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The Living Ancestor
by The Way of The Living Ancestor...
This Podcast is an exploration of what it means to become a ‘Living Ancestor’: A fully embodied, 21st century human being connected to our deep time hunter-gatherer inheritance. Themes include: shamanism, spiritual cultivation, ancestral healing, embodiment, divination, animism, creative expression, and surfing with fate & destiny. theancestralnow.substack.com
Episodes
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Disease as Prima Materia: The Alchemical Gold Seeded Inside Illness
In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, we continue the alchemical thread from the previous transmission and turn to a single idea: that nearly every illness carries within it a seed of alchemical gold, if we can learn to relate to it in the ‘right way’. Prima materia means the ‘first...
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An Alchemical Model of Health and Illness
In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, we step back and take a big-picture look at the healing process, mapping it through the lens of alchemy. While I do present a ‘model’, this transmission is it is not a theoretical exercise, for specifics have emerged from my own life and from years…
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Ancestral Medicine: Health, Ancestral Patterns, and Genetics
Hello my friends... In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, we are going to take a deep dive into the intersection between ancestral patterns & health, a stem that branches from what could be called ‘Ancestral Medicine’. Ancestral medicine is a term I originally encountered through the…
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Ancestor Work and Blessing Retrieval
In this episode of the The Living Ancestor podcast, we explore a dimension of ancestor work that often receives far less attention than healing, clearing, repair or the resolution of inherited burdens: the retrieval of blessings. Drawing from both traditional understandings of the ancestral and…
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Your Reflexes & Instincts Are Blessings From the Deep Ancestors
In this episode of The Living Ancestor podcast, we explore the quiet but powerful ways the Deep Ancestors continue to shape our lives beneath the threshold of conscious thought. Through personal stories of instinct, reflex, movement, and animal behavior, this conversation traces the living...
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Omens, Synchronicity and The Modern Reality of 'Ads'
The Living Ancestor Podcast In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, we explore the increasingly strange intersection between synchronicity, omens, divination, and the algorithmic architecture of the modern world. As AI-driven advertising grows more sophisticated, the ancient human…
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Ancestry and Destiny Are Inextricably Linked
In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, I explore the inextricable link between ancestry and destiny, grounding an ancient metaphysical idea in a very practical, embodied way. I begin by situating destiny within older cosmologies that understood reality as multidimensional, inhabited by...
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Destiny as Process: The Ship in Sail & the Tree That Bears Fruit
Destiny is not a destination.It is a lived process. In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, I explore destiny through two complementary metaphors that help orient us toward it in a more embodied and functional way. The first is the ship in sail: destiny as conscious participation in a...
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Beyond the 'Fetish': Reclaiming the True Scope of the Ancestral
In this episode, I explore the ways in which we fetishize the ancestral in order to create a focal point of connection, and how that same touchstone can become limiting when it is mistaken for the whole of what the ancestral truly is. I begin by unpacking what a fetish actually means at its core:...
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Why Some People Live in a Simulation and Some Don't
What if the idea that we live in a simulation is less a ‘material reality’ and more a symptom of modern disconnection? It’s likely that those who feel the world is simulated have simply forgotten what it feels like to be ‘real.’ This episode examines the consequences of a loss of lived contact…
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Soul Making: The Painting, or the Blank Canvas Beneath It?
“By soul I mean, first of all, a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself. This perspective is reflective; it mediates events and makes differences between ourselves and everything that happens. Between us and events, between the doer and the deed,...
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The 'Animal Powers' of Your Soul Medicine Shape Perception, Character and Destiny
Your soul has innate and inherent ‘animal powers’ that belong to it, and they shape your response to life’s ongoing demand for choice. The constellation of our choices is character. Character is destiny. In this Living Ancestor episode, I return to the terrain of soul medicine, that living…
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How to Close The Loop of Family Karma and Move Towards 'Completion'
In this episode, we explore one of the fundamental themes of becoming a ‘Living Ancestor’: orienting our lives toward ‘completion’. This expresses itself in small daily moments, all the way to the larger arc of completing the ritual of one's entire life. We touch on how resolving ‘open loops’ and...
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Are Your Ancestors Helping or Hindering Your Destiny?
The Ancestors are either the wind at your back or a lead weight at your feet. In this podcast we explore how our Ancestors shape our fate, and thus by extension...our destinies. A big part of the message we inherit in modern culture is that of ‘individual choice’, which has wonderful gifts… and...
