Missing Witches - May 01, 2023


Indigenous Futurism: Granddaughter Crow + Amanda Amour Lynx

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00:00:00.960 Hi folks, it's Risa and Amy here from Missing Witches, inviting you to get involved in our annual raffle in support of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal and Indigenous-run non-profits wherever you live.
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00:01:01.400 Welcome home to the Missing Witches podcast.
00:01:05.060 I feel like elated and joyful and so thankful to get to be in this conversational container right now with two people that over a series of conversations now that span years.
00:01:22.640 I've had the privilege of learning from our guests today and feeling like I fall in love
00:01:30.060 with them, with their vulnerability and their wisdom.
00:01:33.260 And so I hope you, if you are a Missing Witches listener, have had the opportunity to be in
00:01:40.620 Headspace with these voices before.
00:01:43.200 If not, go find them.
00:01:44.960 And today joining us, we have Granddaughter Crow and Amanda Moore-Links.
00:01:51.580 And we step back into circle again to think together today about futurisms, art and work
00:01:58.980 and ritual work and community work that conjures a future, a real future. 0.99
00:02:03.520 I refuse to give up on the fucking future. 0.99
00:02:07.360 And especially Indigenous futurism. 1.00
00:02:09.820 What does that look like?
00:02:11.280 How do we call it for us?
00:02:12.480 What does that feel like for two artists, writers, thinkers, workers, leaders who are
00:02:18.740 Indigenous and are a badass and are here with us today?
00:02:22.200 So that's sort of my introduction.
00:02:24.560 Welcome.
00:02:25.800 Amy, do you want to, before we start, tell us about our annual fundraiser podcast prizes?
00:02:35.040 Podcast prizes.
00:02:37.000 Podcast prizes.
00:02:37.740 Thank you so much, Amanda and GDC, for your patience while I read this prepared speech of instructions. You both have done this before, so you know you have a minute to sit back and relax while I deliver these instructions.
00:02:52.760 Of course, it's Beltane, happy Beltane, which means for us in the Missing Witches' Coven, it's time for our annual fundraiser in support of First Nations women.
00:03:05.220 As always, Risa and I will be contributing our profits for the month of May to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal.
00:03:12.140 all. And as in the past, we're asking our listeners and cup and mates to make a donation,
00:03:19.180 a reparation, wherever you are in the world. We encourage you to find a new local Native
00:03:26.140 women's shelter to support. And we understand that some places don't have First Nations
00:03:30.540 specific orgs, so we'll also accept donations to shelters for vulnerable women and children
00:03:35.700 for sex workers or victims of violence,
00:03:39.420 but we at this time would appreciate a focus
00:03:42.260 on support of Indigenous people.
00:03:44.680 And this year, we've got 20 prizes,
00:03:51.520 like thousands of dollars worth of classes,
00:03:56.880 art, jewelry, readings, books,
00:03:59.600 and more donated by our Covenant Large,
00:04:01.960 and they're waiting to be yours.
00:04:04.140 please stick around to the end of this episode
00:04:05.860 for a reading of the full list of prizes
00:04:08.640 or head to our website now for full descriptions.
00:04:13.320 So here's what you're going to do.
00:04:15.140 This is the important part, everybody.
00:04:17.140 Make your donation of $10 or more.
00:04:20.020 Take a screenshot of your receipt
00:04:21.400 and email it to missingwitches at gmail.com
00:04:24.120 with the subject line reparation.
00:04:25.920 What country you're in,
00:04:27.740 plus the amount of your donation.
00:04:30.880 The amount is important because for every $10,
00:04:33.020 you'll get one entry into the raffle for these prizes.
00:04:36.340 So if you donate $50, you'll get five entries and so on.
00:04:40.400 All of these details will be on our website and our socials.
00:04:43.640 Winners will be chosen at random and announced on June 1st.
00:04:47.160 And as always, every year, this fundraiser is an experiment
00:04:51.480 in what we can do together.
00:04:54.480 So if you think it's a cool idea,
00:04:57.340 please help make it successful by making a small reparation
00:05:00.460 or a large one to first nations women who have been systematically marginalized and disenfranchised
00:05:07.720 both socially and economically together let's raise some real money make real change win prizes
00:05:16.680 and be blown away by what we can do when we work together thank you so much amanda and gdc for
00:05:25.140 helping us open this fundraiser. And you can just go straight to missingwitches.com slash
00:05:32.500 reparations. We'll have all the information there on the details of the prizes and a link to the
00:05:38.680 Native Women's Shelter of Montreal that we support here in Montreal. And if you can't figure out who
00:05:43.900 you want to donate to, send it to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Send some love to
00:05:48.520 our hometown crew. Last year, the Native Women's Shelter got donations from all over the world.
00:05:53.300 So we're grateful to those of you who chose our heartland to make your reparation.
00:06:00.240 Yeah.
00:06:00.820 Anyway, on that note, I wondered if we could start with a reintroduction.
00:06:08.100 We know each other, but we're always new.
00:06:11.180 Who are you today?
00:06:13.600 How are you today?
00:06:16.400 What are you thinking about?
00:06:18.600 What are you passionate about right now?
00:06:20.640 What are you working on?
