Musings on Life, Love, Consciousness, Toxic Masculinity, Toxic Religion, The Sacred and The Profane

There is another lost section five that needs merging here. Version 2: The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Chapters 9-12 are first. Chapters  1, 22-26 are next Chapters 30-32 plus others are next Defining Miracles and Visions is Read more

The Journey Through Childhood Wounds to Divine Connection Rethinking Miracles A Journey Beyond Religious Boundaries What is a miracle? For many, images of divine interventions, visions of Jesus Christ, or appearances of the Virgin Mother immediately come to mind. These Read more

author’s note: I repost this one to honor an experience that happened 39 years ago today. The experience continues to inform my spiritual awareness. Chapter 9-22:  Language Either Mirrors Love, or Obstructs It: June 22, 1987 and Related Teaching Friends Read more

Chapter 34: My Father, Beryl Donald Paullin, and a Life, Love, and Death Upon His Bandwidth There are men who pass through the world quietly, leaving only the faintest impressions on those around them. My father, Beryl Donald Paullin, was Read more

A Father’s Day Tribute honoring Beryl Donald Paullin (April 17, 1927 – September 15, 2017) There are men who pass through the world quietly, leaving only the faintest impressions on those around them. My father, Beryl Donald Paullin, was not Read more

Chapter 33: A Man Named André and a Hospice Nurse Named Sharon White Show Us How to Face Death There is something quietly radical about a man who faces death and does not flinch. Not because he is fearless—he isn’t—but Read more

Chapter Six: The Liberated Self — Insight, White Holes, and the Boundless Bandwidth of Existence Insight as a Faculty Forged in Fire Its a funny thing about hindsight, it always shows up late–Hagel Insight is a faculty I developed slowly, Read more

Section Three:  Chapter One: Just Say No To Trauma — A Personal Reckoning Chapter Two: The Biology of the Wound — What the Cells Remember Chapter Three: The Conspiracy of Silence — How Culture Teaches Us to Look Away Chapter Read more

Chapter 9-13: Just Say No To Trauma:  A Personal Reckoning There is a garage. Cold, dark, and indifferent. Inside it sits a car, and inside the car lies a baby wrapped in a warm blanket—crying, alone, waiting. This was not Read more

Chapter 9-17: Just Say NO to Trauma: Why Our Collective Denial and Its Conspiracy of Silence Is the Greatest Barrier to Healing Preface: A Personal Reckoning There is a garage. Cold, dark, and indifferent. Inside it sits a car, and Read more

Prelude: The Territory We Are Entering The commentary on the common knowledge game, and the lemming effect, should have given the reader a substantial window through which to view humanity’s extraordinary potential for both corruption and healing within our social Read more

Chapter 9-18: Projection and Perception: The Word, the Dream, and the Evolving Self Oh, evil’s shadow boxer, when will you ever retire? Tis champion of a lonely dream world to which you aspire. Stop resuscitating dead illusions with mental pugilist Read more

Projection and Perception: The Word, the Dream, and the Self Oh, evil’s shadow boxer, when will you ever retire? Tis champion of a lonely dream world to which you aspire. Stop resuscitating dead illusions with mental pugilist blows, And a Read more

Oh, evil’s shadow boxer, when will you ever retire? Tis champion of a lonely dream world to which you aspire. Stop resuscitating dead illusions with mental pugilist blows, And a peaceful mind will replace the confusion you now know.   Read more

The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Every society operates on an invisible framework known as the collective consciousness, populated with so-called facts we know as common knowledge. This shared set of beliefs, morals, and attitudes functions as the Read more

Michael Cain, acting as Alfred If we are to name an era defined by its ceaseless unraveling, this would be it. From our vantage points at kitchen tables, in home offices, or the quiet confines of our living rooms, we Read more

I have walked through my days carrying a quiet ache: the sense that my work, my ideas, my truest self has gone unnoticed. I am not alone in this. The hunger to be seen and understood lives in nearly everyone, Read more