Book 8: Chapter 14: Enlightenment

Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the living God?  Don’t you know that you are the light of the world?—Jesus of Nazareth . To be in realization of Truth, is to find God’s High Mount just an illusion to climb, Created by fear and desire filled Read more…

Book 8: Chapter 12: THE PEARL OF GREATEST PRICE

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. —-Jesus of Nazareth One of the quickest ways to turn off many an atheist or agnostic Read more…

Rest In Peace, Randy Olson (1/21/1955 to 6/03/2013)

My childhood best friend, Randy Richard Olsen, would have turned 67 years of age ⁹today, had he survived.  Please forgive me Randy, if I have highlighted too much of myself in this tribute to you. This story is a thumbnail sketch of my relationship with Randy, and with the recovery Read more…

Chapter 6 Book #8: Some Questions For The Curious, Inquiring Mind

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —-Jiddu Krishnamurti American society creates the perfect conditions for our population to experience insanity and to practice addictive behaviors.  We have an overabundance of predominantly misguided and power hungry shepherds, just waiting to lead any vulnerable Read more…

CHAPTER 3, Book #8 Insight Into Our Exit Strategy, and Our Awakening

In the honest seeing of our problems through insight and awareness, our freedom is ultimately attained–  Variation on quotes by many spiritual teachers, prophets, saints and savants. . We all have the capacity to be spiritually erumpent, yet our lives will never blossom into the beautiful independent fragrant flower they Read more…

CHAPTER 4, Book #8 Troubleshooting and Repairing a Broken System

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;….and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.” —-Robert Browning . How did I attempt to bring healing to Read more…

Chapter 2, Book #8: Death Wish, or Life Wish? (alternate-needs major edit)

“It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society” —Jiddu Krishnamurti . Be mindful oh Mankind, of all the painful secrets that we must keep, By sharing with others we may awaken, or by our suffering silence just die asleep —–Elisha Scott . Our Read more…

Supplemental Introduction to Book #8: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is one of the most tragic and fascinating myths of the Greek Mythology. Theseus, a genuine Greek hero of the Mythology and Minotaur, one of the most devastating and terrifying monsters are the main protagonists of a myth that involves gods and monsters, Read more…

Book 8: Chapter 9: The Uncommon Knowledge Theory

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. —-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Let go of the controls of fear and powerlessness!  Find your true being, and stop becoming someone else’s idea of who you should be.  Eliminate time dependent Read more…

66th Birthday Message

Birthday message from a new Social Security recipient As life inevitably changes, we must address those changes, let go of what is no longer important, and grieve the losses of those people and situations who no longer remember us, or resonate with our hearts as we are presently revealing ourselves.  Read more…

Kona Musings Day #11

My 66th year has miraculously awaited and finally greeted me. Odds makers probably would have placed 20 to 1 odds against me still being here. We celebrated at KPC, an exclusive oceanside restaurant. The food divine, the company familiar and loved deeply. Every day and year is an unexpected, though Read more…

Maui Wowie Musings Of Day #7

No Eckart Tolle with us this week at the Maui Marriott Resort, as he cancelled.  No worries, we are complete in ourselves. No Makena Beach surf heroics today, where I might need to save myself from a deadly sea again.  Whew!!! And now, a message from my sponsor. The concepts Read more…

Maui Wowie, Day 5

No Makena Beach heroics today. Sacred silence, sunsets, the moon at twilight,  and ocean waves, are imbued with nature’s call for love. Why can this moment be run over by so many divisive voices? Silence, real silence, is feared, and must be replaced by the words and thoughts of our Read more…

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)-Defender Dan, etc.

He that lives by the philosophy of the necessity of the gun, dies by that philosophy. The pursuit of weapons is a mental health crises, especially when paranoia driven people think that they need guns to protect themselves from fantasies created within their own spiritually and politically fragmented, deluded, and Read more…

We Find What We Are Looking For

Beware, oh Mankind, of the painful secrets that we must keep, for by our suffering silence we never awaken, while dying in a painful, lonely sleep. After my experience with the stored, and then released energy behind “There Is Something Fundamental Here” https://wp.me/p9SpN1-3m9  I had several insights about myself. . Read more…

The Search For Truth Continues: Living The Life, And Dying The Death, Of The Being That I Am, With Dignity

There are several links  on this page to  previous blog posts, which can be bypassed, or explored, if the reader has extra time or interest.  The links point to other interconnected and powerful stories, yet the linked stories are unnecessary to read to capture the essence of this blog post. Read more…

Italy Day #10

morning This is the tenth day of our vacation, and we are nearing the end of our Road Scholar tour.   Mitch, my Sharon, and myself go on to Rome without our comrades Sunday. We bused up to Rovello, visited the incredible medieval villa there, and then walked down the Incan Read more…

Select CBD And Its Toxicity

I have contacted Mike Fuller, the “underdog lawyer”, who has taken over cases of users of the tainted Select CBD product line.  There now is a lawsuit against Cura Leaf, the parent company. . I had several near psychotic reactions to their CBD product. I had to use doctor prescribed Read more…

Italy Day #9

Minori to Paestum, via Amalfi Coast Highway. . The description of the whole day eludes me, even though I am a writer. My phone went dead, so I had to use my tablet as a backup camera today. Cannot hold a candle to the Samsung S21 super phone/camera SUPERLATIVE, and Read more…

Italy Day #8

best scenery EVER. Mitch back in the tour groove today. We missed him! Fantastic boat tour of Amalfi Coast. We saw where Sophia Loren, Jackie Kennedy Onassis and other rich and famous people stayed, and lived. The roads are amazing and extremely difficult to drive along the mountains, featured in Read more…