Recovery And Spirituality

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Insights Into Human Consciousness

The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, a Cat Named Sassy, and the Quiet Logic of Synchronicity

Most people expect revelation to arrive with spectacle. We imagine a thunderclap, a voice from the heavens, a dramatic turning point that announces itself beyond all doubt. Yet many of the deepest spiritual and psychological awakenings do not begin that...

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Insights Into Human Consciousness

(version 1) The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, a Cat Named Sassy, and the Quiet Logic of Synchronicity

The universe speaks a language older than words, a silent tongue woven from the threads of coincidence, allegory, and direct experience. We often wander through the labyrinth of human existence, perceiving our lives as a sequence of isolated events, governed...

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Insights Into Human Consciousness

Recognizing the Self in the Mirror of the World

To look at the world is, fundamentally, to look at a mirror. When we recognize ourselves in the environments we witness, we take the first step toward becoming truly conscious beings. Human perception is a vast, limitless landscape. Everything we...

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Insights Into Human Consciousness

Beyond the Prophet: Escaping Spiritual Idolatry

Idolatry usually brings to mind ancient statues and golden calves. We picture historical crowds bowing before objects of stone and wood. Yet, a much more subtle form of worship permeates modern religious and spiritual practices. This is spiritual idolatry. It Read more

By Bruce, 21 hoursApril 25, 2026 ago
Insights Into Human Consciousness

Chapter 23.5: The Dark Crystal: Princess Kira, The Divine Feminine, Jung, and the Tao of Existence

Jim Henson’s 1982 cinematic masterpiece, The Dark Crystal, remains a profound anomaly in the realm of fantasy filmmaking. Far removed from the colorful, lighthearted puppetry of his usual work, this film presents a dark, meticulously crafted universe brooding with spiritual Read more

By Bruce, 23 hoursApril 25, 2026 ago
Insights Into Human Consciousness

Mother Earth Is Ground-Saved by Zero

Numbers: The Hidden Language That Shaped Human History Numbers surround us like invisible threads weaving through the fabric of existence. From the moment we wake to the rhythm of our heartbeat to the precise calculations that launched rockets into space, Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 2 daysApril 24, 2026 ago
Insights Into Human Consciousness

Grounding and Bonding-Saved By Zero

(Mother) Earth is ground the world around. –Absolute truth accepted by electricians worldwide. ”Ground” in the power distribution grid is literally the ground that’s all around you when you walk outside. It is the dirt, rocks, and groundwater. Mother Earth Read more

By Bruce, 2 daysApril 24, 2026 ago
Insights Into Human Consciousness

Chapter 22:  The New Architecture of Control: How Power Targets Women’s Autonomy (version 1)

Chapter 22:  The New Architecture of Control: How Power Targets Women’s Autonomy (version 1) The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Every society operates on an invisible framework known as the collective consciousness. This shared set of beliefs, morals, Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 22, 2026 ago
Insights Into Human Consciousness

Chapter 22: Breaking the Altar of Control: Liberating Women (version 2)

Chapter 22:  The Architecture of Subjugation: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Control of Female Autonomy (version 2) We exist at a profound and unsettling intersection of technological advancement, political regression, and spiritual manipulation. The women of this era are not Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 22, 2026 ago
Death

Introduction and Conclusion, Part One July 6, 2018

Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, or other discomfort. “Our Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Death

Penetrating The Conspiracy Of Silence, Or, How I Lived Beyond My Expiration Date Parts One, Two, Three

PART ONE:  INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Prologue: Insight Into The Conspiracy Of Silence, or, How I Lived Beyond My Expiration Date

Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, or other discomfort. “Our Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Death

Parts One Complete July 17, 2018 20:00

PART ONE:  INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Di Di (Diane) McCloud

I wrote my first love poem in 1984, when I became lovers with a woman by the name of Diane (Di Di) McCloud.  I had first met Di Di while she was running with Gary, a cocaine dealer and friend Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Anxiety and the potential to heal from it

About ten days later, we were to meet our Arizona friends, June Thomas, and MIchael Barron, at Cannon Beach.  We arrived at the coast on a partly sunny Monday afternoon. We were quickly greeted by June and her ten year Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Employment At US Postal Service

I will try to cover my employment  with the US Postal Service, as well as my attempts at “higher education”.  I worked as a floor clerk, a letter sorting machine operator, and finally as a maintenance mechanic/electronic technician for a Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Michael and Diane Sutton, and The Miracle Experiments

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. – Maya Angelou The Miracle Experiment Find a family member, friend, acquaintance, or stranger Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Marsha (Masha) Feldman

In the continued interest of “finding my people”, I attend the INTA Conference in Portland In August of 1987 (International New Thought Alliance).  The person that I was most interested in seeing was Jack Boland, the recovering alcoholic who had Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Craig Allen Salter

Craig Salter was my next door neighbor in our new Milwaukie neighborhood.  He was of slight build, and he was a slow talker.   He may well have been a creative genius, but his “dreamy” state of existence was indicative of Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Donelle Mae Flick Paullin

I will now return to 1971, and I will try to develop my relationship with Donelle more fully.  Randy Olson found his first long-term girlfriend, a young woman by the name of Terri-Lynn Barr, a person that he met at Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 4 daysApril 21, 2026 ago

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