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Honoring our ancestors, healing our ancestors.

With Kaira Jewel Lingo recorded on October 30, 2016.

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As we prepare for Halloween and All Souls Day, we explore how we can practice the wisdom of interbeing to help us nurture the wholesome seeds our ancestors transmitted to us and transform the unwholesome habit energies we have received from them.

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