Global Medicine Review is a talk show program hosted by Dr. Kamau Kokayi and Faybiene Miranda dedicated to exploring topics of interest in medicine, health, culture and healing. The show airs on WBAI every Wednesday from noon - 1PM. You can download individual shows below or from iTunes. You can also subscribe to our iTunes feed and get the show automatically downloaded to iTunes or to your mp3 player.

Archive for January 13th, 2010

The Double Helix of Time: A Tool for a Paradigm Shift

Today we have the interesting task of trying to create a picture of a four dimensional reality  that you can appreciate on these airways.  I have an able guest…a professor of some thirty years but let me set the stage.

The question we have to ask ourselves in 2010 is whether our problems on a global level have outpaced our ability to solve them.  Western culture the dominant culture on the planet has taken the world in a direction that brings into question whether this wave of humanity can survive to 2100. While many of us are inspired by ancient an indigenous cultures the larger mainstream seems to be moving in a headlong course that guarantees an acceleration of cataclysmic event that will further destabilize human life. The machine can’t slow itself down whether its global warming or  need to maintain global dominance.  No sooner that do we create one solution perhaps in the form of an alliance with a political regime or inventions that are the hallmark of western civilization like the atomic age do we create a series of problems of increasing complexity  that will have to be confronted down the road.  You don’t have to be too old to see the similarities between Viet nam and AFghanastan..  The same is true for our own development. Any one who has spent time with themselves or undergone psychotherapy will be a witness to how certain situations will repeat themselves over and over in our lives until we have gained mastery.

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