Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
what has been going on at Uluru. There is a shed there full of rocks. For a long time, tourists took stones away from that sacred site as souvenirs, then a few decades ago something strange began to happen. The tourists started mailing the rocks back with panicked reports of weird happenings, disturbed sleep, bad luck, ghostly visitations and terri
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The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Narrative is the most powerful mechanism for memory.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
But it is strangely liberating to realise your true status as a single node in a cooperative network. There is honour to be found in this role, and a certain dignified agency. You won’t be swallowed up by a hive mind or lose your individuality—you will retain your autonomy while simultaneously being profoundly interdependent and connected. In fact,
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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
The creative spark is a process that allows us to solve seemingly impossible problems. It involves representing real-life elements with metaphors, which transform tangible things into spirit, images in an abstract space.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
tangible reality only exists in defiance of linear time.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
It has protocols of active listening, mutual respect and building on what others have said rather than openly contradicting them or debating their ideas.