Brugh's Journey


In December 1971, Brugh met Eunice Hurt. She inducted him into The Mysteries, which laid the foundations for Brugh’s life long inner journey. He acknowledged her and the profound effect she had on him in almost every conference. When Brugh first heard of her and her name, which was several months previously, he intuitively knew this was the one, the teacher he was waiting for. He described in detail their first meeting on page 96 of "Joy’s Way". He describes his first impression of her as Love manifest and how, while embracing her for the first time, of being swept into a state of ecstasy, which he likened to embracing Liquid Love. They were two souls who had shared many lifetimes together and had finally recognized each other in this lifetime.

To the surface mind, it could be said they were complete opposites. Brugh was a highly educated and successful doctor, while Eunice had a basic education, was married and divorced 5 times, raising two teenage children, and was a chain smoker. However, she brought through incredibly deep teachings which drew many people to her. Eunice once said, “If you want to know the mysteries of the Universe, first learn about yourself”. She also taught Brugh the importance of daily meditation, a practice he followed for the rest of his life and became the basis of all his conferences and teachings. Brugh studied with Eunice until November 1972.

Brugh said he would sometimes fall asleep at the start of a session and wake up when she said, "Thank you for coming". However, as the teachings were not meant for the surface mind, the deeper psyche heard and absorbed. This is why Brugh did not mind when people slept in his conferences; he always trusted the deeper forces at work. His teachings were never meant for the surface mind and ego; they were for the uncovering of the Soul. When one sees the photos of participants in his conferences, people are absolutely radiant. This is a glow one gets when one pierces through all the layers of conditioning and gets in touch with one’s core being.

A fellow participant at Eunice’s teachings has commented that from the beginning, Brugh had the gift for interpreting dreams. Brugh said much later that there was always a Dream Whisperer that whispered into his ear. Dreams were always a key part of every conference, as it is said that they are messages from the Soul in its yearning for wholeness. Many times, Brugh would meet people and immediately ask about their dreams, for the dream would reveal their inner world, which then manifests their outer world. According to Brugh, "The vast majority of dreams address the Soul and its journey through life and not the ego's perception of the journey”.

For Brugh, dreams were very sacred and want to be heard by one who understands. Many times, people would say they cannot remember them. However, after being with Brugh, they would start to remember them. Carl Jung estimated that he interpreted about 50,000 dreams. No one can know how many Brugh interpreted. However, it would be a substantial number in his nearly 35 years of teachings. When working with an individual on a dream, he could often recall a dream the same individual had shared many years before. He said once you share a dream, it is not the individual’s dream any more, it belongs to the collective. Brugh was so gifted that in one short sentence, he could reveal the message of the dream’s intent. Individuals would say that this one short sentence changed their whole life, not only with dreams, but also in Brugh’s responses to questions or sharing’s from other participants. That one short reply changed their life, as it enabled them to have a big personal breakthrough. Brugh was always addressing the Soul of the individual, not the surface mind.

In “Joy’s Way”, Brugh acknowledged his mother as his first teacher, who was highly developed spiritually in her own right. Great souls, when they take birth, choose to take birth in a family of highly developed souls. Brugh married his wife Wendey in September 1972, and Eunice was the Marriage Celebrant who married them. At the wedding, his mother met Eunice for the first time and symbolically passed on the responsibility for Brugh’s spiritual development to Eunice. A month later, Eunice contracted cancer and knew her time on this earth was coming to an end. She said she had come in this life to awaken certain individuals, had done so, and now her time was finished. She departed in December 1972 at the age of 49.

Two months later, Brugh made contact with his Inner Teacher, his guide for the rest of his life. He had implicit trust in his Inner Teacher. He recounted being the keynote speaker at an annual meeting of California medical professionals with around 1,000 in the audience. Five minutes before he was to speak, he had no idea what he was to say. One minute before, he still had nothing. However, upon going onto the stage, Simple Brugh stepped aside and allowed the Inner Teacher to speak through him. This occurred with many of his conferences. He recounted how, sometimes, he would get the idea for a new conference, send out a notice about it, and people would register. Five minutes before the conference was due to start, he still had no idea of the content. However, as soon as he stepped into the sacred circle, it would all flow through him.

