Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
I do, however, remember everything I’ve experienced through powerful, deep imaginings. You close your eyes and relax, gradually coming into a deep state of ancestor-mind focus, while you go through a vivid imagining of a process or a story. In this activity there are no limits to what you might experience—you can travel the solar system, walk throu
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You have to be living the patterns of your place if you want to tap into this kind of genius.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
There is no agency in safety, which places a person in a passive role, at the mercy of authorities who may or may not intervene when needed.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Respect, Connect, Reflect, Direct—in that order. Everything in creation is sentient and carries knowledge, therefore everything is deserving of our respect.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Those old fellas don’t want to be written about or filmed. They just keep our Law in secret places and sacred objects that are so powerful they take your breath away. They have no need to assert or defend this Law. It is immutable and will outlast anything you can inscribe on paper or store on a server.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
‘being like our place’. I think this is a good way to start if you want to begin to discern the patterns of creation and rejoin our custodial species.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
You might recall them from earlier: the child in your pinkie there for kinship-mind. Its mother in the ring finger for story-mind. Her husband in the middle finger for dreaming-mind. His nephew in the index finger for ancestor-mind. All of them connected in spirit through pattern-mind in the thumb. Notice how each metaphor used as an image is conne
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This is what happens when worlds collide and then mingle over time. Living cultures and languages evolve and transform. Thought experiment: people still say ‘Pick up!’ when calling a busy person’s mobile, even though nobody really uses landlines that require picking up anymore. What might future evolutions of that utterance involve? Maybe one day,
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