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

Book #9:  An Electrician’s Guide to Our Galaxy – Living Life On The Widest Frequency (I’m turning this chapter into a full book, after publishing book #8) The number 42 is significant in the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Read more

Chapter Nine: The Seven Pillars of Intelligence:  Knowledge, Information, Intuition, Insight, The Whim, Truth, and Wisdom What is knowledge? What is a fact, or information? What is an intuition? What is truth? What is a lie? What is a whim? Read more

Chapter Eight: Empathy, and The Mystery of the Path Between You And Me Life’s journey is forever like a dotted line pathway.  It is the quality of our connections with each other that fills in the space between the dots.  Read more

Chapter 3:  Just Say No:  Approaching Trauma Consciously        It is no measure of good health to be well adapted to a sick society.”-—Jiddhu Krishnamurti Our civilized world has been built upon the backs of an unconscious, overachieving, Read more

Chapter 8:  Empathy, and The Mystery of the Path Between You And Me (non-edited version ) The commentary on the common knowledge game, and the lemming effect, should have given the reader a huge window to look through to humanity’s Read more

Chapter 7:  The Uncommon Knowledge Theory—To Be Born In A Forgotten Past, To Be Reborn In The Now “The past is not real, it is only a collection of related assumptions”—-Elisha Scott We are about to take a creative, whirlwind Read more

(12,,000 word version) CHAPTER 6:  INSIGHT, MINDFULNESS, AND BLACK HOLES Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners—Eric Hoffer .Know thyself, and thou will know the Universe, and the Gods-—Attributed to Plato, and also to Read more

Chapter Five: Troubleshooting And Repairing A Broken System We are lost if we continue to ask the therapists, gurus, ministers, or best friends for emotional and spiritual assistance for the rest of our lives. It initially may appear disorienting and Read more

Chapter Four: My Search For Truth and an Answer I Found . “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”—Anais Nin . I divorced my mentally ill first wife Donelle early in 1984.  In Read more

Chapter Three: Approaching Trauma More Consciously “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ― C.G. Jung Traumatic wounding is more than just physical injury; it encompasses the deep psychological scars Read more

Chapter Two: Finding Ourselves in the Collective Consciousness “There are times shells, or walls, are necessary, but more often we can reveal ourselves by being who we are.  Neither hiding nor revealing ourselves will prevent our share of pain, but Read more

Chapter Two: Culturally Normalized and Institutionalized Trauma “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 Read more

Chapter Two (formerly Introduction-edited by Melinda) “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people Read more

(Excerpt from book #8:  No More Turning Away—-Breaking The Conspiracy Of Silence) In a therapeutic relationship, the therapist attempts to create a bridge image to the patient’s innate healing possibilities.  This bridge image is nothing more than an internalized representation Read more

It is sometimes a dangerous, though potentially enlightening, question to ponder. “What’s on your mind?” That is the Facebook question that opens every news feed post. Yes I have been blessed with yet another birthday, and, of course, I have Read more

NOTE: The following is another classic overshare from me.Curious minds need to know, though.I refuse to be a part of the conspiracy of silence! Are you hoping to see photos of colorful fall leaves or some cute grand babies? HAH, Read more

Excerpt from book #8

No More Turning Away—Breaking The Conspiracy Of Silence

Jesus, amongst many other real, or imaginary, wise people has stated that we must not judge others, lest we be judged, as well. On the surface, this sounds like good wisdom, doesn’t it? If I think someone is an asshole, and, they might really be an asshole, I risk being judged as one as well. Talk about the boomerang effect!

Yet, we can easily see the inbuilt fallacy of this perceptual admonition, if it is just taken out of context without other supporting wisdom. And, spiritual misunderstanding continues to aide and abet truly bad people in continuing their egregious behavior (see Donald Trump, amongst millions of others). Who wants to be judged as a Trump equivalent, at least spiritually, because we made an accurate and necessary call on a misbehaving fool and criminal?.

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Yet, my behavior towards judging, or not judging, others did not originate with Jesus Christ’s teachings. The “wisdom” originated as a self-protection mechanism for me. i don’t recall the exact first time this happened, but I do remember as a seven year old boy thinking that I will ignore X,Y, or Z’s misbehavior, hoping that they would in turn ignore my own. I dared not judge others, for fear that I would be judged. And whenever my father found out I had misbehaved, there was to be an ass whipping by his unforgiving belt, so the immature thought, which is more universal than we may care to admit, was to please turn away from my malfeasance and make no report of it to others, and continue to enjoy your own without fear of recrimination from me! (wink, wink, nod, nod).

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Did you ever wonder why some people would rather just watch the world burn, and prepare for Armageddon, than join the spiritual fire department and help douse the flames?

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Did you ever wonder why so many Trump supporters continued to support him, even after he showed his true darkest intentions?

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I don’t!

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People are more attached to wounded modes of past being, behavior, and experience than openness to the healing possibilities inherent within the present moment. They see reflected in Trump’s outward shenanigans aspects of their own unhealed and unawakened natures. They celebrate their dark hero, rather than feel ashamed,  because they have a champion who makes it OK to not be their best self.  They may appear indifferent or hateful to the rest of the awakening world, yet, in truth, they are only unwilling and incapable of honestly facing themselves.

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Of course, mutual non-reporting of offensive and unacceptable behavior is not conducive to positive change, growth, healing, or mindfulness, is it?

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No more turning away, folks. Do not fear your perceptual software but be prepared to add new algorithms to it to aid in more accurately representing our intentions to see truly in this often chaotic, wounded, and imbalanced world. There is still so much needless and unnecessary suffering in our world, yet if we are still suffering, we will remain under its dark controls and not be fully inspired to reduce its damaging influence, both on ourselves and on others.

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First, let us heal ourselves of our own glaring deficiencies, and traumas, so we no longer look through those fogged lenses at our world.

Then, let us look out at the world with a more coherent healing intent.

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No one likes being judged, especially by the person with so many glaring deficiencies of their own.

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Often, though, the judged deserve every bit of our assessments of their, and our own, once, or ongoing wayward behavior.

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Let us all now turn our wounds into wisdom.

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Here comes the judge, here comes the judge, here comes the judge. . . . .!

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Your Honor, what is your most accurate verdict?

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GUILTY?

INNOCENT?

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We are all guilty as charged, until we regain our lost innocence, and can see that innocence in others, as well.

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No more turning away from our wounds as suffering human beings.

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No more turning away from the inherent goodness and beauty that lies, often ignored, within the heart and soul of the other.

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“Remove that log stuck in your own eye, so that you may more accurately see the sliver stuck in another’s eye”—Jesus of Nazareth

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To feel pain is to be alive, to feel another’s pain is to be human—-Leo Tolstoy Recovery And Spirituality Grandfather Great Spirit Revisited Published by Bruce on October 25, 2023 Like Anais Nin, I am a writer, and an explorer Read more

First photo is from 1973-1974 University of Portland student body card. The USAF ROTC was unimpressed with my hair, even with my near record score on their academic AFOQT scholarship and entrance exam (I walked away from it all later Read more