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Daniel Vitalis

Welcome to the ReWild Yourself Podcast! I’m Daniel Vitalis, and I’ll be your guide through the world of human zoology and lifestyle design. We’ll explore the strategies that ancient apes need to thrive in a modern world, awakening our instincts, and freeing our bodies –– and minds –– from the degenerative effects of human domestication.

ReWild Yourself

I am fascinated with entomophagy as of late, and so it was great fun to 
record this interview with Daniella Martin — author of Edible: An Adventure 
Into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
 and the host of Girl Meets Bug, the insect cooking/travel show!

In the interview, we discuss:

 * How Daniella became “the bug girl"
 * The great resources in Daniella’s book
 * Farming insects is not part of indigenous culture
 * Insect identification when foraging
 * How to avoid parasites when eating insects
 * Legs, intestines and exoskeletons — oh my!
 * Insect farming
 * Cultural taboos surrounding entomophagy
 * Tastes of different insects
 * Vegans, vegetarians and eating insects
 * Long chain fatty acids in insects
 * Where is the “insect trend” going?
 * The best starter insects
 * Freezing vs cooking

Why You Should Start Eating Insects - Daniella Martin #9

I will be sharing the occasional stream of consciousness rant on ReWild 
Yourself! podcast, and I've just recorded the first one!

Episode Breakdown:
 * Podcast song origins
 * Information on my only ReWilding immersion workshop this year
 * Will you ever see me on a TV show?
 * Dispatch 4 reflections and Gobekli Tepe

Dispatch 4 Reflections - Daniel Vitalis #10

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I have a deep discussion with 
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova, one of the pioneers of Conscious Evolution and 
founder of Birth Into Being, about how our traumatic birth experiences 
shape our psychology.

Episode Breakdown:
 * Our world experience begins before conception
 * Birth experience is related to emotional memory
 * We are raising a society programmed to have needs neglected
 * Thousands of years of slavery still live in our bones
 * Daniel’s birth and childhood experience
 * Most of our fears have deep ancestral roots
 * Myths of birth complications
 * The altered state of Ecstatic Birth
 * The #1 way to avoid complications during birth
 * Give birth in a place, in a way, that connects to your true nature
 * How to deal with outside pressure when making decisions about your
 pregnancy
 * What does today’s ReWilded child look like?
 * Dissociation is ingrained in us from birth
 * An amazing story of a child healing herself from birth trauma
 * Healing words of wisdom from Elena

ReWilding Our Birth Experience - Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova #11

Arthur Haines and I continue our discussion of the NeoAboriginal Lifeway. In this episode, Arthur shows us how the English language restricts our worldview, and why we should consider learning an indigenous language to cultivate the feral mindset. We discuss: * The wild experience vs. the civilized experience * The language of imperialism * How Arthur became interested in learning an indigenous language * Language shapes how we think * Loss of language diversity * The narrow aperture of the English language * English is a language of war * Indigenous languages integrate verbs into the landscape * Freedom of mind * Religion and language * Language of a fluid worldview * Experiencing life as verbs and not as nouns * "Spending time" * Future of the Passamaquoddy language * How Arthur integrates Passamaquoddy into his lifestyle * Exploring languages indigenous to your area * Indigenous language reveals water as medicine

How Speaking English Impacts Our Relationship With Nature - Arthur Haines #12

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Stephen Harrod 
Buhner, an Earth poet and the award-winning author of twenty books on 
nature, indigenous cultures, the environment and herbal medicine.

He is probably best known for is extensive writing in the field of 
herbalism and plant intelligence, though I would offer that he is one of 
the most significant writers and thought leaders of the modern ReWilding 
movement.

Episode Breakdown:
 * Stephen’s early experiences with the metaphysical background of the
 world
 * The reality police
 * Fear of wildness
 * The education system shuts us down
 * Opening sensory gating channels
 * The 6th sensory channel: the feeling capacity
 * Using NeuroGnostics to open sensory gating channels
 * Reset your software program
 * Orient towards meaning rather than form
 * How to reclaim the feeling sense
 * How to operate from the feeling sense in this information-rich modern
 world
 * Sophisticated writing cultivates the feeling sense for the reader

Reclaiming Your Feeling Sense - Stephen Harrod Buhner #13

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! Podcast, I talk with Sheri Winston, 
author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure and 
leading sex expert.

