HeyJaredThe 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.
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Disease as Prima Materia: The Alchemical Gold Seeded Inside Illness (opens the original)
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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 matter’, the raw and often despised starting point of any alchemical work. The old alchemists wrote of it as something cheap, freely available, held in contempt, easily discarded, and gone unnoticed. And t
An Alchemical Model of Health and Illness (opens the original)
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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 of counseling others. This includes my long experience inhabiting a body that has never quite functioned the way most peoples bodies function. At the heart of this conversation is what James Hillman call
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