Shhhh! Digital Media - Home of Butterfly Dragon, Tales Of The Sanctum: A Lady's Prerogative, The Two Dragons, The Two Butterflies, We Who Stand On Guard, Night Boat, The Legendary of Xarn. This content is written and created by Brian Joseph Johns and is all produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701
Earth.org: 16 Biggest Environmental Problems of 2026
Broad coverage of interconnected issues like greenhouse gases, tipping points, deforestation, and biodiversity loss.
Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Deepai.org, Google AI Studio, Borderline Obsession...
DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.
InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.
Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.
Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.
Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)
Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)
Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history
Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)
Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art
Tapp Brothers Exercise For Better Motion
Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility
Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools
Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!
Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof
Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.
This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.
I'd like to welcome Bilibili.com to the Shhhh! Digital Media family. I've been with them since March 31, 2026 and I'd like to think that my recent boost to productivity directly results from their inspiration and influence, in much the same way that the circle of YouTube creators I idolize continue to inspire me. They're not responsible for the worst of me, but they certainly have a share in the best of me and that certainly includes Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand. Bilibili includes participation from many countries, including many from Asia.
Despite this storyline taking place mostly in Shepperton off the Thames, United Kingdom, it is entirely written in Moss Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Shepperton is close to my heart in ideas rather than kilometers.
I am Brian Joseph Johns and this is Shhhh! Digital Media at https://www.shhhhdigital.com or https://www.shhhhdigital.ca in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701.
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April 9, 2026
First of all, I'm not mentally ill and I'd never use such a condition in a stigmatic form so as to cause harm.
I just spent the last three days being harassed excessively by an abusive predatory group in Regent Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who still are harassing me as I write this post. They're connected to a very abusive religious ideology that targets and harasses people as a form of trying to force them over to the "blue" side of their colour symbolism cult.
Blue to them means a number of things that socially gives them the tools to remove a person's identity, replace it, and then to claim that everything that person states means the exact opposite or that it shouldn't be taken at face value. Basically, its a way of muzzling someone before they have a chance to invoice those responsible.
This cult also tends to use it to imply that they're possessing someone. So, I'm not blue or on the blue team and never will be in the sense this abusive predatory ideology relies upon. Blue in the sense as its used by this predatory ideology almost becomes like a social disease. A form of cooties that some people regard as being contagious. So basically the members of this predatory ideology will harass a person trying to boil them over to the point that they appear not to be behaving like themselves, and even perhaps more like someone else. Often the indicator of their scam being in place, because the way that this predatory group operates is to take the good actions of one person, and give them to the credit of another, as a form of currency.
One of the things they often do is attempt to replace my identity in order to replace my culture, and most often that occurs by painting me as being African or Caribbean (ie Jamaican, Haitian, Trinidadian, Guyanese for example), when I have no such ancestry of that nature at all and actually have very pale European descended skin colour, unless I happen to get a bit more sun during the summer.
Their motive for doing this is two fold.
The first reason has to do with ideas connected to Gnosticism, which in its short form is a philosophy regarding duality that seeks to unify or separate two diametrically opposed paradigms within a person or group of people as a form of mystery school.
Initially, it originated around the concept of gender, as in ancient history with regard to dualism, gender is one of the first concepts we encounter that involves our dual nature, which is echoed throughout nature in many different ways (ie day/night, summer/winter, ground/sky etc).
So the idea is that women and men start out with equal parts of both gender as a sort of foundation to their inner persona, and that a ceremony like marriage is Gnostic in the sense that the ceremony seeks to separate the masculine aspect from the physically female partner, and separate the feminine aspect from the physically male partner, and align them according to the chosen roles of those taking part in the ceremony of becoming one.
This concept goes further, and makes gender interchangeable between partners in such a way that each partner can benefit from the advantages afforded each gender according to ideas regarding each as having strengths and weaknesses. So this is what is at the foundational level is entailed by Gnosticism and what most people will ultimately find out if they do their research. This concept of gender is one of the foundations of Gnostic dualism, and no, my name is not Michael Jacks, and he doesn't exclusively own knowledge anymore than anyone else does. My mind comes from myself and my cultivation, and not from the clairvoyance and clairaudience of others as some predatory ideologies might convince you of the people they target. I choose my allies and who I let in, and I definitely am a person who dispatches those who break in without permission, even if it takes decades. Dispatch in this case means, deal with in an appropriately just manner.
With understanding of duality, people who became interested in Gnosticism began looking for other forms of duality, attempting to integrate them into their philosophy of dualism in this regard in much the same way that physicists examine the laws of the universe trying to find symmetries or asymmetries that reveal aspects of the nature of reality, though take heart, physicists aren't responsible for any woo woo factor involved in this post. This is entirely my own responsibility. Symmetry though is a very applicable metaphor to illustrate the concept.
One of those aspects somehow found its way into perception based upon skin colour, classifying the duality between people with light skin, and people with dark skin, and attempting to integrate it as a form of one of the true Gnostic symmetries of nature.
This idea found its way into branches of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, largely unchecked by any centralized body, and eventually became a form of non-standard practice at the street level, and eventually it became the basis for a lot of misunderstanding with regard to mystery schools, and colour symbolism.
That isn't to say that Rosicrucianism is founded in such ideas as dividing people into two categories accommodating the lightness and darkness of their skin, as much so as it is to say that this form of Gnostic philosophy has been host to hate crimes for as long as its existed, simply because it attempts forcibly to enforce cultural identity of its intended targets, with an additional or replacement culture against their choice, and often by creating immense weight of some form as a burden carried by the target of such a system of duality.
In all secret societies and in the awareness of their authentic members (initiated in an organized and well founded temple or lodge system that includes activities such as doing community work or raising money for charity) which I've known, colour symbolism has never meant skin colour. Ever.
The initiation into these non-authentic forms of Gnosticism and Rosicrucianism and possibly even Masonry, involves creating a burdensome secret that is represented by the colour symbolism of brown/black, in this case, keeping a secret for someone based upon their skin colour, and making it the weight of the "initiate".
Some have even gone so far as to claim that this is the true source of Egyptian culture as well (ie the racist idea that Egyptians were simply an alchemical mixture of people with sub-Saharan dark skin, and North African light skin, hence this misinformed concept of Gnostic philosophy found roots in many Temples that became popular when Rosicrucianism became part of the pop culture, especially the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, who historically have respected the philosophy of Egyptian tradition from which is derived the HOOTGD's symbolism and metaphor.
Into the 1960s and beyond, a movement founded upon this Gnostic concept of dualism based upon skin colour slowly worked its way into largely unrecognized groups allegedly initiating and practicing the philosophies of an unattached esoteric Egyptian tradition.
In my experience with authentic members (who can trace their mentor's lineage back for several hundred years), they have never initiated members using brown/black colour symbolism to create a burden based upon skin colour as represented by brown skin and symbolized by brown/black as maintaining a secret for people based upon skin colour, and have never integrated any such practice as part of their initiation process of bringing members into their temple.
