…two strains. One of them being the tribal tradition of this is our land. We're going to kill everybody who lives here. And God at some point even threatens to destroy the Jews because they didn't kill everybody. If you can believe that, don't take my…

…around the world. There's also been that prophetic tradition of justice where pursue justice, otherwise you have no right to this land. God also says that. and God also says you will not oppress the stranger you who you're you know you you know the…

…also been that prophetic tradition of justice where pursue justice, otherwise you have no right to this land. God also says that. and God also says you will not oppress the stranger you who you're you know you you know the heart of a stranger you who…

…pm. Come and study with us the main biblical doctrines that help us to grow in our faith and surrender to our God. Professor Víctor Manuel Buitrago. Welcome everyone. Very well, welcome to class number three of our classes of neumatology with which we are…

…gifts, or as in other parts they call us charisms? A spiritual gift is a special aptitude that, according to the grace of God, the Holy Spirit impart to each Christian believer and that must be used for the edification of the body of Christ. I…

…even if I wanted to, and it was one of my wishes, play an instrument, sing, I can't do it because I lack those things. But God has given me other aptitudes, he has given me other ways. For example, I think I have a special gift and it is the gift…

…Every Christian believer, every Christian believer, has at least a spiritual gift. If you do not know your gifts, this is not because God has not given you spiritual gifts. It is rather that you have not yet discovered it and you need to discover that…

…is rather that you have not yet discovered it and you need to discover that gift. That gift is given according to the grace of God. God does not impart spiritual gifts as a reward, that is, it is not because you fast, it is not because you pray, it…

…the book, died a month after the book was published. She died of a brain abscess. So I mention Cynthia's story because, thank God, it doesn't always end like that, and that there is a possibility of transformation, no matter how what you suffered as long…

…know, cancel culture. I mean, the hypocrisy cries out to the heavens. Or as the Jewish saying goes, stinks unto the nostrils of God. Oh, I like that, yeah. The stench in the nostrils of God, the hypocrisy on this issue. Well, you and Norman Finkelstein…

…as the Jewish saying goes, stinks unto the nostrils of God. Oh, I like that, yeah. The stench in the nostrils of God, the hypocrisy on this issue. Well, you and Norman Finkelstein are both very dangerous sources for people who are defending Israel's…

…joke. No, go on, please. It reminds me of this, that sometimes when I'm described as an infant survivor of the Holocaust, which, my God, I was, somebody says, well, he was born in 1944. How could he have been a survivor? and it was only an infant he…

…I can get a black coffee. To me, I was like, is that an Israeli thing? I have no idea. Oh, thank God. Just being ourselves... Without apologizing. Without apologizing. Without apologizing. Up the octave. We will always be there for you. El Al, it's…

…a children's hospital that the Russians bombed last year. Some kids got killed. And there was appropriate outrage around it. But my God, that's just something that happens every five minutes in Gaza. And what you don't see is, you know, it's one thing for…

…They've created this invincible self-image. And this really shocked them. And now there's no end of revenge. When I say I don't think God has a word of revenge, it's got nothing to do with it. It's got to do with the designer's project. It's culmination.…

…turkey baster to you, would you know what that refers to with regards to me? I'm sorry, I failed that one. He's not a thank God. All right. Good, good, good. I think that's a show. I think we can wrap there. I think we'll stop there. Don't look it…

…of normal. There's a chapter on it. There's a sixth question. What is the sixth question? Where are you not saying yes? Oh my God, everywhere, to free time, to play, to joy, to creativity, to rest. Well, that not saying yes is as harmful as the not…

…the steps to create it. And I will be waiting for you in the very next episode. I'll see you there. So Dr. Oh my God. Okay. And then I look at the bottom and it's like, wow, wow, wow. Thank you. Wow. Fantastic. I'm the one that says fantastic,…

…about some very nice happenings in the childhood of the kid, but the kid telling the same story is terrified and saying, oh my God, I had a horrible mother. But the love that the parent feels is not the love that the child receives. For a child to…

…of the kid, and they are sincerely loving in those moments, but the kid telling the same story is terrified and saying, oh my God, I had a horrible mother. Why is this so different? I loved my kids very much. I mean, I really did. My wife and…

…I've watched your show. So at the Democratic convention in 2016, there was a video played, narrated by the voice of God, Morgan Freeman, about Hillary Clinton's life. And Hillary described the following incident as an example of wonderful parenting that gave…

…that's mine. You weren't supposed to listen to it. And I left. Now, normally, I would walk out and be upset, like, how dare she? God, but I didn't have any of that. It was like, so... I was, I had outgrown, like what she did didn't trigger me anymore…

…You know, you might say the same thing about a lot of the parties here in the West as well, by the way. But the God they gave me As a kid, I could figure this out. God could be omniscient, all-knowing, all-good, or all-powerful, or two of those three…

