Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
There is an Indigenous tribe from the Daly River region in Northern Australia called the Ngangikurungkurr, whose name translates as ‘Deep Water Sounds’ or ‘Sounds of the Deep.’ For the Ngangikurungkurr, it is understood that there is a deep spring of story within that calls on each of us. In order for us to live in harmony with the soul, we must li
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Can they, can we all, understand the Skywoman story not as an artifact from the past but as instructions for the future?
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
To appease this magical world, tribes seek comfort in ritualistic behaviors and by following the elder and the shaman. People live mostly in the present, with some blending in of the past, but little projection toward the future.
Frédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
will describe in more detail in the next chapter, one of my favourite objects is my own version of a lukasa. I took a piece of wood and attached beads and shells to it without paying any attention to the arrangement. It is very comfortable to hold in one hand. Once I started using it, I had no trouble finding structure in what appeared to be a rand
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