S. Kelley Harrell

From Elder to Ancestor (eBook, ePUB)

Nature Kinship for All Seasons of Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Explains the importance of creating a direct personal connection with Nature and how it is key to becoming an elder who will go on to become a wise Ancestor • Presents exercises and rituals to awaken and deepen your animistic connection to the world and help you intentionally craft yourself as a fit elder • Explores deep spiritual work with the Sacred Self, including shadow work and trauma honoring, as well as practices to help you heal your family line For millennia people connected with the Ancestors as part of their regular spiritual practice, seeking wisdom and inspired vitality from those who came before. Each member of a community grew up guided by sage elders, naturally walking the path into fit elderhood themselves and, upon their good deaths, becoming wise, capable Ancestors to whom their descendants could turn. Revealing how to restore the path from fit elder to wise Ancestor, S. Kelley Harrell explores the spiritual, cultural, and ancestral aspects of aging well. She explains the importance of creating a direct personal connection with Nature and of respecting the spirits who surround us, including asking their permission before engaging them in ritual or healing work. Exploring the concept of animism and how it is key to moving from elder to Ancestor, the author shares exercises for awakening and deepening your animistic connection to the world around you as well as rituals for embodiment and grounding. The author also examines the most powerful obstacles to dying well, exploring deep spiritual work with Sacred Self, including shadow work, the initiatory rite of heartbreak, and how to honor past traumas and dysfunctional patterns. She looks at forging a supportive connection with our Sacred Parentsthe first Ancestorsas well as specific practices to help you heal your family line. She shows how recognizing that you are Naturea part of the sacred orderallows you to begin rewilding and to honor your own sacredness. Showing that initiation into elderhood is the work of our lives, this book explains how, through personal introspection and engagement with the living world around us, we can cultivate our unique way to elder well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644116630
• Artikelnr.: 69251345

Autorenporträt

S. Kelley Harrell is an animist, deathwalker, and death doula. Through her Nature-based soul-tending practice, Soul Intent Arts, she helps others ethically build thriving spiritual paths through runework, animism, ancestral tending, and deathwork. The award-winning author of several books, including Runic Book of Days, she lives in North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
The Problem of Animism
1
Our Cultural Relationship to Animistic Elderhood
Owning Our Personal Role in the Broken Path
2
Repairing the Human-Nature Relationship
Engaging the Resources to Reconcile Our Separation from Nature
3
Allowing the Emergence of Sacred Self
Processing Shadow and Allowing the Rite of Heartbreak
4
Prioritizing Embodiment and Grounding
Learning to Embody and Ground Our Sacredness
5
Engaging Rituals for Caring and Accountability
Tracing and Reconciling Our Life Patterns
6
Honoring Our Calling to Tend Community
Discovering Our Personal Relationship with All Things
7
Passing on Our Lore with Compassion
Valuing Our Unique Gift Enough to Give It
8
Standing in Harm’s Danger
Engaging the Relationship between Agency and Impact
Suggested Resources
Notes
Index