(this is a seminal post of this morning in ‘Sankofa‘ systemic thinking by First Nation activist Winona LaDuke. Source ‘Humans and Nature’ see HERE) By: Winona LaDuke How long are you going to let others determine the future for your …
Category: Organisms as Selfcorrective Systems
We humans can be seen as individual organisms embedded in wider social organisms like our families, communities, religions and nations. Than we may become again biological and self-corrective in synchrony with nature.
Discontents of the Nation, Contents of Indigenous Cultures
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Sport, Play and Loteries as As-If Communication Patterns
To stay in touch with our distant animal pasts we, humans, frequently ‘need to eat humble pie‘ and get into ‘transitional (liminal/sacred/ritual) spaces‘ and experience ‘communitas‘. These are our aboriginal ways to keep our collective minds (souls/hearts/bodies) sane and whole. …
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Aboriginal rituals synchronize us with ‘how nature works’
What we, anthropologists and urbanized people, call humanization and progress has a dark side. Only very recently, 10.000 years, we started living in cities while our ‘aboriginal’ (indigenous people’s) past lasted about 2,5 millions years. The ‘urbanizing era’ lasted only …
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