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 can kill 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.

Timestamps

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

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Lucid Dying: The New Science of Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death by Sam Parnia

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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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