EPISODE 212
Mansal Denton: Sacred Hunting
Bonding with nature is a powerful thing, especially for those who use hunting to get in touch with the deepest parts of their souls.
Mansal Denton describes the process of sacred hunting he teaches and how to harness the power of nature for your spiritual benefit, whether you want to hunt or not, in this very primal Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Mansal at his Sacred Hunting website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.
For Living 4D listeners: If you’re interested in participating in a sacred hunt, receive a $250 discount when you enroll by mentioning that you heard about it on Living 4D.
SHOW NOTES
- Mansal’s rite of passage into manhood came in prison. (5:54)
- What sacred ritual means to Mansal. (10:54)
- Sexual abstinence and hunting. (19:44)
- The act of sacrifice. (27:34)
- The importance of myth in our lives. (36:00)
- Could going to prison be its own rite of passage? (58:31)
- “Nature is the ultimate embodiment of the feminine.” (1:10:14)
- The act of hunting evokes a practice of death medicine. (1:14:09)
- How can you save the planet without processing the grief you feel? (1:22:53)
- What’s your relationship with death? (1:33:27)
- Any disconnects we have with fundamental parts of ourselves are revealed in very unhealthy ways. (1:41:45)
- Ways to get in touch with your primal nature without hunting. (1:46:09)
- You don’t have to take the life of an animal in a hunt to tap into your wisdom. (1:55:01)
- Women can get a lot out of the practice of hunting. (2:08:51)
- Do you really know how to slow down? (2:16:53)
- The cosmic ancestors of a place. (2:28:20)
- Sacred walks with others in nature. (2:38:19)
- Trophy hunting: The need for humans to exert their dominance in fearful ways on animals in the natural world. (2:50:37)
- No AR-style weapons needed for sacred hunting. (2:55:22)
- The most important relationships a hunter has: God, nature, your self and, most importantly, the animal. (2:59:23)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- Mansal on the Kyle Kingsbury Podcast
- Kill Bill
- The ouroboros
- Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax
- Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
- Paul’s Living 4D conversation with James Carse
- The work of Shane McDermott
- Menudo
- Pilgrimage and spiritual practice with Rupert Sheldrake on YouTube
- The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
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