Daniel Foor

Ancestral Medicine

Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

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Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to connecting with your ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781591432692
• ISBN-10: 1591432693
• Artikelnr.: 46005895

Autorenporträt

Daniel Foor, Ph.D., is a licensed psychotherapist and a doctor of psychology. He has led ancestral and family healing intensives throughout the United States since 2005. He is an initiate in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has trained with teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and different indigenous paths, including the older ways of his European ancestors. He lives in Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
Foundations of Ancestor Work
One My Personal Journey with the Ancestors
Making Initial Contact • Family Research and Personal Healing • Learning
and Teaching Ancestor Work
Two Who Are the Ancestors? The Dead Are Not Dead • Family and Remembered
Ancestors • Older Ancestors and the Collective Dead
Exercise One: How Do You Feel about Your Ancestors?
Three Spontaneous Ancestral Contact Dream Contact • Synchronicity • Waking
Contact in Nonordinary States • Waking Encounters in Ordinary States
Exercise Two: What Are Your Experiences with Your Ancestors?
Four Ancestor Reverence and Ritual Common Intentions for Ancestor Rituals •
Practices to Sustain Ancestral Connection
Exercise Three: Ritual to Initiate Contact with Your Ancestors
Part Two
Healing with Lineage and Family Ancestors
Five Family Research and Initiating Ancestral Healing Gathering What Is
Remembered • Considerations before Working Directly with Your Ancestors •
Choosing a Focus for Lineage Repair Work
Exercise Four: Attuning to Your Four Primary Bloodlines
Six Meeting with Ancestral Guides Ancestral Guides • Using Ritual to
Contact Ancestral Guides • Ways to Deepen Relationships with Ancestral
Guides
Exercise Five: Seeking an Ancestral Guide
Seven Lineage Ancestors and the Collective Dead Ancestral Lineage •
Assessing the Lineage • Making Repairs with Older Lineage Ancestors
Exercise Six: Getting to Know the Lineage
Exercise Seven: Ritual to Assist Lineage Ancestors
Eight Assisting the Remembered Dead Emotional Healing, Forgiveness, and
Unfinished Business • Psychopomp, Elevation of the Dead, and
Ancestralization • Work with the Very Troubled Dead and Related Spirits
Exercise Eight: Ancestral Forgiveness Practice
Exercise Nine: Soul Guidance for the Remembered Dead
Nine Integration and Work with Living Family Prayer for Self, Family, and
Descendants • Embodiment, Channeling, and Mediumship • Completing the
Lineage Repair Cycle • Ancestor Work beyond the Lineage Repair Cycle
Exercise Ten: Embody the Lineage and Offer Prayer for the Living
Exercise Eleven: Harmonizing Your Four Primary Lineages
Exercise Twelve: Ritual to Feast Your Family Ancestors
Part Three
Honoring Other Types of Ancestors
Ten Ancestors and Place Home Is Where the Bones Are • Public Memorials and
Monuments • Ancestors and the Natural World • Nine Suggestions for Honoring
Ancestors of Place
Exercise Thirteen: Cemetery Practice with Family Ancestors
Exercise Fourteen: Ritual to Greet the Ancestors of a Place
Eleven Affinity Ancestors, Multiple Souls, and Reincarnation Ancestors of
Affinity • Multiple Souls • Reincarnation and Past Lives • Integration Work
with Family, Place, and Affinity Ancestors
Exercise Fifteen: Celebrating Ancestors of Vocation
Exercise Sixteen: Harmonizing Ancestors of Family, Place, and Affinity
Twelve Joining the Ancestors Preparing for Death • Funeral Rites and the
Body after Death • Ritual Tending in the First Year after Death
Exercise Seventeen: Conscious Participation in a Burial
Exercise Eighteen: Ritual for the First Anniversary of a Death
Appendix
Distinguishing Talking with Spirits from Psychosis
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Figure 5.1. Family pedigree chart
Figure 5.2. Family pedigree mandala
Figure 7.1. Layers of lineage through time
Figure 9.1. Ancestral mandala