Youth and Addiction (E24 Nov 7, 2009)

"Oh, the wayward youth of today," parents of all generations have lamented. "They don't care about any of the old values. They're not serious. They can't even spell correctly!"

I suppose it's always appeared to the older generation that the young folk are going to hell in a handbasked. But maybe this time, with our increasing dire situation on Earth economically, environmentally and spiritually, it would be worth treating the youth issue more seriously.

Is the future in good hands, we could wonder? Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Youth and Addiction.

Well, right off the bat, let me reassure you that I have no intention of falling into the same "our youth are lost" cry that I heard growing up. Seems every generation has pulled their hair out over the lost youth snapping at their heels.

But actually I can see a lot of problems across all generations and cultures that are severely affecting even our ability to survive. Seems to me we've come to the end of the road of our current worldview and something really needs to change about almost everything on Earth.

Brazilian psychoanalyst Dr. Norberto Keppe's work of Analytical Trilogy addresses this fundamental problem head on. In his book, The Universal Man, available through our bookstore on our Trilogy portal describes it this way: "Our modern science has been a great illusion because of its orientation only to the sensorial or positivistic view." As psychologist and educator, Stanley Hall put it, nothing passes through consciousness which does not have its sensorial basis, and this inverted view, Keppe asserts, has caused an enormous impediment to our ability to understand anything.

Cutting philosophy and especially theology out of consideration in science makes our sceince weaker, not stronger, and if we don't address this fundamental problem, which is at heart a problem with our spirituality, with God ... if we don't correct this, we will never manage to develop a liveable society, no matter how many laws and beautiful declarations of human rights we put into place.

Dr. Keppe's science of Analytical Trilogy makes all the correct links again between science, philosophy and theology. And I invite you to explore this with us more. We do interviews every week through Skype, and if you have a question or problem you'd like us to address directly, just get in touch by email at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . And by the way, I also have another Podcast on Keppe's science called Thinking with Somebody Else's Head that you can check out through iTunes or through my blog.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, we address all this through a listener's - Jen's her name - difficult experience with her son. Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco talks to her today.

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