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Losing Your Mind to Find Resilience November 6, 2012

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Giullian Gioiello, Yo-Yo Ma

Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Reality is hard, and humans escape it through sex, rage, drugs, romance, and lies. Armand DiMele argues this is understandable but costly, then pivots to Hurricane Sandy as a case study in forced clarity. Co-host Giullian Gioiello shares his firsthand experience as an NYU student in the East Village during the storm, grounding a practical discussion of how to build resilience through pain rather than around it.

The Animal Desire to Get High with Ed Elkin September 5, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Ed Elkin, Roberta Maria Acchi

Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy

Every living creature seeks altered states, from caffeine-loving goats to alcohol-raiding elephants. Armand DiMele and guest Ed Elkin, a longtime humanistic psychology colleague living in a shamanic community in California, trace how psychedelics open perceptual doors that yoga, meditation, and creativity can then walk through without chemicals.

The Molecule of Emotion with Candice Pert November 9, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Candice Pert

Category: Personal Growth & Change, The Mind & Neuroscience

Emotions are molecules, and every cell in the body can respond to them. Dr. Candice Pert, author of ‘Molecule of Emotion’, joins Armand to explain how peptide receptors link drugs, emotions, and memory into a unified psychosomatic network, why music resonates through the whole body, and how integrating our different emotional states leads to genuine healing.