00:06:22.040 GDC you want to start us off I would love to oh my goodness I love the Missing Witches
00:06:30.980 audience and both of you I and I am just so happy to be here with Amanda this is gonna be great
00:06:39.960 so what I will say is let's kick it off by thinking together feeling together and sending
00:06:49.380 that love out into the world high vibration we are in sacred space in a sacred time let the divine
00:06:57.920 as it reveals itself to you come through any and all of our dialogue today and if it does inspire
00:07:05.860 you feel free to reach out and tell us what that looks like you can of course write the missing
00:07:12.120 witches and they can forward it on to both of us so that we can have this dialogue together so
00:07:18.420 who am I? Well, they call me Granddaughter Crow. I am born to the Bilagana clan for the Ta'achini 0.78
00:07:27.620 clan, a member of the Navajo Nation, as well as Dutch heritage. And I am here to inspire,
00:07:34.600 to encourage, and to empower you to be your authentic self. And I know what that struggle
00:07:43.220 is like, because it took me a long time to figure out what that was. And I do understand the impact
00:07:51.960 not only on First Nation Indigenous, because my father, full-blood Navajo, and me growing up
00:08:00.680 biculturally, and in the 70s, which wasn't as open-minded as we are now, but we still have a
00:08:09.300 ways to go. So in my learning on how to be authentic, I not only reach out to the indigenous
00:08:18.760 people, I also reach out to the LGBTQ plus people, to females, to anybody who feels as though they
00:08:28.860 might be considered quote unquote other. And it's like, this is the opportunity for you to step up,
00:08:35.680 be authentic it is feeling like you're coming home so that's who I am granddaughter crow
00:08:44.220 and I will turn it over to Amanda wow that energetic intro just inspired me so much I
00:08:56.820 gotta like live up to that energy now again amanda amora links you know two spirit my name's
00:09:08.820 amanda amora links my spirit name is a is jalap talk the one who leaves footprints
00:09:15.480 and links in my language is a books again um i'm mi'kmaq first nations with membership at
00:09:25.280 Wagamichuk First Nation in Unamagi territory in Nova Scotia. However, I'm an urban native person
00:09:32.480 who always grew up off reserve. I have mixed heritage with some Scottish and Irish from
00:09:39.160 paternal side of my family that I don't really have strong ties to anymore. It's a complicated
00:09:46.760 history. I'm a two-spirit, neurodivergent individual who works in a variety of mediums
00:09:54.120 and sprinkles myself across a lot of them, including arts and mysticism and cultural
00:10:02.040 practices with community engagement. And what else was I answering? Who am I today?
00:10:12.820 That's a good question. I feel like sometimes we're shapeshifters and we're temporal and
00:10:19.080 float in and out of spaces but I came into this day really present and aware super charged and
00:10:29.500 I was trying to tap into some of that like energy of renewals and endings at the same time
00:10:36.980 being a little bit plugged into the spicy so while we're also tapped into that lateral love
00:10:46.340 and understanding of welcoming ourselves back into our bodies. 1.00
00:10:50.900 I'm also thinking how we could be badass bitches as well 0.93
00:10:57.420 and putting that energy back once it came for things that we're done with 1.00
00:11:05.180 and ready to transmute it into something that could be regenerative
00:11:09.900 regenerative and bring us into spaces that leap and bound us into the future, I guess, which
00:11:19.120 maybe ties into that whole futurism talk in a way, because there are a lot of teachings around
00:11:25.920 seven generations and always being mindful of what's happening in this quantum reality of
00:11:35.100 who's come before us who our ancestors are how do we honor them who are we today who are we in
00:11:42.800 relationship with whether that's our ecologies the land that we're on our friends our lovers
00:11:50.680 our family chosen family the plants and animals and without sounding corny of course but the
00:11:59.240 future as well so the choices that you make today influence and are informed by everything that's
00:12:08.580 come before is happening now and will happen it's kind of kind of wild but it's a it's a practice
00:12:19.000 and mindfulness, I think. And it brings us into that territory of us being very
00:12:26.520 adaptable or ingenious people. We work with our environment and what it tells us.
00:12:36.640 And sometimes that means that we adapt with it through a lot of changes, even dark and
00:12:43.860 unfortunate changes. And we've learned how to be very resourceful with what comes our way.