…parties here in the West as well, by the way. But the God they gave me As a kid, I could figure this out. God could be omniscient, all-knowing, all-good, or all-powerful, or two of those three things, but not three at the same time. If he was…

…time. If he was all-good, then he couldn't know anything. Because how come Auschwitz happened? So I never believed in that God. And therefore, I really close myself off to religious perspectives. But over the years, you know, exploring some aspect of…

…move on to other treatment approaches. The problem is, is that the harm reduction approach, which is now being adopted, thank God, in more and more American cities, still exists in a context of hostility and severe judgmental probium ostracization. of drug…

…Abiy Piker in between the time period where I press the stop streaming button and press the start streaming button. So help me God, that's what I'm gonna do. And as far as personal news goes, we're also on obviously stolen land. We're also on stolen…

…but totally real headlines. I almost did that. Oh, wow. We got to bring that back. I know. And then I was like, oh, my God, I don't have headlines. What the hell are we going to say? I know. No, we have a new segment, which, of course, is…

…another racial stereotype? White people will fucking eat you. They will eat your face. One, two, three. Hey, everyone. I'm Madeline from God Bless Weird America. If you want to hear today's best freak folk and new Weird America music, tune in to my show…

…used for thousands of years in Chinese medicine as painkillers. And of course, we use them as painkillers in hospitals. I mean... Thank God we have morphine, otherwise my job as a doctor would be a lot tougher when it comes to people having pain, either…

…So those are all new cities. And then Los Angeles, where Allison and I are both bringing the live show to Los Angeles. God damn, you've been productive. Yeah, which is really exciting. I'm going to be doing monologues at ASCAT. Why not? At the UCB…

…said that, though, the brain can develop new circuits even later on in life, and that's called neuroplasticity. For which I always say, thank God for neuroplasticity, because I'm 73 now, and I would not wish to be as stupid as I was when I was 71. So,…

…for neuroplasticity, because I'm 73 now, and I would not wish to be as stupid as I was when I was 71. So, thank God that the brain can change, and that's why the word recovery is so interesting. Because when we talk about recovery, what does it mean…

…if you saw the Democratic National Convention. And when Hillary won the nomination, there was a video narrated about her life by God himself, Morgan Freeman. How many of you saw that video about her life? There was something very interesting in that video…

…Quanah Parker. He was one of the last leaders of the Comanches. And when people criticize them for using the substance to contact God, to get in touch with the higher reality, you know what he said? He said something really telling. He said, I got this…

…which is on the night of her nomination, they play a video and it's well-produced. It's actually narrated by the voice of God, Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman. Yeah. And the things that she's proud to share are that her father said, don't whine, don't…

…which is on the night of her nomination, they play a video and it's well-produced. It's actually narrated by the voice of God, Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman. Yeah. And the things that she's proud to share are that her father said, don't whine, don't…

…you're actually going to experience much more suffering for the rest of your minimally childhood. So the parent definitely believes everything. God, I got to give them this skill or they're going to suffer endlessly at the hands of bullies because bullies…

…now, you're actually going to experience much more suffering for the rest of your minimally childhood. So the parent definitely believes... God, I got to give them this skill or they're going to suffer endlessly at the hands of bullies because bullies are…

…don't belong. What do you actually feel in your body when you believe that? I would say hopeless. That's not a feeling. Oh, God. Hopeless is a belief that there's no hope. What do you feel when you believe things are hopeless? Sad. Sadness. Yeah. Now,…

…to breastfeed her. I understand. And for the first 10 weeks of her life, I was a zombie on medication. Okay. And, oh my God, it just kills me to think about this. And she's recently gone into therapy and has started doing EMDR. Yeah. And one of her…

…And then hug somebody. I used to be hug-phobic. And I embraced you when you walked in. Yeah, you did. But I, honest to God, when people in the room would start hugging each other, I'd stand there like this. And is that a response? It's a response to,…

…what Omar al-Akkad writes about our civilization. And I'm quoting these people extensively because really I don't have the words, but thank God they do. And Omar writes, to preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a…

…I hope it's otherwise, but none of us in our lifetimes may see justice the way we would like to see it. But by God, we can make a contribution, however big, however little that is. And we can make sure that Palestine is never, ever, ever forgotten.…

…And they didn't count how do the leaders. They said there's a higher value. There's a higher good. There's a higher God. There's a higher truth than nationalism, than chauvinism, than deference to authority. And it's to that higher truth that we pay…

…understanding of trauma? Well, it's really interesting, you know, in Israel, a few weeks ago, there was a Zionist shill whose name is God. Yes. And he gave a talk in Tel Aviv where he said, you know, Matthew says he's a Holocaust survivor, but he was…

…beyond language. And yet language is the only thing that we can still deploy in order to communicate in certain ways. But thank God for love and light. Thank God for silence and concrete examples that get far beyond language. And thank God for sound. I…

