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

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 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

Tricksters serve as an interior form of self protection for the fragile ego which has been wounded, sometimes so severely that all conscious memory of the event has been erased.  There are also wounds which may occur during gestation and/or Read more

This is definitely connected to the Defender Dan post. As a five year old boy, I was given a set of Lincoln Logs as a toy for Christmas of 1960.  Many of the pieces were created to be interlocking, so Read more

Much of Life is buried under life’s scabs,  much like an iceberg is almost completely buried under the ocean;where only 10 percent of its presence can be viewed above the ocean’s surface. .it is what is below the surface that Read more

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

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“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