Don’t worry; be happy, would pretty much sum up the life’s philosophy of inspirational writer Michael Levy.

Mr. Levy has written seven inspirational books including ‘Minds of Blue, Souls of Gold’, ‘What is the Point’, and ‘Enjoy Yourself, It is Later Than You Think’. His latest book ‘The Joys of Live Alchemy’ was released in May 2005.

The author recently spoke with The Royal Gazette in a telephone interview, shortly before visiting the Island on a cruise ship.

“All my books contain poetry, analogies, stories and essays,” said Mr. Levy. “They all depict the genius of humanity and the erroneousness of humanity.”

He said the erroneousness of humanity refers to the way that education has been misapplied.

“Look at the people who ran corporations like Enron,” he said. “They obviously had brilliant brains, but they used what they had to cheat people. Their education was misused. They weren’t taught in schools how to apply their talents for the betterment of humanity. Another instance is the Virginia Tech massacre in the United States and the way the media project it and glorify the murderer. They are making it into a Thanksgiving feast of erroneous behaviour.”

He said people have to look deeper into the situation to find out its true meaning and cause.

“You have to be like an archaeologist,” he said. “That is what my books do, they dig deeper.” Mr. Levy himself dropped out of secondary school in Manchester, England at about 16 years old.

“I grew up in Manchester in a corner terrace house with no running hot water, outside toilet and green mould on the walls,” he said. “People said I was poor, but I didn’t understand what poverty was. I have always realised there are only so many hours in the day. For 19 years, I was living in this poverty, but I was enjoying life.”

When he left school, he told a teacher he would own a Rolls-Royce before he was 26. He was only two years off the mark. He owned one by the time he was 28.

“I opened a small textile company,” he said. “ At 19-years-old I sold cloth remnants at the street markets. Eventually, I built a textile corporation. By the time I was 28, I was pretty successful. I invested well in commercial property in Manchester.”

In 1992 he retired and moved to Florida. He spent the next six years pondering the meaning of life.

“I didn’t look at books to find the answers,” he said. “I have never been able to digest a book. I bought a computer and researched online. There was a correlation to the conclusions I came to. I got my education by understanding we are all connected. There is a true meaning that goes through life that everyone is part of. Many times it does get masked by the sophistication of what we know. Many people are frightened to express it in company for fear of being called stupid. I truly enjoy being insulted by clever people.”

Mr. Levy said his articles can be found in journals published by the Royal College of Psychiatry in London. He is a columnist for Positive Health magazine, and his articles can also be found all over the Internet.

He said he has never paid for any advertising, because he expects the words he writes to speak for themselves.

“I don’t write to sell books or to become a famous author,” he said. “Fame and fortune are not things I require. However, I would like a prime-time television show in the United States. I would like to write a couple of movie scripts. It would be nice to write a Broadway musical with some of my metaphysical ideas in it. I would like to publish other writers. I want them to get the benefit of what I am doing.”

Mr. Levy said the response to his books has been very positive and he feels he has touched lives.

“People have written to me and said they were pleased with the books,” he said. “I had a letter from one chap who lives in South Carolina. He was a Holocaust survivor. He kept himself fit after war and became reasonably successful. When he retired he still kept himself fit, but he couldn’t sleep at night. He was unable to sleep at night because he was haunted by what had happened. He read my book, ‘Minds of Blue, Souls of Gold’. It has become his Bible and he reads a poem or a chapter from it and now he sleeps by a baby.”

He said his books don’t sell as well as he would like, but he is unfazed by this.

“I have been writing books that are meaningful and will span the test of time,” he said. “My books will probably be successful when future generations start to understand that they are put on earth to live and enjoy and there is no need to suffer. Then they will be more well-read.”

Mr. Levy believed that the purpose of life is to enjoy yourself, and to understand that in your spiritual form you are in this world but not a part of it.

“We are here for a finite time,” he said.

His books are available online at www.amazon.com or on his website at www.pointoflife.com. To contact the Bookworm Beat e-mail bookwormbeat1@hotmail.com.