Medicine in Our Wounds: Liza Rankow

Dr. Liza J. Rankow, author of Soul Medicine for a Fractured World, explores healing justice in a time of social and ecological upheaval. She names oppositional dualism and domination as the root fracture of our world and invites a shift toward lived non-duality as the ground of lasting transformation. The conversation touches the “crucible of the in-between,” apocalypse as death and renewal, grief as medicine, and the movement from commodified self-care to soul care rooted in spirit, community, and nature. The conversation emphasized deep listening, silence, and relationship with the living world. Today’s episode closes with a simple guided breath practice for self, loved ones, and the world.

Topics

• 00:00 Opening 
• 01:20 Why This Book Now
• 03:41 What’s Fracturing Us
• 07:21 Crucible of the In Between
• 14:52 Medicine in the Wound
• 20:11 Grief as Collective Wisdom
• 26:28 Soul Care vs Self Care
• 32:02 Mystic Activism and Oneness
• 34:57 Breath And Service
• 35:59 No Spiritual Bypass
• 37:00 Oneness With Perpetrators
• 39:18 Mysticism And Justice
• 41:08 Nature As Practice
• 44:23 Purpose And Gifts
• 47:44 Deep Listening
• 53:25 Silence And Reckoning
• 56:13 Darkness As Source
• 58:20 Closing Practice And Book

Resources

• LizaRankow.org
• Soul Medicine for a Fractured World

 

 

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