Healing Through the Land with Ceremonialist Annie Spencer

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Published 2022-10-24

Annie Spencer is a renowned ceremonialist and beloved elder. She is a leader of vision quests and rites of passage, with a background in humanistic psychology and earth-based spiritual traditions, having been apprenticed in Native American practices in the 1980's and more recently in Guatemalan Mayan teachings, and Annie weaves these with the traditions of the land in Britain. She is also a well-loved storyteller, bringing alive the old myths of this land and connecting us with the earth and its magic as she creates spaces for wisdom and change to emerge.

This beautiful conversation spans Annie's connection to her homeland in Cornwall, the traditions and teachers that influence her work, stories from the Deer Dance, or La Danza del Venado (in Taos Pueblo), the important and nuanced role of the heyoka as a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota people), Annie's vision quests, rites of passage and thoughts on Ecopsychology, with a beautiful short story inspired by hope and how interconnected we all are at the end.

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Book References

The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia by Esther Jacobson

The Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters

After the episode, Annie also recommended that everyone should read "The Dawn of Everything' by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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Many thanks to the ongoing music contributions from Mike Howe, Chris Park and Dorrie Joy.

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