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Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…culminated in your attending an aa session so Perhaps you can fill that out a bit more for our listeners. First of all, David, I wasn't addicted to classical music. I was addicted to shopping for classical music. I mean, I love classical music. I still…
…beautiful one, but dreams also. Steve Winick At least the dream when experienced from one and only one point of view is beautiful. David Plylar I was going to say, dreams exclude reality. Yeah. You know, and, um, so I totally, I totally get it. And,…
…world as best you see it. And that is a long-term struggle. It's a long-term calling. And all of us can contribute to it. David Plylar, Jr.: Yeah. I mean. David Plylar, Jr.: That was at a fundraiser a couple of weeks ago here in British Columbia where…
…that is a long-term struggle. It's a long-term calling. And all of us can contribute to it. David Plylar, Jr.: Yeah. I mean. David Plylar, Jr.: That was at a fundraiser a couple of weeks ago here in British Columbia where actually, Daniel, I took three…
…who has you at a time when she has to give you a way to save your life. You're reminding me of the first paragraph of David Copperfield where he says, whether or not I'll be the hero of these pages or not, only time will tell. Look, as far as the…
…expensive treatments, rarely do they deal with the trauma. And even in the 12-step programs, they rarely deal with the trauma. David Smith, who's a physician in San Francisco, who founded the Haight-Ashbury Clinic back in the 60s, he said to me once…
…cowards in this house when she was being bullied. So here's what happened. There's a conservative columnist for the New York Times, David Brooks, whose political views I totally disagree with, but who I find very... Would you say to them, get out of here?…
…to put her into the car. She's not accepting her own vulnerability. Yeah. Tyrant father. Well, that's exactly the point that David Brooks makes. Yeah. Is that the both of them deny vulnerability. You're right. Women have an uphill battle in that because…
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…in Eastern Europe. And so that the bulk of the Zionist movement then comes from Eastern Europe and people like David Grigoryan and others David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister. Yeah, one of the leaders of Zionism. And Vladimir Jabotinsky, who…
…It was one of these liberal rabbis protesting out of it because it took place in multiple synagogues. I think you're talking about David Mephister, who is a family friend. He used to be the rabbi of my parents' synagogue in Vancouver. And he's been a…
…film, Israelism, that I mentioned to you earlier, canceled. And they did manage to get it canceled, but groups like the ones David was speaking for managed to get it rescheduled. And they ultimately couldn't shut it down because the demand was too much.…
…dissonance shot through. It just flows. And it stays in the flow because I'm not one for... coherence. I've read too much David Hume. I've read too much Kierkegaard. I've read too much Montaigne, who are exemplary skeptics. You know what I mean? I always…
…is a complete myth. And it's been refuted so many times. There's so much documentation for it. The so-called generous offer at Camp David in July 2000 by Hud Barak to Arafat wanted to keep all the major West Bank settlement blocks, wanted to have a land…
…asked about the death to the Jews being written on the Houthi flag. And he says, well, they see people with the Star of David on their flag killing Palestinians day in, day out for the last 80 years. You know what's interesting, by the way? The Star…
…on their flag killing Palestinians day in, day out for the last 80 years. You know what's interesting, by the way? The Star of David has nothing to do with David. You know where it comes from? I do not. The same place that the swastika came from.…
…in, day out for the last 80 years. You know what's interesting, by the way? The Star of David has nothing to do with David. You know where it comes from? I do not. The same place that the swastika came from. India. Now, in India, the swastika turned…
…turned the other way. It was actually a symbol for truth and justice or something like that. Yeah, yeah. And the Star of David, I forget its exact provenance, but it also came as an Indian symbol. Mm-hmm. So nothing to do with David. But you're right.…
…And the Star of David, I forget its exact provenance, but it also came as an Indian symbol. Mm-hmm. So nothing to do with David. But you're right. I mean, when Palestinians have said this to me, when you grow up all your lives and the Jews are all…
…have taken over this land. They needed imperial support. And this is where the Balfour Declaration comes in. In 1917, David Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, says, Her Majesty's government views it in favor of the establishment of a Jewish homeland…
…Majesty's government views it in favor of the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. But first of all, who the hell is David Balfour to view it in favor of anything 10,000 years ago? But you know why they said it? Not because they like the…
…He said it. Rivka, here's my answer to you, okay? If you build the world's biggest prison camp, which is what David Cameron called Gaza, he's no friend of the Palestinians, the former British UK prime minister, called it the world's biggest open-air…
…our frame. What's the experience like? And the only Jews they see are snipers and tanks carrying the Jewish flag, the Star of David, even if they hate Jews. And by the way, when I was there, and other people can tell you this, including Israelis who…
…else but himself. And those are the people that get cancer, by the way, very often. And so... The love that you described, David, flows towards others, but love is supposed to be a two-way valve. It's supposed to flow in both directions. When it only…
