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NYT Bestselling Author: Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death
Podcast: Tangentially Speaking
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Intersections SF episode 3 is LIVE!

Chris's very San Francisco "I'm not really a realtor" love story illustrates another key aspect of Intersections—that is, how our stories overlap in space and time. I lived at Hayes and Lyon just a few years after he lived at Hayes and Broderick, and of course we both drank at @toronadosf even though we didn't know each other until much later in life.

I've also got my own story about the day on which his story occurs...and at least one more of our Intersections season 1 stories comes from just down the street at Divis and Fell.

Chris is the author of Sex At Dawn and Civilized to Death and the host of his Tangentially Speaking podcast.

@intersections_sf -- We’re putting stories on the map.

Thx @thatchrisryan
@storiedsf @marccapellemusic @tommyguerrero for helping to get this new #sanfrancisco #podcast off the ground!

Listen at storiedsf.com/intersections or by searching for “Storied San Francisco” in your favorite podcast player!

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Chronic disease is on the rise. Cancer rates for young people have never been higher, particularly in the nations of the Global North. Depression, anxiety, addiction, and malaise is increasing. Sperm counts in men are decreasing. We’ve never been more overfed and undernourished in all of human history.

The human animal is getting sicker and sicker in this container of toxic, alienating industrial civilization, and still, so many of our leaders and institutions advocate for more of the same. Thankfully, it seems we’re collectively beginning to wake up to the rot at the foundation of modern life. More and more people are questioning the narratives of progress we’ve been fed. More and more people are intuitively turning towards meaning and what makes us human.

More and more people are looking for ways to escape the cages of this zoo — this artificial habitat.

The zoo that has been designed and maintained by this system cannot and should not be sustained. We need new visions - visions that integrate the lessons we can learn from the mess we’re in, draw from what worked in the past, and consciously choose what sort of species we want to be.

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For our third episode of @intersections_sf on Oct 7 we have Sex At Dawn author and Tangentially Speaking podcaster Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan with another very SF love story about how his girlfriend was, well, not really a realtor… his story takes places at a very momentous time for many of us who’ve been around San Francisco for a while, and it’s a great example of what Intersections is all about.

We’re putting stories on the map! Intersections is part of the @storiedsf podcast — link in bio, search for “Storied San Francisco” in your favorite podcast player, or hit https://www.storiedsf.com/jntersections

See you on the corner!

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Coming soon… 👀

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New podcast with @thatchrisryan is out now. Christopher Ryan, Ph.D is a big thinker buddy of mine who is a van lifer, wisdom dispenser, troublemaker, host of the podcast Tangentially Speaking, and co-author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death.

Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984, he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris’ research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotany, studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them, and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality.

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Here’s a little rundown from SF native writer and Intersections host @bowendwelle on what Intersections is all about: life-changing #SanFrancisco stories from specific places in the city.

Shot at Hayes & Broderick where _Sex at Dawn_ and _Civilized to Death_ author and _Tangentially Speaking_ podcaster Chris Ryan @thatchrisryan tells his story from the quake of ‘89, right near where @sanfranpsycho founder Christian Routzen tells of his first store at Divis & Fell in 2012, not far from where **MJ's first private chef** Mani Niall @mjchefmani @manistestkitchen shares a very sweet and *very* SF love story at Uncle John’s Tree in Golden Gate Park from 2003—and I lived right there too, at Hayes and Lyon, in 1997.

Intersections drops Sept 9 as part of seaosn nine of @storiedsf — stay tuned for the launch party announcement and all the great SF stories!

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Every month The Empowered Therapist likes to offer a quick & dirty (oh, so dirty) review of a book from the Center You Reading List that is being read and discussed by our members. This month it’s…Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan. Have you read it yet? Come join the conversation, only on @substack.

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#ShoutOut to ShoutOut Miami now featuring our fearless leader Dr. Susan Block, Bonoboville & the Spirit of Captain Max in an exclusive & enlightening interview with Dr. Suzy 💖 Check out the entire article +fantastic photos: shoutoutmiami.com/meet-dr-susan-block/ 👈🏼👈🏿👈

#GoBonobos #ShoutOutMiami #DrSusanBlock #DrSuzy

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https://substack.com/@dudeinhammock/note/c-278119181?r=nn66w

Please check out my interview with Chris Ryan on his Tangentially Speaking podcast.
it was a joy and a pleasure to be interviewed by Chris. please take the time to explore his other interviews and his books like Sex at Dawn.

#dadaonysus #templetothescientificmethod

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In February, conservationists in Iran spotted an Asiatic cheetah mother with five cubs (there are claims that only 27 remain in the world, all in Iran). Not on a camera trap (my mistake), but actually filmed moving through the landscape, with the family (or members of) reportedly spotted several times since. At a time when so much attention is on war, destruction, and uncertainty, this brought me hope.

Ram Dass often spoke about the grace hidden within suffering. Not that suffering is good, that we should seek it out, or ever impose it on one another, but that life has a mysterious capacity to transform hardship into wisdom, beauty, creativity, poetry, and deeper expressions of itself.

One of the rarest animals on Earth continues to survive and reproduce against insurmountable odds. Similar to the incredible resilience of the Iranian people and a culture that has endured for thousands of years through hardship, loss, invasion, and upheaval. Sometimes the most powerful response to destruction is not retaliation or rescue, but simply continuing to create, love, adapt, make art (not war), and live.

And a special thank you to @thatchrisryan. Tangentially Speaking was one of the very first podcasts I ever listened to, and being invited on felt like a genuine full-circle moment. A true privilege. 🐆

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𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺 “𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺”? 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥… M𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥. 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥. - 𝘉𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘷𝘦𝘳

A small crew from Crestone spent the weekend at the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute getting our minds blown about the extent of what’s possible when it comes to food security, soil regeneration, and the magic of permaculture.

Big thanks to Jerome Osentowski and everyone at @crmpi for their generosity, hospitality and inspiration. 🌱🌀

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This myth just won’t die…

I made a reel recently on the evolutionary function of menopause, and found the comment section full of some version of “But how does that make sense if humans only lived to be 40??”

This is a myth, and it’s not just untrue, it is actively perpetuated by those who’d like us to believe that this is as good as it gets for humans… the same people who profit off of our poor physical and mental health.

The issue is an intentional conflation of average life expectancy with lifespan, which then gets passed around unknowingly by the public when they want to bash ancestral practices or Paleo diets.

Life expectancy is a statistical average, and is skewed by high infant mortality rates (which evidence suggests may have been intentional at times to keep populations at sustainable numbers - sad, but true). Lifespan is the actual or potential length of an individual’s life. So while the average life expectancy may have been 35, those who made it past infancy commonly lived to be between 60-90 years old and in good health.

After we transitioned from hunter gatherer to agricultural lifestyle, the abundance of nutrient-poor food allowed more infants to survive to adulthood, but actually led to a decrease in overall health (including height). This raised the average life expectancy moderately but it wasn’t until the past 100+ years that modern medicine brought our life expectancy to where it is now by even further improving infant mortality rates and artificially keeping people alive into old age.

This myth is nothing more than a statistical misrepresentation perpetuated by those who want us to believe that we are living the good life thanks to the products they sell. Yet, we can all feel that this is not true. We’re less healthy, more stressed, more depressed than ever, with higher rates of chronic disease and suicide than ever before.

It’s time to return to our roots… a long life, full of meaningful social connection and community, connection with nature, and female wisdom-keepers and leaders (the evolutionary function of menopause). That life is your birthright.

#huntergatherers #lifeexpectancy #patriarchy #civiliz

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