Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Their traditional pointed hats were ripped off and placed on child-like elves. Santa’s camp was moved from Holland to the North Pole, and the shamanic Sami practice of entering dwellings through the chimney (to distribute psychotropic mushrooms) was adapted for his use. He changed the colour of his costume to match the iconic red and white of the S
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I know it’s part of creation and there’s no valid way to separate the natural from the synthetic, the digital from the ecological.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
How do animals know migration routes they have never individually experienced before? How does a woman intuitively recover a weaving technique that disappeared over a century ago? How do ideas and solutions appear to us in our sleep?
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
An old Islander fella once told me to get my eye off myself, share freely and it will all be taken care of.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
deep cycles of expansion and contraction, like breathing, in a pattern shaping everything.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
So the ideas of this written introduction are in the shields. I simply hold those objects and translate into print parts of the knowledge I see there.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Now you can see their shadows in the moon where they remain trapped to this day, a warning to all about chasing the illusion of fixed viewpoints.
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
At the simplest level, when we hold a tool our brain recognises it as an extension of our arm. It isn’t really part of our body, but it becomes an embodied extension of our neural processes. At more complex levels, the meaning we make with places, people and objects and the way we organise interactions between these things becomes an extension of o
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Perpetrators are only criminals until they are punished, and then they may be respected again and begin afresh to make a positive contribution to the group.