Philosophy of Health
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI interview philosophers, historians, shamans, scientists, journalists and other interesting people about spirituality and healing.
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Haunting the Korean Diaspora
November 24, 2017 12:52 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBIn the 1950s, over 100,000 biracial children were orphaned in South Korea, sparking what is known today as international adoption. These were children largely abandoned by US military men and the Korean prostitutes the US military exploited during the war, by expanding the forced sexual labor camps established earlier by the Japanese, and which exist today. Grace M. Cho has written an homage to these women in her book Haunting the Korean Diaspora, telling a story which can only make sense in ...
Episode 38 - Adoption Series: First Trip Home w/ G.O.A.'L.
September 20, 2017 17:33 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBG.O.A.'L. (Global Overseas Adoptees' Link) is the only organization by adoptees for adoptees to assist in everything from requesting birth records to providing psychological assistance to helping you move to Korea. With First Trip Home, they remain the only non-religious sponsor for adoptees to return to Korea and the only program to specifically center around doing a Birth Family Search. While it involves trips to adoption agencies and your city of birth, it also includes sightseeing adventu...
Bonus Episode with Kristi Brian
July 28, 2017 01:43 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBhttp://philoofhealth.org/2017/07/children-of-empire.html
Episode 37 - Adoption Series: Children of Empire with Kristi Brian
July 28, 2017 00:40 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBHow do you solve a problem like Korea? This week we are joined by Kristi Brian, a cultural anthropologist and author of Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship. In it we ask everything from "what constitutes family?" to "how are children turned into products for American consumers?" We discuss adoption horror stories, the history of adoption in the United States, racism, adoption as charity and industry, capitalism, patriarchy, and white fe...
Episode 34 - Origins of Racism: Mystical History
January 27, 2017 20:47 - 1 hour - 101 MBPeter KJ Park joins us for our third and final podcast to discuss mystical history, the alternate history competing with the story that we are all familiar with today. We discuss Georg Ast and Thaddeus Rixner, two philosophers who not only expounded a history that did not begin in Greece, but also saw India and Egypt as a part of the original progression of the history of philosophy and civilization. Unlike Kant and Meiners, they did not share the belief that non-whites were incapable of seri...
Episode 33 - Origins of Racism: An Alternate History
November 30, 2016 01:19 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBPeter KJ Park joins us once again to delve into two historians of philosophy who rejected the emerging view of history, Joseph Marie de Gérando and Friedrich Schlegel, both of whom set upon the task of writing a comparative history of philosophy. This model was based on Enlightenment science, but instead of classifying all the natural stuff of this world, they were intent to classify all the systems of thought that have existed throughout the story of mankind. They thought to organize, divide...
Episode 32 - Origins of Racism: The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
November 21, 2016 21:46 - 1 hour - 76 MBWas Western civilization born with the spontaneous, creative genius of the ancient Greeks who passed their knowledge onto the Romans who then spread it throughout Europe? Or was it devised by racist philosophers of the enlightenment? Before the year 1780, virtually no scholar believed history began in Greece. What changed? In his groundbreaking book, Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, Peter KJ Park presents devastating evidence aga...
Episode 30 - Psychic Yoga with Dean Radin
September 22, 2016 18:45 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBDean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities. He has held appointments at Princeton University and several Silicon Valley think tanks, including SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government. In this episode we discuss that classified program (which has since been de-classified), the mystical origins and purpose...
Episode 26 - The Writing Revolution
June 25, 2016 18:31 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBAmalia Gnanadesikan, author of The Writing Revolution, was diagnosed with a serious illness and when she thought it would take her life, she quit her job and wrote the book she had always dreamed of writing: a book about the history of writing itself. This conversation takes us into tho roots of history all over the globe, even to the humans who uttered the first word. We discuss ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, dead languages, Sanskrit, cuneiform, cherokee, and perhaps the greatest king of al...
Episode 24 - From Autoimmunity to Healing with Ed Cohen
October 10, 2015 02:13 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBEd Cohen, PhD and I discuss how the Roman concept of immunity in war, politics, and legal theory morphed into 21st century medicine's notion of biological immunity as well as his journey from a near death experience to health. check out Ed's website at healingcounsel.com his book "A Body Worth Defending" at http://www.amazon.com/Body-Worth-Defending-Biopolitics-Apotheosis/dp/0822345358/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444443119&sr=8-1&keywords=ed+cohen and consider donating to gofundme.com/mandylive...
Episode 23 - Sorcery with Mehran Khaghani
September 24, 2015 02:24 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBBorn an anchor baby in London, Mehran single-handedly rescued his Iranian family from the Ayatollah Khomeini. Ever gracious, teenage Mehran evened the score in the United States by dropping out of college and taking up homosexuality. Honing his sharp sense of the absurd while working at Harvard University, Mehran's early experience navigating regime change came in handy when he personally escorted deposed president Larry Summers off the property. He would later go on to produce several succe...
