Dreaming is a central practice to being symbolism literate, and the skill of symbol literacy is a core competency for reimagining our world. Dare Carrasquillo is a super smart colleague, host of the Underworld Party Podcast, and one half of the play-based collaboration Animist Arts. In our conversation from Fall 2022, we follow dream practice into death practice, contextualize somatics inside of our 300,000+ year old nervous systems, and we riff on putting our contemporary pop-psychology field into science fiction mode. Dare’s practice of polyphonic singing harmonizes with my practice of layering images, and we discuss resonance and the impacts of wave dynamics on bodies and other material. We wade into riskier waters of what liberation means inside of a non-dual framework, queering with a yes/and lens the dominant trauma narratives seeping into all aspects of how we understand ourselves. The theater backgrounds come out as we open the challenges of translating the map of a social field back into our bodies that have been trained out of our ability to express, and we close in speculation about how to get out of the police states of our internal landscapes and back into the play practices that allow us to make the new map together. Animist Arts is a space for priming the body for play without dominance, which is a foundation for pretty much anything you could be up to, so check them out at animistarts.art, they’re currently running several workshops and series. I recommend between sun and moon, all that in the show notes. Enjoy the convo!
Thanks for listening. You can learn more about upcoming workshops and all things Somatic Scribing on my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com or by following me on Instagram @crowcamino. Music for this podcast is from the album Black Shamxn by our labmate, multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa. You can check the show notes for all that info, and if you’re at a different corner of the web singing the same song, come say hi. We’d love to hear from you.
