Recovery And Spirituality

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

Musings

Why be on a path? (introduction to blog about experiments and meditation)

Would you like to elevate your consciousness to the point where you can “see as God sees”? What is “God”, and who, or what, is the “you” trying to “see as God sees”? This morning, I opened up our French Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Death, Dying, and Transformation

Conclusion — Chapter 28 – Moon Landings

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 Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Grief

Touch this one with the deepest of thoughts

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

New Iteration

“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 Introduction:  Mythology, Religion, Liars, Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Chapter 5: The Common Knowledge Game, Revisited

The Common Knowledge Game (CKG) is a newer name for a form of consensus social understanding used in collective consciousness since humans became social animals.  The CKG informs our understanding of our own lives, how we see others, and how Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Dream of 4/23/2021

Sharon, if I should unexpectedly pass away, please end my book with an embellishment of this dream.  And, start the book with my 1963 Dream about the shaman and his village. Thanks!  I love you forever, Me. Driving on back Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

More About Trauma

Events from childhood, our first experiences, have the power to shape our lives. Some do so immediately, offering us challenges to overcome and encouragement to make use of our talents and interests. In the process character is built, and we Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

My First Fight.

How many of you remember your first fight?   I sure do! My sister Pam was a fourth grader at Cedar Oak Park Grade School, and I was one grade behind her. I was small compared to some of the Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN

  Before I enter the portion discussing the Common Knowledge Game in detail, it is beneficial to provide some information about the physiological similarities and differences in the brain between men and women, and how we process information and express Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Book #8 Chapter 6: Pain

I have had the privilege and challenge of going through and sorting a lifetime worth of writings and papers from my parents, and from myself. After reading some of my mother’s personal writings, I was struck by the pain that Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

The Book: Chapters

Introduction:  Mythology, Religion, Liars, The Conspiracy Of Silence, And The Cloak Of Invisibility Chapter  : Trauma Chapter  :  Anosognosia Chapter  :  Notes To Myself Chapter  :  Knowledge, The Whim Chapter  :  The Pearl Chapter   :  To Reimagine Our Journey Through Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Chapter 5: Insight and Mindfulness

THE FOOLS You know who we are, there is no need for our names We may be outwardly different, but inside we are the same We vacation on ego trips, and with the world play strange mind games While striving Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Chapter 4: Renegotiating With Trauma, Developing Insight, Healing and Creating A New Sense Of Our Self

I never chose this uneven life path of recovery from trauma, life chose it for me. I choose how to deal with the sights along the way, however. The amygdala in our brains under duress from trauma creates new paths, Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Who Am I?

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

So It Begins

Chapter 1 It is what it is, but it is not what it seems —Paul Hewson . To “follow new paths of consciousness”, while knowing that “you can’t be real” sets up quite a transformational dynamic within consciousness. If “you” Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Death

Do Not Ignore For Book #8: Penetrating The Conspiracy Of Silence-The Book Of Insight Compilation

PART ONE:  INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Conspiracy of Silence —-(definition from Wikipedia) An agreement, either formal or tacit, between two or more parties not to discuss some matter nor to reveal any information concerning it, especially in order to avoid blame, embarrassment, Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

HURT

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By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

One evening, a Cherokee elder was teaching his grandson about life.   “A fight is going on inside me,”   he said to the boy.:   “It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. This battle that Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

Gifts and Challenges of Writing About Personal Healing

My writing has been the major activity and challenge of consciousness for me since November of 2016.   I have attempted to bring insight into collective consciousness, individual consciousness, the sacred, the profane, and all of their intersections, and collisions Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago
Musings

convulsions at SE 37th STREET.

For five nights late in the summer, I flopped in a house off of SE 37th street with three other men and two women.  I did not know any of these individuals well, save Greg, though we appeared to be Read more

By Bruce Paullin, 3 weeksApril 21, 2026 ago

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