Brugh always distinguished between everyday surface consciousness and deeper consciousness. He called his everyday consciousness the Simple Brugh, who loved to eat ice cream, watch TV, and couldn't care less about teaching. In contrast, there was Brugh, the Teacher. One of his many teachings was how to change between these states of Consciousness and not get caught up identifying with one or the other, but how to shift between them.

When approaching personal growth and spiritual development, Brugh often quoted what he called “the three injunctions”. "Make no comparisons, make no judgments, and delete your need to understand". The origin of these injunctions comes from a woman’s story he describes on page 58 of “Joy’s Way”.

He stressed the importance of taking action with what one learns. He pointed out how people would sit in a monastery or sit with a teacher for 40 years listening, but no inner change would happen as they took no personal steps themselves. There is a saying, “God helps those who help themselves”, or “For every step one takes towards God, God reciprocates by taking three steps towards the individual”.

In mid-July 1974, Brugh received what he terms “The Call”. The Call is another important aspect of his teachings, heeding the inner call to fulfill one’s destiny. This usually implies a dramatic shift in one’s outer life due to what is coming through on the inner plane. In most cases, The Call is so strong, the individual has no choice in the matter and one is compelled to heed The Call. To quote Jung, “Nature is merciful; she only calls a few”.

Brugh described in detail The Call he received in July 1974 on page 206 of “Joy's Way”. He was doing his doctor’s rounds and had the strong urge to stop, sit and meditate, which he did. In a two-hours process, he was told his life as a physician was over and that he was to travel to Findhorn, at the time, a place of cutting edge thought and new age awareness. Brugh had never heard of it. He spent six months at Findhorn and also met David Spangler there with whom he later co-hosted the annual Asilomar Gatherings in Monterey, California. He was also told to travel to Egypt, India and Nepal near the Tibetan Border.

Upon coming out of that meditation, he immediately resigned from the hospital and the highly successful medical center where he was a partner. He placed his house on the market and arranged to sell his cars. He then called his wife who was away at the time and told her! Their marriage dissolved some time later.

Brugh said from about the age of 17, when he decided to become a doctor, he knew he would stop at age 35, even though he loved what he was doing. As Joseph Campbell describes it, “This is the classic case of the hero's journey, where one first gives up everything either voluntary or involuntary in order to go on to greater things and becoming empowered with resources greater than one’s own”.

The journey to all the places Brugh had been directed to in his meditation was to rekindle old memories from the deep past. At each place, parts of the old Brugh fell away, and the new being came through. His overnight experience in the Great Pyramid in Egypt was the final step of this process.

He described his journey to India, where he flew in on a plane, then rode a train, then a bus, then a taxi, then a bicycle rickshaw, and finally, on foot on a dirt path to arrive to his destination. He explained the journey was symbolic of leaving everything behind. He imagined spending the rest of his life in India as a wandering Sadhu. However, in India, he was told that his mission was to teach in the West. From here he went back to America to fulfill his destiny. Actually, he did live the life of a wandering Mystic/Teacher. The rest of his life he was constantly travelling and teaching, especially after he sold his retreat centre’s. When people asked Brugh where he lived, he said, “Right here”, where he was in that moment. He was always fully present in every moment. When talking with Brugh, individuals later recounted that in engaging him, they felt that he was 100% focused and present with them, whatever the conversation was. In that moment, nothing else mattered to Brugh.

In 1975, he started teaching at Sky Hi Ranch in southern California. Even before he began, intuitives across America were telling their clients about a new, blonde-haired teacher, who was about to start teaching on the West Coast. These intuitives had no external knowledge of Brugh. They were picking up the information internally in their readings. Thus, the deeper forces were already assisting him in his teaching, as they continued to do so for the rest of his life as it unfolded.

At first, Brugh had one conference - The Foundational. This was his basic conference. Over the years it changed. However, the intent was the same - to awaken individuals. He had scheduled one for January 2010. This was to be his 140th Foundational. The conference was approximately 14 days in length. It means that Brugh spent nearly five years of his 34 years of teaching just doing this one conference. He described it as his favorite and richest conference.

