The ZDoggMD Show

Originally streamed to Facebook live back in February and released for supporters-only on YouTube, now viewable by everyone 🙏 Join our Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Watch the video version here. If you're "into" this kind of content, subscribe & leave a review, it really helps spread the word 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I took a month break from creating videos, and guess what? It wasn't just about finding peace. There were some serene moments, but anger stole the spotlight. Here's why. #SundayZen. Originally streamed live to YouTube, watch the video here. If you're "into" this kind of content, subscribe & leave a review, it really helps spread the word 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a galaxy not so far away, you asked, and Vader delivered. The Dark Lord of Medicine enlightens us on vaping, tight scrubs, and the untold secrets of space cancer. Video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I take your questions on everything from transforming healthcare to identity shifts to practical decision making strategies and more. Originally streamed LIVE to Instagram, watch the video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We rap about everything from the generation gap to pronouns to musical taste. Fun for the whole family 🥳 Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, video version here. And check out the Australian generation gap lamb ad! Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally streamed live on YouTube, in this Q+A we dive into: "Wherever you go, there you are" and what that really means What is "ananda" or bliss in relation to reality? Is there even a Now moment? How realization isn't the slightest bit "spiritual" How can we navigate social media without succumbing to mind traps? Reactivity and how to recognize and uproot it Is Doc Vader spiritual? The nature of desire Why do we hurt those we love MOST? Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, we rap about retreat realities, reactivity management, Zcatt's dental saga and more! Watch the video version here. PS if you're into this stuff, join our Supporter Tribe and get access to supporter-only livestreams, online retreats (NEW for 2024) and connect with others on this pathless path 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Awakening to no-self in the comedy of existence with my guest Eshwar Segobind. Listen to our prior episode here. Watch the video version here. Eshwar is an emergency electrical contractor and tradesman whose realization and awakening journey began during a several week stay in an addiction recovery center. We riff in our native immigrant accents for a while on subjects not safe for anyone, and tie all that into realizing the nature of no-self, identity, emotion, and the integration into "real life" of all of this. Learn more and sign up for a personal session with Eshwar here on his website and peep his YouTube channel. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon Brown returns for a master class on compassion and how it can never be separated from the deepest insights into the non-dual nature of reality itself. We talk about how compassion and suffering could matter if this world is a kind of illusion, the distinction between empathy and compassion as it relates to burnout, dorsal and ventral vagal mechanisms related to deep trauma conditioning, the true meaning of Christmas and the holiday season and MUCH more. Please listen to our previous conversation on awakening and trauma here. Check out Simon's YouTube channel here. Here's that book by Ally Wise that Simon referenced, Embodied Healing. Topics and Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 4:05 Trust. Does life NEED planning? 13:07 Non-dual teachers’ absolutism, nature of fixation post-awakening 20:00 Working with reactivity and separation 25:30 Adyashanti’s resonance and retirement, spiritual perfectionism 33:26 Recent retreat insights, feeling everything with compassion 37:30 Learning the language of the heart 41:43 Dzogchen, emptiness and form, manifesting as awake presence 49:27 Nagarjuna, the Middle Way, compassion and acceptance 59:30 The work of unfolding is never finished 1:03:35 Awareness of thought/consciousness as the 6th sense 1:07:15 Why the self is not an enemy, self as a tool to see suffering of others 1:12:59 The true meaning of the Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara 1:20:35 Why suffering and compassion MATTER, when unconditional love meets suffering 1:24:05 Compassion vs. Empathy, healthcare professionals, burnout 1:31:28 Simon’s Cat! 1:32:15 Self-compassion, early wounding, the traumatized nervous system 1:43:15 Elephant and rider model of conscious and unconscious mind, trauma 1:44:50 Embodied Health by Ally Wise, ventral and dorsal vagal responses 1:48:50 When child’s basic needs aren’t met, degrees of trauma, co-regulation 1:54:12 Feeling into the primary emotions that trigger thought cascades, the Golden Thread 1:58:44 Compassion and the meaning of Christmas and the holiday season Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I take YOUR questions on non-duality, silent retreats, the illusion of identity, the nature of reality and more! Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joined by Dr. Angelo DiLullo, your favorite ‘pair-o-docs’ dive into the paradox of self-emptying, where the journey to feeling truly recognized sparks a liberation beyond the boundaries of the ego. Plus a whole lotta taint talk 😂 Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Taints (AKA The Perineum, if you're nasty) 06:12 Anger, reactivity, root beliefs, the illusion of control 16:52 Identity, no separation, energetic “knowing” 23:55 Deep stage awakening, the illusion of the physical world 31:35 The “flavor” of consciousness, unbound consciousness as a tool 41:19 Specialness, hide & seek, avoidance, neutrality 52:50 Emptiness of self, feeling seen 1:01:16 Fixations and the role of a spiritual teacher, delusive hindrance 1:12:29 Formless non-duality, no-self letting go, the well of grief Check out the video version (including topics & timecodes) and here's the infamous 'Taint Episode' 🥳 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waking up to your true nature is all about realizing there’s no separate “you” suffering. And knowing just that transforms how you show up in the world. Spoiler alert: Compassion just flows. Video originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, watch here. Side note: This episode contains intentional stretches of silence, so when things get quiet, rest assured it's not a problem with your podcast app 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's an intricate relationship between past trauma, our bodies, and the spiritual journey of awakening. Realizing the non-dual nature of existence and the illusion of self doesn't allow us to simply bypass the echoes of past trauma that can linger in the body like energetic knots, often manifesting as chronic pain, disability, mental illness, and emotional distress. Our guest, Simon Brown, shares his remarkable journey navigating the challenging terrain of complex childhood trauma. Through the convergence of therapy, somatic practice, and the profound insights gleaned from years of Buddhist practice, Simon shares invaluable insights on integrating trauma while opening our hearts to true vulnerability, authenticity, and joy. Find Simon on YouTube here and on Instagram (where you can DM him!) Here are some of the resources Simon mentioned in our conversation: Tara Brach's video on healing trauma Irene Lyon's YouTube channel Peter Levine and somatic healing practices The Body Keeps The Score Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strip away all the story and identity and spiritual mumbo-jumbo and you're left with what's right in front of your face, always here and only now. My guest Eshwar Segobind is an emergency electrical contractor and tradesman whose realization and awakening journey began during a several week stay in an addiction recovery center. We dive into how investigating YOUR experience in this moment is the key to seeing past the fundamental misperception that there is a "me" looking in the first place. This is an audio-only episode & exclusive for our podcast listeners so strap in and listen with full presence ❤️ Learn more and sign up for a personal session with Eshwar here on his website and peep his YouTube channel. And here's an even deeper video dive with Eshwar and my friend Josh Putnam. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A deep dive into how the body stores trauma, surrendering to these hidden sensations and the paradox of free will - originally streamed LIVE to Instagram. And here's Tara Brach's video I mentioned. Join our Supporter Tribe to connect with others on this journey and to access private Zoom meetings. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think the awakening journey is all unicorns and rainbows? Think again. Reactivity, emotional volatility, and more, from Sunday Zen, LIVE. And here's Angelo's video I referred to Breaking the Chains of Suffering -- Fetters 4 & 5 with Kevin Schanilec Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A deep dive into all things awakening including no-self realization, with David Mc Donald. Check out the video version and David's YouTube channel Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh good (dark) lord, he's gone live again 😂 Full video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From a recent Facebook live episode. I discuss the arising of strong emotions during the realization "journey" and the deep knowing that the Universe, (or God, or whatever descriptor we use to point to the ineffable) perfectly holds us as this process unfolds. And the beautiful synchronicity that all traditions seemingly point at the perennial wisdom: that we are NOT who or what we think we are 🔥 Full video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Monica Gandhi is BACK to unpack lessons learned from the COVID pandemic. From prolonged lockdowns, to the widening gap between the haves and have-nots, to finding genuine compassion in a time of so much division, this post-pandemic deep dive might give us a playbook for a happier, wiser path forward. #RIPFrodo 🐶 Check out Monica's book Endemic: A Post Pandemic Playbook Watch the full video on YouTube Here's all our previous episodes with Monica. