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

How many of you remember your first fight?   I sure do! My sister Pam was a fourth grader at Cedar Oak Park Grade School, and I was one grade behind her. I was small compared to some of the Read more

  Before I enter the portion discussing the Common Knowledge Game in detail, 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 Read more

I have had the privilege and challenge of going through and sorting a lifetime worth of writings and papers from my parents, and from myself. After reading some of my mother’s personal writings, I was struck by the pain that Read more

Introduction:  Mythology, Religion, Liars, The Conspiracy Of Silence, And The Cloak Of Invisibility Chapter  : Trauma Chapter  :  Anosognosia Chapter  :  Notes To Myself Chapter  :  Knowledge, The Whim Chapter  :  The Pearl Chapter   :  To Reimagine Our Journey Through Read more

THE FOOLS You know who we are, there is no need for our names We may be outwardly different, but inside we are the same We vacation on ego trips, and with the world play strange mind games While striving Read more

I never chose this uneven life path of recovery from trauma, life chose it for me. I choose how to deal with the sights along the way, however. The amygdala in our brains under duress from trauma creates new paths, Read more

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