What is medicine? Our ancestral path to the present is seared into the Earth and she binds us with the gravity of responsibility we have to all our ancestors human or non that brought us here. Plant medicine was used by shamans who preceded us. Our ancestors want to share these indigenous forms of healing with us.
Being Chinese American means having to hold the duplicity of two very difficult truths: one, that our homeland was shattered by colonization; two, that my parents had to choose between the lesser of two evils that resulted. I know I enjoy many freedoms here, yet like an unsevered umbilical cord, my body still has ties to her homeland.
“It’s understanding the divine is everywhere. Eroticism is that embrace, it’s about knowing that there is so much more to the erotic than sex. It’s a way of life, of existing in a state of liminality, of understanding that the sacrosanct has its own erotic compass. If we accepted our ways without demonizing them, if we understood our complexities without judgment, and took effort in finding peace with ourselves, we would find true, unadulterated liberation.” -Fariha Roisin
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