Show notes
In this episode, author of Ancestral Medicine Daniel Foor and I...
- discuss how Daniel honored his calling as a ritualist without having his own ancestral framework
- discuss "whiteness" and settler colonialism, occupation of land, and the resulting loss of cultural identity and tradition for both colonizer and colonized
- share the need to grieve the loss of a continued lineage of ritual
- share the need to grieve how many of our ancestors traded their lineages for the construct of whiteness
- talk about the intersection of identity, ancestry, and culture
- talk about communing and communicating with our ancestors
- discuss the ancestral repair process
- discuss how engaging with our ancestors relates to cultural healing
- talk about the collective trauma caused by the pain of misogyny, exploitative capitalism, white supremacy, and dislocation from land