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

Chapter 1 It is what it is, but it is not what it seems —Paul Hewson . To “follow new paths of consciousness”, while knowing that “you can’t be real” sets up quite a transformational dynamic within consciousness. If “you” Read more

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One evening, a Cherokee elder was teaching his grandson about life.   “A fight is going on inside me,”   he said to the boy.:   “It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. This battle that Read more

My writing has been the major activity and challenge of consciousness for me since November of 2016.   I have attempted to bring insight into collective consciousness, individual consciousness, the sacred, the profane, and all of their intersections, and collisions Read more

For five nights late in the summer, I flopped in a house off of SE 37th street with three other men and two women.  I did not know any of these individuals well, save Greg, though we appeared to be Read more

I don’t remember exactly when I first met Barbara, but Steve had introduced us in the late summer.  She kept turning up at after hours parties and other supposedly spontaneous happenings around se Portland that I had been invited to,  Read more

  Prologue: Mythology, Religion, Liars, The Conspiracy Of Silence, And The Cloak Of Invisibility (maybe Chapter 1) Prologue (alternate): The Miracle Experiment and the Conspiracy Of Silence Chapter 2:  Trauma Chapter 3:  Defender Dan and The Mind Of Man Chapter Read more

Johnny Cash Hurt rendition, and my commentary

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No Makena Beach heroics today. Sacred silence 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 must be replaced by the Read more

Pompei Much bigger city than I had imagined, with 70 percent unearthed so far. This tragic city was buried under 15 feet of pumice after the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD.. We had a wonderful 3+ hour tour Read more

OK, by now, if you have been reading my blog posts, or have done some serious explorations of your own consciousness, the realization has already come about the infinite nature of consciousness.  Yet, as our awareness scans the infinite frontiers Read more

Get Outlook for Android Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of our healed heart was hovering over the surface of the waters. And our healed Heart said, “Let there Read more

  An archetype is an emotion, character type, or event that is notably recurrent across the human experience. In the arts, an archetype creates an immediate sense of familiarity, allowing an audience member to relate to an event or character Read more

What value is a story, if it is never told? What value is love, if it is never shared? What is the value of speaking, if nobody is even willing to listen? According to the introduction to the movie “Alien”, Read more

The greatest trauma to the human soul is the early damage to our sense of self that causes poor self-esteem, and all of the compensating behavior that occurs downstream from the wounding.  Without even knowing it, we traumatize others with Read more

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I believe everybody has the right to try something new without being ridiculed-—William Hung, of American Idol fame When I first saw a rocket ship take off into the heavens, I became hooked on the possibility of becoming an astronaut Read more