…the only thing that we can still deploy in order to communicate in certain ways. But thank God for love and light. Thank God for silence and concrete examples that get far beyond language. And thank God for sound. I mean, that's one of the... Music…

…ways. But thank God for love and light. Thank God for silence and concrete examples that get far beyond language. And thank God for sound. I mean, that's one of the... Music plays an important role for oppressed people, you know. You know Arthur Miller,…

…I don't deal much in hope. Hope is, depends how I define it, I suppose. Any word depends on how you define it, whether it's God or... That's right. So, but hope, how I perceive it, is kind of a wish that something will happen in the future. I'm more…

…state. Yeah. So that's kind of the flip side of what I was setting up there, which is on one hand, you know, thank God we don't have to fight that battle anymore. We can just point to a clips of them saying, admitting it, you know, admitting exactly…

…And so both things are true. And I think there's a way, what is the, what is the aphorism about? It's almost like God helps those who helps themselves. Yeah. Right. It is true. You know, like it doesn't, believing in some bigger, higher power that's…

…doing that forever. True. And despite all the oppression, all the murder, all the genocide throughout history, Francesca still exists. Thank God for that. With her pure heart and her truth telling and her calm, but confident defense of reality and millions…

…remember what Amalek has done to you. Amalek was Israelites, historically, at least mythically, coming into the Holy Land. And the God, according to the Old Testament, commanded the Jews, the Israelites, to kill every man, woman, and infant, and all type,…

…is the prophetic tradition. that they're higher value than king and country. And those higher values have to do with what we call God. Call that truth. And if you transgress the truth, the land will vomit you out. So say the prophets. And the same Old…

…Gaza or women and girls who are still there and who knows what they're going through you won't know until they come back so God God permit that they come back. And when they come back, then then you'll see like, I don't know who the captives are at…

…or women and girls who are still there and who knows what they're going through you won't know until they come back so God God permit that they come back. And when they come back, then then you'll see like, I don't know who the captives are at this…

…something like October 7th happens, and there is a part of me that doesn't let myself even for a moment say, oh my God, those poor people on those kibbutzim. Even though those people are, of all the Israelis, they're the most my people. They were peace…

…love for Rivka. Beautiful. That's the that's I think she was saying a bunch of stuff that was naturally I disagree with. But my God, I love her. I mean, I just saw a beautiful person. That's the beauty of connecting through the depth of what we are as…

…work hard to try and stay as calm and rational as I possibly can be. In terms of presenting history to other people, my God, I have dozens, hundreds of Israeli and Jewish sources that I could share with people about the history going back to the last…

…than state, than armies and chariots, than your own interests. And that higher value comes from a universal source that we can call God. And some people do. but that you will break those laws at your peril, and you're going to create suffering. I don't…

…project, it still remains a fact that without its protection, there could have been no Zionist project there. And Winston Churchill, God love his imperialist soul, said that the creation of a Jewish entity is in the best interest of the British Empire.…

…of slavery. Where we're enslaved to our own conscious. Where we're governed by our emotions. And where the heart closes down. And, oh my God, if there was ever a time to actually open their hearts, to not get stuck in a narrow place, to not repeat the…

…The Old Testament I was referring to before is very much a double-edged document. On the one hand, it advocates genocide, and God at some point threatens the Jews because they didn't kill all the local inhabitants of Palestine when they came in as…

…she was receiving then there's the birth process And again, you know, I delivered a lot of babies as a physician. Thank God for modern obstetrics. So I'm not here to militate against the, you know, the miracles of modern medicine, but we've carried it…

…my mom ray oh hi i'm so sorry i'm interested to hear you because i've heard good things Oh, great, okay. I'm glad. Thank God. This can be streamed, right? This can be streamed. Are you streaming right now? Yeah, we are, yeah. Okay, call me out. Yeah.…

…are, disconnected from who we are, we suffer. We suffer and we suffer mentally or spiritually and very often physically as well. Does God exist is one of those questions where one would have to really understand what the question means by God. I grew up…

…physically as well. Does God exist is one of those questions where one would have to really understand what the question means by God. I grew up as a militant atheist. Now, as a child, I mean. Now, I grew up in communist Hungary, leaving Hungary when…

…party. If you're honest and belong to the party, you couldn't be very intelligent, and so on. I had the same relationship to God. God could be omniscient, all good, and all powerful. In fact, two of those three things, but not three at the same time.…

…If you're honest and belong to the party, you couldn't be very intelligent, and so on. I had the same relationship to God. God could be omniscient, all good, and all powerful. In fact, two of those three things, but not three at the same time. If…

…could be omniscient, all good, and all powerful. In fact, two of those three things, but not three at the same time. If God was all powerful and all good, then he doesn't know very much. Otherwise, why did he let my grandparents die in Auschwitz? And…

