The Middle Way with Dr. Matthew Goodman

The Middle Way with Dr. Matthew Goodman

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The Middle Way with Dr. Matthew Goodman episodes

  • You Don't Need a Vaccine Card to Get Into Heaven (Science & Religion in the Age of COVID)

    Has "science" become religious in its thinking? Are the core principles of being "pro science," particularly in the age of COVID, the new religious standards by which we dole judgment? We don't need a vaccine card to get into heaven (as far as I can tell); god (whoever and whatever that is) accepts and loves everyone. Yet, we are starting to see a division into the "good" and "bad," the "followers" and the "heretics," based on our adherence to the new, religious-esque doctrines of "science." Science has become a shadow of the very thing it is trying to suppress; a static thing to believe in rather than a rigorous and honest process of flexible, adaptable inquiry. 

    In this first part of this episode, I freestyle (not rap, but just talking off the cuff... maybe next episode I'll rap ;) ) some thoughts on science and religion in our current age. In the second part of the episode, I read from my recent blog post, "Sibling Rivalry: Science and Religion, Twin Opposites of the Collective Brain."  

    Link to blog post, "Sibling Rivalry: Science and Religion, Twin Opposites of the Collective Brain": https://matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com/sibling-rivalry-science-and-religion-twin-opposites-of-the-collective-brain-3b2ede4e44ca 

    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. Follow his work here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com or here: https://matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com 

    Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw  

    If you enjoy this content, do us a favor and rate, review, and share the podcast with a friend! : )

    24 min
  • Can More Control Save Us From the Pandemic?

    My thoughts on our current state of affairs. 

    Link to article on Medium: https://matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com/can-more-control-save-us-from-the-pandemic-6bf0ead2bbdb

    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. Follow his work here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com or here: https://matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com 

    Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw 

    If you enjoy this content, do us a favor and rate, review, and share the podcast with a friend! : )



    19 min
  • Maia Szalavitz - A Compassionate Approach to Addiction
    In this episode, author Maia Szalavitz breaks down the helpful and not-so-helpful approaches to drug addiction. She discusses her own journey with addiction, the problems with "tough love," why shame and humiliation don't work, harm reduction, and how other countries have compassionately solved addiction. Plus, Maia and Matthew discuss "pandemic shaming" and the parallels between shaming addicts and “anti-maskers/vaxers” into changing their behavior (hint: shame doesn't work).
    Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage caused by the “tough love” business that dominates adolescent addiction treatment. She has written for numerous publications from High Times to the New York Times, including TIME, the Washington Post, the Guardian, VICE, Scientific American, and the Atlantic— and she is author or co-author of five other books. With Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, she co-wrote the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and also Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—And Endangered. She has won awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology for her 30 years of groundbreaking writing on addiction, drug policy and neuroscience. Her new book is Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction.
    Find Maia's collection of books here.
    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. Follow his work here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com or here: https://matthewgoodmanphd.medium.com Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw If you enjoy this content, do us a favor and rate, review, and share the podcast with a friend! : )
    31 min
  • What is The Middle Way?

    Well... we're four episodes deep into this podcast. And I have yet to describe what The Middle Way podcast really is - why it exists, what "The Middle Way" refers to, and what the mission of the podcast is. So here we go. Enjoy. 

    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. His work can be found here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com

    Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw If you enjoy this content, do us a favor and rate, review, and share the podcast with a friend! : )

    9 min
  • Dr. Dean Radin - Collective Consciousness, Psychic Abilities, and Paranormal Phenomena

    In this episode, I speak with the well-respected and prolific researcher Dr. Dean Radin about the science of consciousness and paranormal phenomena. We discuss the science of collective consciousness (including data from September 11th), psychic experiences such as "telephone telepathy" and "the feeling of being stared at," Dean's work with the U.S. government on remote viewing espionage, skepticism about paranormal phenomena amongst scientists, quantum biology, the illusion of space and time, non-local mind-matter entanglement, what Dean would do as leader of the free world,  the genetics of psychic abilities, and much more. Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He earned a BS in electrical engineering (magna cum laude, with honors in physics), and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 600 talks and interviews worldwide, and he is author or coauthor of over 300 scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, two technical books, and four popular books translated into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997, HarperCollins), Entangled Minds (2006, Simon & Schuster), Supernormal (2013, RandomHouse), and Real Magic (2018, PenguinRandomHouse). 

