This encore episode opens up a plethora of curiosities around humanities' relationship to art, creation, and mind altering substances with our guest, Stephen Harrod Buhner.

Stephen Harrod Buhner is the earth speaking on behalf of themselves. He beautifully and scientifically challenges us to give ourselves fully and humbly in our relationships with our more than human elders and kin, he asks us to walk our talk when it comes to unlearning human supremacy and civilized consumptive conditioning through relationship to plants.

Humans have always made things more beautiful than they perhaps had to have been for functionality.  We dialogue with Stephen about what is the particular role of art in these times and how humans have used intoxicants to create that which comes forth from spirit and moves through us.

Art allows us to shift. Art acts as a depatterning figure. Art shifts the perceptual frame of the people experiencing it. Art upsets.

Learn more about Stephen by visiting his website.

♫ Music by Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation, Spooky Tooth, and Eric Dolphy

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