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Demetri Kofinas | Life, Death, and Rebirth: What I Found When I Lost My Mind
Special Episode
Demetri Kofinas
Demetri Kofinas | Life, Death, and Rebirth: What I Found When I Lost My Mind
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In this week’s episode of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas plays part of a documentary about him created by CBC Radio One’s “The Current.” The documentary is based on of an article published by Demetri dealing with his experience of, and subsequent recovery from, severe dementia and anterograde amnesia caused by a Craniopharyngioma.
Demetri is the very fortunate survivor of a brain tumor for which he underwent both surgery, as well as radiation therapy in the summer and fall of 2013. He lived with his brain tumor for four years before it began to cause him serious symptoms, most notably, dementia and anterograde amnesia. After his surgery in June of 2013, Demetri experienced an unprecedented reacquisition of memories previously thought to have been lost forever. The tumor had not disrupted the formation of new memories, but rather the retrieval process. Once the surgery removed pressure from his hippocampus and other cognitive areas of the brain, Demetri was able to reacquire and reassimilate those lost memories into his life. This documentary was originally produced by Leif Zapf-Gilje.
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Demetri Kofinas is a technology and media entrepreneur, as well as the creator and former executive producer of a popular international finance television news program broadcast in over 100 countries around the world. Demetri serves as principal and executive producer of OFFLINE, an Off-Broadway theatre company specializing in modern adaptations of classic works. He is also creator and host of Hidden Forces, a weekly podcast that explores the hidden forces responsible for driving the most powerful changes we see in the world.
After graduating from NYU in 2004, Demetri Kofinas worked for a brief period in financial services before founding Guerilla Gaming Concepts, an interactive entertainment company focused on developing a skill gaming middleware platform for the Play Station 3. In 2008, Demetri transitioned from the video games industry into product development for television, working in application development and design for Cablevision. Later in his career, Demetri turned his passion for financial blogging into the popular evening radio program Covering the Spread, which aired during drive time on 91.5FM WNYE, appearing often as a commentator on other radio and television news programs as well. Eventually, Demetri’s broad experience in media and his passion for finance and economics lead to his creation and executive production of the popular international news program Capital Account, which was watched, during its run, by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
More recently, Demetri Kofinas was responsible for overseeing the creation, development, and launch of The Art of Dying, an educational initiative whose mission is to revolutionize the way modern societies engage with, understand and build relationship around death and dying. The institute’s Spring 2015 conferencewas attended by more than 300 participants and featured eighteen of the world’s leading researchers, innovators, and practitioners from the fields of death care and death-related studies.
Demetri Kofinas currently serves as principal and Executive Producer of OFFLINE, an off-Broadway theater company specializing in modern adaptations of classic works, with an eye towards exploring modern and experimental interpretations and themes. The company’s most recent production – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – had a successful summer run at Theatre 80 St. Marks. Previous performances of Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night have had Spring and Fall runs at the historic Soho Playhouse in Lower Manhattan. The coming launch of Hidden Forces Media has consumed all of Demetri’s free time, but he looks forward to putting on more productions in the near future.
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Idem iste, inquam, de voluptate quid sentit? Conferam tecum, quam cuique verso rem subicias; Unum nescio, quo modo possit, si luxuriosus sit, finitas cupiditates habere. Ita credo. Qui-vere falsone, quaerere mittimus-dicitur oculis se privasse; Conferam tecum, quam cuique verso rem subicias; Cuius similitudine perspecta in formarum specie ac dignitate transitum est ad honestatem dictorum atque factorum.
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Si mala non sunt, iacet omnis ratio Peripateticorum. Ex quo intellegitur officium medium quiddam esse, quod neque in bonis ponatur neque in contrariis. Duo Reges: constructio interrete. Omnia peccata paria dicitis. Quae iam oratio non a philosopho aliquo, sed a censore opprimenda est. De ingenio eius in his disputationibus, non de moribus quaeritur. Certe, nisi voluptatem tanti aestimaretis. Quid ei reliquisti, nisi te, quoquo modo loqueretur, intellegere, quid diceret?
Quorum sine causa fieri nihil putandum est. At modo dixeras nihil in istis rebus esse, quod interesset. Sed quoniam et advesperascit et mihi ad villam revertendum est, nunc quidem hactenus; Quo studio Aristophanem putamus aetatem in litteris duxisse? Quodsi ipsam honestatem undique pertectam atque absolutam. Quid ergo attinet gloriose loqui, nisi constanter loquare? Hic quoque suus est de summoque bono dissentiens dici vere Peripateticus non potest. Verum hoc loco sumo verbis his eandem certe vim voluptatis Epicurum nosse quam ceteros. Quis enim potest ea, quae probabilia videantur ei, non probare?
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Amicitiae vero locus ubi esse potest aut quis amicus esse cuiquam, quem non ipsum amet propter ipsum? Gloriosa ostentatio in constituendo summo bono. Hoc Hieronymus summum bonum esse dixit. Nam aliquando posse recte fieri dicunt nulla expectata nec quaesita voluptate. Omnes enim iucundum motum, quo sensus hilaretur. Quae cum essent dicta, finem fecimus et ambulandi et disputandi. Neque enim civitas in seditione beata esse potest nec in discordia dominorum domus; Quid est igitur, inquit, quod requiras?
Fortasse id optimum, sed ubi illud: Plus semper voluptatis? Quid, si etiam iucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum? Cum autem in quo sapienter dicimus, id a primo rectissime dicitur. Quid ergo dubitamus, quin, si non dolere voluptas sit summa, non esse in voluptate dolor sit maximus? Non igitur potestis voluptate omnia dirigentes aut tueri aut retinere virtutem. Nescio quo modo praetervolavit oratio. Ut nemo dubitet, eorum omnia officia quo spectare, quid sequi, quid fugere debeant? Nonne videmus quanta perturbatio rerum omnium consequatur, quanta confusio? Optime, inquam. Nunc haec primum fortasse audientis servire debemus.
Duo Reges: constructio interrete. Quis suae urbis conservatorem Codrum, quis Erechthei filias non maxime laudat? Paulum, cum regem Persem captum adduceret, eodem flumine invectio? Inscite autem medicinae et gubernationis ultimum cum ultimo sapientiae comparatur. Non quam nostram quidem, inquit Pomponius iocans; Cur id non ita fit?
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Quis enim redargueret? Ita similis erit ei finis boni, atque antea fuerat, neque idem tamen; Istam voluptatem, inquit, Epicurus ignorat? Ut nemo dubitet, eorum omnia officia quo spectare, quid sequi, quid fugere debeant?
Hanc quoque iucunditatem, si vis, transfer in animum; Sin aliud quid voles, postea.