EPISODE 389
The Deeper Your Questions Get, the Bigger Your Life Becomes With Fred Provenza
While navigating the very narrow habitrail of daily living, it’s very easy to forget there’s an amazing, alluring and mysterious universe all around us that we simply cannot completely quantify (but take very much for granted). Over time, this daily dulling of our imagination kills our heart, mind and soul, but only if we let it…
If you’ve misplaced your sense of wonder and want to reclaim it, join Paul and his very special guest Fred Provenza on an exploration of the cosmos through the world of dreams this week on Spirit Gym.
Download Fred’s recent paper, Cosmic Dreaming: Memories of a Moment on Earth, for FREE at this link. Check out Fred’s earlier work on Acres USA at this link.
Watch Fred’s recent discussion, Cosmic Dreaming: The Ecology of Food Systems and Human and Environmental Health, with the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine on YouTube.
Learn more about the Behavioral Education for Human Animal Vegetation and Ecosystem Management (BEHAVE) program co-founded by Fred at Utah State University at this link.
SHOW NOTES
2:21 The conversation begins with prayers.
4:59 What happens when God become an idea instead of a mystery?
14:25 The one lesson all of us need to learn during our time on the planet.
25:38 The book that saved Fred from a life of depression.
31:16 What is consciousness?
37:58 How Fred developed a course on Myth and The Management of Natural Resources.
44:19 The danger of dogmas.
56:57 “You depart from nature when the death you produce no longer feeds or supports life.”
1:08:09 Has the human race become doers at the expense of losing out on feeling alive?
1:11:35 How much do you want to be owned?
1:33:13 The inherent creativity of human beings.
1:38:08 Challenges, opportunities, living in an evolutionary spirit and transcending boundaries.
1:51:36 The importance of studying principles that transcend time and space.
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander
The Art and Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders by Fred Provenza
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom by Fred Provenza
Against The Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Lucid Dying: The New Science of Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death by Sam Parnia
The work of Heinrich Zimmer, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, John Archibald Wheeler, Charles Alexander Eastman, Walter Russell and Betty J. Eadie
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani
Paul’s podcast conversations with Sean O’Laoire and Paul Levy
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan by F.H. King
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
Oracle of the Mythic Heroes Tarot card deck by Letao Wang
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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
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