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[Un]Conscious Colonialism: Why is Native Spirituality a Pagan Genre?

4/30/2023

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Presentation by Pegi Eyers at Harvard Divinity School Conference 2023  
Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities


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The theme for the spring 2023 conference hosted by Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality was the Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. With over 100 exciting speakers, panelists, workshops and keynotes, the conference included a presentation by Pegi Eyers entitled [Un]Conscious Colonialism: Why is Native Spirituality a Pagan Genre?  Three days of panels and workshops were devoted to the theme, and other aspects of alternative spirituality were offered. The conference explored a two-fold reality: alternative spiritualities can be enormously empowering for people who participate in them, but they can also be sites of deeply harmful abuses of power. Sessions explored both sides of this reality, and fostered open-hearted dialogue between those who benefited from alternative spiritualities, and those who experienced significant harm. For the purposes of the conference, “alternative spiritualities” were broadly defined in keeping with the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality’s mission to support the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions. 
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[Un]Conscious Colonialism: Why is Native Spirituality a Pagan Genre? ​

Entrenched definitions and genres are incredibly hard to dismantle, even those created in the early days of modern Pagan and New Age modalities. And yet what if those original definitions were blind spots rooted in an [un]conscious colonialism? Found within Pagan and New Age spaces for decades now, the subgenre of “Native Spirituality” has been a convenience directed entirely by white people. In today’s hopeful climate of Turtle Island First Nations resurgence and healing, and in alignment with anti-racism, social justice and uncolonization efforts everywhere, the interrogation of the “Native Spirituality” subgenre is long overdue. Led by a white anti-racism educator and scholar-practitioner of the ancestral arts, [Un]Conscious Colonialism – Why is ‘Native Spirituality a Pagan Genre? will conclude with a loving encouragement to examine the harm in our spiritual practice(s) and make change. Today, examining our white privilege and challenging racism, have become positive aspects of a holistic spirituality.

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Pegi Eyers is the author of  "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community" an award-winning book that explores strategies for uncolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon. ​

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The Important Difference Between Decolonization and Uncolonization PART 2

4/19/2023

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With Tanya Rodriguez and Pegi Eyers


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Canadian Ecopsychology Network


Decolonization is specific to the systemic and political process of First Nations Peoples, who are actively liberating their communities and their land from colonial rule. Uncolonization is universal terminology, for all peoples on the journey to undo, unlearn, and unpack colonial programming. Learn the crucial difference between "decolonize" and "uncolonize" in the second part of this timely presentation, and how to use the correct terms as we all unlearn colonial conditioning.  Our hope is that this webinar will assist you in the use of "decolonize" and "uncolonize" in your own work.

Tanya Rodriguez is Executive Director with the National Institute for Racial Equity, Commission Chair Human Relations Commission, City of Asheville, and an Educator. She is known by many as a fierce Boriqua that speaks truth to power and is fearless in dismantling the systems of oppression.
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Pegi Eyers is the author of the award-winning book "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community," a survey on social justice, nature spirituality, earth-emergent healing and the holistic principles of sustainable living. Pegi self-identifies as a Celtic Animist, and is an advocate for the recovery of authentic ancestral wisdom and traditions for all people.

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Ecopsychology Café - Decolonize // Uncolonize Part II with Tanya Rodriguez & Pegi Eyers from Carol Koziol on Vimeo.

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Decolonization, A Guidebook For Settlers Living On Stolen Land  
by Tanya Rodriguez >LINK<

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Pegi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon

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NATURE CALLING

4/14/2023

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Pegi Eyers with Geoff Berry, PhD


How do we get our own stories back, if we are not Indigenous to the land we live on? This is what Indigenous leaders have been asking non-Aboriginal peoples to do for some time. Don’t just seek the wisdom of the local elders and their nature spirituality, but respect it while figuring out your own relationship with place, remembering your own cultural heritage. Pegi Eyers has spent her life doing this, with lots of lived experience in Canada and a yearning to know her own Celtic heritage better. Hear about this mix as well as examples from her book Ancient Spirit Rising, as she chats with Dr Geoff Berry.
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#ecopsychology #ecotherapy #place #belonging #nature #ancestors #wisdom #elders #spirit


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NATURE CALLING

Deepen your connection with nature! The Nature Calling YouTube channel features guided meditations that take you on a journey to your deeper, more nature-connected self, conversations with experts in the field, sumptuous audiovisuals of beautiful places and sounds, rituals and exercises designed to help you reconnect. All curated or produced by Dr Geoff Berry, Australian Representative to the International Ecopsychology Society, and presenter of the Advanced Certificate in Ecotherapy.  
Nature Calling website 
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Read more on social justice, ethnocultural recovery, settler re-landing, rewilding, ancestral connections, sacred land and animism in 
Ancient Spirit Rising:
​Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community

