Apr 20, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 13 segments
Dr. Diana Hill welcomes author and Idea Architects founder Doug Abrams live from Blue Spirit Costa Rica to explore how to stay grounded, joyful, and hopeful in uncertain times. Abrams shares lessons…
I loved how Stefan, on our first day, he gives the orientation, the same orientation that he gives every single one.
And he has to give the orientation to the Americans not to take the dogs off the beach because they belong to somebody.
You know, and there's so much to be learned about just, especially, I think, coming here where we're pulled out of just our way of doing things and talking about perspective and then transcending of self.
And I imagine it's a little bit, after a week, it gets a little different than the week of magic.
But we actually are between here and where we live in California, and then where our kids live and stuff.
We had the great privilege of working with Suzanne Simard, who was the woman who discovered the mycelial and the mycorrhizal network between the trees and the underground connection, and that the trees are sentient and communicating with one another in these extraordinary ways, gossiping.
And her book, When the Forest Breathes, just published this week, and it made the New York Times bestseller list today, we just found out.
And so, you know, but that wisdom, you know, like so one of the other projects we're working on this and Suzanne and I are doing a book called In the Realm of Giants, which was based on our journey into her forests and then into the Amazonian forests and then into the forests of my homeland in New York.
And so that book, which is in the works, is really about trying to find that wisdom that comes from the natural world, that comes from the trees and comes from our earliest ancient, you know, ancestors in the Tree of Life.
And I think helping us re-graft ourselves back into that Tree of Life because that's, I think, you know, what's happened is we've, you know, pruned ourselves off of the Tree of Life in this crazy way where we have separated ourselves from all these other beings.
I loved how Stefan, on our first day, he gives the orientation, the same orientation that he gives every single one.
And he has to give the orientation to the Americans not to take the dogs off the beach because they belong to somebody.
You know, and there's so much to be learned about just, especially, I think, coming here where we're pulled out of just our way of doing things and talking about perspective and then transcending of self.
And I imagine it's a little bit, after a week, it gets a little different than the week of magic.
But we actually are between here and where we live in California, and then where our kids live and stuff.
We had the great privilege of working with Suzanne Simard, who was the woman who discovered the mycelial and the mycorrhizal network between the trees and the underground connection, and that the trees are sentient and communicating with one another in these extraordinary ways, gossiping.
And her book, When the Forest Breathes, just published this week, and it made the New York Times bestseller list today, we just found out.
And so, you know, but that wisdom, you know, like so one of the other projects we're working on this and Suzanne and I are doing a book called In the Realm of Giants, which was based on our journey into her forests and then into the Amazonian forests and then into the forests of my homeland in New York.
And so that book, which is in the works, is really about trying to find that wisdom that comes from the natural world, that comes from the trees and comes from our earliest ancient, you know, ancestors in the Tree of Life.
And I think helping us re-graft ourselves back into that Tree of Life because that's, I think, you know, what's happened is we've, you know, pruned ourselves off of the Tree of Life in this crazy way where we have separated ourselves from all these other beings.
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