Chapter 9-41: Enlightenment for the Conceptual Heavyweight

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

Chapter 39: The Identity We Seek Within and Beyond the Story

Human life is often framed as a struggle to become someone. We are taught to build a self, define a purpose, shape a legacy, and arrange our experiences into a coherent story that explains who we are. This assumption is so deeply embedded in culture that it rarely appears as Read more

Chapter 39: The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, A Cat Named Sassy, and the Miracle of Cosmic Synchronicity (2nd place book version)

The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, a Cat Named Sassy, and the Miracle of Cosmic Synchronicity By Bruce Paullin The universe is a profound mirror into which we all gaze, though we often forget that we are the very projectors of the reality we behold. There are moments when seeing our Read more

Chapter 39: The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, a Cat Named Sassy, and the Miracle of Cosmic Synchronicity

The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, a Cat Named Sassy, and the Quiet Logic of Synchronicity By Bruce Paullin The universe is a profound mirror into which we all gaze, though we often forget that we are the very projectors of the reality we behold. There are moments when seeing our Read more

Chapter 9-38: The Art of Letting Go: When Life Becomes About Loss

Life has a peculiar way of teaching us that what we gather in our early years becomes the very thing we must learn to release in our later ones. The accumulation of relationships, possessions, and memories that once felt like building a fortress now reveals itself as something far more Read more

(version 1) The Dark Crystal, Kira Banash, a Cat Named Sassy, and the Quiet Logic of Synchronicity

The universe speaks a language older than words, a silent tongue woven from the threads of coincidence, allegory, and direct experience. We often wander through the labyrinth of human existence, perceiving our lives as a sequence of isolated events, governed by the cold mechanics of cause and effect. Yet, there Read more

Mother Earth Is Ground-Saved by Zero

Numbers: The Hidden Language That Shaped Human History Numbers surround us like invisible threads weaving through the fabric of existence. From the moment we wake to the rhythm of our heartbeat to the precise calculations that launched rockets into space, these mathematical symbols carry profound weight far beyond their simple Read more

Chapter 22:  The New Architecture of Control: How Power Targets Women’s Autonomy (version 1)

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: Breaking the Altar of Control: Liberating Women (version 2)

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

Introduction and Conclusion, Part One July 6, 2018

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

Penetrating The Conspiracy Of Silence, Or, How I Lived Beyond My Expiration Date Parts One, Two, Three

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

Parts One Complete July 17, 2018 20:00

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

Prologue: Insight Into The Conspiracy Of Silence, or, How I Lived Beyond My Expiration Date

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

Anxiety and the potential to heal from it

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

Di Di (Diane) McCloud

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

Employment At US Postal Service

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

Marsha (Masha) Feldman

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

Michael and Diane Sutton, and The Miracle Experiments

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

Craig Allen Salter

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

Donelle Mae Flick Paullin

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