Dr. Gabor Mate (pronounced “Ma-tay”) is a Vancouver based physician, author and speaker. His newest book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts looks at the roots and ramifications of addiction (and not just to illicit substances). He approaches the subject from multiple angles, showing that addiction originates and plays out in personal feelings and experiences, body chemistry, societal structure and cultural attitudes. And what do you know, these angles quite neatly correspond with the four quadrants Ken Wilber’s mapped out as a major tenet of Integral Philosophy.
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Modernity. What is it? It’s a complex question, but it’s something we need to figure out if we’re ever going to evolve beyond its limitations. Cause we’re caught up in it, it floats all around us, so close as to be almost unrecognizable. It’s more than just a time period, or a particular geographical happening. It’s something grander and more strange than that, irreducible to singular coordinates. It’s the story of human growth, with its continual changes in form and meaning. And it’s a story of acceleration.
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