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This episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Cozy Earth, InsideTracker, and Rupa Health.\nMany of us are feeling a crisis of meaning; feeling we\u2019ve lost our way amongst the stressors and distractions of modern life. We are more isolated, divided, and sick than ever before. Personally, I always turn to nature when I\u2019m feeling lost. And in traveling, talking to interesting people, and learning about the world, I\u2019ve found that ancient cultures and their relationships to nature can teach us volumes when it comes to rediscovering connection, health, and meaning.\xa0\nToday, I\u2019m excited to share a conversation I had with Wade Davis, all about culture, the depth of the natural world, belief systems, ethnobotany, psychedelics, and more. Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of 23 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, and he was the winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language. His latest book is Magdalena: River of Dreams. Wade\u2019s many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS.\xa0\nThis episode is brought to you by Gut Food, Cozy Earth, InsideTracker, and Rupa Health.\nCheck out Gut Food at gutfood.com.\nRight now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code MARK40.\nRight now, InsideTracker is offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.\nRupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.\nHere are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):\xa0\n\nWade\u2019s early experiences that first got him interested in anthropology (5:56 / 3:24)\n\nWhy western culture is actually an anomaly, not the norm (7:57 / 5:23)\n\nOur misguided understanding of the purpose of culture (18:00 / 15:50)\xa0\n\nWhy ancient wisdom matters in the modern world (20:40 / 18:57)\xa0\n\nThe nature of life (22:48 / 20:50)\n\nHuman commonalities among all cultural expressions (27:30 / 23:08)\n\nThe value of language and storytelling (29:36 / 24:28)\xa0\n\nWhy biologically, the concept of race is utter fiction (31:27 / 27:06)\xa0\xa0\n\nPsychedelics and our relationship to nature and plant medicines (37:27 / 33:20)\xa0\n\nCommunicating with plants (1:01:22 / 39:35)\xa0\n\n\nLearn more about Wade Davis at daviswade.com.\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices