Podcasts about kogi

In 2008, Roy Choi was fired from his big restaurant job and ready to give up—then he started his food truck, Kogi. He joins us today to discuss the making of his now-legendary food truck, how he taught Jon Favreau to look like a cook for his 2014 film “Chef,” and why there's poetry in lowriding around LA. Plus, we hunt for clams, eels and anchovies with sea forager Kirk Lombard, and Chris and Sara Moulton take your calls—what constitutes the middle rack of the oven, how to make the perfect toum, and much more. Listen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify

The joy of cooking with Roy Choi... Kogi king Roy Choi has health on his mind in a new collection of recipes How do you become a restaurant critic? Besha Rodell explains in her memoir Marie Mitchell shares dishes from the Caribbean and its diaspora It's cherry season at the farmers market and which means the lines are long at the Murray Family Farm stand Sign up for our newsletter and catch up on all Good Food episodes!

In Tuesday's episode, Kolawole and Okey Bakassi dive into the jaw-dropping tale of a Kogi community initiating 103 virgins into womanhood.

Natasha-Akpabio Saga - INEC Rejects Petition Seeking Kogi Senator's Recallhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/natasha-akpabio-saga-inec-rejects-petition-seeking-kogi-senators-recall/03/04/2025/#Issues #Kogi #Akpabio #INEC #NASS #Natasha ©April 3rd, 2025 ®April 3, 2025 4:57 pm Nigeria Electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has rejected the petition seeking the dismissal or recall of the West Africa nation female Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan who is currently representing Kogi Central Senatorial District at the Senate chamber of the country National Assembly, stating that the petitioners failed to meet the constitutional requirements for the recall process to scale through, this, apparently a continuation of the political drama that has ensued since the female senator accused the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio of sexual harassment. #OsazuwaAkonedo

The recent killings in Uromi have sparked widespread condemnation from both Nigerians and the government, raising concerns about Northern hunters operating in the South. Many are questioning why these hunters travel such long distances—whether for unique animals, economic survival, or other reasons. In this episode of Nigeria Daily, we explore the implications of their activities, their legality, and the potential security risks they pose.

Natasha-Akpabio Saga - Kogi Receives Senator, Brushed Aside Gov, Police Banhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/natasha-akpabio-saga-kogi-receives-senator-brushed-aside-gov-police-ban/01/04/2025/#Issues #Kogi #Akpabio #Bello #Natasha #Ododo #Senate ©April 1st, 2025 ®April 1, 2025 7:48 pm Nigeria Senate President, Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday was alleged to have planned with the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello to assassinate Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, this, the female lawmaker made the allegation in addition to her earlier allegation of sexual harassment leveled against the Nigeria third highest ranking government official which led to her being suspended by the Senate for six months and more actions taken apparently by her political enemies who may have encouraged her constituents to file a petition before the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to recall her from the National Assembly, which, she accused her political enemies of forging and gathering fake signatures to mislead INEC into doing a dirty job, as such, she was warned to cancel her homecoming rally and procession after the Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo banned political rally and procession in the state, subsequently, the Kogi State Command of the Nigeria Police Force issued a stern warning threat message on Tuesday morning that the political gathering maybe hijacked by hoodlums based on intelligence gathering, but despite the threats, the people of Kogi State came out in a very large numbers to receive and honour the female Senator who arrived the venue of the homecoming Sallah celebration with helicopter. #OsazuwaAkonedo

A farkon makon nan, Hukumar Zaɓen Najeriya INEC, ta ce ba a kammala cika ƙa'idojin da kundin tsarin mulki ya gindaya ba, a kan tsarin kiranyen da ake ƙoƙarin yi wa Sanata Natasha mai wakiltar yankin Kogi ta Tsakiya a zauren Majalisar Dattijai. INEC ta bayyana haka ne, bayan da ta fara nazari akan ƙorafe-ƙorafen da aka gabatar mata na nemn yi wa Sanata Natasha yankan ƙauna, wadda a kwanakin baya ta zargi shugaban Majalisar Dattawan Najeriyar Godswil Akpabio da cin zarafinta ta hanyar nemanta da lalata.Domin jin yadda tsarin na Kiranyen yake...Nura Ado Suleiman ya tattauna da Barista Abba Hikima, ƙwararren lauya a Najeriya.Ku latsa alamar sauti don sauraron cikakkiyar hirar.

A wannan makon shirin ya mayar da hankali ne kan bambancin da ke tsakanin teku da tafki da kuma kogi, tare kuma da yin duba game da irin gudunmowar da suke bayarwa ga muhall. Babu shakka masana kimiyyar halittu sun kasa ita wannan duniyar da muke ciki zuwa ɓangarori guda hudu: na farko, wanda ke dauke da duk ragowar ukun shi ne tsandauri, wanda ya hada da duwatsu da tudu da kwari da kasa da kwazazzabai, wadanda ake takawa ake tafiya a ciki da sauran abubuwa da ake yi yau da kullum.

This TIMELESS has actually never been shared on the podcast before. Our guest is Woman Stands Shining also known as Pat McCabe - one of the Diné Nation, and was adopted into the Lakota Spiritual Way of Life. Pat lives in rural New Mexico, but travels internationally to speak, pray, and share her journey with others. Descended from elders taken into residential boarding schools intended to strip her people of their culture, she is continually in the process of remembering and listening for the way Home, back to the true nature of being Human Being.   This little piece explores the sacred role of women in indigenous traditions and their deep connection to Mother Earth. With wisdom from the Lakota, Kogi, and other cultures, Pat describes how women are the backbone of families and communities. She shares with us the power of moon time, the importance of reintroducing Grandmother's Lodges and the need to restore balance between the masculine and feminine. This is a call for women to reclaim their spiritual authority—not through dominance, but by aligning with the natural laws and rythms of life. In this TIMELESS we go beyond the billionaire's boys club and explore How True Respect for Women Dismantles Toxic Power. We hope it moves you deeply.   Links from this episode and more at allthatweare.org       

On today's episode, we revisit Roy Choi's episode from March 10th, 2022. Roy Choi (Broken Bread, The Chef Show, Kogi) is a chef, author, and television personality. Roy joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he went from having a gambling addiction to being an award-winning chef, what Asian immigrants had to do to navigate the American system, and how important food is to Korean culture. Roy and Dax talk about what happened to restaurants during the pandemic, how most people in America are a product of fast food advertising, and what reforms he would like to see in the food industry. Roy explains what his experience was like teaching English in Korea, that he has never been a collector of material things, and that he believes there isn't enough Asian representation in American media.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textRichard Chambers, founder of Starseeds Changing the World (www.starseedschangingtheworld.com, Richard_d_chambers on Insta), co-founder of the Kualama Foundation, quantum life coach and creator of the Crystal Academy, shares deep wisdom regarding the critical nature of the planet's bio-diversity. Richard gained this crucial information from the sacred tribes of the mountains of Colombia and their sacred leaders, the Mamos. Richard and his wife Rosalie (aka the Rainbow Goddess, @THE RAINBOW GODDESS) previously on THE SOULFAM PODCAST,    • Video  ) were invited to spend time with the Kogi's in Colombia, a sacred tribe whose culture and mission is to safeguard the heart of the Earth. The tribe (one of four whose mission is to safeguard the heart of the Earth) has gone undisturbed for thousands of years. In this energetically-charged conversation about the critical imbalance of planet Earth's resources, Richard emphasizes the importance of humanity's responsibility to give back to the Earth, to preserve its resources and to recognize the power of nature in our every day lives. Richard and Rosalie make semi-regular trips to Colombia with small highly-curated groups to experience and understand the sacredness of the tribes' culture and our collective mission to take care of Earth. In this conversation, Richard shares how the Earth's biodiversity is a well-ordered universe in which each resource must stay in balance in order to maintain a thriving, healthy environment for all....plant, human and earthly life. The  Kogi Tribe, who escaped the Conquistadors by climbing higher and higher into the mountains, have long protected the heart of the Earth located in the mountains of Colombia. They now plea with humanity to take up the cause, to become The Fifth Tribe (four tribes currently protect Earth's heart) and protect the planet's resources.Richard carries the Mamos' message of the importance  both the biological balance of the Earth, humanity, biodiversity, the oceans, animals and our spiritual balance with nature. In this interview, Richard shares how we have lost our connectedness with spirit, connectedness with the sacred and connectedness with ourselves. In his gentle, deeply-researched ways, Richard shares the importance of returning to the sacred for ourselves, our communities and for the planet. Not to eliminate the advances of our culture, but to be in balance with all for the wealth, health and well-being of all. Richard can be contacted for speaking events, group and individual coaching and as a resource for further understanding of the sacred tribes' intention and hope for Earth's inhabitants at www.starseedschangingtheworld.com. Richard has also founded the Kualama Foundation to help support the Kogi's and Mamos in their work. Mamos Elders currently speak and hold ceremony at specific locations around the world to invite humanity to take up their sacred responsibility to protect the Earth. This revelatory interview closes with sacred prayer. We invite you to pray or to honor Richard's words as a form of meditation if you are so inclined. If you enjoyed this video, REMEMBER TO Oweli Supplements (www.Oweli.com) and www.CBDpure.com, sponsors of the podcast, have graciously offered a coupon for free shipping and 15 percent off with the coupon code SOULFAM. Lexi and Diana both takes these supplements whose products support everything from your eye health to immune system to your protein intake to your brain's neurological health. CBD Pure is one of the very best CBD's on the market with high grade ingredients. Order now with SOULFAM in the coupon code. Support the show@dianamarcketta@lexisaldin@thesoulfampodcast

Djanhanguir Mazhary nos abandonó a comienzos de 2024 y con su esposa María Luisa Pérez Dávila, Etnolingüista, y profesora de canto particular crearon una familia centrada en la cultura desde las letras y la lúdica.. Ambos estudiaron el territorio y sus lenguas; ella es autora de libros en lengua Kogi, entre otros y él rodeó ese legado de poética con influencia persa. Ella asistió y participó del diálogo homenaje a su esposo en la Biblioteca del Banco. La lectura de textos la hicieron sus hijas: Ana, Marty y Manuela Mazhary

durée : 00:19:17 - Bienvenue chez vous 2ème partie - Benoît You, créateur de la marque de café équitable Petit Kogi, partage son aventure extraordinaire entre l'Ardèche et les montagnes colombiennes.

Why Court Stops Ex Kogi Gov Yahaya Bello Arraignment - EFCC https://osazuwaakonedo.news/why-court-stops-ex-kogi-gov-yahaya-bello-arraignment-efcc/30/11/2024/ #EFCC #Emeka #Kogi #Abuja #Adoza #Bello #Nwite #Yahaya ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 3:39 pm Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in a news release on Friday reported that Federal High Court sitting in Abuja stopped the arraignment of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello after the former governor told the court he was not yet prepared for the case. #OsazuwaAkonedo

EFCC Files New Charges After Kogi Ex Gov Yahaya Bello Submits Self https://osazuwaakonedo.news/efcc-files-new-charges-after-kogi-ex-gov-yahaya-bello-submits-self/28/11/2024/ #EFCC #Kogi #Adoza #Bello #Yahaya ©November 28th, 2024 ®November 28, 2024 11:26 am Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday reported new charges included in the corruption case against former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, totalling 16, but on Thursday, EFCC has added more three fresh charges to scale up the charges to 19 counts  since the fleeing former Governor submitted himself for prosecution on Tuesday. #OsazuwaAkonedo

