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A fascinating topic, much food for thought. Thank you

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The new season is on fire!

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Thanks for all the great content Adam! Monday mornings are more bearable because of your podcast. From a philosophical POV, youtuber Kane B has a whole playlist on philosophy of biology that might be interesting to you. th-cam.com/video/tF_L8yY-ekM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=I0voFLqN1Sp1AP-R

Apologies for not listening to the whole thing. It’s a little too materialist for me. But one question I really want to ask is; why do you suppose that literally every culture except for modern western materialist culture has shamans and insists on the reality of spirits and magic yet we’re the only culture presumptuous and sanctimonious enough to proclaim that all the rest are wrong and we’re somehow right while also cleaving to the belief that shamanism doesn’t really work or help mankind but it’s kinder to think of the loopy ones amongst us that way than it is to pathologise them as schizophrenic?

Congrats for the new season of the podcast!

The problem is: the explantion "mental disease" is wrong, but simple. And the explanation evolution/phenotypes is correct but complicated. In society its not the right ideas that win - but the ideas that are easy to spread because they are so dumb :(

I'm always curious about this topic. If ADHD were hunters type of people, what could be relate to schizo~?

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When you say Randy, you mean Randolph Nesse?

Thank you for interview with Dr Troisi. My thoughts for the interviewer - you are putting your ideas or words on to what Dr Troisi did not say or mean. For example, Dr Troisi was talking about the rational of understanding the reasons behind symptom evolution, while you are bringing up the views whether biological or psychological intervention is better. No offence or wrong in your views, but Dr Troisi's argument is around addressing the dichotomy of biological vs psychosocial - based on his earlier published work in Clinical Neuropsychiatry. He has proposed in his earlier work of developing an integrative model (which includes both the functional and evolutionary biiology) which would resolve the dichotomy crisis in Psychiatry.

This framework and way of thinking seems more common sense to me. But it wouldn't make so much money for big pharma

I thought zebras had stripes in order to confuse predators? When they gather in herds they look like one mass rather than individuals and thus bigger? I read that once. It makes sense because we evolve to survive in any particular environment?

great content! i am living with schizo-affective disorder and had a toxoplasmosis infection just before the outbreak of the disorder. So I will follow this in a very personal interest. Im also a journalist, Podcaster, sociologist and cultural anthropologist in Switzerland.

Maybe its because i dont technically have schizophrenia, but instead have been diagnosed with major depressive disorder with psychotic features (the psych. feats. being the voices i hear every day), i sure the fuck would not liken it to anything like that, although i have wondered at times if theyre straight up evil spirits or entities that are attached to me.

Thanks a lot for this series and this episode! I am so surprised this approach, which deeply resonates with my research on the subject, is not more widespread. It is really tiring to bear adhd and autism be described as "conditions" as if nature had not intended for these neurotypes to exist. I know that trauma, environmental toxins and genetic modifications can affect these neurotypes deeply to the point where they are mostly handycapped in our modern world. Would you consider doing another episode with Annie about the role of those of us who have adhd and PDA or adhd and autism? There has been discussion of the intersection at a certain level of intellectual giftedness (the need for complexity, adhd and autism. An even smaller percentage of us have all three! I feel like these profiles are even more complex and somehow struggle to find their place in our world :)

mindblowing research. greetings from a person with schizophrenia in switzerland, I do intuitive rituals every time im psychotic.

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There shouldn’t be room for both schizophrenics and shamans

Thanks a lot for making this video. And.....interesting hypothesis, but in order for it to be really interesting I feel it needs to be expanded upon. For example, by testing predictions that stem from the hypothesis. Has there for example been any mathematical modeling on the size of 'group benefits' of having a schizophrenic shaman/priest in the group? Are there individual-based advantages to schizophrenia if one becomes the 'shaman' of the group, and has it been investigated whether religious leaders have more offspring than the average person in the popualtion?

