why Mindfulness isn't enough.
modern iterations of mindfulness practice often live removed from their original context.
The forest ecology from which mindfulness grew was animate and alive, and what we call mindfulness practices formed only a part of a rich tapestry that included rituals of ancestor worship, enacted connection to ecology, spirit mediumship, healing, and esoteric somatic practices.
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Modern adoptions of mindfulness tend to view the solitary meditative aspects of practice to be the 'essential' part, whereas the ritual and animist elements are seen as expendable. The reasons for this are deeply tied in with colonial history, and with the western legacy of body-mind divide.
the animate, ritual context is profoundly important for shaping and architecting relational minds, and post-modern minds —
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