#17 | Whiteness In The Wake of Hungry Ghosts - Daniel Foor (Ancestral Medicine)
“The antidote to white supremacy, male supremacy, human supremacy... is to be able to affirm an ethic of kinship. ”
My guest today is Daniel Foor a teacher and practitioner of practical animism, specializing in ancestral and family healing and helping folks learn to relate well with the other-than-human world.
He is a doctor of psychology, as well as a marriage and family therapist, weaving many years of immersion in earth-honouring ways- including European pagan and Native American paths, Mongolian shamanism, and West African tradition. He is the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing, and over 15 years has given hundreds of trainings and talks across the United States.
In our conversation today, Daniel and I explore a number of themes, including: the fundamental shift needed to recognize kinship with the natural world, exploring beyond the gender binary through indigenous epistemologies, and naming the practical love languages that are food for your ancestors.
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SHOW NOTES
The killing of George Floyd
The tension between inner and structural transformation
Origin of the label animism
Accessing the fundamental human gift of ritual
Daniel’s journey of awakening
Diversity of gender expression in nature
Constructing personal or collective identity
Understanding intergenerational trauma
White ancestors as hungry ghosts
Returning to kinship and connection
The Five Love Languages of the Dead
The antidote to supremacy
