Defender Dan With our final insight into the true nature of Consciousness and God, and our identity embedded within this creative principle of the Universe, we see that we can become either agents of a loving, regenerative force, or, in our ignorance, become the malevolent architects of Armageddon, and our Read more
If it’s painful for you to hear my story, it’s OK. That’s part of the process because my story includes pain, so don’t stop listening because you are uncomfortable. If you would just move past your discomfort you might learn something about empathy and compassion and mercy and justice. —-Pastor Read more
As the slowly shifting sands of time create ever taller hills for lost souls to climb, It is in this selfish, hateful world of little reason and rhyme, that I must seek the way to truth, to find Love sublime. What if a real miracle was trying to happen in Read more
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” —Jiddu Krishnamurti Powerlessness and silence go together. We … should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world’s reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. Read more
“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether Read more
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.—–Harriet Tubman . The number 42 is a number of significance in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. This is Read more
In 1972, Scott Ferguson, who was a classmate with me at Rex Putnam High School, drove to Seaside, Oregon with a group of five friends for a wild weekend. He had an old VW Beetle, yet it made it to the beach OK. Tony Mecklem, Scott, Randy Olson, and Read more
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily , merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.—-Nursery rhyme from traditional source. I have simultaneously traveled several paths on my way to the exit from the Labyrinth, and towards freedom from internalized trauma. One of the obvious ways was Read more
The Way It Is—William Stafford There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Read more
There are always multitudes of special sights to be seen by awakening souls on Love’s Infinite Path. Prayer, dreams, visions, mysteries, and enhanced understanding of our histories may become integral parts of the eternally unfolding scenery .I no longer look to the darkness for the light. I found my own light, Read more
If it weren’t for the incredible spiritual strength, and wisdom, of my life partner, Sharon White, I would not have been able to have, what some people call, the following “cathartic event”. It was on a Thursday morning in February 2018, and I was preparing to go to the Pilates Read more
Summer of 1992 I awoke one morning during the summer of 1992, and finished preparing to leave on a weekend hiking and camping trip with Sharon, up to the Mt. Adams Wilderness Area. We were planning to backpack into Lookinglass Lake, about a ten mile hike one way. My senses Read more
Life’s journey is forever like a dotted line pathway. It is the quality of our connections with each other that fills in the space between the dots. Empathy is the major vehicle for our consciousness to transcend our apparent differences, enabling humans to connect the dots in a mutually affirming Read more
My wife, Sharon, recently received a card from a long term friend, whom we both no longer consider to be a close friend. She is the widow of a dear,, departed friend, Marty C. In 2019, I wrote a manuscript for a potential book which was comprised of many of Read more
1992 Dream in 1992 , while living in the Rock Creek area with Sharon, I had a most amazing dream, and for me to even be willing to share it with you is the miracle of love, and trust, that I have (only Sharon has ever heard it , and Read more
Like a bumblebee, whose body is too big for his wings, it lifts up its heart, and then it sings, and then it flies. . . I want to fly, don’t you want to fly?-—Jerry Florence, and Alliance. I was almost invisible before I started writing, only seen by my Read more
Add Mona Lisa Baby teaching here, perhaps We must first lose our mind, with its historical accumulation of knowledge and questionable theories and memories, to find theTruth underlying all of Life–Elisha Scott This is a bifurcation point, where the curious, and the attuned, diverge from the well worn path of Read more
THE DREAM: At 8 years of age my dreams had finally evolved beyond the continuous nightmare phase that had greatly troubled me and the family. One night I had a most amazing and realistic dream. The dream unfolded as a first person experience, placing me squarely in the cross hairs Read more
The thirteenth disciple rides again! Happy Easter to those who believe in the Easter Bunny, the risen Jesus, or whatever fact, mythology, or fantasy that keeps your spiritual row boat floating merrily and peacefully down the stream! I believe in the spiritual potential for all of us! The famous Read more
The Common Knowledge Game, Voodoo, Black Magic, And Culturally Normalized Trauma “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt me “- hopeful childhood proverb Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of Read more