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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30. The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System - Cilla Whatcott
29. Otherworld Openings: When the Ancestors Call
28. Seaweed: Deep Medicine for Earth, Ocean, & Humans - Angela Willard
27. Anti-Racist Genealogical Research (for Everyone) - Darla Antoine
25. Self Attunement & the New Myths We're Making - Maia Toll
24. Plant Spirits & Deep Remembering that Speaks to the Bones - Fay Johnstone
23. The Profound Medicine of Herbal Body Oils
22. You Are Magic & Fear is Never the Truth - Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman
21. The Medicine We Carry - Lola Venado
20. Herbalism, Menstruation, & Innate Knowing - Kami McBride
19. Reclaiming Kitchen Wisdom & Ancestral Healing - Darla Antoine
18. Land Based Living, Mothering, & Eating - Suuzi Hazen
17. True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant & Human Consciousness - Sajah Popham
15. Intuitive Whispers: Deep Memory & Woven Fate
14. Reclaiming Yourself Through Nature & the Ancestors - Vicky Salcido-Cobbe
13. Psychedelic Healing: From Microdosing to Transcendence - Jim Fadiman
12. Folk Herbalism & the Wild Self - Jesse Wolf Hardin
11. Without a Village: Isolation, Honesty, and the Paradoxes of Modern Motherhood
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