Available from Amazon >here<

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Decolonization & Uncolonization PART 1

10/19/2022

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With Tanya Rodriguez and Pegi Eyers


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Canadian Ecopsychology Network


Decolonization is specific to the systemic and political process of First Nations Peoples, who are actively liberating their communities and their land from colonial rule. Uncolonization is universal terminology, for all peoples on the journey to undo, unlearn, and unpack colonial programming. Learn the crucial difference between "decolonize" and "uncolonize" in the second part of this timely presentation, and how to use the correct terms as we all unlearn colonial conditioning.  Our hope is that this webinar will assist you in the use of "decolonize" and "uncolonize" in your own work.

Tanya Rodriguez is Executive Director with the National Institute for Racial Equity, Commission Chair Human Relations Commission, City of Asheville, and an Educator. She is known by many as a fierce Boriqua that speaks truth to power and is fearless in dismantling the systems of oppression.
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Pegi Eyers is the author of the award-winning book "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community," a survey on social justice, nature spirituality, earth-emergent healing and the holistic principles of sustainable living. Pegi self-identifies as a Celtic Animist, and is an advocate for the recovery of authentic ancestral wisdom and traditions for all people.

Video Recording / Replay Link

Ecopsychology Café - Decolonize & Uncolonize with Tanya Rodriguez & Pegi Eyers from Carol Koziol on Vimeo.

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RESOURCE
Decolonization, A Guidebook For Settlers Living On Stolen Land  
by Tanya Rodriguez >LINK<

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Pegi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon

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Is it Universalism - or is it White Privilege?

2/7/2022

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PEGI EYERS

2021 Parliament of the World's Religions 


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This recording of the break-out session by Pegi Eyers, author of Ancient Spirit Rising, followed "Plenary 2: Hope and Inspiration."  Join the conversation as we take a new look at spiritual paths we have normalized, in today’s polyglot world of religious expression. Many of the practices we take for granted have only been made possible by white privilege, and in recent decades, by an unfortunate breach of cultural boundaries. Do members of the dominant society – white people – really need to make Kemetism, vodun, hoodoo, curanderismo, ayahuasca, shamanism, yoga and even Buddhism our own, and bypass the treasures in our own ethnocultures? 

Destructive forces such as colonialism, capitalism, globalization and homogeneity have made it appear that religions and spiritualities are “universal” but this is not necessarily so. Once we understand the truth of our own positionality and the oppressor-oppressed dynamic, we are able to embrace spiritualities that do not harm other cultures. In an era of hopeful spiritual recovery for ALL people decimated by Empire, white folks can choose to make space, and refrain from placing ourselves at the center. These themes may be uncomfortable as awareness dawns, but by respecting the spirituality of all people we will find our most authentic soul expressions, and truly come together in our “Unity in Diversity!” 


Explore Parliament of the World's Religions >link<

For a transcript of this presentation see >link<


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Pegi Eyers is the author of  "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community" an award-winning book that explores strategies for intercultural competency, healing our relationships with Turtle Island First Nations, uncolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.   Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon. ​

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Decolonizing the Psyche

7/11/2020

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VIDEO PODCAST BY PEGI EYERS


Decolonization starts off as an individual practice, but it is important to quickly move forward in solidarity with our communities and/or chosen kinship groups. Hopefully these discussions will lead to a fuller inventory of unlearning, and to new thinking, gestures and actions that reflect our responsibilities to equity, social justice & Earth Community. 
VIDEO PODCAST BY PEGI EYERS ~ JULY 11, 2020

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​Decolonizing the Psyche is a video podcast by Pegi Eyers on the patterns in thinking and behavior that we have inherited from western society (primarily capitalism), and how to shift from western mind to eco-mind.

Due to sound issues in the recording, sections of the talk are reproduced here:

#2 Reject the impact of commercialism on your identity formation. From the capitalist paradigm we have internalized the key principle that wealth and fame equals worth, but this is an illusion resulting from the absence of true connection and the sacred in our lives.
#3 Reject the impact of commercialism on your spiritual life.  Any society that needs to constantly revise or re-create a spiritual practice, or 'pay to pray,' has blended their priories into a strange new world.
Embrace the Sacred.  As a result of materialism, we have lost the ability to realize the world through a spiritual lens, and this disconnect means we are constantly seeking to understand the meaning of life over and over again.

