Ancestral Events with.... 

Malidoma Patrice Somé Phd.

(January 30, 1956 - December 9, 2021)

West African Elder, world-renowned author and teacher, as representative of his village in Burkina Faso, West Africa, came to the west to share the ancient wisdom and practices which have supported his people for thousands of years.

Elder Malidoma worked closely with Ancestral Events since 2004. Since 2016 until his initiation into the realm of the Ancestors on December 9, 2021 his office and ritual work space was located at Ancestral Events in Leicester, NC.

Since 2004, Dagara Elder Malidoma and initiated Dagara Elder Theresa installed many Dagara Shrines on the land where Ancestral Events is located. Since 2004, they co-created and co-led many programs and trainings regarding indigenous technology.

The cosmology that Elder Malidoma brought to the west will continue to be weaved through the programs and trainings and will move forward as Elder Malidoma intended.

"It is possible that we have been brought together at this time because we have profound truths to teach each other. Toward that end, I offer the wisdom of the African ancestors so that Westerners might find the deep healing they seek.

The spark of this ancestral flame, which I have brought to the land of the stranger, is now burning brightly. Increasingly, I have been and will be encouraging westerners to embody these traditions as a testimony to the indigenous capacity to assert  itself with dignity in the face of modernity.

In this way the ancestors will know that this medicine has found a true home- that it is more than an honored guest.

At this critical time in history, the earth’s people are awakening to a deep need for global healing. African wisdom, so long held secret, is being called on to provide tools to enable us to move into a more peaceful and empowered way of being, both within ourselves, and within our communities.

The indigenous spirit in each of us is calling for cleansing and reconciliation. The ancestors are responding". – Malidoma Somé

To learn more about Elder Malidoma,

please see:

 

www.Malidoma.com

Before his birth, in 1956, the elders of Malidoma’s village knew that his purpose in coming into this world was to carry the message of indigenous technology and spirituality to the western world, a place where modernity was growing increasingly hungry for a reconnection to ancient wisdom.

Little did he know, as a young child, stolen from his family and village, that the years he would spend under the harsh tutelage of the religious order would prepare the way for the eventual challenge of integrating old and new, the sacred and the mundane.

For more than thirty years, Elder Malidoma Somé shared the Wisdom of his Ancestors and tribal Elders: the Dagara Cosmology, awakening a deep knowing in the hearts and bones of those who have recognized in his name, his books, his voice, the Spirit world inviting the renewal of a deep and abiding relationship with all beings on Earth.

Elder Malidoma is the author of several books, including Ritual: Power, Healing and Community, Of Water and The Spirit, and The Healing Wisdom of Africa.

 

Dr. Somé held three Master's degrees and two doctorates from the Sorbonne and Brandeis University.  He was an initiated elder in his village in Dano, Burkina Faso, West Africa.

He traveled throughout the world bringing a message of hope, healing and reconciliation through the powerful tools of ritual and community building.

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