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

Chapter 41: The Labyrinth of the Human Mind — Walls, Minotaurs, and the Long Walk Home We have traveled a long way together—through the archaeology of the wounded self, through the architecture of belief, through the corridors of trauma and Read more

Epilogue: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and a Life, Love, and Death Upon Its Unlimited Bandwidth An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe has taken on a life far more expansive than I originally imagined — and perhaps that is Read more

Chapter 37: The Doors of Perception — Psychedelics, the Sacred, and the Healing of a Wounded America Chapter 38: The Integration — From the Opened Door to the Inhabited Life Chapter 37: The Doors of Perception — Psychedelics, the Sacred, Read more

Part I: Foundations — The Architecture of Oppression Chapter 1: The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Chapter 2: The Roots of the Shadow: The Complexities of Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity Chapter 3: The Silent Prison of the Male Read more

Section 5: Transmissions from July 21, 1987 and The Dissolution and Reconstitution of the Self – A Journey into the Sacred Silence and Back Again Introduction Chapter 1: The Mantra as Gateway — How a Self-Made Invocation Became a Vibrational Read more

Is the Ego Is Just Foam? – What Beer Reveals About Identity The individual ego, much like the head on a glass of beer, is vivid, animated, and seemingly solid—yet entirely dependent on an unseen substrate for its existence. I Read more

Chapter 09: The Collective Word — The Music, the Crowd, and I Are One The preceding chapter arrived at a proposition that is simple to state and genuinely unsettling to sit with: the self is not a noun. It is Read more

Complete Chapter Outline The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech The Symphony of Silence and Sound — Dual Modes of Perception and the Two Worlds Within The Water Pump Miracle — Symbolic Representation, Read more

Part I: The Architecture of Imbalance Part II: How the Imbalance Is Born — The Personal as the Collective  Part III: The Machinery of Suppression — Patriarchy, Religion, and the Exile of the Feminine Part III-A: The Architecture of Silencing Read more

  Chapter 9-18:  Women in History and The Echoes of Ancient Equilibrium and Gender Dynamics Before the Patriarchal Shift Chapter 27: Healing the Patriarch Within and the Restoration of the Human Heart Chapter 27 (what is best version?): Breaking the Read more

Chapter 38:  July 21, 1987 Master Teacher of the Light Chapter 16: You Can’t Be Real Chapter 16: July 21, 1987 Revisited: The Great Cosmic Joke and the Illusion of the Self Chapter X69: Interoception and Propioception (goes with July Read more

Chapter 9-22:  Language Either Mirrors Love, or Obstructs It: June 22, 1987 and Related Teaching Chapter 20:  The Three Levels of Thought: Charting a Course Through Reality Chapter 5:  All You See Is Yourself:  The Art of Exploring Perception and Read more

Chapter 9: Toxic Femininity, Patriarchy’s Marionettes, and the Wounded Spirit Version 2: The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Chapter 9: The Roots of the Shadow—The Complexities of Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity-Exploring Evolutionary, Historical, Cultural, Psychological, and Spiritual Factors 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