362 — What 100 Chickens Taught Me About Healing With Daniel Firth Griffith

What do you do in a health crisis when all of the allopathic experts you’ve seen have no clue how to heal you? When faced with extreme health problems and no answers, philosopher, farmer and award-winning author Daniel Firth Griffith took his Mom’s advice — chickens — and became a living example of the many benefits active, holistic approaches provide. Daniel describes how his wellness transformation went hand-in-hand with a love for farming and storytelling and explains why, in its truest form, myth is a silence with legs, this week on Spirit Gym. Learn more about Daniel’s work as a storyteller and horse-drawn woodwright at his website, Substack and on social media via Instagram. Check out his growing number of books and writings on his writing/books page or on Amazon (link below). Listen to his Unshod podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get them. Timestamps 8:15 Could chickens be an effective treatment for degenerative bone disease? 12:35 Have you really tasted a potato? 20:45 Humans are constantly trying to be rooted not unlike a carrot or potato. 31:06 Myth as defined by Daniel. 48:33 The concept of Creator extends far beyond Native American cultures. 55:13 Myth emerges from our bodies. 1:14:20 Sacred harvests with blood and oxygen. 1:22:30 “How do we keep that oral living ecotone alive in a bastardized medium known as the written word?” 1:29:30 The divine feminine. 1:41:21 “Myth provides us a silence with legs.” 1:47:34 Are you connected or disconnected from the world? 1:55:56 A living myth of foraging. 2:05:51 The differences between world sense and world view. 2:14:49 An uncomfortable, paradoxical connection. 2:23:31 The chemical makeup of an animal that doesn’t give you its consent to eat it changes radically and for the worse. 2:27:35 “Mythology presents a paradox of being, because it says be here, but the here is nowhere… it"s everywhere.” 2:38:31 Are you a non-consensus human? Resources The Plain of Pillars by Daniel Firth Griffith Find more resources for this episode on our website. Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes by Brave as Bears All Rights Reserved MusicFit Records 2024 Thanks to our awesome sponsors: Paleovalley BIOptimizers US and BIOptimizers UK PAUL15 Organifi CHEK20 Wild Pastures Korrect SPIRITGYM Pique Life CHEK Institute/CHEK Academy Paul"s Dream Interpretation workshop We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.