Zulu Sangoma (healer) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa describes the African philosophy, Ubuntu—"I am because you are"—as the root of humanity's interconnectedness.
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Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke tells us that to discover one's own interconnectedness, we have only to ask the questions we might not ask until the end of life:
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Until the Australian land claims of the First Nations have been fully addressed, true reconciliation is impossible, according to professor Roger Thomas.
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Te Taru White, the Kaihatu (joint leader and curator) of Aotearoa New Zealand's national museum, explains the interconnectedness of life from a Maori perspective.
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Zulu Sangoma (healer) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa calls on all human beings to awaken the mother mind, that part of human consciousness that feels what is happening in the world.
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Napi Waaka, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Maori, tells us some lessons he learned about oneness living traditionally in the forest as a young child.
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Roger Thomas, professor and director of Wilto Yerlo Center for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies, talks about the Aboriginal experience in Australia.
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Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes the philosophical and ethical contribution of indigenous cultures to global oneness.
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Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), speaks of the ancient prophecy of the eagle and the condor meeting to bring a new harmony into the world.
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Arana Collett, a leader in the Maori language revitalization movement, contrasts the Maori and colonial views of the land. Can such a fundamental gap be bridged?
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Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, asks whether cultural awareness will rise to meet the coming changes toward ecological awareness and sustainability.
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In this complete interview, author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker reveals that humanity is currently at a crossroads integrating science and cosmology.
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Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, tells us about growing up on an Aboriginal settlement.
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Major "Muggi" Sumner, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Ngarrindjeri Nation of South Australia, sees many of his people following a way of self-interest and forgetfulness of Aboriginal values.
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In this complete interview, Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains fundamental differences between Aboriginal and Euro-Australian worldviews.
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Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes his work and perspective on oneness, drawing from Maori culture, language, history and cosmology.
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Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), shares his indigenous Andean perspective on the crises and potential of the current pachacuti (thousand-year cycle).
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In this complete interview Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, talks about indigenous perspectives on the current ecological and cultural crises.
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Roger Thomas, professor and director of Wilto Yerlo Center for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies, explains the association in Aboriginal culture between the earth mother and birth mother.
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Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, explains how oneness is a physical reality, whether we like it or not.
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Lyn Risling, an artist and leader in the revitalization of Karuk/Yurok/Hupa cultural traditions of northern California, describes how connection to family and connection to land go hand in hand.
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Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, tells us that the simplest way to live oneness is not to separate oneself from any other thing or person.
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Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke draws upon the history of the first Maori settlers to New Zealand to reframe globalization as a tremendous opportunity.
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Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker illustrates the power and purpose of story and explains how they ground and orient us in the world.
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Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, asks us to think, how many hands labor to bring us a single meal?
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Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, explains how human particularities are directly formed from the natural environment.
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Actor Cliff Curtis explains how global media, a tool developed in service of imperialism, can be a vehicle for indigenous content, for stories that remind contemporary cultures of their own humanity.
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Actor Cliff Curtis offers the perspective that the trinity of industrialization, imperialism and colonialism served an important function by linking humanity closely together.
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Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, asks why creation is not included in our thought and education.
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Tibetan monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la emphasizes the importance of preserving individual cultures in the contemporary age of globalization, as they each offer something unique to humanity.
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Elder, community leader and activist Trever Moeke explains how the Maori word for oneness expresses values of unity, reciprocity and respect.
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Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, tells us that oneness starts from the individual.
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Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that in our current physical and spiritual search for sustainable energies, we can look to Indigenous Peoples for their sense of traditional environmental knowledge and the immediate power of nature.
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Timoti Karetu, leader of the Maori language revitalization movement, describes how indigenous thought can serve as the conscience of majority cultures.
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Arana Collett, a leader in the Maori language revitalization movement, describes how in sports many distinct individuals are unified into one team with a shared goal.
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Arana Collett, a leader in the Maori language revitalization movement, recites a Maori saying about the necessity of solidarity on the shared path of life on planet earth.
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Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, describes how oneness operates at a ceremonial level in indigenous cultures.
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Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how industrial society treats land as something that belongs to us, and asks, how can we shift back to "belonging to the land"?
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Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains the Aboriginal understanding of land ownership as one of shared responsibility and kinship with the environment.
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Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker speaks about the modern need to recover a deep sense of reciprocity and restraint, which was once found in religious rituals and practices.
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Elder, healer and community leader Rangimarie Turuki Rose Peri brings the spirit of oneness through song.
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Youth worker and community leader Orland Bishop explains the meaning of the Zulu greeting Sawubona ("We see you") as an invitation to a deep witnessing and presence.
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Major "Muggi" Sumner, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Ngarrindjeri Nation of South Australia, sees many of his people following a way of self-interest and forgetfulness of Aboriginal values.
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Te Taru White, the Kaihatu (joint leader and curator) of Aotearoa New Zealand's national museum, explains the difficulty of creating oneness in a country where indigenous people have been marginalized.
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Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), sings a heartfelt song about the experiences of the "stolen generation" of Aboriginal children.
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Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), sings a song about where we come from.
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Napi Waaka, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Maori, tells us that it will take many years for the environment to be restored.
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Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this tool lets us calculate the amount of natural resources necessary to support our collective expenditure.
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Emmanuel Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, says the most important thing he's learned from his patients is that life cannot go on without trust.
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Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, reminds us that the Aboriginal way of life was full of ease.
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Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains how the connectedness of every living thing to every other living thing is not just an idea but a way of living.
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Elder, healer and leader in the Maori community Rangimarie Turuki Rose Peri tells her story and shows us the true meaning of self-acceptance.
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Napi Waaka, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Maori, explains how non-Maori agricultural and fishing practices are depleting the traditional reserves that the Maori have relied upon for centuries.
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Te Taru White, the Kaihatu (joint leader and curator) of Aotearoa New Zealand's national museum, explains the responsibility of guarding the past and translating it to the future.
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For actor Cliff Curtis, the notion of oneness evokes both suspicion and hope. Politically and economically, oneness has been used to justify the elimination of diversity.
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Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy, recognizes how we are inextricably bound in each other’s humanity.
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Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, tells us that it's not what we do that counts, but how we do it.
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Bob Randall, Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains the real law of survival is caring for the land and each other-for our children's children's children.
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Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, reminds us that we share the same earth, water and air.
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Arana Collett, a leader in the Maori language revitalization movement, says that since our world is made up of people, we can only change it for the better by forming good relationships.
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Maori elder and healer Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Peri explains the formal Maori greeting ritual called Hongi, which reminds participants of their interconnectedness with one another and with the environment.
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Roger Thomas, professor and director of Wilto Yerlo Center for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies, responds to our question of what Western cultures can learn from Aboriginal culture.
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Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, says the dominant culture's relationship to the land must change radically.
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Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains why Aboriginal understandings of the land have no credibility in wider Australian society.
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Arana Collett, a leader in the Maori language revitalization movement, explains the subtlety of the term Maori (literally "ordinary") and its tragic misinterpretation by Europeans.
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Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, asks us, whose oneness are we talking about? A white oneness? A black oneness? George Bush's oneness?
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Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that the global ecological crisis is at its root spiritual, and therefore the world religions have a part to play.
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