This is a topic I have been inspired to write about for some time now, but I have struggled to orient my thoughts and express it in words. The topic is challenging because if you have not had a direct experience, it seems that no number of words, or ways of explaining it, will give it any meaning or credibility. Conversely, if you have had any type of direct experience, it is likely that you will connect with my meaning in the first three words. The light of Spirit, or the li

It is the six-year anniversary of the most difficult, traumatic, and painful days of my life. I lost my humanity and became a monster that did monstrous things. I completely lost myself in what I can only describe as an episode of mental annihilation. Only in hindsight, with a long and winding road behind me, does it seem that I had to lose myself to find my Self. Maybe you have too? Or maybe someone was lost from you? I lost so much more than myself in those days. But

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than in any other way.” – Glen Cook Today it feels like I am constantly bombarded by a hundred different forms of propaganda and that I reside in the midst of a dozen always-competing psychological operations. I find it glaringly overt now. There is no subtlety in it anymore, or perhaps there never was. I do not believe there are any real “sides” in all of this, but that it is all just an attempt to get me to take a side and j