Dr. Gabor Maté

And I think to answer your question, this society has got to the point where the suffering is so intense and so widespread that something had to crack open.

So I think that's why it's got so bad that it couldn't be hidden anymore.

Actually, we don't, we have less.

What we have is a lot more physiological, physical science, which is great.

I mean, if I needed a heart transplant,

I'd be very grateful for modern medicine or a broken bone or anything.

But we've forgotten something that human beings have always known.

For example,

I write about this friend of mine.

His name is Luis Mel Madrona, and he's an American physician.

He's Lakota background.

Okay.

And he told me that, and he's just like me.

He's full of respect for Western medicine.

I was trained in it.

He was trained in it.

We also see what's missing.

And he said that in his tradition, when somebody gets sick,

the whole community gathers and thanks the person and says, you're carrying some dysfunction in our whole culture.

So your healing is our healing.