Talking with frontline Optimists - The Ancestor Project

Charlotte James and Undrea Wright came together to create - or channel - a radical and transformative path to healing through 'sacred plant medicine'. Through their ground-breaking work with The Ancestor Project, the Baltimore-based pair seek to integrate the ancient practice of legal psychedelics and non-psychoactive substances to support therapeutic journeys for the BIPOC community. This week on OIP, these remarkable frontline optimists talk with great consideration about reclaiming “Sacred Earth medicines” from historical systems of oppression, the badass indigenous ancestors we should look to for guidance, and how the aim of this work goes far beyond the self, towards a deeper collective liberation.

For further links and reading see below:

The Ancestor Project

LEARN MORE ABOUT “Our badass indigenous ancestors”: Fannie Lou Hamer - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/

Lilla Watson - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/queensland-review/article/abs/lilla-watson/16131B34E295C6039BCBC01804CB5344

The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - 

Of water and the spirit by Malidoma Patrice Somé - 

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 Kemetic yoga - https://yogainternational.com/article/view/the-black-history-of-yoga

LISTEN:-The Healers: The Last Chapter by Black Motion - https://blackmotion.lnk.to/TH10

https://thenativemag.com/black-motion-the-healers-last-chapter/

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