Selon l'ONG Global Witness, c'est en 2023 en Colombie, où se réunissent à Cali les négociateurs de près de 200 pays pour s'entendre sur la sauvegarde de la nature, que le plus grand nombre d'assassinats de défenseurs de l'environnement au monde a été enregistré. Et les peuples autochtones sont en première ligne. A l'occasion de cette grande conférence qui se tient à Cali jusqu'au 1er novembre, nous rediffusons donc un épisode de notre série Sur la Terre, consacré aux Kogis. Les Kogis, qui vénèrent la "Terre mère", et vivent dans la plus haute chaîne de montagnes côtières du monde, la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta en Colombie sont de plus en plus écoutés par les scientifiques, comme d'autres peuples autochtones, après de longs siècles de mépris.D'autant que plusieurs études ont montré que les populations autochtones vivent sur des territoires représentant 80% de la biodiversité mondiale. Première diffusion : 6 juillet 2023. Intervenants : Arregocès Coronado Zarabata, directeur d'école Kogi, Luciano Mascote Conchacala, sage (“Mama”) kogi, Eric Julien, géographe et fondateur de l'association Tchendukua , Monica Hernandez Morcillo , Ingénieure forestière, University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (Allemagne), Melissa K. Nelson, professeure de développement durable autochtone, Arizona State University. Réalisation : Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer. Composition musicale: Nicolas Vair avec Irma Cabrero-Abanto et Sebastian Villanueva.Un grand merci à Loïc Le Meur et à Paua d'avoir autorisé cette rencontre.Sur la Terre est une série de podcasts et de textes réalisée par l'AFP Audio, en partenariat avec The Conversation qui part à la recherche de solutions pour surmonter la crise climatique et écologique, avec rigueur et esprit critique. Notre série a été financée par le Centre européen de journalisme dans le cadre du projet Journalisme de solutions, soutenu par la fondation Bill & Melinda Gates. L'AFP et The Conversation ont conservé leur indépendance éditoriale à chaque étape du projet. Pour joindre l'équipe de l'AFP Audio écrivez-vous à podcast@afp.com ou laissez-nous une note vocale : au + 33 6 79 77 38 45. A très bientôt ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

  Honoring Indigenous Prophecy –  teased into guiding pertinence for us now… Caroline re-re-re-welcomes Jerome McGeorge, for Part 2 of Indigenous Prophecy, warning and guiding – “Indigenuity.” He will put much of his worthy cred on the table, inviting him to be a messenger, from the Kogi, the Hopi, the Wolf Teaching Clan, (into which he was initiated by Twylah Nitsch) – the Council of Grandmothers…. and more… Inviting into our world guiding sane reverence, that we may protect as much FloraFaunaFungi as possible…(that it may dissolve the cuckoo cartoon of cruel crackpot humanity) Jerome McGeorge, fellow anarcho*astro*animist*enviro-farmer-wizard, co-founder of Organic Valley; Jerome, a long-time ally of the Kogi in Columbia- with whom he spent much time, was chosen by them to be their guide on their first trip to America… October 20th – Nov 5th, 1999, sponsored by Organic Valley, an investigative mission of discovery; bringing messages of wisdom, warning, and mutual aid…   The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Warning and Guiding appeared first on KPFA.

  Healing the Land! By Holding Myriad stories simultaneously! astro*mytho enthusiasm for Democracy…the much good magic of the Democratic Convention With the sine qua non: from the Cauldron of cruel carnage, we conjure Palestinian safe supported autonomy…full global support (and enforcement)…. Caroline welcomes the return of Jerome McGeorge, fellow anarcho*astro*animist*enviro-farmer-wizard, co-founder of Organic Valley; Honoring Indigenous Prophecy -teased into guiding pertinence for us now… Jerome, a long-time ally of the Kogi in Columbia- with whom he spent much time, was chosen by them to be their guide on their first trip to America… October 20th – Nov 5th, 1999, sponsored by Organic Valley, an investigative mission of discovery; bringing messages of wisdom, warning, and mutual aid…     Message to Rep Ruwa: Will spiral forth #LetRuwaSpeak to my radio audience Visionary Activist Show today 5 pm edt #KPFA Envisioning….not expecting…but Willing!…(expectation = partner of disappointment, but Willingness is the dance partner of life…) May the path unfurl for your worthy wise self….to present on stage tonight… Rep. Ruwa Romman @Ruwa4Georgia I want to cut through the noise and remind everyone that those who attend conventions are the strongest supporters of our party. The majority of attendees have been wearing ceasefire pins, keffiyehs, and/or Palestinian flags. It's been beautiful and I need folks to remember that.   Rep. Ruwa Romman @Ruwa4Georgia My speech urged us to unite behind Harris, criticized Trump, and spoke about the promise of this moment. The only reason we're doing this is to save the soul of our party and prevent bad actors from using our pain in an ongoing voter suppression campaign.   Maxwell Alejandro Frost @MaxwellFrostFL Rep. Ruwa is a Democratic leader who has been working to keep Georgia blue and elect VP Harris. She would be a unifying speaker for peace. @Ruwa4Georgia x.com/alanalindsayz/… The post The Visionary Activist Show – Healing the Land, Envisioning Autonomy appeared first on KPFA.

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Cynthia Jurs is a Dharmacharya in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2018, she was made an Honorary Lama in recognition of her dedication in the practice of Earth Treasure Vases and her commitment in relationship with elders, activists, and diverse communities to ceremonially bury the clay vases all around the planet in service to Gaia. Jurs offers monthly full moon meditations, retreats, and pilgrimages through the Gaia Mandala Global Healing Community. She is the author of: Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World (Prospecta Press 2024)Interview Date: 5/24/2024 Tags: Cynthia Jurs, Earth Treasure Vases, Evon Peter, Charles Eisenstein, Avebury England, crop circles, feminine and masculine, Gaia, Mother Earth, global mandala, full moon meditations, ancestors, Kogi people, Mother Earth, Tewa people, elders, Tibetan clay vases, Personal Transformation, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Community, Indigenous Wisdom, Buddhism. Global Culture

On this episode, hosts Amanda Freitag and Daniel Holzman are on the West Coast where they welcome philanthropist and chef Roy Choi to On the Line. Chef Choi is a pioneer of food trucks (his Korean-Mexican food truck /company Kogi put food trucks on the map and inspired the movie Chef) and on this episode, he shares epic stories of cooking and opening restaurants in Los Angeles, his taco venture Tacos Por Vida, and his incredible work exploring food issues with Broken Bread.

Kogi: die Weisheit der älteren Brüder – mit Lucas Buchholz Weit oben an den nördlichen und nordwestlichen Abhängen der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Kolumbien lebt ein Volk, das uns mit großer Sorge aus der Ferne beobachtet. Mit so großer Sorge, dass es sich vor gar nicht langer Zeit entschieden hat, mit uns in Kontakt zu treten, um seine Botschaft zu den Bewohnern der westlichen Welt zu tragen. Die Kogi. Ein Naturvolk, von dem wir viel lernen können, wenn wir ihm wirklich zuhören. Die Bergkette, die das zuhause der Kogi ist, betrachten sie als heilig, genau wie den Rest des Planeten. Umso erstaunlicher finden sie uns jüngeren Brüder – denn so nennen uns die Kogi - unseren Lebenswandel und unseren Umgang mit der Welt, in der wir leben. Der Mann, der offiziell den Auftrag bekam, die Lehre der Kogi zu verbreiten ist Lucas Buchholz. Er studierte Wirtschaft, Politik und im Master Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, arbeitete in internationalen Organisationen in Mosambik, Jordanien und Pakistan. Auf Einladung eines Kogi- Ältesten verbrachte er mehrere Monate bei diesem indigenen Volk in Kolumbien. Sie baten ihn, das Buch „Kogi – Wie ein Naturvolk unsere moderne Welt inspiriert“ für sie zu schreiben. Heute ist er als Zukunftsforscher, Berater, Speaker, Autor und Filmemacher tätig und arbeitet zu Transformation und Umdenken in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Er hält Vorträge, gibt Seminare und berät Unternehmen, die zukunftsfähig werden möchten.

The Moon Walks the Earth – Solstice Dedications – Caroline co-riffs with Jerome McGeorge, fellow anarcho*astro*animist, co-founder Organic Valley to and fro, with segments, honoring the Solstice, from our first show, and our last night conversing around the Mid-Summer Night entheo bonfire… …..including message from the Kogi, of Colombia, for us now! with whom Jerome spent much time, and was their guide on their first trip to America… October 20th – Nov 5th, 1999, sponsored by Organic Valley, investigative mission of discovery; bringing messages of wisdom, warning, and mutual aid… Am anchoring Jerome, pulling on his wizard ankles, to keep him in this world…. Tis time for him to receive supportive blessing from the multiverses to which he has contributed so much immeasurable good…and a treasure trove of applied erudition…. wins a best Aries Award! Imbued with the Medicine of seeing deeply, with a kind heart….. Agent of Green Man, Jerome McGeorge is an ally of richly cultivated, playful erudition, longtime organic*bioregional farmer, founding member of Coulee Region Organic Produce Pool (CROPP), the cooperative that is “Organic Valley” …2000 farms!   Moon walks the Earth: The Full Moon rises at extreme Southern point of horizon, will travel low to the ground…happens once every 18.6 years…..     Solstice Zoom event with Caroline, New Councils, and more at CoyoteNetworkNews.com Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – The Moon Walks the Earth – Solstice Dedications appeared first on KPFA.

Our guest today, Stephanie Trager, describes herself as a repurposed lawyer and was a tree activist until a serious head injury put her on the path of healing. We talk about the idea that psyche can’t distinguish between real and not real including psychedelic visions, memories, dreams, and the her and now. She talks about reframing the past and healing our lineage, which allows us to change our present and thus the future. She then shares her story of the head trauma that upended her life and led her to the South American rain forests where she spent time with Kogi indigenous shamans. After the break, we take a call from Ray from Santa Cruz who asks how we know when we are on the right path in life. He shares his own story of head trauma and how that changed his life. Ray also describes his passion project aimed at unifying America which you can find out about at MACA.us.com. Stephanie ends with a discussion about the difference between reconciling and spiritual dreams and talks about vivid dreaming and her mentor Margot Wilson. BIO: Stephanie Trager bridges ancient intelligence and modern wisdom to activate human potential. A fierce seeker of truth, she guides thought leaders to remember who they really are so they can do the deep sacred work they're really here to do. She's a futurist, medicine woman, lawyer, impact advisor, speaker, tree communicator, and Catalyst Talks Podcast host. Find our guest at: StephanieTrager.com This show, episode number 258, was recorded during a live broadcast on May 10, 2024 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz. Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for the phones. SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question by emailing Katherine Bell at katherine@ksqd.org. Follow on FB and IG @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms released the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/. Now also available on PRX at Exchange.prx.org/series/45206-the-dream-journal Note that closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Available on all major podcast platforms. Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Summary In this conversation, Julian speaks with Cynthia Jurs about her journey and the importance of community and global healing. Cynthia shares her experience of finding the original culture in New Mexico and the significance of connecting with indigenous traditions. They discuss the concept of the next Buddha as a sangha, emphasizing the need for collective awakening and the power of community. Cynthia also shares her transformative pilgrimage experience and the practice of using Earth Treasure Vases for global healing. In this conversation, Cynthia Jurs and Julian discuss the importance of restoring balance and harmony in the world. They explore indigenous practices of praying with objects and storing them in the ground as a way to connect with the deeper reality of the earth. Cynthia shares her connection to the Kogi people and their message about the disruption of the planet's lay lines. They also discuss the power of miracles and synchronicities in the journey of awakening. Cynthia offers practical steps for connecting with the breath, stopping the incessant thinking, and aligning with one's true source. They emphasize the importance of coming together in this time of collective awakening. Takeaways Finding and connecting with original cultures can provide a deeper understanding of our roots and the wisdom they hold. The next Buddha will manifest as a collective awakening, emphasizing the importance of community and collaboration. Community and sangha play a crucial role in healing and transforming ourselves and the world. Practices like pilgrimage and using Earth Treasure Vases can be powerful tools for personal and global healing. Restoring balance and harmony in the world is essential for the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants. Indigenous practices, such as praying with objects and storing them in the ground, can help us connect with the deeper reality of the earth. Miracles and synchronicities are signs that we are aligned with our true purpose and the spirit we want to see blossom in the world. Practical steps for awakening include stopping the incessant thinking, connecting with the breath, and aligning with one's true source. In this time of collective awakening, it is important for us to come together and take action to create a better world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/julian-guderley/support

