Bruce Paullin

Creating an Enhanced Life Narrative and Higher Consciousness Through the 12 Steps of Recovery In the quest for a better life story, or even higher consciousness, many look towards spiritual practices, meditation, and self-reflection. One often overlooked yet profoundly impactful method comes from the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Read more

The Illusion of Wealth as a Moral and Intellectual Indicator We are often spellbound by the mythos surrounding billionaires—the idea that their vast fortunes must inherently be a result of extraordinary intelligence, unrelenting hard work, or, more dangerously, a higher sense of morality. Society projects an almost divine aura onto Read more

Forgiveness Without Accountability is Hollow At its heart, the message of Jesus was profoundly relational—a message centered on trust, restoration, and communal healing. Forgiveness, as taught in the scriptures, was never intended to be a private matter exclusively between an individual and God, detached from human relationships and the ripple Read more

The Least Read Writer in America (And Why That Doesn’t Matter)  By any recognizable standard of modern success, I hold a title few would covet. Based on the overwhelming volume of what I’ve written and the stark, undeniable reality of readership numbers, I may indeed qualify as the least read Read more

When the Divine Disappears: Facing Truth Without an Image What happens when every concept you’ve clung to—every image, every practice, and every notion of the Divine—vanishes? What is left when even your most profound understanding of God dissolves into silence? Mystics and poets across time offer us glimpses into this Read more

The Beginning of Wisdom:  Challenging the Bedrock of Lies for a Brighter Tomorrow The beginning of wisdom lies in understanding that life is infinitely more sacred and important than the religious and philosophical beliefs we use to define our relationship with it. Our societal norms often lead to mental health Read more

Tulpa, Jesus Christ, and Mental Health: Exploring the Intersection of Voluntary and Involuntary Psychological Processes What if the voices we hear—whether originating from a place of trauma or devotion—carry messages we ought to honor, not diagnose? What if the phenomenon of tulpas and the internalized concept of Jesus Christ are Read more

Wean Yourself, by Rumi Little by little, wean yourselt This is the gist of what I say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in blood, Move to an infant drinking milk To a child on solid food To a searcher after wisdom To a hunter of more invisible game. Think Read more

The Quiet Power of Compassion  It is easy to grow weary in the presence of suffering. For mental health professionals, caregivers, and those within the community who seek to support others, the weight of engaging with the severely mentally ill, the profoundly resistant to healing, or the chronically spiraling can Read more

The Perils of Judging the “Woke”: A Cultural Roadblock to Growth The word “woke,” once a clarion call for awareness and advocacy, has been twisted into a cultural weapon—a term used to mock, discredit, and dismiss individuals championing equality and progress. This hijacking of meaning has not only sullied its Read more

No More Turning Away: Awakening to Our Shared Responsibility There is a dream—a vision of a world where we no longer turn away from injustice, suffering, or the cries of the weary. This dream is not an impossible one. It is within reach, but realizing it requires more than fleeting Read more

The Untapped Power of Compassion in Caring for the Severely Mentally Ill What does it mean to engage with someone whose reality is so fractured, whose suffering seems to exist in dimensions unfamiliar to most of us? The severely mentally ill, often relegated to the periphery of society, challenge not Read more

Man was created in God’s Image? What does that mean? Do you want the answer based only upon modern day interpretation of ancient texts, or what the ancient scribes were actually trying to communicate, albeit rather tersely? Remember, you only see the world through your personal lens, no matter how Read more

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Man Was Created in God’s Image — But What Does Read more

The Parade of Death: Navigating Loss and Searching for Meaning Over the past forty years, I have stood in the endless procession of loss—a steady parade of friends slipping beyond the veil of life, one by one. All but one of my childhood friends have passed on, their laughter and Read more

What is Truth? What is truth? This is a question posed both by Pilate and billions of other humans since language first began, one that echoes through the corridors of history, inviting reflection, debate, and, for many, bewilderment. Yet, as profound as this question is, the response from Jesus that Read more

Christmas 2024 “The world is new to every soul, when Christ has entered in”. (in the chapel at Stanford University, the passage was selected by Mrs Stanford). And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there Read more

Honor Your Feelings as Gateways to Authenticity It starts with a whisper—an ache of sadness, a flicker of anger, or even an overwhelming rush of loneliness. Too often, we dismiss these moments, brushing them aside as inconvenient or inappropriate. “Stay strong.” “Why are you so emotional?” “You’re overreacting.” These are Read more

The Unseen Truth Beyond the Texts One of the great tragedies of spiritual history is the limited transmission of Abraham’s mystical understanding into the biblical narratives. The early writings, shaped by the hands and minds of countless editors, translators, and interpreters, reflect fragments of an essence far more profound than Read more