Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
All Law-breaking comes from that first evil thought, that original sin of placing yourself above the land or above other people.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Usually knowledge-keepers will withdraw if they sense narcissism in you, and I know I’ve approached this yarn in the wrong state of mind.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Whatever stories your cultural experience offers you, you can still perceive spirit through metaphor and bring it into balance to step into your designated role as a custodian of reality.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
with contemporary approaches to risk is the illusion of safety as a human right that can be controlled as a variable in advance. It cannot. In fact, there is no such thing as safety in Aboriginal worldviews. We have no word for it in our languages. Safety provided by an invisible hierarchy is complete anathema to our way of being.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The clean healing of those injuries also suggested that people cared for each other in ancient times and had fairly advanced medical practices, as well as a diet rich enough to mend bones quickly.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
We have to be careful of the metaphors we use to make meaning, because metaphors are the language of spirit and that’s how we operate in our fields of existence either to increase or decrease connectedness within creation.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
You also need to know what happened before that; map out all the relationships and you might see a pattern that represents the future, because all time is one time. But when I do that, the future I’m seeing and the future I’m selling are two different things.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
A person ‘of high degree’ in traditional knowledge may find a song in a dream if they are profoundly connected to land, lore, spirit and community. But that song must then be taken up by the people and modified gradually through many iterations before it becomes part of the culture. Besides, that song can only be found through a ritual process deve
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I’m not offering expert answers, only different questions and ways of looking at things.