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

When I first experienced the “spiritual presence” in 1987, I found many new fellow travelers on the path to truth, and a few new teachers, as well.  I was primarily attracted to three teachers, Jack Boland, Joel Goldsmith and Jiddhu Read more

(Melinda will probably perform extreme edit, or eliminate, much of the following material.  so read at your own risk) My father grew up in an abusive home, and had a troubled relationship with his parents. When he returned from WWII Read more

There are no images, videos, or sound bites in our brains. There are only patterns of synapses firing. Everything our senses see, hear, smell, taste, and feel is converted into these patterns. This is the one and only way we Read more

Chapter : 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 Read more

Who wants to be just another Pinnochio, or a marionettes dancing image trapped on the movie screen of our corrupted world’s mind? When we stop trusting the thoughts that create walls, judgements, religions, and false bridges back to our SELF, Read more

Melinda will be amending this one much further.  Anyway, part of book #8.  Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we Read more

    If you were a real “GOD”, and your life was characterized by ultimate self-awareness, would you not want to create everything that is in your image as the best possible manifestation that it could possibly be? And, if Read more

Last weekend, my wife and I drove up to Larch Mountain, which is about 13 miles east of Corbett, Oregon.  Those who have read my writings know that this location has ultimate significance in my spiritual unfoldment, and, in fact, Read more

“Oh, Elisha, dare you lift yourself unto me?”—heard in a November 1987 mediation Elisha was an ancient Jewish prophet.  He served under Elijah, one of the Jewish traditions most famous, and murderous, prophets.  Elijah was swept up into the heaven Read more

It is beneficial to provide some information about the physiological similarities and differences in the brain between men and women, and how we process information and express ourselves, as a result of those differences and similarities. What is of our Read more

We’ll know if we are, by the way, if that self-blame has curdled into self-hate. If it’s blackened into depression. If ywe never feel good enough anymore, around our friends and loved ones. If we constantly feel a sense of Read more

The adventure continues. Far too many people just don’t realize what is going on under the “hood” of their consciousness. Does the motor run a little rough? Even if it does not, it may be time to take a look.  Read more

(Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)© provided by RawStory A Christian minister blasted the House Republicans amid the holidays, pointing to them as carrying the water for evil. Writing for Salon, Nathaniel Manderson, ordained through the American Baptist Churches USA, said that he sees evil Read more

My 50-year class reunion was a milestone for me. I engaged much of my healing potential and intentions during the several month period leading up to the weekend festivities in August of 2023. School, in general, was never a pleasant Read more

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Triad personality traits. They’re not stark raving mad, just a tick more antisocial. By some measures more than half of Americans believe at least one tale of a secret cabal influencing events. Some are more plausible than others; a few Read more