author’s note: I repost this one to honor an experience that happened 39 years ago today. The experience continues to inform my spiritual awareness. Friends often say I’ve carved out a life entirely my own—a path less traveled, winding through the underbrush instead of sticking to the paved road. It’s Read more
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
Chapter Six: The Liberated Self — Insight, White Holes, and the Boundless Bandwidth of Existence Insight as a Faculty Forged in Fire Its a funny thing about hindsight, it always shows up late–Hagel Insight is a faculty I developed slowly, across the long arc of a lifetime. My first insights 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
The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Every society operates on an invisible framework known as the collective consciousness, populated with so-called facts we know as common knowledge. This shared set of beliefs, morals, and attitudes functions as the silent architecture of our daily lives. It dictates what we 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