Crazy Wisdom
How do plants communicate? - Yoshua Greenfield
- death
- awakening
- Add
- growth
- plants
- permaculture
- ayahuasca
- psilocybin
About this episode
Yoshua and I explore the world of plants (Do you think they’re conscious?)
We discuss the wide-ranging influence they have on our lives- from being food sources to medicine to tools for spiritual awakening and, weaving a winding path, we branch into topics like death, awakening, Yoshua’s You Enjoy Life project, what it means to be enlightened, dealing with emotional trauma and a bunch of other random topics because, of course, I don’t believe in themes.
To see more of Yoshua’s content google his project: ‘You Enjoy Life’ (podcast, YouTube channel, and Instagram page) and his book ‘Conversations with Your Best Friend’
(4:52) A brief description of permaculture
(10:17) What dies when we die? Is there something in us that doesn’t die when our connection to our senses go?
(13:13) What is ‘You Enjoy Life?’
(13:54) How Yoshua learned to communicate with plants
(15:55) Learning from ayahuasca and psilocybin; his beliefs about how these plants work, and how they helped his inner work. (Do you know that there’s a religion that integrates ayahuasca and Christianity?)
(25:55) Innocence: why pursuing childhood innocence is the wrong thing to do and what to look for instead.
(28:10) A common misconception a lot of us have about enlightenment; what waking up to truth is really like; navigating this reality to continual growth and evolution
(34:17) Is ‘science vs religion’ a valid debate?
(36:08) Why depression is the most powerful tool for awakening and how it led to Yoshua’s experience of awakening.
(41:05) Why Yoshua decided to ditch his ADD medication.
(51:20) How we can all learn to be less wasteful without needing to be radical about it.
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast doesn't really have a specific theme. It covers a lot of my interests. It covers a lot of other people's interests. It goes into philosophy, spirituality, business, how to live a good life, many different things. Ultimately, I don't believe in having themes for the things that we do. We can categorize the things and obviously we categorize things all the time, but I like to keep things open ended a continuous process of discovering the truth as it is. And the truth is tricky because we can't really get to the truth exactly, because the truth is non linear. It is, in the words of John Vervaeke, combinatorially explosive. Even the truth of this window that I'm looking at, the window itself, the glass that makes up the window, is combinatorially explosive. The cup that holds your water is combinatorially explosive. You cannot model that cup totally in your head. You're only getting an image of it with your eyes and your brain. That's not the actual cup itself. So this show is a discovery of truth wherever it may appear. By talking to people from various different fields. I've talked to artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, refugees, just talking to anybody who has a glimpse into the truth. And through this conversation, through this mutual inquiry into what is true, what is real, hopefully we get to something that is helpful for to you
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