How To Eat For Your Soul | Dr. Will Tuttle

What if the most radical act available to us right now is not a protest, a policy, or a purchase, but a question? A question about what we are actually participating in every single day at the table.   In this conversation, I sit down with Dr Will Tuttle, philosopher, musician, educator, former Zen Buddhist monk, and author of the worldwide bestseller The World Peace Diet, to explore one of the most confronting yet liberating truths: that the food on our plate is not just a personal choice. It is the foundation upon which our entire civilisation is built. And that foundation is far more troubled than most of us have been encouraged to look.   That our entire economic culture began with the enslavement, torture and killing of animals. We speak about the herding revolution of 10,000 years ago, and how the decision to own animals as property gave rise, for the first time in human history, to war, slavery, and a ruling class.   We speak about intelligence, and how Will's PhD research at UC Berkeley led him to understand that intelligence is simply the capacity to make connections, and how a culture built on not making connections erodes something essential in us. We speak about the inner work, the meditation, the silence, the daily practice of returning to who we actually are beneath the noise of what we have been told to be.   But this is not a heavy conversation. It is, in many ways, a deeply hopeful one. Will is 72 years old and has the biological age of a man in his twenties. He has not visited a doctor or taken a prescription in over 50 years. He and his wife Madeleine grow 80 fruit and nut trees on a quarter-acre of land in Northern California, and they have spent their lives travelling the world sharing a message that is, at its heart, extraordinarily simple: we do not have to keep doing this.   All beings can be free.   There is another way.   And it begins with us.   This is an invitation to something far more alive, more connected, and more free than the story we have been given.   About Dr. Will Tuttle is an award-winning speaker, educator, author, and musician whose work centres on compassion, intuition, meditation, and conscious living. He holds a PhD in education from the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation on the role of intuition in education was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award. A former Zen Buddhist monk who trained in South Korea, he has delivered over 4,000 presentations across more than 50 countries. He is the author of the acclaimed The World Peace Diet, now translated into 18 languages, as well as Food for Freedom, The World Peace Way, and numerous other books and recordings. He travels and presents globally alongside his wife Madeleine, a visionary watercolour artist from Switzerland.   Feelings with Strangers YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@FeelingswithStrangers Socials https://www.instagram.com/feelings.with.strangers/   Dr. Will Tuttle Site https://www.willtuttle.com/ Socials https://www.instagram.com/WorldPeaceDiet/ Alan Rabinowitz Saving Big Cats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJdnSV5p-Yg