What do you do in a health crisis when all of the allopathic experts you’ve seen have no clue how to heal you?
When faced with extreme health problems and no answers, philosopher, farmer and award-winning author Daniel Firth Griffith took his Mom’s advice — chickens — and became a living example of the many benefits active, holistic approaches provide.
Daniel describes how his wellness transformation went hand-in-hand with a love for farming and storytelling and explains why, in its truest form, myth is a silence with legs, this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Daniel’s work as a storyteller and horse-drawn woodwright at his website, Substack and on social media via Instagram. Check out his growing number of books and writings on his writing/books page or on Amazon (link below). Listen to his Unshod podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get them.
Timestamps
8:15 Could chickens be an effective treatment for degenerative bone disease?
12:35 Have you really tasted a potato?
20:45 Humans are constantly trying to be rooted not unlike a carrot or potato.
31:06 Myth as defined by Daniel.
48:33 The concept of Creator extends far beyond Native American cultures.
55:13 Myth emerges from our bodies.
1:14:20 Sacred harvests with blood and oxygen.
1:22:30 “How do we keep that oral living ecotone alive in a bastardized medium known as the written word?”
1:29:30 The divine feminine.
1:41:21 “Myth provides us a silence with legs.”
1:47:34 Are you connected or disconnected from the world?
1:55:56 A living myth of foraging.
2:05:51 The differences between world sense and world view.
2:14:49 An uncomfortable, paradoxical connection.
2:23:31 The chemical makeup of an animal that doesn’t give you its consent to eat it changes radically and for the worse.
2:27:35 “Mythology presents a paradox of being, because it says be here, but the here is nowhere… it's everywhere.”
2:38:31 Are you a non-consensus human?
Resources
The Plain of Pillars by Daniel Firth Griffith
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