1992 Hood To Coast Race and A Drive From Ft. Steilacoom, Washington

  In 1992, I was still in communication with my ex-wife, Donelle.  At this point, she was in the mental hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Washington.  She was committed yet again in 1990, and was languishing in there when I visited Read more…

Chapter 4.5 Book #8: Notes To Myself-The Beginning Of Insight

“The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates  “The unexamined life” refers to a life lived by rote under the rules of others without the subject ever examining whether or not he truly wants to live with those routines or Read more…

There Is Something Fundamental Here

If it weren’t for the incredible spiritual strength, and wisdom, of my life partner, Sharon White, I would not have been able to have, what some people call, the following “cathartic event”.   It was on a Thursday morning in Read more…

Facebook Commentary

Why Facebook?   It all started rather subtly when people began to substitute email connections and the photographic attachments to them for much of their real life social involvement. It was such a natural progression from email communications to Facebook Read more…

Spiritual/Cosmic Experiences, And Incomplete Integration With My Work Career

It was the summer of 1993, and I had scheduled a 5-day retreat with Eileen Bowden and 20 other followers of the Infinite Way, a mystical healing path originated by Joel Goldsmith (died in 1964).  The retreat took place in Read more…

Mystical Experience Of 1992 ( looking for a home in Book #8)

Summer of 1992 I awoke one morning during the summer of 1992, and finished preparing to leave on a weekend hiking and camping trip with Sharon, up to the Mt. Adams Wilderness Area.  We were planning to backpack into Lookinglass Read more…

The Three Cosmic Experiences, Part One

  Winter of 1991  I met my wife Sharon in 1989.  We shared a common passion of finding and expressing the joy and truth in life, and we meditated and prayed together for many, many hours together, especially early on Read more…

‘You’ Can’t Be Real, The Third Of Three Major Spiritual Experiences of 1987

The year was 1987, and I was still quite new to the path of healing and transformation. I had left my old life behind, and I was open to the experience of spiritual connection, and mastery. I had developed quite Read more…

First Of Three Major Spiritual Experiences of 1987

I was two months “clean and sober”, when I had the most remarkable of experiences.  On May 24, 1987, as I was driving toward Beaverton to visit Randy (longtime friend and fellow “party monster”), a wonderful vision came to me. Read more…

A Holy Rascal Speaks

CAUTION: Tough language characteristic of our POTU$ contained below. When speaking about the devil, sometimes the devil’s language has to be used.   Trump’s latest actions are just more “normalized” amoral actions by our “stable genius” of a POTU$ (normalized Read more…

Initial Foray Into The Common Knowledge Game: Oppression, Repression, Depression, Alienation, Separation, and Collective Consciousness

What is oppression, and what is my relationship to it? What is repression, and why do I participate in it? What is good “mental health”? Why do people continue to experience poor self-esteem? Why are some people always so angry, Read more…

Alberto Villoldo Workshop at 1440 Multiversity 2018

On Friday night of the workshop, Alberto asked for us to ask for a dream.  Well, I had a dream, and its essence was relevant. In it, Alberto was a non-vocal observer, watching groups of people assembling a large foundation Read more…

Dream 4: Cosmic Christ Consciousness-Matthew Fox Workshop

April 1 2017 Dream After Friday evening’s seminar about mysticism with the Master Spiritual Teacher, Matthew Fox, we returned to our hotel room, to rest up for the next morning’s follow-up workshop on the Cosmic Christ. I had quite the Read more…

A Day In The Life

I awoke around 4:00 am, a time of day considered “too early to wake up” by most people. After our morning meditation and dialogue, Sharon White and I then drove towards my aunt Susie’s home, around 7:00 am, so that Read more…

Marty and Dying, Death, and Transformation

The writing that follows was inspired by my long term friendship with a man diagnosed with terminally malignant melanoma.  His energy is now devoted to just getting through the day with as much peace of mind, and with as little Read more…

Archetypes And Human Consciousness

Here is a simple truth, which is extremely complicated for many of us to understand. What we are witnessing in our political arena is the playing out of common human “archetypes” upon the  “screen of our world’s mind”, and upon Read more…

Black Holes

  A black hole is a region of space/time exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing—including particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from inside it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform Read more…