We’ve encountered little deaths all throughout the Lab cycle - in the outbreath, the digestive release, what gets washed outand cleansed, and even how death attends birth. Today, with Aerin Dunford and Lyra Butler Denman, we pack our bags and journey out beyond the borders of our death-phobic culture into the primordial darkness beyond, the fertile void, to sit with humility at the feet of holy mother Death herself. We weave what we’ve been learning about grief and mother trees, how death isn’t an on/off state, its a process and sometimes a long one, and the importance of the death ritual.
As always, we jump scale and look at how death-phobia manifests in the systemic and cultural body: what got lost culturally when we stopped feeding our ancestors bones back to the earth; the lack of trust we’ve inherited that death is not final, but cyclical and regenerative. We look to examples of agroecological and economic resource redistribution as social technologies that are helping our death-phobic cultures remember that what we return to the soil can and will transmute into something nourishing. At the end you know we hook you up with some practices and suggestions to get cozier with holy mother Death. Buen provecho.
This is the last episode of this podcast! Thanks n praise. If you’ve enjoyed it and want to send us some financial love you can do so via Venmo, Cashapp or Paypal. Next up in Somatic Scribing will be a summer workshop series, so if you want to be in the know, you can visit my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com and subscribe, or you can follow me on Instagram @crowcamino. Music for this podcast is from our incredible, magical labmate, artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa - go check out her work too, the album Black Shaman is the soundtrack for the healing you need, I promise. Alright y’all, Bless your life, may you be well, may our collective action be for the benefit of all beings. Peace.