By 1978, the conferences had a one-year waitlist. After attending the Foundational Conference, people also had to wait one year before they could do another conference with him. At the time, these conferences were regarded as radical and cutting edge. People were flying in from all over the world. Whatever Brugh offered was always way ahead of its time. He opened many doors for those to follow, as he moved through his life. In the early seventies, he opened a healing energy centre in Los Angeles with Hal Stone. Nowadays, such centers are very common. However, back then, they were exceedingly rare.

After signing up for his conferences, participants were told to put all their outside activities in order before attending. During the conference, there was to be no outside contact with anyone. Moreover, partners were not allowed to attend together. The conferences were described as very intense by some, perhaps reflecting Brugh at the time. When one's ego is faced with threatening inner material coming into awareness that the surface mind finds hard to accept, there is a tendency to regress to an infantile state of Consciousness. Brugh was very hard on individuals who regressed to this state. He would not and could not work with an individual in the child state. Hence, his famous statement of that period, “I eat Children”. Brugh could be very blunt, and this was reflected in the famous T-Shirt printed with the words, “I have been Bru-talized”. This shirt was sold at the conferences until the early nineties.

The conferences started at 4am with a run in the desert, followed by one hour of yoga or step aerobics, and then meditation. There were two sessions of High Intensity Sound a day, followed by participants sharing of what came through. At this time, there was no dream work, which was introduced in later conferences. The High Intensity Sound broke people out of their surface consciousness and allowed deeper aspects of themselves to come forth. The music system Brugh used at Wildflower Lodge cost approximately US$100,000! It wasn't the usual, ordinary system as anyone who has experienced it can verify.

At some point after 1978, he introduced a second conference – Reconnections. Reconnections was followed by the famous Darkside Conference. In the beginning, the Darkside was seven days and was co-hosted with Carolyn Conger. He had a life-long relationship with Carolyn that went through different stages. He always spoke very highly of her. The Darksides were famous for the movies that Brugh showed, which helped people break out of surface awareness and get in touch with the disowned aspects of oneself. Participants in the Darkside learned to look at movies differently and appreciate them at a deeper level.

Most movies have deep collective and personal messages, and Brugh taught one how to see this by what he termed the “Chording of Awareness”. With this awareness, one looks at the surface material while at the same time another aspect of oneself is looking at what is happening at the deeper levels. He taught this perspective not only in watching movies, but also in looking at daily events. The Chording of Awareness is one of the many valuable gifts which he taught to all. Brugh also introduced a lot of material about projections in the Darksides. He often quoted Indian sage Ramana Maharshi’s well-known statements on projections, "What other people?" and "There is no One out there".

In 1979, “Joy’s Way” was published and became a seminal classic in personal growth and spiritual development. It continues to sell. The material in the book is as relevant today as it was back then. It still awakens people who read it for the first time.

Some time in the early 1980's, Brugh moved to Feather Mountain Lodge in Paulden, Arizona, later known as Moonfire Lodge and then Wildflower Lodge. The name was changed from Moonfire to Wildflower as it was to be put up for sale. Brugh thought the name Moonfire was too intense and could put off potential buyers; hence, the more marketable name of Wildflower. This name change could have also reflected Brugh’s deeper internal shifts around this time.

Sky Hi, Wildflower and, the later Lone Pine retreat near Mt Whitney were all in barren, relatively remote desert areas, which Brugh loved for a teaching environment. The physical isolation and contrasts of the desert, plus the emptiness of the land and clearness of the sky all facilitated the deepening process, allowing nature to be the great teacher. He himself spent a lot of time just walking in nature. The subtler energies in the ether were also very neutral, so there was much less disturbance on that level. At the same time, he loved his annual conferences in Hawaii for the richness, lushness, and culture there. The Hawaii conferences always held a special place in his heart and a very different Brugh on many levels was present there. He used to love to swim and was a very good swimmer in his younger days. He always had fond memories of his time there and spoke highly, almost with awe of Hannah Veary, the highly revered Hawaiian Kahuna/Priestess with whom he had a close relationship. In the early 1990’s, he also started a new conference there, “Teachers and Leaders”, which focused on teaching others how to become teachers in whatever field they felt called to. He was already thinking way ahead, inducting others into how he taught, and passing on his gifts. Brugh said his work was basically a bridge, bringing people from their present consciousness and awakening them so they could feel and heed their inner call. For many, their life was never the same after meeting Brugh.