00:12:50.420 So in thinking about the idea of futurism, you'll see these heads budding around tradition and the
00:12:59.880 new and how you find yourself in the middle. How do you honor all of those states, the past,
00:13:09.040 the present and the future. I love that because I think you hit the nail on the head
00:13:14.660 with the respect of the past, the traditional ways, whatever culture or system you have lived
00:13:25.420 in or generationally in. Some of us are here in this generation to be that change agent,
00:13:32.560 to break those cycles, generational challenges and things like that, to open our heart, to open
00:13:39.280 our mind, but to know where we came from and know who we are and then where we're headed, the balance
00:13:47.080 that we really feel like we are stuck in the middle at times, all of us stuck in the middle
00:13:52.880 between the past and the future. And that mindfulness is so perfect because we can
00:14:00.820 learn, respect, honor, and make change to generational curses, etc. But we do that
00:14:09.260 respectfully and be, like you said, mindful, making choices and decisions authentically
00:14:17.440 and mindfully. That is more of the futuristic idea. So I just wanted to tag along and agree
00:14:25.420 completely with what you just said amanda if i really feel like your art your visual art
00:14:32.840 especially is like a very much an examination of this urban indigeneity it's like fueled by like
00:14:42.220 your your desire to be in touch with your traditional wisdoms but also you you know are
00:14:51.120 using motion design and doing animation online. I mean, I think you already covered this, but I
00:14:58.940 really would love for you to just say a couple more sentences about urban indigeneity and what
00:15:04.480 that means to you and how it comes across in your art. Wow, it's really complicated. We think we're
00:15:10.640 living in a time where we're actively unraveling our inner truths and healing from intergenerational
00:15:19.340 trauma across our, you know, across our generations. And what this ends up looking like
00:15:26.820 is trying to deconstruct what's a colonial narrative and what's our way of caring for
00:15:34.760 each other and looking at the world. So one thing I'll say right off the bat is that the
00:15:42.220 apartheid that is the reservation system the ways that governments have forced us into these
00:15:52.880 community pockets that kind of isolated us from our our resources and the ways that we ancestrally
00:16:02.100 know the place that we come from and having to restart and rebuild has made that way of looking
00:16:10.980 at our communities complex and sometimes a bit to disseminate when it comes to role in social
00:16:22.980 acceptance and what we see as cities and urban development these are also our traditional
00:16:34.440 territories these are places that were very rich with our own land-based knowledges as well
00:16:40.160 It's just been developed upon so much. I think particularly about all the time I've spent
00:16:47.480 in Toronto and how that entire infrastructure is developed upon the waterways there. And
00:16:56.360 in addition to that, the first buildings and developments happened along that waterway.
00:17:04.680 And so a lot of the contracts in that place, the agreements that are made around what's to happen in a place, it's still there, but it looks different now.
00:17:18.500 And so when I think about being urban Indigenous, I think about having feet in both worlds in a way, but also that distinct separation that you can feel from your home community.
00:17:36.300 and coming back into that and feeling like you have a direct channel or source to talking
00:17:47.000 to the place that you reside and finding your own personal connection can get a little bit
00:17:54.200 staticky. You aren't able to see it as clearly because of all of the things that they built
00:18:01.000 on top of it. There's a Starbucks there. There's a Winners now. There's a parking lot where they're
00:18:05.960 It used to be like, I don't know, a trading post or a lodge or maybe some place that like somebody lived or burial mounds that are in parking lots that get unearthed whenever landscapers get hired to do a contract.
00:18:24.080 So when it comes to that, I feel like treading gently because people have very varied and distinct lived experiences living in either place.
00:18:39.640 And neither is more valid or invalid than the other.
00:18:45.140 and we're all actively trying to do that work of just trying to feel okay and being connected to
00:18:52.760 the things that we need to to carry us in our journey thinking about the art piece and the
00:19:02.040 the mediums I use I think I might have like segued very far into place rather than the process of
00:19:11.000 make an art but it's a it's a new medium that I've been trying and it's been it's been nurtured
00:19:16.400 in me by some very helpful people in my life to push me into learning to work in the digital
00:19:26.100 learning to work with things like extended reality or in VR and I am not the best at it
00:19:38.160 I'm just a baby. I'm just learning. And I just kind of get amused by the tiniest little thing
00:19:45.340 that ends up like working out visually. But often they're kind of incomplete thoughts or
00:19:52.340 mistakes or accidents. But in a way that sounds and feels quite a bit like that experience of
00:19:59.860 coming back into your identity and finding that path and trying to hear that louder in yourself.
00:20:07.640 GDC, I was thinking about you when Amanda used the phrase, the staticky-ness of being between.
00:20:17.880 Do you want to think out loud about your own experience of that?
00:20:21.440 I mean, in leadership spaces, in academic spaces, spiritually religious spaces, your own culture,
00:20:28.600 you seem like someone who's deeply navigated that staticky-ness in a way that sort of resonates
00:20:35.480 gently from you, like you figured something out. Sure. So when I hear that, I really do feel
00:20:43.200 once again, that we are sitting in a space between the past and the future. And the now
00:20:52.540 is right here. And when we feel the static, it's almost like this resonance from the past and this
00:21:00.260 anticipation for the future and wanting to make clear decisive choices in order to make sure that
00:21:08.540 you're proud of what you do tomorrow, you know, but in that, I would say that the static could
00:21:15.720 also be kind of like how I would, when I feel that, you know, it, it also feels like life.
00:21:27.280 it feels like something that I am creating not predetermined destiny that I have a part to play
00:21:37.900 in what I say what I do I get to feel all of my feelings and which what's interesting to me is
00:21:45.520 currently I am in the middle of writing a book next book coming out and it doesn't have a title
00:21:52.420 yet, but it really has to do with the intelligence of the four bodies of existence and the intelligence
00:22:00.560 of the four bodies of existence being the mental, spiritual, physical, you know, emotional
00:22:07.360 and the intellect that colonization, thought processes, governmental policies, legislation,
00:22:19.320 blah blah blah systems of thinking has actually moved us away from feeling okay with feeling what
00:22:27.380 we feel and moved us away from being what we are and so in this book I really get into it
00:22:35.780 it is so empowering there is science within it like for example the left hemisphere is all about
00:22:43.580 logic and you know the language the right hemisphere is all about creativity we know this
00:22:50.880 to be true this is scientifically explored but then how does the left hemisphere approach the
00:22:57.620 world and how does the right hemisphere approach the world well the left hemisphere will say oh
00:23:05.720 this is logical i will learn from my past and i will create project for my future you know what
00:23:12.320 the writer does it sees everything holistically within the moment it sees it understands the
00:23:20.440 paradox that we are in it understands empathy it is not judgmental and it resonates into these
00:23:29.600 pictures which i think lynx is expressing you know amanda is expressing in in the artwork
00:23:36.360 And it's like we need to tap into our right hemisphere of connectivity, logic, connectivity, and creativity.
