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Chapter 10: A Dialogue On Anger, Mastery, and Speaking Our Truth

But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJuly 11, 2021 ago
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Letter To A Dear Friend About The Potential For Spiritual and Physical Healing

    I have been sub-optimal in health the last three weeks.  I had a terrifying and painful experience with a kidney stone that literally wanted to “stone me” to death.  The laser surgery was last Wednesday to remove it, with continued internal bleeding ever since then.  I was prescribed five Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJuly 8, 2021 ago
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Chapter 3.7 Wisdom, Knowledge, Intuition, and The Whim (Needs Extreme Edit)

Are you wise as an owl? What is knowledge? What is a fact? What is an illusion? What is truth? What is a lie? What is a whim? What is insight? What is intuition?   I have been pointing to potential answers to these questions throughout the book, with this Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJuly 4, 2021 ago
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Asteroids, Ureteroids, Laser Lithotripsy, And Kidney Stones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYSupJ5r2zo . Amanda V., my urologist and surgeon for Wednesdays Asteroids game, er, surgery, hopefully has practiced up on this old classic. She will be, wait for this, sticking a laser unit up through the penis and the bladder into the ureter (the tube between the kidney and the bladder) Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 28, 2021 ago
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The Potential For Evil Embodied Within Catholicism and Other Organized Religions

.(inspired by unearthing of unmarked graves of thousands of indigenous children in Canada, and now America) . There is no relationship between awareness, and faith. Awareness is a fact, faith is only a belief—-Jiddhu Krishnamurti . I can just see the “wink and a nod” by Catholic insiders as they Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 28, 2021 ago
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Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity Makes Catholicism An Incipient Evil

(the following article is from New York Times, the blog following it is from me) . In 1898, the Marieval Residential School opened its doors and it closed its doors, in 1996. The Roman Catholic Church overseeing the gravesite, the Catholics and the prayer and religion overseeing the grave site, Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 27, 2021 ago
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Chapter 2.5: The Common Knowledge Game and The Lemming Effect

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other. — Laverne Cox The Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 20, 2021 ago
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Chapter 7 (alternate): July 21, 1987: The Master Teacher Speaks

Chapter 7: July 21, 1987: The Master Teacher Speaks (alternate) the truth is like rainwater pouring over jagged rocks embedded within the mountains of human ignorance through many generations, or iterations of individual self. Eventually, it wears down the rough edges, and creates gentler pathways for future rains to travel Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 16, 2021 ago
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Chapter 10, Book #8: The Master Teacher Speaks

The truth is like rain water pouring over jagged rocks embedded within the mountain of human ignorance through many generations, or iterations of individual self. Eventually, it wears down the rough edges, and creates gentler pathways for future rains to travel back to its source. The impatient traveler thrusts his Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 14, 2021 ago
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Chapter 9: Confronting The Minotaur, Dreaming A Path Out Of The Labyrinth

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 12, 2021 ago
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Chapter 6: Hearing Voices, Hearing Silence

Remember that Minotaur, and Theseus needing a clew (clue) to find his way out of the labyrinth, once he finally defeated the monster?  It is not enough to find our internal demons, and then slay them, if, in the process, we get lost to those we once knew and loved, Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsJune 9, 2021 ago
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Chapter 11: The Divine Feminine And All The Healing Things We Can Know

Life was never an easy journey for me, and had it not been for some deep need to understand my dysfunctional process, and try to find the underlying truth amidst my ongoing personal chaos prior to 1987, I would have passed away long ago.  Some wounds are so deep, and Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsMay 23, 2021 ago
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Chapter 4, Book #8: To Be Born In Ancient Times, To Be Born Again In The Now (alternate to chapter 4)

“The past is not real, it is only a collection of related assumptions”—-Elisha Scott We are about to take a creative, whirlwind tour through history, dating back to , perhaps, a million years ago or more.  The last thing I want to do is to create “alternative facts” and implant Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsMay 18, 2021 ago
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Chapter 4, Book #8: 1,000,000 B.C. And The Now (save/combine with another)

Chapter 4: 1,000,000 B.C. And The Now We are about to take a creative, whirlwind tour through history, dating back to, perhaps, a million years ago or more. What was our mental atmosphere like back then, when mankind was first becoming conscious? With humanity’s dark history, the survival of the Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsMay 17, 2021 ago
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THE BIG LIE: Trumplican Repugnantlicans

I love the true Republican and Democratic party. What now calls itself the Republican party is a Putin and Trump inspired toxic misrepresentation of our national values and supportive political system. THE BIG LIARS You know who they are, there is no need for their tarnished names They may appear Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsMay 12, 2021 ago
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Book #8 Prologue (alternate): The Miracle Experiment and the Conspiracy Of Silence

  It is what it is, but it is not what it seems —Paul Hewson . To “follow new paths of consciousness”, while knowing that “you can’t be real” sets up quite a transformational dynamic within consciousness. If “you” can’t be real, then everything that I associate with “I” is Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsMay 11, 2021 ago
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To My Mentally Ill Stepdaughter-An Exercise in Futility?

One evening, a Cherokee elder was teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. This battle that goes on between the two wolves is inside us all.   One wolf Read more

By Bruce, 5 years ago
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Chapter Two: Trauma ( lots of duplication)

Be mindful, oh Mankind, of all of the painful secrets that we must keep, For, by our suffering silence, we will not awaken, but just die alone, powerless, and asleep. —–Elisha Scott . Like most of us, I have had many traumatic personal  events in my life, therefore I have Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsMay 6, 2021 ago
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Chapter 8: Enlightenment

Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of our healed heart was hovering over the surface of the waters. And our healed Heart said, “Let there be light,”  and there was light.And our healed Heart saw that the light Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsApril 24, 2021 ago
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Beryl Donald Paullin (4/17/1927-9/15/2017)

Had my father survived, he would have been 98 years old. And, it would not have been a very happy life, because dementia was really taking a toll on the poor man. The last conversation that I had with my father was 6 hours before his death. This is what Read more

By Bruce, 5 yearsApril 17, 2021 ago

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