Your body is your ancestor altar, how hungry ghosts affect the living, the earth as the repository of ancestral wisdom, & more...
In the Intro:
Cleatus B. Wright , January 20, 1929 - February 27th, 1929
In the Interview:
The hunger for our ancestors
The story of Daniel's first ancestral connection, and the healing that followed
The ancestors are the collective wisdom of our species in all its beauty and trauma
Time collapses when in communion with the ancestors
Not all of the dead are equally well
The deeply embedded alcoholism in my fatherline
Addiction as the hunger of the dead moving through the bodies of the living, and the act of taking the substance as a form of ancestral communion
There are very few personal problems- a look at unmetabolized ancestral pain and systemic injustice
The dead can change
Ancestral forgetting as a function of the damage wrought by colonialism
We don't arrive at healing by exiling those who commit harm: an approach for white folks wishing to address their slave owning/colonizing/oppressive ancestral legacy (rather than ignoring it or living in perpetual guilt)
The role of the ancestors in social and earth justice
The interweaving of ritual, genealogical research, and healing
Synchronicity
They are shaking us awake in the burning house- the growing sense of urgency coming to us from the ancestors at this pivotal point in human history
The dead are in the earth, and the ancestors are animating the earth that is our bodies
Approaching activism in a more ritual oriented way
When a child is a returning of an ancestral lineage, mothering is my main form of ancestral reverence, and remembering that our children are the future ancestors of our further descendants
Are souls that die suddenly lost in limbo?
I ask Daniel a vulnerable question about my mom, who died in a car accident in November 2015
The most important way that we prepare for death is to be ethical and kind
Animism: living humans are just one kind of person / coming into relationship with the wider web of being
Links:
Daniel's website AncestralMedicine.com
My website MythicMedicine.love
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Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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109. Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride
108. The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose
98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
96. Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride
95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
94. Our Trip to Britain: Ancestral Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites
93. Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler
92. Expansion is Our Nature: a Matriarchal Reframe for Money & How I Went From Broke to Flow
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
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