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Medicine Stories

26. Ancestral Reverence as Devotion to the Earth - Daniel Foor

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

the longing for reconnection that drives people to do all kinds of interesting things is

0:06.4

a instinct to come back into relationship with the rest of life or with the others. And they want that too.

0:14.0

Hello friends and welcome to episode 26 of Medicine Stories.

0:26.0

On this podcast we explore the mythic journeys we undertake when coming to know ourselves

0:31.3

through interviews with herbalists, storykeepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness

0:36.2

explorers, earth dreamers, and otherwise folk.

0:40.6

Story is medicine, magic is real, healing is open-ended and endless.

0:46.0

I'm your host Amber Magnolia Hill and today I am joined by Daniel 4. He's the author of ancestral medicine. And before I get into more of what we talk about in Daniel's bio, I wanted to share a little ancestral story of my own and I was

1:06.8

inspired to share this by one part of the conversation that we have today in which Daniel and I talk about the interweaving of

1:16.2

ritual genealogical research and healing and I've talked a number of times on the show about my right ancestors, W-R-I-G-H-T, these are my father's, mothers, people.

1:39.3

And I knew my grandma, we were quite close, she died four years ago, and I knew both of her parents too. I mean how incredibly lucky to not only know any of one's great grandparents, but to know them as a couple, to know them together.

1:51.0

And they were both gone by the time I was I think 10.

1:57.0

So I didn't have a whole lot of time with them but I love that I knew them and my dad was very close to them, especially his grandma and I grew

2:05.4

up always hearing stories about them.

2:07.3

I've told a couple of those stories on this podcast.

2:11.6

But one that I have not shared is that when I was first getting interested in ancestry, this was about in 2010.

2:20.0

I was given the task by Atava Garcia. I think there's a second name in her name.

2:31.2

I think she has three names I'm sorry a

2:33.0

tava that I'm not thinking about it right now of ancestral apothecary we did some

2:37.9

Skype sessions I should really have a tava on here and she she gave me the task to write out an ancestral story. I think it you know

2:48.2

was something that we came up with together I was telling her about the rights and

2:52.3

about the story specifically of my great

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