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In this episode of the Spiritual Psychiatrist Podcast, Dr. Samuel B. Lee interviews Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr., founder of Four Worlds International Institute. Chief Phil Lane Jr. shares his hero's journey, from his upbringing in Indian boarding schools to his spiritual awakening and his mission to promote unity and peace among humanity. The conversation touches on the importance of truth, the history of Native American traditions, and the prophecy of the union of the condor, quetzal, and eagle. Chief Phil Lane Jr. emphasizes the role of the divine feminine and the need for balance and unity in creating a peaceful world by 2030. In this conversation, Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. discusses the urgent need for awakening and unity in the face of global challenges. He shares the message from the Kogi tribe, who warn of the dire consequences if humanity does not take action to protect Mother Earth. Chief Lane emphasizes the need for an alternative governance system and calls on individuals to think well of themselves and contribute to the betterment of humanity. He highlights the sacredness of all beings and the importance of coming together in peace. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the upcoming gathering in Palenque, Mexico, where indigenous nations will unite for the cause of peace on Earth.Story Notes:Chief Phil Lane Jr.'s Hero's JourneyChief Phil Lane Jr.'s Wrestling CareerSpiritual AwakeningImportance of Truth and BalanceProphecy of the Union of the Condor, Quetzal, and EagleThe Role of the Divine Feminine and EldersVision of Unity and Peace by 2030Time for AwakeningThe Message from the Kogi TribeNeed for an AlternativeThink Well of YourselfSacredness of All BeingsGathering in PalenqueWatch the Full Episode Here:Listen to the Full Episode Here:You are invited to help fund the Indigenous Elders as they gather in Palenque, Mexico to full the Union of the Condor, Quetzal and Eagle prophecies and help create a New Earth.  They have elected a council of 13 Elders (7 female, 6 male) who are requesting funds to help them with their airfare, transportation, and lodging.Any contribution is helpful.  Thank you for your consideration.  GoFundMe: https://bit.ly/4abSpq7To Learn more about Chief Phil Lane, visit:Instagram :  https://www.instagram.com/phillanejr/Facebook :  https://www.facebook.com/phillanejrTo find out more visit:www.transcendencementalhealth.comand click begin your journey.Want to lose weight, get shredded, or repair your body in a natural way that works with your body? Check out the magic of peptides atwww.practicalpeptides.comYou can order them from the comfort of your own home and have pure quality peptides delivered directly to you. We strive to be the most affordable, accessible, quality peptide company we are aware of.#SpiritualPsychiatrist #HeroJourney #NativeAmericanTraditions #ProphecyFulfilled #UnityAndPeace #DivineFeminine #GlobalAwakening #KogiTribeMessage #AlternativeGovernance #SacredBeings #PalenqueGathering #TranscendenceMentalHealth #PeptidesMagic

In this episode of Spiritual Psychiatrist, host Dr. Samuel Lee interviews Dr. Steven Young, who shares his journey and the development of the Immortal Machine, a healing technology. They discuss reprogramming the subconscious mind, hermetic laws, and the role of Atlantis in technology. The Immortal Machine combines various technologies for cellular energy restoration. Dr. Young also talks about channeling ancient knowledge, Kogi tribe prophecies, astrogeomancy, and the integration of archetypes for men. They emphasize detoxification for health and discuss spirituality, consciousness, detox, and the symbolism of King Arthur in awakening humanity and envisioning a new earth with community and self-expression.Story Notes:Dr. Steven Young's Hero's JourneyReprogramming the Subconscious MindThe Laws of HermeticsThe Immortal MachineAtlantis and Atlantean TechnologyThe Kogi Tribe and ProphecyAstrogeomancyThe Importance of DetoxBalancing the Lover and Warrior ArchetypesVision for the New EarthTo learn more about Dr.Steven Young, visit:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/stevenyoungalchemistWebsite:https://drsteveyoung.comFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/stevenyoungalchemistThe best 1 day GI/parasite cleanse:https://zencleanz.com/?ref=SAMUELLEETo find out more visit:www.transcendencementalhealth.comand click begin your journey.Want to lose weight, get shredded, or repair your body in a natural way that works with your body? Check out the magic of peptides atwww.practicalpeptides.comYou can order them from the comfort of your own home and have pure quality peptides delivered directly to you. We strive to be the most affordable, accessible, quality peptide company we are aware of.#SubconsciousReprogramming #AtlantisRising #Hermetics #Astrogeomancy #NewEarth #SpiritualPsychiatrist #DrStevenYoung #ImmortalMachine #KogiTribe #Detoxification #Archetypes #KingArthur #AwakeningHumanity #NewEarthVision #HealingTechnology 

Il existe des sociétés où la violence est identifiée, canalisée, où les jeunes sont élevés en harmonie avec la nature et d'où la pauvreté est absente. Des sociétés hautement démocratiques, solidaires, en quête permanente d'équilibre et de paix. C'est le cas de la société des Indiens Kogis, derniers héritiers des grandes civilisations précolombiennes du continent sud-américain. Repliés dans les hautes vallées de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombie), ils tentent de préserver leur mémoire et leur équilibre face aux agressions de la modernité (guérilla, narcotrafiquants, pilleurs de tombes...). Sauvé de la mort par les Indiens Kogis, Éric Julien les connait bien et travaille depuis des années à les aider à récupérer une partie de leurs terres et à faire connaitre leur culture.Eric Julien est aussi une sorte d'ambassadeur de la culture Kogi en France où il a fait venir récemment certains membres de la tribu pour leur demander de “diagnostiquer” la santé d'un territoire et échanger avec des scientifiques.Dans cet épisode nous parlons de la culture Kogi, de leur vision du monde, de leur rapport d'étonnement au contact de notre civilisation et de nos territoires, de leurs pouvoirs qui nous échappent. Les Kogis nous invitent à changer de regard sur nos propres perceptions du monde et nos certitudes et à questionner nos modes de vie.Interview enregistrée le 16 janvier 2024Cet épisode est soutenu par Cyberghost VPN. Pour bénéficier de l'offre c'est ici : https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/SismiqueChapitres0:00:00 Introduction0:03:14 Premières impressions et émerveillement face à la culture Kogi0:09:26 Les valeurs fondamentales des Kogis : vivre en paix ensemble0:16:00 Leur capacité à lire le territoire et le corps humain0:27:29 Les pierres, à l'origine de la vie pour les Kogi0:30:33 L'enfant dans le noir0:36:46 Le regard des Kogis sur le rapport féminin-masculin0:43:27 Le regard des Kogis sur la crise écologique0:47:29 Différentes pistes pour un changement de rapport au monde0:56:14 L'accélération vers un monde virtuel et la résurgence du New Age1:09:58 La spiritualité à travers l'eau et l'alimentation1:19:59 La difficulté de comprendre et d'affronter ses peurs---Retrouvez tous les épisodes et les résumés sur www.sismique.frSismique est un podcast indépendant créé et animé par Julien Devaureix.

Eric and chef extraordinaire/pal Roy Choi talk about setting kitchens on fire accidentally and walking in on people having sex in a restaurant after hours. Never a dull moment when you are a professional chef. Eric talks about lying his way through a restaurant gig and immediately being fired after 3 days. Roy shares his tales of cooking stoned, his time of cooking in Japan, an infamous bombing moment with an Iron Chef, getting ripped by The New York Times, and asking the age old question: how does a tire mascot dictate "good food?" And last but not least, how witnessing people peeing into the tomato sauce will make you think twice about ordering pizza.  BUY MY NEW BOOK Dumb Ideas TODAY!  Rate and Review Bombing with Eric Andre hereDo you like listening to Bombing and want extended conversations with more bombing stories every week? Then check out Big Money Players Diamond, a new subscription available exclusively on Apple Podcasts, where you can get exclusive material from all my interviews for the show, plus 100% ad-free episodes every week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On today's despatch, we break down the news around President Tinubu's supplementary budget, the godfather-godson battle between Nyesom Wike and Sim Fubara, the first son being on the receiving end of a presidential call out and the forthcoming off cycle elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi. Subscribe to Stomach Infrastructure ⁠⁠here

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A diocese in Nigeria has announced that Brother Godwin Eze, a monk who was kidnapped on October 17 alongside two others from the Benedictine monastery in Eruku, was murdered. Eze was kidnapped alongside Brother Anthony Eze and Brother Peter Olarewaju. Abductors shot Eze and threw his body in a river. Ekesioba said that the monastery was organizing a search to retrieve the body of Godwin Eze from the river. The Diocese of Ilorin serves Kwara state, which is bordered to the east by Kogi state, to the north by Niger state, and to the south by Ekiti, Osun, and Oyo states. Some of these Nigerian states, including Kogi and Niger, continue to witness attacks reportedly perpetrated by armed Fulani herdsmen and other bandits. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255791/monk-shot-body-thrown-in-river-following-kidnapping-at-nigerian-monastery The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday upheld the state's “heartbeat” law that bans abortion at six weeks and recognizes the personhood of unborn babies. The 6-1 decision allows the “Living Infants Fairness and Equality” (LIFE) Act law to remain in effect while other challenges to the measure are further considered by the court. This means that abortion in Georgia is banned after an unborn baby's heartbeat is detectable, except in some cases of rape, incest, and situations of serious pregnancy complications. Besides banning abortion at six weeks, the LIFE Act also establishes that unborn babies are human persons in the eyes of the law, allows mothers to receive child support from the beginning of pregnancy, and allows parents to claim unborn babies as dependents on state income taxes. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255796/georgia-supreme-court-upholds-heartbeat-law-banning-abortion-recognizes-personhood-for-unborn Today the Church honors Saints Crispin and Crispinian, brothers who together evangelized Gaul in the middle of the third century. They preached in the streets by day and made shoes by night. Their charity, piety, and contempt of material things impressed the locals and many were converted to Christianity. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-crispin-and-st-crispinian-32

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Había una vez un maestro alfarero llamado Don Esteban, que vivía en un pequeño pueblo en las faldas de una imponente montaña llamada la sierra nevada de santa marta en Colombia. La sierra es habitada por varias tribus que comparten una cultura y una tradición mágica. Don esteban siendo muy joven se había perdido en la sierra y fue encontrado allí por un indio Kogi que lo adopto y lo llevo a vivir con su comunidad. Los koguis fieles a sus principios espirituales acogieron a Esteban quien se formo como uno más. Los Kogis ven en la sierra nevada el centro de las energías del mundo y se consideran los hermanos mayores guardianes de dichas energías y pese a que Esteban era nacido fuera de la tribu su alma era lo suficientemente buena como para ser incorporado en las tradiciones Kogi Uno de los principios que le enseñaron al joven esteban era que el universo era un conjunto de armonias que estaban presentes en todos los aspectos de la naturaleza. Esteban formo parte de los Kogis por muchos años pero un día sintió la necesidad de regresar a su origen y pidiéndole permiso a los Mamos quienes son los guías espirituales de la tribu, bajo de las altas montañas nevadas hasta el borde mismo donde quedaba su pueblo originario. Allí los habitantes que habían dado por perdido a Esteban  40 años atrás lo reconocieron y lo ayudaron a reestablecerse. Esteban ya en su edad adulta y con toda la espiritualidad y experiencia de sus años en la sierra  se dedico al arte que había aprendido en la tribu Kogi.  Esteban fue entonces conocido por ser un maestro alfarero, pero lo que nadie sabía era que también era un mago. Su habilidad para dar vida a sus creaciones de barro era mágica, y cada pieza que salía de su taller tenía un toque especial, un toque inspirado por su aprendizaje en la sierra. Undía, mientras trabajaba en su taller, Don Esteban sintió una profunda tristezaen el aire. El pueblo estaba pasando por tiempos difíciles, y la gente estabaperdiendo la esperanza. Don Esteban que tenía la capacidad de sentir la armoníade su comunidad sabía que tenía que hacer algo para ayudar a su pueblo, así quedecidió crear una obra maestra que traería alegría y esperanza a todos.Concentrótoda su energía mágica en el torno de alfarero y comenzó a dar forma a unjarrón especial. Mientras trabajaba, sus manos se movían con gracia y sucorazón latía con amor. Con cada giro del torno, el jarrón cobraba vida,llenándose de colores brillantes y diseños asombrosos. Diseños que salían delalma mágica y no de la mente. Diseños que traían formas nunca antes vistas enaquel pueblo. Cuandofinalmente terminó, el jarrón parecía más que una simple pieza de cerámica.Emitía una luz suave y melodías alegres resonaban en el aire cada vez quealguien lo tocaba. Don Esteban sabía que este jarrón tenía el poder de traeralegría y felicidad a su pueblo. En su interior sabía que aquel Jarrónconectaba a aquel pueblo de la costa atlántica colombiana con las fuerzas mágicasde lo alto de la sierra nevada. Sabía que la energía fluía directamente deaquellos seres que desde lo alto cuidaban de sus hermanos menores como así losllamaban a los no Kogi.Don Esteban llevó el jarrón al centro del pueblo y lo mostró a todos, mientras los habitantes de aquel caluroso y polvoriento pueblo observaba con curiosidad e incredulidad. El primer impacto fue la belleza intrínseca de la obra, todos los habitantes sentían que algo especial tenía aquel jarrón y comenzaron a acercarse curiosos y maravillados. Pero había algo más en aquel extraño artefacto producido por las manos de Don Esteban. Había una magia en forma de energía que se emitía y que comenzaba a llenar los sentidos de los habitantes. Todos aquellos que se acercaban comenzaron a sentir que la tristeza y desesperanza que venían sintiendo se iba disipando, dándole paso a la alegría y a la camaradería. T

