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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…

Interesting download this morning that felt like writing to the collective – so here we are. Initially it seemed like nothing new … Reality is not what you see on TV or in social media. It’s not what’s presented. It’s what happens. Sometimes what happens is contrived. In fact, more often that not, it’s safe…

What do you, or can you, bring back from those in between moments? That space between life and death. That moment you know an ideal you held has been broken, at least momentarily you realize it, and then life never seems to be the same. A series of shocks over my lifetime grants an interesting…

It’s amazing how the perspective into which a person is born – pervades, lingers, exists. It’s almost as if it carries a life, a story all it’s own that needs a biological expression. Sometimes it pervades a person’s entire lifetime if not caught, realized, or exposed earlier in life. That stream occupies all of the…

I’m questioning my sanity today. As I step back, it may be more fair to say I’m examining my self-view. Has it grown? Or is it dormant and just a carryover from my childhood years ago? How fresh and valid is my perspective on life and how things work and how people operate? It seems…

I woke suddenly last night. A billboard was essentially flashing in my psyche that it’s time to share this inner work. It’s deeply personal. Possibly creative. For me it’s always been necessary. It’s been confusing. It’s jeopardized aspects of my life that most people would not allow to be known or seen. But it feels…

As an artist in acting and writing, you can’t help but study other people as you explore the mediums of reaching others as well as those places in yourself. I found myself recently reflecting on the path an acting coach led me to explore in 2015-19. Prior to the pandemic, I’d been led to explore…

Since childhood I have wondered if others are really telling the truth or if such a singular truth even exists. Was there actually one unified theory. Everything seemed so situational. People seemed unique and trying to act homogenous or conforming. It wasn’t genuine. What about that creator, the “Great I AM” that has thoughts so far…

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…

The word “minion” just doesn’t sound too attractive. The first time I heard it I had no idea what it meant. However, if you’re anything like me, I look into how a word is said more than the Webster definition. The circumstance and context said more than the Webster to me. Minion noun – min·​ion…

In the old days the term grifters was awarded to con men (and women) who moved from town to town taking advantage of situations they encountered. By most standards they break the law and are hardened criminals. That they had anyones best interests other than their own in mind is certain. Our sympathy may spawn…

The supernatural potential of the dark empty well of humanity is available to the collective in the times of collective crisis. The irony is this quality is unavailable to the command of the collective or its hierarchy, the elite or ego-driven minions, populous joiners. Throughout history only a few with humility or most likely their…

By and large we collectively approach each moment under a causal assumption. Our human nature adheres to some personal responsibility for each new moment in our lives. To consider such as untrue, perhaps construe it as arrogance, is confusing for most. For those who are able to suspend their rush to judgement, may see such…

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…

When I was a boy, I listened to the big, epic stories read from the King James Version of the Bible with awe and curiosity. Further fueling this fire, my drive, my father was also a vice/ homicide detective. So what I heard three times a week (twice on Sundays and once Wednesday night) seemed to…

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…

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…

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…

Since I was a child I’ve heard this voice whispering to me on various occasions – every time to my surprise. It says to give it away. Sometimes it says “give it ALL away, Mark.” And there’s a vibe to be of service to others, take some risks that may appear ridiculous, stupid or crazy…

Sometimes I find myself rambling with the dead. These conversations continue in my psyche today with my father, grandfather, my recently deceased best friends, my mentor in the oil business, my mentor in film acting. The men who raised me. The men who helped form me into this unfolding world of circumstance opening before me.…

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…

Who really wants to change? Who really knows how? How Pollyannish to feel in control of your life because you can paint your toenails a new color? Less direct, are people being honest with you, polite or just following a pattern ingrained in them? Is your son a “good” son because he takes out the…

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…

This well, this dormant power and potential for the supernatural in humanity, is hidden by and large by the program operating in current life. Not facing crisis, this power is held dormant in the shadows, in our psyche. It looks for control of deep fears and projects them on others, rather than dealing with them…

Do we know when enough is enough? If there’s no parent in the street when the kids are trick-or-treating, what’s going to happen? Is it that different than that rich kid not buying into his father’s plan? His life could be easy if he’d just show a little respect and discipline that even his own…