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The hidden gifts of addiction; Illness as a dharma door
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Wise Brain Bulletin

Wise Brain Bulletin • Volume 15.4

Hello friend,

In the latest edition of the Wise Brain Bulletin, we share stories of adversity, resolve, sorrow, and healing across a wide spectrum of the human experience.

To view a PDF version of this issue, just go to the Wise Brain Bulletin archive and navigate to Volume 15.4 under the heading 2021 Bulletins.

Michelle Keane
Editor

 
 
by Victor Bucklew, PhD
If we choose to become intimate with the energy of addiction on a fundamental level, what might we discover in the process? A heart-centered contemplation of this question.
 
by Tom Bowlin
A selection of short poems exploring what it means to be human.
 
 
by Susan M. Pollak, MTS, EdD
Making peace with the “heavenly messengers” of illness, old age, and death.
 
 
by Radhule Weininger, PhD
Finding a deeper common ground as a society and a species.
 
 
from the Skillfull Means "wiki"
We are hard-wired to find charity pleasurable in addition to our more selfish needs, not in spite of them.
 
 
The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom is a 501c3 non-profit corporation, and it publishes the Wise Brain Bulletin. The Institute gathers, organizes, and freely offers information and methods— supported by brain science and the contemplative disciplines—for greater happiness, love, effectiveness, and wisdom.