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What if "intuition" is just a language we've forgotten?
Re-examining intuition—and addiction
 • Bowen Dwelle
Coming to The Intuitive Mirror
A new way of looking at the relationship between addiction and intuition
 • Bowen Dwelle
Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
 • Bowen Dwelle
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?
 • Bowen Dwelle
Five Years Sober*
The reciprocal triangle of anger, addiction and depression—and anger as creative energy.
 • Bowen Dwelle
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…
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…
 • Bowen Dwelle
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.
 • Bowen Dwelle
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…
What my dog taught me about being an addict
...and, how the extraordinary offers an alternative
 • Bowen Dwelle
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