Ancestors and Wisdom
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Ancestors and Wisdom
Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing
Tamala Floyd • Listening When Parts Speak: A Practical Guide to Healing with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Ancestor Wisdom
I like to believe that we are all encircled by an invisible ring of loving ancestors, made up of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers, plus women of wisdom no longer living whom we honor as mentors, whether or not we ever met them in the flesh.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
This is the image for ancestor-mind, which is all about deep engagement, connecting with a timeless state of mind or ‘alpha wave state’, an optimal neural state for learning. We can reach this state through most Aboriginal cultural activities. It is characterised by complete concentration, engagement and losing track of linear time. Ancestor-mind c
... See moreTyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
the Dakota Access Pipeline. Chief Leonard Crow Dog described his people’s struggle for preservation and their relationship to the world: “We do not own the land, the land owns us.”