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

All that I ever wanted, since I was born, was to be able to love the world, and, in turn, be loved back from it. I wanted Peace to prevail in all of life. Some people seem to come by Read more

Much of the following written material has been presented before, in my various Facebook and blog posts. Some people may think that Facebook or this blog site are not the places to present this kind of message. Well, truth is Read more

I had been homeless since November of 1985, when my girlfriend of the time, Alcindia Ford, and I decided to split for good. My employment at the US Postal Service had finally been terminated, due to me calling in sick Read more

I’m going to rent myself a house (I’m going to occupy a prison cell)In the shade of the freeway (in my cell block down the hall from the infirmary)Gonna pack my lunch in the morning (Gonna eat three slops before 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

Collectively as a human race, we are always broadcasting and receiving energy on the whole range of available human frequencies. Our thoughts, emotions, prayers, intentions, and actions speak volumes not only to those in our immediate presence, but to the Read more

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.—Proverbs 29:18 I am still not sure what the greatest threat to our country might be: Donald Trump, or COVID-19.  If we continue to Read more

I wrote this one from an imagined perspective of a “biblical prophet”. My best writing comes from my perspectives of our present times, however. I was really troubled with our country four years ago when I wrote this prologue to Read more

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There are two distinct movements of consciousness available to humanity, both within the concepts of time and our acculturated senses of what is our personal desire and order, and the potential for another experience, totally outside of the limits of Read more

I finally undertook a crash course in insight, when, In April of 1984, I placed myself in the Care Unit for alcoholic recovery at Portland’s Lovejoy Hospital for a month. My initial intention was to maintain my job with the Read more

“The world will heal, when religions, governments,  and men become willing to listen to the cries, and the anger, from women, children, and Mother Earth, and embrace the need to reduce all suffering”. I recently read a fascinating book.  The Read more

At the centre of it all is the notion our feelings are adaptive: anger, sadness and pessimism aren’t divine cruelty or sheer random bad luck – they evolved to serve useful functions and help us thrive. Take anger. From Newton’s Read more

Down in front!  You make a better door than a window Close the door, do you live in a barn? With all of the lights on, you must own stock in the electric company! When I get to heaven, I Read more

Mark 1:43-44 Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy 40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 41 Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched Read more

In August of 2018, I rented a home in the Black Butte residential area for three nights.  I found the unit online, and I chose this unit because of its proximity to the golf course, as well as its ability Read more

Introduction “I don’t blame the circumstances, I do not blame the place and time. When I had the choice between right and wrong, I could not quite make up my mind “—Peter Yarrow, from lyrics to Arkansas Mythology, Religion, Liars, Read more

We must grieve the loss of our innocence from our childhood.  We are all born with the potential for a more expansive love of self and other.  Emotional/psychic wounding in our childhood, intentional or derived from ignorance, become the tricksters Read more