Culinary visionary and co-founder of Kogi BBQ taco truck, chef Roy Choi joins the show. Over duck carnitas, Roy talks about the rise of Kogi, hanging out on Hollywood Boulevard as a teen, and what it was like to watch his parents close the family restaurant. This episode of Dinner's On Me was recorded at Damian in Downtown Los Angeles. Want next week's episode now? Subscribe to Dinner's on Me PLUS. As a subscriber, not only do you get access to new episodes one week early, but you'll also be able to listen completely ad-free! Just click “Try Free” at the top of the Dinner's on Me show page on Apple Podcasts to start your free trial today. A Sony Music Entertainment & A Kid Named Beckett production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode, my guest is Nick Hunt, the author of three travel books about journeys by foot, including Outlandish: Walking Europe's Unlikely Landscapes. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Emergence, The Irish Times, New Internationalist, Resurgence & Ecologist and other publications. He works as an editor and co-director for the Dark Mountain Project. His latest book is an alternate history novel, Red Smoking Mirror.Show NotesAwe and the Great SecretOn Focus, Sight and SubjectivityThe Almost Lost Art of WalkingPilgrimage and the Half Way PointWhat if Left of Old-School Hospitality in our Times?When Borders Matter LessHospitality and PainThe Costs of InterculturalityAsking Permission: On Not Being WelcomeFriendship, Hospitality, and ExchangeHomeworkNick Hunt's Official WebsiteRed Smoking MirrorEssay: Bulls and ScarsTranscript[00:00:00] Chris Christou: Welcome Nick to the End of Tourism podcast. Thank you so very much for joining us today. [00:00:05] Nick Hunt: Very nice to be here, Chris. [00:00:07] Chris Christou: I have a feeling we're in for a very special conversation together. To begin, I'm wondering if you could offer us a glimpse into your world today, where you find yourself, and how the times seem to be rolling out in front of you, where you are.[00:00:22] Nick Hunt: Wow, that's a good, that's a good question. Geographically, I'm in Bristol, in the southwest of England, which is the city I grew up in and then moved away from and have come back to in the last five or so years. The city that I sat out the pandemic, which was quite a tough one for various reasons here and sort of for me personally and my family.But the last year really has just felt like everyone's opening out again and it feels... it's kind of good and bad. There was something about that time, I don't want to plunge straight into COVID because I'm sure everyone's sick of hearing about it, but the way it, it froze the world and froze people's personal lives and it froze all the good stuff, but it also froze a lot of the more difficult questions.So, I think in terms of kind of my wider work, which is often, focused around climate change, extinction, the state of the planet in general, the pandemic was, was oddly, you didn't have to think about the other problems for a while, even though they were still there. It dominated the airspace so much that everything else just kind of stopped.And now I find that in amongst all the joy of kind of friends emerging again and being able to travel, being able to meet people, being able to do stuff, there's also this looming feeling of like, the other problems are also waking up and we're looking at them again. [00:01:56] Chris Christou: Yeah. We have come back time to time in the last year or two in certain interviews of the pod and, and reflected a little bit on those times and considered that there was, among other things, it was a time where there was the possibility of real change. And I speak more to the places that have become tourist destinations, especially over touristed and when those people could finally leave their homes and there was nobody there that there was this sense of Okay, things could really be different [00:02:32] Nick Hunt: Yeah.As well. Yeah. I know there, there was a kind of hope wasn't there that, "oh, we can change, we can, we can act in, in a huge, unprecedented way." Maybe that will transfer to the environmental problems that we face. But sadly that didn't happen. Or it didn't happen yet. [00:02:53] Chris Christou: Well, time will tell. So Nick, I often ask my guests to begin with a bit of background on how their own travels have influenced their work, but since so much of your writing seems to revolve around your travels, I've decided to make that the major focus of our time together. And so I'd like to begin with your essay Bulls and Scars, which appears in issue number 14 of Dark Mountain entitled TERRA, and which was republished in The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century.[00:03:24] Nick Hunt: A hyperbolic, a hyperbolic title, I have to say. [00:03:29] Chris Christou: And in that exquisite essay on the theme of wanderlust, you write, and I quote, "always this sense, when traveling, will I find it here? Will the great secret reveal itself? Is it around the next corner? There is never anything around the next corner except the next corner, but sometimes I catch fragments of it.This fleeting thing I am looking for. That mountainside, that's a part of it there. The way the light falls on that wall. That old man sitting under a mulberry tree with his dog sleeping at his feet. That's a part of the secret too. If I could fit these pieces together, I would be completed. Waking on these sacks of rice, I nearly see the shape of it. The outlines of the secret loom, extraordinary and almost whole. I can almost touch it. I think. Yes, this is it. I am here. I have arrived, but I have not arrived. I am traveling too fast. The moment has already gone, the truck rolls onwards through the night, and the secret slides away.This great secret, Nick, that spurs so much of our wanderlust. I'm curious, where do you imagine it comes from personally, historically, or otherwise? [00:04:59] Nick Hunt: Wow. Wow. Thank you for reading that so beautifully. That was an attempt to express something that I think I've always, I've always felt, and I imagine everybody feels to some extent that sense of, I guess you could describe it as "awe," but this sense that I, I first experienced this when I was a kid.I was about maybe six, five or six years old, maybe seven. I can't remember. Used to spend a lot of time in North Wales where my grandparents lived and my mum would take me up there and she loved walking. So we'd go for walks and we were coming back from a walk at the end of a day. So it was mountains. It was up in Snowdonia.And I have a very vivid memory of a sunset and a sheep and a lamb and the sky being red and gold in sense that now I would describe it as awe, you know, the sublime or something like that. I had no, no words for it. I just knew it was very important that I, I stayed there for a bit and, and absorbed it.So I refused to walk on. And my mom, I'll always be grateful for this. She didn't attempt to kind of pull my hand and drag me back to the car cuz she probably had things to do. But she walked on actually and out of sight and left me just to kind of be there because she knew that this was an important thing.And for me, that's the start of, of the great secret. I think this sense of wanting to be inside the world. I've just been reading some Ursula LeGuin and there's a short story in her always coming home. I think it's called A Hole in the Air. And it's got this kind of conceit of a man stepping outside the world and he kind of goes to a parallel version of his world and it's the one in which some version of us lives.And it's the kind of, you know, sort of fucked up war-like version where everything's kind of terrible and polluted, dangerous and violent and he can't understand it. But this idea of he's gone outside the world and he can't find his way back in. And I think this is a theme in a lot of indigenous people.This idea of kind of being inside something and other cultures being outside. I think a lot, all of my writing and traveling really has been about wanting to get inside and kind of understand something. I don't know. I mean, I dunno what the secret is because it's a secret and what I was writing about in that essay was, I think in my twenties particularly, I kind of imagined that I could find this if I kept moving.The quicker the better because you're covering more ground and more chance of finding something that you're looking for, of knowing what's around the next corner, what's over the next hill. You know, even today I find it very difficult to kind of turn back on a walk before I've got to the top of a hill or some point where I can see what's coming next.It feels like something uncompleted and then I'm sure, as I imagine you did, you know, you were describing to me earlier about traveling throughout your twenties and always kind of looking for this thing and then realizing, what am I actually, you know, what am I doing? What am I actually looking for?Mm-hmm. So I still love traveling, obviously, but I don't feel this kind youthful urge just to keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, see more things, you know, experience more. And then I think you learn when you get a bit older that maybe that's not the way to find whatever it is that you are kind of restless for.Maybe that's when you turn inside a little bit more. And certainly my travels now are kind of shorter and slower than they were before, but I find that there's a better quality of focus in the landscapes or places that before I would've kind of dismissed and rushed through are now endlessly fascinating.And allowing more time to kind of stay in a place has its own value. [00:09:19] Chris Christou: Well, blessings to your mother. What's her name if I can ask? Her name's Caroline. It's the same name as my wife. So it's a source of endless entertainment for my friends. Well, thank you, Caroline, for, for that moment, for allowing it to happen.I think for better or worse, so many of us are robbed of those opportunities as children. And thinking recently about I'll have certain flashbacks to childhood and that awe and that awe-inspiring imagination that seems limitless perhaps for a young child and is slowly waned or weaned as we get older.So thank you to your mother for that. I'm sure part of the reason that we're having this conversation today. And you touched a little bit on this notion of expectation and you used the word focus as well, and I'm apt to consider more and more the the question of sight and how it dominates so much of our sense perception and our sense relationships as we move through our lives and as we move across the world.And so I'd like to bring up another little excerpt from Bulls and Scars, which I just have to say I loved so much. And in the essay you write, quote, "I know nothing about anything. It's a relief to admit this now and let myself be led. All I see is the surface of things. The elaborate hairstyle of a man, shaved to the crown and plastered down in a clay hardened bun, a woman's goat skin skirt, fringed with cowrie shelves and not the complex layers of meaning that lie beneath. I understand nothing of the ways in which these things fit together, how they collide or overlap. There are symbols I cannot read, lines I do not see."End quote. And so this, this reminded me. I have walking through a few textile shops here in Oaxaca some years ago with a friend of mine and he noted how tourists tend towards these textile styles, colors and designs, but specifically the ones that tend to fit their own aesthetics and how this can eventually alter what the local weavers produce and often in service to foreign tastes.And he said to me, he said, "most of the time we just don't know what we're looking at." And so it's not just our inability to see as a disciplined and locally formed skill that seems to betray us, but also our unwillingness to know just that that makes us tourists or foreigners in a place. My question to you is, how do you imagine we might subvert these culturally conjured ways of seeing, assuming that's even necessary? [00:12:24] Nick Hunt: Well, that's a question that comes up an awful lot as a travel writer. And it's one I've become more aware of over these three books I've written, which form a very loose trilogy about, they're all about walking in different parts of Europe.And I've only become more aware of that that challenge of the traveler. There's another line in that essay that something like " they say that traveling opens doors, but sometimes people take their doors with them." You know, it's not necessarily true, but any means that seeing the world kind of widens your perspective. A lot of people just, you know, their eyes don't change no matter where they go. And so, I know that when I'm doing these journeys, I'm going completely subjectively with my own prejudices, my own mood of the day which completely determines how I see a place and how I meet people and what I bring away from it.And also what I, what I give. And I think this is, this is kind of an unavoidable thing really. It's one of the paradoxes maybe at the heart of the kind of travel writing I do, and there's different types of travel writers. Some people are much more conscientious about when they talk to people, it's, you know, it's more like an interview.They'll record it. They'll only kind of quote exactly what they were told. But even that, there's a kind of layer of storytelling, obviously, because they are telling a story, they're telling a narrative, they're cutting certain things out of the frame, and they're including others. They're exaggerating or amplifying certain details that fit the narrative that they're following.I think an answer to your question, I, I'm not sure yet, but I'm hopefully becoming more, more aware. And I think one thing is not hiding it, is not pretending that a place as I see it, that I, by any means, can see the truth, you know, the kind of internal truth of this place. There's awareness that my view is my view and I think the best thing we can do is just not try and hide that to include it as part of the story we tell. Hmm. And I, I noticed for my first book, I did this long walk across Europe that took about seven and a half months. And there were many days when I didn't really want to be doing it.I was tired, sick, didn't want to be this kind of traveling stranger, always looking like the weirdo walking down the street with a big bag and kind of unshaved sunburnt face. And so I noticed that some villages I walked into, I would come away thinking, my God, those people were awful.They were really unfriendly. No one looked at me, no one smiled. I just felt this kind of hostility. And then I'd think, well, the common factor in this is always me. And I must have been walking into that village looking shifty, not really wanting to communicate with anyone, not making any contact, not explaining who I was.And of course they were just reflecting back what I was giving them. So I think, just kind of centering your own mood and the baggage you take with you is very important. [00:15:46] Chris Christou: Yeah. Well, I'd like to focus a little bit more deeply on that book and then those travels that you wrote about anyways, in Walking the Woods and the Water.And just a little bit of a background for our listeners. The book's description is as follows. "In 1933, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnail boots to chance and charm his way across Europe. Quote, like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar. From the hook of Holland to Istanbul. 78 years later, I (you) followed in his footsteps.The book recounts a seven month walk through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey on a quest to discover what remains of hospitality, kindness to strangers, freedom, wildness, adventure, and the deeper occurrence of myth and story that still flow beneath Europe's surface.Now before diving a little bit more deeply into these questions of hospitality and xenophobia or xenophilia, I'd like to ask about this pilgrimage and the others you've undertaken, especially, this possibility that seems to be so much an endangered species in our times, which is our willingness or capacity to proceed on foot as opposed to in vehicles.And so I'm curious how your choice to walk these paths affected your perception, how you experienced each new place, language, culture, and people emerging in front of you. Another way of asking the question would be, what is missed by our urge to travel in vehicles?[00:17:36] Nick Hunt: Well, that first walk, which set off the other ones, I later did. It could only have been a walk because the whole idea was to follow the footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who was a very celebrated travel writer who set out in 1933 with no ambition or kind of purpose other than he just wanted to walk to Istanbul.And it was his own kind of obsessive thing that he wanted to do. And I was deeply influenced by his book. And I was quite young and always thought I wanted to kind of try. I I was just curious to see the Europe that he saw was, you know, the last of a world that disappeared very shortly afterwards because he saw Germany as this unknown guy called Adolf Hitler, who was just emerging on the scene. He walked through these landscapes that were really feudal in character, you know, with counts living in castles and peasants working in the fields. And he, so he saw the last of this old Europe that was kind of wiped out by, well first the second World War, then communism in Eastern Europe and capitalism, in Western Europe and then everywhere.So it's just had so many very traumatic changes and I just wanted to know if there was any of what he saw left, if there was any of that slightly fairytale magic that he glimpsed. So I had to walk because it, it just wouldn't have worked doing it by any other form of transport. And I mean, initially, even though I'd made up my mind, I was going to go by foot and I knew I wasn't in a hurry. It was amazing how frustrating walking was in the first couple of weeks. It felt almost like the whole culture is, you know, geared around getting away, got to go as quickly as possible.In Holland actually I wasn't walking in remote mountains, I was walkingthrough southern industrial states and cities in which a walker feels, you feel like an outcast in places you shouldn't really be. So, it took a couple of weeks for my mind to really adjust and actually understand that slowness was the whole purpose. And then it became the pleasure.And by halfway through Germany, I hadn't gone on any other form of transport for maybe six weeks, and I stayed with someone who, he said, "I'm going to a New Year's Eve party in the next town." It was New Year's Eve. The next town was on my route. He said, "you know, I'm driving so I might as well take you there."So I said, "great," cuz it'd been a bit weird to kind of go to this town and then come back again. It was on my way. So, I got in a car and the journey took maybe half an hour and I completely panicked, moving at that speed, I was shocked by how much of the world was taken away from me, actually, because by then I'd learned to love spotting these places, you know, taking routes along, along rivers and through bits of woodland.I was able to see them coming and all of these things were flashing past me. We crossed the Rhine, which was this great river that I'd been following for weeks. And it was like a stream, you know, it was a puddle. It was kind of gone under the bridge in two seconds. Wow. And it really felt like I had this, this kind of guilt, to be honest.It was this feeling of what was in that day that I lost, you know, what didn't I see? Who didn't I meet? I've just been sitting in the passenger seat of a car, and I have no sense of direction. The thing about walking is you're completely located at all times. You walk into the center of a city and you've had to have walked through the suburbs.You've seen the outskirts, and it helps, you know, well that's north. Like, you know, I came from that direction. That's south. That's where I'm going. If you take a train or get in a car, unless you're really paying attention, you are kind of catapulted into the middle of this city without any concept of what direction you're going in next.And I didn't realize how disorienting that is because we're so used to it. We do it all the time. And this was only a kind of shadow of what was to come at the very end of my journey, cuz I got to Istanbul after seven and a half months. I was in a very weird place that I've only kind of realized since all that time walking.And I stayed a couple of weeks in Turkey and then I flew home again, partly cuz I had a very patient and tolerant and forgiving girlfriend who I couldn't kind of stretch it out any, any longer. And initially I think I'd been planning to come back on like hitchhiking or buses and trains. But in the end I was like, "you know, whatever, I'll just spend a couple days more in Turkey, then I'll get on a plane."And I think it was something like three hours flying from Istanbul and three hours crossing a continent that you spent seven and a half months walking. And I was looking down and seeing the Carpathian mountains and the Alps and these kind of shapes of these rivers, some of which I recognized as places I'd walked through.And again, this sense of what am I missing, that would've been an extraordinary journey going through that landscape. Coming back. You mentioned pilgrimage earlier, and someone told me once, who was doing lots of work around pilgrimage that, you know, in the old days when people had to walk or take a horse, if you were rich, say you started in England, your destination was Constantinople or Jerusalem or Rome, that Jerusalem or Rome wasn't the end of your journey.That was the exact halfway point, because when you got there, you had to walk back again. And on the way out, you'd go with your questions and your openness about whatever this journey meant to you. And then on the way back, you would be slowly at the pace of walking, trying to incorporate what you'd learnt and what you'd experienced into your everyday life of your village, your family, your community, you know, your land.So by the time you got back, you'd had all of that time to process what happened. So I think with that walk, you know, I, I did half the pilgrimage thinking I'd done all of it, and then was plunged back into, actually went straight back to the life I'd been living before in, in London as if nothing had ever happened.And I think for the year after that walk, my soul hadn't caught up with my body by any means. Mm-hmm. I was kind of living this strange sort of half life that felt very familiar because I recognized everything, but I felt like a very different person, to be honest and it took a long time to actually process that.But I think if I'd, even if I'd come back by, you know, public transport of some sort it would've helped just soften the blow. [00:25:04] Chris Christou: What a context to put it in, softening the blow. Hmm. It reminds me of the etymology of travel as far as I've read is that it used to mean an arduous journey.And that the arduous was the key descriptor in that movement. It reminds me of, again, so many of my travels in my twenties that were just flash flashes of movement on flights and buses. And that I got back to Canada. And the first thing was, okay, well I'm outta money, so I need to get back to work and I need to make as much money as possible.And there just wasn't enough time. And there wasn't perhaps time, period, in order to integrate what rolled out in front of me over those trips. And I'm reminded of a story that David Abram tells in his book Becoming Animal about jet lag. And perhaps a hypothesis that he has around jet lag and that we kind of flippantly use the excuse or context of time zones to explain this relative sense of being in two places at once.To what extent he discussed this, I don't remember very well, but just this understanding of when we had moved over vast distances on foot in the past, that we would've inevitably been open and apt to the emerging geographies languages, foods even cultures as we arrive in new places, and that those things would've rolled out very slowly in front of us, perhaps in the context of language heavily.But in terms of geography, I imagine very slowly, and that there would've been a kind of manner of integration, perhaps, for lack of a better word in which our bodies, our sensing bodies, would've had the ability to confront and contend with those things little by little as we moved. And it also reminds me of this book Rebecca Solnit's R iver of Shadows, where she talks about Edward Muybridge and the invention of the steam engine and the train and train travel.And how similarly to when people first got a glimpse of the big screen cinema that there was a lot of bodily issues. People sometimes would get very nauseous or pass out or have to leave the theater because their bodies weren't used to what was in front of them.And in, on the train, there were similar instances where for the first time at least, you know, as we can imagine historically people could not see the foreground looking out the train window. They could only see the background because the foreground was just flashing by so quickly.Wow, that's interesting. Interesting. And that we've become so used to this. And it's a really beautiful metaphor to, to wonder about what has it done to a people that can no longer see what's right there in front of them in terms of not just the politics, in their place, but the, their home itself, their neighbors, the geography, et cetera.And so I'm yet to read that book in mention, but I'm really looking forward to it because it's given me a lot of inspiration to consider a kind of pilgrimage to the places where my old ones are from there in, in southeastern Europe and also in Southwestern England.[00:28:44] Nick Hunt: Hmm.Yeah. That is a, so I'm still thinking about that metaphor of the train. Yeah. You don't think of that People wouldn't have had that experience of seeing the foreground disappear. And just looking at the distance, that's deeply strange and inhuman experience, isn't it? Hmm.[00:29:07] Chris Christou: Certainly. And, you know, speaking of these, these long pilgrimages and travels, my grandparents made their way from, as I mentioned, southwestern England later Eastern Africa and, and southeastern Europe to Canada in the fifties and sixties. And the peasant side of my family from what today is northern Greece, Southern Macedonia, brought a lot of their old time hospitality with them.And it's something that has always been this beautiful clue and key to these investigations around travel and exile. And so, you know, In terms of this old time hospitality, in preparing for this interview, I was reminded of a story that Ivan Illich once spoke of, or at least once, wrote about of a Jesuit monk living in China who took up a pilgrimage from Peking to Rome just before World War II, perhaps not unlike Patrick Leigh Fermor. Mm-hmm. And Illich recalled the story in his book, Rivers North of the Future as follows. He wrote, quote, "at first it was quite easy, he said (the Jesuit said,) in China, he only had to identify himself as a pilgrim, someone whose walk was oriented to a sacred place and he was given food, a handout, and a place to sleep.This changed a little bit when he entered the territory of Orthodox Christianity. There, they told him to go to the parish house where a place was free or to the priest's house. Then he got to Poland, the first Catholic country, and he found that the Polish Catholics generously gave him money to put himself up in a cheap hotel.And so the Jesuit was recalling the types of local hospitality he received along his path, which we could say diminished the further he went. Now, I'd love it if you could speak perhaps about the kinds of hospitality or, or perhaps the lack there of you experienced on your pilgrimage from the northwest of Europe to the southeast of Europe.And what, if anything, surprised you? [00:31:26] Nick Hunt: Well, that was one of my main interests really, was to see if the extraordinary hospitality that my predecessor had experienced in the 1930s where he'd been accommodated everywhere from, peasants' barns to the castles of Hungarian aristocrats and everything in between. I wanted to see if that generosity still existed. And talking about different ways of offering hospitality when he did his walk, one of the fairly reliable backstops he had was going to a police officer and saying "I'm a student. I'm a traveling student." That was the kind of equivalent to the pilgrim ticket in his day in a lot of parts of Europe. "I'm a student and I'm going from one place to the next," and he would be given a bed in the local police station. You know, they'd open up a cell, sleep there for the night, and then he'd leave in the morning. And I think it sometimes traditionally included like a mug of beer and some bread or soup or something, but even by his time in the thirties, it was a fairly well established thing to ask, I dunno how many people were doing it, but he certainly met in Germany, a student who was on the road going to university and the way he was going was walking for days or weeks.That wasn't there when I did my work. I don't think I ever asked a policeman, but in a couple of German towns, I went to the town hall. You know, the sort of local authority in Germany. They have a lot of authority and power in the community. And I asked a sort of bemused receptionist if I could claim this kind of ancient tradition of hospitality and spend the night in a police station, and they had no idea what I was talking about.Wow. And I think someone in a kind of large village said, "well, that's a nice idea, but I can't do that because we've got a tourist industry and all the guest house owners, you know, they wouldn't be happy if we started offering accommodation for free. It would put them out of business." Wow. And I didn't pay for accommodation much, but I did end up shelling out, you know, 30, 40 euros and sleeping in a, B&B.But having said that, the hospitality has taken on different forms. I started this journey in winter, which was the, when Patrick Leigh Fermor started, in December. So, I kind of wanted to start on the same date to have a similar experience, but it did mean walking through the coldest part of Europe, you know, Germany and Austria in deep snow and arriving in Bulgaria and Turkey when it was mid-summer.So I went from very cold to very hot. And partly for this reason, I was nervous about the beginning, not knowing what this experience was gonna be like. So, I used the couch surfing website, which I think Airbnb these days has probably kind of undercut a lot of it, but it was a free, very informal thing where people would provide a bed or a mattress or a place on the floor, a sofa for people passing through.And I was in the south of Germany before I ran out of couch surfing stops. But I also supplemented that with sleeping out. I slept in some ruined castles on the way. Hmm. I slept in these wooden hunting towers that no hunters were in. It wasn't the season. But they were freezing, but they were dry, you know, and they gave shelter.But I found that the language of hospitality shifted the further I went. In Holland, Germany, and Austria, people were perfectly, perfectly hospitable and perfectly nice and would put me up. But they'd say, when do you have to leave? You know, which is a perfectly reasonable question and normally it was first saying the next morning.And I noticed when I got to Eastern Europe, the question had shifted from when do you want to leave to how long can you stay? And that's when there was always in Hungary and then in Romania in particular and Bulgaria, people were kind of finding excuses to keep me longer. There would be, you know, it's my granddad's birthday, we're gonna bake him a cake and have a party, or we're going on a picnic, or we're going to the mountains, or we're going to our grandmother's house in the countryside. You should see that.And so my stays did get longer, the further southeast I got, partly cuz it was summer and everybody's in a good mood and they're doing things outdoors and they're traveling a bit more. But yeah, I mean the hospitality did shift and I got passed along as Patrick Leigh Fermor had done. So someone would say, you're going this way.They look at my map, you're going through this town. I've got a cousin, or I know a school teacher. Maybe you can sleep in the school and give a talk to the students the next day. So, all of these things happened and I kind of got accommodated in a greater variety of places, a nunnery where I was fed until I'd hardly move, by these nuns, just plain, homemade food and rakia and wine. And I stayed at a short stay in a psychiatric hospital in France, Sylvania. Talking of the changes that have happened to Europe, when Patrick Leigh Fermor stayed there it was a country house owned by a Hungarian count. His assets had since been liquidated, you know, his family dispossessed in this huge building given to the Romanian State to use as a hospital, and it was still being run that way.But the family had kind of made contact, again, having kept their heads down under communism, but realized they had no use for a huge mansion with extensive grounds. There was no way they could fill it or maintain it. And so it was continued to be used as a hospital, but they had a room where they were able to stay when they passed through.So I spent a few nights there. So everything slowed down was my experience, the further southeast I got. And going back actually to one of your first questions about, why walk? And what do you notice from walking? One of the things you really notice is the incremental changes by which, culture changes as well as landscape.You see the crossovers. You see that people in this part of Holland are a bit like this people in this part of Germany over the border. You know, borders kind of matter less because you see one culture merging into another. Languages and accents changing. And sometimes those changes are quite abrupt, but often they're all quite organic and the food changes, the beer changes, the wine changes, the local cheese or delicacies change.And so that was one of the great pleasures of it was just kind of understanding these many different cultures in Europe as part of a continuum rather than these kind of separate entities that just happen to be next door to each other. [00:38:50] Chris Christou: Right. That's so often constructed in the western imagination through borders, through state borders.