Hello my friends...
In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, we are going to take a deep dive into the intersection between ancestral patterns & health, a stem that branches from what could be called ‘Ancestral Medicine’.
Ancestral medicine is a term I originally encountered through the work of Daniel Foor’s and his teachings on ancestral healing; however in this podcast, I refocus the medicinal layers, from the direct tending of ancestral spirits, to the ways in which the ancestral flows into, alters and shapes the living body.
Throughout the conversation I move fluidly between the animistic and shamanic layers and the more contemporary ‘scientific language’, recontextualizing the clinical into the ‘animate’, for genetics are a modernized and mechanistic way to speak about ancestral patterns. The body is an ancestral phenomenon, which came out of a parent who came out of ancestors.
Ancestral impacts on health are braided and multi layered, for there is the...
The great ocean of deep time hunter-gatherer ancestors who shaped the human creature over hundreds of thousands of years, and the evolutionary mismatch that arises when modern life pulls us out of the life way we designed for. This results in the diseases of civilization: early heart disease, diabetes, the cancers, arthritis, arriving as the signature of that dislocation.
Then the narrower scales: race and its genetic gifts and weaknesses.
Then finally our own familial lines with their strange, idiosyncratic genetic preloading.
All this is occurring inside the backdrop of direct relationships to ancestral spirits, and the state of our whole lineage.
I also share the story of my wife Crystal, whose body seems need very large doses of vitamin B5 in order to function normally, because somewhere upstream an ancestral pattern molded her physiology with this quark...however this a phenomenon that highlights a core principle of this talk: the modern intermixes lines, diasporas, beliefs, and bodies at a scale our ancestors never faced, and it hands each of us a genetic inheritance that can be very hard to track.
Finally I anchor all this back into into the lines themselves, the long time currents behind our eight great-grandparent braided behind us like a rope. In a healthy ancestral field that rope carries the blessings and the genetic gifts though it like a vibrating string.
In our fractured world some strands run strong while others sit frozen or estranged, and a person raised inside a single troubled line becomes is anchored to something akin to a floating root, drawing up the troubles of that one current while the rest of their inheritance stays sealed off.
Ancestral lineage repair is the work of reconnecting those strands, reaching back past the great ancestral disconnection and letting the flow return.
Topics include:
* Ancestral medicine and the health dimension of ancestor work
* The multi-layered scales of ancestral patterns, from deep time to the familial line
* Evolutionary mismatch and the diseases of civilization
* Genetics as the physical expression of an ancestral pattern
* Genetic expression, epigenetics, and the second genome
* Behavioral and perceptual patterns mistaken for genetics
* SNPs and idiosyncratic nutrient needs in the modern body
* The eight ancestral lines and the braided rope of inheritance
* Ancestral lineage repair and restoring the flow
* Fate, destiny, and wholeness-making across the generations
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