We want to understand things using words, which are shapes written down or with sounds when pronounced. The exact meaning of what, or which must be learned. The consensus of what words mean are served up to us by a education system that is not aware that outside of their awareness exists alternative shifts in perception. An example would be a western educated anthropologist with a couple languages and 2 cultures under his belt immersing themselves in a foreign land where they know not the culture, nor the language, yet observe the elders perform unknown healing modalities that appear to have visible curing effects in ways they do not yet understand. So the opportunity is a LEARNING opportunity for the west, of words, techniques, science or investigation outside of their awareness into that which only curious minds will help solve. If you don't have the knowledge of the correct question that needs to be asked in order for the exact right answer to be answered, then you are not really adding value to the situation. it appears much of the psyche is non-physical, yet the medical system attempts to solve disorders in a way that appears they have a physical or material solution to answer a question they haven't properly asked, they have a solution to a non-physical symptom, an answer to that which they cannot define materially has now all of a sudden a material solution. this is largely because they can only write and gain consensus with peers on physical or material events. they cannot get consensus on non-physical information that resides in a psyche, self, or mind because those entities are not measurable with physical tools in a world of matter or material. medicines are largely made from plants, minerals, and matter that is manipulated by heat, solutions and chemical addition or reduction. yet in the cellular levels the information exchange to react to the medicine is occuring on multiple planes of nerves and bioactivity,, Sound and color are information. Heat and cold, or wet or dry are sensed as physical symptoms. what isn't measureable is non-physical intrusions from where we know not, by whom we know not, by what we know not,. these intrusions of the sort described by military pilots in the disclosure of uap and the older term ufo are largely under wraps still. the very lid on these subjects is about to boil over and the qty of cases of people having non-physical intrusion in their life are being labelled by people who have a scientific rationality lid on what box conscious thought is allowed to fit into. this is continually proven wrong. this closed mindedness isn't the patient, its the system they land into that has defined for them the box of rationality that is allowed to exist, by known knowns that just ain't so and the evidence of this is the sheer increase in cases of events that are unknown unknowns that are presented to thinkers of the day who preside over what the rest of us are rationally allowed to entertain in our minds before its crossed the bridge from imagination to disorder. well there is no box on imagination, mind, or the psyche. there is a universe of mind, psyche, and imagination out there and its limitless. natural laws may have limits, in this material world but there are yet to be invented technologies that will have yet to be invented words that will be limitless in scope and scale, our society needs to spend more time in their imagination, for the speed of thought is non-physical and all that comes into form comes from that realm, we can solve any problem with non-physical imagination but that is suppressed by those who haven't got one. That is unfortunate. There are people who have experiences who haven't the words to describe the events they experienced. Life is just the chapter before death, and after birth. Each life is unique, we are not in control of our own birth, and in most cases not in control of the ending either. Meaning is something we define for ourselves up to the point that we can be allowed to express it. Not everything that is said is what happened and not everything that happened can ever be said. i think the next revolution is non-local, non-physical, non-ordinary and non-stoppable. the crafts buzzing our air forces are from other when and other where and this irks the powers that were from accepting they don't control that which they thought they did, and there in no box except in their own programmed mind as to what reality really is to put this in.

Why schizophrenia still exist when schizophrenics have less children is like saying why malaria still exist in tropical countries like India and African countries when people die of malaria if untreated. Till mosquitoes are there and till malaria parasite is there this will go on. In the same way, schizophrenia is not all about genetics it has also something to do with the psychosocial environment of the person.

Thank you so much for your work here! I’m considering going back to school for philosophy of psychiatry, so this is extremely helpful for me!

This is such an underrated channel. Thank you for the work and information you share!

Really well done and insightful interview!

