Your body is your ancestor altar, how hungry ghosts affect the living, the earth as the repository of ancestral wisdom, & more...
In the Intro:
- Cleatus B. Wright , January 20, 1929 - February 27th, 1929
In the Interview:
- The hunger for our ancestors
- The story of Daniel's first ancestral connection, and the healing that followed
- The ancestors are the collective wisdom of our species in all its beauty and trauma
- Time collapses when in communion with the ancestors
- Not all of the dead are equally well
- The deeply embedded alcoholism in my fatherline
- Addiction as the hunger of the dead moving through the bodies of the living, and the act of taking the substance as a form of ancestral communion
- There are very few personal problems- a look at unmetabolized ancestral pain and systemic injustice
- The dead can change
- Ancestral forgetting as a function of the damage wrought by colonialism
- We don't arrive at healing by exiling those who commit harm: an approach for white folks wishing to address their slave owning/colonizing/oppressive ancestral legacy (rather than ignoring it or living in perpetual guilt)
- The role of the ancestors in social and earth justice
- The interweaving of ritual, genealogical research, and healing
- Synchronicity
- They are shaking us awake in the burning house- the growing sense of urgency coming to us from the ancestors at this pivotal point in human history
- The dead are in the earth, and the ancestors are animating the earth that is our bodies
- Approaching activism in a more ritual oriented way
- When a child is a returning of an ancestral lineage, mothering is my main form of ancestral reverence, and remembering that our children are the future ancestors of our further descendants
- Are souls that die suddenly lost in limbo?
- I ask Daniel a vulnerable question about my mom, who died in a car accident in November 2015
- The most important way that we prepare for death is to be ethical and kind
- Animism: living humans are just one kind of person / coming into relationship with the wider web of being
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