Chapter 23: New Things, Old Things, Retired Things, Junkyard Things. Over the course of a lifetime, I have owned a remarkable fleet of vehicles. My inventory began simply enough—my own body, then a tricycle, a bicycle, several skateboards—before expanding into a procession of motorcycles and automobiles: a 50cc Honda, a Read more
Part II: The American Shadow — Politics, Power & Violence Chapter 4: The American Symptom: Politics, Power, and Violence — Defender Dan, The Donald, and the Wounded American Soul Chapter 5: The Architecture of Subjugation: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Control of Female Autonomy Chapter 6: Beyond the Headlines: The Read more
Chapter Four: The Calculus of the Infinite — The Fourth and Fifth Insights The Night the Equation Arrived There are moments in a human life when an idea does not feel invented but received. It does not arrive through deduction, argument, or the slow mechanics of analysis. It descends whole. Read more
AI and Humanity-Reaching a Singularity Together? From: Jasper Support <hey@jasper.ai> Sent: Sunday, 16 August 2026 17:29:57 To: Bruce Paullin <run4play2017@gmail.com> Subject: [Jasper] Re: Hi Bruce, Thanks for reaching out. I’m not quite sure what you mean by bringing AI into “cosmic consciousness,” and I want to understand your idea… Hi Bruce, Thanks for reaching Read more
Why Are We Still Shaming Writers for Using AI Editors? There’s a quiet guilt that follows many writers who’ve turned to AI tools for editorial support. A sense that somehow, using technology to refine their prose is cheating—a shortcut unworthy of the craft. But before passing judgment, consider this: professional Read more
Prologue: A Life Upon the Unlimited Bandwidth Every electrician learns to respect a particular kind of silence—a tense stillness that settles in the seconds before a high-voltage switch is thrown. In that suspended moment, enormous energy hovers between potential and release. I wore fire-resistant clothing, noise-dampening earmuffs, two layers of Read more
Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 1: Beryl Donald Paullin: The Man Who Cast My Shadow Chapter 2: The Woman Behind the Man — Corinne Beatrice Henry Paullin, and the Shape of Read more
Chapter 10: The Plow Horse and the Underworld: A Descent Into Living Death The search for truth becomes the joy of living when one sees their position on the collective grid of life, and stops being just another of its marionettes. I. The Origin of the Wound I did not Read more
Chapter 21: The Long Goodbye — Questions, Presence, and the Sacred Threshold (Inspired by my friendship with Jim Hussey, and the multitudes of departed loved ones who have blessed my life, and all of life. My thanks also go to Sharon White and Barbara Karnes for helping me with the Read more
Chapter 2: Corinne Beatrice Henry Paullin — The Quiet Pillar The Woman the World Called Corinne There is a particular kind of person whose significance you only begin to fully measure in their absence. While they are present, they are simply there — reliable as weather, constant as the tide, Read more
Nineteen Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Life leaves us quietly. One ordinary day, without warning or ceremony, you will hear someone’s laugh for the very last time. You will hug them for the last time. Read their message for the last time. Say “see Read more
There is a chapter 21, questions for a dying person, and the physical progression of death. Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 1: Beryl Donald Paullin: The Man Who Cast My Shadow Read more
Chapter 11: 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 13: Death Becomes Us is an ambitious, deeply personal, and philosophically rich exploration of mortality. At its best, it achieves something rare: it holds the clinical and the spiritual, the autobiographical and the universal, in genuine tension — and finds meaning in the friction between them. Section 13: Death Read more
(preliminary) Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Sixteen Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 1 – Beryl Donald Paullin: The Man Who Cast My Shadow Chapter 2: The Voice of Silence — A Requiem for the Class of ’73 Read more
Chapter 337: What Chapter Four Implies About Death: Physical and Psychological Chapter Four does not address death directly. It does not name it, argue about it, or offer consolation concerning it. And yet, for a reader willing to follow the equation to its furthest logical reach, the chapter is saturated Read more
Chapter 41: The Labyrinth of the Human Mind — Walls, Minotaurs, and the Long Walk Home Chapter 42: The Electrician and the Eternal Circuit — Returning to the Source Epilogue: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and a Life, Love, and Death Upon Its Unlimited Bandwidth Chapter 41: The Read more
Chapter 42: The Electrician and the Eternal Circuit — Returning to the Source All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter 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. Read more
Chapter 41: The Labyrinth of the Human Mind — Walls, Minotaurs, and the Long Walk Home We have traveled a long way together—through the archaeology of the wounded self, through the architecture of belief, through the corridors of trauma and the occasional clearing of grace. What follows is not a Read more
Epilogue: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and a Life, Love, and Death Upon Its Unlimited Bandwidth An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe has taken on a life far more expansive than I originally imagined — and perhaps that is fitting for a book that dares to explore the unlimited Read more