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zen teaches us that faith isn't blind; it's the knowing of our innate nature. Doubt isn't negative; it's the engine of inquiry that propels us toward understanding. Determination isn't force; it's the steady resolve to persist, harmonizing these traits for profound self-realization. WARNING: Pretty direct pointing here, so be prepared 😂 From a Facebook Live show. Here's the book I mentioned, Throw Yourself Into The House of Buddha. Join my non-cult 🤣 https://zdoggmd.com/supporters/ Watch the Full video on YouTube Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do Death Stars, CME conferences and powerful sphincters have in common? THIS PODCAST 💀 Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, Doc Vader weighs in on vaccines, drug seekers, the art of upcoding and MUCH MORE 🔥 Watch full video. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever notice that being human seems kind of unbearable at times? What happens when you look for the one who's really running the show? Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, a crazy discussion about the nature of reality, embodying duality within non-duality, post-realization motivation and so much more. Topic List: Does anything matter: embracing and embodying duality within non-duality Why is reality always perfect…not in the human sense of the word, but PERFECT nonetheless Emotion and shadow work as an ongoing process during the realization "journey" Who are you? What is your true nature? Why there is no "awakening" in the truest sense The Matrix and the motivation to change the world post-realization The unexpected wisdom of the Barbie movie (beyond the polarized media nonsense) Watch the Full video on YouTube And here's the video from my epic Alaska trip. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation originally aired in June 2022 and is definitely worth a second listen. Andrew Holecek is an author, teacher and renowned meditation expert who specializes in lucid dreaming and dream yoga. Basically, it's a meditation practice within a dream, and the twist is the dreamer knows they're dreaming. We explore how this practice of increasing awareness during sleep can have profound benefits for your life. In fact, it might just be the key to unlocking reality. Check out Andrew's website with many resources including his podcast and books and his "Night Club" lucid dreaming and meditation community. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hitting the media circuit big time, and after his Rogan appearance, I have a bit to say. We also talk about the Titan submersible and take YOUR comments LIVE (with zero f*cks given, cuz it's Friday) 🥳. Paul Offit's editorial on RFK's claims and here's his piece on that notorious convo with RFK. Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A revisit to a classic early 2021 interview on the nature of reality that has prompted many to question, well, EVERYTHING. Here's the full video, transcript, and more. Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect‘ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. Bernardo’s most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., please visit www.bernardokastrup.com. Here’s my prior interview with Don Hoffman that we reference in the discussion. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode from way back in May 2020 bolstered my sense that I've already expressed pretty much everything I want to say about COVID 😂. I think it holds up remarkably well as a discourse on WHY we were (and are) so divided as a people, including on topics as seemingly benign as masking. Here's a link to the original video along with a transcript and links to prior episodes on Jon Haidt's Moral Foundations theory. Have thought or comments? Email me directly at [email protected] and use "Podcast" in the subject line 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and storytelling expert Johnny B. Truant returns for a discussion on the nature of reality itself: is there an objective world out there that we can directly experience, or is everything we know to be "real" simply a construction...a story? We discuss how sense data is converted into a "world" complete with labels and beliefs, how we might modulate our story to see aspects that are more conducive to happiness and human flourishing, going on a news diet, the nature of the subject of our stories (i.e., no-self realization), why social media and NextDoor in particular can be poisonous to our story-world, and MUCH more. Here's our earlier interview on his book The Story Solution. And here's a deep dive we did on creativity and flow states. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you "wake up" when there's no you, it isn't an event, and everything needed is already here? Hmmm 🤓 a live discussion of the unspeakable 👍 Video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's pretty much impossible to change our systems without first changing ourselves. But what is our "self" anyways? Here's how to use a simple question to add rocket fuel to your meditation practice and wake up from the dream that we are separate, struggling beings apart from the rest of life. Video and transcript here. Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo’s book on awakening, Awake: It’s Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo’s YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo’s email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow Dr. D here. Topic List: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Meditation Vs. inquiry, what’s the purpose of inquiry 05:10 Who are you? 08:41 Hitting the fear barrier, the doubt barrier, the thought trap 16:50 Inquiry and the identity shift of awakening, dissolution of ego 19:53 Resistance & shadow 24:27 Obstructing beliefs/thoughts common to the process 27:35 Self-inquiry vs. surrendered inquiry into the nature of reality post awakening, non-duality 32:10 Surrendering to unfiltered, self-less reality 36:12 Why the smartest people have the most trouble with this 38:20 Investigating the imagined self, the science of no-self 41:39 Can the experience of unfiltered reality be destabilizing, the goal of liberation Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netflix's season finale of BEEF shines a light on the dark places we're *most* afraid to look...and that may just be the key to awakening from the dream of shame and separation. Check out the video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally streamed live on Instagram and reposted on YouTube, we talk Nurses' Week, system change, authenticity, and waking up from the dream that we are separate from each other and from life itself. And here's that Gobble meal prep offer just for ZDoggMD listeners! (PS I get no commissions from this, but they did send me some free meals, which is really cool): https://gobble.com/zdoggmd Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Astin is a professor of psychology, author, teacher, and musician. He returns to do a deep dive into appreciating THIS moment as all there is. Originally streamed live with audience Q+A on YouTube. Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of our favorite interviews ever (originally posted in 2019): We have NO CLUE how consciousness emerges from 3 pounds of wet goo. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman takes us deep into his research that makes a bold claim: we’ve been attacking the problem BACKWARDS. The implications of his theories just may change everything you think you know about reality and our place in it. Take the Red Pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes… Here's the original video and transcript of our interview. We dive into the Interface Theory of Perception (how evolution hides the truth about reality in favor of a dumbed down user interface that only shows us “fitness” payoffs that help us survive), the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” and how we simply have no idea how consciousness could emerge from physical matter, the theory of Conscious Realism (how reality is really a mathematically-definable social network of conscious “agents” and our perceptions are simply the interface by which we exchange experience with other conscious agents), the math behind conscious agent theory, implications for artificial intelligence (AI), what happens when we die, the limitation of resources in the universe, synesthesia, psychedelics, spirituality, medicine, and much much more. 1:22 Are we machines? Don’s motives for studying reality & his background in artificial intelligence & mathematics 6:38 Evolutionary game theory and how organisms are tuned to see fitness payoffs, not objective reality 11:46 The “Grand Theft Auto” analogy of perception as interface/symbolic representation 14:41 Differentiating solipsism & why we don’t just see SOME objective reality, we see NONE of it (YOU are the author of space and time) 21:06 The hard problem of consciousness and WHY it’s hard from a physicalist perspective 28:38 Conscious agent theory: consciousness is fundamental (rather than emerging from matter) 39:36 Challenging perceptual psychology; Piaget and object permanence 7:06 Amplituhedron and projecting quantum mechanics and relativity from conscious agent theory 50:42 Impact this theory can have on modern medicine and our limited understanding of mental health disorders 01:01:44 Deeper down the rabbit hole, and what happens when we die? 01:08:40 Artificial intelligence as a way to open new interfaces into the conscious agent realm 01:27:58 Examining Evolutionary Psychology; its relation to consciousness and resource limitation, logic & reason as tools of social persuasion 01:40:30 Psychedelics and meditation as tools to hack our perceptual interface and experience other conscious agents 01:47:02 Synesthetes as a glimpse into interface theory, evolution, and more Prof. Donald Hoffman, apart from being a brilliant scientist, is a wonderful and warm human being in person. Check out our first audio-only conversation from 2018 here, and my take on his theory of consciousness here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Doc Vader goes live to YouTube for a q+a, you never know what Dark Side madness might emerge 😂 Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Streamed LIVE to YouTube with Q+A 3/10/23. We talked about vaccines and the nature of belief, public health messaging challenges, moral foundation theory, dealing with anger and boundary violations, dropping into the body sense and out of the head, emotional repression and the make believe world of thought, kundalini energy, the nature of negativity bias and how we can shift to positive, Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), body as sensor, shame and its roots (particularly in medicine), self inquiry, the nature and trickiness of ego, the nature of mind-identification and the house of mirrors of thought, empaths and sensitivity to others’ emotions, the excess death question, guilt around setting boundaries, letting go, dealing with fear and more. Here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5QkTpx3x8 