I had a psychotic episode and was told all this. I told the doctors that people like me have always existed and they don't understand this at all. I had a profound spiritual experience and a lot of premonitions that came true, like the lock downs the virus my mother dying of cancer. Basically they don't want to believe the things they don't understand. People like us should actually be listened to and respected not disregarded. We tend to see the things that are going wrong with society and our messages are warning. They also provide guidance that will allow our species to survive. Anyway people don't actually understand this in this time zone. They will again in the future as they did in the past. This world was formed as a result of the delusions of one man called Jesus and now we don't want to accept the wisdom of the spirits because we're all afraid of God. God is real and is within all of us. He's our conscience and most of us have managed so suppress him. But that little voice in your heads is about to start screaming at you and is capable of killing you from the inside. That's what I was told. Listen if you want. Or just start listening to your conscience if you can't accept people like me.

Good evening, I was/am lucky enough to be a patient of wonderful Prof O’Connell. His prescription for me turned my life around from despair to actually loving life. The medication he prescribed became unavailable last winter, and my life went into a downward spiral. It is back in stock now, but the Dr.(under Prof O’Connell,) will not give me prescription until at least my next clinic appointment on March 21….why should that man play God, and deny me 3 weeks of joyful life at my age,(77,) when I may not have many more years to live,? On a whim,? I desperately need to contact Prof O’Connell who probably is not even aware of this situation. Can you help me to contact him please,🙏🏻,? Thank you, Charles McCormack

It may be a good idea to drop the idea of phenotypes and genotypes and look at this as merely experience, and perspectives as filtered through the mind. However, that doesn't leave much room for egoic-mind to create labels and categories.

The Path of the Hero: Main cause of mental illness and pain is dopamine. Seeking after pleasures and pains. Every addiction can be traced to it. This is the first task on the path to being a sage (or Shaman--or a prophet like Jesus)--controlling one's inner monkey/rabbit. But in controlling/moderating the ego (animal impulses--bodily needs), this allows one to be more aware of the insula. The insula controls homeostasis of our moods with serotonin (among other things). We have much less serotonin in the brains than dopamine--it is weaker. If in a state of excitement--either pleasures or pains, it cannot be felt. There being two ways of dampening the dopamine system--overuse and via works (meditation/diet/exercise). Some perceive the overuse as magic or grace of God (a mystical experience--Paul or JJ Rousseau for just two examples). Of course, Jesus and most philosophers teach via "works". This is the virtue-contentment area of the brain, that is usually over-ridden by the dopamine system. This area is also responsible for our mirroring neurons--what people associate with empathy, compassion, or love--as well as righteousness/shame (there being four cardinal virtues). As when one's heart is not perturbed (due to amygdala--emotional center), it becomes pure and this gives us serene joy--contentment. This is the goal of most religions and philosophies (ataraxia). However, this area is also where manic-depression comes from and psychosis. As it too has to be kept in moderation. If not, then the mania (or pride) just leads to depression. Pride being a "secondary emotion." And this area is also associated with psychosis and schizophrenia--and natural DMT release. But these are just the natural steps of human existence. The Path of the Hero if you like. 0-20--state of innocence and learning. 20-40--a state of learning to control the emotions and desires. 40-60--reaching a state of virtue and learning the difference between good and evil, and learning the need for balance here. 60-???--returning to a state of innocence, and learning to accept death and one's coming destruction (which requires a letting go of material things).

Literally anything that is hard to explain causes people to come up with magical solutions, as the brain hates not feeling like it understands. That being said with how little we understand consciousness, either as an emergent property of our complex brains or some form of local universal awareness, I think paying attention to the patterns in which we find meaning is always worth keeping somewhere in the back of the rational mind.

As a recovered schizophrenic, I respectively agree with aspects of this video...but not all of them. It is a spiritual battle, initiation and/or a shamanic journey often involving non-corporeal entities, some of which are malevolent and adversarial. There is no definitive chemical imbalance, genetic marker or biological cause and the prescribed pharmaceuticals only tranquilize…they do not address the underlying symptoms. Schizophrenia is treatable, curable and not a life sentence but it does take internal work to address one’s soul and to regain one’s persona. Search for videos with Jerry Marzinsky…he’s a retired psychiatrist with many stories to tell.