00:23:47.080 So here's the difference.
00:23:48.580 The left hemisphere, when I look at the hand, the hand right in front of my face that I've risen, I say left hemisphere says, this is my hand.
00:23:59.700 You know what the right hemisphere says?
00:24:02.360 This is me.
00:24:03.720 so if we can begin to think in terms of this is me i am you you are me we are different expressions
00:24:15.740 of this wonderful thing and yeah there's going to be a little static but caffeinate your life
00:24:22.860 babies because here we come i'm so excited and really want to read this book you're writing
00:24:29.640 That's amazing. I think when it comes to the type of artwork that explores new media and these digital types of worlds, often in that type of art, you have individualism.
00:24:48.640 You have very much the idea of autonomy, getting things faster, things like AI, things that are programmable, reproducible, and carbon copy. And this goes against our worldview. This goes against the way that we see things.
00:25:08.820 So when using a medium like that, it's this paradoxical juxtaposition of those two states where we're in a little new worldview.
00:25:25.900 Albert Marshall talks about and Rodina Marshall talks about two-eyed seeing at Iwata. And what
00:25:33.740 this is, is looking at the two ways that we are in the world right now through the eyes of
00:25:41.200 white man or however you want to say that through that colonial lens and with that language. And
00:25:51.580 then in our language and the way that we see things that are relational and reciprocal and
00:25:57.360 never without community. You're kind of looking at the networks as like a tree and root system
00:26:05.460 or something that is very interconnected with everything that's around it. And
00:26:11.740 fusing those two ways of looking together is where you find that balance. And it's never
00:26:20.140 one over the other. It's a type of cleverness, in a sense, where you're thinking about it
00:26:27.720 partially as a politician of like, how do I mediate interesting views of looking at the world,
00:26:33.860 but as well accepting and acknowledging that we're in, I forget the word exactly, but where
00:26:43.620 you have like a mix of many people and perspectives. Like we just live in a different
00:26:49.320 place now. And those things that are with us aren't really going away anytime soon. And I guess
00:26:58.460 if you're thinking about it on a truth and reconciliation level, where it's like you need
00:27:04.320 the truth before you can reconcile, you can't really skip the steps. You have to look at what's
00:27:09.080 really there. And so in the artwork, it traipses this line between how do I bring my community
00:27:20.140 with me? How do I use digital storytelling to keep our cultures alive and preserve it,
00:27:28.540 but also in a way that's sovereign, that doesn't respect closed practices and looks at those
00:27:37.060 as well as some of our more ancestral practices with materials connecting with things that are
00:27:47.400 very much alive animals and plants the ways that we gift and use generosity and have protocol around
00:27:59.080 how we tend to things and how we make always putting something of ourselves and giving it
00:28:05.380 way if we're going to ever take something into ourselves. And so a lot of the new ways of
00:28:18.940 making art with some of these more techie mediums is shifting that individualism to a place where
00:28:32.520 you can vision something as an alternative or an intervention.
00:28:41.760 Recently, I was using it visually to try to connect to the place that my great-grandmother
00:28:52.480 grew up and the water that she likely spent a lot of time near.
00:29:00.140 And I haven't really been in that place to visit myself.
00:29:03.920 There's a lot of barriers to really get myself that direction going out east.
00:29:09.940 And so that was my way to be in ceremony with myself.
00:29:12.820 That was my way to say, I may not be able to be there physically, but I can tap into that whenever I want.
00:29:19.560 And I could talk to her whenever I want.
00:29:22.140 And these are conduits.
00:29:28.040 They're ways that we facilitate it.
00:29:29.900 the same way that we use divination, like tarot and any other kind of scrying or even speaking
00:29:36.720 to our inner self. But it's also, how can that be collaborative as well? You can do your individual
00:29:43.280 storytelling, but you can also think about what are dialogues I really want to have happen that
00:29:50.920 I can visually represent here that bring our values and represent who we feel we are things
00:30:01.140 that are by us and for us they're not interjected by the gaze of someone that wants us to package
00:30:09.020 ourselves in a palatable way that is doing lip service to their cause to their ideas of
00:30:18.720 reconciliation and just kind of unapologetically exist and say if you get my iconography you get
00:30:26.180 what I'm putting down my motifs those ways that I'm talking about the way I see the world there's
00:30:32.900 an instant recognition that happens between people that are the same and that ripples forward I think
00:30:41.300 to see someone do that and almost think, well, I could do that too. Or that was actually something
00:30:49.580 I was thinking as well, but I didn't think it was possible. Or maybe I just feel less shame
00:30:54.700 or embarrassment around that idea. So I might try it.
