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
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
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