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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a clip from the Quantum Guide show. You
can access the entire episode now on our website and
all podcast platforms. I always, you know, I'd go to
family with my own paranormal experiences, and all I ever
got was, no, don't talk about that. People are going
to think you're crazy. Or I would go to church
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and talk about it and they'd say, oh, don't talk
about it. It's demons, that's the devil. You're leading yourself
wide open to wicked forces. And so, you know, I
stuffed it for a long time because I mean, nobody
wants to, at least at least not in my reality.
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Nobody wants to consciously do a dance with the devil
or become insane. You know, I don't want any of
any of those. And then the other aspect is are
intergenerational or multi generational dysfunction having to overcome that, because
I think a lot of that dysfunction was actually perpetrated
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upon us to prevent us from exploring our gifts and
to hide all that tied into all of that, Let's
go back to farming a bit, because a lot of
people don't have any idea where food comes from. Some
people know where food comes from. But they don't realize
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what has happened in the last hundred years to change
farming completely. So, for instance, I've seen enough animal cruelty
videos to know that the way they're treating chickens and
livestock and stuff is horrible. I can't even imagine what
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those poor beasts go through. I spent actually in my
own healing journey. I actually spent quite a long time
as a vegan and then as a raw vegan, but
my digestive system couldn't handle it. I guess we'll get
into that further on in the discussion. But a lot
of people don't realize that the wave farming is done
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today is not how farming is done. And even in
my grandparents' day, they were still you know, using plows
to plow rows and sew seeds and stuff. But from
what I understand, the garden is well, first of all,
let's just say this, the crops or the garden is
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an ecosystem, and it not only supports bugs and tiny
creatures and worms. It grows the plants. It grows weeds
which I found out later were medicinal are given to
us for medicinal aids. Right, and then there's all small
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animals and serpents, amphibians, and the whole thing besides the
crop is an ecosystem with communication that goes up and
down and all around. And then there's the whole myicelium network.
And now we're finding out that gardens are actually quite
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complementary and not competitive, where we will see plants feeding
other species of plants, even to help them out. I
don't know, I'm not saying it probably correctly, but for
our audience, it's not really familiar about the truth about
what is a garden or what is a farm. You know, Megan,
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please tell us as much as you want to about
all that because it's so critically important, and I think
a lot of us are missing the boat in that area. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I think what you were talking about an ecosystem that's
ultimately we know from lots of biology biological studies like
the more diverse a system is, the healthier it is,
the more resilient it is. And that is one of
the biggest detriments that we've caused to our agricultural ecosystems
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is that a lot of them are done in monocropping
or just you know, very few crops yea. And that
monocropping system and the way in which the farming is
conducted typically where it does a lot of tears up
the soil frequently, you know, it doesn't let it doesn't
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allow that microbial ecosystem as well to thrive. And then
on top of that so many agricultural inputs of chemicals
that are actually toxic to the soils and all the
life that the soils support. It's just compounding a problem
of minimizing the health of the ecosystem. So, I mean,
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that's the short story, is that we're we're taking away
the thriving and resilience of our ecosystems by minimally planting
the same thing over and over again or a few things,
and the way in which we tend the soil or
treat the soil. And then on top of that the
chemicals we use to minimize weeds and kill pests and
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things like that. So what we want are diverse ecosystems,
and the soil is what supports everything to grow on
top of it, and that's what we It's like there
has been appreciation and growing understanding of the role that
these microbial systems are playing in the soils and that's
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the connection that the Inner Garden book makes that our
gut microbiome is the soil of our our being, so
that is the foundation of the health of everything that
grows from there. If you want to have flourishing in
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any way, if you want to have a diverse and
resilient ecosystem, you have to have thriving soil and microbial
networks and webs to support and sustain it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
M m m. That's my understanding too. The other thing is,
and I may not have this one hundred percent correct,
but this is the way I understand it is when
we eat so called foods that are full of herbicides, pesticides,
or even chemicals to prolong shelf life. When we eat
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those things, we're now tampering with our gut microbiome that
breaks foods down and absorbs what we need from it. So,
for instance, I know they go well, I eat healthy
all week and lots of vegetables, and I think I'm
doing fine. But on the weekend, we really like Friday
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night going to McDonald's, and then sometimes on Sunday we
like to go out for this, that and the other.
And in my opinion, I think one of the biggest
challenges that I face, and that includes for my spirituality,
is keeping my gut clean enough that I can absorb
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the nutrients so when i'm and so it takes tremendous commitment,
I think, to not just to the body, but to
even our societies and cultures that we need to be
able to digest our food. And so what's happening is
people who are, you know, doing real good during the week,
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and then on the weekend, yeah whoo, and you know whatever,
Then they go back to eating healthy. But guess what,
the gut is sick and it takes weeks for it
to repair itself and get going again. But by then
you're in another weekend and you're eating more McDonald So
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I'm I'm not trying to pooh pooh on fast food,
but I personally wouldn't touch it with a ten foot
pole because of the setback. And I'm tired. I know
how to fail, I know how to have setbacks. I
had many, many, many in my lifetime. But I don't
want to do that anymore. I want to keep going
forward and seeing what happens and seeing as I get
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healthier and as I can digest better, and see how
that all goes for me. But what's your opinion, Megan
when it comes to people who basically eat healthy during
the week and then they binge on the weekend. You know,
do you see that as a problem or is that
just me being too fussy?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, I think even I mean, it's bigger than weekly diet.
It's just by existing on the planet at this time,
even if you were to eat a completely organic, whole
foods diet, we are living on a planet that has pollution,
and we are exposed to the same air, same water systems,
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you know. I mean it's one world. We are in one,
and so we are all exposed in I mean, there's
things like bioaccumulation of toxins in fats and so things
like cheeses and butters and eating different high fat fish
or I mean there's been studies that have been looking
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at the toxins and polar bears, you know, and people
living in Arctic areas where they're not even exposed to
all the same