From 2004 to 2008, he cherished the time he spent at Moondance Lodge at Margaret River in Australia due to the very earthy, grounded, almost primordial energy there. There was a vortex outside his room, and he spent a lot of time in deep meditation. He loved visiting the famous wineries in the region and had many of the proverbial “long lunches”. He also spent lots of time walking in nature. He even once went cycling for quite some distance. However, he had difficulty adjusting to being on the wrong side of the road! Often, he would arrive 10 days before the conference there, just to relax and have family dinners with the owners of Moondance and play with their young boys. He appreciated the opportunity while there to live a very simple, ordinary life for a while, letting go of the mask of Teacher.

In the 1980's, Brugh introduced many new conferences, including the Third Eye Conference, which along with the Foundational and Darkside, were his three main conferences. In the eighties and early nineties, some of the other conferences he also offered around this period were Dreams, Healing, and Ancestors. These reflected the deeper richer material coming through Brugh and his expanding Awareness. Brugh taught mainly by induction, that is, throughout the conference individuals would go deeper into themselves, getting in touch with inner resources. Suddenly, issues or insights that were not clear or clouded would become very clear. Brugh would also bring forth material, which many participants heard for the first time. For some, it would just roll off the surface mind, and then suddenly, several days or even years later, what was brought through earlier would immediately become very clear, as if they had known it all their lives. Brugh had been “planting seeds”.

One of the highlights and richest parts of Brugh’s conferences was the closing Ritual, of which Brugh was a true Master. The ritual served on many levels. It brought final closure to the conference, and it also allowed the deeper layers of the psyche to absorb the conference material. Throughout the conference, the rational mind and ego would be grappling with the material. The closing Ritual by-passed the mind and ego. It could be said that at some level, the Ritual brought about the union of masculine (conference material) and feminine (body integration).

People from all walks of life were drawn to Brugh - from the rich who flew in on private jets to the famous to top professionals in many fields such as theology, medicine, law, business, psychology, and education, as well as everyday people, and those who had to save for years just to be able to afford a conference. Many individuals reported that when they heard about Brugh for the first time - even just his name - they felt an inner calling to be with him. This is the Soul calling to be awakened. He made no distinctions or preferences and treated everyone equally. The different backgrounds of participants added to the richness of each conference. People felt safe as he was completely without judgment. After a conference, when asked what the conference was about, many could not find the words to describe it.

In the eighties, he started taking groups on tours to Egypt, Tibet, Machu Picchu, and the Galapagos. He was famous for his strict adherence to time deadlines. During these tours, if participants were late for the group bus at the appointed time, he would depart without them, leaving them stranded. This usually resulted in a big learning process and teaching for them.

In 1980, he also started the annual New Year’s Eve Asilomar Conference in Monterey, California, which always started on December 28 and finished January 1. This event was held for 20 years, the last one being 1999/2000. Brugh was more the conductor here rather than teacher. There were always interesting speakers who were masters in their own fields, and they shared their rich teachings, messages, and gifts with participants. That Brugh was able to draw in such talented people reflects the diverse and rich talents within him. The New Year’s Eve ritual that Brugh inducted was always very meaningful, deep, and for many, the highlight of the conference. He was a true master, inducting large groups of people - sometimes up to five and six hundred people at a time - into the heightened state.

In 1990, he published his second book, Avalanche. This reflected the deep change he had undergone throughout the eighties, especially in meeting and embracing the Shadow. One of the dangers that teachers face when they become successful and attract people to them is their power drive. They think they are the do-er and misappropriate the material coming through them. Brugh was very aware of this danger and still wrestled with the power drive himself. He often talked about it and how grateful he was for close friends, who had what he called the Black Needle - that is, the honesty and words to deflate his ego whenever it became inflated. Brugh was also humble enough to heed their words. This was one of his many great qualities. His humility allowed him to listen and learn from others. One could say he always had a beginner’s mind that allowed deeper and new material to continue to flow through him his entire life.

