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epistemology

40. Trusting inner knowing

May 21, 2023 8 Comments

Transcript So, last time we talked about inner knowing, and how it it tends to be underappreciated, and underdeveloped, in people in Western countries because here we begin our knowing in the knowing of others. Our reflex is to listen to others’ voices first, before our own. And we also saw how thousands of years…  Read More…

Tagged With: autistic masking, autocracy, Carol Lee Sanchez (Laguna Pueblo), diversity, domination, epistemology, getting in touch with the senses, inner knowing, intuition, listening, Michael J. Cohen, Michael Polanyi, peace, peaceful relations, senses, sensory overload, subconscious, subduing the Earth, tacit knowing, Val Plumwood

 

39. The knowing inside

April 14, 2023 7 Comments

Transcript There’s a story told by Abraham Maslow, the psychologist. Back in the 1930s, at the very start of his career, he did fieldwork among the Blackfoot people of southern Alberta. He wanted to test the idea of emotional security or insecurity across cultures. So he camped out for a summer on Blackfoot land and…  Read More…

Tagged With: Abraham Maslow, authoritarianism, authority, autonomy of heart, discernment, emotional security, epistemology, fascism, following the heart, good mind, Indigenous epistemology, inner knowing, knowing, knowledge, listening to nature, living from the heart, obedience, original sin, personal responsibility, self-confidence, self-reliance, sovereignty of mind, way of the heart

 

28. Seeing each leaf

October 29, 2021

Transcript Many years ago an anthropology student was doing his fieldwork among the Yurok people, living with them on the border between California and Oregon, along the Klamath River. The student later wrote that the Yurok people educated him in a similar way as they would educate their own children—that is, offering almost no direct…  Read More…

Tagged With: connecting with nature, connecting with trees, epistemology, ghosts, Indigenous epistemology, spirit, spirits, subjects and objects, Thomas Berry, ways of knowing, Western science, Western ways of knowing, Yurok epistemology, Yurok knowing, Yurok science

 

14. Everything is alive and we are all relatives

September 18, 2020

Transcript “Everything is alive, and we are all relatives.” The sentence showed up in an essay I read this week by a Native Hawaiian philosopher named Manulani Aluli Meyer. Manulani was quoting a teacher of hers who said that this one sentence, with its two simple ideas, is what Indigenous peoples from around the world…  Read More…

Tagged With: all my relations, aloha 'āina, animism, climate change, connecting with nature, deforestation, epistemology, healing the Earth, Indigenous epistemology, land-community, reforestation, relationship, relationships with nature, rights of nature, sustainability, TEK, traditional ecological knowledge

 

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