Healing: A Ghost Story: Sophie Strand

You can watch all our videos at https://scienceandnonduality.com "What unwellness is my wellness built upon?" Sophie Strand was a guest speaker at Bayo Akomolafe's webinar "The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound" (along with Tyson Yunkaporta and Vanessa Andreotti) presented by SAND. In this excerpt from the series, Sophie reads a short story she has written entitled "Healing: A Ghost Story." If you're interested in watching the entire series, it's available on our website: https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/... Also coming in February, SAND will be hosting a have a four-part webinar with Sophie: The Body Is a Doorway With Sophie Strand • February 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2023 10–11:30am PST A 4-Part, Live Webinar Series Register Here: https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/... What does it mean to have an illness – physical or psychological – that is incurable or terminal? What does it feel like to have a condition that is resistant to diagnoses, treatment, and resolution? Those who are permanently exiled to the kingdom of the unwell are still expected to perform daily penitential rituals of “wellness”, handing over money, time, and physical energy to a process that is closer to haunting than it is to healing. When the cut refuses to close, when the neurological glitch clicks into constancy, we must pause and become curious. Sophie Strand is a disabled writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone, and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puffballs, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. In every neighborhood she’s ever lived in she has been known as “the walker”. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients. She is the author The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023. And she is currently finishing a collection of essays about navigating an incurable genetic disease and early trauma through ecological storytelling. You can subscribe for her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny –   / cosmogyny   Website: https://www.sophiestrand.com Substack: http://sophiestrand.substack.com Science and Nonduality is a community inspired by timeless wisdom, informed by cutting-edge science, and grounded in direct experience. We come together in an open-hearted exploration while celebrating our humanity.