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Healing Essays

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May 21, 2026
The Thucydidean Patient
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
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May 12, 2026
The Six Remembrances and the Clinical Encounter
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026
The Peril of Visibility
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
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April 14, 2026
Justice, Decency, and the Humiliated Patient
April 14, 2026
April 14, 2026
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February 16, 2026
Meeting Calamity with Serenity
February 16, 2026
February 16, 2026
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January 13, 2026
Shattered Vessels in the House of Healing
January 13, 2026
January 13, 2026
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December 22, 2025
Neurochemistry or Sacred Transformation? A Critical Review of Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation
December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
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December 22, 2025
The Blessing of Dementia
December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
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December 22, 2025
Presence, Witness, and Meaning
December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
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December 19, 2025
Addiction, Theodicy, and the Theology of Sacred Brokenness
December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025
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December 14, 2025
Fraternal Rupture and Somatic Pathology
December 14, 2025
December 14, 2025
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December 12, 2025
The Dissolving Self in the Therapeutic Encounter
December 12, 2025
December 12, 2025
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December 12, 2025
The Self-Serving Loop
December 12, 2025
December 12, 2025
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December 12, 2025
The Sacred Epistemology of Not-Knowing
December 12, 2025
December 12, 2025
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December 8, 2025
The Engineered Crisis
December 8, 2025
December 8, 2025
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December 7, 2025
Memory: From Ancient Art to Synaptic Science
December 7, 2025
December 7, 2025
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December 7, 2025
The Blessing of Memory Loss: Toward a Sacred Phenomenology of Forgetting
December 7, 2025
December 7, 2025
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December 4, 2025
Poverty, Precarity, and the Fracturing of Care
December 4, 2025
December 4, 2025
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December 1, 2025
Powerlessness as Ontological Revelation
December 1, 2025
December 1, 2025
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November 29, 2025
Illness as the Demonic II
November 29, 2025
November 29, 2025
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November 27, 2025
The Function of the Demonic in Illness and Dying
November 27, 2025
November 27, 2025
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November 27, 2025
The Sacred Temporality of Healing
November 27, 2025
November 27, 2025
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October 30, 2025
Do Patients Have Free Will?
October 30, 2025
October 30, 2025
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October 30, 2025
Semen Through Fingernails
October 30, 2025
October 30, 2025
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October 26, 2025
Relational Medicine, Physician Grief, and the Sacred Therapeutic Space
October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025
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October 26, 2025
Media Manipulation and Unconscious Healthcare Decisions
October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025
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October 20, 2025
The Epistemology of Clinical Judgment
October 20, 2025
October 20, 2025
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October 20, 2025
Healthcare Reform and Physician Retention
October 20, 2025
October 20, 2025
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October 17, 2025
Deconstructing Medical Guilt
October 17, 2025
October 17, 2025
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October 17, 2025
The Shared Abyss: Trauma, Responsibility, and the Space Between
October 17, 2025
October 17, 2025
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August 20, 2025
Embodied Theology for End-of-Life Care
August 20, 2025
August 20, 2025
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August 20, 2025
Moral Ambiguity in the Therapeutic Space
August 20, 2025
August 20, 2025
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August 19, 2025
From Medical Shame to Sacred Healing
August 19, 2025
August 19, 2025
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August 18, 2025
Time Horizons and the Evolving Therapeutic Space
August 18, 2025
August 18, 2025
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August 14, 2025
The Shekhinah, Maternal Instincts, and Transcendence
August 14, 2025
August 14, 2025
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August 11, 2025
Sacred Utterances
August 11, 2025
August 11, 2025
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August 6, 2025
The Wizard Behind The Curtain
August 6, 2025
August 6, 2025
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August 6, 2025
Beyond Chemical Reductionism
August 6, 2025
August 6, 2025
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August 3, 2025
Archetypal and Embodied Approaches to Medical Practice
August 3, 2025
August 3, 2025
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July 24, 2025
The Faustian Physician
July 24, 2025
July 24, 2025
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July 23, 2025
The Science of Interoception and Unconscious Bias in Healthcare
July 23, 2025
July 23, 2025
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July 21, 2025
The Architecture of Medical Horror
July 21, 2025
July 21, 2025
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July 16, 2025
Music As Sacred Medicine In The Maternal-Space
July 16, 2025
July 16, 2025
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July 14, 2025
Death Anxiety in Physicians and Patients
July 14, 2025
July 14, 2025
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July 8, 2025
The Alchemical Scholar: Transforming Poison into Medicine Through Sacred Wisdom
July 8, 2025
July 8, 2025
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July 3, 2025
Reclaiming the Sacred in Medicine
July 3, 2025
July 3, 2025
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July 1, 2025
Evidence-Based Addiction Treatment Comparison
July 1, 2025
July 1, 2025
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June 30, 2025
The Sacred Dialectic of Powerlessness
June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025
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June 27, 2025
The Sacred Paradox of Healing
June 27, 2025
June 27, 2025
