BTW 17: Flower Worlds, Singing Deer, and Tree Mysteries with Dr. David Delgado Shorter

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We are SO EXCITED to present to you this very special episode with guest Dr. David Delgado Shorter where we discuss the Flower Worlds of the Yaqui people of northern Mexico. In this cosmology there are nine interlocking worlds filled with magical creatures. Reality is danced and sung into being. Flowers are messengers from Spirit. In the Western Mystery traditions, the suit of wands relates to the wisdom flowers and trees, and in this episode we get to hear a radically different perspective on these beings. Dr. Shorter has studied with the Yaqui for over 20 years and helps us understand the indigenous view of the enchanted world of plants, brought into being through relationship and ritual.

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0:25.0	Come with me, fall in a following me fall through the curtain finally unfurled. Now friends join again.
0:37.0	Join again, we need. I can be neat between the worlds. Friends. Friends, as you might remember in Tarot, the suit of Wands is about creative fire, the initiating impulse, the divine spark, it relates to fire, solar energy, and is said
0:58.8	to be masculine in nature, i.e. muscular and passionate, penetrating, and if out of balance it can of course be violent,
1:08.0	rash and unsustainable.
1:11.0	Wands are also associated with trees, flowers, plants, the staff and the club and the
1:18.4	fellas obviously.
1:20.9	But as you might recall, all this want talk is from the perspective of the Western mystery traditions.
1:29.0	In this episode, I'm so excited to introduce you to Dr David Delgado Shorter,
1:35.0	a professor of Cultural Studies, Paranormal Studies,
1:39.0	and Colonialisms at the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures.
1:44.0	He's also the director of the wiki for Indigenous Languages
1:48.0	and is the director of the Archive of Healing at UCLA.
1:52.0	Also, he throws great parties. of the Archive of Healing at UCLA.
1:53.0	Also, he throws great parties, loves dogs, makes herbal tinctures, and is an excellent cook.
1:59.0	In short, David is a hot item.
2:01.0	We're giving you a call today to chat about indigenous and anti-colonial perspectives in relation to the subject of Wands.
2:12.0	I naturally thought of his work because of a particular to the subject of Wands.
2:12.7	I naturally thought of his work because of a particularly brilliant talk
2:16.7	on the flower worlds of the Yaki Yowami people.
2:20.1	The Udo Aztecan speaking indigenous people of Mexico, which I had the honor of attending at
2:26.2	UCLA. When I saw that talk, I was so riveted. So I knew I had to bring him on the show and I am so thrilled to have him here.
2:35.9	Dear listeners, you are going to love it. David, we're so excited to have you on the show.
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