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode – originally streamed live to Instagram – I take viewer comments on the topics of healthcare transformation, burnout, identity, and more. We talk about left brain vs. right brain thinking, the absolute vs. the relative world as well as practical solutions and insights for personal transformation. Video here: https://youtu.be/NKH5a-wuJEI Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released in June of 2021, I recently revisited this amazing conversation with Dr. Angelo DiLullo, a physician, author, and teacher of non-dual realization (sometimes called spiritual awakening) and felt compelled to share it again for a newer audience who may be deeply interested in awakening and the end of needless seeking and suffering. The original video and transcript are here. Read Angelo's book on awakening Awake: It's Your Turn here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel here. 0:00 Intro: Eckhart Tolle and “The Three Pillars of Zen” 6:44 Disclaimer/Warning: why you should ONLY watch if you’re deeply interested 10:17 The possibility of transcending the ego and subject-object duality 12:10 The paradox of free will/agency on the path to awakening 16:36 Experiencing the present moment as a kind of flow state 20:59 Understanding what “presence” is and its relationship to thought 27:54 The sneaky ego and how it relates to awakening 34:52 The roots suffering in desire, striving, and egoic constructs 37:48 Unbound consciousness, the dissatisfaction of seeking via a false “self,” the importance of surrendering and emotional integration 50:44 The truth behind paradox 56:31 Awakening is available for anyone, and is not a crazy or paranormal experience 1:00:20 Is mental illness a hindrance to awakening, or a reason not to go down the path 1:05:38 Awakening is beyond the mind’s understanding, so how can you tell you’re awake 1:10:18 Unfiltered reality as the primary truth 1:16:08 Psychedelics vs. other methods of pointing/awakening Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Famous docs who can’t process evidence, prior authorization in healthcare and care variation, private equity and gray areas in medicine, the decline of academic medical centers, indoctrination in education, does Paxlovid actually work in populations that matter and the biases of observational trials, fake twitter medical experts, why hospital maintenance workers have more common sense than healthcare leadership, Cochrane mask review, CDC director masking comments and ivermectin, politics in science and why politicians simply can’t be honest, and more! Video here. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/vpzd Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parasitic middlemen and others in the healthcare industry are gouging patients who can't afford live-saving medications. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky of Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company teaches us who they are (oh yes, we name names) and how we can fight back to make meds affordable again. A must-watch for patients and caregivers struggling with the high cost of prescription drugs. Here's the full video of the interview. Here's our prior interview with Alex from 2021. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky is the Founder and CEO of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder at the age of 18 with a BA in Biochemistry. He went on to earn an MD at the Duke University School of Medicine and a PhD at Oxford University in Mathematics as a Marshall Scholar. Alex completed a surgical internship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He went on to a residency in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in pediatric radiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Alex then served as an adjunct faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine and continues to practice as an emergency radiologist. Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Intro 2:08 About Alex, the inspiration for Cost Plus Drugs 9:34 Why drugs cost so much, price gouging, parasitic middlemen (PBMs) 18:23 Who ultimately suffers? 25:29 Breaking the system, price transparency, the problem with “discounts” 31:18 Financing this model, negotiating directly with drug manufacturers, Mark Cuban, simple pricing 38:55 How providers can prescribe using costplusdrugs.com 42:12 Employer incentives, the Health 3.0 vision, building a new (less corrupt) system 51:06 Primary care, concierge care, importance of preventative care 1:07:03 Med expiration dates, working with Mark Cuban 1:11:52 Finding a sense of purpose (both personally & within your team), founder stress & burnout 1:20:30 Final thoughts Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meditation questions, what it's like on meditation retreat (virtual and in-person), thoughts on thoughts, emotion shadow work, reactivity, truth-realization, and more in this Q+A originally LIVE on Facebook. Watch the video here. Future retreats with Dr. Angelo DiLullo can be found here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can healing happen when we shine a light on the dark places in medicine? Dr. Emily Silverman is a UCSF hospital physician and host of the popular podcast The Nocturnists. We dive into shame and emotional repression in doctors, healthcare professionals, and beyond. Check out the