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 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
Chapter 37: The Doors of Perception — Psychedelics, the Sacred, and the Healing of a Wounded America Chapter 38: The Integration — From the Opened Door to the Inhabited Life Chapter 37: The Doors of Perception — Psychedelics, the Sacred, and the Healing of a Wounded America There is a Read more
Is the Ego Is Just Foam? – What Beer Reveals About Identity The individual ego, much like the head on a glass of beer, is vivid, animated, and seemingly solid—yet entirely dependent on an unseen substrate for its existence. I have found that identity is less a fixed self and Read more
Chapter 09: The Collective Word — The Music, the Crowd, and I Are One The preceding chapter arrived at a proposition that is simple to state and genuinely unsettling to sit with: the self is not a noun. It is a verb. Not a fixed, bounded entity that exists independently Read more
Complete Chapter Outline The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech The Symphony of Silence and Sound — Dual Modes of Perception and the Two Worlds Within The Water Pump Miracle — Symbolic Representation, Helen Keller, and the Birth of the Self The Quantum Read more
“It is clear to any trained observer, and even to the sociologically untrained, that a new attitude toward sex discrimination has come over the world through the centuries, receiving an abrupt stimulus just before and after the World War. This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end Read more
Chapter 38: July 21, 1987 Master Teacher of the Light Chapter 16: You Can’t Be Real Chapter 16: July 21, 1987 Revisited: The Great Cosmic Joke and the Illusion of the Self Chapter X69: Interoception and Propioception (goes with July 21, 1987)-Researchers Report Evidence of a Subtle Human Sense Linked Read more
Chapter 9-22: Language Either Mirrors Love, or Obstructs It: June 22, 1987 and Related Teaching Chapter 20: The Three Levels of Thought: Charting a Course Through Reality Chapter 5: All You See Is Yourself: The Art of Exploring Perception and Reality Chapter 40: How to Embark on a Journey of Read more
Chapter 9: Toxic Femininity, Patriarchy’s Marionettes, and the Wounded Spirit Version 2: The Architecture of Illusion: How Society Silences Women Chapter 9: The Roots of the Shadow—The Complexities of Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity-Exploring Evolutionary, Historical, Cultural, Psychological, and Spiritual Factors Chapter 11: The American Symptom—Politics, Power, and Violence-Defender Dan, The Read more
The Journey Through Childhood Wounds to Divine Connection Rethinking Miracles A Journey Beyond Religious Boundaries What is a miracle? For many, images of divine interventions, visions of Jesus Christ, or appearances of the Virgin Mother immediately come to mind. These depictions of the miraculous are deeply rooted in the traditions Read more
Chapter 101: Waking Up to the Power of Our Self Talk–Language Either Mirrors Love, or Obstructs It: June 22, 1987 and Related Teaching Friends often remark that I have built a life of my own design—a path less traveled, winding through wild terrain rather than following the paved road. It 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