Chapter 22: The New Architecture of Control: How Power Targets Women’s Autonomy (version 1) The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Every society operates on an invisible framework known as the collective consciousness. This shared set of beliefs, morals, and attitudes functions as the silent architecture of our daily Read more
Chapter 22: The Architecture of Subjugation: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Control of Female Autonomy (version 2) We exist at a profound and unsettling intersection of technological advancement, political regression, and spiritual manipulation. The women of this era are not imagining the atmospheric pressure weighing upon them, nor are they Read more
Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, or other discomfort. “Our lives begin to end, the moment that we become silent Read more
PART ONE: INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, or other discomfort. “Our lives begin to end, the moment Read more
Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, or other discomfort. “Our lives begin to end, the moment that we become silent Read more
PART ONE: INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, or other discomfort. “Our lives begin to end, the moment Read more
About ten days later, we were to meet our Arizona friends, June Thomas, and MIchael Barron, at Cannon Beach. We arrived at the coast on a partly sunny Monday afternoon. We were quickly greeted by June and her ten year love interest, Michael (are you two ever getting married?). After Read more
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. – Maya Angelou The Miracle Experiment Find a family member, friend, acquaintance, or stranger who is in need. Connect that person with another person, Read more
I wrote my first love poem in 1984, when I became lovers with a woman by the name of Diane (Di Di) McCloud. I had first met Di Di while she was running with Gary, a cocaine dealer and friend to both me and Randy Olson. Gary and I became Read more
Craig Salter was my next door neighbor in our new Milwaukie neighborhood. He was of slight build, and he was a slow talker. He may well have been a creative genius, but his “dreamy” state of existence was indicative of some fundamental issues going on inside of him. I suspected Read more
I will now return to 1971, and I will try to develop my relationship with Donelle more fully. Randy Olson found his first long-term girlfriend, a young woman by the name of Terri-Lynn Barr, a person that he met at the Portland Rose Festival of 1971. Terri had a friend Read more
I will try to cover my employment with the US Postal Service, as well as my attempts at “higher education”. I worked as a floor clerk, a letter sorting machine operator, and finally as a maintenance mechanic/electronic technician for a total of ten years, beginning in 1975, when I took Read more
In the continued interest of “finding my people”, I attend the INTA Conference in Portland In August of 1987 (International New Thought Alliance). The person that I was most interested in seeing was Jack Boland, the recovering alcoholic who had started a SUPER CHURCH in Minnesota, with well over 5000 Read more
I discontinued participation in my men’s group experience of over four years after internal bickering and a lack of mutual commitment to our long term relationships ebbed. The ongoing conflict between Patrick Pinson (my former AA sponsor, and owner of Cedar Mountain Drums) and Jim Sleeper (editor of the Mentor, Read more
Beginning in 1997, Sharon and I joined a couple’s group with two other couples. One of the couples was Eddy and Marty Crouch (Sharon had known Eddy since 1987 through the Living Enrichment Center, and Eddy also officiated at our wedding/commitment ceremony in July of 1994-Marty was her new husband Read more
I have even been on jobs where co-workers were threatening to throw “blanket parties” where there is a group beating of a boss, to drive home their twisted point of view. Some people who I worked with, and for, actually are now in jail for murder, rape, torture, spousal abuse, Read more
Relapse, Recovery, And The Portland Water Bureau There is an “old saw” in the recovery movement, and that is “relapse is part of recovery”. The definition of relapse (according to all addiction-awareness resources) is returning to drug/substance abuse after a period of sobriety. The same resources also say that relapse Read more
I have a few perceptions about Marty’s wife, Eddy, which I need to share to finish this story. Eddy considered herself a minister, and a teacher, and a leader, for those on “the spiritual path”, and had this understanding of herself for close to thirty years. She was quite the Read more
J. Krishnamurti’s Critique of Religion by Theodore L. Kneupper | September 2011 Theodore L. Kneupper is a Prof. Emeritus at the Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania I. Introduction. Jiddu Krishnamurti was one of the most remarkable and interesting thinkers of the 20th century. Born in 1895 into a pious Brahmin Read more
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 not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be Read more