Book 8: Chapter 7: Knowledge, Facts, Insight, And The Whim

Are you wise as an owl? What is knowledge? What is a fact? What is an illusion? What is truth? What is a lie? What is a whim? What is insight? What is intuition? I have been pointing to potential Read more

(base candidate) Chapter 1/43: 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.  Empathy is the major vehicle for our consciousness to transcend our apparent differences, Read more

Book 8: Chapter 9: Anger, Self Awareness, and Mastery

But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth Read more

Book 8: Chapter 14: Enlightenment

Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the living God?  Don’t you know that you are the light of the world?—Jesus of Nazareth . To be in realization of Truth, is to find God’s High Mount just Read more

Book 8: Chapter 12: THE PEARL OF GREATEST PRICE

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. —-Jesus of Nazareth One of the Read more

Rest In Peace, Randy Olson (1/21/1955 to 6/03/2013)

My childhood best friend, Randy Richard Olsen, would have turned 67 years of age ⁹today, had he survived.  Please forgive me Randy, if I have highlighted too much of myself in this tribute to you. This story is a thumbnail Read more

Chapter 6 Book #8: Some Questions For The Curious, Inquiring Mind

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —-Jiddu Krishnamurti American society creates the perfect conditions for our population to experience insanity and to practice addictive behaviors.  We have an overabundance of predominantly misguided Read more

CHAPTER 3, Book #8 Insight Into Our Exit Strategy, and Our Awakening

In the honest seeing of our problems through insight and awareness, our freedom is ultimately attained–  Variation on quotes by many spiritual teachers, prophets, saints and savants. . We all have the capacity to be spiritually erumpent, yet our lives Read more

CHAPTER 4, Book #8 Troubleshooting and Repairing a Broken System

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;….and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.” —-Robert Read more

Chapter 2, Book #8: Death Wish, or Life Wish? (alternate-needs major edit)

“It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society” —Jiddu Krishnamurti . Be mindful oh Mankind, of all the painful secrets that we must keep, By sharing with others we may awaken, or by Read more

Supplemental Introduction to Book #8: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is one of the most tragic and fascinating myths of the Greek Mythology. Theseus, a genuine Greek hero of the Mythology and Minotaur, one of the most devastating and terrifying monsters are the Read more

Book 8: Chapter 9: The Uncommon Knowledge Theory

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. —-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Let go of the controls of fear and powerlessness!  Find your true being, and stop becoming someone Read more

66th Birthday Message

Birthday message from a new Social Security recipient As life inevitably changes, we must address those changes, let go of what is no longer important, and grieve the losses of those people and situations who no longer remember us, or Read more

Kona Musings Day #11

My 66th year has miraculously awaited and finally greeted me. Odds makers probably would have placed 20 to 1 odds against me still being here. We celebrated at KPC, an exclusive oceanside restaurant. The food divine, the company familiar and Read more

Maui Wowie Musings Of Day #7

No Eckart Tolle with us this week at the Maui Marriott Resort, as he cancelled.  No worries, we are complete in ourselves. No Makena Beach surf heroics today, where I might need to save myself from a deadly sea again.  Read more

Maui Wowie, Day 5

No Makena Beach heroics today. Sacred silence, sunsets, the moon at twilight,  and ocean waves, are imbued with nature’s call for love. Why can this moment be run over by so many divisive voices? Silence, real silence, is feared, and Read more

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)-Defender Dan, etc.

He that lives by the philosophy of the necessity of the gun, dies by that philosophy. The pursuit of weapons is a mental health crises, especially when paranoia driven people think that they need guns to protect themselves from fantasies Read more

We Find What We Are Looking For

Beware, oh Mankind, of the painful secrets that we must keep, for by our suffering silence we never awaken, while dying in a painful, lonely sleep. After my experience with the stored, and then released energy behind “There Is Something Read more