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Deep Fix Newsletter & Podcast

Deep Fix
Newsletter & Podcast

Wakefulness for a distracted world. On psychology, culture, spirit, and sense

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A few of my favorite published pieces

A sampling of essays on themes close to my heart

A Meditating Dad’s First Year

A new father reflects on how parenthood unexpectedly deepened his spiritual practice.

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A Meditating Dad’s First Year

A new father reflects on how parenthood unexpectedly deepened his spiritual practice.

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Is Ketamine the Next Miracle Treatment, or the Next Crisis?

It promises rapid relief from depression, but some say it left them worse off.

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Is Ketamine the Next Miracle Treatment, or the Next Crisis?

It promises rapid relief from depression, but some say it left them worse off.

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Israel & Palestine

For years, I found a home on the progressive left - even after I noticed a common blind spot around Jewish issues.

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Israel & Palestine

For years, I found a home on the progressive left - even after I noticed a common blind spot around Jewish issues.

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About Deep Fix

Deep Fix is a bestselling newsletter and podcast that was chosen for Substack’s Mentor Fellowship program.

It's also a community. For three years during the pandemic, I hosted international dialogues on a variety of topics, including existential risk, sensemaking, collective healing, the Self, death, and more.

Featured Substack essays

A few essays from a collection of more than 200 pieces

No Better time to wake up

A specter of renewal haunts modernity

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No Better time to wake up

A specter of renewal haunts modernity

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Where thinking ends and life begins

Breaking your addiction to thought and waking up the right side of your brain

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Where thinking ends and life begins

Breaking your addiction to thought and waking up the right side of your brain

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If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution

It’s time I wrote more explicitly about politics

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If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution

It’s time I wrote more explicitly about politics

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On facing the AI revolution

The good, the bad, and how to prepare for what’s coming

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On facing the AI revolution

The good, the bad, and how to prepare for what’s coming

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Additiona is between you and the world

Reciprocal narrowing and opening

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Additiona is between you and the world

Reciprocal narrowing and opening

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New modes of thinking necessary to survive this epoch

aka an ethos isn’t a flotation device

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New modes of thinking necessary to survive this epoch

aka an ethos isn’t a flotation device

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Deep Fix podcast

The pod is a space to go deeper into the topics I’m obsessed with, in conversation with people I’m fascinated by—all in service of a deeper, more soulful, more enjoyable life, for us and the world. Also, me trying to cut back on filler words. Like, kind of.

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds: Unfolding by the Elegance of Hakomi’s Somatic Psychotherapy

A deeply intimate exchange with one of Hakomi’s lead international trainers. It’s both an introduction to the method and a window into the wider landscape of embodied healing and transformation.

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds: Unfolding by the Elegance of Hakomi’s Somatic Psychotherapy

A deeply intimate exchange with one of Hakomi’s lead international trainers. It’s both an introduction to the method and a window into the wider landscape of embodied healing and transformation.

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A Conversation with Shantaram’s Gregory David Roberts

Yes, I flew to Jamaica to meet Shantaram’s legendary author, and we recorded this rare conversation at his home by the sea. We explore addiction, free will, mystical longing, and the mythic arc of a life few could imagine.

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A Conversation with Shantaram’s Gregory David Roberts

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John J. Prendergast: An Embodied Exploration of Non-Dual Awakening

A spacious yet potent conversation with non-dual teacher John Prendergast, including live guided inquiry. We explore social anxiety, the witness trap, and how awakening deepens when we drop into the body and listen for what’s most true.

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John J. Prendergast: An Embodied Exploration of Non-Dual Awakening

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Rosa Lewis: The Universe is Psychedelic

A deep, imaginal journey with mystic and meditation teacher Rosa Lewis into the psychedelic nature of ordinary reality. We explore heartful perception, soul safety, and how to experience life as alive, interconnected, and infused with meaning.

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