24 videos about wisdom

An Indigenous Contribution

Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes the philosophical and ethical contribution of indigenous cultures to global oneness.

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An Invitation

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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Ancestors and Angels

Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger shares one of his poems.

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Complete Interview

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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Complete Interview

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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Complete Interview

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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Everything is a Cycle

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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Give Thanks

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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Industrialization, Imperialism and Colonization

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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Intuition

L.A.-based community activist Orland Bishop explains that oneness is the source of intuition, which allows us to touch a common truth beyond our memory, culture and conditioned responses.

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It Never Gets Back to the Mother

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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No Man is an Island

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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Oursness

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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Share The "Me" Stuff

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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Teaching Our Young to Care

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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The Land is There to Show You

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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The Roots of Oneness in Western Civilization

Groundbreaking scholar of pre-Socratic Greek philosophy Peter Kingsley reminds us that foundations of Western civilization

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Thoughts from an Elder

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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To Grow, Balance and Nurture

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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We All Eat, Shit, and Die

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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We're Lookin After Her Cause She's Lookin After Us

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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What Can We Learn?

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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What Is Sacred?

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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Yearning for a Different Way of Living

Writer and consultant Tom Hurley describes how the polarities of individual versus collective, and inner versus outer are really different phases of one reality.

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