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June 27, 2025
"You're the Only Doctor Who Actually Listens to Me"
June 27, 2025
June 27, 2025
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June 27, 2025
Toward a Sacred Economy of Care
June 27, 2025
June 27, 2025
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June 24, 2025
Divine Predestination and Human Culpability
June 24, 2025
June 24, 2025
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June 20, 2025
Suffering in the Therapeutic Space
June 20, 2025
June 20, 2025
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June 16, 2025
Eastern Religious Symbols in Therapeutic Practice
June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025
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June 16, 2025
Spiritual Pathways to Healing
June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025
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June 13, 2025
Heretical Ethics: Reimagining Medical Morality Beyond Technocratic Norms
June 13, 2025
June 13, 2025
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June 13, 2025
Tragic Consciousness and Therapeutic Presence
June 13, 2025
June 13, 2025
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June 10, 2025
The Importance and Efficacy of Music in the Therapeutic Encounter
June 10, 2025
June 10, 2025
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June 10, 2025
Transforming Healthcare Hierarchical Systems
June 10, 2025
June 10, 2025
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June 9, 2025
Insubstantial Language and the Space Between Healer and Patient
June 9, 2025
June 9, 2025
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June 4, 2025
The Art of Sacred Listening
June 4, 2025
June 4, 2025
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June 4, 2025
Primordial Silence and Therapeutic Presence
June 4, 2025
June 4, 2025
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June 1, 2025
Navigating The Boundaries: The Challenge of Pseudoscience
June 1, 2025
June 1, 2025
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May 30, 2025
Revisioning Healthcare Spaces
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
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May 30, 2025
From Medical Orthodoxy To Dialogical Practice
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
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May 29, 2025
The Parabolic Encounter III
May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025
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May 28, 2025
The Dark Side of Medicine
May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025
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May 27, 2025
Beyond Race: Toward and Ethically Integrated Model of Healthcare Justice
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025
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May 27, 2025
From Sacred to Secular Heresy
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025
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May 27, 2025
Patient Parables
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025
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May 23, 2025
Beyond The Iron Cage
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
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May 23, 2025
The Integrative PTSD Healing Center
May 23, 2025
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May 21, 2025
The Situational Physician
May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025
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May 20, 2025
Beyond Surrender: Reimagining Physician Recovery
May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025
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May 20, 2025
The Divine Paradox in Clinical Practice
May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025
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May 19, 2025
Healing As Justice
May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
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May 19, 2025
The Patient as Parable
May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
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May 15, 2025
Beyond Reductionism or Wishful Thinking
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025
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May 14, 2025
Revelation in Concealment
May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025
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May 12, 2025
Motivating Healthcare Workers in Non-Hierarchical Spaces
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
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May 5, 2025
The Overlooked Dimension
May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025
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May 2, 2025
Bridging Neural Circuits and Sacred Spaces
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
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April 30, 2025
From Ancient Scripture to Modern Healing
April 30, 2025
April 30, 2025
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April 28, 2025
Bridging the Divide
April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025
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April 27, 2025
Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025
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April 27, 2025
Sacred Spaces, Clinical Encounters
April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025
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April 24, 2025
Presence Within and Beyond Words
April 24, 2025
April 24, 2025
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April 24, 2025
Reimagining Healthcare Through Actor-Network Theory
April 24, 2025
April 24, 2025
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April 23, 2025
Patient Autonomy and Co-Creation
April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025
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April 23, 2025
Prolonged Grief Disorder
April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025
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February 25, 2025
The Influence of AI in Medical Ethics and Warfare
February 25, 2025
February 25, 2025
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January 2, 2025
My Own Spiritual Crisis II
January 2, 2025
January 2, 2025
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December 16, 2024
My Own Spiritual Crisis
December 16, 2024
December 16, 2024
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December 8, 2024
Crisis of Soul II
December 8, 2024
December 8, 2024
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November 29, 2024
The Doctor's Soul in Crisis
November 29, 2024
November 29, 2024
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November 19, 2024
Suffering and the Soul
November 19, 2024
November 19, 2024
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October 28, 2024
The Cartesian Split Lives On
October 28, 2024
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October 24, 2024
The Cartesian Split
October 24, 2024
October 24, 2024
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October 22, 2024
Between Illness and Health: What Happened to Convalescence?