[00:38:58] Nick Hunt: Just talking of borders, they've only become harder, well for everyone in the places I walk through. And I do wonder what it would be like making this journey today after Brexit. I wouldn't be able to do it just quite simply. It's no longer possible for a British person to spend more than three months in the EU, as a visitor, as a tourist.So I think I could have walked to possibly Salzburg or possibly Vienna, and then had to come back and wait three months before continuing the journey. So I was lucky, you know, I was lucky to do it in the time I did. Mm-hmm. [00:39:38] Chris Christou: Mm-hmm. I'm very much reminded through these stories and your reflections of this essay that Ivan Illich wrote towards the end of his life called "Hospitality and Pain."And you know, I highly, highly recommend it for anyone who's curious about how hospitality has changed, has been commodified and co-opted over the centuries, over the millennia. You know, he talks very briefly, but very in depth about how the church essentially took over that role for local people, that in the Abrahamic worldview that there was generally a rule that you could and should be offering three days and nights of sanctuary to the stranger for anyone who'd come passing by and in part because in the Christian world in another religious worldviews that the stranger could very well be a God in disguise, the divine coming to your doorstep. We're talking of course, about the fourth and fifth centuries.About how the church ended up saying, no, no, no, don't worry, don't worry. We got this. You, you guys, the people in the village, you don't have to do this anymore. They can come to the church and we'll give them hospitality. And of course, you know, there's the hidden cost, which is the, the attempt at conversion, I'm sure.Yeah. But that later on the church instituted hospitals, that word that comes directly from hospitality as these places where people could stay, hospitals and later hostels and hotels and in Spanish, hospedaje and that by Patrick Lee firm's time we're talking about police stations.Right. and then, you know, in your time to some degree asylums. It also reminded me of that kind of rule, for lack of a better word of the willingness or duty of people to offer three days and nights to the stranger.And that when the stranger came upon the doorstep of a local person, that the local person could not ask them what they were doing there until they had eaten and often until they had slept a full night. But it's interesting, I mean, I, I don't know how far deep we can go with this, but the rule of this notion, as you were kind of saying, how the relative degree of hospitality shifted from [00:42:01] Nick Hunt: when do you have to leave to how long how long can you stay? [00:42:05] Chris Christou: Right. Right. That Within that kind of three day structure or rule that there was also this, this notion that it wasn't just in instituted or implemented or suggested as a way of putting limits on allowing a sense of agency or autonomy for the people who are hosting, but also limiting their hospitality.Kind of putting this, this notion on the table that you might want to offer a hundred days of hospitality, but you're not allowed. Right. And what and where that would come from and why that there would be this necessity within the culture or cultures to actually limit someone's want to serve the stranger.[00:42:54] Nick Hunt: Yeah, that's very interesting. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I wonder where that came from. I mean, three is always a bit of a magic number, isn't it? Mm-hmm. But yeah, it sounds like that maybe comes from an impulse from both sides somehow. [00:43:09] Chris Christou: Mm-hmm. Nick, I'd like to come back to this question of learning and learning with the other of, of interculturality and tourism. And I'd like to return to your essay, Bulls and Scars, momentarily with this excerpt. And it absolutely deserves the title of being one of the best travel writing pieces of the 21st century. And so in that essay you write, "if we stay within our horizons surrounded by people who are the same as us, it precludes all hope. We shut off any possibility of having our automatic beliefs, whether good or bad, right or wrong, smashed so their rubble can make new shapes. We will never be forced to understand that there are different ways to be human, different ways to be ourselves, and we desperately need that knowledge, even if we don't know it yet."Hmm. And now I don't disagree at all. I think we are desperately in need of deeper understandings of what it means to be human and what it means to be human together. The argument will continue to arise, however, at what cost? How might we measure the extent of our presence in foreign places and among foreign people, assuming that such a thing is even possible.[00:44:32] Nick Hunt: Yeah, that's a question that's at the heart of that essay, which I don't think we've said is set in the South Omo Valley in Ethiopia. And part of it is about this phenomenon of tribal safaris, you know, which is as gross as it sounds, and it's rich western people driving in fleets of four by fours to indigenous tribal villages and, you know, taking pictures and watching a dance and then going to the next village.And the examples of this that I saw when I was there, I said, when I said in the essay, you couldn't invent a better parody of tourists. It was almost unbelievable. It was all of the obnoxious stereotypes about the very worst kind of tourists behaving in the very worst possible way, seemingly just no self reflection whatsoever, which was disheartening.And that's an extreme example and it's easy to parody because it was so extreme. But I guess what maybe you're asking more is what about the other people? What about those of us who do famously think of ourselves as as travelers rather than tourists? There's always that distinction I certainly made when I was doing it in my twenties.So I'm not a tourist, I'm a traveler. It's like a rich westerner saying that they're an "expat" rather than an immigrant when they go and live in a foreign country that's normally cheaper than where they came from. Yeah, that's a question again, like the great secret, I don't think I answer in that essay.What I did discover was that, it was much more nuanced than I thought it was originally. Certainly on a surface, looking at the scenes that I saw, what I saw as people who were completely out of their depth, out of their world, out of their landscape, looking like idiots and being mocked fairly openly by these tribal people who they were, in my view, exploiting. They didn't look like they were better off in a lot of ways, even though they had the, thousand dollars cameras and all the expensive clothes and the vehicles and the money and obviously had a certain amount of power cuz they were the ones shelling out money and kind of getting what they wanted.But it wasn't as clear cut as I thought. And I know that's only a kind of anecdote. It's not anything like a study of how people going to remote communities, the damage they do and the impact they have. I've got another another example maybe, or something that I've been working on more recently, which comes from a journey that I haven't not written anything about it yet.But in March of this year, I was in Columbia and Northern Columbia. The first time for a long time that I've, gone so far. All of my work has been sort of around Europe, been taking trains. I mean, I got on a plane and left my soul behind in lots of ways, got to Columbia and there were various reasons for my going, but one of the interests I had was I had a contact who'd worked with the Kogi people who live in the Sierra Nevada des Santa Marta Mountains on the Caribbean coast.An extraordinary place, an extraordinary people who have really been isolated at their own instigation, since the Spanish came, and survived the conquest with a culture and religion and economy, really more or less intact, just by quietly retreating up the mountain and not really making a lot of fuss for hundreds of years, so effectively that until the 1960s, outsiders didn't really know they were there. And since then there has been contact made from what I learned really by the Kogi rather than the other way around. Or they realized that they couldn't remain up there isolated forever.Maybe now because people were starting to encroach upon the land and settle and cut down forests. And there was obviously decades of warfare and conflict and drug trafficking and a very dangerous world they saw outside the mountains. And this journey was very paradoxical and strange and difficult because they do not want people to visit them.You know, they're very clear about that. They made a couple of documentary films or collaborated in a couple of documentary films in the late nineties and sort of early two thousands where they sent this message to the world about telling the younger brothers as they call us, where they're going wrong, where we are going wrong, all the damage we're doing.And then after that film, it was really, that's it. "We don't wanna communicate with you anymore. We've said what we have to say, leave us alone." You know, "we're fine. We'll get on with it." But they, the contact I had I arranged to meet a sort of spokesman for this community, for this tribe in Santa Marta.Kind of like an, a sort of indigenous embassy in a way. And he was a real intermediary between these two worlds. He was dressed in traditional clothes, lived in the mountains but came down to work in this city and was as conversant with that tribal and spiritual life as he was with a smartphone and a laptop.So he was really this kind of very interesting bridge character who was maintaining a balance, which really must have been very difficult between these two entirely different worldviews and systems. And in a series of conversations with him and with his brother, who also acts as a spokesman, I was able to talk to them about the culture and about the life that was up there, or the knowledge they wanted to share with me.And when it came time for me to ask without really thinking that it would work, could I have permission to go into the Sierra any further because I know that, you know, academics and anthropologists have been welcomed there in the past. And it was, it was actually great. It was a wonderful relief to be told politely, but firmly, no.Hmm. No. Mm. You know, it's been nice meeting you. If you wanted to go further into the mountains. You could write a, a detailed proposal, and I thought this was very interesting. They said you'd need to explain what knowledge you are seeking to gain, what you're going to do with that knowledge and who you will share that knowledge with.Like, what do you want to know? And then we would consider that, the elders, the priests, the mammos would consider that up in the mountains. And you might get an answer, but it might take weeks. It could take months because everything's very, very slow, you know? and you probably wouldn't be their priority.Right. And so I didn't get to the Sierra, and I'm writing a piece now about not getting to the place where you kind of dream of going, because, to be completely honest, and I know how, how kind of naive and possibly colonial, I sound by saying this, but I think it's important to recognize part of that idea of finding the great secret.Of course, I wanted to go to this place where a few Westerners had been and meet people who are presented or present themselves as having deep, ecological, ancestral spiritual knowledge, that they know how to live in better harmony with the earth. You know, whether that's true or not, that in itself is a simplified, probably naive view, but that's the kind of main story of these people.Why wouldn't I want to meet them? You know, just the thought that not 50 miles away from this bustling, polluted city, there's a mountain range. It's one of the most biodiverse places on the planet that has people who have kept knowledge against all odds, have kept knowledge for 500 years and have not been conquered and have not been wiped out, and have not given in.You know, obviously I wanted to go there, but it was wonderful to know that I couldn't because I'm not welcome. Mm. And so I'm in the middle of writing a piece that's a, it's a kind of non-travel piece. It's an anti travel piece or a piece examining, critically examining that, that on edge within myself to know what's around the next corner.To look over the horizon to get to the top of the mountain, you know, and, and, and explore and discover all of that stuff. But recognizing that, it is teasing out which parts of that are a genuine and healthy human curiosity. And a genuine love of experiencing new things and meeting new people and learning new things and what's more of a colonial, "I want to discover this place, record what I find and take knowledge out."And that was one thing that I found very interestingly. They spoke very explicitly about seeking knowledge as a form of extraction. For hundreds of years they've had westerners extracting the obvious stuff, the coal, the gold, the oil, the timber, all the material goods. While indigenous knowledge was discounted as completely useless.And now people are going there looking for this knowledge. And so for very understandable reasons, these people are highly suspicious of these people turning up, wanting to know things. What will you do with the knowledge? Why do you want this knowledge? And they spoke about knowledge being removed in the past, unscrupulously taken from its proper owners, which is a form of theft.So, yeah, talking about is appropriate to be talking about this on the end of tourism podcast. Cause yeah, it's very much a journey that wasn't a journey not hacking away through the jungle with the machete, not getting the top of the mountain, you know, not seeing the things that no one else has seen.Wow. And that being a good thing. [00:54:59] Chris Christou: Yeah. It brings me back to that question of why would either within a culture or from some kind of authoritative part of it, why would a people place limits to protect themselves in regards to those three days of allowing people to stay?Right. And not for longer. Yes. [00:55:20] Nick Hunt: Yeah, that's very true. Mm-hmm. Because people change, the people that come do change things. They change your world in ways big and small, good and bad. [00:55:31] Chris Christou: You know, I had a maybe not a similar experience, but I was actually in the Sierra Nevadas maybe 12 years ago now, and doing a backpacking trip with an ex-girlfriend there.And the Columbian government had opened a certain part of the Sierra Nevadas for ecotourism just a few years earlier. And I'm sure it's still very much open and available in those terms. And it was more or less a a six day hike. And because this is an area as well where there were previous civilizations living there, so ruins as well.And so that that trip is a guided trek. So you would go with a local guide who is not just certified as a tour guide, but also a part of the government program. And you would hike three days and hike back three days. And there was one lunch where there was a Kogi man and his son also dressed in traditional clothing. And for our listeners, from what I understand anyways, there are certain degrees of inclusion in Kogi society. So the higher up the mountain you go, the more exclusive it is in terms of foreigners are not allowed in, in certain places.And then the lower down the mountain and you go, there are some places where there are Kogi settlements, but they are now intermingling with for example, these tourists groups. And so that lunch was an opportunity for this Kogi man to explain a little bit about his culture, the history there and of course the geography.And as we were arriving to that little lunch outpost his son was there maybe 10, 15 feet away, a few meters away. And we kind of locked eyes and I had these, very western plastic sunglasses on my head. And the Kogi boy, again, dressed in traditional clothing, he couldn't speak any English and couldn't speak any Spanish from what I could tell.And so his manner of communicating was with his hands. And he subtly but somewhat relentlessly was pointing at my sunglasses. And I didn't know what to do, of course. And he wanted my sunglasses. And there's this, this moment, and in that moment so much can come to pass.But of course afterwards there was so much reflection to be taken in regards to, if I gave him my sunglasses, what would be the consequence of that, that simple action rolling out over the course of time in that place. And does it even matter that I didn't give him my sunglasses, that I just showed up there and had this shiny object that, that perhaps also had its consequence rolling out over the course of this young man's life because, I was one of 10 or 12 people that day in that moment to pass by.But there were countless other groups. I mean, the outposts that we slept in held like a hundred people at a time. Oh, wow. And so we would, we would pass people who were coming down from the mountain and that same trek or trip and you know, so there was probably, I would say close to a hundred people per day passing there.Right. And what that consequence would look like rolling out over the course of, of his life. [00:59:11] Nick Hunt: Yeah. You could almost follow the story of a pair of plastic sunglasses as they drop into a community and have sort of unknown consequences or, or not. But you don't know, do you? Yeah. Yeah. I'm, it was fascinating knowing that you've been to the same, that same area as well. Appreciated that. What's, what's your, what's your last question? Hmm. [00:59:34] Chris Christou: Well, it has to do with with the end of tourism, surprisingly.And so one last time, coming back to your essay, Bulls and Scars, you write, " a friend of mine refuses to travel to countries poor than his own. Not because he is scared of robbery or disease, but because the inequality implicit in every human exchange induces a squirming, awkwardness and corrosive sense of guilt.For him, the power disparity overshadows everything. Every conversation, every handshake, every smile and gesture. He would rather not travel than be in that situation." And you say, "I have always argued against this view because the see all human interactions as a function of economics means accepting capitalism in its totality, denying that people are driven by forces other than power and greed, excluding the possibility of there being anything else.The grotesque display of these photographic trophy hunters makes me think of him now." Now I've received a good amount of writing and messages from people speaking of their consternation and guilt in terms of "do I travel, do I not travel? What are the consequences?" Et cetera. In one of the first episodes of the podcast with Stephen Jenkinson, he declared that we have to find a way of being in the world that isn't guilt delivered or escapist, which I think bears an affinity to what you've written.Hmm. Finally, you wrote that your friend's perspective excludes "the possibility of there being anything else." Now I relentlessly return on the pod to the understanding that we live in a time in which our imaginations, our capacity to dream the world anew, is constantly under attack, if not ignored altogether.My question, this last question for you, Nick, is what does the possibility of anything else look like for you?[01:01:44] Nick Hunt: I think in a way I come back to that idea of being told we can't give you free accommodation here because, what about the tourist industry? And I think that it's become, you know, everything has become monetized and I get the, you know, the fact that that money does rule the world in lots of ways.And I'd be a huge hypocrite if I'd said that money wasn't deeply important to me. As much as I like to think it, much as I want to wish it away, it's obviously something that dictates a very large amount of what I do with my life, what I do with my time. But that everything else, well, it's some, it's friendship and hospitality and openness I think.It's learning and it's genuine exchange, not exchange, not of money and goods and services, but an actual human interaction for the pleasure and the curiosity of it. Those sound like very simple answers and I guess they are, but that is what I feel gets excluded when everything is just seen as a byproduct of economics.And that friend who, you know, I talked about then, I understand. I've had the experience as I'm sure you have of the kind of meeting someone often in a culture or community that is a lot poorer, who is kind, friendly, hospitable, helpful, and this nagging feeling of like, When does the money question come?Mm-hmm. And sometimes it doesn't, but often it does. And sometimes it's fine that it does. But it's difficult to kind of place yourself in this, I think, because it does instantly bring up all this kind of very useless western guilt that, you know, Steven Jenkinson talked about. It's not good to go through the world feeling guilty and suspicious of people, you know. 'When am I gonna be asked for money?' Is a terrible way of interacting with anyone to have that at the back of your, your mind.And I've been in situations where I've said can I give you some money? And people have been quite offended or thought it was ridiculous or laughed at me. So, it's very hard to get right. But like I say, it's a bad way of being in the world, thinking that the worst of people in that they're always, there's always some economic motive for exchange.And it does seem to be a kind of victory of capitalism in that we do think that all the time, you know, but what does this cost? What's the price? What's the price of this friendliness that I'm receiving? The interesting thing about it, I think, it is quite corrosive on both sites because things are neither offered nor received freely.If there's always this question of what's this worth economically. But I like that framing. What was it that Steven Jenkinson said? It was guilt on one side and what was the other side of the pole? [01:05:07] Chris Christou: Yeah. Neither guilt delivered or escapist. [01:05:11] Nick Hunt: Yeah. That's really interesting. Guilt and escapism. Because that is the other side, isn't it?Is that often traveling is this escape? And I think we can both relate to it. We both experience that as a very simple, it can be a very simple form of therapy or it seems simple that you just keep going and keep traveling and you run away from things. And also that isn't a helpful way of being in the world either, although it feels great, at the time for parts of your life when you do that.But what is the space between guilt and escapism? I think it really, the main thing for me, and again, this is a kind of, it sounds like a, just a terrible cliche, but I guess there's a often things do is I do think if you go and if you travel. And also if you stay at home with as open a mind as you can it does seem to kind of shape the way the world works.It shapes the way people interact with you, the way you interact with people. And just always keeping in mind the possibility that that things encounters, exchanges, will turn out for the best rather than the worst. Mm-hmm. You develop a slight sixth sense I think when traveling where you often have to make very quick decisions about people.You know, do I trust this person? Do I not trust this person? And you're not aware you're doing it, but obviously you can get it wrong. But not allowing that to always become this kind of suspicion of "what does this person want from me?" Hmm. I feel like I've just delivered a lot of sort of platitudes and cliches at the end of this talk.Just be nice, be, be open. Try to be respectful. Do no harm, also don't be wracked with guilt every exchange, because who wants to meet you if you are walking around, ringing your hands and kind of punching yourself in the face. Another important part of being a traveler is being a good traveler.Being somebody who people want coming to their community, village, town, city and benefit from that exchange as well. It's not just about you bringing something back. There's the art of being a good guest, which Patrick Leigh Fermor, to come back to him, was a master at. He would speak three or four different languages, know classical Greek poetry, be able to talk about any subject.Dance on the table, you know, drink all night. He was that kind of guest. He was the guest that people wanted to have around and have fun with mostly, or that's the way he presented himself, certainly. In the same way, you can be a good, same way, you can be a good host, you can be a good guest, and you can be a good traveler in terms of what you, what you bring, what you give.[01:08:20] Chris Christou: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think what it comes down to is that relationship and that hospitality that has for, at least for people in Europe and, and the UK and and Western people, descendants, culturally, is that when we look at, for example, what Illich kind of whispered towards, how these traditions have been robbed of us.And when you talk about other cliches and platitudes and this and that, that, we feel the need to not let them fall by the wayside, in part because we're so impoverished by the lack of them in our times. And so, I think, that's where we might be able to find something of an answer, is in that relationship of hospitality that, still exists in the world, thankfully in little corners.And, and those corners can also be found in the places that we live in.[01:09:21] Nick Hunt: I think it exists that desire for hospitality because it's a very deep human need. When I was a kid, I, I was always, for some reason I would hate receiving presents.There was something about the weight of expectation and I would always find it very difficult to receive presents and would rather not be given a lot of stuff to do with various complex family dynamics. But it really helped when someone said, you know, when someone gives you a present, it's not just for you, it's also for them. You know, they're doing it cuz they want to and to have a present refused is not a nice thing to do.It, it, that doesn't feel good for the person doing it. Their need is kind of being thrown back at them. And I think it's like that with hospitality as well. We kind of often frame it as the person receiving the hospitality has all the good stuff and the host is just kind of giving, giving, giving, but actually the host is, is getting a lot back. And that's often why they do it. It's like those people wanting, people to stay for three days is not just an act of kindness and selflessness. It's also, it feeds them and benefits them and improves their life. I think that's a really important thing to remember with the concept of hospitality and hosting.[01:10:49] Chris Christou: May we all be able to be fed in that way. Thank you so much, Nick, on behalf of our listeners for joining us today and I feel like we've started to unpack so much and there's so much more to consider and to wrestle with. But perhaps there'll be another opportunity someday.[01:11:06] Nick Hunt: Yeah, I hope so. Thank you, Chris. It was great speaking to you. [01:11:12] Chris Christou: Likewise, Nick. Before we finish off, I'd just like to ask, you know, on behalf of our listeners as well how might people be able to read and, and purchase your writing and your books? How might they be able to find you and follow you online?[01:11:26] Nick Hunt: So if you just look up my, my name Nick Hunt. My book should, should come up. I have a website. Nick hunt scrutiny.com. I have a, a book, a novel actually out in July next month, 6th of July called "Red Smoking Mirror."So that's the thing that I will be kind of focusing on for the next bit of time. You can also find me as Chris and I met each other through the Dark Mountain Project, which is a loose network of writers and artists and thinkers who are concerned with the times we're in and how to be human in times of crisis and collapse and change.So you can find me through any of those routes. Hmm. [01:12:17] Chris Christou: Beautiful. Well, I'll make sure that all those links are on the homework section on the end of tourism podcast when it launches. And this episode will be released after the release of your new, your book, your first novel. So, listeners will be able to find it then as well.[01:12:34] Nick Hunt: It will be in local shops. Independent bookshops are the best. [01:12:40] Chris Christou: Once again, thank you, Nick, for your time. [01:12:42] Nick Hunt: Thank you. Get full access to ⌘ Chris Christou ⌘ at chrischristou.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 4 things GiveDirectly got right and wrong sending cash to flood survivors, published by GiveDirectly on July 31, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. For Hassana in Kogi, Nigeria, October's floods were not like years past. "All our farmlands washed away as many had not yet harvested what they planted. The flooding continued until our homes and other things were destroyed. At this point we were running helter-skelter," she said. These floods, the worst in a decade, result from predictable seasonal rains. If we can anticipate floods, we can also anticipate the action needed to help. So why does aid often take months (even up to a year) to reach people like Hassana? Traditional humanitarian processes can be slow and cumbersome, government and aid agencies often lack the capacity and money to respond, and most aid is delivered in person, an added challenge when infrastructure is damaged. Digital cash transfers can avoid these issues, and getting them to work in a disaster setting means more people will survive climate change. In the past year, with support from Google.org, GiveDirectly ran pilots to send cash remotely to flood survivors: in Nigeria, we sent funds to survivors weeks after flooding and in Mozambique, we sent funds days before predicted floods. Below, we outline what worked, what didn't, and how you can help for next time. Over 1.5B people in low and middle income countries are threatened by extreme floods. Evidence shows giving them unconditional cash during a crisis lets them meet their immediate needs and rebuild their lives. However, operating in countries with limited infrastructure during severe weather events is complicated, so we ran two pilots to test and learn (see Appendix): What went right and what went wrong Innovating in the face of climate change requires a 'no regrets' strategy, accepting a degree of uncertainty in order to act early to prevent suffering. In that spirit, we're laying out what worked and did not: ✅ Designing with community input meant our program worked better A cash program only works if recipients can easily access the money. In Nigeria, we customized our program design based on dozens of community member interviews: Use the local dialect: There are 500+ dialects spoken in Nigeria, and our interviews determined a relatively uncommon one, Egbura Koto, was most widely used in the villages we were targeting. We hired field staff who spoke Egbura Koto, which made the program easier to access and more credible to community members, with one saying, "I didn't believe the program at first when my husband told me but when I got a call from GiveDirectly and someone spoke in my language, I started believing." Promote mobile money: Only 10% of Nigerians have a mobile money account (compared to 90% of Kenya), so we planned to text recipients instructions to create one and provide a hotline for assistance. But would they struggle to set up the new technology? Our interviews found most households had at least one technologically savvy member, and younger residents often helped their older or less literate neighbors read texts, so we proceeded with our design. In the end, 94% of surveyed recipients found the mobile money cash out process "easy." Send cash promptly: Cash is most useful where markets are functioning, so should we delay sending payments until floods recede if it means more shops will be reopened? In our interviews, residents explained the nearby Lokoja and Koton-Karfe markets functioned throughout flooding and could be reached in 10 minutes by boat. We decided not to design in a delay and found the nearby markets were, in fact, open during peak flooding. ❌ We didn't send payments before severe floods In Mozambique, we attempted to pay people days ahead of severe floods based on data from Google Research's Flood Forecasting ...

