The Ancestors

Becoming A Good Ancestor: Active Hope, Part 5

Jan 12, 2025

Beloved Community, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

Active hope, ancestors, Carl Jung, Chris Johnstone, family, family-history, genealogy, history, hurry sickness, Joanna Macy, Roman Krznaric, shamans, The Ancestors, The Underworld, Tree of Life, Volos

I’ll begin with a question: How many continents are there in our world? Do you know? There are seven: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. And, in ancient cultures from all these seven continents, what you find is belief that reality–composed of both the material and spiritual–is like a tree. The…