In reading Avalanche, one is reminded of the inner journey Carl Jung went through seventy to eighty years previously, especially now that his Red Book is available. Much of what Jung brought through parallels much of what Brugh had been teaching. There are universal truths that initially only a few are able to deeply experience and understand, and even fewer can articulate, that can then open doors for those who come later.

Even though Brugh suspected that a lot of material that he was bringing through may have been similar to Jung, he purposely did not start to read Jung's books for quite some time. However, when he did, the books confirmed a lot of what Brugh was experiencing and teaching. He saw a lot of Jungian material in what he was doing. However, he was always careful to distinguish that he was not a follower of Jung or doing Jungian work. The material that came to Brugh had come to him independent of Jung’s work. There are timeless truths relevant to everyone that can come through different individuals at different times.

For example, much earlier, when he was still a practicing doctor, he started to sense energy fields in his patients and started mapping them. Years later, he was reading a book from India on the Chakra energy system and discovered how the Chakra centers were in the same, exact positions of the body as he had discovered on his own.

Jung opened the doors to the Unconscious, which enabled people to understand their inner world and its relationship with the outer world. Some would say that Brugh built on the foundation of material that Jung brought through and made it more readily accessible on an experiential level. He then deepened it and went beyond it.

In Avalanche, Brugh also talked a lot about the multiple selves within each individual. As an example, he talked about some of the different selves within him - Simple Brugh, the Teacher, and the Dream Interpreter, the Ritual Inductor, and the Story Teller. Brugh was a master at bringing through stories to emphasize a point. He could call upon stories from all traditions such as American Indian, Zen, Egyptian, Greek, and Vedic as well as movies, and books. People were constantly amazed at the access he had to all these stories. He also seemed to have a photographic memory and could also remember names of most of the thousands of people he had met and worked with. Brugh always taught from personal experience. In the Darkside conferences, he would always bring through one of his “hidden selves”. They could be in the form of an inner Feminine self or Shadow self such as Gambler. Brugh loved gambling when the Gambler came through.

Brugh stressed the important of embracing all aspects of oneself and not to disown, suppress or simply try to ignore aspects of oneself, especially those parts that are collectively frowned upon or hard to accept personally, which is the opposite of most traditions and teachings. For him, it was never “Either Or”; it was “And Also” - another of his simple powerful statements that led to many individuals seeing their lives completely different.

Brugh said he never taught for money as a primary focus. Some of his conferences like the Hawaii conferences only paid enough for his expenses, and the Men’s conferences lost money. He was incredibly generous at his conferences. Participants to the Foundational conferences were gifted with a large, bound journal for writing and drawing, a set of watercolor marking pens, an I Ching book, a Tarot deck, and a backpack to carry these items. Most people remember the very unique, meaningful, and symbolic gift that he personally gave to each participant at the end of each conference.

Brugh also had a fine eye for beautiful, unique, and symbolic objects. He placed many of them in the conference room at Wildflower Lodge. He also had a unique collection of fifty to a hundred paintings, some of which he personally commissioned. Wildflower Lodge was very comfortable. Brugh put a lot of thought into building and designing it. He wanted participants not to worry about their outer physical and material needs, as this would allow them to focus on their inner world. Participants there have fond memories of lying at night in the heated outdoor pool and Jacuzzi, watching the snow and the stars in the crystal clear sky, while listening to the Coyotes.

However, all this cost money to maintain. By the early nineties, the monthly overheads were very high. Even a simple notice sent to those on his mailing list cost approximately US$7,000. To meet his costs, Brugh had to teach more conferences than usual. Fortunately, they were always full. However, it was taking a toll on him. He placed Wildflower Lodge on the market. Sometimes, he would finish a 13-days conference in the morning and start another 13-days conference in the evening, when asked how he prepared for the new group and material; he said he just took a long drive. Because of its uniqueness, Wildflower took a few years to sell. However, during those few years, there was a property boom and luckily, the property doubled in price. He described Wildflower as a huge burden that was lifted once it was sold. He said he would never establish another retreat centre, although in the early 2,000's, he was given a house, which he started renovating to his high standards. He was planning to turn it into a conference centre, but before it was finished, he suddenly stopped and sold it.

