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Medicine Stories

64. When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana Young

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

As Slowness Medicine is being experienced by the collective consciousness on an unprecedented scale, we can more clearly than ever see that the frenetic pace of the human species under endless growth capitalism is the root cause of global ecosystem disruption (one consequence of which is the emergence and lightning fast spread of novel viral pathogens). From newly clear canal water in Venice to dolphins swimming closer than usual to Italy’s coast to record breaking breathable air in China, let’s embrace this opportunity to pause consciously, learn deeply, and critically rethink our approach to the many threats that face our planet and all who share it.

IN THE INTRO:

  • Coronavirus, planetary interconnectivity, and what stillness reveals

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • Pushing the belief button: self confidence on the life path
  • That underlying feeling so many of us have had that there has to be something other than the consumerist capitalist culture we were born into
  • Ayana’s awakening to a life of questioning, seeking, and activism
  • The role of the erotic in meeting overwhelm and hopelessness in these times
  • Burning ourselves out will not save the earth
  • Time plugged in v time in nature and the lie that we’ll be more productive if we’re hooked into technology 24/7
  • When we slow down, the earth slows down (literally)
  • How the For The Wild podcast came to be (Ayana had no idea what she was doing at the beginning) and how the vision has evolved
  • “My devotion is unwavering, but I’m very flexible with how I understand things”
  • The cultural moment that we’re in is a spiritual crisis
  • Rebuilding consent, trust, and reciprocity
  • Planting a million redwoods and building a living library of species
  • Striving to be successful while also staying small and slow and moving through the world with integrity

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0:00.0

I do think that how we are responding to the crisis is part of the crisis and I don't think that

0:08.0

we can solve the problems of corporate capitalism, imperialism, imperialism,

0:13.7

isemism,ism, all down the line

0:16.2

with the same type of rushed, urgent mentality

0:21.9

that created them in the first place. mentality that

0:25.0

create them in the first place.

0:31.0

Hello friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is to be

0:34.4

human upon the earth. I am Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode 64,

0:40.3

which happens to be one of my favorite numbers and today I'm sharing my interview

0:45.2

with one of my favorite people and fellow podcasters Iana Young.

0:51.6

Oh this is this is a big one of course. I am releasing this on March 19th, it looks like in the March March 20th. I'll write on the Spring Equinox and my

1:06.7

friend Susie's birthday, happy birthday Susie's. But right in the midst of

1:12.0

coronavirus, self-quarantines, big unknown, big question mark, what the future holds.

1:21.2

And when I, Anna and I recorded this a few weeks ago, it wasn't what it is yet.

1:28.0

That was in late February. It hadn't hit the states like it has.

1:36.1

Everything has shifted in the cultural landscape since then. And yet, what we talk about and what Iana focuses on in her work and in the For the Wild podcast

1:46.0

is all related to this.

1:49.0

And this is something that Stephen Herod Buner

1:52.0

made me aware of when I first read his book,

1:55.0

Erable Antibirals, which I highly recommend. I've been recommending for years.

2:00.0

Stephen was on episode 8 of this podcast and we and we did talk about viral

2:05.6

pandemics we did talk about everything that's going on now you know two two

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