Ancestral Exuberance: An Immersion in the Living Wisdoms of Ibrahim Baba

This ceremonial course focuses on connecting with ancestral guidance and blessing and on steeping in teachings of Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajajé. Our week-long journey weaves multi-modal learning with energetic attunements, guided journeys and ritual practice.

Students will come to understand myriad categories of ancestors and explore creative and embodied ways of connecting with their blessings. Students will immerse in teachings and transmissions from Ibrahim Baba on organic multi-religiousity and counter-oppressive devotion as a direct experience of cultivating luminous ancestral connection.

This synchronous online course is shaped as ceremony – our learning will be a dynamic and emergent combination of didactic and experiential, including conceptual exploration, discussion, divination, ritual craft and embodied practice. For MDiv and MASC.

COURSE MEETS: January 12-16, 1pm-4pm PST.

PRE-WORK REQUIRED:
Submit an introductory post in the Populi forum on what draws you to this course, and your best hopes and intentions for it. Feel welcome to include an optional paragraph sharing how you most hope to feel during this class, as well as any other thing that feels important to share in our course context. The Populi forum opens on January 9 – please publish your post by the end of January 11, and read each other’s introductory posts either before class or by the end of our first day together.

Relates to Thresholds: 3. Sacred Text and Interpretation, 8. Embodied Wisdom and Beauty, 5. Spiritual Practice and Care of the Soul, 6.Thea/ology in Culture and Context and MFC competency: 8. Theology.