…don't anymore. I'm not going to go into how I do see the history, Because this is not the... Just let me finish. Honest to God, I'll give you the last word, I promise you. I do promise you that, okay? History did not begin on October the 7th. And…

…otherwise, you know. In the book, I quote this Greek playwright, Aeschylus, 2,500 years ago, he said that the way that Master or God created us, we have to suffer, suffer into truth. And let's face it, suffering is a big wake-up call. Now, I don't…

…And that one drives me nuts. It drives me nuts because people pretend that anxiety is a disease. And I'm like, my God, the world should make you anxious if you're a sensitive, introspective person. If you're just looking at the world itself. and you…

…And that one drives me nuts. It drives me nuts because people pretend that anxiety is a disease. And I'm like, my God, the world should make you anxious if you're a sensitive, introspective person. If you're just looking at the world itself. And you…

…any meaning to them. And that means that since human beings are productive creatures, we really are created in the image of God. We're meant to create. When we do work that's not creative, that doesn't reflect who we are, that imposes depression, anxiety,…

…and our dynamics and really being courageous about that and being open about it and being supremely curious and not judging ourselves. Oh God, I failed. I was too nice. I pushed myself down. No. But ask yourself, okay, why was I doing that? And do I…

…don't anymore. I'm not going to go into how I do see the history, because this is not the... Just let me finish. Honest to God, I'll give you the last word, I promise you. I do promise you that, okay? History did not begin on October the 7th. And…

…plays a victim. Could you imagine if the United States took over the land from Native Americans and was like, oh, my God, we're being tortured by these Native Americans. Please stop it. Stop it. You have superior military, you have superior funding, all…

…I had anticipated. You know what? What you're really asking is, you can ask it from two points of view. One is, oh my God, is it ever over? They have to keep working. Or what are the possibilities inherent in continued growth? I mean, there is this…

…of love came up and including love towards the facilitator. Yeah. I just remember personally being terrified of it. I'm like, oh my God, does this mean that I have feelings for this, you know, therapist, which I didn't. But it was really, I mean, I'm…

…wrote the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, to Sasaki Roshi, who was Leonard Cohen's mentor. All name of spirituality and unity with God and love, and still this shows up. And they can certainly show up in the Ayahuasca world, or I should say, more…

…talked about intense affective interpersonal experiences or something like that. Can we just freaking call it love, please? For the love of God, can we call it love? Here's the thing about love and research. You can do laboratory research on how much a…

…of not dealing with the emotional issues. They go into these wonderful states on the meditation cushion and they talk about God and heaven and the true self, but really they're quite disconnected from themselves because they haven't done the emotional work.…

…say about that. Jesus says that the power and the reality is not outside of yourself, but inside. He says the kingdom of God is within. And the Buddha, before he dies and his monks are mourning and crying and they're all upset, he says, don't mourn…

…that it helps you to express yourself. And the second thing is to connect with the universe. Whether it's through nature, religion, God, meditation, or astronomy, you need to find something that helps you to feel like you are part of something bigger than…

…uh, Bruce Alexander has written the second best book on addiction, uh, which is called, uh, uh, what's it called now? Oh God. Good. I'm glad you've forgotten that. We'll look it up. What is it? Bruce Alexander book on addiction. It's, it's, it's, it's,…

…was a joint protest between Israelis, Palestinians and internationals. And it was a singing protest. So, in the beginning, I was like, my God, Mama, what do you think this is going to do? I mean, it's like, what is our singing going to do to liberate…

…both worked with indigenous modalities, and indigenous cultures have always understood this. They didn't know the science that we have. And thank God for the science that we do have. But our science has become so narrowed. So a friend of mine, a Lakota…

…fundamental self is also connected to some greater reality, it's connected to creation, to nature, Some people may wish to call it God. I don't care what you call it. But some greater self, some greater truth that we're also connected to. Then we also…

…trauma. What's your definition of trauma? Well, trauma, it's important to define it, actually, because people use the word like God, and who knows what somebody means when they mean God. Somebody could mean a totally punitive, dictatorial father figure with…

…important to define it, actually, because people use the word like God, and who knows what somebody means when they mean God. Somebody could mean a totally punitive, dictatorial father figure with a white beard, and somebody else might mean the essence of…

…itself has got a wisdom in it, doesn't it? Even though it gave you an autoimmune disease or it made you depressed or God knows what, or got you into bad relationships, originally it had a purpose. That purpose had a wisdom behind it. The wisdom was…

…it's so powerful. Well, you know, when you go back to the Ten Commandments, the first one says, I'm the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods before me. Now, you can interpret that as some personalized deity, embodied deity, dwelling somewhere,…

…have no other gods before me. Now, you can interpret that as some personalized deity, embodied deity, dwelling somewhere, who's a jealous God, who just hates it when you worship somebody else. Or you can say, when God talks to Moses from the burning bush,…

…deity, embodied deity, dwelling somewhere, who's a jealous God, who just hates it when you worship somebody else. Or you can say, when God talks to Moses from the burning bush, he says, I am what I am. Which is the simplest statement of truth you can…

…Apologies ahead of time. Should I put a mask on so I don't catch it? I'm not sure. I think it's not contagious, thank God, through the screen. That's good. At least not yet with technology. That's good. Yes. So I'm Amit and I am the director and a…

…heart disease should not do ayahuasca. People with certain mental health conditions, bipolar illness, psychosis, they should stay away. Yeah. Thank you, God, Lord. So, um, on that note, I would like to invite you, um, maybe to share a little bit about your…

…years ago, I was fortunate enough to be born in the United States of America, a blessing and a lottery ticket that I thank God for every day. My parents, Syrian immigrants from Damascus, came to the U.S. in the 70s slash 80s at a time when the likes…

…had just been arrested for political dissent and that the Mokhabart were coming for him next. Quick on her feet, my grandmother, God Almighty, grant mercy on her soul, grabbed my 22-year-old father, and with tears... In her eyes, shaved off his beard and…

…milk, my dad was one of the few Syrians lucky enough to be granted passage to America. To that we say, Alhamdulillah. Thank God. At some point in the mid-80s, my father, then working as an engineer in Los Angeles, was serendipitously reunited with one of…

…good dude. Stop hating all Jews, Hasan. There ain't no way this person is being for real right now, right? Started it. Oh, my God. it's not bait it's a person who like legitimately thinks that i hate jewish people all jews as a matter of fact are you…

…And one interesting element, Molly Shannon is the only one of the three who's a comedian. And it's almost like taking it, oh God, I'm a Catholic school girl who goes crazy and shows her underpants, but can't deal with the sexual side of her. That's…

…if you saw the Democratic National Convention. And when Hillary won the nomination, there was a video narrated about her life by God himself, Morgan Freeman. How many of you saw that video about her life? There was something very interesting in that video…

…both worked with indigenous modalities, and indigenous cultures have always understood this. They didn't know the science that we have. And thank God for the science that we do have. But our science has become so narrowed. So a friend of mine, a Lakota…

…about 8%. Takiwasi's follow-up studies report 60% of those who finish the nine-month treatment remain drug-free three years after leaving. May God guide you and protect you on your journey. We can talk and theorize all we want, but what we want, clinically,…

…step is where they talk about the higher power and actually recognizing that there is a higher power now. People can call that God. I'm not a religious person, and I'm not comfortable with the God terminology, which to me has a lot of negative and…

…there is a higher power now. People can call that God. I'm not a religious person, and I'm not comfortable with the God terminology, which to me has a lot of negative and oppressive connotations or delusional connotations. Some people, that word works more…

…me a long time to even be able to watch myself and say, okay, that's not how we deal with this situation. And and thank God because otherwise I would go down in a worse hole and I would magnify things But how can people get that a bit of awareness?…

Honestly, he could not have known the effect on me. I thought, God, nobody ever did that for me. Right. That's what entrenched the trauma in your system. For many, many years, I have to tell you, I didn't see myself as a victim of trauma. I just got…

…make me some soup and I would feel so much better. And honestly, he could not have known the effect on me. I thought, God, nobody ever did that for me. Right. That's what entrenched the trauma in your system. Not the events, which were, as you said,…

…this article, you talk about in terms of performance, who would you be, if I can ask you, Blake, if all of a sudden, God forbid, you're in an accident, you became disabled, you couldn't do what you're doing, then who would you be? In other words, does…

…a fellow doctor said to me, the medical profession is traumaphobic. They leave that to the psychiatrists or psychologists. My God, the psychiatrists are the last people they leave it to. That's a whole other subject. Because psychiatrists these days... are…

…realizations, it triggered a lot of guilt in me. So I approached my kids from a point of view of the guilty parent who, oh my God, I did all these things, but also from the point of view of not trying to fix them. They didn't want me to fix them.…

…this question. Do you value me? Talk about myself as a human being. And they say, yeah, of course. I say, okay, what if, God forbid, tomorrow I'd have a stroke and I couldn't speak and I couldn't move and I couldn't give anything to anybody? Would you…

…sick. And sometimes it takes an illness. to wake people up. And I don't recommend that way of waking up, but my God, it works that way very often. One of the Greek playwrights, Aeschylus, wrote in a play called Agamemnon, written 2400 years ago,…

…to others as well. It's so, yeah. It's so powerful for me to hear that from you because I think we're so good at saying, Oh God, the last three years were just a waste of time, but now I figured it out. You know, that job that I was in 10 years…

…didn't have YouTube, there wasn't YouTube then, but there was a newspaper that I wrote for. Why would you have not said to me, God, but you're too young to do this. How come? Because you're not me. Oh, so there's different rules for you and me, is…

…realm, which is our normal cells. There's the animal realm, which is our lusts and our id and our biological drives. There's the God realm of spiritual realization. There are other realms, but one of the realms is the hungry ghost realm. And in the 100…

…way it's often used is this will never happen to us again. Yeah. All right. Well, yes, I totally get it. I mean, yes, God forbid, but it can't seem to be a tribal slogan. It's got a deeper meaning, which is human beings will not dehumanize other human…

…like. I said, well, can you put it into some words? And she said, well, it's peace, it's emptiness. She surrendered to a God she didn't believe in. Wow. And peace and completion. And it's a loneliness, but it's an aloneness that's got nothing to do with…

…me. And I mean, it's beautiful. It's really sustained me. It's like, it's like, uh, somebody just said you were, my name is God. But I think you might've said it as that once, uh, these things happen, you don't forget them. Yes. When I'm now, you…

…get, what message do they get? And what about people who listen to this and go, well, I need to work all the hours God sends to pay the bills? That's certainly true for a lot of people. Partly that's a matter of how this society doesn't value young…

…you. Thank you very much. That little baby does not suppress any gut feelings. She doesn't lie there at night saying, oh my God, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm wet, and I'm uncomfortable and lonely, but I better not bother mommy and daddy right now. So at…

…organizers who went to all this trouble and all the people who bought tickets and all that? But you know, at the end, oh my God, was I going to miss the birth of my grandchild? So that's the big thing coming up. In terms of my work, My eldest son…

…it's a wicked thing. It's awful. It's cruel. And the fact that it comes right at the same time as menopause, what was God thinking? I'm just like, but God wasn't thinking because there wasn't an emptiness. That's true. Oh, my goodness. You just made such…

…cruel. And the fact that it comes right at the same time as menopause, what was God thinking? I'm just like, but God wasn't thinking because there wasn't an emptiness. That's true. Oh, my goodness. You just made such a good point from the evolutionary…

…us the videos. Yeah. And I'm like, why didn't you stop him? Yeah. And he said, somebody had to take the videos. And I'm like. Good God. So I want to hear what he has to say. So what I'm saying is. Had there been somebody to talk to. So there wasn't…

…you were heard saying on X, I think in response to something I may have said, that Messi might be the proof that God exists. Yeah, Messi's turning me from an atheist to a believer. Listen, Messi, when he scored his brilliant hat-trick, and it was a…

…what Jesus talked about, by the way. When he talked about that, unless you're born again, you can't enter the kingdom of God. No, he wasn't talking about psychedelics. He was just talking about... He might have been. Well, I don't necessarily think so.…

…is for each creature to gain mastery in relationship to their environment. So when you're three years old, tying a shoelace is, oh my God, I'm 80. I still find it hard to tie a shoelace. But for a three-year-old, tying a shoelace is hard, but they want…

…And where am I not saying no? And if I'm not saying no, why? What am I afraid of? Where am I not saying no? My God, I can, you know, I could literally feel that. It gave me chills as you said that, because I think there's a lot of people who…

…going for coffee, but you say yes because you don't want to displease me or you're afraid to look selfish or you're afraid, oh, maybe God won't like me, you know? What's going to be the impact on you if you don't say no? What will be the impact? We…

…the same way I would relanguage the Ten Commandments in a way that... No, I'm not somebody who believes in a... kind of God, the traditional entity that exists as almost like a humanoid person, you know? But at the same time, if you take the statement,…

…entity that exists as almost like a humanoid person, you know? But at the same time, if you take the statement, I'm a jealous God, you should have no gods, you know, you think, well, why would God be jealous, you know? But if you actually look at the…

…the same time, if you take the statement, I'm a jealous God, you should have no gods, you know, you think, well, why would God be jealous, you know? But if you actually look at the meaning of If we substitute truth, ultimate truth for God, then if you…

…why would God be jealous, you know? But if you actually look at the meaning of If we substitute truth, ultimate truth for God, then if you put anything else in front of the truth, you're going to create suffering for yourself. So in that sense, I'm…

…if you put anything else in front of the truth, you're going to create suffering for yourself. So in that sense, I'm a jealous God, thou shalt have no other gods before me, makes perfect sense. And the same with the 12 steps. So the first step is that…

…my whole life had ever shown me compassion. Despite what I'd done, they showed me compassion, which put me in touch with my God again. So he's somebody who a few days before he died, overcame his fragmentation. And there were a few Nazis like that, a…

…are people pleasers. Children have a need to be accepted, to be loved. In fact, that need has been wired into us, either by God, if you're purely religious, or by evolution, or a combination of both. But that need to be accepted, to be loved, is just…

…two step-sons nine and eleven okay great save a one-year-old I do. And every time I was reading your book, I'm like, oh my God, I'm doing this wrong. I can't break eye contact with her. Well, exactly. But here's the thing. No one day old baby has any…

…And there's so many things to think about. Like I said, as I was reading Scattered Minds, I was thinking to myself, oh my God, I need to make sure I do this or don't do this. So when you had mentioned the eye contact, don't break eye contact…

…my powerlessness is actually a way of gaining power. And then, the higher power, well, you can think of that as God, if you want to use that phrase, but it, you know... Consciousness. Consciousness, awareness, the true self that you found. Yeah,…

…said that though The brain can develop new circuits even later on in life and that's called neuroplasticity. For which I always say thank God for neuroplasticity because I'm 73 now and I would not wish to be as stupid as I was when I was 71. So thank…

…God for neuroplasticity because I'm 73 now and I would not wish to be as stupid as I was when I was 71. So thank God that the brain can change and that's why the word recovery is so interesting. Because when we talk about recovery, what does it mean…

…if you saw the Democratic National Convention. And when Hillary won the nomination, there was a video narrated about her life by God himself, Morgan Freeman. How many of you saw that video about her life? There was something very interesting in that video…

…an article about me yesterday, and they said I was a psychiatrist, and I had to call them up and say, Look, thank God I'm not, you know. No knock on individual psychiatrists, many of them who do heroic work with deep understanding, but as a discipline,…

…about the cult of trauma. The cult of trauma that has to be ended before it takes over the mental health field. God forbid. Naturally, they mentioned me as one of its most egregious perpetrators. Addiction, according to this article, had nothing to do…

…But the result is that then you start to identify with your role and how you see things. You're not going to accept, oh my God, so for 20 years I've been practicing medicine in a certain way and somebody comes along with a new point of view and I'm…

…practicing medicine in a certain way and somebody comes along with a new point of view and I'm going to say, oh God, thank you. Now I understand things better. No, you're going to defend your point of view because your self-importance is dependent on…

…like Deepak Chopra, who has written 10,000 books on spiritual enlightenment and then talks about girls squealing as being real, whereas God is a construct. Well, those people were disillusioned. And I know there's also been a fair bit of conversation around…

…young children. And that's not proven. And probably he wasn't. He was talking about young women. that he and how they are real, but God is a construct. And so I don't know how many of them are involved in the actual exploitation of children. But as to…

…accepted without murmur. It's not so easy to sell ideologies to younger people these days, I don't think. But honest to God, I get lost between all the different gens, you know. I would call Gen Z the TikTok generation. Millennials, younger millennials…

…about it. It's almost like the typical drug pusher. The first one is free. Exactly. My first one was free. I said, oh my God, this is it. I want more of this, you know. Next night, kaboom, you know. So you can never predict. So it doesn't follow.…

…inevitably everything that needs to come up will come up in the perfect order. It's almost like a process of like beginning to trust God in a way. Many people I think are stuck in the doing. And in a way you could maybe extrapolate that back out of…

…And in a way you could maybe extrapolate that back out of like, I don't trust the world. I don't trust the universe. I don't trust God. And if you can kind of sit down and just allow for 10 days or two days or whatever, I think it starts to unravel…

…perfectly fine and beautiful is just the the um the lack of acceptance of that in some aspect. It's like a lack of acceptance of God. It's like, I don't want to believe it. That's what they tell me, and as soon as I explain... I believe them, and as…

…that it'll get me out of my mind. Out of your mind is supposed to be a bad thing. What are you, out of your mind? Thank God I'm out of my mind, finally, you know? And so I do get that it's not about what anybody else will teach me. And it's not…

…is a great spiritual teacher. I'm not going into that conversation right now. But I set this intention before the ceremony of experiencing God. I was going to go for it. I was going to go for the big enchilada. For once I wanted to experience God.…

…God. I was going to go for it. I was going to go for the big enchilada. For once I wanted to experience God. Because people have. Or universality, or whatever the word is. God is just a word. I wasn't going to experience any particular religion.…

…to go for the big enchilada. For once I wanted to experience God. Because people have. Or universality, or whatever the word is. God is just a word. I wasn't going to experience any particular religion. I just wanted to get the whole picture. And I've…

…anything in particular, but they're not separate from me, is what I'm saying. Then this flock of Canada geese. And I got it. That's God. She or he is not going to show up with trumpets and angels, not for me anyway. But it's been there all along. And…

…late to things that I care about. And there's a form of even as an adult, I'm 39 years old. I am aware that, oh, my God, I'm about to be late. I've been late for dates with my wife. I've been late for pickup of parents or children. there is this,…

…by the way, that goes along with ADHD. As somebody once said, I'm sorry is the commonest phrase in the ADHD vocabulary. Oh my God. I say sorry all the time. Yeah. Yeah. I let it fly. Like you might really want to read my book scattered minds. Okay.…

…something that's really interesting about the mind-body connection, but specifically with intuition. People love your work because they go, oh my God, Dr. Gabor Mate is saying I should trust my gut. It's scientifically connected to my head. I should trust my…

…says that's going to be impossible in this physical realm. Absolute justice is only possible in the hereafter, in the spiritual realm with God. And that helps him go to sleep at night. And I've found some profound truth in that as well. How do we even…

…which is human beings are are deeply flawed. And the period of times that we live through are incredibly finite. And only God or some higher power Yahweh, Bhagwan, whatever you want to call it, can really do the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and really give…

…see parallels, and also parallels in terms of the therapeutic applications? There's brain circuits that you might call the God circuitry, portals where this mystical... unifying deep experience can enter. Now some people get there spontaneously. Hildegard of…

…if I can say so, universalize it, because as the philosopher Nietzsche said, without music, life would be a mistake. And as somebody said, without Bach, God would be a very boring fellow. Touché. Gabor, thank you so much. My pleasure. Thank you, Brian.

…to talk to these people. So I started talking to my patients or with them. So it's not my experience. And honest to God, when I hear about the National Health Service in England, I hear from so many people, both doctors like yourself or patients, same…

…factors at our peril. And I'm not saying we should discard or in any way dismiss the wonderful achievements of modern medicine. My God, it's miraculous. But we're missing a huge piece, is what I'm saying, which is the wholeness of the person. And what if…

…happy to boast about it. But in any case, and you know, when I first published it, nobody paid attention. I thought, oh my God, why don't they see reality? I had this naive idea that people just need to see the truth and they're all going to say,…

…much for me. I desperately don't want that to happen. Much love and gratitude. Five minutes? I thought I don't know. 40 minutes, oh my God. Okay, well I got to make this quick then. I thought I had 60 minutes. Well, I'm going to take a bit more than…

…well said. I would agree to at the core, at the root, at the essence, none of us are broken. And our engagement with God. that which is broken and imperfect often rubs off on us but what would you say are the most detrimental experiences that people…

…say, sexually abused, as opposed to a child whose parents just can't honor and accept and validate their emotions, well, my God, you're talking about two different set of experiences, so that there's certainly horrific things happen to some people to wound…

…day there's going to be bleachers around the table and people will be able to look in and see. I would have been like, thank God. It's like, am I the only one who's seeing this? No. So I had to get that out of my system. And then still sometimes…

…that going? I could talk about the great prophet of the Muslims and his teachings. You know, in the Quran it says that God will only change a man if he's willing to change himself. How's it going? Peace, truth, devotion to Allah. something greater than…

…wrong? You did nothing. So turn that survivor's guilt into not there's something wrong with me because I survived, but I survived. Thank God. What can I do now? Make it active. We'll do one more. How do we build bridges with those who are deeply…

…This is true for a lot of people. It's not a Jewish question as such. And I quoted the Koran before where it says that God only changes those human beings who want to change. So as long as people don't want to change, And as long as the glimpse of…

…or organizationally. I'm talking about on the individual, human level. And ultimately, you have to accept what the Quran says, that God will only change people who want to change themselves. Thanks for listening again. So the last questioner, can you please…

…except Allah I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah Come to Prayer Al Fatiha Come to success. Come to success. Allah is the Greatest Allah is the Greatest There is no God but Allah

…psychedelic session and you come out of it upset, either because I wasn't present with you or you perceive that I wasn't, or God forbid I crossed some boundary or whatever, there's gotta be a place where you can go where you can say, this happened with…

…the way, more recently when I've tried them, all I get is side effects and no benefit. That means my brain has changed, thank God. So the brain is capacity to learn and to change, but I'll never go to them again, but Having said that they have their…

…working with them. But fundamentally, it's all about recognizing the survival value and honoring the service that they did us. And my God, I know so many people that have told me that addiction, which nearly took my life, actually also saved my life.…

…said that though, the brain can develop new circuits even later on in life, and that's called neuroplasticity. For which I always say, thank God for neuroplasticity because I'm 73 now and I would not wish to be as stupid as I was when I was 71. So…

…for neuroplasticity because I'm 73 now and I would not wish to be as stupid as I was when I was 71. So thank God that the brain can change. So first of all, they'll experience a loss when their father dies and maybe some grief, but there's nothing…

…if you saw the Democratic National Convention. And when Hillary won the nomination, there was a video narrated about her life by God himself, Morgan Freeman. How many of you saw that video about her life? There was something very interesting in that video…

…myth of normal. There's a chapter on it. There's a sixth question. What is the sixth question? Well, you're not saying yes. Oh my God, everywhere, to free time, to play, to joy, to creativity, to rest. Well, that not saying yes is as harmful as the not…

…I've put out and three different things just on YouTube has been viewed over a million times and on other forms of social media, God knows. So you're reaching a lot of people. So your newest book, The Myth of Normal, which we got a copy for everyone.…

…knew you were coming from a really loving place. But that really was the beginning point of me starting to look at just, God, the compulsivity and to unravel so much of this stuff. And the other thing that helped is you helped with... Me and Akira…