Knitted Heart

In this episode Ben talks with filmmaker and sacred places activist Toby McLeod. Having produced and directed important films such as In the Light of Reverence and Standing on Sacred Ground, Toby has committed the last 40 years of his life to earning the trust of numerous indigenous communities around the globe, whose intimate relationship with the Land outlives the Colonial purging of their sacred places. Toby’s Sacred Land Film project has documented this assault, made in the name of progress and proselytizing, which has led to irreparable loss for generations of aboriginal peoples native to these homelands, Sacred cultural landscapes inhabited for thousands of years before they were pioneered by white settlers and latecomers seeking fortune at any cost. Toby’s openness, humility and dedication to the long and arduous road through the complicated history of these long-established cultures has touched Ben at the core. Ben hopes this conversation will impact you at the depth it has him.More information on Toby&apos;s work at StandingOnSacredGround.org and SacredLand.org((( )))

E11 | Toby McLeod | "Stories from Sacred Lands."

In this episode, Ben speaks with poet and Trappist monk, Brother Paul Quenon. At age 79, Brother Paul has lived a life of contemplative silence at Our Lady of Gethsemani monastery, deep in the knobbed woods of rural Kentucky, since he was 18 years of age.  And if that isn’t cool enough, Paul lived with and studied under social agitator and author, Thomas Merton, for 10 years.(((   )))