051 - Probiotic Musings, Science & Philosophy with Ben Klenner
A Transformative Journey of Living Connected to the Natural World
In this episode I’m flying solo… talking about my thoughts on living a probiotic life. It’s a question I ask myself regularly, and I challenge you to have a question that you ask yourself. It’s a form of meditation; asking yourself a question over a period of time.
Join me as I share a little more of my journey from the last year or so, and where asking this question has taken me. I delve into science, its applications and its limitations, and compare it to traditional eastern thinking, specifically Traditional Chinese Medicine. I go into the wisdom of nature, an ancient knowledge that expresses itself in the patterns all around us. Observing these patterns and rhythms with a curious mind and heart can lead to the understanding that we are all connected.
I then share some of the books that have influenced me in the last year or so.
These include:
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall-Kimmerer
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
One Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka
The Girl Who Sang To The Buffalo
Kent Nerburn
Little House On The Prairie series
Laura Ingles Wilder
One I forgot to mention is:
The Secret Teachings of Plants
Stephen Harrod Buhner
Here are a few other links I mention throughout the episode too. Well worth the look.
The microscope course I took was with Earthwhile Australia
Yellowstone Wolves
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/a12c500d-eb1f-4304-88a6-73d414f3918a
Walden:
In summary, I believe we are supposed to be connected through our senses; to plants, to animals, to microbes, to each other.
To have the humility to admit we only know a fragment of what life is, and the willingness to trust Nature, and to trust what I call God; the Creator.
I hope this, like other episodes, inspires you to dig deeper, to ask your own exploratory question.
Thanks for being on the journey, and I’d love to hear from you!
May the beneficial microbes be with you.
Until next time,
Cheers