Relaunch Episode 2 - with Bernie Taylor, author of Before Orion - a podcast by Bunch of Apes Podcast

In this episode I am joined by Naturalist and Thought Leader Bernie Taylor, author of Before Orion: Finding the face of the hero.

Bernie talks to me about his work researching the Altamira caves in Spain, where some of the earliest Homo-sapien cave art has been found. He explains the idea that the stories told in ancient history by the Sumerians and Ancient Greeks, where taken from stories being told tens of thousands of years ago and recorded in places such as Altamira.

We discuss the evolution of abstract thought and art in Humans, how this may have impacted our species and the role art or more specifically, Artistic thinkers played in our prehistoric story. Then the conversations takes an intriguing tangent into a discussion on the value of Neuro-diversity in our species. An area that ties in with my full time job supporting Neuro-diverse children and young people and their families.

We then tied this into Bernie's work and some ideas around Neuro-types in the past and how today's productivity driven society has perhaps left less room for visual thinkers with what are now considered 'Disorder's such as Dyslexia.

Bernie has some big ideas, which I love! There are some connections that are admittedly a bit of a leap from my perspective and I did try to challenge these, but he clearly has tons of expertise, experience and knowledge to back his ideas up. I really enjoyed the conversation and I hope you do to.

To check out his work head to

https://beforeorion.com/

To watch this conversation check out the youtube channel
https://youtu.be/ArEnkTpjqpc

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