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THE CORE ADDICTION

By Bruce Sanguin | February 18, 2018

A human being’s core addiction is to the traumatized self. Trauma, along with our early childhood patterns of compensating for  failures of love give rise to our trauma signature. This signature registers as “me” in my energetic field. As an adult, with all of this trauma relegated by repression to the unconscious, I default under … Read more

Authentic Forgiveness

By Bruce Sanguin | October 26, 2017

As We Forgive I attended Yom Kippur this past year, with my Jewish wife, Mia. It’s the holiest day of the year for Jews. The theme is repentance and atonement for sin. These folks know how to do repentance. Three hours of singing about how they have hurt others through acts of commission and omission. … Read more

Recruited

By Bruce Sanguin | October 3, 2017

The Lakota chants are a summons to the warrior within. I am being recruited to walk the path of integrity, humility, and compassion. The medicine that is ayahuasca tea first brought me to my knees revealing the posturing of a false self, constructed to survive repeated failures of love in my early years. Now, in … Read more

Walter White and the Criminal Mind

By Bruce Sanguin | May 27, 2017

Breaking Bad. View it on Netflix, if you’ve got the stomach for it that is. Warning. The violence can be graphic, and the content is disturbing. Yet, I can’t remember another television series I found as compelling. As in, I couldn’t stop watching it. I was late to the series. I had heard the buzz, (it won … Read more

Standing Up for Yourself

By Bruce Sanguin | May 15, 2017

Do you know when you are being treated badly?  It seems like a strange question, but my experience tells me that many of us don’t actually feel it in the moment, or we do sense something is amiss but we gloss over it. Then it wakes us up in the middle of the night. Even … Read more

Ethics As Evolutionary Imperative: Video

By Bruce Sanguin | April 16, 2017

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Why We Don’t Want What We Say We Want: The Fantasy Bond

By Bruce Sanguin | March 2, 2017

We do not want what we say we want. This is the sobering conclusion of psychoanalyst, Robert Firestone, (The Fantasy Bond) after decades of private practice and living in a conscious community. This underlies the curious phenomenon of the fear of success. Attaining what we have always wanted—love, success, creative self-expression—signals that we have become … Read more

There Is An Other and I Care

By Bruce Sanguin | January 23, 2017

Once, in ceremonial space, I went to work trying to arrive at a clear articulation of  the fundamental principles of human reality. Drum roll, please. It all came down to two principles: 1. There is an other. 2. I care. Now, this seemed strange to me. First because it was so simple. (Then I remembered that was me … Read more

Love Everything You Do

By Bruce Sanguin | November 22, 2016

Love Everything You Do The world is there to be loved  If you love everything you do the world lights up. You have one thousand excuses for why you can’t love everything you do. I know. I have used them all to keep myself miserable. When your house is built upon these excuses the power … Read more

Colin Wilson’s Levels of Consciousness

By Bruce Sanguin | November 3, 2016

In his book, Super Consciousness: The Quest for Peak Experience, Colin Wilson lays out his philosophy of life, which I wrote about in my last post. Toward the end of that book, Colin Wilson, began thinking about how many levels of consciousness he could identify. The levels reflect how much “power consciousness” we possess, that is, … Read more

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