Louis Bourgeois

I spend time each day, living in my rural paradise outside Cuenca, playing in the quebrada (mountain stream). I have a project, moving stones in the creek, creating a wading pool, and sifting through the gravel finding a variety of quartz. The myriad of colors of the small stones, the sun reflecting off the water,...
It has taken awhile to get back in the saddle and write the next segment of my Conscious Living series. But I have thought quite a bit about this segment, wanting to address more in depth the elements of Conscious Dying. I have mentioned earlier that a key part of Conscious Living is the ability...
I ended my last column with a quote from Jonathan Livingston Seagull about becoming a finder. What exactly does this mean? It is worth our exploration, as our personal awakening is the most important accomplishment possible as humans. Eckhart Tolle was very clear about this, and it is also the whole point of the teaching...
Personal transformation is difficult. The way of transformation involves legitimate suffering, and it is the design and purpose of the egoic mind to avoid suffering. The ego brandishes two tools, denial and projection, in order to avoid suffering. In doing so it creates a rigid structure and great unhappiness. Many years ago, early in my...
In the first part of this series on Conscious Living and Dying I referred to my early involvement with the Taoist philosophy as represented by the Tao Te Ching. I remember learning about the key principle of Wu Wei and being totally perplexed. As a young man this principle was illogical, and yet I knew...
By Louis Bourgeois This series is my best attempt to bring into perspective a lifetime of study, observation, and experience. It has been my life’s work, now some 45 years since clear guidance at the age of 21 propelled me on a journey of personal development and eventual awakening. Self realization is one term used...
By Louis Bourgeois Thirty-three years ago, at the age of 33, I began my journey of healing and discovery. I had read every book that I could find, on the subjects of philosophy, transpersonal psychology, spirituality, nutrition and health, but now it was time to experience my “new earth.” My exploration took me a number...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a multi-part series on Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. Click to read part 1, part 2 and part 3. By Louis Bourgeois It is an amazing thing when we die, or enter a state of enlightenment before we die. Many might believe that the end of the body and...
Editor’s note: This is the third in a multi-part series on Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. Click to read part 1 and part 2. By Louis Bourgious We discussed in past segments of this series the first two “Faces of Freedom,” these being Freedom from The Past and Freedom from the World. Now we are...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a multi-part series on Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. By Louis Bourgeois The first “Face of Freedom” that we discussed in part 2 of this series is freedom from the past. We go a little deeper here in what could be called Freedom from the Present, or more...
Editor’s note: This is the first of a multi-part series on Conscious Living and  Conscious Dying. By Louis Bourgeois When I was a student in psychology at the University of Connecticut in 1973 I did a study as a part of a class. This study involved interviewing residents of a nearby nursing home. I was deeply troubled...
By Louis Bourgeois  I am on an extended trip in the U.S. This is a my first such visit in four years. The primary reason for the six weeks here in the U.S. is to spend some time with my 93-year old mother, to introduce her to my Ecuadorian wife and our baby, now 2...

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