    You can learn more about Dr. Radin's work at https://www.deanradin.com/ or https://noetic.org/profile/dean-radin/ 

    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. His work can be found here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com 

    Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw If you enjoy this content, do us a favor and rate, review, and share the podcast with a friend! : )

    1 hr 3 min
  • The Science of Interconnectedness

    In this episode I discuss the science of interconnectedness. Based on the wisdom of ancient spiritual traditions, now supported by science, I make the case that we should view the world as a single, interconnected organism. This not only generates more compassion for others by seeing our "oneness," but also helps "diagnose" and "treat" the world's problems by drawing upon knowledge of disease at the individual level. I discuss the purpose of symptoms, namely to draw our compassionate attention. Expect to learn: 

    -How the world and body mirror one another in their structure and function. 

    -The universal principles that govern all life on earth, from bacteria to cities, economies, companies, and ecosystems.

    -How the laws of balance and homeostasis apply across all systems, from our individual bodies to the world itself. 

    -What disease or "chaos" in our bodies has in common with the 2008 economic collapse. 

    -The scientific evidence for collective consciousness, including data from September 11th, 2001.

    If you find this content valuable, consider supporting the podcast for as little as $1/month. Your support helps the podcast grow: https://anchor.fm/matthewgoodmanphd/support

    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. His work can be found here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com

    Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw

    39 min
  • Teresa Cassou - Authentic Spirituality

    This week I speak with Teresa Cassou. Teresa is a psychotherapist in Mexico and yoga teacher in the U.S. She began working with terminally ill children and prisoners in Mexico, before migrating to the U.S. at 24 years old to rebuild her life after recovering herself from alcohol addiction and divorce. Today she teaches yoga in San Diego and hold psychotherapy groups in Puebla, Mexico City, and Tijuana.

    In this episode we discuss Teresa's own recovery process and journey to teaching, bringing authenticity and humility to spiritual teaching and the healing arts, how to remain grounded in the age of social media and self-promotion, the concept of "already being enough,” brining our soul's unique gifts into the world, tuning into our gut and heart “brains,” the dark night of the soul, what the world is communicating through covid, the importance of rest and recovery, and much more.

    If you find this content valuable, consider supporting the podcast for as little as $1/month. Your support helps the podcast grow and run ad-free: https://anchor.fm/matthewgoodmanphd/support

    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. His work can be found here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com

    Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw

    1 hr 7 min
  • Dr. Bobby Mukkamala - Can Flint Become America's Most Mindful City?

    Welcome to the podcast! In this debut episode, I have the privilege of speaking with Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the American Medical Association. Dr. Mukkamala is a board-certified otolaryngologist in private practice in Flint, MI. He is currently President of the Michigan State Medical Society, past President of the Genesee County Medical Society, former Chair of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, and current board member of the Foundation for Flint. While a wide range of public health issues are important to Dr. Mukkamala, no issue strikes closer to home than his own city of Flint’s nationally publicized struggles with high levels of lead leaching into the drinking water. With colleagues and community members, Dr. Mukkamala has been at the forefront of bringing mindfulness to Flint's educational, business, healthcare, and government sectors to help strengthen resilience in this community. 

    In this episode, we speak about Bobby's journey of growing up in Flint and returning to his hometown, why and how mindfulness was introduced to Flint, the mental health benefits of mindfulness, how mindfulness is being implemented in Flint schools, working with resistance and skepticism around mindfulness practice, the parallels between mindfulness and vaccines from a public health perspective, training Flint law enforcement and first responders in mindfulness and stress-management, the friction between mindfulness and religious/personal ideologies, starting a mindfulness initiative in one's own community or business, practicing mindfulness during the Flint water crisis and COVID pandemic, Bobby's story of pretending to be Deepak Chopra when Deepak visited Flint, and more. Plus: Bobby's tips for where to eat in Flint's burgeoning neighborhoods. 

    If you find this content valuable, consider supporting the podcast for as little as $1/month. Your support helps the podcast continue to grow and run ad-free: https://anchor.fm/matthewgoodmanphd/support

    Matthew S. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY32423) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also a writer and filmmaker. His work can be found here: http://matthewgoodmanphd.com

    Watch The Middle Way podcast interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmga5Z4JdHziQjtCdnVhYuw

    49 min
  • Is the Earth a Giant Organism?: The Science of Interconnectedness
    This episode explores the science of interconnectedness. Learn about the biological principles that govern all life on earth, including the earth itself; evidence for a collective consciousness; and why the world desperately needs our compassionate attention in order to heal.
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    Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/matthewgoodmanphd/support
    43 min

About The Middle Way with Dr. Matthew Goodman

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The Middle Way is about bridging the divide between human beings. At a time when polarization continues to destabilize our world, The Middle Way emphasizes our interconnectedness and common humanity.…