I really adore and am affected by your work. We believe that we are haunted but take no joy in this fact. We have been trying to overcome it with antidepressants and occupational therapy has helped somewhat. I think this article is advising me I need more structure and attention in rituals but I am divorced from my culture due to queerness and migration. Not sure how to overcome that.
Theres no need to have some kind of intact ritual protocol from the traditions of your blood ancestors. At all. Whatsoever.
Our orphan-victim narrative says that we need this, that we have to have the correct help and that help looks a specific way.
That narrative and preferences are a cage, and we will never be free if we believe there is obly one way for us to heal or feel better.
There are principles though, that can help us move with nature and the natural cycles. Nature not “culture”.
1. Sincerity
2. Gratitude/generosity
3. Artistic Distance
4. Restraint/caution
5. Artmaking
6. Listening (not obeying/believing)
7. Circulation
8. Kindness/compassion to self/other
9. Scientific method/proper experimentation and data collection
10. Hygiene practices
These principles are the underlying foundations for any specific task. They are the context. What you do is the content. “Proper” content without proper context is useless and potentially harmful. Proper context with improper content is still useful.
I don't think I *need* it purse, more that it would've been useful to have a practice that I connect with more than what I have now. I am trying to put your teachings into practice, but it's like you say. This kind of thing takes time and effort. And honestly I feel exhausted by the amount of work being alive takes.
thank you so much for writing and sharing this. several generations of my family have been afflicted by severe "psychosis" and all the societal violence that goes along with being that way in the US. being on the outside of these experiences but in such close proximity to them, i've always been curious about what was going on, but of course the explanations i was given never made sense (from my afflicted relatives themselves, from western psychology/psychiatry, etc). this gives some helpful context.
Yes, sorry for that fate pattern in your family. Part of the violence in modern western culture is the lack of right story that puts all the kinds of phenomenal patterns in their correct placement. “Ghost stories”, superstition and such are not a complete picture and thus are hard to use to do anything helpful.
Encyclopedic and deeply affecting. I could feel myself transforming, with false influences falling at my feet. I want to return to this repeatedly. This is my introduction to your work, and I'm glad I found it.
Your examples of how intuition/psychicism can be and often is (and should be) subtle and "mundane" stood out to me. I have often noted this, that my intuition is most useful when it comes to knowing how much of a kitchen ingredient to pour that will fit perfectly into the next vessel, or taking a walk that ends exactly when it starts raining. Simply navigating And, the very simple spiritual hygiene/exorcism methods.
I'm grateful that your page and wisdom has crossed my path today.
Happy to help! My work can be soothing and shocking for people to acclimate to in opposition to popular western narratives about these themes. My aim is for there to be a stabilization and correct placement of people's minds, body and speech in regards to being helpful in society and in their ancestral cleanup projects. Ive been through the wringer and maybe i can lessen other folk’s time spent in the spin cycle.
I really adore and am affected by your work. We believe that we are haunted but take no joy in this fact. We have been trying to overcome it with antidepressants and occupational therapy has helped somewhat. I think this article is advising me I need more structure and attention in rituals but I am divorced from my culture due to queerness and migration. Not sure how to overcome that.
Hi ajali,
I will speak frankly:
Theres no need to have some kind of intact ritual protocol from the traditions of your blood ancestors. At all. Whatsoever.
Our orphan-victim narrative says that we need this, that we have to have the correct help and that help looks a specific way.
That narrative and preferences are a cage, and we will never be free if we believe there is obly one way for us to heal or feel better.
There are principles though, that can help us move with nature and the natural cycles. Nature not “culture”.
1. Sincerity
2. Gratitude/generosity
3. Artistic Distance
4. Restraint/caution
5. Artmaking
6. Listening (not obeying/believing)
7. Circulation
8. Kindness/compassion to self/other
9. Scientific method/proper experimentation and data collection
10. Hygiene practices
These principles are the underlying foundations for any specific task. They are the context. What you do is the content. “Proper” content without proper context is useless and potentially harmful. Proper context with improper content is still useful.
I don't think I *need* it purse, more that it would've been useful to have a practice that I connect with more than what I have now. I am trying to put your teachings into practice, but it's like you say. This kind of thing takes time and effort. And honestly I feel exhausted by the amount of work being alive takes.
Rest more. Let go of stories about “trauma”, bitterness and regret— thats what is truly exhausting.
~ Ajali
thank you so much for writing and sharing this. several generations of my family have been afflicted by severe "psychosis" and all the societal violence that goes along with being that way in the US. being on the outside of these experiences but in such close proximity to them, i've always been curious about what was going on, but of course the explanations i was given never made sense (from my afflicted relatives themselves, from western psychology/psychiatry, etc). this gives some helpful context.
Yes, sorry for that fate pattern in your family. Part of the violence in modern western culture is the lack of right story that puts all the kinds of phenomenal patterns in their correct placement. “Ghost stories”, superstition and such are not a complete picture and thus are hard to use to do anything helpful.
Encyclopedic and deeply affecting. I could feel myself transforming, with false influences falling at my feet. I want to return to this repeatedly. This is my introduction to your work, and I'm glad I found it.
Your examples of how intuition/psychicism can be and often is (and should be) subtle and "mundane" stood out to me. I have often noted this, that my intuition is most useful when it comes to knowing how much of a kitchen ingredient to pour that will fit perfectly into the next vessel, or taking a walk that ends exactly when it starts raining. Simply navigating And, the very simple spiritual hygiene/exorcism methods.
I'm grateful that your page and wisdom has crossed my path today.
Happy to help! My work can be soothing and shocking for people to acclimate to in opposition to popular western narratives about these themes. My aim is for there to be a stabilization and correct placement of people's minds, body and speech in regards to being helpful in society and in their ancestral cleanup projects. Ive been through the wringer and maybe i can lessen other folk’s time spent in the spin cycle.