Around 1994, before Wildflower Lodge was sold, he discovered he had pancreatic cancer with a 5% survival rate. The night before the operation he had a dream. In the dream, the surgeon who was to perform the operation and with whom he met for the first time the next day was driving a jeep across an ocean. Brugh immediately understood from his dream that the operation would be successful and it was. Many of Brugh’s major decisions have been prompted by his dreams, and he implicitly trusted the dream messages.

In the eighties, he abruptly stopping teaching for a year, then again in the mid-1990’s, and yet again around 2000, when he spent about three months in complete silence and isolation. He stopped teaching again for nearly a year in 2007. The mid-nineties break was a result of his first encounter with cancer, when felt the call to do deeper work into the body for greater insight and understanding. As a result, he went to Brazil for the Ayahuasca experience, which he recorded and is available on his website.

When he started teaching again after this break, he was noticeably softer and more approachable as a person. His teachings went deeper, as they always seemed to after his break, because new material had come forth. Brugh never gave answers to questions individuals asked, even though he knew exactly what the answer was. He always felt it was better for individuals to discover for themselves; hence, his statement, "Waiting to be discovered". He would lead and guide individuals to the portal, but they had to walk through it themselves. Sometimes, they did, and sometimes not. If they were not ready, at least they had seen the door.

Brugh was not attached to an outcome because he completely trusted the unconscious process. In his early teaching years, he would sometimes lead, drag, or push people. Hence, he had a past reputation as being very direct and sharp. At other times, individuals would tell their story from a victim perspective and to the surface mind; it would be seen as quite tragic. However, with one simple statement from Brugh, "Name five redeeming factors about your situation”; the individual would eventually have a huge breakthrough and internal shift, as they finally began to own what they had disowned or could not see before. Another classic Brugh statement was, “What wounds you, heals you".

The names of the conferences he was introducing were more aimed at deepening within oneself. Names such as "Sacred Space", “Uniting Heaven and Earth", and "Awakening to the Mysteries" reflected this inner shift within him. He was also going more into the body, the union of masculine and feminine, and the connection with the Divine. He stopped offering some of the earlier, popular conferences as less people were being guided to them, especially the ones where there was a focus on learning a particular skill such as Dreams, Healing, and Third Eye.

By the year 2000 and beyond, his focus was shifting more and more into an individual’s deepening process and body consciousness. He said he was not so much interested in inducting new people into the Mysteries and wanted to focus on those he had been with before. He called this "Walking Together" where he saw himself not so much the Teacher, but just one of many, who was a bit further along the path and could offer guidance to others.

Around this time, he increased his weekend study groups, which were very powerful and aided the deepening process of those who attended. They could also be seen as leading to a drop in conference numbers. However, at the same time, Brugh was always evolving and being guided. He was never attached to a particular format. At the close of one of these weekend groups, as usual, Brugh had inducted everyone into a very deep space. He then gave a simple suggestion to everyone: To be conscious of acknowledging people who are in service, such as waiters or clerks, by simply looking them in the eye and saying, “Thank you”. This was a very simple message after the deep conference material he had presented all weekend. However, it was very powerful when practiced in everyday life.

Around the world, there are special Holy Places where seekers and pilgrims visit for spiritual empowerment, uplifting, and purification. In Sanskrit, the word used to describe them is Tirtha. There is a spiritual resonance in these places, a higher vibration, which is the result of highly developed beings spending time there in the past. Their vibration leaves a mark on the area. Hence, individuals are attracted to these places, which can lead to a shift in consciousness. One can say that Brugh was a travelling Tirtha. Whether it was a conference, a weekend workshop, or just a dinner or chance meeting, time spent with him could lead to a shift in consciousness, as if the individual had travelled to a very sacred holy place.

Brugh always spoke longingly and fondly about the Ancient Mystery schools. It was almost as if he missed them and was recalling deep memories from long ago. With his year-long JJ conferences, he brought the Mystery schools to the present day. In the early 1990’s, Brugh conducted several conferences in Europe, once again responding to The Call. He also felt The Call to start teaching in Asia, so from 2002 to 2006, he held nine conferences and gatherings in Hong Kong, Macau, and Thailand. He loved being in Asia with its different collective energies from the West. He had intended to return to Asia once again to teach, in particular, to China.

