
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

This is why any training that incorporates kinesthetic learning is so effective.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
You don’t need to believe in ghosts to balance spirit and live the right way in this world. You can use any metaphor you like—for example, ego, id, superego, and persona.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Most lasting cultural innovations occur through the demotic—the practices and forms that evolve through the daily lives and interactions of people and place in an organic sequence of adaptation.
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.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
People today will mostly focus on the points of connection, the nodes of interest like stars in the sky. But the real understanding comes in the spaces in between, in the relational forces that connect and move the points. This symbol highlights those interconnections and de-emphasizes the points. If you can see the relational forces connecting and
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In contemporary science and research, investigators have to make claims to objectivity, an impossible and godlike (greater-than) position that floats in empty space and observes the field while not being part of it. It is an illusion of omniscience that has hit some barriers in quantum physics. No matter how hard you may try to separate yourself fr
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False narratives do not stand up well to this kind of analysis.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The shadow spirit is that part of a person that collects attachments to things, sensations, places, and people.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Nothing is created or destroyed; it just moves and changes, and this is the First Law. Creation is in a constant state of motion, and we must move with it as the custodial species or we will damage the system and doom ourselves. Nothing can be held, accumulated, stored. Every unit requires velocity and exchange in a stable system, or it will stagna
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