SuperFeast Podcast #58 Microbes and Viruses - The Hidden Wonders of The Invisible World with Jimi Wollumbin
Jimi Wollumbin joins Mason on the show today to wax lyrical on all things microbe and virus related, very fitting considering the current climate and international lock down. Jimi is true renaissance man, who, over the last 20 years has had the opportunity to research and practice some of the most respected traditional medical systems on the planet, including the Chinese, Tibetan, Indian, Mongolian and Persian traditions. Jimi has also worked extensively in community health and international aid initiatives. These days Jimi's passion lays in the death and birth cycle of transformation. Jimi believes this is what the world needs on both an individual and global level. Jimi supports his clients through this transformational process at his Artemisia, his clinic based out of Northern NSW. “viruses are the medium of evolution, and they're distributed intelligent networks inside a massive big biosphere, which is Gaia, which is a huge supercomputer, single living organism that thinks, and responds, and computes really significantly. So we have to think of viruses in that context if we've got any hope of starting to approach what's happening at the moment, right?” - Jimi Wollumbin.
Mason and Jimi discuss:
-Crises as a part of the universal order.
-Disease as a factor driven by your individual belief system and lifestyle.
-Corona Virus.
-The role microbes play in the web of life.
-Drug resistant bacteria.
-Viruses as a distributed intelligence.
-Viral replication and eco harmony.
-The use of reductionist linear thinking in a nonlinear universe.
-The value of exploring ancient mythology when transforming your personal health culture.
-Traditional medicine and integrative thinking vs evidence based medicine.
-Using herbs as allies in healing vs using herbal medicine within the "pills for ills" ideology.
-Healing and the death/birth cycle of transformation.
Who is Jimi Wollumbin ?
Jimi Wollumbin is Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Jimi is one of those rare individuals that is an expert in his field that also knows how to teach others. He has spoken at the United Nations, opened for Deepak Chopra and has even been personally insulted by the Dalai Lama. He teaches integrative doctors across America, sits on the faculty of the America Integrative Health and Medicine Association and is a lifetime member of the Tibetan Medical Institute's 'Friends of Tibetan Medicine'.
After completing his internship in Chinese Medicine in TCM in Beijing hospital he has since completed 3 research exchanges at Ayurvedic hospitals in India, 2 with the Lama-physicians at the Tibetan Medical Institute, 1 with the Persian Hakims of the Unani Tibb Hippocratic tradition, 2 at the Trad-Med Department of the Mongolian National University in Ulaan Bataar and a 2019 trip through Siberia to research Shamanic medicine.
Jimi’s original degree at the ANU was in philosophy and eastern religion which is why Dr Seroya Crouch describes him as ‘a philosopher of medicine’. He has written several books, none of which have been published, acclaimed or even read... yet.
Jimi is the CEO and founder of One Health Organisation, a wellness-based charity that has distributed over 10 metric tonnes of herbs and supplements to 100 locations across 13 countries since 2005.
Jimi brings passion and enthusiastic hand gestures to every conversation he is a part of.
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