David Kopacz, MD

Got the chance to talk with David and Chris from Becoming a True Human podcast—we had an amazing discussion about mindfulness, connection, and democracy. If you don’t follow these wonderful people look them up! @drkopacz.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social

Thanks Jeremy!
We really enjoyed talking with you, very inspiring!
Your work provides a shift from all the negative happening now to the positive that we can do.
Let's all make a Declaration of Interdependence!
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#LetsDoSomethingPositive

Happy St David's Day
From a (part) Welsh
David

"there is no way to democracy, democracy is the way,” (103)
"true democracy - “working together to care for each other and the life we share” (4)
Engels - On Mindful Democracy

#MindfulDemocracy #interbeing #TheBelovedCommunity

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Becoming a True Human podcast 16:
On Mindful Democracy
Jeremy David Engels on his book, enemyship, interbeing & the beloved community
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YouTube: shorturl.at/ax0mA
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social

Jeremy's website: jeremydavidengels.com

M Andrus
Brothers in the Beloved Community: Thich Nhat Hanh & MLK Jr

DR Kopacz
Caring for Self & Others: Transforming Burnout, Compassion Fatigue & Soul Loss (ch 10 Becoming Caring: Caring for All)
Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality (ch 14 Spiritual Democracy)

Readings:
Engels
Living Namaste: A Practical Guide to Mindfulness, Yoga & Building Community

GA Parry
Original Politics: Making American Sacred Again

S Herrmann
Spiritual Democracy
Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy & the World Soul

cont...

Hope

Snow melts from a tree branch
Someday soon it will be a cloud
And rain will fall on new leaves

There is spring in winter
And winter in spring
Take heart

p 155

Recommended Readings
Jeremy D Engels
The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman & the Bhagavad Gita

cont...

"there is no way to democracy, democracy is the way,” (103)
"true democracy - “working together to care for each other and the life we share” (4)
Engels - On Mindful Democracy

#MindfulDemocracy #interbeing #TheBelovedCommunity

YouTube video by Becoming a True Human Episode 16: On Mindful Democracy video

Becoming a True Human podcast 16:
On Mindful Democracy
Jeremy David Engels on his book, enemyship, interbeing & the beloved community
Spotify: shorturl.at/4jH12
YouTube: shorturl.at/ax0mA
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social

“In theory, an Upanishad could even be composed in the present day: a spiritual Upanishad that would draw its life from the One source of religions and humanism and apply to the modern world,” (Juan Mascaró, Introduction to the Penguin Classics, The Upanishads, 8)

The Inner Light (song) - Wikipedia

Mascaró had correspondence with another George, George Harrison and this resulted in the Beatles song, “The Inner Light.”
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InnerViews The Blessing of Stillness & Silence: Interview with George Kirazian about his literary friendship with Juan Mascaró (2015)

InnerViews
Interview w George Kirazian & his literary friendship w Juan Mascaró (2015)
“George, the power and the beauty…the beauty and the blessing of stillness and silence,” (Juan to George 1972)
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social
#JuanMascaró #GeorgeKirazian
shorturl.at/L0HFu

"the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility"
Václav Havel
The Art of the Impossible
P. 18
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social
#HumanHeart #Salvation
#Havel #ArtOfImpossible

"every instance of human suffering concerns every other human being"
Václav Havel
The Art of the Impossible
P. 6
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social

“we are the microcosm of the macrocosm”
Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)

@soulinmedicine.bsky.social

InnerViews Interview with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) (2020)

InnerViews
Interview w Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) (2020)
“We don’t realize there are two wheels in life: one we are on and below us is the wheel of our ancestors. When you walk it...these two wheels will merge”
#JosephRael #MedicineWheel
@chris6572.bsky.social
shorturl.at/tC65t

Working in healthcare brought and solidified my respect for all people and lives. Primum non nocere.

The most important aspect of health care...is the...personal relationship between doctor and patient. People are... integral beings in whom every part is intimately interrelated, and in whom everything is mysteriously connected to spirit
Havel
Summer Meditations 119-120
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social

On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World [Engels, Jeremy David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World

My new book is finally out: On Mindful Democracy! It’s published by Thich Nhat Hanh’s Parallax Press.

“A profoundly wise and timely offering…a balm for weary spirits and a guiding light for those longing to heal our fractured world—from the inside out.” -Tara Brach

#mindfulness
#democracy

“The land, the people...want to return to Unitive Conscious is what I am seeing...the idea of Spirit enfolding itself into matter and then reemerging in the inverse order in which it originally unfolded, means that everybody’s spiritual quest feels like a returning home to where they came from.”

InnerViews Making America Sacred Again: Interview with Glenn Aparicio Parry (2020)

InnerViews
Interview w Glen Aparicio Parry (2020) on his book Original Politics: Making American Sacred Again
@chris6572.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social
#MakingAmericaSacredAgain #OriginalPolitics #LanguageOfSpirituality #UnitiveConsciousness
shorturl.at/G6JmZ

‘Scrubs’ revival brings back the old goofy gang, but now they're, gulp, in charge The “Scrubs” revival brings back Dr. John Dorian and Dr. Christopher Turk, picking up 17 years after the original series ended.

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We'll post your interview soon - beginning of March!
Our interview with you really got me fired up thinking about Inner Democracy and The Varieties of Democractic Experience...

“I think as human beings, we need both a progressive path that helps us anchor and feel step-by-step how are we progressing, but at the same time we need direct teachings that keep pointing us to an ultimate truth.”
R Miller
@chris6572.bsky.social @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social
#iRest #YogaNidra

InnerViews Interview with Richard C. Miller, PhD (08/19/22) - Part I

InnerViews
Archive Interview: Richard Miller (2022) Pt I
"Yoga...both our sense of connection with ourselves and the world around us―that we’re not separate. We’re an integral interdependent aspect of everything that we see and touch and feel in the world around us"
shorturl.at/vVXd9 #iRest #yoga

"Enlightenment isn’t a one and only moment, I would say it’s an opening of a whole new way of being in the world that offers continual insights into the way the universe works."
Richard Miller PhD
#iRest #IntegrativeRestoration #YogaNidra #RichardMillerPhD #Enlightenment @chris65.bsky.social

InnerViews Interview with Richard C. Miller, PhD (08/19/22), Part II

InnerViews
Archive interview: Richard Miller (2022)
“There’s a moment where we may have an insight...It’s a felt, somatic insight...where we recognize we aren’t separate, and that the conditioned mind has created this sense of separation, where in fact, there is none..”
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