Day Five: Go Ahead, Be A Baby!
I can’t help but sit in wonder and awe as I watch my little nephew Harvey move about the living room floor. He may not be aware of it, but he is an explorer. He may not be aware of it, but he is a...
View ArticleDay Six: Communication
We are constantly engaged in a state of communication. Our body, in reality, is a means of transferring information. The process is always at work, collecting sensations from the outside world and...
View ArticleDay Seven: The World Needs YOU
I had the great privilege of speaking to a group of high school students today at my former high school. The organization, Drug Free Youth In Town, gathered a good amount of students and student...
View ArticleDay Eight: Pretend
I am what I am. You are what you are. What’s the point of pretending otherwise? - JB
View ArticleDay Nine: Nature
Since I was a kid I have appreciated the natural world around me. Having grown up in a small town in the high desert I became accustomed to the bit of remoteness we enjoyed. There was hardly even a...
View ArticleDay Ten: Being Human?
What does it mean to be human? I guess the answer to this is question could be anything really. I can think of several broad and specific strokes to paint a very subjective picture of what it means....
View ArticleDay Eleven: Relationships Are Hard Work…
…except when they are not. I have to say, when I put my longest standing and most connected relationships under the microscope my findings come out quite contrary to the good ol’ wisdom that...
View ArticleJourney In
Journey in, Journey in, Tell me where, This life begins. A whisper, A caw, A trickle, A breeze, The hum of life, Moves through the trees. Sinking in, Sinking in, Merging with, This life again. A...
View ArticleDay Twelve: Resurrection at Twenty-Eight
Tonight is my twenty-eighth birthday and it seems entirely fitting on this day I should take the time to reflect, at least a little, on my first twenty-seven years of existence. Perhaps it would be of...
View ArticleEmergence
Emergence resurgence, A self from the past, Averted divergence, Oneness at last. -JB
View ArticleDay Thirteen: The Stillness
There is so much life in the stillness, the silent and the mundane. The stillness is a beautiful, wonderful space, fluid and effervescent, in its own way. So much life in the stillness, why do we...
View ArticleDay Fourteen: What Is Your God?
What is your God? And by this I mean, what drives your life decisions, your choices and your actions? What is your moral compass, your ethical through-line in life? Do not deceive yourself with...
View ArticleThe New American Battle
It is time for an American revolution. This re-evolution will not require muskets and cannons, tea parties and bayonets, but thus calls forth a shift in our cultural consciousness. If we are to see the...
View ArticleGratitude
Recently I have been overcome with a tremendous amount of gratitude in my day to day existence. Maybe it’s because Thanksgiving is upon us or perhaps it’s just the result of a new evolution in my...
View ArticleContradictions
What principles govern our lives? What illusionary scarecrows do we represent? Do we see how we’ve boxed ourselves in with patriotism, religion and laws? Can we see the fallacy of these labels we’ve...
View ArticleTruth: Channel 001
I think it would serve us well if we attuned our personal awareness, a sort of antenna of consciousness, to the truth. We should turn the dial of personal awareness towards truth in all it’s forms,...
View ArticleOur World Is An Idea
“Funny, from here I don’t see any lines separating anything.” The Earth as you may or may not be aware, has existed for about six billion years and likely will continue on to exist for billions more....
View ArticleOl’ Ice Pick
Chip away ol’ ice pick, At sins befallen us, Cut away ol’ ice pick, Again we learn to trust. Dig away ol’ ice pick, Deeper we must go, Strike away ol’ ice pick, Flow with Winter’s throws. Swing away...
View ArticleThe Hermit’s Call
Light of the lantern, A speck in the black, Faint tint of wisdom, Illuminates the path. Subtle low bellow, Movement of the soul, Quiet whisper gentle, The Hermit’s calling home. Road ahead muddled,...
View ArticleSoul Work
It’s been some time since I turned to a simple stream of consciousness piece. Not surprisingly, what is immediately pouring out of me on this first day of thirty stream of consciousness meditations is...
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