We're all on our own quest to live more meaningful, healthy, and fruitful lives.

To more fully understand the situation we're in, we're going to have to expand our scope in geography and time.

This is a sociological examination of the personal, and a psychological examination of the social.

Alex takes you back in time to a fateful childhood summer when the world was a magical place to explore, yet seemed like it was ending just as he was getting to know it.

It was then that Alex first read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, the book that begins the quest of Human Nature Odyssey.

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Music: Celestial Soda Pop

By: Ray Lynch

From the album: Deep Breakfast

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