From 2004 to 2008, he also held eight conferences at Moondance Lodge in Margaret River, Australia. He felt it was important to be present in the southern hemisphere, inducting people into the Heart Centre. Margaret River was far away from his usual places of residence and involved a lot of travelling and inconvenience for him to get there. However, once again he was responding to the inner call. In 2004, he also held one conference in Byron Bay Australia. Interestingly, Byron Bay is on the exact opposite side of the continent from Margaret River, and both places are regarded as important energy centres in Australia.

In 2005, Brugh introduced Holoic Fusion. Usually, the introduction of his new material was ahead of its time. Holoic Fusion was completely new with nothing remotely like it ever introduced by anyone in the past. Not everyone embraced it. However, those that did often said it was the most profound and deep experience. Brugh felt it was the final major teaching that he brought through. He had finally descended into the depths of the body and experienced the body’s deep wisdom, culminating a long journey that began for him in the 1970’s. He would say, "The body is Primary”. Holoic Fusion could be called, "The uniting of Heaven and Earth”, the union of opposites on an experiential level. It was used with the powerful Deity Meditation that he brought through.

In his last three to four years of teaching, when conference participants started to bring forth their “stuff” - as he called it - to be worked on, he would sometimes cut them off and say that he wasn’t interested. He noted that now, there were other teachers offering conferences who would work with that material, but he pointed out that his conferences were the time to deepen. There are hundreds of people who have spent time with Brugh, and who now offer and teach aspects of what he brought through - heart-centred meditation, healing energy work, dreams, ritual work, ancestors work, masculine/feminine forces, relationship, shadow work, the tarot, and much more. Brugh opened a large door for those who were prepared to walk through after him. He also guided them in accessing the inner resources needed to step into the role of Teacher, Inductor, Conductor, and Leader.

In 2007, Brugh stopped teaching because he felt The Call to make a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet. Mount Kailash is revered by Hindu's as the Abode of Shiva, whose energies Brugh frequently spoke of. It is one of the sacred sites that Hindus want to go to once in their lifetime. Tibetan Buddhists also highly revere it as one of their most sacred sites and home to the Gods and highly evolved beings. They also want to visit it once during their lifetime. Thus, the mountain is revered by two major religious and spiritual traditions. While on his pilgrimage, a monk approached him, bowed to him, and called him a "Heart Priest”. The monk had truly “read” him. Once again in Tibet, as in India in the 1970’s, a seer told him to return to the West and continue his teaching.

Most sacred sites and temples are circumambulated clockwise. Even in Brugh’s rituals, walking was done clockwise. However, he chose to circumambulate Mt. Kailash anti-clockwise, the unthinkable to the traditional Buddhist and Hindu pilgrims, who always walk clockwise. Perhaps, he was following his famous saying, "Our society is too containing, too rigid, and we should break one law a day”! However, there could have been a much deeper reason, known only to him.

After he resumed teaching, his material was even deeper and delivered with almost a sense of urgency, reflecting his inner experiences on a deeper level. This culminated in his extraordinary final teachings that he posted on his website in “Updates 1 to 12” from August to November, 2009. These reflect a depth of inner experience that very few ever experience and even less can articulate. Many will be grappling with this material for years to come. To truly understand its depth, it must come from an experiential level rather than intellectual insight. However, Brugh has left the Map.

In his last year, Brugh embraced the use of the internet as a means to reach out to large numbers of people. Past participants have said that just by hearing his voice, they are inducted into the same place that they experienced when they were present with him in a conference. The body remembers.

Brugh often spoke out against organizations such as corporations because he felt that their rigidity sometime stifled or froze the development of individuals. At the same time, he honored those individuals who were following this path. He also welcomed the container that organized religious and spiritual teachings offered to individuals at certain stages of their journey. In fact, after attending his conferences, many individuals would start to follow a spiritual discipline or return with new awareness to their original religion without following blindly. He welcomed this because it aided them in their unfoldment.

