Chapter 33: The Three Kingdoms Revisited We have journeyed through the intricate circuits of strategy, from the overt rules of game theory to the subtle, pervasive influence of our shared social realities. We have seen how the Common Knowledge Game...
Read moreFrom Section 6: Death Becomes Us Chapter 14: Marty Crouch and a New Sunrise Donelle’s story is, among other things, an indictment of the silence we maintain around our most vulnerable. Marty’s story is different in tone, different in circumstance,...
Read moreChapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4:...
Read moreChapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more
Chapter 25: A Changing Vision After Death: All That We See Is Ourselves and its Projections . . . Until We Don’t If the body is the vehicle and the self merely its driver, as the previous chapter proposed, then Read more
A booklet of twenty-five chapters is, in its own way, a small cosmology — a bounded universe of grief, memory, and inquiry nested inside the larger seventy-chapter body of An Electrician’s Guide to the Universe. Grounding (Chapters 1–5): The author’s Read more
The Vehicle and the Driver: A Final Reckoning 2001 Newport Marathon Over my lifetime, I’ve had quite the lineup of vehicles. It all started simply enough—with my own two feet, which I estimate have carried me over 75,000 miles through Read more
Section 6: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty-Five 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: A Face Without a Name — The Living Portrait of June Thomas From Section 6, “Death Becomes Us” “The value of a relationship is entirely independent of its physical permanence.” There is a particular kind of grief that Read more
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 23: 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