Et si d'autres visions de la nature pouvaient nous inspirer dans la lutte contre la crise écologique? Des visions où l'humain n'est pas dans la domination des écosystèmes mais dans l'appartenance à une nature qu'il faut défendre avant toute chose.  C'est le credo de la plupart des peuples autochtones, dont les savoirs ancestraux sur l'environnement sont par ailleurs considérés comme essentiels par l'ONU pour protéger la biodiversité. Plusieurs études ont montré que les populations autochtones vivent sur des territoires représentant 80% de la biodiversité mondiale. Leurs connaissances sur ces écosystèmes, les “savoirs écologiques traditionnels”, sont de plus en plus valorisés. Pour ce troisième épisode de notre podcast Sur la Terre en partenariat avec The Conversation, nous partons donc à la rencontre de Kogis, un peuple qui vénère la "Terre mère", et vit dans la plus haute chaîne de montagnes côtières du monde, la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta en Colombie. Les Kogis, peuple précolombien qui s'est réfugié dans ces hautes montagnes pour échapper aux conquérants espagnols, tentent depuis 40 ans d'alerter sur la dégradation de la Terre, comme d'autres peuples autochtones. Ils étaient récemment à Paris pour porter leur message. Comme d'autres peuples indigènes ils sont de plus en plus écoutés par les scientifiques, après de longs siècles de mépris. Pour approfondir sur les savoirs écologiques traditionnels , lisez cet article  de John Ziker, professeur d'Anthropologie à l'Université de l'Etat de Boise (Idaho, Etats-Unis) dans The Conversation.  Intervenants: Arregocès Coronado Zarabata, directeur d'école Kogi, Luciano Mascote Conchacala, sage (“Mama”) kogi, Eric Julien, géographe et fondateur de l'association Tchendukua , Monica Hernandez Morcillo , Ingénieure forestière, University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (Allemagne), Melissa K. Nelson, professeure de développement durable autochtone, Arizona State University.  Réalisation: Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer. Composition musicale: Nicolas Ver avec Irma Cabrero-Abanto et Sebastian Villanueva. Un grand merci à Loïc Le Meur et à Paua d'avoir autorisé cette rencontre  Cliquez sur ces liens pour en savoir plus sur les Kogis  et les soutenir   Nous serions ravis d'avoir vos retours sur cet épisode et de savoir quels autres sujets vous souhaiteriez explorer. Laissez-nous une note vocale ou un message sur Whatsapp au + 33 6 79 77 38 45, nous serons très heureux de vous écouter

