OCHENTA PLUS

In the hush before sunrise, the lake stirs like a breathing womb.

So begins Ochenta Plus — not a memoir, not a self-help book, but a devotional artifact. A mandala made of words. A sacred offering from a man who has lived eight decades with intention, transformed himself across continents, and arrived — finally, quietly — at the shores of Lago de Chapala, where the Mother of Waters watches over all.

Written at eighty-plus from his sanctuary in Chapala, Jalisco, México, Edward A. Samuelson — known as Lalo, known also by his sacred name Teg Devjeet Singh — gathers the essential truths of a life lived in breath, grace, and becoming. This is not a book to be read quickly. It is a book to be dwelt in.

Moving through seven chapters and a closing blessing, the manuscript traces:

— The Breath that began everything — and the lake that returned it

— The Wisdom of Earth — Chapala's shores, Portland's cedar silence, the ancestors in stone

— Echoes of Spirit — not thunder, but the shimmer of candlelight in meditation

— Love Without Borders — a cosmos, not a country, carried in the names of those he loves

— The Circle of Knowing — a spiritual mandala of Harmony, Breath, Grace, Joy, Presence

— Twelve Truths — what remains after eighty years: the essentials

— Sacred Footprints — nine Virgins, seven crystal Buddhas, a wall of remembrance

Watched over by Teomichicihuatl, Mother of the Lake, and guided by the quiet power of his Scorpio stellium, his life path of 7, and the lineage of 3HO, Samuelson writes not to instruct but to remember — and to invite the reader into the same remembering.

This is a book for seekers, for the quietly spiritual, for anyone standing at the threshold of their own ochenta plus and wondering what remains when the noise falls away.

What remains is breath. What remains is love. What remains is the lake.

About the author: Edward A. Samuelson MA, DD, known as Lalo and as Teg Devjeet Singh, is a Divine Mystic, artist, healer, and life guide. He lives in Chapala, Jalisco, México. He is eighty-plus. He is still becoming.

Enter gently. Breathe once. Begin.