Episode Breakdown:
 * Sheri’s books
 * Taboo sexual language
 * Solo sex is our laboratory for pleasure experiments
 * Altered states of consciousness
 * Going into deep trance for mega-orgasmic experiences
 * The ecology of sex
 * Rediscovering the clitoris
 * Taking time with arousal for transcendent sex
 * The yin and yang of sexual energy
 * How to teach your children about sex
 * Sheri’s top sex tips for men and women

The Anatomy of Arousal - Sheri Winston #14

It was great fun to talk with Christopher Ryan, author of the New York 
Times best-seller Sex At Dawn.

Episode Breakdown:
 * The nuclear family and how hunter-gatherers structure socially
 * How women went from being equal partners to being domesticated
 animals
 * Scarcity consciousness of modern society
 * The difference between sexual jealousy and wealth jealousy
 * How Chris views the nuclear family
 * The Shame Exorcist
 * What Chris would tell kids about sex
 * Persian edition of Sex at Dawn
 * Chris’s new book and his writing process
 * Finding the exhale in your work

Freeing Ourselves from Shame - Christopher Ryan, PhD #16

Nadine Artemis — sense visionary and creator of Living Libations — tells us 
why we should skip mainstream hygiene products and stick to botanicals and 
the elements to care for our skin.

Episode Breakdown:
 * Poetic Pits - the sensual "odorant" that blends harmoniously with
 your natural, primal scent
 * The 411 on essential oils
 * Nadine’s first forays into oil blending
 * Toxicity of mainstream beauty products
 * Tips to have the best skin ever
 * Feeding the body with essential oils
 * Sexual communication through our armpits
 * The toxic cocktail in the average supermarket deodorant stick
 * The trifecta that makes up the perfect storm for breast cancer
 * What you can do to naturally lower your risk of breast cancer
 * The sunlight vitamin
 * Iodine’s key roles in the body
 * Toxic ingredients found in mainstream "feminine hygiene" products
 * What a woman can incorporate into her lifestyle to take great care of
 her lady lotus
 * No tan lines - why this is such an important part of your self care
 toolkit!

Becoming Radiant and Sexy from the Inside Out - Nadine Artemis #17

The NeoAboriginal Lifeway series with Arthur Haines continues!

Episode Breakdown:
 * We have set up an inhospitable habitat for the next generation
 * How Arthur shifted his mindset when preparing for a child
 * Arthur's suggestions for preparing to have a baby
 * We are a deformed version of our actual blueprint
 * Foods to keep out of your diet during pregnancy
 * Prenatal vitamins vs procuring vitamins from nutrient dense foods
 * It’s not just what the mother eats (it's what the father eats too)!
 * Super nutrient dense animal foods
 * What Arthur’s daughter eats
 * Eating sea creatures during pregnancy
 * Arthur's recommendations for a prenatal diet program
 * The foraged plant that Arthur’s partner took religiously to prepare
 for birth
 * What indigenous humans did with their placenta
 * Combining breast milk with solid foods
 * The importance of breastfeeding
 * Spacing pregnancies for optimal health of the next child and the
 mother

The Ancestral Prenatal Program - Arthur Haines #19

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Dr. Ronald Goldman 
— author of Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma and the leading expert in the 
field — about the deep, oft-repressed psychological trauma stemming from 
circumcision. 

Episode Breakdown:
 * How Dr. Goldman became involved with circumcision awareness
 * The difference between Jewish perspective and non-religious
 perspective
 * Mainstream media’s avoidance of balanced circumcision reporting
 * Psychological trauma of circumcision
 * The horrifying process of circumcision
 * Informed consent
 * One thing you can do to raise awareness of this issue
 * What is foreskin, and what does it do?
 * Repressed feelings of circumcised men

The Hidden Trauma of Circumcision - Ronald Goldman, PhD #20

It was an honor to talk with Dr. Gerardo Sandoval Isaac — doctor, 
gynecologist, medicine-man and ambassador for the Bufo alvarius toad — 
about the best ways to harvest and experience the Bufo alvarius toad venom 
and 5-MeO-DMT.

Episode Breakdown:
 * Dr. Gerry’s first entheogenic experiences
 * What happens in a shamanic sacred mushroom ceremony
 * Importance of letting go during entheogenic experiences
 * The Bufo alvarius toad
 * How to harvest and consume the Bufo alvarius toad venom
 * 5 most common effects of smoking 5-MeO-DMT
 * How and why the body produces DMT
 * Entheogenic homework
 * Message from the Bufo alvarius toad
 * How to prepare yourself before you experience the toad
 * How you can help to protect the Bufo alvarius toad

The Bufo Alvarius Toad and 5-MeO-DMT - Dr. Gerardo Sandoval Isaac #25

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