Julia Marie welcomes consciousness researcher Betty J. Kovacs, PhD back to the show for the final two episodes about our collective awakening. The 5th Wave of Remembering is the wave we are currently experiencing, and Betty encourages us all to Wake Up so that we can anchor the Light that will raise the vibration of this world into her next evolution.The Key to our success: When we change the narrative, we change the world.In this episode, you will learn about:What is the narrative we all must change?How quantum physics opened the door to this 5th Wave.Ponder this: Matter is what Spirit looks like in the physical Universe.How native people around the world have been the keepers of the Truth.How can you become an anchor for the Light?We talk about the Kogi tribe in south america.How our choices are actually damaging the scaffolding upon which consciousness hangs.We have forgotten we are powerful creators, we are immortal, we are all divine, and our consciousness does not die.And much more.RESOURCES:Betty's WebsiteThank you for listening to Evolving Humans! For consultations or classes, please visit my website: www.JuliaMarie.usYou can leave your questions, comments and suggestions via Voicemail at https://www.EvolvingHumansPodcast.com.Who knows, perhaps your question or comment will be featured on a future episode! I can't wait for your questions or hear your feedback.

Tune in as we welcome back guest Gary Christmas and discuss deep soul transformation! Gary is widely recognized for his unwavering dedication to assisting others in their evolution through spiritual practices and focused disciplines. With his remarkable ability to facilitate incredible transformations, Gary approaches each journey with love and compassion. Prepare yourself for an enlightening conversation that you won't want to miss out on!ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴏᴜʀ ɢᴜᴇsᴛ: From the front page of the OC Register for his efforts with the Navajo and Hopi tribes, bringing the Kogi from Colombia to meet with the Dalai Lama, to blessing 94 spiritual delegates from around the world at Megiddo in Israel 3 weeks before the world shut down from Covid, Gary's unique presence can help you too. Private one on one or couples sessions are also available by contacting Gary at 714.915.1183