…it is a manifestation of something that's in you. And because it's in you, you can do something about it. That's the whole point, David. So language is very important, how we talk about things. So when we say, I have cancer, Or I have ADHD. Or I have…
…the things I do in compassion inquiries is I pay attention to people's language, okay? Now, if I was working with Melissa or David or Alexander or anybody else, would you say to them, are you indulging yourself? No. But notice you said it to yourself.…
…exciting. So, yeah, it's ongoing and it's never over. Some people... We'll have some huge spiritual, I mean, I think, David, you've dwelt in these realms maybe more than I have, but some people will have huge spiritual transformations and experiences…
…sensitive, which ADHD kids tend to be very sensitive, if there's a lot of stress around them, the way they, you know, like David said, the child can't escape or fight back, so they kind of freeze or they dissociate. And that gets programmed into the…
…accomplished by denying the rights of the local population. So in that sense, it's just another colonial project. In 1917, when David Balfour, the British foreign minister, who the hell was he to promise a foreign land to anybody else? AMY GOODMAN- That's…
…the things I do in Compassion Inquiry is I pay attention to people's language, okay? Now, if I was working with Melissa or David or Alexander or anybody else, would you say to them, are you indulging yourself? No. But notice you said it to yourself.…
…since early childhood and then in this culture is actually rewarded. In the introduction to this book, we quote the great writer David Foster Wallace. I mean, I don't know if you've read his book Infinite Jest, but the title is actually accurate because…
…commencement address at a college some years before he committed suicide. So I'll quote here from the book. The late David Foster Wallace, master wordsmith, author and essayist, once opened a commencement speech with a droll parable that well illustrates the…
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…expensive treatments, rarely do they deal with the trauma. And even in the 12-step programs, they rarely deal with the trauma. David Smith, who's a physician in San Francisco, who founded the Haight-Ashbury Clinic back in the 60s, he said to me once…
…means is that what we see depends so much on where we're coming from. So when you have people like Alex Jones and David, is it Ike or Ike? Ike, yes. Ike, okay. When you're a conspiracy theorist, COVID happens, what you're going to see is conspiracies.…
…But I think we need to be honest about that because that does inject a really dangerous dynamic where it's not the typical David and Goliath. right and of course the utter outrage of it is that this powerful military force armed to the teeth with…
…groups, I don't know if any of you are familiar with the work of a not long ago deceased American psychiatrist called David Hawkins. So David Hawkins talks about energy levels and how he calibrates human energy. And he actually talks about AA. Okay,…
…know if any of you are familiar with the work of a not long ago deceased American psychiatrist called David Hawkins. So David Hawkins talks about energy levels and how he calibrates human energy. And he actually talks about AA. Okay, great. Yeah, yeah,…
…expensive treatments, rarely do they deal with the trauma. And even in the 12-step programs, they rarely deal with the trauma. David Smith, who's a physician in San Francisco, who founded the Haight-Ashbury Clinic back in the 60s, he said to me once…
…York. Yeah. His name was John Sarno, S-A-R-N-O. He's no longer alive. He died not that long ago in his 90s. Right. And Larry David and a whole lot of other people swear by him because he was a back specialist. And he saved thousands of people from…
…think probably you in general And your work with psychedelics through a documentary that was on the CBC called The Jungle Prescription on David Suzuki's nature of things. And I just I think it came out in 2011, actually. So, no, I would have known you…
…expensive treatments, rarely do they deal with the trauma. And even in the 12-step programs, they rarely deal with the trauma. David Smith, who's a physician in San Francisco, who founded the Haight-Ashbury Clinic back in the 60s, he said to me once…
…with the munificence of our consumer society, and that's why the desperation, by the way. But... Right. The great Henry David Thoreau quote, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and what is considered resignation is confirmed desperation. Yeah.…
…I say patriarchy, I'm not talking about a conspiracy on the part of man. I'm talking about a culture. Okay. I quote David Foster Wallace, the late and great American author who at a commencement address at a university gives this anecdote. And he says…
…he died of cancer. He was a smoker and he died of lung cancer. There was a British surgeon in the 1960s, called David Kesson, who noticed, just like I noticed, and as many physicians have noticed, these patterns in their clients. And he noticed that he…
…what you knew. You knew nothing else. It's the same with our culture, so that in the introduction of the book, we quote David Foster Wallace, the great writer, so great that it's hard to even understand what he's talking about some of the time. But he…
…two young fish swim on for a while, and one of them turns to the other one and says, what the hell is water? And David Foster Wallace makes the point that when something is so big and so close to you, you don't even recognize it. And what I'm saying…
…retort came that November in the form of a stunning political upset. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the conservative columnist David Brooks wrote discerningly in 2016, both ultimately hew to a distrustful, stark, combative, zero-sum view of life. The idea…
…to ways of being that are inimical to our wellbeing. And I think it's an introduction that I quote the great late writer, David Foster Wallace, who talks about this metaphor of these two young fish swimming along and this older fish comes along and says…
