly based upon the concept of Duality as a Loving Embrace of Opposties like the yin/yang symbol.

I offer this as an antidote to many of the toxic beliefs and manipulations that currently entrap us in Duality as Conflict and War thinking.

This is available as a paperback, epub, and Kindle