by Bud Megargee | Aug 3, 2022 | Articles
Throughout human history, the desire to explore an afterlife requires that we critically bend the way we think. It is a time when there is only one question to be asked: What really happens when this life ends? By tradition, our next world experiences are fixed in...
by Bud Megargee | Jul 3, 2022 | Articles
During the peak period of the pandemic, I took it upon myself to watch a documentary that focused exclusively on a film maker and his relationship with an unusual sea creature, the octopus. Truthfully, I am generally not a fan of television programs that profile a...
by Bud Megargee | May 15, 2022 | Articles
It seems like that should be a simple question to answer: If I can see it, hear it, or touch it then it must be real, right? But what if this way of thinking is limiting my ability to look beyond what is obvious and view my existence with new eyes? I would like to...
by Bud Megargee | Nov 14, 2021 | Articles
It would be amazing if I could find a way to become brave, curious, and gentle, like a child’s adventurous wisdom. But I am not like that. I am entangled with a series of life stories that make it hard to recognize that type of innocent awareness. Whenever I attempt...
by Bud Megargee | Oct 26, 2021 | Articles
When I was in my early to mid-twenties, and a struggling psychology intern, my clinical mentor asked me a series of questions, with the objective of removing any unwanted medical rubble I had assembled during my graduate school years. His professional intention? To...
by Bud Megargee | Aug 10, 2021 | Articles
We tend to think more about what we are doing than who we are becoming. In all our lives there are moments when the ground starts to shake beneath our feet. These are the times when our world becomes destabilized, and everything changes around us. This can be an...
Bud Megargee is a former senior behavioral healthcare executive; a Washington, DC., healthcare lobbyist; and an independently published, award winning author. He began writing after exploring Eastern philosophy and alternative medicine techniques in the professional treatment of emotional challenges at a Taiwanese Buddhist monastery.