Finding Our Voice Amidst the Echoes of Trauma

Finding Our Voice Amidst the Echoes of Trauma With the early trauma that I experienced as a baby from just after birth until nearly three years old, part of me became wounded, a wound that manifested in pushing more people away than drawing them to me, especially later in life. Read more

Beyond Names and Stories: Unveiling the Infinite Realm of Consciousness

Beyond Names and Stories: Unveiling the Infinite Realm of Consciousness In our quest to understand the world, names and stories serve as conveniences for communication. They provide a framework through which we attempt to capture the essence of life, ideas, and experiences. However, they are never comprehensive enough to reveal Read more

Rethinking Armageddon: Beyond Destruction to Spiritual Awakening

Rethinking Armageddon: Beyond Destruction to Spiritual Awakening The narrative of Armageddon, deeply entrenched in our collective consciousness as a harbinger of ultimate destruction, offers a profound lens through which we can examine the human condition. Its stories, both as individual struggles and global catastrophes, resonate powerfully with those ensnared by Read more

The Transformative Power of Collective Creativity

The Transformative Power of Collective Creativity When a group of individuals transcends their individual expressions to create something greater together, they tap into a profound force—collective creativity. This is not merely a union of skills but the emergence of a higher-order expression, where individuality and collaboration blend into a symphony Read more

Collective Creativity: The Art and Power of Diverse Contributions

Collective Creativity: The Art and Power of Diverse Contributions What if creativity isn’t just an individual pursuit, but a collective masterpiece? Picture twenty-five people throwing darts at a target. Each dart lands somewhere, contributing a unique mark. Some might hit the bullseye, others might not—but when you take a step Read more

Has Modern Christianity Strayed from the Teachings of Jesus?

Has Modern Christianity Strayed from the Teachings of Jesus? What would Jesus say if He walked among us today and observed how His teachings have been interpreted and practiced? Would He recognize the faith He inspired, or would He find a disjointed and politicized religion far removed from its origins? Read more

Collective and Individual creativity

Collective creativity can be likened to twenty-five people throwing darts at a target. Each individual leaves their mark, bullseye or not, but the individual does not create a pattern, it is the collection and observation of all the darts that a pattern forms from all of the people’s efforts.. So, Read more

Chapter 37: Creating Higher Consciousness Through the 12 Steps of Recovery

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 Least Read Writer in America (And Why That Doesn’t Matter) 8th huh

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

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

Forgiveness Without Accountability is Hollow

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 Illusion of Wealth as a Moral and Intellectual Indicator

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

The Beginning of Wisdom:  Challenging the Bedrock of Lies for a Brighter Tomorrow

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 and Internalizing Christ: Exploring the Mind-Spirit Connection

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

No More Turning Away: Awakening to Our Shared Responsibility

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 Perils of Judging the “Woke”: A Cultural Roadblock to Growth

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

The Quiet Power of Compassion

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

Wean Yourself

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 Untapped Power of Compassion in Caring for the Severely Mentally Ill

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

The Parade of Death: Navigating Loss and Searching for Meaning

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