Sublime

Só um povo que acredita em si mesmo tem força e vontade de transformar a realidade. E hoje acreditamos na nossa força.

Members of their councils were named Twisted Hairs because their teachings of self-responsibility through the gateway ceremonies for personal evolution represented the braiding together of knowledge and wisdom from many traditions.

Les entités non humaines n’existent pas simplement pour satisfaire les besoins de l’homme. Il n’y a pas non plus de dieux tout-puissants qui dirigent le monde à leur guise. Le monde ne tourne pas autour des hommes ni autour d’aucun autre groupe d’êtres en particulier. L’animisme n’est pas une religion spécifique. C’est le nom générique de milliers

I envision a time when the intellectual monoculture of science will be replaced with a polyculture of complementary knowledges.

We will not master nature by defying or altering it, but by surrendering opposition and becoming one with it.

our standard historical meta-narrative about the ambivalent progress of human civilization, where freedoms are lost as societies grow bigger and more complex – was invented largely for the purpose of neutralizing the threat of indigenous critique.

Much of this initial pressure stemmed also from concern about the fate of Brazil’s one-million strong indigenous population, many of whom live in the Amazon states. The Portuguese settlement of Brazil had been devastating for the 2,000 or so indigenous groups, who at the time of the conquest amounted to perhaps as many as three million people. Hund