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Giving Up Being Special

By Bruce Sanguin | April 27, 2017

I remember the moment I felt blessedly ordinary.  It was such a relief. In that moment I realized that I’d been carrying around an unconscious assumption that I was just slightly above others, floating just above the messy world.  But when my deep, unobstructed breathing kicked in, I thought to myself, “I’m just an ordinary person, … 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

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 … 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

Beyond the Robot

By Bruce Sanguin | October 13, 2016

I’ve been reading a book about literary critic, novelist, philosopher and lay psychologist, Colin Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) by Gary Lachman, and another by Wilson himself. Although Wilson has written somewhere close to one hundred books, I had never heard of him until I read Lachman’s biography. Born of humble stock … Read more

Our Birth Is But a Sleep and a Forgetting

By Bruce Sanguin | August 29, 2016

When my nephew was two years old, he told his mother about “purgatory”. Neither of his parents were religious and he had never been to church. His grandparents were Protestant and would have had no reason to discuss purgatory with him. Then he told his mother, “everything is wuv, (love), mommy.” Today he has no … Read more

Predicaments and Problems

By Bruce Sanguin | August 11, 2016

My friend, Michael Dowd, sent me a blog post by John Michael Greer, an author who writes on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society from a Druid perspective. Mr. Greer draws a compelling distinction between predicaments and problems. Predicaments, by definition, are not merely unpleasant situations. They are unpleasant situations from which there … Read more

3 A.M. Anxiety: Who Ya Gonna to Call?

By Bruce Sanguin | July 13, 2016

I was awake at 3 am. My dog was anxious, whining. Maybe I tapped into his field. Or more likely he tapped into mine. My mind was whirling with everything that’s wrong in my life. Story after story, scenario after scenario, all reinforcing the “truth” that my life was teetering on a precipice. Everything, I … Read more

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