In 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 exi…

G.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 c…

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How 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 adop…

Peter 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 progr…

Peter 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…

Was 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 boo…

Dean 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 phenomen…

Amalia 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 ut…

Ed 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.comhis book "A Body Worth Defending" at http://www.amazon.com/Body-Worth-Defending-…

Born 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…

Dr. 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,…

Gary 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 overl…

Dr. 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.Mo…

Gerard 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 olde…

Rudolf 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 writ…

Eve 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, unionizin…

The 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 Pulitz…

Before 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 humani…

Benjamin 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 …

Nicholas 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 teac…

We’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 He…

Sally 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 …

Donna 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 ph…

Step 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 (…

I 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.htmlBy Mandy

Join 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/philosophyFor more history visit: http://philoofhealth.org/2014/11/czech-please-historian-igor-lukes.htmlBy Mandy

Professor 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.…

Is 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 H…

I 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.htmlBy Mandy

Philosophy 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 hour…

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I 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.htmlBy Mandy