Book 8: Chapter 11: The Labyrinth, An Exit Strategy, and A New Path Of 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 Read more

Chapter 20, Book #8: Recovery, Relapse, and Healing As The Womb For The Second Birth

Stories from my past are the veins of spiritual gold that I mine for insight and wisdom in my present experience.  I have split my life’s story timeline into two distinct halves, the first half being the first thirty one Read more

Chapter 4, Book #8 (alternate): To Be Born In A Forgotten Past, To Be Reborn In The Now

“Our theories of our self and all of our concepts of the past are not real in any absolute sense, being only a collection of personal knowledge and all such related assumptions.  Words form the foundation for our knowledge.  Knowledge Read more

Book 8: Chapter 5: (duplicate?) Insight Into Masculinity, Its Potential For Toxicity, And Avenues Of Awakening

Most of my grade school and high school friends have already suffered, and have become emotionally calloused, disabled, or have died, from diseases of the spirit. I recently visited a cousin who was comatose and near death from delirium tremens Read more

Book 8: Chapter 13: Alternate Version: The Master Teacher Speaks

When the Master Speaks, WE LISTEN! The truth is like rain water 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 Read more

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 Read more

Book 8 Chapter 1: Troubleshooting And Repairing Broken Systems

. . 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 Read more

Breaking The Conspiracy Of Silence Of Trauma (remove duplications in other trauma chapters)

  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 Read more

Chapter 1/43: Empathy And The Mystery Of The Path Between You And Me

Life’s journey is forever like a dotted line pathway.  It is the quality of our connections with each other that fills in the space between the dots.  Empathy is the major vehicle for our consciousness to transcend our apparent differences, 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 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 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 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 Read more