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Pegi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community, and resilience in times of massive change.
Available from 
​Stone Circle Press or Amazon

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Adopting Indigenous Rituals: a Triple-Edged Sword

6/20/2020

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RHIAN DANIEL
Canadian Ecopsychology Network (CEN)


As presented by Rhian Daniel PhD, this talk is a wonderful journey from understanding cultural appropriation to reclaiming the treasures in our own European heritage.  There is no reason why the ancient riches in our European Indigenous Knowledge (EIK) cannot be used as a template for creating rituals relevant to our lives and communities today, and to celebrate and honor the cycles of nature. Ancient Spirit Rising and the work of Pegi Eyers is referenced in the video.

White privilege and entitlement has given us the erroneous idea that we can choose any path we want from any part of the world, and the attraction to our own ancestral roots is not particularly strong.  We need to sit down and have a spiritual conversation with our DNA!   
Page 280 ~ Ancient Spirit Rising by Pegi Eyers

'Canada' and 'USA' are white supremacist capitalist fantasies that have nothing to do with earth-connection, and in turn, have created a populace that has stronger ties to regional or national identity than to the land itself.  
Page 279 ~ Ancient Spirit Rising by Pegi Eyers

CEN Gathering - Rhian Daniel - Adopting Indigenous Rituals from Carol Koziol on Vimeo.


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Pegi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon

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Ancestor Song ~ Adhamh Roland

8/21/2019

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This amazing song by performer Adhamh Roland touches on the loss of cultural identity, white amnesia, our European homelands and Settler-Colonialism in the building of Empire in the Americas. Adhamh was inspired by his experience with the Before We Were White workshop series. "Many thanks to Eleanor Hancock and Darcy Ottey for your skillful guidance. Gratitude for the words and wisdom of Pegi Eyers, Lyla June Johnston, Derek Rasmussen, Tad Hargrave and David Dean: and to my co-journeyers around the world, especially Laurel C Smith and Molly James."

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​Pegi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon

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Parliament of the World's Religions Toronto 2018

8/19/2019

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Wisdom & Healing
​Worldviews with Ancient Roots & Modern Understanding

THE DIGNITY OF WOMEN ACROSS
​THE WORLD'S WISDOM TRADITIONS


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Exciting news - our proposal was accepted by the Parliament of the World's Religions in Toronto! Dr. Susana Bustos, Alice Olsen Williams/Minaachimo-Kwe, Dr. Sharon Mijares and Pegi Eyers presented a panel on traditional eco-knowledge and the revival of ancestral roots across cultural lines.  In this video, we feature an amazing moment, as the legendary Stanley Krippner praises our panel and comments on the ongoing white supremacy (presence of Eurasian religions) at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. We were all in agreement on how much work still needs to be done, to dismantle the patriarchy and empower the Indigenous People of the World.


STANLEY KRIPPNER - PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S  RELIGIONS 2018

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Pegi Eyers and her Ancient Spirit Rising book display, at
the Parliament of the World's Religions 2018 in Toronto. 
​​Pegi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon

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Trebbe Johnson ~ When the Earth Hurts

8/17/2019

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Hosted by Pegi Eyers


The Canadian Ecopsychology Network (CEN) presents Trebbe Johnson: When the Earth Hurts, hosted by Pegi Eyers. Trebbe Johnson is the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places. Trebbe has camped alone in the Arctic wilderness, is an award-winning multimedia producer, and has led contemplative journeys in clear-cut forest, Ground Zero in New York, the Sahara Desert and other places. She is the author of Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places and lives in rural northeastern Pennsylvania.  Access her website here >LINK<


Ecopsychology Voices Interview with Trebbe Johnson from Carol Koziol on Vimeo.


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egi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for social justice, uncolonization, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon

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    ​Select videos by Pegi Eyers, plus alliances & collaborations with Ancient Spirit Rising in social justice, ecopsychology,  mythology,  rites   of   passage,
    and nature spiritualities.

    [Un]Conscious Colonialism: Why is Native Spirituality a Pagan Genre?
    Harvard Divinity School 
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    The Important Difference Between Decolonization and Uncolonization PART 2

    NATURE CALLING
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    Decolonization & Uncolonization PART 1
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    ​Decolonizing the Psyche

    Adopting Indigenous Rituals: a Triple-Edged Sword

    ​Ancestor Song ~ Adhamh Roland

    ​Parliament of the World's Religions Toronto 2018

    ​Trebbe Johnson ~ When the Earth Hurts

    ​Darcy Ottey ~ Rites of Passage, Social Justice & Ancestral Recovery

    ​Midwinter Musings

    ​Winter Solstice Gathering with Youth Passageways​

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    Georgie Horton Baptiste (Anishnaabe) ~ Nibi Emosaawdamajig

    ​Youth Passageways Learning Journey ~ Interview Series

    ​Fine Points of Re-landing (Reindigenization)


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