Jonathan Z Lee, wildlife photographer and mythical hero, joins me to talk about his strange journey, the nature of nature, and asian dads.

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GUEST LINKS
Jonathan's Instagram: @jonathanzlee
Jonathan's website: jonathanzlee.com
Spirit in the Snow (Polar bear photo)

THINGS WE MENTIONED
David Yarrow, fine-art photographer
Mobula
The Upanishads (Juan Mascaró translation)
Abraham Maslow on Self-Actualization (Youtube)
Kerala, India
Svalbard, Norway
Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces*

*Thomas Aquinas (not St. Augustine) died of mystical causes.
"Thomas Aquinas, as the result of a mystical experience while celebrating mass in Naples, put his pen and ink on the shelf and left the last chapters of his Summa Theologica to be completed by another hand. “My writing days,” he stated, “are over; for such things have been revealed to me that all I have written and taught seems of but small account to me, wherefore I hope in my God, that, even as the end has come to my teaching, so it may soon come in my life.” Shortly thereafter, in his forty-ninth year, he died." (Campbell, 267)

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