Animal Medicine

About this episode

This episode explores the role of animals in human healing and the lessons they can teach us about morality and care.

For the Greeks and other ancient cultures, animals played a key role in the diagnosis and healing of humans. In this episode we'll learn just how much animals are medicine to us, psychologically and physically, and explore the idea that certain things what we think of as being quintessentially human – morality, ethics, game-playing etc – may even have been taught to us by animals. We'll also take a deep dive into the behaviour of animals in our own woodland environments and what they can teach us, and learn that some of our two, four, six and eight-legged friends are capable of undertaking palliative care of dying humans, recognising diseases like cancer and appear to have their own rituals of bereavement and awe. With Jay Griffiths, David Hadrill and Tristan Gooley Tristan Gooley www.naturalnavigator.com Jay Griffiths www.jaygriffiths.com

People in this episode

Host: David Bramwell

Guests: Jay Griffiths, David Hadrill, Tristan Gooley

Topics covered

• animal behavior
• healing
• psychology
• morality
• palliative care

Keywords

• animal medicine
• psychological healing
• palliative care
• animal behavior
• morality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Natural Navigator, Jay Griffiths

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