Steve Beckow resides in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He attended the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, graduating with a Masters degree in Canadian History.
Steve received Canada Council Grants and exchange scholarships. He is a member of Mensa Canada.
He studied in three Ph.D. programs but found he could not remain within disciplinary boundaries or paradigms. One dissertation was rejected as being outside the field of history. Another proposal was rejected as being outside the university’s paradigm of empirical materialism.
Steve’s studies since then have been primarily in the area of cross-cultural spirituality, particularly on enlightenment as the purpose of life, the conditions of life after death, and the 2012 scenario.
He began his career as a Cultural Historian for the National Museum of Man (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization) where he published articles on cultural history, popular culture, and artifact studies.
He studied again as a sociologist but his work was interrupted by a spiritual vision which he was not permitted to integrate into his studies (described here).
He finished his working life as a Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, his chosen field being gender issues.
While at the IRB, he was obliged to publish under the pseudonym “Brother Anonymous.” However, after retirement, it became pressing to write under his own name if articles on the engineering of 9/11, the scapegoating of American Muslims, and the dangers of depleted-uranium weapons were to be seriously considered.
Steve has written around 20 books and 200 articles, mostly pseudonymously. Their subjects include enlightenment, the purpose of life, global gender persecution, anti-Orientalism, automation, life on the spirit planes, the 2012 scenario, and the common ground of spirituality. His books and articles are freely available on the Web.
His spiritual disciplines have included British spiritualism, encounter groups, the est Training, rebirthing, Zen, Vipassana meditation, and Enlightenment Intensives.
In 1977, Steve had an out-of-body experience which dissipated the fear of death. In 1987, he saw the vision, referred to above, while driving his car, which demonstrated to him that the purpose of life was enlightenment.
It took nearly 20 years to fully express in words what he saw in eight wordless seconds that day.
He has enjoyed several transformational or direct experiences of Self, none of which he considers “enlightenment.”
Today, Steve lives a life of voluntary simplicity and research as a non-denominational “urban monk.”