Ancient Rhythms – An Offering for the Long Dark

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Ancient Rhythms: Dreaming Into Death & Renewal
A Solstice Offering with Pat McCabe and Francis Weller

Ancient Rhythms: Dreaming Into Death & Renewal (Dec 21, 2024) invited participants into a virtual ceremonial space at the threshold of winter’s deepest darkness (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere). Renowned wisdom keepers Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) and Francis Weller guided an intimate exploration of the sacred landscapes between loss and regeneration. Through poetry, storytelling, and depth-filled dialogue, this solstice offering created a contemplative space to honor life’s cyclical nature—embracing grief, releasing what no longer serves, and awakening to the tender seeds of potential waiting in the fertile darkness.

Drawing from Indigenous wisdom and archetypal psychology, McCabe and Weller illuminated the transformative power of conscious descent. Participants were invited to witness and metabolize personal and collective transitions, understanding death not as an ending, but as a profound dreaming—a sacred passage of renewal. This online gathering celebrated the winter solstice as a powerful moment of inner alchemy, where the soul meets its own profound capacity for regeneration.

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Communal Medical Fund for Tiokasin Ghosthorse

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In 2023, SAND interviewed Tiokasin Ghosthorse, a beloved elder of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, for an upcoming documentary on the beauty & resilience of indigenous cultures impacted by colonization

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#113 Ancient Rhythms

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SAND's 2024 Winter Solstice Gathering exploring deep medicine of the "long dark" in community.

If I Must Die: Refaat Alareer

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Support the new book of poetry and prose from slain Palestinian poet in December 2023

#111 When Truth Becomes the Enemy

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Examining the vital role of journalists and documentarians in Palestinian conflict zones.

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

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This video, filmed on location at the Onondaga Nation School in Onondaga Nation, focuses on the purpose and uses of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address.

I Believe We Have Lost Our Way As A Human Race

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Wiradjuri/Wolgalu First Nations Aboriginal man from Australia, Joe Williams, shares how reconnection with the Earth and collectivism is the antidote to so many problems in our modern world

#109 Salt of the Earth

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A sobering discussion with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists.

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