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

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

It is what it is, but it is not what it seems —Paul Hewson . We all love a great story  Those who have developed real insight into the story, and who can both translate the essence of an experience Read more

There are various questions  that are of utmost importance in getting successful answers, as we wander down life’s pathways. Do our needs (physical, emotional, spiritual) change over the course of life, from gestation to death?  What do we need as Read more

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, traumatized humanity. . Do we remain in the conspiracy of silence Read more

Chapters to choose from: Defender Dan, and Growing Up In America (Word) (early placement, after To Be Born . . . and prior to Common Knowledge) Steps On The New Paths Of Recovery And Rebirth (Word) Mankind’s Healing Potential (tie Read more

Defender Dan  With our final insight into the true nature of Consciousness and God, and our identity embedded within this creative principle of the Universe, we see that we can become either agents of a loving, regenerative force, or, in Read more

If it’s painful for you to hear my story, it’s OK. That’s part of the process because my story includes pain, so don’t stop listening because you are uncomfortable. If you would just move past your discomfort you might learn Read more

As the slowly shifting sands of time create ever taller hills for lost souls to climb, It is in this selfish, hateful world of little reason and rhyme, that I must seek the way to truth, to find Love sublime. Read more

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” —Jiddu Krishnamurti Powerlessness and silence go together. We … should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world’s reality, but as a Read more