Ritualist Daniel Foor on Animism, Conscious Parenting, & Relational Accountability as Humans [episode 83]
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CW: This episode mentions suicide
Dr. Foor is a licensed psychotherapist, doctor of psychology, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and daughters in Western North Carolina, homeland of Cherokee peoples.
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Bringing in/up a child in times of turmoil
What does it mean to usher in new life before conception
Remembering our relational accountability as humans
Ancestral healing and being a good ancestor
How lots of spiritual folks could do with some good therapy
Crying as an invocation for help
Children as returning souls with their own destiny
On adapting your gifts and needs, to the gifts and needs of a child
Committing to being a conscious person
Transitioning from reductionist ways of being to animist epistemology
On what is legitimate knowledge
The false and harmful idea of nature as separate from the human
On what the world could look like if we shed human-supremacy
Feeling displaced from your roots
Inheriting a lineage of harm
Meeting the world where it’s at
Relearning and remembering how to communicate with the more-than-human world
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References:
Native Land https://native-land.ca/
Practitioner Training || Course https://ancestralmedicine.org/practitioner-training
Initiations || Course https://ancestralmedicine.org/online-course/initiations/
Epigenetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
Graham Harvey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harvey_(religious_studies_scholar)
Irving Hallowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Irving_Hallowell
Nuclear family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family
War in Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War
Epistemology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
Decolonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization
White supremacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy
Cisgender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
Settler colonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialism
Feminsism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism
IPCC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change
Symbiotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis
Republican https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)
Foundations of Ritual || Course https://ancestralmedicine.org/online-course-ritual/
Wood pecker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker
Abolitionist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
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