entire Shame series here. Learn more about Dr. Silverman here. Donate to her nonprofit here. Visit The Shame Space. Here is the gun violence article we referenced. Watch the video of our interview here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's a Sith Lord and burned out physician, more machine than doc now. YOU asked him ANYTHING, LIVE! Full video version here. Topics covered: 00:00 Intro 00:09 Pronouns 01:40 Damar Hamlin 03:37 Vaccines 08:57 Fairness 11:44 Societal fails 16:37 Shame 19:18 Universal masking 20:26 Bret Weinstein 22:36 Colonoscopy 23:44 Vaccine induced myocarditis 24:38 Naming your baby 26:54 Champagne 27:55 Lightsaber Vasectomies 29:08 Male nurses 31:15 Clinical leadership 32:07 Power of the Dark Side 35:14 Medication side effects 37:33 Perfect families 40:26 Dark side philosophy 42:13 Personality disorders Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avoid the pitfalls of your online "second self" by recognizing & navigating criticism, parasocial projections, audience capture, social media addiction, and creator burnout/metric obsession. Reference courtesy of The Stoa here. Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ever-amazing Dr. Monica Gandhi returns to talk Flu/RSV/COVID, viral interference, China's zero-COVID response, MPox, and public health lessons from HIV for the next pandemic—while searching for true meaning beyond our apparent divisions. Watch the video here. Here's the paper summarizing Monica's proposed pandemic playbook. Find all our episodes with Dr. Gandhi here. Transcript & links here. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 03:27 Influenza, RSV & COVID, "immune debt," viral interference, population immunity, targeted boosting, pregnancy & immunity 12:30 Bivalent boosters, age stratified risk, flu shot uptake, public health’s vaccine messaging failures, China’s zero-COVID policy, mRNA vaccines & the immunocompromised 22:53 Mpox (formerly monkeypox) messaging, why at-risk population targeting is so important 28:17 Monica’s new book Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook, HIV lessons learned but not applied to the COVID pandemic, harm reduction, school closures, global vaccine equity, planning for future pandemics 37:42 Social divisiveness & the moral matrix, societal harms due to the pandemic response, mental health, substance abuse & suicide, the Alt-Middle 44:15 Burnout, healing divisiveness, fostering compassion, searching for meaning through connection, waking up to what “is” 57:46 Final thoughts Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our entire conventional lives are based on a case of mistaken identity. Let's look for who we REALLY are, together (originally LIVE on YouTube) 🔥 Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arguing over vaccines with your crazy relatives might raise your glucose more than dessert; continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for insight into diet, exercise, sleep, emotional stress, and more with Dr. Ronesh Sinha. Check out Dr. Sinha's website, follow him on Instagram, and subscribe to his Meta Health podcast. All our prior episodes together. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/continuous-glucose-monitoring/ Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro to lifestyle medicine 02:30 ABIM recertification, left vs. right brain medicine, Attia & Thor on National Geographic 10:03 Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) as a motivator, exploring root causes, the primary care doc crisis 19:25 Insulin resistance, matching carbs to your metabolism, vital role of protein intake & muscle mass, fasting, plant-based diets 31:53 Sleep quality, food choices, glycemic variability, glucose spikes & recovery periods, "worry journaling" 43:47 Public speaking and stress, cortisol release & glucose levels 51:28 Social media & the news, memory recall, creating spaces to give the nervous system a break, biopsychosocial factors, the right brain approach 57:45 CGM data patterns, approaching exercise realistically, walking, “EPIC” workouts, positive vs. negative stress 1:07:54 The pandemic of emotional repression, teen metabolic health in decline 1:18:20 Gender-specific considerations, alcohol 1:23:12 Environmental conditioning, the downside to working from home, the approaching societal tipping point, waking up 1:27:47 Second-selfing, audience capture, internal capitalism, final thoughts Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sunday Roundz, originally live on YouTube 10/30/22. Video: zdoggmd.com/seoul Gear: supportertribe4lyfe.com Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Angelo DiLullo (author of Awake, It's Your Turn) interviews ME 😂 We talk about my own weird history, becoming "ZDoggMD", advice for medical students and residents, and a crazy thing that changed my life back in 2012. If you really wanna wake up, subscribe to Angelo's amazing YouTube channel and check out all our previous conversations here. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SChalT87vnM Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our collective shift towards left brain dominance may be the end of us all. A live discussion of the ramifications of increasing reductionism in healthcare, COVID, and beyond. Learn more about McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/left-right-brain/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices