An Ordinary Disaster

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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…
Mar 25, 2023 • 
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Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
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How Well Is Your Wheel Rolling?
Using the Wheel of Life to identify the areas that need the most attention
Aug 30, 2023
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How Well Is Your Wheel Rolling?
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Less Warrior, More Clown
Resistance, slaying dragons, eating shame, the false Grail, bus work, and Jackass S03E01
Aug 31, 2022 • 
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Less Warrior, More Clown
I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
Jun 10, 2023 • 
Andy Johns
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Bowen Dwelle
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
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Let's open it up
Memoir only for the moment, done with previews, new interview format, and memoir on Substack
May 22, 2023
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"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
May 20, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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Lyle McKeany
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"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
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Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
Sep 18, 2022 • 
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Doing my best to get my nose in it
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Thinking of AI as an intuition machine
Why there's a "6" on my palm, the meaning of "Decide Nothing," cave art, AI-assisted inner work, DALL-E, Jaron Lanier's "data dignity," Captain Rob, and…
Oct 18, 2022 • 
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What I've Learned from Ten Brothers and Teachers
Adam Gayner, Roddy McDowell, Lucas Krump, T Callahan, Bob Conlin, Anthony David Adams, Robert Ellis, Kenyon Phillips, Noah Rainey, and James Brown on…
Nov 17, 2022 • 
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I'm Here To Tell The Truth
An Ordinary Disaster: My entire book-length memoir, serialized as a work in progress right here on Substack
Oct 11, 2023 • 
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Life As A Goat
That thing up there, on top of your body—it's is not for thinking.
Sep 27, 2023 • 
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