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
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful
song Wild Eyes)
About the Podcast
Remembering what it is to be human upon the earth // Exploring the mythic journeys we undertake when coming to know ourselves through interviews with herbalists, story keepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness explorers, earth dreamers, and other wise folk.