My first love, and first wife, died on the day of my birthday, November 20, 2022.. I just confirmed it this evening after our return from the beach, We knew each other since 1972. Married Read more
The Search For Truth, Spiritual Evolution, Healing, and Purpose–A Multi-Media Experiment “He Was Just Waiting For A Better Day”—-Owner of the Punjab Tavern, 1986 Be mindful, oh Mankind, of all those painful secrets that you must keep From a suffering Read more
Note: Chapter 5 will be added to considerably as work progresses by Melinda Chapter 4 : Approaching Trauma More Consciously “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ― C.G. Jung Read more
AUTHOR’S NOTE: “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”-—Samuel Johnson “We speak about losing our minds, as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Read more
“We speak about losing our minds, as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul“—–Vironika Tugaleva . Read more
Chapter 3: Finding Yourself in The Collective Consciousness When I look at our culture, I see the rising waters of anguish and despair flooding through it. There are so many broken promises and dreams, so many shattered expectations, so many Read more
THE DREAM: At 9 years of age I had a most amazing, realistic dream. This was during a period of time when I slept very little, as I usually got to sleep no earlier than midnight, no matter how early Read more
Mystics (or Spiritual Empath, which I am) true Saints (the Catholic Church, and the LDS movement have destroyed the credibility of the name), and Prophets (prepare for crucifixion!) have a difficult time reaching the general public. I was unreachable as Read more
Introduction (below) completed It will change substantially when the book is completed in April. Melinda Copp is attempting to make my writings more readable by the general public. She took nearly 180,000 words previously written, and condensed them down to Read more
I forgot my phone ( conveniently) for this Sunday’s all 1970’s class reunion for Rex Putnam High School. This was the final day of three days of celebrating my sister Pam’s and Kathy Stephens-Leech’s 50 year class reunion. I have Read more
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pleasure-is-all-yours/202208/could-the-biggest-game-changer-in-mental-health-be-plant?fbclid=IwAR3g0Mph5x93D1PDXaoXytSKra57TQhJ2tB1McDKLlt_zewTanXen87iFkA In the early 1970’s, I used LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) close to twenty times. The trip would last up to 12 hours. I was also introduced to DMT, which was called “the businessman’s LSD” because it only lasted about Read more
The process has begun. It may take nine months to bring this project to fruition. Melinda Copp will be using 1,000,000 (of the total 2,000,000 words that I have written down) to choose from for the first book. There is Read more
My blog site has garnered very little interest in the last four years (123 treasured subscribers). while continuing to be the forum for most writings from me. I now have an editor who is going to take some of the Read more
This has not yet been edited, but here it is, for only the adventurous, and the truly curious among us. 666,311 word total, well over 700 pages. Photographs did not make it to semi-final version, but I will see what Read more
Are dreams potentially portals to other people’s lives? Perhaps even to past lives? The following post will appear in a future book, written by some unknown writer. In April of 1987, after I had been sober for about one month Read more
We ran into Bruce Fleming this morning, who was one of my running/road racing buddies from 20-26 years ago, on the Aldercrest portion of the walk! He recognized me as he raced by (unlike me, he still has good eyesight, Read more
“Our lives begin to end, the moment that we become silent about things that matter” —-Martin Luther King, Jr. Choose wisely, oh mankind, the painful secrets that we must keep, if we choose to silently suffer, we will not awaken, but Read more
My Uncle Wayne’s memorial service was held today at Columbia Park in North Portland. I thought that I was to deliver a family message. I worked on this message for many, many hours, but it was not to be Read more
Part 1 is Items 1-11 from the Table Of Contents (below). These writings are former blog posts which are introductory/prologue/first chapter type of material for my final book. My editor Melinda will pare about 66 percent of the words from Read more