Self Awareness
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Double Vision: A 21st Century Survival Guide
In my last two articles, “Is the Universe Real?” https://medium.com/p/b04a660f52e9 and “Do We Have To Take the Universe Seriously?’’ https://medium.com/@brucemcgraw/do-we-have-to-take-the-universe-seriously-48235aed86f9 I first argued that the universe is not a tangible thing but…
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Do We Have to Take the Universe Seriously?
In my last article, “Is the Universe Real?” https://medium.com/p/b04a660f52e9 I argued that the universe is not a real object, but rather an experience. So, what does that mean? If the universe isn’t real,…
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Homo Ignoramus
The world and its inhabitants are in an evolutionary crisis. Some call it a meta-crisis, a crisis not in one or two areas but in nearly all areas of life. So much is…
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Two Truths
We are living in an insane world right now. Most everyone’s ideas are firmly embedded, shutting out alternative perspectives. However, Buddhists have a perspective that can help open our minds. Absolute and Relative Truth…
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Mother and Child Reunion
We may remember the Paul Simon song “Mother and Child Reunion,” but many may not know this concept comes from “The Bardol Thodol,’’ commonly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which…
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Trump and the Egyptian God Set
In my last article, “One Divine Moment for Republicans and a Magical One for Democrats,” I brought up the attempted assassination of Trump, who claimed had he not moved his head a quarter…
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Returning to the Shaman to Move Forward
In a taped lecture by Alan Watts, he discussed a 1957 paper by mythologist Joseph Campbell, “The Symbol Without Meaning” In it, Campbell explained the beginning, development, and dissolution of cosmologies or great…
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The Dog Whisperer and the Ego
Have you ever watched Cesar Milan’s show, The Dog Whisperer? Its newest rendition is called Better Human, Better Dog. It’s very spiritual. In the show, Cesar Milan, a dog trainer, takes on challenging…
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The Next Five Years
The next five years, in terms of climate change, could be brutal. Wading through the beginning of this article could also be brutal. But if you can get through it (it’s not long),…
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Free Will vs. Spiritual Determinism
In my last article, linked here, I reviewed an internationally renowned expert on the Western tradition’s philosophical and mystical roots, Peter Kingsley, and his view of the “Spiritual Determinism” embodied in Empedocles’ stories of…
