Each of us will mourn, and folk traditions have long modeled radical ways of being with our grief in a way that nurtures our resilience, wisdom, and even joy.

We sit in circle with mourners from diverse traditions that encourage us to come close to the exact things that empire teaches us to run away from: our bodies, our pain, and our resilience. And we re-member three kinds of magic that colonized ideas of funerals and mourning have mostly suppressed: the sacred container of time, space, and community; the body as ally; and radical intimacy.

Finally, we explore how mourning bolsters our personal resilience and our collective resistance.

||0:03|| Prelude prayer-spell

||1:40|| Opening notes and introduction to the lunation’s energies

||7:07|| Visit with the funereal rites of the Torajans and Warlpiri

||15:46|| MUSICAL INTERMISSION “Arevelyan” by Armen Stepanyan from the album Armenian Highlands (Licensed from Hollywood Music Center)

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||20:16|| Three kinds of magic that colonized ideas of funerals and mourning have mostly suppressed: the sacred container of time, space, and community; the body as ally; and radical intimacy.

||38:22|| Questions for personal reflection, and mourning as personal resilience our collective resistance

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