Chapter 34: My Father, Beryl Donald Paullin, and a Life, Love, and Death Upon His Bandwidth There are men who pass through the world quietly, leaving only the faintest impressions on those around them. My father, Beryl Donald Paullin, was not one of those men. He was a force. A Read more
A Father’s Day Tribute honoring Beryl Donald Paullin (April 17, 1927 – September 15, 2017) There are men who pass through the world quietly, leaving only the faintest impressions on those around them. My father, Beryl Donald Paullin, was not one of those men. He was a force. A contradiction. Read more
Chapter 33: 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 because he refuses to perform courage on anyone else’s terms. Read more
Section Three: Chapters One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six Trauma and Its Personal, Collective, Historical, and Spiritual Impacts Chapter One: Just Say No To Trauma — A Personal Reckoning There is a garage. Cold, dark, and indifferent. Inside it sits a car, and inside the car lies a baby wrapped Read more
Chapter 9-13: Just Say No To Trauma: A Personal Reckoning There is a garage. Cold, dark, and indifferent. Inside it sits a car, and inside the car lies a baby wrapped in a warm blanket—crying, alone, waiting. This was not a scene conjured by a novelist seeking to dramatize neglect. Read more
Chapter 9-17: Just Say NO to Trauma: Why Our Collective Denial and Its Conspiracy of Silence Is the Greatest Barrier to Healing Preface: A Personal Reckoning There is a garage. Cold, dark, and indifferent. Inside it sits a car, and inside the car lies a baby—crying, alone, waiting. This was Read more
Prelude: The Territory We Are Entering The commentary on the common knowledge game, and the lemming effect, should have given the reader a substantial window through which to view humanity’s extraordinary potential for both corruption and healing within our social connections. Another facet of the most fundamental truths of our Read more
Chapter 9-18: Projection and Perception: The Word, the Dream, and the Evolving Self Oh, evil’s shadow boxer, when will you ever retire? Tis champion of a lonely dream world to which you aspire. Stop resuscitating dead illusions with mental pugilist blows, And a peaceful mind will replace the confusion you Read more
Projection and Perception: The Word, the Dream, and the Self Oh, evil’s shadow boxer, when will you ever retire? Tis champion of a lonely dream world to which you aspire. Stop resuscitating dead illusions with mental pugilist blows, And a peaceful mind will replace the confusion you now know. What Read more
Oh, evil’s shadow boxer, when will you ever retire? Tis champion of a lonely dream world to which you aspire. Stop resuscitating dead illusions with mental pugilist blows, And a peaceful mind will replace the confusion you now know. What do you see when you glance into the mirror? Read more
Michael Cain, acting as Alfred If we are to name an era defined by its ceaseless unraveling, this would be it. From our vantage points at kitchen tables, in home offices, or the quiet confines of our living rooms, we observe a world spinning further into dissonance. Wars blaze, citizens Read more
I have walked through my days carrying a quiet ache: the sense that my work, my ideas, my truest self has gone unnoticed. I am not alone in this. The hunger to be seen and understood lives in nearly everyone, humming beneath the surface of ordinary life. Why that ache Read more
Game theory offers a starkly rational lens through which to view the seemingly irrational. It dissects strategic interactions, where the choices of individuals are deeply intertwined with the anticipated actions of others. When we apply this framework to the perplexing phenomenon of unwavering support for a figure like Donald Trump—described Read more
from: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and a Life, Love, and Death Upon Its Unlimited Bandwidth (writer’s note: there is both reader’s and writer’s fatigue happening on my blog site, Facebook and Substack, and I am not immune. The book is finished, and this is an important section from Read more
Embracing a Distant Past Writer’s note: As explored throughout the broader journey of An Electrician’s guide to our universe, and a life, love, and death upon its unlimited bandwidth, when we begin the process of healing from our human condition, we never know in advance what direction our path will Read more
From: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and Life, Love, and Death Upon Its Unlimited Bandwidth We move through both physical and digital worlds under the banners of names, roles, and carefully assembled narratives. We are parents, professionals, artists, friends, citizens, and avatars. These labels form the intricate architecture we Read more
Published by Bruce Paullin on May 13, We move through both physical and digital worlds under the banners of names, roles, and carefully assembled narratives. We are parents, professionals, artists, friends, citizens, and avatars. These labels form the intricate architecture we call identity: a structure built from memory, thought, social Read more
The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, a Cat Named Sassy, and the Miracle of Cosmic SynchronicityBy Bruce Paullin The universe is a mirror, and we are never merely looking into it—we are also helping create what we see. At times, that reflection brings joy, clarity, and wonder. At other times, it Read more
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 blade that was broken, The Read more
If we are to answer the provocative question of what remains when the conceptual self finally falls silent—when the narrative that has so desperately sought to define us exhausts its vocabulary—we must first awaken from the pervasive dream of separation. This dream, a relentless hallucination of division between our imagined Read more