Nathaniel Altman on The Spiritual, Nutritional, and Medicinal, Power of Plants

About this episode

Victoria Moran interviews Nathaniel Altman about the origins and healing potential of plant foods and their connection to spirituality.

Where did the foods we eat every day actually come from and what stories do they carry? In this fascinating and far-reaching conversation, Victoria Moran speaks with prolific author Nathaniel Altman about the origins, evolution, and healing potential of plant foods across human history. Nathaniel and Victoria also reminisce about their early days at the Theosophical Society in America in the early 1970s, a formative time that helped shape their shared interest in spirituality, consciou...

People in this episode

Host: Victoria Moran

Guest: Nathaniel Altman

Topics covered

• plant foods
• spirituality
• nutrition
• healing
• human history

Keywords

• plant nutrition
• spirituality
• healing foods
• Theosophical Society
• human history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Theosophical Society in America

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