Recovery And Spirituality

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

Musings

All Of The Animals In The Family Zoo

Our Aunt Susie, my father’s younger sister (now age 91) went to the zoo with us today. She had a great time! Sharon bought a wheelchair for her two weeks ago that made this journey a breeze.We are about the Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsSeptember 30, 2020 ago
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We Need A 34th Amendment

34th Amerndment? The rights of our Mother Earth need to be enshrined within our Constitution. Our constitution needs a new amendment, one that protects our environment, including our climate, the air that we breathe, the water that we drink and Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsSeptember 27, 2020 ago
Musings

Not So Tiny Black Bubble

I have had problems with my vision for several years. Life has become like a walk through a series of continuous “fun house mirrors”. There were no “straight lines” in my ocular universe, because of epiretinal membrane bunching. I had Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsSeptember 25, 2020 ago
Musings

The Lying King, and The People of the Lie

As our nation continues to seek for Donald Trump’s true heart and soul, We find not sacred nuggets of gold, only profane lumps of coal. My father, Beryl Paullin, might have been proud of me, had he lived long enough Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsSeptember 3, 2020 ago
Musings

Wasted Away By Hate Again In Donald Trump-ville (revisited)

We love our country, but our country does not love us back—Doc Rivers There are two pandemics raging right now: COVID-19, and the collective hatred and idiocy spawned by and spewed by Donald Trump and his supporting cast of racist, Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsSeptember 2, 2020 ago
Musings

Book #7: Awakening From A Nightmare Of Mental Illness

“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 our suffering silence Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsAugust 24, 2020 ago
Musings

America’s Dumpster Fire

The 1000 page Senate Intelligence Committee report explicitly states that Roger Stone coordinated WikiLeaks email hacks, and their subsequent release with Donald Trump’s knowledge, and participation. Paul Manafort consorted with and was paid by the Russians, in a most dangerous Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsAugust 23, 2020 ago
Musings

It’s Our Party and I Will Cry If I Want To.

I started crying right from the very start of my life. I had horrible nightmares nightly until I was eight years old. Yes, there was definitely something wrong, but I did not have the capacity to verbalize the words to Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsAugust 20, 2020 ago
Musings

Recovery, Discovery, and Another Me (book #3)

“Our lives begin to end, the moment that we become silent about things that matter” Martin Luther King, Jr. Be mindful, oh Mankind, of all of the painful secrets that we must keep, For, by our suffering silence, we will Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsAugust 14, 2020 ago
Musings

Recovery (part of chapter of new book)

Recovery is not just for heavy drinkers and/or abusers of drugs, it is for people who want to make positive, life affirming and healing changes in their lives. This post is an excerpt from my new book, and is a Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsAugust 6, 2020 ago
Musings

Here Is My Abbreviated Reinterpretation Of the 12 Steps Of Recovery

Be mindful, oh Mankind, of all of the painful secrets that we must keep, For, by our suffering silence, we will not awaken, but just die alone, powerless, and asleep. ——Bruce Paullin This post is not for anyone in particular. Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsAugust 2, 2020 ago
Musings

1987, An Amazing Year Of Connection And Transformation

This material was to be included in Book #8 Much of the following written material has been presented before, in my various Facebook and blog posts. Some people may think that Facebook or this blog site are not the places Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJuly 20, 2020 ago
Musings

The Times They Are A Changing!

An “evolved and spiritually aware” friend of mine from the past posted a message sourced through Ted Nugent on his Facebook page yesterday. Yes, Gary Span…. is that important of a person, with worldwide influence. I responded to him with Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJuly 15, 2020 ago
Musings

“You” Can’t Be Real

I have always known that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that we, as humans, live our lives, and communicate with each other. I have not always known what the source of my own disease was, however. My Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJuly 13, 2020 ago
Musings

2020: The Year Of The Wrath Of Toxic Men In Leadership

I am trying to stay positive, but I feel like I need to return the hateful salute back to the national leaders who have betrayed us. Speak truth to power, in whatever form that it appears. This national/international darkness originated Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJuly 6, 2020 ago
Musings

“He Is Having An Experience With God”

The slowly shifting desert sands of time, Created ever taller dunes for this lost soul to climb. Yet, tired of dying in my selfish, hateful world of so little reason and rhyme, I finally sought the way to Truth, and Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJune 22, 2020 ago
Musings

My Ever Evolving Understanding On How to Heal Our Culture Of Racism

“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore.”— Rosa Parks, on refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955 I am primarily a member of the Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJune 11, 2020 ago
Musings

Enlightenment and Healing The Wounds Of Racism

I don’t think reading another book written by yet another spiritual master steeped in “white privilege” is going to get the job done. Looking to white Evangelical Christianity for solutions towards racism is identical to looking to active arsonists for Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJune 9, 2020 ago
Musings

Ginger (9/18/2007-06/06/2016)

This blog is written in honor of our beloved Ginger, who died on June 6, 2016.  I am going to try to write this one from Ginger’s perspective.  Ginger’s relationship with us coincided with the most difficult period in my Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJune 6, 2020 ago
Musings

Toxic Masculinity, And What Comes After America (updated)

Make America Great Again?  With a criminal mob and their self-serving conspiracy theories directing our government? “Oh, and one more thing, you are not going to like what come’s after America . . . “—-Leonard Cohen The latest developments in Read more

By Bruce, 6 yearsJune 3, 2020 ago

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