@drkopacz
Psychiatrist/Author: -Caring for Self & Others -Re-humanizing Medicine -Becoming Medicine -Walking the Medicine Wheel -Becoming Who You Are -A Bowl Full of Ideas davidkopacz.com https://beingfullyhuman.com Becoming a True Human podcast: t.ly/lkPHx
"Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity"
V Havel
@chris6572.bsky.social
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social
#Hope #Hopelessness #Havel
"I have always thought that feeling empty and losing touch with the meaning of life are in essence only a challenge to seek new things to fill one's life, a new meaning for one's existence and one's work..."
V Havel
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social
#Meaning #Life #Havel
"Art, I think, is about necessity. It's about struggle. It's about human struggle, about the deep layers of humanity, because our aesthetics always relate to our philosophy and moral judgments"
Ai Weiwei
#Art #Struggle #Humanity
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social
@chris6572.bsky.social
"Censorship & the destruction of culture plays a big role... because for dictators, to kill ideas is more important than to kill bodies. Dictators don't like different attitudes...Artists & writers certainly represent a very different attitude...That is more powerful than any weapon." Ai Weiwei
"These are the values a true democracy will cultivate, because democracy is a form of government that attempts to elevate human beings, to enable them to think and be free. The goal of democracy is therefore education, intellectual development, and nobility of spirit." R Riemen
#TrueDemocracy
Thanks!
Looks like an interesting group of authors
BPA and I will have a new chapter, "Visionary Reality, Culture and Psychosis: Dialogues with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)," published in the new ISPS Routledge volume, The Entanglement of Culture & Psychosis - out June 2026!
shorturl.at/7Z7YX
#Culture #Psychosis @soulinmedicine.bsky.social
"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
I had the chance to talk about my new book with the LA Compassionate Heart Sangha yesterday. The sangha leader paid me the highest compliment: he said it was like Thich Nhat Hanh himself had written my Declaration of Interdependence.
This is a lovely flower one of the sangha members gave me.
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for the citizens of the world to take a stand and declare, in a multitude of voices in all the world’s tongues, that enough is enough...No longer will we watch democracy be destroyed and the inherent dignity of millions be slandered."
J Engels
InnerViews: On Mindful Democracy
Jeremy D Engels interview transcript on Substack
shorturl.at/PqcSy
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social
#OnMindfulDemocracy #DeclarationOfInterdependence
"Spiritual democracy is the way we treat others when we learn to see the divine in all things and that we, too, are part of divinity. It is a sacred way of being. It is a sacred way of being."
@chris6572.bsky.social
#EarthSpirituality #LivingSpirituality #BecomingMedicine
New Webpage Coming Soon
Be a part of the new chapter of #TheDoctorasaHumanist @drkopacz.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social @upf.edu @melisupf.bsky.social
Looking forward to the new chapter!
Great to see the new home page reveal!
Thanks Jeremy! So inspiring chatting with you!
I pre-ordered your next book - Living Namaste: A Practical Guide to Mindfulness, Yoga, and Building Community
You are welcome back on the Becoming A True Human podcast anytime!
#LivingNamaste #Namaste #Yoga #Mindfulness #BuildingCommunity
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for the citizens of the world to take a stand and declare, in a multitude of voices in all the world’s tongues, that enough is enough...No longer will we watch democracy be destroyed and the inherent dignity of millions be slandered."
J Engels
InnerViews: On Mindful Democracy
Jeremy D Engels interview transcript on Substack
shorturl.at/PqcSy
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social
#OnMindfulDemocracy #DeclarationOfInterdependence
War directed inward & outward is not democracy
We need to reconnect to Spiritual Democracy
Free pdf Ch 14 Spiritual Democracy - Becoming Medicine
shorturl.at/WZa3L
@chris6572.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
#SpiritualDemocracy #Peace
Earth Child of Spiritual Democracy (J Rael)
"Spiritual Democracy is a living connection, allowing the flow of spirituality through our lives, embracing the divinity in all creatures & the divinity of the Earth."
pdf ch 14 shorturl.at/WZa3L
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social
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
Blog post on our interview with
Jeremy David Engels
- On MIndful Democracy -
on the Becoming a True Human podcast
beingfullyhuman.com/2026/03/04/o...
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social
#MindfulDemocracy #Interbeing #BelovedCommunity
Blog post on our interview with
Jeremy David Engels
- On MIndful Democracy -
on the Becoming a True Human podcast
beingfullyhuman.com/2026/03/04/o...
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social @chris6572.bsky.social
#MindfulDemocracy #Interbeing #BelovedCommunity
"Periodically, we forget that we are divine as we live in this world of matter and go through its trials and travails. We, as individuals, as well as we as people, need periodic renewal at the font of spiritual democracy."
Becoming Medicine p. 381
#SpiritualDemocracy #Sacred #Being #Spirituality
"Spiritual democracy is the way we treat others when we learn to see the divine in all things and that we, too, are part of divinity. It is a sacred way of being. It is a sacred way of being."
@chris6572.bsky.social
#EarthSpirituality #LivingSpirituality #BecomingMedicine
Earth Child of Spiritual Democracy (J Rael)
"Spiritual Democracy is a living connection, allowing the flow of spirituality through our lives, embracing the divinity in all creatures & the divinity of the Earth."
pdf ch 14 shorturl.at/WZa3L
@jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social
It’s hard to have a war when we all stand on common ground.
There is no way to peace, peace is the way
-Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
War directed inward & outward is not democracy
We need to reconnect to Spiritual Democracy
Free pdf Ch 14 Spiritual Democracy - Becoming Medicine
shorturl.at/WZa3L
@chris6572.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
#SpiritualDemocracy #Peace
A beautiful and crucial dialogue between a surgeon and doctor #ManuelPera and a writer and philosopher #RafaelAgullol about the intersection between #medicine and #humanism @hospitaldelmar.bsky.social @drkopacz.bsky.social @david-haslam.bsky.social @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social
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Here’s my newest Substack essay, recounting what we can learn from the time that the Buddha stopped a war. It’s a good time to remember that, as Thich Nhat Hanh said, there is no way to peace, peace is the way.
Would love to have you subscribe!
#mindfulness
#war
#peace
#plumvillage
#democracy
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