Dr. Gabor Maté: Ayahuasca and the Treatment of Addiction

http://vineofthesoul.myshopify.com/ -- Now available on DVD and as download.

Dr. Gabor Maté has worked for several years in Vancouver's downtown east side with people suffering from severe drug addictions. Based on his own experiences with ayahuasca, Dr. Maté is convinced that the Amazonian shamanic medicine, if taken in the proper context, can help people cure their addictions. Visit http://vineofthesoul.com

This clip is taken from bonus materials included in the DVD.
(Reposted Nov 6/10 with improved audio tracking.)

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[bananrakvatten]

I really like this guy, he was brilliant in Zeitgeist Moving Forward.

[felixq78]

LSD helped me understand a lot about myself in similar fashion.

[bighands69]

@whereismybailouttv

allot of them would buy it on the black market.

[2012hereandnow1133]

Very sexy voice! What he's saying is fascinating, but he could read the phone book and I'd listen!

[Bamlikebambam]

@felixq78 vut isnt LSD lab made?

[chinchild]

@crc187 Ahhh, my family is from Hungary, id love to go there some day and ill take you up on that suggestion.

[crc187]

@The1Netizen a fenébe, pedig gondolkodtam megnézem, hogy esetleg nem vagy-e magyar? ezért is szép a youtube:-)

A köny magyar címe: "A test lázadása." Nagyon hasznos.

[The1Netizen]

@crc187 Lol szeva tesó:)

[crc187]

@The1Netizen Yes, I know that. I have just finished his book "When the body says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection." It is a masterpiece, I recommend everyone! From Budapest, Hungary.

[The1Netizen]

@crc187 Yes, he was born in Hungary but he had to runaway at age of 8 together with his parents due to severe political reasons.

[jennykb77]

I live this man. He's my hero.

[whereismybailouttv]

Two years ago, the NZ Parliament was seriously considering a nationwide ban on all tobacco products. Imagine for a moment if they passed it. What would happen?

Would the country fall apart? Would millions of addicts riot in the streets until they got their fix? Or, would milions of smokers actually consider why they've been smoking?

[Julia52421]

If you want to know why you use any substance including legal ones, live life without any of them for awhile. There is no one answer for people who get into difficulty with drugs, legal and illegal or alcohol. However it is always easy to judge and blame the individual rather than see them in the context of their own personal history and the context of the wider environment of their family ,community and the altogether inhospitable, alienating environment of the world we all live in.

[crc187]

Dr. Gábor Máté is not from the Mars. He is from Hungary. A Genius.

[SeriousBeatsTLV]

Ayahuasca cure people from drugs, there is a process called CURA where the percentage of people who stopped using drugs is staggering

[Lookagainz]

@INeedTOExpressMyself thats the problem , one needs a shaman for guiding before you can do it yourself people like to underestimate its power of truth.

[RagsdaleSmash]

0:35 Told my mom this yesterday, crazy. But it was on the topic of god and religion.

[moonrox777]

gabor mate you are a genius and i am a huge fan! from east side van, and i introduced myself to you in london, ontario 2008 at your book discussion in the throws of my clean & sober time! still there...i do enjoy the topic of i a w a s k a

[INeedTOExpressMyself]

I have suffered from addiction and drunk ayahuasca over 30 times, but rather than make my addictions better, it actually made them much worse. The thing with ayahuasca is that it opens you up to so much that if you are not ready to handle it, or more importantly are not working with someone who can help you integrate the experiences into your life after taking it, your addictions can get worse because you turn to them for comfort. Iboga seems to have a better track record with addictions.

[TelecasterLPGTop]

@tracksuitjim Yeah me too. Gabor Mate helped me understand exactly that. I realised for the first time why I was addicted to opiates. I was adopted TWICE ! When I was 2 months old, they brought me back saying it wasn't working out (apparently I was freaking out & screaming 24/7) and then a couple of months later I was adopted by Mum & Dad. Can you imagine the feelings of rejection that little baby was feeling. My first shot of smack was like being in heaven,...such peace & contentment.

[texasB666]

@unholyascension Yes. I just looked at my comment and i said i had a discussion with a UFO-buff and i now remember i smoked a spliff with him. So i was kinda stoned when i was typing this :) Sorry for that confusion! But i believe i had a good point, no?

[unholyascension]

@texasB666 astrology is important? i hope you mean astronomy.

[brettmattei]

@texasB666 Agreed.  Exploring inner space is just as important as exploring outer space. T. Mckenna was an awesome mind.

[texasB666]

@brettmattei Because our world, as it is now, (and you know it and i know it) is such a huge huge mess. i just had a discussion with a UFO-buff and i told him that science, space-travel and astrology are all great and important but we first need to take care of our own planet before we phisically want to explore space. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of GOOD ideas, like T. Mckenna once said.

[texasB666]

@brettmattei Correct. My yagé-experience is something i will never forget because it felt like i was loved. Love i never felt in my entire life. I didn't really have personal problems, i was just very curious but it made me realize how ridiculous (in a very positive way) everything is. We as humans MUST evolve and the most powerful thing, the MOST IMPORTANT thing, that we all really need right now, is love, peace and real freedom. Only than we can grow to our fullest potential. *cont*

[whey80]

Brilliant man

[JLANDIS1043]

@bananrakvatten I thought I recognized him. I am in the movement.