This episode of The Sober Shaman podcast serves as a companion piece to the recent written post entitled, “Addiction Separates / The Web Connects.” In this episode, we explore the year’s first Medicine Drum Journey and how our experience can provide insight, connection, and healing power for our concerns.
Here are some of the ways we look at this:
Connection is the Medicine for addiction’s pathological power to separate.
Fear grows in the spaces where we are separated from loved ones, heartfelt activities and places of belonging.
An overview of the Cycle of Addiction and role of The Web of Life within it.
In the Earth Phase, we receive the Medicine of Connection through the power of support, home, nourishment & communion.
Dissolving the negative experience of feeling stuck in The Web
The transformative power of Earth & the Spleen: extracting wisdom & releasing waste
The weave of the 5 Elements
Join me as we explore all of this in the podcast.
You can read my full write-up and complete any preparation work before undertaking your own journey in the written post here:
Addiction Separates / The Web Connects
Welcome to today’s exercise, where we’ll embark upon a Medicine Drum Journey to the Web of Life.
I’m inviting anyone interested in collaborating to reach out. Ways to participate could include:
Sharing what you received from your journey
Proposing a writing prompt or offering a place in Non-Ordinary Reality to take a Medicine Drum Journey to that explores a recovery, mental health, and/or spiritual topic of concern
Discussing how these exercises have worked for you, or, if you're a medical or mental healthcare professional, how they’ve worked for your clients
This could take the form of a written Q&A, a recorded Zoom session, or even through the new Substack live option.
As always, feel free to message me here on Substack or reach out directly via email: Spirit@RandalLyons.com
With blessings,
Randal
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