[Unedited] James Doty with Krista Tippett
b'A brain surgeon. \\u201cThe brain is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.\\u201d The science of compassion. The baggage of evolution. The two way street of \\u201cneural innovation that comes from the brain stem into the heart.\\u201d\\nBrain surgeon James Doty is on the cutting edge of our knowledge of the brain and the heart: how they talk to each other; what compassion means in the body and in action; and how we can reshape our lives and perhaps our species through the scientific and human understanding we are now gaining.\\nJames Doty is a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founding director of CCARE, the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. His book is \\u201cInto the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon\\u2019s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart.\\u201d He is also the senior editor of the \\u201cOxford Handbook of Compassion Science.\\u201d\\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.'