Jung said, “The more you know yourself, the more you can see another for who they really are”. In the movie Avatar, Neytiri says something similar to Jake Sully when they meet for the first time. She says, "I see you.” She has to say it several times before he starts to understand what she really means. Brugh knew himself as well as any one individual could, and he truly saw individuals at their core being. One person, on meeting him, said, “I feel I have been truly seen and appreciated for who I am by someone for the first time in my life.” This experience brought forth tears of gratitude from the individual. Many people felt like this around Brugh.

In spite of his constant traveling, non-stop workshops, weekend study groups, and his own private time, he always found the time to answer the numerous personal correspondence he received. Before the internet, his responses were hand-written or typed. He must have been so grateful for the internet, as it made life so much easier. He is well-known for his always profound one-line replies that expressed everything that was needed so succinctly. His Divine Mind gifted him with intellectual prowess coupled with the power of articulation.

The one constant throughout Brugh's 34 years of teaching was daily Heart-Centred meditation. This was the one teaching that he asked everyone to do and advised accordingly, as all balanced, transformational resources are at the Heart Centre. All other teachings he brought through he saw more as offerings, and people could accept them or not. He was not attached that people should accept them. However, he always stressed the importance of a Heart-Centred Awareness. Through his devotion to the Heart Centre, he was an embodiment of its four attributes - Compassion, Innate Harmony, the Healing Presence, and Unconditional Love. Individuals in his presence could feel his tremendous Compassion for all people, especially those who were outcasts - as he termed them - those who were forced to live out the disowned material of the collective. He had no judgment and truly honored all.

He always focused on the Union of Opposites, although after his conferences, some participants reported more chaos in their life due to the container of their life being enlarged in the conference experience. However, the chaos was the teacher and through the Heart Centre, a state of Inner Harmony could be experienced. Brugh radiated Innate Harmony. Those in his presence felt nourished and renewed, such was his Healing Presence. He was in love with all of life at every moment and one could feel the Unconditional Love emanating from him. His life was spent in Selfless Service to others.

To recall the quote from his teacher Eunice, "If you want to know the Mysteries of the Universe, first learn about yourself.” Brugh really took this to heart and learned about himself as well and as deeply as anyone could. As a result, he could access profound levels of most mysteries. His aspects of the Masculine Mind enabled him to deliver teachings with deep clarity, insight, and understanding. At the same time, his aspects of the Feminine, with its relatedness and inductive forces, opened the way for people to approach the Gateless Gates. His devotion to the Divine made Brugh a true Master.

Brugh taught up to the last week before he passed over. He replied to his numerous emails and conducted his last public gathering in the middle of December 2009. Several years ago, it was revealed to him on the inner level that his next birth would be into a poor Chinese family in a village in Western China. He often joked about going there and stashing some gold, so that he could use it in his next life. After his pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash, he tried looking for that village, when he made a trip to that part of China in October 2008. In visions, he had seen his village, which was in a valley between mountains.

For many years, Brugh spoke about his third book that people were looking forward to. About six years ago, he had a group of six people go through his past conference tapes to select teaching pieces he had delivered that could be used in the book. However, upon reviewing the material, he could not tell which ones were pieces he may have read of others teachings or texts and what was his own, so he stopped, such was his integrity.

Several days after his passing, someone posted a dream on his website. In the dream, the dreamer asks Brugh, “What about the final chapter?” He replied, “You are the final chapter. Everyone is.” The dreamer had the vision of vibrant energy flowing through Brugh and then going out and lighting thousands of people.

In 1973, Eunice told Brugh she had come to awaken certain individuals and now that she had now accomplished this, it was time to leave. Brugh has repeated this cycle in awakening tens, hundreds, or even thousands. Only time will tell how many. Years earlier, Eunice had told him that she would be present when he passed over, and to where, we do not know. However, many of those who were taught by him still feel his presence.

There is a saying, “This life is a gift from the Divine, what we do with that life is our gift back to the Divine.” Brugh led an extraordinary life and was gifted with so much. He passed those gifts on and much more.

The author trusts that this offering gives a small glimpse of the greatness of Brugh and what he bestowed on all who were called to be present. This writer also understands there was much more to Brugh’s life than can be expressed here. If any individual feels they can enlarge and enrich this account, please contact me.

Namaste

Grant Robinson

Hong Kong, January 20, 2010

Email: grantrama@hotmail.com

© Grant Robinson 2010

  

Home