00:30:59.940 i mean yeah here's to here's to being inspired by seeing each of us release shame
00:31:10.080 step by step gdc would you extrapolate forward from that idea towards thinking about
00:31:21.600 Indigenous futurisms, Indigenous futures. I feel like Amanda just seeded a lot of ways
00:31:30.280 of thinking about how that emerges and what it looks like. Do you want to pick up any of those
00:31:35.040 seeds? Oh, absolutely. I think that there was a lot that they threw down. One part that I was
00:31:43.140 connecting with was the idea that we are living in a duality or a dualistic time. And how do we
00:31:51.300 balance duality? How do we balance opposites, whether it's the white body thinking and speaking
00:31:58.080 versus the red body thinking or speaking moreover than to the black body or to the yellow body or 0.67
00:32:06.520 to the brown body. There's all these different ways of thinking and approaching the world from,
00:32:12.620 like I was talking about the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. Well, heck, let's take it a
00:32:17.160 step further from the head and the heart, from the I and the you, from the masculine and the feminine
00:32:22.800 side within all of us. And what I would say is that's your counsel, people. Those dualistic
00:32:33.140 approaches are board members at your table, providing you with different perspectives.
00:32:41.360 Now, you are the one who gets to make the final decision.
00:32:45.440 But in order to hear the whole lay of the land, you need to listen to what each side
00:32:50.080 is saying.
00:32:51.500 So a lot of times, you know, I just kind of look at, you know, the differences, even when
00:32:57.900 I come to the table of somebody who I'm like, that's not how I perceive the world.
00:33:02.900 They're perceiving it from a completely different way.
00:33:05.740 I still want to listen because I'm going to learn something. 0.63
00:33:09.380 And the truth is, a lot of us, I know this to be true on the Missing Witches people, but we are all headed in the same direction.
00:33:20.080 We are just doing it from different ways, and we see things from different places.
00:33:26.280 I loved what they said about the idea of the animistic world, meaning that everything has a soul.
00:33:35.900 Everything is alive.
00:33:37.580 The water is alive. The stone is alive. The animal is alive. You are alive. And when we work to create a world, futuristic thinking, we need to have those dualities and we need to rely on the animism and the wisdom that is within the natural world and how we individually respond to that.
00:34:04.560 So I would also say I love the idea of being able to sit under that tree and see what you see.
00:34:17.040 And maybe you're just like, oh, am I supposed to listen to the tree?
00:34:21.400 And you think the tree is going to speak to you in English.
00:34:24.980 The tree doesn't speak in English.
00:34:27.060 It speaks in body language.
00:34:29.080 It speaks in vibration.
00:34:30.740 So what is it saying to you?
00:34:33.960 And then what is it saying collectively? You cannot be a complete, mindful, authentic being unless you can hear yourself. All of the duality. And I love the idea of leaning into that which might have been shamed from a societal point of view.
00:34:57.740 And you being curious about it or leaning into that uncomfortability, because the truth is, is that what if it's not shameful? It was just said that it was supposed to be shameful. What if you are a representation of what the future looks like, but you can only get there because you can hear yourself and then you join in circle and we collectively do it.
00:35:24.280 Love the idea of doing this through art, because art holds a vibration that is louder than words.
00:35:31.920 I myself am not a per se artist in the different modalities.
00:35:39.340 I am an artist in concepts.
00:35:43.160 I write books.
00:35:44.860 I weave people together.
00:35:47.260 I weave things.
00:35:48.760 so my artistic abilities are seen in this spiritual mental realm and every once in a while
00:35:55.100 I'll write it down on paper and then people will read what I say and then they're like oh is this
00:35:59.200 what you meant and I'm like I don't know is that what I said to you so I love the idea of the
00:36:05.060 collective the individual expression and the collective and what that looks like what does
00:36:11.160 it say to you because your voice matters and in order for us to move into a future well by God we
00:36:17.860 have a great responsibility, the first thing that we need to do is move into our self and our
00:36:22.720 authenticity. We all feel like we are in between. We all feel shame. We all feel liberated. We all
00:36:30.100 feel blah, blah, blah, blah. So feel what you feel. And then, and only then can you literally
00:36:36.480 help understand, respect what you know. And then, and only then can you respect the community and
00:36:43.800 that which is outside of yourself. Start from point A, which is the self. Connect with point B,
00:36:51.100 which is the natural world. Let it speak to you. Understand that these dualities are both a part
00:36:57.620 of your counsel, even if you don't like one and you get to know more. So I would say that everything
00:37:04.460 that links, Amanda links, I just keep calling you links, but Amanda links throws down is this idea
00:37:11.420 that the way that we can process together starts with you processing here first inside
00:37:20.400 and expressing yourself, even if you think it was a mistake or an error. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it
00:37:29.580 was your authenticity. Maybe you're embarrassed because you're not supposed to draw outside the
00:37:34.760 line. But I think that that's where we began outside the line. I mean, I was totally shook
00:37:40.620 and had to stop to write down maybe it's not shame maybe you're the future oh also when you said
00:37:47.020 we're all going the same direction i think i saw amy get hit in the heart with that
