Musings on Life, Love, Consciousness, Toxic Masculinity, Toxic Religion, The Sacred and The Profane

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 Read more

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I Read more

Now that we have thoroughly investigated human collective consciousness, we have found through the common knowledge game (conscious and/or unconscious) that there are many unconscious or unwritten rules for engagement between all members of society, in addition to the conscious Read more

A human being may have had a perfect upbringing, yet that fact does not have ultimate significance in the evolution towards good mental health and well-being as an adult. Avoiding a childhood characterized by physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse is Read more

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.  — Maya Angelou Beginning on May 24th, and extending through July 21st, 1987, I Read more

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 Read more

If it’s painful for you to hear my story, it’s OK. That’s part of the process because my story includes pain, so don’t stop listening because you are uncomfortable. If you would just move past your discomfort you might learn Read more

“Our lives begin to end, the moment that we become silent about things that matter” Martin Luther King, Jr. All human beings need to be in a recovery program, while creating a new story for our self. Recovery from what, Read more

It is what it is, but it is not what it seems —Paul Hewson We all love a great story  Those who have developed real insight into the story, and who can both translate the essence of an experience and Read more

Introduction “We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear Read more

Our human knowledge based intelligence has been defined in many ways. Our capacity for embracing logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning from both personal experience and through the transfer of shared knowledge, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, insight, critical thinking, and problem Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

The funny thing about truth is the fact that while I think that I am living it, the real truth may be trying to inform me otherwise. It is always a revelation to hear the truth (about whatever?), and the Read more

I devote this chapter to my wife, Sharon White.  Sharon is younger at age 72 than when she was at age 42, when I first met her. The lessons of love learned while with my wife Sharon could encompass an Read more

In 1987, I met Marie Schmidt, a practitioner of Joel Goldsmith’s The Infinite Way, which is a movement involved with mysticism and spiritual healing..  She was a woman about 87 years old, who taught every Sunday at the old YWCA Read more

I have always known that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that we, as humans, live our lives, and communicate with each other. I have not always known what the source of my own disease was, however. My Read more

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. —Mahatma Gandhi   Our brains have incredible capabilities, and their co-existence with the human mind creates an infinite capacity for human experience. One of Read more

A person who has thoroughly investigated human collective consciousness would find that there are many unconscious or unwritten rules for engagement between all members of society, in addition to the conscious and/or written ones.. The unconscious rules have been with Read more

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. From the ashes a fire shall Read more