The Neverending Healing Journey
Life is a Festival #133: Adam Andros Aronovich (Healing From Healing)
Have you found yourself caught up in a never-ending healing journey? Are you rushing from workshop to ceremony to retreat trying to peal all the layers of your existential onion? Maybe what you need is healing from your healing! Today on Life is a Festival, Adam Andros Aronovich, creator of Healing From Healing offers us levity and a much needed reprieve from our hyper-individualistic personal development.
On the show we discuss the fundamental importance of community in healing work. We talk about diminishing returns in chasing peak experiences. We review the modern preoccupation with trauma, the hero’s journey, and “cinematic epistemology.” Finally Adam helps us learn to serve with our full being without becoming narcissists and how joy and celebration are potent healing modalities.
Adam is the creator of Healing from Healing, a social media platform that casts a critical, skeptical and humorous gaze at Healing Culture. He is a doctoral candidate at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain, focusing on Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry. He is an active member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC-URV) and part of the Ayahuasca Community Committee at the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. Adam spent more than four years conducting research and extensive fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon, where he also facilitated Ayahuasca workshops in the context of shamanic and medical tourism. Adam also facilitates preparation and integration processes in private practice, and helps clients reframe “Healing” within relational and recreative frameworks and a secular, humanistic, grounded and open-ended interpretive and epistemic orientation.
Timestamps
:11 - Adam’s research in the Amazon showed that ayahuasca healing was largely about community
:21 - Diminishing returns on perpetual peak experiences
:31 - Preoccupation with trauma, memory wars, and narcissism
:47 - Hero’s Journey, celebrity culture and cinematic epistemology
:55 - How to serve without becoming narcissistic | Transformation happens both inward and outward
1:07 - Joy and celebration as healing modalities
Graphics Designed by Ali Agus
Audio Engineering by Trevor Coulter
Theme song ““Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi]“ by dj atish
