44. Animism: Coming into Kinship with All Life - Daniel Foor

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

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

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🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We are in relationship with plants, animals, fungi, mountains, metals, fire, bodies of water, spirits of wind and weather, deities, human ancestors, star people, and others we don't have words for, whether we are conscious of it or not. In this conversation Dr. Daniel Foor and I talk about reclaiming kinship through earth-honoring ritual, getting right with your ancestors and with the land you're living on, finding your own unique medicine, and so much more.

IN THE INTRO:

Making animism practical
$300 herbal medicine giveaway! (ends May 1st)

IN THE INTERVIEW:

Living humans are only one kind of person
Animism isn't necessarily spiritual- that other beings also exist and that we are accountable to them is just fact
The distinction between animism, shamanism, and indigenous ways
Food and the psychological implication of realizing that both animals and plants are people
Understanding the human dead as part of the sacred ecology of place
The impacts of colonization on trusting our own knowing
Being consent-minded and respectful of boundaries: how to hear no from (and say no to) the spirits/ancestors
"Colonialism is a massive systemic consent violation"
Expanding our vocabulary for the sacred by recognizing the incredible diverse of bodies and wisdoms of the world
Contextualizing our devotions amidst the current crises the earth is undergoing (we need to get really good at grieving, but also not lost in it)
Finding your own medicine and soul level calling
Hierarchy is an intrinsic part of nature
Seeing where you're at as the Holy Land (even if you're in suburban Baltimore)
Everyone has an ancestral connection with plants (let go of your story that you're not a "plant person"!)
Earth as deity (and exploring how we project a gender binary onto the this ancient, complex, multivalent being that is dreaming us up)
Down to the water to pray: grief, the erotic, ancestors, food, healing
Understanding deeper layers of magic at your specific place
Considering inclusive ways to think about deities, archetypes, and weird old gods
Harmonizing ritual skills with cultural and political advocacy- not compartmentalizing an animist approach to just our spiritual life, but taking it out to the wider world as well
Daniel's three steps to get your life together (so real)

LINKS:

More info on the Practical Animism Online Course
Enter the $300 giveaway by taking my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Medicine Stories Patreon
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcript

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0:00.0	We heal in partnership with the rest of life and with the land where we're at.
0:06.0	If we let the good medicine of the land where we're at assist us, that's not greed or entitlement. That's also good for the land. It creates a kind of beneficial
0:19.2	indebtedness and relatedness. Hello friends, you're listening to episode 44 of the Medicine Stories podcast.
0:30.9	I'm Amber Hill and today I am talking again to Dr. Daniel 4. He was on episode 26. Y'all loved it. It was very life-changing for me to dive so deeply into ancestral medicine, ancestral remembrance,
0:49.2	ways to connect to the ancestors, ways to approach the ancestors.
0:54.0	And when I saw that Daniel has an upcoming course
0:57.2	on practical animism and checked out
1:01.0	the course and the structure and the name of the modules. I really wanted to have
1:06.7	him back to talk more about this. We talked about it briefly at the end of the last episode.
1:11.1	You might remember that if you heard it. And so I'm going to be a supporter of this
1:17.2	online course coming up, which means that there will be live calls, Daniel explains, the structure of the online course at the end of
1:26.1	this episode, but there are a series of 14 live calls that everyone can tune into who's part of the course and then we'll break out
1:35.1	into smaller groups after each call and I'm going to be leading a small group.
1:39.9	So I'm excited to be part of it and it was a huge yes for me even though it's a time commitment and time is my scarce
1:48.0	resource these days because I'm so excited about the material and about learning how to connect more with the spirit of the place that I'm at with the animals and plants and so much more around me.
2:02.0	So the course again is called Practical Animism,
2:06.0	online course, reclaiming kinship through Earth Honoring Ritual
2:11.0	and it begins May 13th, but if you're listening to this after that date and
2:15.7	you're interested you can sign up until June 17th. So you can learn more at
2:20.9	ancestral medicine.org and this is 2019 for people who might
2:27.6	listen far into the future at during the interview I say like we're not here to sell the course to you and I'm
2:36.1	stoked if I sell the course to you if you listen to this and it calls to you I
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