A New Path: To Transcend the Great Forgetting Through Incorporating Ancestral Practices into Contemporary Living - Softcover

Arthur Haines

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999329502 ISBN 13: 9780999329504

Publisher: V. F. Thomas Co., 2017

Synopsis

A New Path takes a candid look at the contemporary lifeway of humans in an attempt to reinstate our biological norms--patterns of living that define each species on the planet. 

Whether one is to discuss a wolf, a caribou, or an eagle, there are features of these animal's lives that define them. Given their unique adaptations, they are tailored, through evolution, to living in a particular way (e.g., a caribou cannot enjoy the diet of a wolf). 

This book presents the forgotten species' norms of Homo sapiens and explains that when we deviate from these patterns, we experience sickness of various kinds: cancer, depression, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc. 

Through combining historical observations of hunter-gatherers, people who were extremely resilient to chronic disease, with modern evidence- based research, A New Path tackles the mythology of improving life through technology. 

Then, provides guidance on many important aspects of human health, including diet, water, medicine, awareness, nature immersion, movement, hormesis, community, and ancestral technologies. 

Through its unique lens, this book makes a case for loss of health and sovereignty as a result of human domestication and seeks to rekindle people's desire for nature connection and eco-conscientious living.

About this title

About the Author

ARTHUR HAINES is the author of Ancestral Plants Volume 1 & 2. He is also an ancestral skills mentor and botanical researcher.  Arthur now runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills.  As a research botanist for the New England Wildflower Society, he recently completed a comprehensive flora of the New England region entitled Flora Novae Angliae and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science. His series of YouTube videos has inspired thousands of people interested in foraging wild edible and medicinal plants.

Edition details

• Publisher: V. F. Thomas Co.
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999329502
• ISBN 13: 9780999329504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 660