380 — The Spiritual Practice Behind the Cleanest Meat You'll Ever Eat With Mansal Denton

It shouldn’t be an original idea that eating is a spiritual act or that where our food comes from makes all the difference in our health because it does. Unfortunately, too few people believe food to be medicine for our bodies and souls although it is...

You won’t look at food the same way ever again after listening to Paul’s conversation with sacred hunter Mansal Denton, the mastermind behind wild, animal-based food producer Real Provisions, this week on Spirit Gym.

Check out Mansal on his Real Provisions website and at his Sacred Hunting website. Find him on social media via Instagram here and here. Read his essays on Substack.

For Spirit Gym listeners: Spend more than $100 on Mansal’s Real Provisions products and receive a free bag of Wild Axis Deer Venison Chips and free shipping at this link when you use the promo code CHEK at checkout.

Timestamps

6:51 Mansal’s new spiritual tradition.

14:11 Matthew 25:40.

20:11 “What we do to nature, we do to ourselves.”

33:17 Eating is a spiritual act.

47:12 The most loving, intimate way to walk through this world.

58:40 Spirituality: A progressive connection to a larger whole.

1:09:42 “Food is the one thing that resonates with me.”

1:15:40 The problematic history of axis deer (chital) in Hawaii that led to Real Provisions.

1:21:38 The infestation of Asian carp in Illinois and American shad in Oregon and Washington.

1:33:28 Do cows possess embodied wisdom?

1:41:42 Food as medicine.

1:51:54 Comparing the nutrients in muscle meats to organ meats.

2:00:32 The weird dynamic that favors muscle meats over organ meats.

2:12:06 Intuition or instinct?

2:18:28 Preparation and ingredient/nutrient differences between Real Provisions jerky and popular store brands.

2:26:08 How much is too much?

Resources

Maximus the Confessor

Nutrition and Your Mind by George Watson

Find more resources for this episode on our website.

Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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