Dan Bruiger

Dan Bruiger is an independent scholar and author of several books and numerous articles, with a long-standing interest in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science.

Born 1945, he grew up in southern California and attended the University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley, immigrating to Canada in 1969. Passion for astronomy began at age 8. Around the same time, he joined a square dance club. In high school, a key intuition concerning the Mind-Body Problem formed the core of later work. During a trip to Europe, halfway through university, he discovered art and considered sculpture as a career. Dan was self-employed for several years as a cabinet and furniture maker in Vancouver, BC. He also pursued studies with masters in the Sufi, Gurdjieff, and Advaita traditions, trained in Gestalt therapy and relationship counselling, and learned Argentine tango.