00:37:51.240 yeah because those feel like really powerful reassuring things to hear right now amanda do
00:38:01.360 you want to pick up this idea of the any of the ideas you just heard there but also i wonder in
00:38:07.640 particular but the idea of picking up voices of picking up voices of the collective of the voices
00:38:13.660 of your council the voices you know and and how does that if it does play into a future
00:38:22.160 I love what you said I get taken aback this like the beauty and profoundness of the ways that you
00:38:32.380 wheeze like you said you're a weaver it very much does sound exactly like the way that you
00:38:39.900 draw from the world and bring all of these concepts and themes together
00:38:47.860 really have a lot of gratitude for that insight I think that drawing from the collective and that
00:38:57.400 weaving is an interesting practice where inadvertently by experiencing the cosmos,
00:39:14.480 experiencing the energy around us, we're all mirroring and grappling with that vibration
00:39:27.480 coming out. I draw a lot of that reference with astrology and the ways that even though
00:39:35.400 our charts our individual lives might be different the ways that transits are happening
00:39:45.240 in the collective as those planetary bodies and celestial things are moving
00:39:53.180 and always in flux in these very unique geometric combinations they
00:40:01.440 affect us similarly but differently so where we would experience it maybe
00:40:13.120 maybe for one person it has to do with like their their identity and their inner self
00:40:21.780 and for another it has to do with their parents or their assets or properties or their relationships
00:40:30.660 and we're all kind of looking at the same thing from multiple perspectives and kind of coming
00:40:40.060 into it somewhere in the hubris of it all and what ends up happening a lot of the time is
00:40:49.440 the moment someone starts talking about what's going on in their life
00:40:55.680 you can apply it to oh that sounds a little bit similar but maybe just manifest it slightly
00:41:04.320 different or i see myself in it and why you open up to speaking what you might feel
00:41:15.280 unsure about or maybe you feel like it's tmi or it's a little bit too personal or
00:41:24.720 even in some cases a little bit too woo for whoever you're in company with and that's when
00:41:34.780 you realize that you're being visited by the same omens and the same
00:41:42.520 visions or the same words will pop up or the same like I don't know lately it's been birds and crows
00:41:53.480 And yep, here you are. But there was a, like a few weeks ago, all of these running themes with seemingly disconnected people were all on the same tangent. And I was like, if you only knew that I was just talking to someone else about this thing.
00:42:14.040 But in addition to that, it's letting that discomfort of saying what you think might not be okay breathe into existence.
00:42:29.020 a little bit about the spirit name i carry the one who leaves footprints it's a weird thing that
00:42:39.040 i'm still trying to understand it's a new name i've been given but a lot of it has to do with
00:42:43.800 well if you think about footprints and making treads someone has to start first and what
00:42:52.120 happens to the person that starts first sometimes that looks like persecution or confusion or threat
00:43:01.280 why are you being different it's shown in a lot of people that are standing up for oppression
00:43:08.520 whether that's from their race or culture their position in the world their gender
00:43:15.720 as well as their neurotype and whenever someone kind of goes out of the box you see things that
00:43:25.360 kind of trickle in like either persecution or revolution and that is making footprints
00:43:34.240 it's kind of saying if I realized that that path that I was going on isn't for me
00:43:44.800 it doesn't serve me that's someone else's path or maybe I just don't like how it's going
00:43:51.300 maybe that's going towards the apocalypse on a civilizational level and I want to be a little
00:43:59.380 bit more sustainable or think about coming back into ways that are more caring whatever it might
00:44:05.280 be it could just be an active rebellion too that's also totally fine it could be simple as that of
00:44:11.040 just being, yeah, I'm different today, just doing it different. That tread is also neuroplasticity.
00:44:20.760 So in the ways that we look at recovery from injury, recovery from trauma, what
00:44:31.660 I guess different therapies look at is the way that you rewrite your narratives by doing something
00:44:42.340 differently. If something's been the same your whole life, you aren't going to get a different
00:44:50.020 result. And if you're suffering from it, like I do live with PTSD and reliving and looping on a fear
00:44:59.000 or a threat is something that is a reality that I face that I do a lot of self work to
00:45:08.380 make more tolerable and more manageable and neuroplasticity is like that looking at
00:45:14.720 it kind of like when you're walking through a park and you see there's kind of like a dirt path
00:45:23.560 because people walked along that way for long enough time that the grass doesn't grow anymore
00:45:28.300 there but if you walk across the grass maybe the first time you walk that way you're maybe just
00:45:36.640 stamping the grass down a little bit still alive and it might spring back up but if you do it long
00:45:42.740 enough you do have that new root and they could both exist still but they are they're adjacent
00:45:52.000 their choices. And sometimes you would walk and revisit the old paths and that might help you
00:46:00.240 in that moment. It might give you some insight or medicine. And if it's maladaptive, if it causes
00:46:06.880 you to suffer, you can, but you have a little other direction you can go into.
00:46:12.020 My mom's a psychologist. She always says neurons that fire together, wire together.
00:46:16.660 it's like a catchphrase from when you're in school studying that stuff that like you you can
00:46:22.820 actually associate new paths with good feelings and make those paths happen again it is something
00:46:32.160 we're capable of and if we face a fear and we avoid it then that fear gets bigger like we
00:46:37.540 we live in a world that is plastic and our choices are part of it we literally do make the future
00:46:44.700 it's a real thing we can believe in amy do you have a closing question or feeling well
00:46:52.860 i do want to say before we we come back to our our guests for their closing thoughts and ideas
00:46:59.620 and ways that our listeners can support you i just want to remind everybody that this conversation
00:47:04.980 is part of a fundraiser and everything that we've been talking about today can sort of feed into
00:47:12.120 that idea that we're all inadvertently experiencing the cosmos, but that we have the ability to
00:47:19.360 rewrite a narrative. A lot of us are in this space listening right now who are experiencing shame
00:47:26.820 or guilt or who are unsure or sucked into believing the ultimate capitalist and colonial
00:47:35.480 lie that individualism is possible and sustainable. And so what we would love for you to do is take
00:47:43.520 this idea that Amanda brought of being in ceremony with myself and make your reparation part of a
00:47:51.040 ceremony that you do with yourself. If it helps, think of it as a ritual sacrifice. Think of it
00:47:58.060 as making amends or giving a gift or, you know, honoring that part of you, that board of directors
00:48:06.380 that GDC talks about that lives inside each of us. Make your reparation, make your donation.
00:48:13.900 We'll give you all the details in a minute, but really think about it as being in ceremony with
00:48:22.100 yourself and making a ritual sacrifice that can help to rewrite the narrative for all of us.
00:48:30.300 We're in this together, and hopefully we are all going in the same direction, and that
00:48:37.580 direction is, you know, decolonizing. It's land back. It's changing the way we think about other
00:48:45.720 people, quote unquote, other people, you know, we're witches. We have the benefit of recognizing
00:48:52.100 that we are all one, but we still need to manifest that heart energy and put it into the world. When
00:48:58.900 we are investing in our community, we are investing in ourselves. And again, we would love for you to
00:49:06.460 take this opportunity, if you felt inspired by something that you heard today, to go into ceremony
00:49:12.560 with yourself and make that ritual sacrifice, put some finances into the hands of an organization
00:49:18.580 that deserves it, not just needs it or wants it, but that deserves our support.
00:49:25.200 So I want to go back to GDC. I want to go back to Amanda. If you have any more words of wisdom
00:49:32.040 to help inflate the balloon that is my heart and mind right now, and also if you could add in,
00:49:38.700 And if our listeners want to support you individually, GDC, you can tell us about your books.
00:49:43.820 And Amanda, whatever you have that our listeners can throw money at, please tell us about it.
00:49:52.060 Perfect.
00:49:52.580 Well, I will definitely say that I've really enjoyed, once again, being in Sacred Space with the missing witches and everybody that listens.
00:50:03.160 I know that I have met several of you.
00:50:06.300 I look forward to meeting more of you.
00:50:08.700 granddaughter crow here www.granddaughtercrow.com i have a patreon yes i do patreon granddaughter
00:50:20.440 crow is on patreon i do weekly quick weekly reads on my youtube channel granddaughter crow has a
00:50:28.620 youtube channel so just look me up you can find it all on www.granddaughtercrow.com quick books
00:50:35.760 I wrote The Journey of the Soul, The Path of a Medicine Woman.
00:50:39.360 I wrote Wisdom of the Natural World, Spiritual and Practical Teachings by Plants, Animals,
00:50:45.680 and Mother Earth.
00:50:46.420 This might be a really good one for you guys to go and get so that you'll be able to understand
00:50:51.740 a little bit more about what communing in nature can look like.
00:50:57.260 And then I have Belief Being and Beyond, Your Journey to Questioning Ideas, Deconstructing
00:51:04.280 concepts and healing from harmful belief systems all of these you can get you know have your local
00:51:10.540 bookstore order them for you go to amazon whatever it is that you want to do before i give parting
00:51:15.860 words of wisdom i do want to invite everybody every sunday 2 p.m eastern time 11 a.m pacific time
00:51:25.940 granddaughter crow has the circle it is it doesn't cost a lot to join but we talk about these
00:51:34.200 wonderful topics every week we're throwing down. And then afterward, we do a social circle where
00:51:41.700 you can just kind of get to know everybody on Zoom. What would I say as words of wisdom?
00:51:47.460 I would say today, thank you for listening to us, but moreover, listen to yourself
00:51:56.060 and write those things down that you hear
00:52:00.060 and let your most dominant voices be nice to you.
00:52:08.660 Let the most dominant thoughts be your friend.
00:52:12.960 And if they're not, let's work on that
00:52:15.960 because you weren't born to be mean to yourself.
00:52:19.340 You were not born to be mean to yourself.
00:52:22.080 and so and if you have these dominant thoughts that are mean to you get some get some talk to
00:52:31.040 missing witches you know we'll help you out with that go get a journal and of course I do one-on-one
00:52:37.120 sessions and right now I have deals going on www.granddaughtercrow.com if you want to learn
00:52:45.000 more, you've got to check out the website. But listen to yourself and make sure that all of the
00:52:52.300 voices that you hear within yourself, make sure if they're mean to you, that's not original. If
00:52:59.080 they are nice to you or curious, that is you. Your curiosity is your internal compass to lead you to
00:53:08.400 your authenticity. Do not be ashamed of what you are curious about. Be curious.
