45 | Urana Jackson | Thresholds of Liberation: Rites, Relationality, and the Architecture of Change
“A threshold is a symbol of change . . . The threshold becomes the entrance of that change, of that movement.”
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A video version can be found below.
This conversation with Urana unfolds as a rich inquiry into healing as an initiatory process—an embodied, relational, and sacred threshold crossing. Tracing the roots of her work with Safe House Seven, Urana reflects on the pivotal experiences that shaped her path: growing up amid the “brackish” confluence of ocean and natural spring, navigating a complex multicultural identity, and integrating Yoruba healing traditions with Western psychological praxis.
We explore the psycho-somatic-social-spiritual architecture of thresholds—how they appear in personal, cultural, and collective transformation—and why approaching them with intention, containment, and reverence is essential, especially for those most impacted by systems of oppression. Urana speaks to the power of ancestral connection, the necessity of reciprocity in healing, and the ways psychedelic medicine can be integrated into liberatory frameworks for BIPOC communities.
With grounded insight and visionary clarity, Urana invites us to reimagine healing not as a solo endeavour or clinical quick fix, but as a lifelong rite of relational liberation.
Find Thematic Show Notes Below
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Thematic Show Notes
Thresholds and Transformation:
Understanding thresholds as embodied, relational, and initiatory spaces
Healing as a crossing into new forms of identity, perception, and presence
The importance of approach, containment, and intention
How threshold literacy can support personal and collective transformation
Liberatory Healing & Mixed-Lineage Praxis:
Braiding Yoruba cosmology, psychological training, and psychedelic therapy
Reclaiming ancestral knowledge as living, relational intelligence
Contrasting liberatory therapy with traditional trauma-informed models
Creating culturally grounded frameworks for BIPOC healing
Parts Work, Psychedelics & Wholeness:
Working with exiled parts as a return to psychic democracy
Blending IFS with West African understandings of the self
Recognizing the risks of extractive healing practices
Emphasizing sacred reciprocity in psychedelic-assisted healing
Relationality, Story & Soma:
Stories as agents that shape both body and world
Healing as a communal act, not a solitary one
Perception as a powerful force in transforming reality
Calling back exiled parts, lineages, and truths through ritual and relationship
Liberation as a Lifelong Threshold:
The seven thresholds of Safe House Seven as a living map
Liberation as a layered, evolving journey
Meeting the sacred with reverence, responsibility, and love
Ending with a reflection on beauty, embodiment, and belonging