I believe all very religious people are schizoid at the very least 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😊

The system is the Beast.. Monday = Moonday.. we pay homage to pagan gods when we say days of the week.. people are selling there soul to the eye on the back of the Dollar Bill 💵...If you don't go along with these Globalists agenda of depopulation.. (same sex attraction that happens by chemicals in our food ) they'll crucify you and make you look crazy.. you can call me skitzo.. but we all know who the Rothchilds and these Bankers worship.. you want to know why Epstein and all these human traffickers get away with there crimes... because there are people in government..Hollywood..as well as average citizens who indoctrinate us in this system.. we were meant to evolve as souls.. this Earth is a pagan prison...Heaven and Hell is real... they silence the real ones..I aint even a souljah.. I just live on the 77.. call us sick.. call us shamans but when you get sent to the planet Saturn after death remember... they crucified christ.. they'll crucify his messengers...I was named after an angel for a reason.. most people don't look past the deeper meaning of life they are surface level...I tried speaking up against the corrupt paradim at school but it didn't work.. I've heard from spirits.. they can be considered demonic.. I was healed through Christ and now I hear nothing.. I truly believe I was chosen by God.. some say schizophrenia is a sickness I say when healed its the Veil between Life and Death. - ChristSouljah777

I think psychosis is strongly tied to our spirit of love. It grabs people be the heart and speaks through the heart

As a person with a psychotic disorder I can confirm that the so called madness helpted me tough traumatic times in my life. It had a protective manner in my case. So in the short term it helped me but in the long term it eventually spiraled out of control. ( I was 12 years unmedicated)

I always felt like I would have been a great shaman. Its interesting that this train of tought acually makes sense.

I think they were nighttime hunters following the hallucinated voices until they found an animal to kill and eat by moonlight.

After watching the whole podcast, I can tell that none of you have been with a true shaman or someone going through spontaneous Shamanic awakening, dismemberment, or seen what they can do. When you're in a room with them and you can see phones opening apps without anyone touching them, or music changing, lights blinking and stopping once they ask the spirits to "please stop playing with them," having true predictions of future events, them describing real-life experiences that other people have gone through in their past confirmed by those who actually lived those experiences, and other things that I don't even know how to explain, this podcast would've been completely different.

Shamanism has been ethnically cleansed from the West and the best treatment is schools for Psychics and drugs that promote the path to Union like Piracetam

I found you MF. You should have never done what you did to me.

There is too much to say.. let me start like this. Both of you are biased vlogging about a topic both of you agree on basically?? Its a one sided type of interview right?? Did the interviewer even read the book? Did you understand what was written? Because your interview questions are random and shows your ignorance of this topic. And to the writer, did you cross examine your materials and do a complete research about the topic before you wrote this book? Apparently you have not. Although there are similarities with shamanism through out many cultures, there are also differences. It is people like me who cannot trust people like you that is why the mental health system is so broken. Jumping from one mental health specialist to another because they are all non believers in anything.. how can you help us if you cant even understand where we come from? Just stop being a health care provider because all you’re doing is masking the symptoms and not helping with the real trauma’s! I am a gifted shaman who was born for a specific purpose. However i am not able to complete my journey therefore i suffer the consequences. Some say its a blessing and some say its a curse. Sadly, only those who walk a similar journey will understand. Both of you have no business writing or even stating your one sided opinions of this topic.. you should be ashamed of yourselves.

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Great podcast. 🙏

Fascinating

Really interesting!!! It makes me think a lot… not only shamans among us but a bit of a shaman inside us, also… how the rejection of religiosity, superstition, let some individuals out of our society… or some parts of our psyche 🧐🧐

I have been waiting for this one!!

Interesting.

A first class interview which is a must watch for all evolutionists! Well done, Adam!