Subscribe to our RSS feedI can’t help but think of the first few words of Napoleon Hill’s self-help classic Think and Grow Rich when I get news like I received last night from my old friend Richard Shaw.
Hill wrote “Truly, thoughts are things…”. In other words, if you can think it, you can do it. That seems to have been the guiding principle at play with Richard for quite some time.
Torah Codes: End To Darkness from Pinlight Production is scheduled for release in December.
Richard, and his Porter Ranch, Calif., Pinlight Production will release Torah Codes: End to Darkness in December. The film depicts the remarkable idea that embedded in the first five books of the Bible are secret codes that predict future events.
What is even more remarkable to me is the production is the fruit of a seed Shaw planted along his life path many decades ago. Back in the early 1980s, I first was introduced to Richard by my boss at Television Broadcast Communications magazine (the forerunner to Television Broadcast). Richard, who worked at an Atlanta television station as an audio engineer, was our monthly audio columnist.
As time progressed, we got to know each other better over the phone. Calls with questions about something he had written quickly turned into discussions about the interesting things he was doing at the station, what was happening in his church or something new in his family. One day, Richard began telling me about his fascination with the newly released Macintosh from Apple Computer and all of the things it could do.
After a few years of bouncing around following the sale of Television Broadcast, I found myself in the role of editor of AVVideo magazine. Knowing Richard’s affinity for all things Macintosh, I approached him about being a regular contributor to the magazine as our More Mac columnist.
So intense was Richard’s interest in what the Mac could do in video production, that he saw it as stepping stone on the path to a far bigger career goal than a television station audio engineer. With the Mac and Final Cut and a host of other tools, Richard envisioned himself being one of a new breed of media professionals who could use this powerful platform as the creative engine to drive a career as an independent producer.
Once more a magazine was sold out from underneath me, so my interaction with Richard was much more sporadic. But over the years, he left Atlanta, went to Hollywood and founded Pinlight Production where he has shot, edited, directed and produced a wide variety of projects, on topics as diverse as the AIDS crisis and paranormal activities.
Last night, Richard wrote to tell me that Torah Codes: End to Darkness is scheduled for release in December. While to Richard the movie is simply the latest in a long line of projects, to me it represents something much more: the tangible result of Richard making a dramatic shift in how he thought about who he was, what he was doing and where he wanted to go in life.
For Richard, it would seem, Hill’s observation that thoughts are things rings quite true.
Click to watch the trailer for Torah Codes: End to Darkness.