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

Chapter 170: A Man Named André and a Hospice Nurse Named Sharon White Show Us How to Face Death When André Ricciardi turned 50, his best friend Lee made an unusual proposition: how about they go get a colonoscopy together? Read more

Find a home for this:  Musings, October 26, 2026-Use in Book (trauma would be good) I am going to tell you the dirty secret of the ages—the ages that began when civilization overcame and re-engineered the tribal and dispersed habitation Read more

Scientists uncover a simple breathing exercise that can induce an altered state of consciousness You don’t need illegal drugs to get out of your mind – just some simple breathing techniques, scientists have revealed. According to a new study, a Read more

Chapter 68: The Intergenerational Web — What Our Ancestors Left Us That Was Never Named Let me tell you about two men. The first was my grandfather. Born in 1901, into conditions that would break most of us before we’d Read more

Section Three: In the Beginning Was the Word: A Journey Through Language, Consciousness, and Self An Introduction to the Word, and Troubleshooting and Repairing a Broken System: Chapter 28: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 29: The First Breath Read more

Section One:  An Electrician’s and a Layman’s Guide to the Universe Prologue Introduction Chapter 1: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe Chapter 2: The Sacred Circuitry of Creation Chapter 3: Like Father, Like Son? My Father’s Aborted Search for Truth, Read more

Section Eleven: Our Life and Evolving Understanding of the Universe’s Unlimited Bandwidth Introduction  Part I: The Quantum Foundation Chapter 180: Quantum Theory and the Architecture of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Investigation Chapter 181:  Beyond the Physical Eyes: Quantum Insights and Seeing Read more

Section 10: Death Becomes Us: Life, Love, and Death Upon the Universe’s Unlimited Bandwidth The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty-Six Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 154: Charlotte’s Web Chapter 155: Beryl Donald Read more

Section Nine: Dreams and Inner Visions Introduction  Chapter 148: Is Life But a Dream? Exploring the Waking and Sleeping Mind Chapter 149: The Wisdom of the Night — Typologies, Meaning, and a Personal Dream Chronicle Chapter 150:  Radical Empathy Dreams: Read more

Section Eight: Understanding I Am, the Body, Non-Sensorial Awareness, and Sex Introduction Chapter 133:  Navigating Our Dual Worlds Of The Mind and the Metaphysical Realm Chapter 134: The Body as a Gateway to Consciousness Chapter 135: Proprioception and the Greater Read more

Section 7: Transmissions from July 21, 1987 and The Dissolution and Reconstitution of the Self – A Journey into the Sacred Silence and Back Again Introduction: The Summer Everything Ended—and Began Chapter 116: The Mantra as Gateway — How a Read more

Section Two: The Electrical Metaphor: Circuits, Consciousness, and Universal Connection Introduction Chapter 8: The Electrician’s Gateway to Universal Truth Chapter 9: The Human Circuit and the Energetics of Connection Chapter 10: The Hiker, the Circuit, and the Wound Chapter 11: Read more

Chapter 161: Guardians in Fur — The Stories of Iris and Ginger Iris I’ve always had a profound affinity for dogs. Growing up, they were woven into the rhythm of family life, with our parents ensuring these loyal companions were Read more

Chapter 175: Jim Hussey— The Tao, the Coyote, and the Goodness of Life “The Tao that can be named is not the Tao” Jim mentioned late in his life that his philosophy most closely resembled the Tao, thus this quote Read more

Chapter 1: The Doors of Perception — Psychedelics, the Sacred, and the Healing of a Wounded America There is a particular kind of silence that descends after a profound experience — not the silence of emptiness, but the silence of Read more

Chapter 2001: The Doors of Perception — Psychedelics, the Sacred, and the Healing of a Wounded America Chapter 2002: The Integration — From the Opened Door to the Inhabited Life Chapter 2027: The Doors of Perception — Psychedelics, the Sacred, Read more

The raw “Chapter 147” dream chronicle (individually dated dreams: 1964 Priest, 1978 Bob Fero, 1987 Bobby Clements, 1988 Di Di, 1988 Ring, 1988 Randy Olson, 1992 Grandfather, 2016 June Thomas, 2017 Cup and Map, 2018 Marty Crouch, 2018 Villoldo, 2022 Read more