“I pray to the dead to help me remember who I am while I’m still alive.”
To be in relationship with those who’ve gone before us is a deeply human way of being. Our ancestors knew that the “departed” never left, and that they answer when called. The way modern Western people conceive of the dead is a deviation that discards millennia of human knowing. Let us pray to the ancestors to help us sober up from civilization, remember what we’ve always known, and reclaim the long story of the soul.
RESOURCES:
Perdita’s website Take Back the Magic
Medicine Stories Patreon (book giveaway & course coupon code)
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday
Waking Up to the Dark by Clark Strand
My podcast about my mother’s passing What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, and Legacy of Love
The Madonna Secret, a novel by Sophie Strand
Perdita and her husband Clark Strand’s website The Way of the Rose
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Our website & herbal medicines MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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