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Human Nature OdysseyDeath in the Garden with Jake Marquez and Maren Morgan (Bonus Episode)If you are reading this that means you are about to listen to a special and temporary episode that in a month will only exist on the HNO Patreon. On our odyssey, we're going to need friends to help us along the way. Jake and Maren are exactly that - as well as hosts of their own podcast Death in the Garden. All you have to do is visit their website and you'll immediately know why I wanted to talk with them. In their own words, DITG is a "quest for ecological & cultural regeneration." In it they "q...2025-02-201h 43
Human Nature OdysseyDeath in the Regenerative Garden: Rethinking Food, Farming, and the Cycle of LifeWhat death is required for life to grow? In our culture’s resistance to death we seem to have caused so much of it. And what if humans aren't inherently a destructive force on the planet? How might we actually be another symbiotic part of our ecosystems? Jake Marquez and Maren Morgan are the hosts of Death in the Garden, a podcast exploring the complex intersection between myth, civilization, climate change. Mandy Magill is a regenerative agriculture educator and cofounder of the Earth Regeneration Alliance. In this episode we’re sharing exerp...2024-07-2537 min
Death in The Garden#62 The Infinite Game of the Garden - A Discussion of Finite and Infinite GamesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.comOn this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we discuss Finite and Infinite Games: a Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by the late professor of religion, James P. Carse. We wanted to discuss this book because there’s a great difference between the pop-culture reception of this book and some of the deeper themes, which pertain profoundly to worldviews and how they cause us to interface with the living world in one way or another. We discuss the issues with s...2024-07-2144 min
Death in The Garden#61 A World Made in the Image of the Left Hemisphere - A Discussion of The Master and His EmissaryThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.comOn this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we discuss the incredibly fascinating, profound, and instructive book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist. Following a similar structure to the book, we first talk about what brain lateralization is; what the difference between the left and right hemisphere is (along with the misconceptions); the importance of attention, metaphor, and theory of mind; and then we talk about why this concept of l...2024-06-201h 00
Death in The Garden#60 Who Were the Luddites, and What Can We Learn from Them in the Age of A.I.?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.comOn this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we discuss what we can learn from the Luddites and how the true meaning of what they stood for can be instructive for how we deal with the rise of A.I. and in our time. In addition to discussing the Luddites, we discuss other works of fiction from the industrial age. We talk about humanity’s proximity to technology, toolmaking, and therefore, machines, and what that means for us moving forward in a tech...2024-05-2945 min
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin197: Jake Marquez & Maren Morgan - Death In the GardenJake Marquez and Maren Morgan are filmmakers, writers, and podcasters. They chat with Dr. Anthony Gustin about their crazy journey making their documentary and podcast: Death In the Garden. For the last four years, Jake and Maren have been trying to untangle the complex, tangled web of how we address climate change, fix the food system, and, hopefully, save the world. Their project discusses these and other problems in our society through the lenses of ecology, philosophy, myth, storytelling, and, ultimately, our fear of death. Jake and Mar...2024-04-101h 23
Death in The Garden#59 Premium: Circumambulating Our Civilizational Monolith with Alex Leff (Human Nature Odyssey)This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.comOn this episode of “Death in The Garden” we are sharing our conversation with Alex Leff, which was co-released for his podcast subscribers. Alex Leff is the creator and visionary behind Human Nature Odyssey, which is a cinematic audio journey through the fantastic and iconic book, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. He is also the creator of a beautiful film called Cycle of Memory, which takes the viewer on an intimate and compassionate journey through his family’s experience of their patriarch suffer...2024-03-1913 min
Death in The Garden#58 The Tales that Really Matter - a Reading by MarenOn this episode of “Death in The Garden,” Maren is reading her recent piece, The Tales that Really Matter - Part I. In this audio essay, you’ll hear tracks and clips from The Lord of the Rings films by Peter Jackson, and music composed by Howard Shore. Additionally, you’ll hear original synth soundscapes inspired by Howard Shore’s compositions, from the songs “In Dreams”, “The Road Goes Ever On…, Pt. 1”, and “Samwise the Brave”. All credit for movie clips and songs used goes to Peter Jackson et al. and Howard Shore. This podcast is sponsored by The Beek...2024-03-1359 min
Death in The GardenThe Dam and the Canal: A Parable - A Reading by MarenWelcome back to the “Death in The Garden” podcast! A lot changed for us over the past 4 months, and we’ve needed to take some time to figure out how to proceed with the film/podcast/writing project in light of a change in resources. But we’re back! As a preface to what is to come, we’re sharing today a reading of a short myth-inspired tale that Maren wrote last year, which was inspired by the works of Daniel Quinn. The podcast, to follow, will be centered around audio essays, produced with original and licensed music and...2024-02-0528 min
Ancestral Health TodayConverging CrisesJake Marquez and Maren Morgan are the creators of Death in The Garden, a multimedia project that explores the complexity of the converging crises facing humanity, from the chronic health epidemic to ecosystem collapse, as well as our current crisis of meaning. In addition to field exploration, the project analyzes civilizational epistemologies, history, human psychology, ecology, and philosophy. Jake and Maren are passionate about trying to make sense of how the human species has reached a point in history where we are sicker than ever and rapidly destroying the ecosystems that sustain us. Their project aims to as...2024-01-091h 25
Death in The Garden#56 Chris Smaje - Being a Good Keystone SpeciesOn this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we spoke to author and farmer Chris Smaje about his new book Saying No to a Farm-Free Future which was written in response to George Monbiot’s book Regenesis. We talk about the dangers of the ecomodernist worldview, about how the narrative of progress inhibits practical solutions, and we discuss at length the importance of moving towards agrarian localism as a lifeway in order to weather the coming storms. We talk about the precariousness of urbanization, and how moving toward a more rural, local society offers resiliency. We talk about the issue...2023-09-111h 51
Boundless Body RadioOur Nutritional Journey Through Time with Returning Guest James Connolly! 511Send us a textJames Connolly is a returning guest on our show! Be sure to check out his first appearance on Boundless Body Radio on episode 315, titled Exploring the Deep Issues Around Food with James Connolly. James Connolly is an artist, chef, non-profit founder and documentary film producer with Archer Gray Productions. He co-founded The Bubble Foundation, a non-profit focused on issues of wellness and food insecurity in inner-city public schools. The documentary film production team at Archer Gray Productions has produced a variety of films, from Transmilitary, to Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Where to In...2023-08-301h 36