Freedom and Equality: What Does it Mean to Be an American? The United States has long held a curious and ambivalent relationship with freedom. The American founding fathers learned much about freedom and equality from Native Americans, who lived in truly egalitarian societies, but later confined the original Americans to reservations. The founding …

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…" It is striking how much these immortal words, written by Char…

A community of Earth System scientists at the Stockholm Resilience Centre asked a powerful question: How do we define a safe operating space for humanity with all that is currently known about the Earth’s various systems? They determined that there are there are nine critical thresholds that together define a safe operating space for humanity: bios…

In the Northern Hemisphere, today marks the winter solstice designating a point in the year when we are afforded the shortest amount of daylight—of course, if you live in say Australia or Chile, you are experiencing the opposite. It is also around this time of year, that many of our spiritual traditions anticipate the return of light. Today we have…

Welcome to a special re-broadcast of our conversation with Deb Haaland and Sally Roesch Wagner in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day 2023 This podcast was originally published on December 8, 2020. Deb Haaland now serves as Secretary of the Interior in the Biden Administration. She is the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet Secretary. Native A…

When the Buddha was asked “Are you a reincarnation of God?” he replied “No.” “Are you a wizard then?” was the next query and “No” again he said. “So “What are you?” they asked, intent on knowing. He simply replied, "I am awake.” And true enough, Buddha means “the awakened one.” Buddha’s life work was teaching how to awaken. These days, however, the…

In today’s very special podcast we will re-air a discussion that was originally recorded and produced by our good friends at the East-West Psychology Department of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) for their own program, the East-West Psychology Podcast (https://east-westpsychologypodcast.com/). The discussion itself is an introdu…

Here's the five minute version for those who don't have time for the longer version or just want to quickly check it out.

Mark Winetong is an Australian Indigenous general practitioner, who was one of the first Indigenous people to graduate from medical school in Australia. He currently is the Director of Knowledge Translation at the Lowitja Institute in Australia

Brian and Joanna Lamboy discuss their fractal theory of being in a short video.

Brian and Joanna Lamboy from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine discuss their fractal theory of being and its implications for psychiatry.

Interview with Helen Nuttal and Elise, her graduate student, about cognitive reserve and their research about cognition.

This podcast comes from a class I taught. The first five minutes are not so exciting as a student critiques a paper I wrote, but then it gets fun. Feedback welcome as always.

5 minute version of my interview with Andrea Reid.

Andrea is a Principal Investigator and Indigenous community member in British Columbia, affiliated with the University of British Columbia. She is applying the ideas of two-eyed seeing to fisheries management which is quite exciting.

Dr. Shapiro spent over 40 years working with behavioral health and medical arts and humanities in family medicine at the University of California at Irvine. We discuss her experiences and insights.

Here's the six-minute summary for those of you who don't have time to watch the entire hours.

My friend and colleague, Patrick McFarlane, now of Detroit, Michigan, has been doing a deep dive into the ideas of decolonizing medicine, psychology, and social work as part of his Ph.D. dissertation. We're catching up with him over one year later from his last podcast with me to see what he's learned and what's new. You can watch the video on Yout…

This is my practice talk for a keynote I gave for the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Hopefully, the actual talk was better but I think this is adequate. Please let me know. The topic is obviously story and brain.

Interview with Josie Conte regarding the role of osteopathy for helping people who have been wounded emotionally.

This is Margaret Draskovitch's discussion of the Revitalization that is occurring on Kodiak Island, Alaska among the Aleutiq People. She was on my podcast in its first year and is now returning to provide an update. We discuss what health care would be if Indigenous people organized it.

This is a 5 minute Intro to Margaret Draskovitch's discussion of the Revitalization that is occurring on Kodiak Island, Alaska among the Aleutiq People.

I interview Mick Cooper, a leader in the U.K. pluralistic psychology movement.

Johanna Lynch is the President of the Australian Association for General Practice Psychological Medicine. We talk about the importance of psychological medicine in General Practice and the challenges of putting it there.

