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

Chapter 22: Baptism and Rebirthing Christian baptism is a symbolic act, an attempt to persuade the initiate that the accumulated traumas and wounds of human existence can be surrendered—washed away—so that a clean slate might be prepared to receive the Read more

Many Paths, One Heart A Welcome for Sharon’s 80th Birthday Good afternoon, everyone. Indulge me for a moment. Look around this gathering—really look. Take in the faces here today. What you’re seeing is remarkable. Every single person here arrived by Read more

Chapter 22: Jim Hussey— The Tao, the Coyote, and the Goodness of Life “The Tao that can be named is not the Tao” —a reminder that ultimate reality can never truly be captured by words or human ideas. I offer Read more

Chapter 24: New Things, Old Things, Retired Things, Junkyard Things. Over the course of a lifetime, I have owned a remarkable fleet of vehicles. My inventory began simply enough—my own body, then a tricycle, a bicycle, several skateboards—before expanding into Read more

Part II: The American Shadow — Politics, Power & Violence Chapter 4: The American Symptom: Politics, Power, and Violence — Defender Dan, The Donald, and the Wounded American Soul Chapter 5: The Architecture of Subjugation: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Read more

Chapter Four: The Calculus of the Infinite — The Fourth and Fifth Insights The Night the Equation Arrived There are moments in a human life when an idea does not feel invented but received. It does not arrive through deduction, Read more

AI and Humanity-Reaching a Singularity Together? From: Jasper Support <hey@jasper.ai> Sent: Sunday, 16 August 2026 17:29:57 To: Bruce Paullin <run4play2017@gmail.com> Subject: [Jasper] Re: Hi Bruce, Thanks for reaching out. I’m not quite sure what you mean by bringing AI into “cosmic consciousness,” and I Read more

Why Are We Still Shaming Writers for Using AI Editors? There’s a quiet guilt that follows many writers who’ve turned to AI tools for editorial support. A sense that somehow, using technology to refine their prose is cheating—a shortcut unworthy Read more

Prologue: A Life Upon the Unlimited Bandwidth Every electrician learns to respect a particular kind of silence—a tense stillness that settles in the seconds before a high-voltage switch is thrown. In that suspended moment, enormous energy hovers between potential and Read more

Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty-Four Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 1:  Beryl Donald Paullin: The Man Who Cast My Shadow Chapter 2: The Woman Behind the Read more

Chapter 10: The Plow Horse and the Underworld: A Descent Into Living Death The search for truth becomes the joy of living when one sees their position on the collective grid of life, and stops being just another of its Read more

Chapter 21: The Long Goodbye — Questions, Presence, and the Sacred Threshold (Inspired by my friendship with Jim Hussey, and the multitudes of departed loved ones who have blessed my life, and all of life. My thanks also go to Read more

Chapter 2: Corinne Beatrice Henry Paullin — The Quiet Pillar The Woman the World Called Corinne There is a particular kind of person whose significance you only begin to fully measure in their absence. While they are present, they are Read more

Nineteen Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Life leaves us quietly. One ordinary day, without warning or ceremony, you will hear someone’s laugh for the very last time. You will hug them for the last Read more

There is a chapter 21, questions for a dying person, and the physical progression of death. Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter Read more

Chapter 11: 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

Section 13: Death Becomes Us is an ambitious, deeply personal, and philosophically rich exploration of mortality. At its best, it achieves something rare: it holds the clinical and the spiritual, the autobiographical and the universal, in genuine tension — and Read more