S8-E14 – Spirits and Plants-Wolf Dieter Storl

ONLY SHORT SHOW-NOTES FOR THIS AND THE COMING TWO EPISODES

My guest today is a very special man – Wolf DIeter Storl is cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist and book author. At the age of eleven, he moved with his parents from his native Germany to rural Ohio, where he in a very deep and special way did not only get interested in nature, forests and plants, but also built a very deep relationship with them.

Today he lives on a remote farm in the south of Germany with his wife from Wyoming. He recently published his biography about his youth and life in America, which has shaped his life, called “Far out im America”. We talk mostly about this part of his experience, but also about nautre activism and the role nature plays in our everyday’s life.

Music played in this episode

1) POWERFUL NATIVE AMERICAN CHANT

(Track starts at 7:46)

2) EI, WIE SCHMECKT DER COFFEE SÜSSE – Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 211

From the “Kaffeekantate” which Wolf Dieter Storl mentions in the interview just before we take that musical break

(Track starts at 52:40)

3) THE WHITE FEATHER – Ah Nee Ma

(Track starts at 1:37:46)

Intro and Outro Music
especially written and recorded for the Thoth-Hermes Podcast by Chris Roberts