00:53:15.200 Randotter Crowe signing off. I just want to quickly add that GDC right before this call,
00:53:23.160 right before this interview, wrote to let us know that she's donating three one-on-one,
00:53:28.740 one-hour sessions to the prizes that you could possibly win by making a donation to the Montreal
00:53:35.700 Native Women's Shelter. I know from having spent one-on-one time with GDC that you will really,
00:53:40.860 really benefit and enjoy those fucking times. She's just the best. Amanda Links, do you have 0.99
00:53:48.720 words coming through you for what we can learn from you and how we can support you and throw
00:53:53.760 money at you and more love? Y'all are so amazing. I really love all of the things that you believe in
00:54:03.820 and the causes that you stand behind and every time I have the opportunity to
00:54:11.200 spend time with you I just feel so blessed with insight and this like rejuvenation inside like
00:54:19.700 it's very charging and fulfilling and I don't really have a plug like I don't think I'm wired
00:54:27.800 that way I was like oh I didn't even think about that so the the thing that maybe is connecting
00:54:39.140 with some of that wise counsel messaging that Randar Crowe sharing around those voices that
00:54:48.980 are like mean to you versus the ones that are like supportive of your path the thing that I'm
00:54:55.240 coming with today in my own you know my own life is the feeling of shock and what happens in your
00:55:07.480 body when you're shook and sometimes things happen where you'll have gut feelings and impressions or
00:55:21.660 fears trickle through, and they might disguise themselves as intuition. They might disguise
00:55:28.440 themselves as self-preservation or protection. And sometimes it is true. And maybe in that sense,
00:55:41.060 being forgiving with yourself if, say, you say no to something you really wish you could do,
00:55:49.680 or you really thought that you could participate in,
00:55:53.520 but it just, it's not working.
00:55:57.060 It's like you're feeling crummy,
00:56:01.640 you're feeling stressed, whatever it might be.
00:56:05.940 And knowing that whatever is aligning with you
00:56:14.340 will come your way.
00:56:16.560 and that idea of shock as well it's it's a cataclysmic it brings about external changes
00:56:26.580 sometimes the hardest experiences like losing someone you care about or something that gave
00:56:34.120 us security that isn't there anymore you know we can sometimes spiral out we can
00:56:41.600 feel unsure try to continue on autopilot and kind of not hear ourselves and what we're what
00:56:52.900 our bodies are asking us for and in the gentleness of our nature and trying to
00:57:05.900 give yourself enough room I mean sometimes you don't have a choice sometimes it's like
00:57:10.960 you got to pack your house up last minute and this is your one way out. You'll sleep later.
00:57:17.540 I get that. But also being patient with that process and saying, you know, this
00:57:26.340 is opening me up to something as well. As much as it's an ending, it's a way forward.
00:57:34.420 it's kind of the feeling I have currently that you
00:57:41.100 are doing what you need to do and just do just do it you know we're we'll all we'll all do it
00:57:53.220 one step at a time in terms of charities and causes and things that are going on there's
00:58:02.780 some really cool work that is happening in my little circle of networks that i've made recently
00:58:12.120 one is with an initiative called slow studies collectives and
00:58:19.980 it's a group of 10 of us who are immersed in this mentorship with meta and joshua conrad who
00:58:32.220 created this program for us as Indigenous artists to learn how to use AR in our artwork. So making
00:58:39.180 Instagram filters and looking at that expanded way of looking at reality and taking our mediums,
00:58:47.640 our beadwork, our dotums, or those types of motifs from each of our distinct cultures in
00:58:55.660 that cohort that we're in and you know instead of like a puppy dog filter with the tongue sticking
00:59:02.800 out like what if it's like your your culture what if it's deeply representative of you I think that's
00:59:11.580 really cool there are people that are doing that work to shift shift narratives and look at things
00:59:20.260 in that new way and so I don't know like I think it's really cool thank you so much for having me
00:59:27.940 here and giving me space to talk and thinking that it's like what I have to say is worth the time
00:59:38.260 like it's it's very very encouraging and motivating and builds my self-esteem up and
00:59:47.720 you know like I don't I didn't come with a lot of it so maybe that's a message I want to impart
00:59:53.540 as well as like you might not see yourself as someone that has a voice but you do and there
01:00:02.660 are people that believe in what you have to say because it teaches us something everything is a
01:00:10.600 gift that shows us how to be in relationship with with you and maybe something else too
01:00:21.680 so beautifully said thank you so much for that everything is a gift that teaches us how to be
01:00:29.040 in relation with you and maybe someone else too is like so dear it's the smallest most like humble
01:00:36.880 hope that is actually right at the heart of the most profound desire for connection in all of us
01:00:42.980 so i have little tears it was really perfectly said thanks for being here everyone both of you
01:00:52.120 and everyone who's here in the space between our ears thanks for listening remember to stick around
01:00:58.500 to the very tail end of the episode when you'll get the full list of prizes that are available to
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01:01:35.540 it's a moment that you can take and a thing that you can do that is very very real and practical
01:01:40.640 but also like hella spiritual and you know collaborative hella thanks so much blessed 0.98
01:01:48.720 fucking me blessed fucking me so here is the full list of prizes get ready the list is long deep 0.98
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