October 22, 2024
October 22, 2024
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October 2, 2024
The Patient History
October 2, 2024
October 2, 2024
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September 24, 2024
The Use of Placebo Effect in Chronic Pain
September 24, 2024
September 24, 2024
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September 19, 2024
Coercion From All Sides
September 19, 2024
September 19, 2024
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September 13, 2024
Capitalism and Health Care
September 13, 2024
September 13, 2024
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September 12, 2024
Effective Listening
September 12, 2024
September 12, 2024
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August 14, 2024
Medical Education following COVID, Challenges and Threats
August 14, 2024
August 14, 2024
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August 8, 2024
Music Harmony and Healing
August 8, 2024
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August 1, 2024
Remodeling the Space of Healing
August 1, 2024
August 1, 2024
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July 21, 2024
Revisioning the Soul of Medical Practice
July 21, 2024
July 21, 2024
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July 21, 2024
Health Care Delivery
July 21, 2024
July 21, 2024
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July 21, 2024
Intuition and Imagination in Clinical Decision-Making Process
July 21, 2024
July 21, 2024
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July 21, 2024
A New Model For Integrative Diagnosis and Management of PTSD
July 21, 2024
July 21, 2024
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July 21, 2024
A New Model For Healing
July 21, 2024
July 21, 2024
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September 18, 2023
The Neurobiology of Addiction
September 18, 2023
September 18, 2023
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January 30, 2018
The Spirituality of Chronic Pain
January 30, 2018
January 30, 2018
May 3, 2017
Commencement Address: Harrison College for Health Sciences
May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017
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August 8, 2016
Obituary For Mr. Ernest Farkas of Chicago
August 8, 2016
August 8, 2016
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July 11, 2016
Graduation From Officer Training
July 11, 2016
July 11, 2016
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May 18, 2016
Migraine
May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016
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February 18, 2016
Ethics Of Command In Morally Dubious Situations
February 18, 2016
February 18, 2016
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August 3, 2015
Speech for Alon Ribak's Auf Ruf
August 3, 2015
August 3, 2015
Essays on Healing
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July 31, 2014
The Water Castle: A Study In Obsession
July 31, 2014
July 31, 2014
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February 24, 2014
Re-Imagining Illness
February 24, 2014
February 24, 2014
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January 29, 2014
The Divine Feminine III
January 29, 2014
January 29, 2014
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January 13, 2014
The Divine Feminine II
January 13, 2014
January 13, 2014
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November 28, 2011
The Divine Feminine
November 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
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June 27, 2011
Rumi and Midrash-Physician as Healer or Destroyer
June 27, 2011
June 27, 2011
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April 11, 2010
Chronic Pain and Spirituality
April 11, 2010
April 11, 2010
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April 4, 2010
Choreographer Pina Bausch and Incarnation
April 4, 2010
April 4, 2010
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October 26, 2008
Binocular Vision and Seeing God
October 26, 2008
October 26, 2008
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October 19, 2008
Sanity, Pain, and Language
October 19, 2008
October 19, 2008
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October 12, 2008
Road Maps to Spirituality
October 12, 2008
October 12, 2008
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October 7, 2007
This Bloody Pain
October 7, 2007
October 7, 2007
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October 7, 2007
The Spirituality of Pain and Suffering
October 7, 2007
October 7, 2007
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September 2, 2007
Whispering to Fetuses
September 2, 2007
September 2, 2007
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August 26, 2007
Listening to the Whispers
August 26, 2007
August 26, 2007
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August 5, 2007
Graduation From The School of Near-Death Experiences
August 5, 2007
August 5, 2007
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July 29, 2007
Acceptance
July 29, 2007
July 29, 2007
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July 15, 2007
Reflections on my Accident and Post Rupture
July 15, 2007
July 15, 2007
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March 29, 2007
Measuring The Quality of Pain
March 29, 2007
March 29, 2007
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March 25, 2007
Understanding Your Pain
March 25, 2007
March 25, 2007
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March 12, 2007
The Metaphor of the Genome
March 12, 2007
March 12, 2007
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March 4, 2007
You Have Been Chosen
March 4, 2007
March 4, 2007
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February 12, 2007
Healing The Split
February 12, 2007
February 12, 2007
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February 5, 2007
Letter: The Mystical Side of Judaism
February 5, 2007
February 5, 2007
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September 26, 2006
Pilgrimage to Uman
September 26, 2006
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Julian Ungar-Sargon

This is Julian Ungar-Sargon's personal website. It contains poems, essays, and podcasts for the spiritual seeker and interdisciplinary aficionado.​