Episode 22 - How Beliefs Make Us Sick with Gabor Maté
July 17, 2015 20:33 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBDr. Gabor Maté joins us for a very personal conversation on the nature of illness and his experience treating cancer, MS, ALS, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, lupus, depression, anxiety, addiction, etcetera with ayahuasca. Gabor is the only MD currently in North America using ayahuasca as a catalyst for healing on the physical, psychological, and spiritual levels and has been generously counseling me as I continue to cure my scleroderma. Today we discuss his personal use...
Episode 21 - Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Occult with Gary Lachman
June 03, 2015 19:33 - 1 hour - 100 MBGary Lachman (aka Gary Valentine), once the bassist of Blondie, has since turned his sights toward being a popular writer of the occult. His traditional background in philosophy has given him a unique perspective into the history of esoteric systems, allowing him to see patterns and historical lineages across these disciplines which so rarely overlap. Gary has written on Jung, Swedenborg, Rudolf Steiner, and histories of the occult and consciousness, and joins us to talk about the spiritual p...
Episode 20 - The Science of GMOs w/ Sheldon Krimsky
May 17, 2015 18:28 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBDr. Krimsky gives a balanced critique about the pros and cons of GMOs. Instead of arguing for or against them, he stresses that more research needs to be done and tells us what we know and don't know about this controversial topic. Even more importantly, he tells us why it isn't held up to the same scrutiny as all other products on the US market. More at philoofhealth.org
Episode 19 - Secret Lost Religions with Gerard Russell
April 27, 2015 02:35 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBGerard Russell worked for 14 years as a British and United Nations diplomat, which took him to the far stretches of the cradle of civilization including Cairo, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Kabul, and Jeddah right after the war in Iraq began. There, he was able to come face to face with those who still practice ancient pagan religions, some of which are older than 4,000 years and all of which are disappearing. His background in philosophy having studied at Oxford and London Universities positioned him ...
Episode 18 - The Esoteric Philosophy of Rudolf Steiner
April 07, 2015 17:45 - 2 hours - 124 MBRudolf Steiner was a highly trained scientist, philosopher, architect, founder of biodynamic agriculture and the Waldorf Schools, social reformer, esotericist, and a clairvoyant we are far from catching up with. Not only was he once the steward of Goethe's scientific writings, but he was also offered to be the official archivist of Nietzsche's writings upon his death. He was a Rosicrucian, a mystic, a visionary, and the founder of the movement Anthroposophy. Brought to you by: fundwhatyoulov...
Episode 17 - Capitalism, Feminism, and the Body
March 24, 2015 22:21 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBEve Mitchell joins us to discuss Silvia Frederici's notion that capitalism has fundamentally oppressed our bodies and to help us flesh out the feminist side of Marx's critique. We go into the connection between modern PCAs (home health aides), the witch hunts, and feudalism. We don't just talk theory, however, we also talk about activism, unionizing, and using history and philosophy to fight injustice. For more: PhiloofHealth.org
Episode 11 – Growing Up Rich with Anne Bernays
March 12, 2015 00:46 - 1 hour - 108 MBThe daughter of the famous and infamous Edward Bernays and the double grandniece of Sigmund Freud, Anne Bernays is an accomplished writer in her own right with 10 novels under her belt as well as a number of works in nonfiction, including Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York, which she wrote with her late husband Justin Kaplan, who won the Pulitzer Prize and national book award for his biography on Mark Twain. Active in the literary and artistic community, Anne founded the executive board o...
Episode 15 - The Legacy of Pearl Buck
March 03, 2015 15:05 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBBefore transracial adoption, an openness to nonwhite cultures in general, the holocaust, civil rights, or a social awareness of the disabled, Pearl Buck was tirelessly pioneering on every front, using her talent as a writer and status as a nobel-prize winning celebrity to bring about social justice and global change. In the pantheon of great humanitarians such as Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and others, she has been lost to history. One of the world's first international celebr...
Episode 14 - Shaman and Astrologer Benjamin Bernstein
February 17, 2015 00:49 - 2 hours - 126 MBBenjamin Bernstein hosts iTunes’ most popular astrology podcast, and received the calling to become a shamanic practitioner during an ayahuasca ceremony. When I was on my deathbed he generously consulted with me and taught me how to shamanize my own ceremonies given that I was too sick to travel. When we first spoke I was bedridden, and now over a year later I'm walking and on the path to healing. Benjamin is a shamanic healer who consistently facilitates powerful healings and spiritual awak...
Episode 13 - A Good Death with Nicholas Christakis, MD/PhD
February 03, 2015 14:45 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBNicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who thinks outside the box when it comes to modern medicine. He also has dire warnings and a scathing critique as well as information to arm patients. He looks at race, gender, and income as factors in illness, and even questions what we mean by 'disease'. Dr. Christakis teaches an amazing course at Yale called "Death and Dying in the USA". He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science...
