In my 20’s I recognized my inability to know what I really wanted.  I’d been achieving everything on my list. I was miserable. My life was in chaos. In my arrogance, I demanded of myself that things immediately change, which made matters worse. I began looking for a new list, a golden list aligned with … Continue reading The Golden List: What You Want – Ignoring the Puppet Master →

I was once recruited by some founders of Enron several years after it’s demise to be the face and life force of a new venture with somewhat the same aspiring, smart culture. Once I clearly saw the play on my senses and ego, I ran. In fact it helped me make the decision to summon … Continue reading Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Crisis, Free Will and Artificial Intelligence? →

Identity may be one of the most pivotal and insightful aspects of self examination for personal growth. Some, maybe not everyone, but a lot of people’s behavior are driven by it to some degree as to how strongly they've committed to it, or one side of a polarity.  Some identities are deliberate and well understood … Continue reading The Power of Identity →

The framework for a new reality show has emerged. No wait! In some form or another this is an old format with familiar characters. It’s just a new angle posed by our shift in bringing celebrities down to earth. In this case, entertainers, maybe clowns of sorts who were one time considered to be artists … Continue reading Celebrity Skirmish →

What makes you laugh? Have you ever stopped to deeply examine what brings on this spontaneous and typically accepted behavioral response? Now most of us censor ourselves, i.e. we don’t laugh at TRADITIONAL funerals out of consideration for those in grief and TRADITIONAL social form of respect for the deceased. Now some of us have … Continue reading Is “Woo-Woo” a Joke →

The day may come when we choose who we are. Today we are products of our mothers wombs, this meat suit we fall into and all the conditioning we absorb in many ways in that darkness, in flesh, with our senses and in early childhood. Psychologists, gurus, and ancient archaeology suggests that we are creatures … Continue reading The Petri Dish →

For years people in the oil business had a difficult time understanding my film acting, which was mostly vocational in 1993-2012. Likewise, those I encountered in the artsy side had a difficult time understanding how I lived in the corporate, business world. Of course I was miserable all those years with the polarity, but that's … Continue reading The “Crude” Oil Business →

We now have a new "holocaust" that will impact this and generations to come over what is occurring now in the Ukraine as Russia continues its invasion. As this unfolds fresh in our minds and spirits today, we should challenge ourselves to understand how we so easily forget and fail. The archeology of every lost civilization that lost their way to such flaws, a blindside perhaps fueled by our arrogance and vanity that keeps our focus on the escape, rather in the humility necessary to care for our fellow man and the future of our kind.

Maybe you just like this phrase. Or, you might despise this phrase. Some have no idea what it means. This past week, I had many powerful, deeply felt encounters with others that I can only hope helped those others in their lives. I feel they opened up parts of me that helped me feel more … Continue reading “Living in the Moment” →

We're funny beings... If you're reading this post live in 2022 A.D., you have access to technology and a sophisticated infrastructure unlike those prior to the 1980's - when the Internet and computers were broadly made available. You are on the leading edge of pushing your "meat suit" through experiences that were unimagined just 100 … Continue reading The Trauma Drama Game →