Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This is the image for ancestor-mind, which is all about deep engagement, connecting with a timeless state of mind or ‘alpha wave state’, an optimal neural state for learning. We can reach this state through most Aboriginal cultural activities. It is characterised by complete concentration, engagement and losing track of linear time. Ancestor-mind c
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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
In reality we do not inhabit closed systems,
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
We experience time in a very different way from people immersed in flat schedules and story-less surfaces. In our spheres of existence, time does not go in a straight line, and it is as tangible as the ground we stand on.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
My colour blindness, however, makes me look elsewhere for him, finding knowledge in unexpected places.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
A city tells itself it is a closed system that must decay in order for time to run straight, while simultaneously demanding eternal growth.
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
yarned with Elders and Percy Paul about these things (along with a bunch of old dead white guys),
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Kelly Menzel is an Aboriginal woman from the Adelaide Hills and a keeper of ancestral Indigenous Knowledge. She is a nurse by trade and a healer by vocation who is currently completing her PhD and working as a university lecturer.