Relating with Evil and Malice
A Four-part Series
A four-part series from Dr. Daniel Foor
This course is on demand, and may be enjoyed at your own pace.
About the Course
Whether it’s abusive family or colleagues, oppressive systems, the hazardous side of the spirit world, or strangers channeling bigotry and hate–sometimes the horrors of the world will find us. And sometimes we become a conduit for cruelty toward self or others. Rather than avoid what is troubling, we can seek to better understand evil and malice as an act of solidarity with those who suffer more acutely and as a means to more fully know ourselves and the world.
To study evil or malice, including within, can be an act of love and an affirmation that nothing is fundamentally foreign or other.
About the Course
This course is for ritualists and witches, healers and guides, writers and educators, and anyone seeking more deliberate use of speech and power in their daily life and relationships. Teachings will benefit those who want to reclaim or enliven their prayers, learn about curses and ways to neutralize harmful magic, or deepen understanding of the power of words and clear intent.
The approach will be kind, safety-oriented, but also unfiltered with respect to concerns around right use of power. The intent is for those who join to acquire more understanding of and skills for prayer, unraveling curses, and responsibly wielding power.
If your approach to the Sacred doesn’t in some way include and reckon with malice and hatred, you’re missing an essential part of the story.
– Daniel Foor
Course Overview
This course is for anyone who wishes to better understand, in safe and resourced ways, the more predatory and harmful spectrum of forces with whom we share the Earth and cosmos. Teachings will be rooted in an ethic of love and inclusivity and will be respectful both to those who have been marked by cruelty as well as those who have acted out in malicious ways toward others.
Participants will learn different frameworks, strategies, and practices to relate more skillfully with evil and malice. The approach will be kind, safety-oriented, but also unfiltered in moments with respect to the reality of actual danger in the world, both seen and unseen, human and other-than-human. The intent is for those who join to acquire more grounded, reality-based views and accompanying skills for navigating encounters with hazardous forces.
Four recorded 90-minute lessons
Guided, experiential practices with each lesson
Extensive additional resources featuring diverse voices
Lifetime access to all course materials
Access to a dedicated community discussion space
Course Curriculum
Lesson One: Understanding Evil and Malice
- Consider implications of your inherited personal and cultural views of evil
- Safely acknowledge moments of contact with troubled humans or spirits
- Explore ways to identify and bring conscious the roots of inner malice
- Practice asserting healthy boundaries without judging or exiling others
Lesson Two: Strategies to Meet the Troubles
- Learn different ancestral and ritual strategies for responding to evil
- Explore the challenge of responding with focus, ferocity, and humility
- Further reflect on your limitations, conditioning, and places of reactivity
- Practice, with support, more directly witnessing the hazardous powers
Lesson Three: Tangible Skills and Practices
- Explore the role of voice as a ritual tool for responding to cruelty and evil
- Learn pragmatic skills for taking grounded action when facing overt malice
- Consider personal blocks to unavoidable conflict, fighting, and killing
- Practice accessing sacred speech in service to life, safety, and healing
Lesson Four: Love, Horror, and Non-Duality
- Consider the benefits of guarding a seat for the unthinkable in your psyche
- Explore ways to embody your core values without a stark good/evil binary
- Engage deeper with mystical and non-dual teachings on evil and malice
- Practice asking your guidance for ways to honor the troubles also within
Register for Relating with Evil and Malice
3 and 6 month payment plans available at checkout at 0% interest.
Supporter
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Our standard rate allows us to sustain our work. This typically applies if you’re employed in the Global North, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
Standard
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Our standard rate allows us to sustain our work. This typically applies if you’re employed in the Global North, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
Reduced
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This rate applies if you’re relatively less economically advantaged in the ways listed under “standard rate” or that cost is simply out of reach for you financially.
BUNDLE THIS COURSE WITH TWO OTHERS
Relating
with
Evil & Malice
Prayer,
Curses, and
Ritual Power
Possession,
Addiction,
and Belonging
Explore light and shadow in three transformative courses. Gain insight into addiction, belonging, and the crafty nature of evil. Equip yourself with ritual skills and build resilience to face life’s hazards.
Daniel Foor
Founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine
Daniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Frequently Asked Questions
To the very best of our ability, yes. All Ancestral Medicine offerings seek to embody an anti-racist, feminist, LGBTQ-celebrating, decolonizing, and Earth-honoring ethic. They are also class-aware and internationally conscious. We offer a heartfelt, non-dogmatic approach that seeks to honor each participant’s unique life experiences and ancestral storylines. Resources included with each lesson favor ancestrally and geographically diverse voices.
All live teaching calls will be recorded and made available 24-48 hours later in the course portal to watch and listen to at your leisure, with indefinite access.
All of our lesson videos have auto-generated English subtitles, as well as downloadable audio-only versions of the lessons. If you have needs not met here, please feel free to reach out to us with suggestions at info@ancestralmedicine.org.
Should you wish to withdraw from an online course for any reason, please contact us at info@ancestralmedicine.org to request a full refund within the refund window of that specific course. For this 6-week course, you can request a refund before the second call begins.
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