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The Flaws of Your Work Are a Part of Its Beauty
Have you ever heard of Kintsugi? It is the art of purposefully breaking pottery and repairing the cracks with gold. I can envision no metaphor better suited for describing the creative process. Creativity is not replicability. Creation is (in part) the filling of cracks with gold…our gold. In...
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Finding and Following Your 'North Star'
The concept of finding and following one's "North Star" is central to navigating fate and destiny. The North Star serves as an internal guiding light, representing a clear unifying direction in life. Metaphorically, it represents an inner sense of guidance analogous to the stable north star…
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Are You an Imposter or the Genuine Article?
In today’s world, there is an idea that you can just eat ‘content articles’ for breakfast, get certified, and then go on to have a fulfilling practice regurgitating the same tired information. In this world, genuine articles are few and far between. It’s no surprise that imposter syndrome is so...
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Sacrificing Yourself at The Altar of Becoming
In this episode, I explore offerings and sacrifice as ancient human technologies of relationship, exchange, and transformation. Across indigenous and traditional cultures, the giving of offerings is woven into how humans relate to land, spirits, gods, seasons, and one another. Offerings create...
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Why I Decided To Stop Teaching & Become a Full Time Trader in The Stock Market
In this episode, I explore fate, destiny, and free will through a deeply personal story that has shaped my life from infancy. I share how I was born into an African-rooted shamanic and divinatory tradition carried through my Cuban family, and how a long-form divination performed when I was a…
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Fate is The Game and Free Will is How We Choose to Play
Myths all around the world tell us that fate and free will dance together in the ongoing genesis of life and death, and yet, fate, which is the circumstances, universal laws, and divine order already in place when we arrive, determines the context that one can even choose within. Different…
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What Are the Power Grids Energizing Your Life Made Of?
Although it may not appear so at first glance, much of what drives people toward spirituality, personal development, and inner cultivation is a search for power. Not power as money or status, but the ability to actually affect reality: to heal, to release, to address what feels immovable, and to...
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Teachers Who Overuse The Words 'Need, Must and Should' Rob You of Sovereignty
One of the core themes running through this podcast is that the stories we attune to are actively shaping us. They shape posture, physiology, perception, and the possibilities we experience in daily life. No teaching is neutral. Every instruction, lesson, or piece of advice is anchored in a…
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Fate, Family Ties and Christmas Trees
What do fate, family ties, and Christmas trees have to do with each other? In this episode, I explore fate as the inherited circumstances we do not choose: family, culture, place, time, body, and tradition. Fate is not a mistake. It is the set of conditions we are born into and must contend with,...
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Developing Your Authentic Authority
For those called to the path of the golden thread, understanding and embodying authentic authority is essential. Authentic authority is the specific power each of us carries to act in the world in alignment with soul, calling, and destiny. In this episode, I explore how every human being arrives...
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Cultivating Talent to The Level of Craft
Modern Western civilization places enormous value on freedom, and in America in particular, freedom has become a kind of brand. This love of freedom has spread widely, and in many ways, that is a beautiful thing. Freedom is one of my own core virtues. Yet not all expressions of freedom are purely...
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Why Having an Opinion About Everything Reduces Your Power
In this episode, I explore how having an opinion about everything actually diminishes our power in the world. I look at the modern pressure to constantly react, comment, and take a stance on every political event, war, or social issue, and how this demand to be perpetually opinionated often…
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Why Popular Biologist Claim There Is No Free Will
Discussions of free will are ancient, persistent, and unresolved. Human beings have been wrestling with the nature of choice, conditioning, and sovereignty for as long as we have records of thought itself. In this episode, I explore free will as the capacity to choose a direction that falls…
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What Is Destiny?
In this episode, I explore the difference between fate and destiny through the lens of lived experience. I share how being initiated into an African-rooted magical tradition in infancy, and receiving a long-form divination meant to guide life choices, shaped a deep wound around predetermination,...
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This Podcast is an exploration of what it means to become a ‘Living Ancestor’: A fully embodied, 21st century human being connected to our deep time hunter-gatherer inheritance. Themes include: shamanism, spiritual cultivation, ancestral healing, embodiment, divination, animism, creative expression, and surfing with fate & destiny.
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This Podcast is an exploration of what it means to become a ‘Living Ancestor’: A fully embodied, 21st century human being connected to our deep time hunter-gatherer inheritance. Themes include: shamanism, spiritual cultivation, ancestral healing, embodiment, divination, animism, creative...
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