Great. Thanks, Mike. Hello, everyone. My name is David Zarnett. I am the director of research and strategy here at Starts With Me. I'm also a political scientist by training. I teach at the University of Toronto courses on human rights and security and…
…own capacity for well-being so it's a real honor to be here and i hope you get a lot out of this conversation Thank you, David. Okay, so we are going to, I know at the end of the last podcast with Dr. Matte where I published my interaction with him,…
…him, I said I would follow up with the commentary on it. And I thought it would be more interesting and enlightening to have David participate in that. So we are going to watch the video, and we're going to pause and we are going to discuss sort of…
…the things I do in compassion inquiries is I pay attention to people's language, okay? Now, if I was working with Melissa or David or Alexander or anybody else, would you say to them, are you indulging yourself? No. But notice you said it to yourself.…
…the one in control. The therapist's job is to be very careful when treading through sensitive experience because subconsciously and typically, David Price- Most people, I think what helped this interaction be so so powerful and everyone in the group so kind…
…stuff coming up. In terms of other speakers, Stephen Porges, for example, is coming up, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen's interviewing Judith Astin, David Buscelli from TRE fame. This is just tomorrow, by the way. Reverend Angel Williams is coming up, Sharon Salzberg,…
…what I'm saying is that both of these people had And actually, a very insightful conservative columnist in the New York Times, David Brooks, said that what they have in common is that they both resist vulnerability. Wow. In other words, those parts of…
…normal. actually matters for the rest of our physiological, hormonal, immunological, and psychological development. In introduction, we quote David Foster Wallace, who gives this little anecdote at a commencement address that he gave. before he committed suicide.…
…water? And the two fish swim for a while and one of them turns to the other one and says, what the hell is water? And David Foster Wallace says that these things that are so close to us and so big, we don't even see that they're there. And I think…
…If I may come back to an analogy that we introduced in the very introduction to the book, the late great writer David Forster Wallace told this anecdote about the commencement address he gave at a university. And of course he succumbed, didn't he? Yeah.…
…kids that grow up in the inner cities and why they ended up doing poorly the rest of their lives and kids that grew up in David Vogelpohl, Jr.: And he said that he believed it could be boiled down to the number of words a child hears by the age of…
…could be boiled down to the number of words a child hears by the age of three and the ratio of positive to negative David Vogelpohl, Jr.: Oh my god, is it really that simple. And he was basically saying that you're it's it comes down to the language…
…that simple. And he was basically saying that you're it's it comes down to the language centers of the brain developing and if David Vogelpohl, Jr.: You know, if you have a child who has a disability. in that period where those those parts of the brain…
…situation. And it isn't only alleviating your suffering, it's helping other people. And that to me feels so inherent to the human animal. David Vogelpohl, Jr.: And I think that the more uniquely, we can do that. So in a way that matters to me. Right. So…
…we can do that. So in a way that matters to me. Right. So you're not still a high school teacher, you're, you're expressing David Vogelpohl, Jr.: Your own values and your own values and your own values and your own values and your own values and your…
…today. So then when that didn't work, we took her to Florida and put her under a Marchman Act. Amy Nunez, which mandated her. David. To say what did you do you took her to Florida to. Amy Nunez, To put her under the marchman act, which is basically…
…to ways of being that are inimical to our well-being. And I think it's an introduction that I quote the great late writer David Foster Wallace who talks about this metaphor of these two young fish swimming along and this older fish comes along and says…
…And she wrote the Poisonwood Bible. That's her most famous book. But Demon Copperhead is a kind of a modern take on David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. And it takes place in Appalachia. And I just saw an interview with her yesterday, how she goes…
…in Eastern Europe, of course, including here in Poland. David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, his name was David Gruen, he came from Poland. Polish history is interesting that way. Well, every nation's history is interesting. But Poland, as…
…and everyone in the group so kind of moved by it and they shared that was because I have so much experience in these situations. David Price- And because of that we were able to get to the point so quickly and and it was sort of. that helped it be…
…experiment to remind myself that for a long time I focused entirely on I want to live forever and I was David Vogelpohl, ESD 185 Andrew Hickman Center for Disease Control and Prevention. David Vogelpohl, ESD 185 Andrew Hickman Center for Disease Control…
…on I want to live forever and I was David Vogelpohl, ESD 185 Andrew Hickman Center for Disease Control and Prevention. David Vogelpohl, ESD 185 Andrew Hickman Center for Disease Control and Prevention. David Vogelpohl, ESD 185 That really served me for a…
…185 Andrew Hickman Center for Disease Control and Prevention. David Vogelpohl, ESD 185 Andrew Hickman Center for Disease Control and Prevention. David Vogelpohl, ESD 185 That really served me for a long time and it allowed me to make long range plans that…