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What if "intuition" is just a language we've forgotten?
Re-examining intuition—and addiction
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I almost became an AI sex slave
My brief deep dive into AI porn addiction
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Coming to The Intuitive Mirror
A new way of looking at the relationship between addiction and intuition
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Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
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Five Years Sober*
The reciprocal triangle of anger, addiction and depression—and anger as creative energy.
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Re-examining addiction—and intuition
What if the all-but-universal struggle with addictive behavior stems from a deeper crisis—one that we can actually fix?
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E17 / Addiction and Obsession with Charlie Engle
Listen now (75 mins) | Running, long distance, integration, getting bored, body management, the natural elasticity of our conscious experience…
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Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
As well as anxiety, fitness, sobriety, self-discipline, purpose, love, adventure, pain yoga, intuition, the collective unconscious, psychedelics…
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Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
E08 / Sex is Better Sober with Kenyon Phillips
Listen now (48 mins) | Human animals, addiction, marriage, surprise fatherhood, manhood, masculinity, money, the illusion of security, and getting our…
Against Recovery
Recovery still carries a lot of cultural weight, but to me it's a ghost river, pouring dust.
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E18 / Unhooked and Connected with Dr. Adi Jaffe
Listen now (56 mins) | Getting to the underlying causes of addictive behavior, the abstinence myth—and the myth of normal, gaining perspective on…
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