Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Are.na
This principle facilitates the flow of living knowledge.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Respect, Connect, Reflect, Direct—in that order. Everything in creation is sentient and carries knowledge, therefore everything is deserving of our respect.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Powerful metaphors create the frameworks for powerful transformation processes, but only if they have that integrity.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This is the perspective you need to be a custodian rather than an owner of lands, communities or knowledge.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Working with grounded, complex metaphors that have integrity is the difference between decoration and art, tunes and music, commercialized fetishes and authentic cultural practice.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
But recent traditions have emerged that break down creation systems like a virus, infecting complex patterns with artificial simplicity,