[Angela Manno]

Completely fascinating and heartbreaking. As I was reading, I was thinking about our massive, concomitant spiritual starvation. Twelve step recovery programs are filled with people who suffer from overeating, chemical and substance addictions attributed ultimately to a “hole in the soul”. I think both kinds is starvation go hand in hand. I wonder whether this analysis is applicable to intact indigenous societies; the availability of food, spiritual life and and way of life all seem to be part of one fabric. I am thinking of the Amazon societies in particular who have been, up to very recently, untouched by fat takers and hungry ghosts.

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