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Podcast: Master of Life Awareness 🧠
Episode: "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Gabor Mate - Book Review
Description: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Dr. Gabor Mate radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach presenting addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout and perhaps underpins our society; not a medical "condition" distinct from the lives it affects, rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional, and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. The first question is not “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?”
Close Encounters with Addiction
"In the R...