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Medicine Stories

41. The Dreaming Channel & Remembering Ourselves Home - Toko-pa Turner

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

These dream stories are nurturing through us.

0:04.0

They are biological necessity and function.

0:08.0

And just like plants, they are inclining us to a certain medicine.

0:21.6

Hey friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories Podcast, where we are remembering what it is to be

0:29.3

human upon the earth.

0:31.4

I'm your host Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode 41. Today I'm

0:38.2

interviewing Tokopah Turner. home and we speak about both things in this interview. We talk about her

0:55.4

childhood and exile, lost community, and finding belonging again. This idea of

1:02.4

belonging not as a destination, but as a skill set. Talk about

1:08.3

being grabbed by the hair and dragged into the bottomless underworld.

1:12.8

And she shares an incredible story about physical pain,

1:16.7

a powerful dream, the grandfather who jumped

1:19.9

from a train on the way to Auschwitz. It's just the most unbelievable story and ancestral healing and how healing is open-ended.

1:31.0

We talk about when a family must keep their stories secret in order to survive

1:36.5

and how that silence affects the lineage going down. And this quote from Jung that says,

1:43.6

Nothing influences children more than the silent facts in the background.

1:48.2

The dreaming channel is always open,

1:51.7

being in reciprocity with the world behind the world.

1:55.0

We are literally made of story and dreams are the original stories.

2:00.0

Why we should not be down with OPI other people's information

2:05.4

Dreams are nature pulsing through us and incline us toward our unique medicine

2:11.1

The multiplicity of our coherence.

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