Vic Shayne author Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience The late Ian Pretyman Stevenson, psychiatrist and founder of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has had a resurrection of sorts. His name comes up often…

by Vic Shayne Toward the end of the 1980s I watched an interview series featuring Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers. A few years later I bought the book by the same name: The Power of Myth because I couldn’t get enough of Campbell’s wisdom. This was my introduction to…

Vic Shayne 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: how to realize your true nature and end suffering What is suffering, really? We all experience physical pain, but psychological suffering is something quite different. Suffering is a symptom of the egoic mind’s reaction to events, hardships, death, sickness, struggles of a loved one…

Vic Shayne author The Self is a Belief: the idea that causes suffering When I wrote the book called The Self is a Belief, my goal was to flesh out the idea of the self, which is also who we refer to when we use the word “me.” On the…

Vic Shayne author The Enduring Myth of the Buddha: a hero’s journey to enlightenment I need to start off with a disclaimer of sorts: This is not a criticism of Buddhism; it is an observation of how a good teaching can be supplanted by the sense of self and its…

Vic Shayne The Self is a Belief: the idea that causes suffering Nature seems cruel, chaotic, violent, and indifferent. Should we use this as an excuse to act the same? …

Vic Shayne author The Enduring Myth of the Buddha We all die because we are all born. This is an immutable fact of life; a fact of the very nature of consciousness that contains everything that arises and falls, comes and goes. Plenty has been written about death over the…

Vic Shayne author The Enduring Myth of the Buddha: a hero’s journey into enlightenment What is the meaning of life? What is my place in the world? What is my purpose? Why is there so much suffering and confusion? Questions like these lead people to search for answers, but the…