rewilding and nomadism

Here are two interesting interviews from Daniel Vitalis's rewilding podcast.

The first one discusses the loss and rediscovery of the wild human with Arthur Haines. The second one, with Abel James, explores the idea that we are by nature semi-nomadic, in other words, by nature, we humans like to move around and then settle for a while before moving on again.

http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/arthur-haines-on-the-death-of-domestication-the-birth-of-the-new-aboriginal

http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/abel-james-on-the-wild-diet-modern-semi-nomadic-living

the dangers of faddy eating

http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/3-arthur-haines-on-food-fads-vs-the-homo-sapiens-diet

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, Arthur Haines and Daniel Vitalis  delve into the difference between Food Fads and the Homo sapiens Diet.

• All diets are fad diets
• What constitutes a fad diet
• The issues with the loss of seasonal foods
• The good side of grains
• Wild rice benefits
• Cultivated foods vs. wild foods
• 4 guidelines for choosing domesticated foods
• Bitter lettuce over iceburg lettuce
• How to eat animal foods
• ReWild your mind

Arthur goes into some very helpful finer details, discussing, for example polphenols which quench free radical activity and the fact that selectively eating flesh of animals increases methionine levels leading to disease; traditional diets included the whole animal which brought the situation into balance with the amino acid glycine.  Also Arthur shows how faddy diets all miss out the medicinal aspects of food.

By the way I personally feel that in today's world where we can ship more species appropriate foods around the globe, most of us don't need to eat other mammals but I still find these points about traditional diets quite enlightening.

language and life

Arthur Haines talks about how the language we speak shapes our experience of life.

http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/arthur-haines-on-how-speaking-english-impacts-our-relationship-with-nature

• The wild experience vs. the civilized experience
• The language of imperialism
• How Arthur became interested in learning an indigenous language
• Language shapes how we think
• Loss of language diversity
• The narrow aperture of the English language
• English is a language of war
• Indigenous languages integrate verbs into the landscape
• Freedom of mind
• Religion and language
• Language of a fluid worldview
• Experiencing life as verbs and not as nouns
• "Spending time"
• Future of the Passamaquoddy language
• How Arthur integrates Passamaquoddy into his lifestyle
• Exploring languages indigenous to your area
• Indigenous language reveals water as medicine