Aislinn Kerchaert & Cliff Taylor on the Little People & Saying Yes to Your Purpose [episode 71]

 
 
 

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Aislinn Kerchaert is an Initiated Kontomblé Voice Diviner, Artist, Poet, and Healer. Over the years, her work with Spirit, ancestral healing, and earth-based ritual has touched an ever-growing community. Her community membership program, The Shrine of the Heart, offers monthly group ceremonies and divination with the Kontomblé, who are the little people of the earth. Together, they hope to create a space of play, a space of sanctity, and a cocoon of transformation for beautiful souls to dive deep into the waters of their creativity and discover the treasure chests waiting there to be shared with the world!

Cliff Taylor is an enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. He is the author of The Memory of Souls, a memoir about the Sundance and his life/walk with the little people. He currently lives on the Oregon Coast, where he is hard at work on his next book, an essay collection titled What Being Ponca Means To Me.

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  • What would change if we could see through the eyes of our ancestors 

  • Who are the Little People 

  • How Cliff re-connected to his relatives and found the community he had been hurting for 

  • Aislinn shares her grief over the recent passing of Malidoma 

  • When Cliff first realized he walked with the little people, after a divination offered by an elder 

  • The Little People as helpers, teachers, and protectors 

  • On the genocide of the Indigenous people of the Americas 

  • On becoming the human you incarnated to be

  • How the Little People carry the ceremonies and way of knowing, often lost to the living 

  • On re-remembering and reconnecting to the otherworld 

  • New Orleans as a portal to the otherworld 

  • On how Aislinn’s life changed after a fairy spoke to her

  • That we are conditioned to deny our connection to the Spirit realm 

  • The Little People as bringers of culture and teachers of ritual

  • The demonizing of little people by the church 

  • Why colonization seeks to break our connection and make us afraid of the Little People and the otherworld

  • How the fulfillment of our purpose satisfies all beings 

  • On opening the door to our own potential 

  • Misconceptions of the Little People as dangerous and mischief-makers

  • The little people as the hidden powers of the world

  • We take a moment to acknowledge the work and efforts of Malidoma

  • Kontamble as the mc’s of the party 

  • Walking between two worlds 

  • That we all are events of divine spiritually 

  • How the kontamble and the Little People brought Cliff and Aislinn together

  • Aislinn's spiritual boot camp as a tea leaf reader 

  • Building a language of communication with the otherworld and the Spirit realm

  • How Aislinn received an initiation and immersion into voice divination

  • Bearing witness and respect to the beauty of the Earth 

  • That we all have Spirit helpers and Spirit friends 

  • That true spiritually belongs to everybody, naturally 

  • Connecting with house-elves and the Spirits of the land 

  • On the leprechauns as the luck of the Irish

  • Advice on how to begin your connection to, and introduce yourself to the Little People 

  • And so much more!

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