Table of Contents for A New Path
Foreword ..... 8
Preface ..... 10
1. Introduction: creating awareness of the human situation ..... 12
THE CURRENT SITUATION ..... 12
DOMESTICATION ..... 15
WHAT NATURE DIVORCEMENT HAS WROUGHT ..... 18
AWARENESS CREATES GRIEF ..... 22
WHERE IS THE PROOF? ..... 23
REWILDING ..... 24
THINK ABOUT IT ..... 25
2. Ancestral lessons: the relevance of indigenous lifeways ..... 27
OUR BIASED VIEWS ..... 27
LONGEVITY ..... 28
CHRONIC DISEASE ..... 30
SKELETAL STRUCTURE AND PHYSICAL FITNESS ..... 34
COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES AND HAPPINESS ..... 37
OUR WILD PROGENITORS ..... 38
AGRICULTURE: HUMANITY’S BIGGEST MISTAKE?. 40
SUSTAINABILITY ..... 42
THE UNANSWERED QUESTION ..... 45
REGAINING ANCESTRAL HEALTH: THE NEOABORIGINAL PATH ..... 46
3. Deep nutrition: the real human diet ..... 50
INTERGENERATIONAL HEALTH ..... 50
THE DIET OF HOMO SAPIENS ..... 51
TRAITS OF HUNTER-GATHERER DIETS ..... 53
HOW FIRE HAS SHAPED US ..... 58
DIETARY WISDOM ..... 60
DIETARY DIVERSITY ..... 63
THE RIGHT KINDS OF VITAMINS ..... 65
THE INTERACTION OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS (THINK SYNERGY) ..... 68
EPIGENETICS ..... 69
PLANTS AND THEIR NUTRITIONAL ELEMENTS ..... 76
BREEDING THE MEDICINE OUT OF FOOD AND HOW TO RECOVER IT. 82
PLANT ANTINUTRIENTS ..... 88
ARE GRAINS BAD? ..... 92
FATS FOR HEALTH ..... 95
CHOLESTEROL IS A HEALTHFUL SUBSTANCE ..... 100
THE FIFTH KINGDOM ..... 102
OUR SYMBIONTS ..... 105
WHERE DOES DAIRY FIT IN? ..... 108
LET THE LIGHT SHINE ON ME ..... 109
THE VEGAN ASSERTION ..... 111
THE NEOABORIGINAL DIET ..... 115
4. Water: life blood and universal solvent ..... 117
HOW WE SEE WATER ..... 117
THE REMARKABLE PROPERTIES OF WATER ..... 119
THE “MIRACLE MATERIAL” ..... 121
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION ..... 123
KINDS OF PLASTICS ..... 125
THE RARELY TOLD STORY OF CHLORINATED WATER ..... 127
WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID FLUORIDATED WATER ..... 129
BUT WHAT ABOUT PRIVATE WELLS ..... 131
HOW BEING HEALTHY PROTECTS WATER QUALITY ..... 132
HEALTHY SOURCES OF WATER ..... 133
THE NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR WATER ..... 136
5. Wild medicine: healing the human being ..... 139
WHAT’S IN A NAME (THE TRUE ROLE OF MEDICINE) 139
SOCIETAL BIAS AGAINST NATURAL MEDICINE ..... 142
CUT, BURN, AND POISON ..... 147
ANTI-LIFE DRUGS ..... 150
SELF AS ENEMY ..... 152
SYMPTOMS THAT ARE SOLUTIONS ..... 153
PLANT ALLIES ..... 154
MEDICINAL FUNGI ..... 157
ENTHEOGENS AND THE DIVINE WITHIN ..... 159
NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR WILD MEDICINE ..... 161
6. Native awareness: learning to see again ..... 166
MUTED AWARENESS ..... 166
SENSING OUR WORLD.. 167
NATURE OBSERVATION ..... 168
THE GROUND IS A MANUSCRIPT ..... 169
THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS ..... 172
CIVILIZATION IS ANYTHING BUT CIVILIZED ..... 174
THE OUTCOMES OF DOMESTICATION ..... 178
RECOVERING NATIVE AWARENESS ..... 180
NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR AWARENESS ..... 183
7. Being wild: unlearning domestication and reconnecting with nature ..... 185
THE BENEFITS OF NATURE IMMERSION ..... 185
SLEEPING SOUNDLY ..... 188
TOUCHING THE EARTH ..... 193
NAKED IS OUR NATURAL STATE ..... 197
THE PARADIGM OF CONTROL ..... 198
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING ..... 201
NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR BEING WILD AND CONNECTING WITH NATURE ..... 205
8. Feral movement: humans in motion ..... 210
THE CAPABILITY OF THE HUMAN BODY ..... 210
MOVEMENT IN THE MODERN WORLD ..... 212
THE GYM IS NOT WILD ..... 216
THE PROBLEMS (PLURAL) WITH MODERN SHOES ..... 218
AN OVERVIEW OF FERAL MOVEMENT ..... 224
BENEFITS OF MOVEMENT ..... 229
NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR REWILDING OUR MOVEMENT ..... 231
9. Hormesis: expanding comfort zones ..... 234
WHAT IS HORMESIS? ..... 234
GROWING OUR TOLERANCE OF TEMPERATURE EXTREMES ..... 235
PHYTOCHEMICAL HORMESIS ..... 239
THE VALUE OF CALORIE RESTRICTION ..... 242
THE NEOABORIGIANL STRATEGY FOR STRENGTHENING THROUGH HORMESIS ..... 245
10. Communal organisms: experiencing real community ..... 248
COMMUNITY DEFINED ..... 248
BENEFITS OF ENGAGING IN COMMUNITY ..... 255
SURVIVAL OF THOSE WITH THE MOST COOPERATIVE CONNECTIONS ..... 257
GENDER EQUALITY ..... 262
THE NEED FOR CEREMONY ..... 269
THE LOSS OF THE ELDER AND RISE OF THE YOUNGER ..... 273
FINDING YOUR GIFT ..... 275
THE NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR ENGAGING IN AND BUILDING COMMUNITY ..... 277
11. Green choices: walking softly in the home and marketplace ..... 280
GREEN PURCHASING ..... 280
IS RECYCLING BEST? ..... 286
WHAT CLOTHES YOUR BODY? ..... 288
WHILE IN THE HOME ..... 291
YOUR LAWN MAY BE GREEN, BUT IT ISN’T SO GREEN ..... 295
AMERICA’S BEVERAGE ..... 297
PRODUCING FOOD WITHOUT CRUELTY AND ECOLOGICAL HARM ..... 300
THE NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR MAKING GREEN CONSUMER CHOICES ..... 306
12. Primitive technologies: becoming self-reliant ..... 310
THE ORIGINAL AFFLUENCE ..... 310
BECOMING A STEWARD OF FIRE ..... 312
SHELTER FROM THE ELEMENTS ..... 315
CONTAINERS AND COOKING VESSELS FROM THE LANDSCAPE ..... 317
BINDING THE WORLD TOGETHER ..... 319
FORAGING FOR THE COMMUNITY ..... 322
HUNTING IN PERFECT FORM ..... 324
CLOTHING FROM SKIN ..... 327
ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR NORTHEASTERN WILD LIVING ..... 329
NEOABORIGINAL STRATEGY FOR ENGAGING IN PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGIES ..... 333
13. Rewilding: tying it all together ..... 337
THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM ..... 337
WHAT BIRTHING PAINS MAY LEAD TO ..... 341
THE SEVEN FIRES PROPHECY ..... 344
THE GIFTS OF HUNTER-GATHERERS ..... 346
CONSERVATION THROUGH USE ..... 350
SUBMERGING INTO THE WILD MINDSET ..... 353
MALOM-OTE NSAPI-PUNOMON NìT WIKHIKON ..... 356
Index ..... 358
About the Author ..... 362
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