Charis Boke is an herbalist, educator, community organizer and an anthropologist completing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Cornell University. She is also a Buddhist practitioner whose attention to the world is shaped by the transformative and the inexplicable. In this episode she and Eric talk about her research on Transition Towns in the northeast US, the need for cultural healing, seeing racism as a cultural sickness, and the impermanence of social institutions, among other things.