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300 / Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies

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:

300 / Part Seven: Transitions, Death, The Ruptures Of Life In Between

300 / Part Seven: Transitions, Death, The Ruptures Of Life In Between

300 / Part Five: Fascistic Flashpoints, Gazing Into The Void

300 / Part Five: Fascistic Flashpoints, Gazing Into The Void