EP 213 — Christina Hildebrand: Effective Activism

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11/01/22 • 180 min

How do activists succeed in achieving lasting changes in our world?

Learn the ins and out of smart activism and how to get started in your community with Christine Hildebrand, the founder and president of A Voice For Choice, in this Living 4D conversation.

Discover more about Christine and her organization on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, BitChute and Parler.

Show Notes

How Christina created A Voice For Choice. (4:03)
Online petitions don’t do much for advocacy, but personal contact with legislators and local officials does matter. (16:20)
The effect of fear mongering may be greater than any placebo/nocebo effect. (35:49)
A mythical transition. (47:01)
“To me, the COVID-19 lockdowns tore apart everything that makes us whole.” (1:04:03)
Christine explains why her organization sells masks, although she doesn’t believe in them. (1:13:53)
Easy things like sending postcards have a greater impact than emails or petitions. (1:24:00)
What is justice? (1:32:19)
What’s really killing Americans. (1:48:07)
Censorship. (2:02:42)
Creating alternative systems. (2:19:02)
What do you want to change over the next decade? (2:37:09)
Like many things, activism is a marathon, not a sprint. (2:46:14)

Resources

Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth edited by Zoey O’Toole
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines and The Forgotten History by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg
Sacred Geometry: Spiritual Science with Robert Gilbert on Gaia
The Social Dilemma on Netflix
Oneness vs. the 1% by Vandana and Kartikey Shiva
The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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How do activists succeed in achieving lasting changes in our world?

Learn the ins and out of smart activism and how to get started in your community with Christine Hildebrand, the founder and president of A Voice For Choice, in this Living 4D conversation.

Discover more about Christine and her organization on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, BitChute and Parler.

Show Notes

How Christina created A Voice For Choice. (4:03)
Online petitions don’t do much for advocacy, but personal contact with legislators and local officials does matter. (16:20)
The effect of fear mongering may be greater than any placebo/nocebo effect. (35:49)
A mythical transition. (47:01)
“To me, the COVID-19 lockdowns tore apart everything that makes us whole.” (1:04:03)
Christine explains why her organization sells masks, although she doesn’t believe in them. (1:13:53)
Easy things like sending postcards have a greater impact than emails or petitions. (1:24:00)
What is justice? (1:32:19)
What’s really killing Americans. (1:48:07)
Censorship. (2:02:42)
Creating alternative systems. (2:19:02)
What do you want to change over the next decade? (2:37:09)
Like many things, activism is a marathon, not a sprint. (2:46:14)

Resources

Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth edited by Zoey O’Toole
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines and The Forgotten History by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg
Sacred Geometry: Spiritual Science with Robert Gilbert on Gaia
The Social Dilemma on Netflix
Oneness vs. the 1% by Vandana and Kartikey Shiva
The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

More resources for this episode are available on our website.

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BIOptimizers US and BIOptimizers UK PAUL10
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EP 212 — Mansal Denton: Sacred Hunting

Bonding with nature is a powerful thing, especially for those who use hunting to get in touch with the deepest parts of their souls.

Mansal Denton describes the process of sacred hunting he teaches and how to harness the power of nature for your spiritual benefit, whether you want to hunt or not, in this very primal Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Mansal at his Sacred Hunting website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

For Living 4D listeners: If you’re interested in participating in a sacred hunt, receive a $250 discount when you enroll by mentioning that you heard about it on Living 4D.
Show Notes

Mansal’s rite of passage into manhood came in prison. (5:54)
What sacred ritual means to Mansal. (10:54)
Sexual abstinence and hunting. (19:44)
The act of sacrifice. (27:34)
The importance of myth in our lives. (36:00)
Could going to prison be its own rite of passage? (58:31)
“Nature is the ultimate embodiment of the feminine.” (1:10:14)
The act of hunting evokes a practice of death medicine. (1:14:09)
How can you save the planet without processing the grief you feel? (1:22:53)
What’s your relationship with death? (1:33:27)
Any disconnects we have with fundamental parts of ourselves are revealed in very unhealthy ways. (1:41:45)
Ways to get in touch with your primal nature without hunting. (1:46:09)
You don’t have to take the life of an animal in a hunt to tap into your wisdom. (1:55:01)
Women can get a lot out of the practice of hunting. (2:08:51)
Do you really know how to slow down? (2:16:53)
The cosmic ancestors of a place. (2:28:20)
Sacred walks with others in nature. (2:38:19)
No AR-style weapons needed for sacred hunting. (2:55:22)
The most important relationships a hunter has: God, nature, your self and, most importantly, the animal. (2:59:23)

Resources

Mansal on the Kyle Kingsbury Podcast
Kill Bill
Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Paul’s Living 4D conversation with James Carse
The work of Shane McDermott

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EP 214 — Fred Provenza: Food, Farming and Our Future

There’s little doubt that we’re living in an epistemological crisis, particularly when it comes to how we get food and water — mostly polluted and nutrient poor — from the source to our kitchen tables.

How do we begin to clean up the mess and eat better and healthier foods?

Fred Provenza, professor emeritus of Behavioral Ecology in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University, describes nutritional wisdom and what that means for the future of the planet in this granular Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Fred’s work at Understanding AG and Farming Secrets.
Show Notes

Wildlife biologists considered ranching and farming degraders of landscapes. (6:36)
Have we lost our self-reliance? (9:32)
Nutritional wisdom. (18:35)
Animals can learn to eat or avoid foods based on post-ingested feedback. (29:06)
How some animals innovate to survive. (40:32)
“Eating (anything) is participating in a very sacred act.” (52:07)
Have people lost a sense of becoming something more or better than themselves? (57:02)
Animals discern the range and taste of nutritious foods they eat before leaving the womb. (1:09:29)
The importance of the gut microbiome. (1:15:06)
Adding the element of choice alters what animals eat and how much. (1:32:37)
How Big Food hijacks the system and our health. (1:37:36)
Where do you get your tomatoes? (1:41:35)
“When the data don’t fit your hypothesis, you have to follow the data.” (2:02:52)
Secondary compounds plants use to protect themselves from herbivores and other plants. (2:21:21)
The value of plant diversity for our health and environment. (2:30:12)
Plants and animals are one step ahead of the curve of Big Ag’s chemical arms race that humans will never win. (2:40:00)

Resources

Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom and The Art and Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders by Fred Provenza
Foraging Behavior: Managing to Survive in a World of Change by Fred Provenza (free PDF link)
Woodrat houses

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