
Healing, Plant Medicines & Maintaining Openness w/ Gabor Mate
In Search Of More with Eli Nash
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The Benefits of Not Teaching Yourself
There's certainly a benefit to the pharmaceutical companies who fund most of the research because they make them money managing symptoms. The Western mind, especially about going back to ancient times actually, the Western mind, there's influence by the Greeks separated mine from the body. So we've been a victim of our own success. We've gained so much and learned so much and benefited so much from this left brain scientific approach that we've totally forgotten, the unity of mind and body. It's almost worshipping science to the exclusion. And there is the commercialization of medicine, which forbids or prohibits or I should say, at least discourages spending time with people as humans.
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