Episode 12 – Death Travels with Judy Bachrach
January 27, 2015 18:04 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBWe’ve all heard of Near Death Experiences, but what about those who have actually physically died–been medically declared dead–and come back? Judy Bachrach is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair as well as a professor of journalism. Her journalism work for the Washington Post led National Geographic to commission her to write the book Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life After Death, a journalistic odyssey filled with the author’s extensive interviews with those who have died an...
Episode 10 - Sacred Foods with Sally Fallon
January 06, 2015 00:35 - 2 hours - 122 MBSally Fallon Morell is the President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948) was a Cleveland dentist who has been called the “Isaac Newton of Nutrition.” In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. ...
Episode 8 - Gaia, Feminism, and the Divine with Donna Giancola
December 19, 2014 21:04 - 2 hours - 131 MBDonna Giancola is a feminist philosopher at Suffolk University (with Gregory Fried) as well as the director of the Religion Department. Her interests span world religion, feminism, sustainability, and the ancient Greeks. In this episode we ask: WTF is feminism and what does it have to do with cosmology? Why aren't there any good gods anymore? Should philosophy transcend religion? Was Socrates the end of philosophy? When did Christianity take over paganism? Can we have a spiritual science? P...
Episode 6 - Philosophy, Death, and the Sacred with Gregory Fried
December 03, 2014 02:57 - 2 hours - 132 MBStep into Plato's cave with Professor Gregory Fried as we discuss why we're no longer asking the original questions, why universities have failed us, and how we know experiences with ayahuasca are real. A self-described “Cambridge kid” who went from being a student at Harvard to becoming Chair of the “off-the-grid” Philosophy Department at Suffolk (and my professor at Boston University in between), Gregory Fried is a unique mind in academia and the current zeitgeist in general. Where some ha...
Episode 5 - Pets and Vets with Lisa
November 30, 2014 17:59 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBI talk to Lisa of the Merwin Animal Clinic to learn how they're able to operate as the only free veterinary clinic in United States, how pets are becoming only for the rich, and why we anthropomorphize dogs and gods. http://philoofhealth.org/2014/12/episode-5-animal-human-health-lisa.html
Bonus Episode! Thanksgiving with Howard Zinn
November 23, 2014 19:51 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBJoin me as I explore Howard Zinn for the first time, and get a taste of A People's History of the United States. Go here for a free audio download: audibletrial.com/philosophy For more history visit: http://philoofhealth.org/2014/11/czech-please-historian-igor-lukes.html
Episode 4 - Lineage and Illusions with Historian Igor Lukes
November 19, 2014 22:38 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBProfessor Igor Lukes teaches History and International Relations at Boston University and is an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is an expert in Central European history, East European politics, and contemporary Russia as well as an Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England. He is also a captivating lecturer, storyteller, and the first person to awaken a feminist mindset in me without ever talking about feminism. He si...
Episode 3 - WTF is homeopathy? with Peter Morrell
November 14, 2014 01:42 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBIs homeopathy total bullshit pseudoscience? Why does every other country use it regularly except us? Join Dr. Peter Morrell and I as we discuss the science, history, and philosophy of this misunderstood medical model, the medical mainstream in general, and a dude who works in shit. Literally. We also explore another genius lost to history, Samuel Hahnemann, who gave birth to homeopathy and with it, modern medicine as we know it today. So how did allopathy (which Hahnemann named) become mainst...
Episode 2 - Back from the Dead with Shyam
November 10, 2014 23:41 - 1 hour - 81.2 MBI speak with my caretaker Shyam about her life in Nepal, and why she cares for sick people for so little pay, and coming back from the dead. And please donate and check out our sponsors at http://philoofhealth.org/2014/11/episode-002-back-from-dead.html
Episode 1 - Office Hours with Christopher Ryan
November 04, 2014 02:23 - 2 hours - 116 MBPhilosophy of health welcomes New York Times best-selling author Dr. Christopher Ryan to launch our first episode. We discuss magical, mystical childhood, angry, angst ridden adolescence, an hour left brained adulthood. We talked Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, the spiritual history of great scientists, and the future of ayahuasca. Join us for office hours, and check out ChristopherRyanPhD.com. And please donate and check out our sponsors at http://philoofhealth.org/2014/11/episode-001-office-hours-...
Episode 0 - Hello Friends
November 01, 2014 19:40 - 15 minutesFor all links associated with this podcast please check out http://philoofhealth.org/2014/09/hello-friends.html
Bonus Episode! The Sacred with Eliade
October 11, 2014 12:18 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBI discuss the thought of Mircea Eliade and his book the Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History. For more talk of the Sacred, see: http://philoofhealth.org/2014/11/episode-001-office-hours-dr-christopher-ryan.html