Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 39 minutes ago
In this profound conversation with psychiatrist Richard Petty, we explore the future of Humanity through the lens of mind, meaning, and direct experience. Dr. Petty brings a striking insight: the imbalance between analytical thinking and embodied awareness may be one of the hidden drivers of our global crisis. When the analytic mode (the left brain) dominates which it does now, we lose contact with the Natural living world of which each of is a part.
Dr. Petty graduated in medicine from the Royal London Hospital Medical College, University of London. While a student, developed a deep and abiding interest in the work of Carl Jung and spent two years training in psychotherapy. After graduation, he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry, a doctorate in cell biology and trained in acupuncture and qigong in England and then in China and the USA.
He practiced, researched and taught internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolic medicine for 14 years, before psychiatric training at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals, London and a research Fellowship in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore.
Seven years on the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting Professor, Guest Lecturer, Keynote Speaker and workshop leader on every continent. Except Antarctica; teaching wellbeing, healthy aging, spirituality and methods for increasing energy and resilience.
In this profound conversation with psychiatrist Richard Petty, we explore the future of Humanity through the lens of mind, meaning, and direct experience. Dr. Petty brings a striking insight: the imbalance between analytical thinking and embodied awareness may be one of the hidden drivers of our global crisis. When the analytic mode (the left brain) dominates which it does now, we lose contact with the Natural living world of which each of is a part.
Dr. Petty graduated in medicine from the Royal London Hospital Medical College, University of London. While a student, developed a deep and abiding interest in the work of Carl Jung and spent two years training in psychotherapy. After graduation, he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry, a doctorate in cell biology and trained in acupuncture and qigong in England and then in China and the USA.
He practiced, researched and taught internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolic medicine for 14 years, before psychiatric training at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals, London and a research Fellowship in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore.
Seven years on the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting Professor, Guest Lecturer, Keynote Speaker and workshop leader on every continent. Except Antarctica; teaching wellbeing, healthy aging, spirituality and methods for increasing energy and resilience.
