I feel like seeing Galadriel speak to Gandalf. These two are amazing

We collectively owe you both an endless string of wisdom that we are just beggining to unravel. Your presences will leave an unfillable void, a ballast of sober critical thinking without which we are destined to sink. Bless you

♥ New sub from Belgium, the amazing Gabor Maté & what a wonderful lady Helena 'to meet' her here, thank you so

We have been taught to believe that wanting and striving for more is the route to happiness,.Yes, we must pay our bills, however, to continually feel like we are not doing or having ‘enough’, in order to create wealth and ‘opportunity’, has led us to focus on materialism and external validation. This, in turn, has led us to become disconnected from each other, creating stress, and breaking down the familial and community bonds we once had. If you doubt this, simply look at all the dysfunction, homelessness and despair in society that the rich would keep hidden and out-of-sight. Michael Sandwell calls this the ‘tyranny of merit’. Luckily, Gabor, Helena, Sandell and others are helping to throw light on this situation. I just hope that it’s not too late.

Outstanding conversation, feel so privileged to be able to listen, thank you! 🙏

Thank you for this amazing talk I want to watch this again and again it's like the powers that be have asked us to go into reverse for our well-being

I am so glad I found this video, which is my introduction to Helena Norberg-Hodge. So much wisdom and compassion!

I've heard many of Gabor's talks and interviews on KZfaq. He emphasizes the importance of bonding and connection, emotional and physical, between children and their parents. And here is what Helena says in her Ancient Futures book about how they used to raise children in Ladakh: "[Children] have continual physical contact with others, a factor that plays an important role in their development." "Men and women alike adore little children." "Children receive unlimited and unconditional affection from everyone around them." [Children] grow up surrounded by people of all ages ... they grow up as part of a whole chain of relationships, a chain of giving and taking." These are the things that are lacking, as Gabor describes, in the way most children are brought up in the "civilized" Western world.

I just am amazed by the compassion of Gabor Mate. Thanks for bringing this conversation and his wisdom forth. Would be an honour to meet him and hear him someday 😊🙏

I value this conversation, open honest sweet. This safe space is really appreciated.

Beautiful conversation, thank you Helena and Gabor!💕🙌🏼

Helena u r brilliantly atuned to our desires and hopes. Gabor thank u for connecting to humanity AND whole food plant based nutrition!

soul life affirming 👏

This is so very precious!!! Remarkably helpful, healing. Why don’t we talk or even shout about that all the time!!? Why don’t people want to see the absurd of this pseudomedical situation?!?!? Thank you🤍

A uploading to the truth what is rising up on the surface of our mind and body , THANK YOU for more openings discussion realization for important change in our lifestyle .Loving living in the peace & believe to rise up like the Phoenix from Ashes ...

What a wonderful conversation. Love the grandmother study. She was my rock, even though far away.

Thank you. Such an informative and heartwarming conversation. As well as inspiring and motivating.

I convert is podcast into MP3 for my work and sometime I don't understand anything even the translator on KZfaq can't understand Gabor but I love the guy

Wow. This has everything. Thank you, I am in awe of both of you. ❤️

An interesting and informative talk. Thank you both for your contribution to humanity.

A deeply inspiring and insightful conversation

This was amazing!!! THANKYOU FOR SHARING YOUR MEDICINE!!

Thank you both so much for your care and compassion. I'm now disillusioned, but not with you

Fabulous conversation, thank you both. 💗

I’m curious if my children are in better health to have my mother virtually accessible to us consistently as she can only visit twice yearly now -grandmothers are good for grandchildren!!

Thankyou 2 of my favorite people I wonder if Gabors seen Schooling the world ?

thank you

Excellent discussion

"They learned that grandmothers are good for grandkids" 😂

It would be nice to actually hear from the people in those countries in Africa or India or those people in general rather than just white people talking about it all the time from their point of view.i get it...I really do as someone who has spent some years living in Africa and trying to make sense of the inequalities and differences in how people live and the apparent unhappiness in much of the western world despite our relative wealth. I really think we need to hear far more voices from those continents because sometimes I can't help but feel westerners can only speak from a very limited and outside perspective.I learned so much by listening to many people in Africa and came to realise so much about how we focus far too much on the intellect rather than our deeper inner knowing or intuition. I agree studying Phd's in order to find out things which are blatantly common sense does seem a waste of time..not all academia of course but so much of it seems driven by a kind of egotistical need for status rather than acquiring knowledge that is of value and use and translatable into practical workable solutions. ,,,and yes I do agree women in general are far more tuned into this inner knowing and intuition than men are but we pay a price for this with often being emotional caretakers and men pay the price by being more disconnected from their emotions very often but more able to go out into the world and gain their validity through work and career..OK its changing but men still focus more on career very often than on being caregivers.

Jose Arguelles/Volum Votan. 🙏

Excellent

Jac.B.Nijssen presents in his book Tackling Human Complexity 2018 a dynamical model of the inner workings of human beings. It focuses especially on the lifetime development of the interaction between feeling and thinking during the preparation and execution of behavior vis-à-vis an environment.

