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“Religious man was born to be saved; psychological man is born to be pleased.”
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Azy Barak, Michael Fenichel, John Grohol, Robert Hsiung, Storm King, Gary Stofle, and Kimberly Young,
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
It is important to understand is how ubiquitous trauma is in our society, what devastating effects it has on family life, workplace productivity, the facility to learn and take initiative, the ability to stay calm and focused, and the capacity to be compassionate with one’s fellow man.
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
The key insight is that the suffering that is coming will be so severe that it will impact not only our personal psyches but the ground of the collective unconscious itself.
Julie Holland • How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
The problem was that we approached both sets of patients—trauma victims and chronic disease sufferers—with the same basic script.
Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The implication here is that we are all now vulnerable to prefrontal cortical atrophy as our reward pathway has become the dominant driver of our lives.