Mind Hacks for Getting Through a Pandemic: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 440
Josh LaJaunie returns to talk about his strategies for staying sane, strong, and fit during the pandemic.
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The Queen’s Gambit, The Hero’s Journey, Veganism, and Exercise: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 439
Author, academic, and artist Tyson Yunkaporta offers an Indigenous perspective on some of the core beliefs that have guided my life. Some, like veganism, survive in a different form. Others, like the Hero’s Journey, lie in tatters. And some, like exercise, get transformed and deepened.
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Healing Cultural Trauma: Tada Hozumi on PYP 438
Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics.
In this challenging conversation, we discuss how our cultures can traumatize us and predispose us to oppress other cultures. And how we can “digest” our past – collective and individual as a way of healing.
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Owning Our Health with Glen Merzer and Chef AJ: PYP 437
Glen Merzer has possibly created a new genre, the comedic plant-based memoir.
Join me, Glen, and recipe contributor Chef AJ to talk about their new book, Own Your Health.
Civilization as a Self-Terminating Algorithm: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 436
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian Aboriginal artist, philosopher, and researcher who lectures on Indigenous Knowledge at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s also the author of Sand Talk, a book that has influenced my thinking more profoundly than any other.
Basically, Yunkaporta turns the lens of anthropology around and puts Western civilization under the microscope, showing us how insane and unsustainable the entire project is.
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Supporting Spirituality Through Technology: Danielle Roberts on PYP 435
Danielle Roberts is a visual artist, technologist, and meditator. She’s the creator of MeditationLab, whose mission is to support spirituality through technology, and AwarenessLab, which develops tools for awareness from a technological, artistic, and experiential perspective.
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Embracing Discomfort When You’re Already in Over Your Head: Glenn Murphy on PYP 434
Glenn Murphy returns to talk about the importance of embracing physical discomfort, even when we’re already stressed out mentally and emotionally. He offers some tips about how to do so without burning out, and shares a 10-minute guided visualization exercise to help us get back in touch with our bodies and spirits.
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Cancer is a Disease of Identity: Rethinking Evolutionary Biology with Perry Marshall: PYP 433
Perry Marshall is one of the organizers of Cancer & Evolution Symposium, and a “pantomath” of the highest order. An engineer, marketer, writer, and science enthusiast, he has devoted much of the past 10 years to cracking the evolutionary code.
Marshall argues that natural selection is not the only, or even the main factor, in evolution. Instead, the organism itself exerts its will, and is an agent in its own evolution to further its own goals.
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How Our Communities Can Get Healthy at Last: Eric Adams on PYP 432
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help book, and part cookbook, this is a celebration of the possibilities of health for the American people in general, and the Black community in particular.
We talk about the title – from Etta James, and not Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I have a dream” speech, as I first assumed – and the fact that, in Adams’ words, “slavery never ended,” and remains entrenched in the slave foods that are still harming Black people to this day.
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We Move, Therefore We Think: Barbara Tversky on PYP 431
Barbara Tversky argues that our thinking, and consciousness itself, arises from the experiences of our physical bodies in space.
Rather than being an afterthought, or just the province of athletes and dancers, spatial thinking is the foundation of all thought.
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