Dear Friends,
Next weekend we’re meeting to discuss our July read, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World by Tyson Yunkaporta.
This book has been both challenging and rewarding, winding back and forth between Aboriginal spiritual worldviews and modern complexity science, with each chapter centred on a symbol and a ‘yarn’ to bridge the written word with older traditional modes of knowledge transmission.
Join us as we contemplate some of the key themes and concepts from the book, including complexity and systems thinking; spiritual and cultural laws within the Aboriginal tradition that enable radical sustainability, equality, and democracy; and how these perspectives could help us find new paths forward today.
Date: Sunday 2nd August
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
Location: Zoom
Register here.
With storyteller and poet Tom Hirons
Listen here.
What if it were possible to make spells with language that could oppose the forces of desecration and horror? In this episode, we explore poetry as a practice of truth-telling and deep listening; to the Otherworld, to the pre-modern voices within us, and to the powers within place in service to collective liberation.
The episode also features readings of two of his poems, The Worship of Place and Here’s How We Lie.
I loved this conversation, and hope you will too.
"Without grief the world would cease to renew itself; the world would cease to exist."
Title
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martín Prechtel
Genres
Spiritual Ecology • Philosophy • Nature Writing • Indigenous Wisdom
About the Book
Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, this book shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture. Drawing on Indigenous wisdom and rich storytelling, Prechtel argues that our ecological and cultural crises are inseparable from a culture that has forgotten how to grieve, praise, and honour what it loves.
Martín Prechtel is a Native American author, teacher, and cultural preservationist. Born in New Mexico with Pueblo Indian heritage, he lived in Guatemala as a member of the Tzutujil Mayan community, where he was trained in the traditional ways and became a spiritual leader. His work focuses on preserving indigenous wisdom and exploring the connections between language, ritual, and cultural vitality. Date:
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Time: 5:30 pm- 7:00 pm BST
Location: Zoom
Price: £8*
*Please get in touch if the price is a barrier
Happy Wild Reading,
Amrita
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