About Me
Who is Gregory Allen Butler?
Some Background
As is the case with most of us, I’m a work in progress. I'm a graduate from the University of Cincinnati. At one point my claim to fame was that I possibly knew more newspaper editors on a first name basis than anyone in the United States. But that was 20 years ago.
I’m a husband and a father, striving for higher levels of spiritual consciousness. I’m trying to live more and more in the present moment, with poise, patience, understanding, compassion, love, and a sense of humor. I’m a recovering college basketball addict, and a recovering political junkie. I used to be an editor for a local union newsletter and website in Washington, DC. Also in Washington, with my therapist wife, I was the co-leader of a therapy group focussing on consciousnenss in relationships. I’ve also had careers in music, photography, journalism, sales, website design, and poker. I have also travelled throughout the world, with an affinity for Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and India. I now work full-time on this blog from my home in South Carolina.
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I believe Personal Development success, especially what I call holistic personal development, has one prerequisite: an inner connection to the source of being. That is the awakening of conscious awareness. When that is made, personal development becomes a process of effortless mastery. Any other type of personal development becomes an uphill battle against an unconscious mind too firmly entrenched in its conditioned limited thinking. Instead of self-help, the end-result is self-sabotage. Vision and purpose come from the inner connection to being, without which, we wander aimlessly. I know both experiences first hand.
Thirty years ago my career as a professional saxophone player came to a sudden halt with a serious illness. After several weeks in a hospital with unbearable pain and with no ability to eat, my body was reduced to a skeleton. One night during that illness I was convinced I wouldn’t live to see the sun rise the next morning. I fell asleep and a few hours later I was stirred awake by the chirping of birds just as the sun rose. The music of the birds' singing was so new, so wonderful that it made the whole world seem pristine.
Not only was I alive on that brand new day, I was enthralled. Never before did trees and flowers look so beautiful. Never before was I so grateful to be a human being. I radiated bliss. My inner world for the first time became a tangible reality. And I knew without any doubt what I wanted to do with my life--develop my writing and music so I could share the depth of this experience, and at the same time, explore the inner wonders of consciousness.
I had no physical strength. I could barely walk, but I had energy, inspiration, and creativity in measureless abundance. I was in love with life. It was no time for excuses. It was time for living. I began my self-created path of holistic personal development.
Wholeness and Inner Experience
Wholeness and inner experience became my meditation. Joseph Campbell’s words, “follow your bliss,” became the code I lived by. I have followed it now for over 30 years and the journey has led me around the world many times, meeting remarkable people I will never forget, many of whom have passed away.
Following my bliss in the intervening years has taught me that the spiritual dimension and consciousness shapes our outer lives. We cannot make successful outer plans without aligning them with our inner worlds. A fragmented mind leads to a fragmented life. We cannot undo our limited past conditioning without being grounded in our state of being. Only then can personal development revolutionize life. That's the principle that this site is dedicated to.
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