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A PR professional hired by the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, who was himself a recovering alcoholic, to promote the view that addiction was a disease that could be treated through medicine.
Tanaka Michio is a Japanese priest of a Christian church in Kamata, Tokyo who was an alcoholic who hosted an AA meeting in 1975 with John Meaney, an American priest of the Maryknoll Mission.
Naikan, mishirabe
“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a ‘gift,’ was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before- one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.” I can now…
https://www.healoh.org/deal-us-in/the-heart-of-it%3A-edith-springer%2C-dignity%2C-respect-%26-love
Note: The foreword of this book is written by Noah Levine, who has since been involved in sexual misconduct allegations through his leadership role at Against the Stream (ATS) and teaching role with Spirit Rock Meditation Center. ATS later dissolved and Spirit Rock revoked his license to teach. No criminal charges appear to have been filed concerning any of the allegations, and Levine denies any…
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A PR professional hired by the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, who was himself a recovering alcoholic, to promote the view that addiction was a disease that could be treated through medicine.