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

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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

We must first  lose our mind, with its historical accumulation of knowledge and questionable theories and memories, to find theTruth underlying all of Life–Elisha Scott This is a bifurcation point, where the curious, and the attuned, divurge from the well Read more

Day 12:  Joshua Tree to Old Town Temecula ( uncensored version)

Route 66 has ended for us, alas, yet we get to connect with family in Temecula.

Joshua Tree National Park is amazing, to say the least, so that I will.  Chet King, fellow ” laughing cholla”, photo number 6 is for you!  A cactus called the cholla decided to jump onto my calf.  Akiko supplied the gloves, and Sharon White had the pleasure of separating my calf from an unfriendly, painful hitchhiker.

On to dinner in Old Town, with Sharon’s number one son, and now only child (Brad is over 50 years old, I guess that he is not a child anymore, eh?), his wife Dawn, and our number 3 grandson Tony.

Some family members continue to travel on the infamous Route 666. I will not participate in any family conspiracy of silence, where dishonesty is a treasured value.  Our number 2 grandson, who is quite ” damaged” is also not so mysteriously connected with a missing daughter, who, not coincidentally, is incredibly damaged goods, as well. Each has a potentially fatal problem with knowing and telling the truth, and acting with honesty and integrity in their affairs.  As they say ” in the Program”, at the end of Route 666 is either death, insanity, and/or jail, and they are both living into those nightmares, and have normalized their own stupidity over the courses of their lives
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Families are like our planet Earth, they can’t be healed by taking a torch to them.  No one heals by sacrificing another in the flames of one’s own hatred and ignorance.  We have been the sacrificial lambs in the past, but now we wear spiritual kevlar.,

May they both find healing and peace, FAR AWAY FROM US!

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Route 66 Santa Fe New Mexico to Holbrook Arizona Saw some old towns and great off freeway scenery.  Much of original 66 is in disrepair or replaced by other newer roads, but it was a worthy effort. Petrified Forest was Read more

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”—Jiddu Krishnamurti Powerlessness and silence go together. We … should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world’s reality, but as a platform Read more

It is no measure of good health to be well adapted to a sick society.”-—Jiddhu Krishnamurti Our civilized world has been built upon the backs of an unconscious, overachieving, traumatized humanity. . Do we remain in the conspiracy of silence Read more

You are not going to like what comes after America . . . ” ——Leonard Cohen “We were told that we would see America come and go. In a sense, America is dying, from within, because they forgot the instructions Read more

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