Mar 7, 2019
We are entitled to a (re)membership with the holy, the never-ending and ever-evolving wisdom of dreams, and guidance on the path of remembering ourselves home.
I forgot to mention this episode's Patreon offering in the intro, but check out the Links section below to access Toko-pa's Dream Recovery Kit ebook, designed for the individual who is feeling estranged from their dreams, this guide will help you cultivate a rich dream life. This kit contains guidance for dream recall, tips for overcoming blocks, exercises for deepening your practice, and ideas for ritual and dream incubation.
IN THE INTRO:
- Ancestral Voices, Women's Weariness, & the Illusion of Linear Time
- Chronic pain
- Dreamwalking
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- A childhood in exile, a lost community, and finding belonging again
- Being grabbed by the hair and dragged into the bottomless underworld
- An incredible story about physical pain, a powerful dream, the grandfather who jumped from a train on the way to Auschwitz, and ancestral healing
- Healing is open ended
- When a family must keep their stories secret in order to survive, and how that silence affects the lineage- "Nothing influences children more than the silent facts in the background" -C.G. Jung
- The dreaming channel is always open- being in reciprocity with the world behind the world
- We are literally made of story, and dreams are the original stories
- Why we should not be down with OPI- Other People's Information
- Dreams are nature pulsing through us, and incline us toward our unique medicine
- The multiplicity of our coherence
- Not all dreams carry equal weight, but there is no such thing as a throwaway dream either
- Approaching a dream as if it were a wild animal in a forest
- Heirlooms, the storying of objects, and what we reclaim when we make things by hand
- To feed the holy that sustains us, give in a way that doesn't require any more taking
- The meaning of Toko-pa's name (which was given to her at birth)
LINKS:
- Toko-pa's website
- Dreamwalking Online Course
- My piece Ancestral Voices, Women's Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear Time
- My website MythicMedicine.love
- Medicine Stories Patreon (Dream Recovery Kit)
- The Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)