#571: Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Where your attention goes, your life goes. When you put your attention on living things, there’s more aliveness in your life.

Spending time in a single spot in nature becomes deeply personal. You become attuned and orientated with the patterns and interlocking intelligence within nature

True fear is a rare experience in modern life

Boyd details a treacherous storm he had to embrace and was overwhelmed with humility and an understanding of the fragility of life.

Ubuntu – the universal bond shared across humanity, translated as “I am because we are”

The western world often is misguided in its search for meaning, associating meaning by comparison. If you grow up in Africa or in nature, you associate meaning through relation. You learn about yourself through your encounters with the world.

Sometimes you have to let go of your rational consciousness and let nature take you to a place you can’t go on your own

Boyd describes an encounter with a leopard where he felt this overwhelming sense of connection

A person who is dealing with trauma has a reduction of options. You’re frozen – traumatized people often resort to retreating and isolating

Ceremony spaces are healing opportunities: AA, sweat lodges, shared plant medicine experiences. Helps you understand and openly share your traumas.

These experiences can alter your personal narrative, viewing the trauma from a new perspective.

Boyd struggled with immense trauma from a crocodile attack, he describes a sweat lodge experience where he passed out and thought he was dying but the guide assured him: you’re not dying brother, you’re just being born