Episode 21: Becoming Ancestors

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In this third and final episode of grief conversations with therapist and retreat leader Joshua Lowe, we talk about what it means to live in a culture without connection to ancestors.
Ancestral grief is the 5th gate in Francis Weller's book "The Wild Edge of Sorrow". Here's where we grieve the loss of connection not to our personal family line but also to cultural traditions around honoring and receiving wisdom from ancestors.
Also unpacked is why it's important for a culture to instill a sense of connection to past and future generations. Thinking of ourselves as future ancestors creates a desire to pay it forward in terms of leaving the planet and our families in better shape than we found them.
The hyper individualism and rationalism of western industrial culture has promoted "me" above the natural world and anyone not directly in relationship to "me" now. It's a transactional worldview where "me" is owed something from the generation before but I have no obligation to provide anything back. In fact there is often antagonism between generations with the youth and elders pitted against one another.
Grieving the loss of relationship to ancestral magic, wisdom and becoming is part of the work we are here to do.
Register for the upcoming Grief Retreat on 10/11-10/13 here.

Find out more about Joshua Lowe's retreats and therapy practice here

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https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

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Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music!
Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home