#300 | Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies

We are haunted beings. Unintegrated traumas, like ghosts, possess us, poison us — until they don’t.

Colonization, rupturous, severs the body from its relations, from ancestors and earth. It flattens the diversity of human experience, relying on the multifaceted dynamics of intergenerational trauma to replicate itself, in perpetuity. Like ghosts, these traumas haunt us, hijack us. The line between the abuser and the abused is blurred, trauma compounds, cutting in all directions.

Decolonization is an ongoing counter-process to this. Naming these ghostly bodies, making them visible, speaking to them, opens up revolutionary space for healing, reforging relation to all beings, corporeal and non-corporeal alike.

This compilation of eleven interviews pulls on the threads of these subjects, navigating the contours of developmental psychology, ancestral trauma, whiteness, depression and shame, gender and masculinity.

Timeline:

00:00: Intro

7:20: Riane Eisler [w/ Kollibri terre Sonnenblume] (Human nature)

18:31: Commentary

24:05: Darcia Narvaez (Evolved nest)

47:23: Commentary

50:13: Lyla June (Intergenerational trauma)

1:10:15: Commentary

1:15:05: Dare Sohei (Animist attachment theory)

1:43:46: Commentary

1:48:21: Matthew Remski (Neoliberal spirituality)

2:06:55: Commentary

2:11:41: Tada Hozumi (Cultural somatics)

2:33:22: Commentary

2:38:19: Sunil Bhatia (Decolonize psychology)

2:53:27: Commentary

2:57:33: Mikkel Krause Frantzen (Depression)

3:10:34: Commentary

3:15:40: Anthony Rella (Shame)

3:32:19: Commentary

3:37:49: Margaret Killjoy (Majoritarian reality)

4:04:20: Commentary

4:09:16: Ian MacKenzie (Masculinity)

4:29:42: Outro

VIDEO EPISODE:

#276 | Severed Bodies: Tangible, Intangible Somas & Call-Out Collateral w/ Tada Hozumi

Intro: 10:54

In this episode, I speak with Cultural Somatics practitioner and teacher Tada Hozumi. This discussion, in many ways, builds upon my previous interview with animist counselor Dare Sohei, a colleague of Tada's, in exploring and articulating the Cultural Somatic framework that encapsulates their approach in addressing systemic oppression, colonized bodies, dance, ancestral trauma, and call-out culture.

To further define Tada's work and the Cultural Somatics framework, they state on their website that:

1. Cultures are in fact bodies, or rather ‘cultural somas’, that emerge from networks of relationships. Cultural somas are intangible in nature yet can function similarly to our own body that has a delicate nervous system. This fractal relationship between individual and cultural somas shows us that all somas, large and small, are meant to be in co-healing with each other.

2. The above-mentioned cultural somas are also fields in which all intangible ‘beings’, ones our elder cultures referred to as ancestors, spirits, and goddesses/gods, exist. Even abstract concepts such as white supremacy or misogyny exist as beings in this field. This shows us that we are all a part of a common field and the healing of tangible beings like ourselves is interconnected with the healing of intangible beings that for the greater networks of relationships that we all commonly belong to.

Tada Hozumi is a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. At the core of their practice is the understanding that all oppressions, including white supremacy, are energetic ailments of both the individual and cultural body. Individual healing cannot be whole without tending to the cultural, and vice versa, that cultural change cannot be in good faith without tending to all of the bodies that make up the collective.

Episode Notes:

- Learn more about Tada’s work on their website and at The Ritual as Justice School website: https://selfishactivist.com / https://ritualasjustice.school

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