Today we welcome back the poetic and exquisitely wonderful Dr. Jimi Wollumbin, one of our beloved local medicine men and regular SuperFeast podcast guests.
From the first few minutes of this conversation Jimi does what Jimi does best and dissolves the armouring around our collective heart as he eloquently speaks to the harrowing yet beautifully humbling path of the healer. The wounded one within all of us, that through necessity, is given no other choice but to be a student of its lived experience.
Jimi and Mason speak of the alchemical process, of Taoist fog walking, of the medicine contained in the shadows of life, the places pregnant with transformative possibility, the tunnels we fear to enter despite knowing there is light at the end.
Through this conversation we're taken on a journey that calls us to embrace the entire spectrum of our human experience, to know strife as a teacher equal in esteem to love. We're reminded of the deficit of life that light-washing leaves us in, to honour the gradient of emotion in between what is "good" and what is "bad" because after all our misery is universal, and so is our joy.
We all breathe, bleed, love, despair, succeed and fail. Just as the revolution of natures seasonal wheel inevitably turns, rising and falling, growing and decaying, so too do we; rise, fall, grow and decay, and it is these very innate, very human, very necessary processes that allow us to evolve, to adapt, to renew and to regenerate.
To be alive in our living.
This was a very special conversation, it is my sincere wish that you draw as much solace from it as I did.
Mason & Jimi discuss:
- Initiation and walking the medicine path.
- Love and Strife as the Western translation of Yin and Yang.
- Ego death, surrender and soul growth.
- The absence of cultural lore and rights of passage in our modern systems of living, and the impact that has on our psychology at both an individual and collective level.
- Using seasonal imagery to guide you through the transitional phases of life.
- Adaptation as a necessary and very innate aspect of life.
- Jing Essence, the reserve that fuels our capacity to transmute challenging circumstances.
- Resilience, hormetic stress and the power of integration.
- Befriending your grief.
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Related Podcasts:
Trauma, Resilience and Natural Disaster with Dr. Jimi Wollumbin (EP#155)
Microbes and Viruses - The Hidden Wonders of The Invisible World with Jimi Wollumbin (EP#58)
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