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Is Godliness an affliction?
Reflections on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot through the lens of humanity’s responsibility to light up the divine within. THE EGO, it is said, is phenomenal and finite. Being of the body, it is entirely oriented in the spacial and temporal, and dies when the body dies. Yet while the undefinable quality or awareness that may be called…
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Interview with Bardo Methodology (Part One) en Espanol
Niklas Göransson Músico, escritor y artista visual; Bobby BeauSoleil está sirviendo una sentencia a cadena perpetua. Su historia – sobre ser condenado a morir, de cultivar espiritualidad en alrededores de pesadilla, y de ser uno con lo arcano para sobrevivir al infierno. Bobby Beausoleil reside en el sistema penitenciario de California. Habiendo sido inicialmente puesto…
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My Adventures in the Bardo
Over recent months I have been participating in interviews with Niklas Göransson for Bardo Methodology, a printed magazine published on a, um, somewhat improvisational timetable in Sweden. If you are at all interested in knowing what makes me tick at the deepest levels of my being, particularly in relation to what inspires me in my…
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Interview for Bardo Methodology, Pt. 1
by Niklas Göransson Musician, writer and visual artist; Bobby BeauSoleil is also serving a life sentence in prison. His tale is one of being condemned to die, of cultivating spirituality in nightmarish surroundings, and drawing upon the arcane to survive hell. This is an excerpt from the full article – which is twice as long,…
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Bio
Bobby Beausoleil was born on November 6, 1947, to a large working-class family living in Santa Barbara, California, and christened Robert Kenneth Beausoleil. His prodigious creative output over his lifetime has been largely overshadowed by his having been an associate of Charles Manson in the late 1960s. He was apparently involved in a drug transaction…