Ritualist Daniel Foor on Animism, Conscious Parenting, & Relational Accountability as Humans [episode 83]

CW: This episode mentions suicide Daniel Foor shares about navigating consciousness parenthood and feeling responsible for what your children may inherit. You’ll also hear about: Children as the ancestors returning  Being in good relationship with the Earth and the more than human others  Creating a kinder world  ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! 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He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and daughters in Western North Carolina, homeland of Cherokee peoples.   In this episode, we talk about: Bringing in/up a child in times of turmoil What does it mean to usher in new life before conception Remembering our relational accountability as humans  Ancestral healing and being a good ancestor  How lots of spiritual folks could do with some good therapy  Crying as an invocation for help Children as returning souls with their own destiny  On adapting your gifts and needs, to the gifts and needs of a child  Committing to being a conscious person Transitioning from reductionist ways of being to animist epistemology  On what is legitimate knowledge  The false and harmful idea of nature as separate from the human  On what the world could look like if we shed human-supremacy  Feeling displaced from your roots Inheriting a lineage of harm Meeting the world where it’s at  Relearning and remembering how to communicate with the more-than-human world  And more! 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