Section Two: The Electrical Metaphor: Circuits, Consciousness, and Universal Connection Chapter 8: The Human Circuit and the Energetics of Connection Chapter 9: From 42 to Zero: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe Chapter 10: The Electrician’s Take on Grounding and Bonding Chapter 11: The Electrician’s Take on Grounding and Bonding Read more
The Human Circuit: Energy, Consciousness, and the Architecture of Wholeness Part I: The Energetics of Connection Have you ever considered the profound similarities between the laws governing electrical circuits and the invisible currents that define our human connections? We speak of feeling “drained” after a difficult conversation or “energized” by Read more
Chapter 33: The Three Kingdoms Revisited We have journeyed through the intricate circuits of strategy, from the overt rules of game theory to the subtle, pervasive influence of our shared social realities. We have seen how the Common Knowledge Game wires our perceptions and how the Special Knowledge Game offers Read more
From Section 6: Death Becomes Us Chapter 14: Marty Crouch and a New Sunrise Donelle’s story is, among other things, an indictment of the silence we maintain around our most vulnerable. Marty’s story is different in tone, different in circumstance, but carries its own instruction about the limits of what Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: The Symphony of Silence and Sound — Dual Modes of Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: The Symphony of Silence and Sound — Dual Modes of Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: The Symphony of Silence and Sound — Dual Modes of Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: The Symphony of Silence and Sound — Dual Modes of Read more
Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3: The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: The Symphony of Silence and Sound — Dual Modes of Read more
Chapter 25: A Changing Vision After Death: All That We See Is Ourselves and its Projections . . . Until We Don’t If the body is the vehicle and the self merely its driver, as the previous chapter proposed, then we must now consider an inevitable trajectory: what becomes of Read more
A booklet of twenty-five chapters is, in its own way, a small cosmology — a bounded universe of grief, memory, and inquiry nested inside the larger seventy-chapter body of An Electrician’s Guide to the Universe. Grounding (Chapters 1–5): The author’s own inheritance — a father, a mother, a childhood, and Read more
The Vehicle and the Driver: A Final Reckoning 2001 Newport Marathon Over my lifetime, I’ve had quite the lineup of vehicles. It all started simply enough—with my own two feet, which I estimate have carried me over 75,000 miles through walking, running, hiking, and even limping. There were many other Read more
Section 6: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty-Five 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: A Face Without a Name — The Living Portrait of June Thomas From Section 6, “Death Becomes Us” “The value of a relationship is entirely independent of its physical permanence.” There is a particular kind of grief that arrives while its subject still breathes. It does not wait Read more
Chapter 22: Baptism and Rebirthing Christian baptism is a symbolic act, an attempt to persuade the initiate that the accumulated traumas and wounds of human existence can be surrendered—washed away—so that a clean slate might be prepared to receive the new influx of Christ energy. In immersing the body in Read more
Many Paths, One Heart A Welcome for Sharon’s 80th Birthday Good afternoon, everyone. Indulge me for a moment. Look around this gathering—really look. Take in the faces here today. What you’re seeing is remarkable. Every single person here arrived by a different road. Some of you have known Sharon since Read more
Chapter 23: Jim Hussey— The Tao, the Coyote, and the Goodness of Life “The Tao that can be named is not the Tao” —a reminder that ultimate reality can never truly be captured by words or human ideas. I offer it as a preface to this eulogy for Jim Hussey, Read more
Chapter 24: 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