The East Indian sage Ramana Maharshi was once asked, “How should we treat others?” He replied, “There are no others.” From the perspective of the sage, the universe is one being. It is for similar reasons that the values of respect, kinship, and love are inseparable in aboriginal culture, as are gratitude, humility, and sacred obligations to origin…

Native Americans in professional healing professions may creatively incorporate Native ways in their work, but the path is not easy. The same is true for those coming from a Western background that realize there is something lacking in modern medicine and are attracted to Native ways of healing. Western and Native approaches to healing may seem inc…

Alayna Hall is a Maori woman, scholar, and researcher who is exploring stories as Indigenous research methodology, particularly related to attachment. She is challenging the Eurocentric models of attachment as developed by Ainsworth and Bowlby and presenting uniquely Maori models of attachment. It's exciting work.…

Louise is part of a research group at the University of British Columbia, exploring Indigenous Theories of Mind.

Linda is a Maori women who wrote the book on Indigenous Methodologies. She is awesome and you will love this interview!

He just published a book, Guide to Integral Somatic Psychology. We discuss emotions and the body.

Glenn is the Director of the Center for Original Thinking in Albuquerque, NM. He has a long history of creating dialogue with North American Indigenous people and he shares some of that dialogue. He is the author of Original Thinking and Original Politics and is at work on his newest book, Original Love.…

The Concept of Belonging with Sarah Wright, Professor of Geography at the University of New Castle in New South Wales, Australia.

Here is the first part of Patrick McFarlane's discussion with colleagues at Memorial University, Newfoundland, on decolonization and mental health practices.

Here is the second part of Patrick McFarlane's discussion with colleagues at Memorial University, Newfoundland, on decolonization and mental health practices.

Thorben is a Professor at the Institute of Technology in Copenhagen and writes about healing architecture. It was a great conversation and I think you will enjoy it!

Check out my interview with Moffat Osoro from Nairobi, Kenya, who has created a medical and birthing clinic in a poor area of Nairobi incorporating traditional Kenyan practices into their care. It's called the Fremo Medical and Birth Centre and you can reach him at fremocentre@gmail.com or moffat2002us@yahoo.com. He is always in need of resources a…

Ron and I discuss the psychotherapy of psychosis, both from a CBT and narrative perspective. We lead this into larger cultural issues of how our culture should change to accommodate healing better.

We discuss decolonizing research, health care, and being coyotes nipping at the heals of the mainstream from the shadows of the margins.

EPISODE Part 2: The renowned physicist and philosopher David Bohm once said, “The great strength of science is that it is rooted in actual experience. The great weakness of contemporary science is that it admits only certain types of experience as legitimate.” Life after death, or the survival of post-mortem consciousness, is one of the areas moder…

I present my views on bipolar disorder -- its definition, treatment, and alternatives.

TWO PART EPISODE: The renowned physicist and philosopher David Bohm once said, “The great strength of science is that it is rooted in actual experience. The great weakness of contemporary science is that it admits only certain types of experience as legitimate.” Life after death, or the survival of post-mortem consciousness, is one of the areas mod…

This is the conclusion of last week's presentation about how I view prescribing psychiatric medications. Discussion is welcome.

My podcast guest rescheduled at the last moment, so I thought why not share my thoughts about psychiatric prescribing. So that's exactly what I'm doing. I will appreciate comments from others and further discussion.

Walter is an Implementation Specialist with the Aboriginal Unit of the Center for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada's largest such hospital. He's become interested as I am in two-eyed seeing with regards to Indigenous healing -- what constitutes evidence and how do we interact with the mainstream medical community and their beliefs ab…

This talk provides an introduction to the concept and grounds many of our other discussions and episodes

With the advent of the nuclear age, Western science reached the pinnacle of invention, but lacked a critical understanding of its underlying wisdom or purpose. Carl Jung framed the problem as “modern man in search of a soul.” When the Western mind turned outward, searching for what was missing, it first turned to the East. A trickle of Eastern guru…

Lakhota woman, Dr. Ruby Gibson, based in Rapid City, South Dakota, at Freedom Lodge, talks about her work with Somatic Archaeology with Indigenous People for healing historical trauma. She's quite inspiring.

I present a program on how traditional stories teach altruism and concern for others, which we so desperately need these days.

This is my interview with Dr. Lijoi about his work with narrative medicine, his training activities with resident physicians, and his sense of what's what in family medicine today.

Marcellus Bear Heart Williams is what I call a living ancestor. A living ancestor is a person whose wisdom has not departed, but instead taken up residence in the hearts of those who loved him, and even perhaps in those that never met him – someone like myself. Living ancestors are not deceased, as in inert or forgotten. Their energy has not been d…