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

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

Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty 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 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

(preliminary) Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Sixteen Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 1 – Beryl Donald Paullin: The Man Who Cast My Shadow Chapter 2: The Voice Read more

Chapter 337:  What Chapter Four Implies About Death: Physical and Psychological Chapter Four does not address death directly. It does not name it, argue about it, or offer consolation concerning it. And yet, for a reader willing to follow the Read more

Chapter 41: The Labyrinth of the Human Mind — Walls, Minotaurs, and the Long Walk Home Chapter 42: The Electrician and the Eternal Circuit — Returning to the Source Epilogue: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and a Life, Love, Read more

Chapter 42: The Electrician and the Eternal Circuit — Returning to the Source All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does Read more

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