"Weed taught me how to be American," chef Roy Choi says of his favorite leafy green. Weed also inspired his most iconic creation–the Kogi taco–easily one of the stoniest culinary sensations of all time. A life-long, loud-and-proud cannabis enthusiast, Roy Choi had to pretty much invent the modern gourmet food truck just to get his Kogi tacos out to the people. Fifteen years later, he's now among the most respected and influential chefs in the world From his early adventures as a member of the 'United Stoners of America,' to his brand new line of edibles with Tsumo Snacks, we talk about cannabis, food, culture, and how to keep pot weird.  NOTE: We discuss two scientific studies in the episode, one about how weed actually makes your taste buds more acute, and one about hyper-priming.  EPISODE SPONSORED BY PAX It's time to puff, puff, PAX with the world's most advanced cannabis vaporizer. Check out PAX.com for exceptional cannabis experiences made easy. And use the promo code "great moments" for 10% off your order! EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 90+ episodes of our classic Great Moments in Weed History format, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book. And it truly helps us make the best show possible

The more I move toward living sustainably, the more I learn about cultures that haven't become as polluting, depleting, addicted, and imperialist as ours. I grew up thinking they were stuck in the Stone Age, but they aren't.Conversations with Alan help me learn about the Kogi, with whom he's lived in the mountains of Colombia and made two documentaries with the BBC. The relevant differences is that compared to us, they live sustainably, free, and in abundance.Alan shares more in our third conversation about what he's learned from them, including how they see us, which is sobering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Nigeria, an unspecified number of people have been killed and hundreds of houses burnt down in the Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi state. The attack on Sunday has heightened security concerns in the state which has witnessed similar incidents in the past. In Kenya, protests which have been ongoing in the country have been called off. They were due to continue today, but Opposition leader Raila Odinga called them off after being approached by President William Ruto. Sierra Leone general elections are just over two months away and the political barometre is heating up. In the latest flare up, the motorcade of the presidential hopeful for the main opposition APC had a bruising encounter with the police on a main highway leading to Freetown. A Kenyan startup - Kubik - has been awarded Startup of the Year in a global competition which spans 120 countries. They remove plastic from the environment and use that to create building materials for housing.

I was very curious to learn more about the Kogi and Alan's interactions with them.Alan is deeply involved with their joint project to learn to restore nature as they have shown they can. "Restoring nature" doesn't do justice for what they are doing. They are also sharing different ways of seeing and interacting with the world, which, as I understand from Alan, is not how they see the world.Alan starts with a couple descriptions of how the Kogis view things differently than Europeans, including in ways we wouldn't have suspected were different. How does a medieval castle look to someone who has never seen a stone building? If they see something a typical European sees daily, how much else are we misunderstanding? What are we missing?Their process for planting includes steps before planting of contemplation. What are they doing? What are we missing? Can we learn from them? Can we learn from them before we wreck them and ourselves?What else about nature are we missing? How common are their views to other cultures that our polluting culture hasn't wrecked yet?The Tairona Heritage Trust, where you can learn about and donate to help the Kogi help usAlan's first documentary on the Kogi (1990): From the Heart of the World - The Elder Brother's WarningHis second (2012): Aluna - An Ecological Warning by the Kogi PeopleAlan's home page Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ethno-botonist Rodrigo Cámara-Leret first describes how podcast guest Alan Ereira chose him to live and work with the Kogi, who want to share, in my language, how to stop wrecking the biosphere.He has visited them and seen behind what they show of themselves in the documentaries. Unlike typical scientific research, he will bring his family and learn beyond what they plant. The condition of their environment is the physical manifestation of their culture, as is ours to ours. They aren't living in the Stone Age or as noble savages. They are living appropriate to their environment, sophisticated in their understanding of nature.Rodrigo and the organizations supporting him are approaching the Kogi with humility, as I understand, not trying to teach them or assimilate them. He shares some of the challenges to overcome as well as what he looks forward to.We all can learn from cultures living sustainably, like how to restore the values we've jettisoned of Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You, Leave It Better Than You Found It, and Live and Let Live.The Tairona Heritage TrustTo donate and support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At least three people have been killed in an explosion in Nigeria's Kogi State, a few hours before President Buhari was due to visit nearby. Plus, Kenya's government bans the export of baobab trees to Georgia following a public outcry, amid environmental concerns. And we take you to Statues Also Dream, the unique live play connecting performers thousands of miles apart.

Nigeria is suffering its worst flooding in a decade with 1.4 million people displaced and more than 600 killed. There are now concerns that the country may face catastrophic levels of hunger. The BBC's West Africa correspondent, Mayeni Jones, visited flood-hit Kogi state and reflects on what her journey revealed about the state of the country. The Netherlands is currently lurching from crisis to crisis - including a tense debate over how to accommodate thousands of asylum seekers. In recent weeks, judges ordered the Dutch government to raise the standards in the reception of refugees in line with the European minimum. Anna Holligan visited a reception centre in the country's rural north. Many who fled Iran after the revolution in 1979 had to find their way in new countries, including Israel. Suzanne Kianpour met with a singer who left Iran for Israel as a child and spoke to her about how she managed to adjust to the different culture and her desire to build bridges between enemy countries. Bhutan has kept its borders firmly closed for two and a half years. Now it's re-opened to tourists, and an additional daily tourist tax is set to make it a much more exclusive. Locals who cater for less extravagant budgets are being hit hard, says Michelle Jana Chan. it was just a normal Friday afternoon when tragedy struck the village of Creeslough in county Donegal in Ireland. An explosion at a petrol station killed ten people - with police describing it as a tragic accident. Members of the local community have pulled together in their grief with small acts of kindness, says Chris Page. Presenter: Kate Adie Producers: Serena Tarling and Ellie House Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond Editor: Emma Rippon Photo credit: Ayo Bello, BBC

Roy Choi (Broken Bread, The Chef Show, Kogi) is a chef, author, and television personality. Roy joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he went from having a gambling addiction to being an award-winning chef, what Asian immigrants had to do to navigate the American system, and how important food is to Korean culture. Roy and Dax talk about what happened to restaurants during the pandemic, how most people in America are a product of fast food advertising, and what reforms he would like to see in the food industry. Roy explains what his experience was like teaching English in Korea, that he has never been a collector of material things, and that he believes there isn't enough Asian representation in American media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.