Ego types include survival, daring, caring, self-controlling, possessive, grandiose, wounded, victim and spiritual.

Mindfulness and flow are different states of consciousness, but they both diminish the ego, decreasing craving and suffering.

The craving that causes suffering is not due to seeking pleasure, but by the demands of the ego.

Blaming, wishing and hoping take us out of flow by diverting our attention to what the external world can do for us

Realizing that the unconscious is part of ourselves increases our creativity, intuition, flow and inner peace.

The feminist description of toxic masculinity includes qualities of healthy masculinity

Identity Politics is undermining the Left by denying social progress and espousing divisive ideas.

Philosophy criticizes science while it has been unsuccessful in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics.

How emotional abuse creeps into relationships.

Animal rights do not belong in the progressive agenda because they conflict with environmentalism, science, humanism and social movements.

Information as the basic nature of reality avoids the pitfalls of materialism, idealism and dualism.

The Way of the Warrior philosophy of life summarized in seven points that help me find meaning in my life.

I struggle to break up with Catholicism while attending an elite school ran by Opus Day in Madrid.

I grew up in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela being indoctrinated by the Catholic organization Opus Dei.

Personal power is to have the mental fortitude to live with meaning and happiness.

When an old fisherman tried to sexually abuse me in his boat, I escaped swimming. Years later, I visited him on his deathbed.

Unique characteristics of the human brain let us experience suffering as extending to the past and the future, and to others.

Ten strategies of dishonesty and abuse in the internet, used to attack, discredit and silence.

The idea that we deserve the best, as well as craving happiness and virtue, are traps of the ego.

A writer’s Way of the Warrior has intellectual honesty, self-reliance, humility, courage, restrain and personal power.