Reclaiming the Ancient Art of Death Midwifery

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Imagine the opportunity to transform your own view of death, diminish your fears and re-frame your relationship to living and dying.

As with childbirth, over the past century institutions have taken over the field of after-death care. Because of this, our culture has forgotten the traditional customs and rituals that keep the family involved, and we miss opportunities for healing and connection during this sacred transition.

Family-led home funerals offer a natural, sacred, affordable and ecological approach. Hundreds of families who have returned to the tradition of home funerals have afterwards repeated this statement, “now that I have experienced a home funeral I can’t imagine doing it any other way.” Instead of feeling fear at having their loved one’s body remaining at home for 1-3 days, they felt comforted, and reported that it helped them process and integrate their person’s death.

This presentation/interview will inform you of how families can create a personal ceremony/ritual for their loved one at home, from pre-planning consultations to the final destination for disposition. You will learn about the many new choices of disposition arising from cultural, ecological and economical needs and desires. Preparing and filing a death certificate by a family is legal in most states allowing a family autonomy from a funeral home or mortuary.

A wake or vigil to honor our beloved can include preparing the body in a bathing blessing ritual using oils and herbs, an anointing and shrouding ceremony, building and/or decorating a casket, creating many types of altars, creating memorial or honoring services in the home that could have a priest, rabbi, minister, shaman or family member officiate.

Dr. King’s Last Speech: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

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"These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born."

#115 Remembering Nature’s Ways

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A SAND Community gathering on evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing in communities.

Nature’s Way of Raising Children

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All animals share with humans brain structures and processes that give us the capacities for life’s rainbow of experiences: consciousness, thinking, feeling, loving, and dreaming.

Evolved Nest (Foreword)

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The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities by Darcia Narvaez, PhD and G

Faces of Compassion, Live Q&A

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Gabor on compassion in light of Oct. 7 and genocide.

From Polarization to Re-Creation (Podcast)

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This episode of Living Myth begins with the word polarization being chosen as the dictionary word of the year and ironically being the one thing that both sides of the political spectrum agree upon

Gratitude & Grace

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Gratitude and grace are connected with grace being a state of being that reminds us of the mostly unseen realm of spirit and great imagination that is always nearby

On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual

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An interview with SAND presenters Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha shared by Deschooling Dialogs

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