We are entitled to a (re)membership with the holy, the never-ending and ever-evolving wisdom of dreams, and guidance on the path of remembering ourselves home.

I forgot to mention this episode's Patreon offering in the intro, but check out the Links section below to access Toko-pa's Dream Recovery Kit ebook, designed for the individual who is feeling estranged from their dreams, this guide will help you cultivate a rich dream life. This kit contains guidance for dream recall, tips for overcoming blocks, exercises for deepening your practice, and ideas for ritual and dream incubation.

IN THE INTRO:

• Ancestral Voices, Women's Weariness, & the Illusion of Linear Time
• Chronic pain
• Dreamwalking

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• A childhood in exile, a lost community, and finding belonging again
• Being grabbed by the hair and dragged into the bottomless underworld
• An incredible story about physical pain, a powerful dream, the grandfather who jumped from a train on the way to Auschwitz, and ancestral healing
• Healing is open ended
• When a family must keep their stories secret in order to survive, and how that silence affects the lineage- "Nothing influences children more than the silent facts in the background" -C.G. Jung
• The dreaming channel is always open- being in reciprocity with the world behind the world
• We are literally made of story, and dreams are the original stories
• Why we should not be down with OPI- Other People's Information
• Dreams are nature pulsing through us, and incline us toward our unique medicine
• The multiplicity of our coherence
• Not all dreams carry equal weight, but there is no such thing as a throwaway dream either
• Approaching a dream as if it were a wild animal in a forest
• Heirlooms, the storying of objects, and what we reclaim when we make things by hand
• To feed the holy that sustains us, give in a way that doesn't require any more taking
• The meaning of Toko-pa's name (which was given to her at birth)

LINKS:

• Toko-pa's website
• Dreamwalking Online Course
• My piece Ancestral Voices, Women's Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear Time
• My website MythicMedicine.love
• Medicine Stories Patreon (Dream Recovery Kit)
• The Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)