Bruce Backman

I had a very interesting experience recently. In as much as my intention was to talk about religion in this section I need to circle back around and put some feet to what I talked about in part 2 of this series.   My primary message in part 2 was that we mistakenly give the [...]

I thought I would post another poem I wrote during a Thanksgiving season one year or another. I don’t really remember when. I hope you enjoy it…

Let’s see…I left off Part 1 with…   The universe is…QUITE SIMPLY A COMBINATION OF MATTER AND ENERGY. More about that later…   It is certainly NOT GOD. But, when we treat it like God (purposely or not) it brings with it a whole host of unintended consequences.   As I said in the first [...]

Twenty years ago I taught a seminar on the “new age” movement. It was a fascinating topic to me as I saw many people in Los Angeles (where I lived at the time) embrace the theories that human evolution would bring about a “new age” for  humanity and the world.   Much of these theories [...]

Where is God? There are probably as many answers to this question as there are religious constructs and possibly even people out there. Is there a more important question in life? I don’t think so. I simply want to open up a conversation about this. I received a message from a young man who is [...]

About  a month ago I had one of those “AHA” moments that you get from time to time. I had been going through a significant period of evaluating my strengths, weaknesses, passions, desires and narrowing down exactly what it is I am desiring to accomplish through my time and energy spent online. It was quite [...]

Everyone has screwed up their own lives to one degree or another…everyone needs second chances. Some people are given “miraculous” second chances while others truly need to learn how to find and create their second chances.