Using Ancient Wisdom To Resist Disease, Heal Quickly, And Age Well with Alberto Villoldo
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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I’ve always been a big proponent of learning from those who came before us. The knowledge of ancient cultures is one piece of the foundation of modern medicine, but much shamanic wisdom has been ignored and is now being lost. It benefits us to stop and think about what’s going on below the surface, the things we can’t see—for our health, our perception of reality, everything. Invisible bacteria is one example, wisdom is another. Today I am thrilled to talk to my friend Alberto Villoldo about the role of ancient wisdom in health, healing, and aging optimally.
Medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo Ph.D. is an international bestselling author who has researched the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over 25 years. He is the founder of the Four Winds Society, an organization dedicated to the bridging of ancient shamanic traditions with modern medicine and psychology. Dr. Villoldo is the author of numerous books, including Power Up Your Brain; Shaman, Healer, Sage; Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval; The Four Insights; Courageous Dreaming; One Spirit Medicine, and Grow a New Body. His latest book is The Wisdom Wheel: A Mythic Journey through the Four Directions, which we talk more about in this episode.
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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- What shamans view as our one illness and its one cure (6:08 / 3:24)
- Differentiating information and wisdom (9:44 / 7:02)
- How Alberto introduced me to a different way of healing (10:56 / 8:21)
- What is a shaman? (14:24 / 11:43)
- Why our brain needs ceremony, ritual, and rites of passage to heal (25:43 / 21:34)
- Gaining insight into the invisible world (34:05 / 29:54)
- How to upgrade your brain (38:58 / 34:45)
- The four animal archetype levels of shamanic healing (45:31 / 41:26)
- Using plant medicines and psychedelics to heal trauma (52:04 / 47:52)
- How plant compounds are indispensable to human health and healing (1:02:55 / 59:04)
Learn more about Alberto here and get a copy of his new book, The Wisdom Wheel: A Mythic Journey through the Four Directions, here.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, we cannot separate the biology from the psychology or the spirituality anymore. |
| 0:07.9 | The sacred plants come from a very feminine, shamanic tradition, and we're trying to use them in a very masculine patriarchal, |
| 0:17.9 | reductionistic environment, and they still work. They're magical. They're fantastic, but we need to know the biology behind them. |
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