I completed my first road race in 15 years today. I was in position number 49, out of 330 participants. No rain, great race, nice people, and an all around well organized and fun 5K event! I ran about five minutes slower than my best times from the last century, Read more
“It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society” —Jiddu Krishnamurti Be mindful oh Mankind, of all the painful secrets that we must keep, By sharing with others we may awaken, or by our suffering silence just die asleep —–Bruce Paullin Our nation’s mental Read more
One of the greatest music influences in my life, Neil Peart, lyricist and drummer for the rock trio RUSH, has died. I attended two Rush concerts in the ’70’s, and loved all of their music. Rush always had a powerful, majestic sound, with intellectually and spiritually vibrant lyrics. This is Read more
Christmas Message, 2019 (for my one consistent reader, and partner in the sublime, Sharon!) The real meaning of Christmas gets lost in the mythology, and economics of religion and capitalism. Yet, in my own humble way, I now deliver my own understanding of Christmas. There are three “wise men” within Read more
Yes, there truly is a deep state in the USA, and it is called RUSSIA. Isn’t it heartwarming that the Russian leader and Trump Puppet Master, Putin, can reach out to his special little Pinocchio puppet, Trump? Trump is getting rather long in tooth, and nose, these days, and when Read more
The Great White Hopeless, Donald Trump. The great white hopeless, the American male, now crippled by despair, anger, hatred, and poor judgement. “oh, and one more thingyou’re not going to likewhat comes after America…”–Leonard Cohen And yet, the heartless, thoughtless, soulless and/or hypnotized humans who blindly follow the Great White Read more
“It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society”—Jiddu Krishnamurti Be mindful oh Mankind, of all the painful secrets that we must keep,By sharing with others we may awaken, or by our suffering silence just die asleep—–Bruce Paullin Our nation’s mental health status is Read more
Brian, I am nearly sixty four years old. I have been writing since 2016, with no intention of ever publishing. In 2017, my best friend, who had been in remission from terminal malignant melanoma, was finally able to convince me to join him at the Oregon Health Sciences University Read more
Our lives begin to end, the moment we become silent about things that matter—-Martin Luther King Or: There are two secrets to a successful life. 1. Don’t tell everyone everything that you know. 2. I deactivated my Facebook accounts on September 30. I have been using Facebook for over eight Read more
A New Easter Sunrise Over the years, I have become deeply disturbed by the developments within our shared world, within my individual consciousness, and the points of connection between self and other, through language, religion, and philosophy, that have created oppression, repression, and the resultant physical, emotional, and social disease. Read more
Chapter 14: Toxic Masculinity And Defender Dan “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ― C.G. Jung Guns, gold, greed, gonads, and girls. . . . how much is enough, American male? In the 1950’s and 1960’s, America’s economy was Read more
Engaging Our Launch Sequence In Life “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 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
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. —-Jesus of Nazareth One of the quickest ways to turn off many an atheist or agnostic Read more
I devote this chapter to my wife, Sharon White. Sharon is younger at age 72 than when she was at age 42, when I first met her. The lessons of love learned while with my wife Sharon could encompass an entire book of its own.. On July 4, 1989 I Read more
In 1987, I met Marie Schmidt, a practitioner of Joel Goldsmith’s The Infinite Way, which is a movement involved with mysticism and spiritual healing.. She was a woman about 87 years old, who taught every Sunday at the old YWCA on 10th Avenue in downtown Portland. I had seen a Read more
I have always known that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that we, as humans, live our lives, and communicate with each other. I have not always known what the source of my own disease was, however. My disease of misunderstanding drove me to the brink of death, Read more
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. —Mahatma Gandhi Our brains have incredible capabilities, and their co-existence with the human mind creates an infinite capacity for human experience. One of the more profound abilities of the brain is its capacity Read more
A person who has thoroughly investigated human collective consciousness would find that there are many unconscious or unwritten rules for engagement between all members of society, in addition to the conscious and/or written ones.. The unconscious rules have been with us from the beginning, well before the introduction of mega-cities Read more