107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

“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)

Transcript

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0:00.0	The dead is death is the great healing but we need healing those who are most equipped to help us with that are the dead.
0:10.0	Hi friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast, where we are remembering what it is to be human upon the earth.
0:20.0	I'm Amber Magnolia Hill. This is episode 107. Today I'm sharing my
0:27.6	interview with Perdita Finn. I must say this is absolutely one of my favorite interviews I've ever done for this
0:35.3	podcast and I'm so excited to put it out there and introduce others to
0:41.5	Perdita's heart and work.
0:44.0	Perdita Finn is the co-founder with her husband Clark Strand
0:48.5	of the Farrell Fellowship The Way of the Rose,
0:51.3	which inspired her book, The Way of the Rose, the radical path of the divine
0:55.9	feminine hidden in the rosary.
0:58.4	They are currently at work on their next book together, circles not lines, spiritual community beyond patriarchy.
1:05.7	To find out more about her devotion to ecology, not theology, visit way of the Rose.org.
1:18.1	In addition to extensive study with the Zen Masters, Priests, Spirit workers, and healers,
1:24.4	she apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote the reluctant psychic.
1:29.0	Pardita Finn now teaches popular workshops on getting to know the dead.
1:37.3	Participants are empowered to activate the miracles in their own lives with the help of their ancestors and recover their own intuitive magic.
1:45.8	Her book Take Back the Magic, Conversations with the Unseen World, is an intimate journey through her recovery of these lost ways.
1:50.5	She speaks widely on how to collaborate with those on the other side, on the
1:55.0	sobriety of a new romantic animism, and on the sobriety that emerges when we claim the long story of our souls.
1:59.0	Our next book is The Body of My Mother.
2:02.0	She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill
2:06.4	mountains. There are two bonuses over at patreon.com slash medicine stories to go along with this episode.
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