Update:
Online news article: 9/2022
Let's Infuse a Better Tomorrow Together - Nicholas Seigel
Original 2018 Publication:
This is more than just a testament to the brilliance of the human spirit. More than will and meddle carries us through the darkest nights of the soul. Has anyone ever tested out the rubber band theory that there just might be a limit to the deeper fall from grace where there is no chance to ever return? If there ever was a story to tell this extraordinary tale of returning from past the point where most never return from and, in the process, being forged into a very powerful man, more so than most mortal men, the story of Nicholas Seigel and RadioCave is one such great story whose time has come to be told.
Often for us humans it is difficult to imagine someone had a life before we knew of them. A great story with a fine storyteller can draw an audience in as though they are part of it. What an important thing to do for the figure we put on a pedestal and look up to, or the people we would not have around our respectable neighborhoods, whom we look down upon. What were the changes and adventures in life, ups and downs, good and hard times, that brought them to here and now? This is a very important part of humanizing a person.
Nicholas Seigel was not always on top of his game in the world as he is now: working with strong leaders and community organizers in countries like Israel, Australia, Uruguay, to name a few, even the EU, and some African countries; collaborating with Earthdance to televise their synchronized global Prayer for Peace; facilitating RadioCave/Earthdance artists exchanges, including crafters, vendors, and various service people united in the common mission of global peace work and play.
It is quite something to frame a life into a biography that speaks to the whole person beyond boxes and labels we place on occupation, social class, ethnicity, diagnosis, hobbies while doing justice to a great story and view of a person’s precious gift of life. A poet, musician, and person with epilepsy who also has Hypergraphia, a condition characterized by desire to write or draw, Nick describes this in his own words: “My poetry comes from the heart, I would like everyone to read, no matter who they are. When it's my time I will leave my emotions, my soul, my intelligence, my calm, my fear, my love and inner-self in my poetry and music.”
There you have some of it, Nick started his journey into the world of disk-jockeying at a ripe age of 18. He was diagnosed with epilepsy very soon after at age 20. What came after was a long period of trying to keep it a secret from his friends and acquaintances until the age of 32, at which time he chose to leave the scene due to health reasons. He made a valiant attempt to keep working after that. Nicholas was a Microsoft certified system engineer circa 2008. His last job was working at Suntrust Bank in their anti-virus remediation department before epilepsy took him away from the workplace.
Can’t we just have a network of safe harbors where we can exist in a sheltered notion that life doesn’t care about whether or not it passes us by while we are disassociated? Well, perhaps by way of our experiencing these and overcoming we may deliver the grandest triumph of all: to establish such a network of sanctuary spaces for those who will experience similar to what we have.
If we could see the life that Nicholas lived after this point, perhaps even through artistic impressions and metaphors, we would see a very stark contrast of a picture from the socialite well-connected in the music scene with lots of activity, privilege, and access. We might, many of us, empathize with the haunting shadows, isolation, and low self-esteem, for we too have been there. Some of us though, may need to close down our sensitivity to his struggle with depression that lasted for the next nearly 20 years because connection with another living person in their pain and sorrow is too much for many of us to bear. If you can lend an ear or a heart to the hard times of his story, then please give yourself to the goodness in Nicholas’ story too: it was the beauty of Earthdance that opened the door of opportunity for him to believe in something greater than his self.
Like a dream? so can it be like another lifetime within this one. What have all these experiences before now in our current year (2018-19) contributed to his character? To consider the implications of such a question is truly vast and mind-boggling:
Nicholas still physically retains all the scars both physically and spiritually from that abusive relationship, but he now holds them as lessons of how not to treat people and how he would never want to act toward another living being.
Now, through meditation, yoga, and CBD (THC where applicable) Nick is now able to mediate his stress levels and interactions with various situations while maintaining his calm peace of mind—not letting his emotions override his intelligence. He is now an advocate for people afflicted with epilepsy, autism, down-syndrome; his advocacy also extends to deaf communities and a myriad of similar “spectrum communities.” Nicholas hopes, by providing this level of compassion support he will inspire others taking on challenges similar to as he has and triumph as he had—through his focus on raising awareness of epilepsy and positive social change.
Nick is working to build many facets of support and extend them to all spectrum communities, eventually leading into creating a new festival of all-inclusive areas for specific global themes with special attention to environmental stimulus and such influences. This future event, in his vision, is a new world’s fair because the size and scope of our plans require nothing less than birth into the world on such a grand scale…then this goes a traveling across the globe. “I am Nicholas S Seigel and I have been diagnosed with epilepsy for the last 20 years. Throughout many years of learning to deal with and accept epilepsy, I have now found not only many new friends in great abundance but also the ability to love myself and understand that neither I, nor WE, are limited by our spectrum.
“I have been very lucky but have also worked very hard over those years to learn meditation, yoga, and various calming holistic practices and feel more stable…in better shape than I have ever been in my life; I am stronger physically, mentally, and emotionally. My memory is as sharp as ever; in fact, I find myself recalling information I never knew I had acquired, yet somehow have the answer to the question. I now would not take back epilepsy or my having beed run over because they both taught me the same thing: I am capable of overcoming great obstacles and even the most extreme of what was thought to be life ruining me is yet simply another life lesson and wisdom acquired.”
I thank you all for taking time to read these words, and so, being part of my life. If I can overcome the obstacles, so can everyone else. If I can do all this, you can too.
Published 2018
A Deeper Glimpse into Extraordinary
A Biography by Luke A. Shootingstar Walters
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