Zach Bush

And I've seen this in indigenous cultures just as much as I've seen them in colonial cultures is that wound is very present and has to be because we're so addictive in our behavior. Addiction is a symptom of an abandonment disorder.

And so the addiction of alcohol or drugs, those are small examples of a deeper reality that we are all as humans addicted to something because we have this disorder of abandonment at our fundamental psychological identity level. So to be human is to have been rejected from nature. And you can read this in our own definition of nature.

And so the addiction of alcohol or drugs, those are small examples of a deeper reality that we are all as humans addicted to something because we have this disorder of abandonment at our fundamental psychological identity level. So to be human is to have been rejected from nature. And you can read this in our own definition of nature.

And so the addiction of alcohol or drugs, those are small examples of a deeper reality that we are all as humans addicted to something because we have this disorder of abandonment at our fundamental psychological identity level. So to be human is to have been rejected from nature. And you can read this in our own definition of nature.

Go to Oxford English Dictionary, look up the word nature, and it will tell you that it's everything in the firmament of the earth. It's the minerals, the plants, the animals, everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made. So not only did we write ourselves out of nature, we made ourselves in opposition to nature. Everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made.

Go to Oxford English Dictionary, look up the word nature, and it will tell you that it's everything in the firmament of the earth. It's the minerals, the plants, the animals, everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made. So not only did we write ourselves out of nature, we made ourselves in opposition to nature. Everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made.

Go to Oxford English Dictionary, look up the word nature, and it will tell you that it's everything in the firmament of the earth. It's the minerals, the plants, the animals, everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made. So not only did we write ourselves out of nature, we made ourselves in opposition to nature. Everything as opposed to humans or anything humans have made.

And so it's this oppositional belief system that then puts us in an egoic structure of, well, we better protect ourselves because screw you. If we're abandoned, then we're going to be, you know, belligerent, you know, like we're going to. We're going to beat you. We're going to beat you at your own game, nature. We're going to kill you before you kill us.

And so it's this oppositional belief system that then puts us in an egoic structure of, well, we better protect ourselves because screw you. If we're abandoned, then we're going to be, you know, belligerent, you know, like we're going to. We're going to beat you. We're going to beat you at your own game, nature. We're going to kill you before you kill us.

And so it's this oppositional belief system that then puts us in an egoic structure of, well, we better protect ourselves because screw you. If we're abandoned, then we're going to be, you know, belligerent, you know, like we're going to. We're going to beat you. We're going to beat you at your own game, nature. We're going to kill you before you kill us.

And so we have hunted into extinction all of the major species. Anything bigger than us, we basically hunted to extinction around the world. And we did that for tens of thousands of years. If you've read some of the recent books of sapiens or things like this, this is not a new problem in the last 50 years.

And so we have hunted into extinction all of the major species. Anything bigger than us, we basically hunted to extinction around the world. And we did that for tens of thousands of years. If you've read some of the recent books of sapiens or things like this, this is not a new problem in the last 50 years.

And so we have hunted into extinction all of the major species. Anything bigger than us, we basically hunted to extinction around the world. And we did that for tens of thousands of years. If you've read some of the recent books of sapiens or things like this, this is not a new problem in the last 50 years.

We have been hunting to extinction animals that we felt threatened by for a long time, tens of thousands of years. And so we have this fear of nature. And this sense of abandonment then leads to addiction behavior. And I've seen this in the jungles.

We have been hunting to extinction animals that we felt threatened by for a long time, tens of thousands of years. And so we have this fear of nature. And this sense of abandonment then leads to addiction behavior. And I've seen this in the jungles.

We have been hunting to extinction animals that we felt threatened by for a long time, tens of thousands of years. And so we have this fear of nature. And this sense of abandonment then leads to addiction behavior. And I've seen this in the jungles.

I've been with the most recently contacted, you know, the last peoples on the planet right now to make contact with what we would call a modern civilization was 1996 deep in Ecuador jungle.

I've been with the most recently contacted, you know, the last peoples on the planet right now to make contact with what we would call a modern civilization was 1996 deep in Ecuador jungle.

I've been with the most recently contacted, you know, the last peoples on the planet right now to make contact with what we would call a modern civilization was 1996 deep in Ecuador jungle.

And I've been there and sat with the indigenous elders and shamans in that space and watched their kids and grandkids scrolling Facebook behind them as they shared their indigenous wisdom of a 75 year old in the jungle, watching their 50 and 25 year old, you know, descendants already addicted to the same technologies that our, our children and ourselves are addicted to in this culture and,