Eating Ancient Virtue
Absorbing The Past to Nourish The Future
Eating Ancient Virtue is an alchemical forge & artisanal studio, where the nourishing ore of the Ancestors is worked into talismans, oracles, art, and books.
Most of us sense that something essential has been lost, for modern life has severed us from the inheritances that shaped human beings for eons.
Eating Ancient Virtue (a precept found in the oracular I Ching) is about taking those inheritances back in (eating them). These are the timeless truths and ancestral gifts that poured through human societies for millennia, digested and made usable in a life lived now, so that what is innate in you can be embodied in service of your own soul and of the whole.
At the heart of it is the communion between spirits and humans, and the art of listening to the currents, while envisioning a bright future through the power of artistic expression.
“The old ones say the future is behind us, because we cannot see it; the ancestors are in front, because they show the way.” - Lakota Teaching
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The Archetypal Ancestors Oracle deck serves both as a form of divination and transmitter of Ancestral wisdom in a manner that goes to the bone of the human experience. The deck is inspired by the underlying geometry and structure of the I Ching. Archetypal Ancestors are forces that shape the somatic drives and living orientation of the homo-sapiens as a ‘Spiritual Ape’.
This straight talk podcast is an exploration of what it means to live as a fully embodied, 21st-century human still connected to our deep-time hunter-gatherer inheritance. It moves through ancestral healing, embodiment, magic, creative expression, and the long work of aligning with fate and destiny. At the heart of it is the art of divination and the way of the seer: contact with the broader forces at play, and the old craft of reading them.
The Elder Fire podcast combines music, sound effects, timing and rhythm to create a potent sonic medicine meant to help us reconnect to the virtues of the ancient world. Combining themes such as ancestry, animism, deep time, wildness, embodiment, eroticism, alchemy, unlocking genius, the art of practice and surfing fate & destiny.
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