Ep. 50: Return to Nature - Herbalism, Rewilding & Overgrowing the System (feat. Dan De Lion)

Today on Mushroom Hour we are joined by Dan de Lion of Return to Nature. The mission of Return to Nature is to provide a safe and healing teaching bridge for individuals and communities to recognize Nature as a continual and abundant provider of nourishment, medicine, food, and sacred connection, and to help reconnect the perception that Nature is the very source of our sustenance as humans. By teaching about the edible and medicinal aspects of wild plants, medicinal herbs, and mushrooms, Dan aims to help move humanity towards a Nature appreciation based paradigm which inspires people to forage, wildcraft, create tools for survival and primitive art, treat their own ailments with what nature provides, and get a little probiotic dirt under their fingernails. Engaging with Nature and tapping into ancient and sacred ways to directly carve our intuitive practice and reawaken a self-reliant depth within that seems so lost in today’s society. Once we recognize and reclaim our oneness with Nature and look around with new eyes we realize an ever present bounty Mother Nature provides and we just may see that we have never left Eden.  Topics Covered:  The Origin Story of Dan De Lion  Herbalism - Medicines & Food All Around Us  Reductionism vs Systems Thinking  Interconnectedness & Correspondence - As Above, So Below  Rewilding - Genetic Memory, Instinct and Pattern Recognition  Social Alchemy  Rise of the Machines & Transhumanism  Biomimicry  Psychedelics at Society’s Crossroads  Localize and Overgrow the System  Benevolent Activism  Internet Freedom  The Global Elite  The Power of Ritual  Autumn Olives, Garlic Mustard, Plantago  Return to Nature Classes and Future Plans  Episode Resources:   Return to Nature Website: http://returntonature.us/   Return to Nature IG: https://www.instagram.com/returntonature/   Alan Watts: https://www.alanwatts.org/   Terence McKenna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna   Manly P. Hall: https://www.prs.org/manly-p-hall.html   Lactarius Volemus (Mushroom): https://www.mushroomexpert.com/lactarius_volemus.html   Lactarius Corrugis (Mushroom): https://www.mushroomexpert.com/lactarius_corrugis.html   Lactarius Hygrophoroides (Mushroom): https://www.mushroomexpert.com/lactarius_hygrophoroides.html