Deena Metzger is a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman who has taught and counseled for over forty years, in the process of which she has developed therapies (Healing Stories) which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emotional crises, as well as community, political and environmental disintegration. With her husband, writer/healer Michael Ortiz Hill, she has introduced the concept of Daré, meaning Council, to North America.
She is the author of many books, the most recent: La Negra y Blanca (“a novel of the Conquest of the Americas and of hope, where wisdom leaks through misty realms between memory and imagination”).
Deena speaks with Joanna about the characters of her latest book “La Negra y Blanca”, grounded visions, the coming shift, making alliances and restoring a right relationship with the Earth and all beings, “the conquest never ended”, the helping guide of the ancestors, the process of peace-making, “the way of story”…
Music: “No soy de aquí ni soy de allá” (I’m not from here, I’m not from there) by Facundo Cabral
Deena’s Photo: courtesy www.deenametzger.com
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A profound interview. In the spirit of council, it leaves me with this question:
“How might I continue to heal the split between my comfort creature self and my earth-loving self?”
Thank you, Deena and Joanna.
Graces,
James