Oki, I would like to know what date your article was published ??? Thank you.

Greed for money is killing us. How cruel and barbaric we have become - while the rich laugh at the chaos they have caused while counting their hoarded gold.

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can someone tell me what they meant by the treaties almost no one knows about?

Does anybody know where I can find the film Gabor mentioned, called Babies? And he was not sure of the name of the film.

It's tough. With a daughter who is mentally ill, it's impossible to be in the grandchildren lives. The kids are bound to rebel eventually and then peer culture takes over.

i adore Gabor and i cant stop watching videos with him. he repeatedly talks about the lost connection between young and elder. i wish i could be closer to my parents but i cant. they are very conservative and do not uderstand veganism at least. misuderstaning doesnt help to create loving and caring surroundings. so i moved to my own place. and the strange thing is we speak more often and dont argue now at all. do you think it can be healthier to be apart from elders?

World Localization Day, Helena Norberg-Hodge

Reading or listening to highly "technical" information doesn't give the majority of us a nice hit of bodily chemistry. We are, for the most part, a bunch of addicts looking for the next fix. We've been groomed unwittingly to be that way; maybe even unintentionally in the beginning. Once the cat was out of the bag though, those with ulterior motives took the reigns and kept up the momentum. One by one, we're going to have to suffer by degrees, go through withdrawals and discover long term satisfaction over short term fixes.

Apologists for capitalism say that we have never had it so good in terms of living conditions, access to clean water, food supplies, housing, benefits, access to medical care etc. And they say that if wealth wasn't created by capitalism we wouldn't have hospitals, food stores, water supplies, jobs etc. Can we really go back to living in tribes? We may have a nostalgic yearning for this but how many Western people, if given the choice of having a community but being poor would choose it? How can we reintroduce communities and mitigate the worst effects of capitalism? You are describing the problems well (we (the 'educated' liberals ARE disillusioned Gabor) but what can we do about it? We need to pay our bills and support our families and cope with living in this society. There isn't a lot of time for much else! And then there are those descended from the working class who support capitalism and may have their own house for example - they believe in the system and aspire to more. They brand critics of the system as Marxists or woke intellectuals and vote for Brexit to keep the foreigners out. So not only the billionaires and the corporations are against us but also our potential allies who believe in the capitalist dream.

Not just the rights of (matriarch) grandmas and children are denied but the parents are not kept in check. The primary or 'nuclear' family is an unbalanced 'community' without wider generational input, incl loving aunts, uncles & cousins who we replace with unrelated doctors & therapists. No wonder we are emotionally impoverished. Exclusive patriarchy has to go.

At 7:20- I moved from my birth town Portland, Or to Phoenix, Az back in 2012 and for the most part, nothing in Portland is exactly the same. There are a lot of small businesses (although less now, I'm sure) and in Phoenix every light there's a strip mall with the same chain restaurants and corporate shops. Shopping shopping and more shopping. I feel literally sick. No culture, no trees, no green, no semi cheap food cart with fusioned cultures. No drivers that know to watch out for bicycles and pedestrians. It's a soulless place to be in comparison to Portland, but I hear Portland has had it's own big issues. This country's "system" is all about big pharma and big banks. Enjoyment in life is not as important as getting the people sick so they have medical bills to pay, run out of money, then banks can have their homes again. Yuck!

Trauma Theory

Wonderful but........with all that insight how do you have any hope or desire to keep living.

A bit of a rant here, so bear with me: I wish they would not gender care-giving. I know of men who have been good care-givers, as well men who have been advocates for equity. And I know of women who have created toxic family systems and/or contributed to larger (and toxic) societal systems. I believe whenever there is inequity it is typically rooted in dysfunctional environments (whether micro, mezzo or macro level, typically all three) and I really wish that were addressed by these two since they do believe in mind/body unity. In this vein, I find it hard to credibly take them seriously since theirs were the generations which had the massive numerical power (in the 1960's and beyond) to overturn the rapacious capitalism that was curbed by previous generations in the 1930's. How many of those privileged Boomers, in Canada, are smoking their now conveniently state-regulated cannabis in their polluting cottages in lands that should be left pristine (or returned to FNMI people), employing temporary foreign workers, and after selling their once socially subsidized homes in a nation where the average home is now upwards of $700,000? They are cashing out their pensions that were bled for by their progenitors and kept barely aloft by successive generations. OK, Boomers indeed... This is not meant to be a generalization of all in that cohort (since there are many who have been marginalized among them too, who were denied the opportunities of the privileged) and there as well are those who have worked for and practiced equity through both their words and actions, only that you'll excuse me if I wrestle with the obvious favorable demographic trends that have in general benefited the most privileged of that generation and is once again being ignored by ostensibly progressive social advocates. That all being said, I do recognize (and what perhaps Mate has lost sight of-not sure if Norberg-Hodge ever believed in equity) that the most critical axis of oppression continues to be economic class (which these two both dance around, however elegantly) and everything else-race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, etc-is all inferior to and subsumed in that the least addressed and still most oppressive driver of inequity.

Blah blah blah. Who can afford mental health??? $600 a mont at lest???