-
Tags
awareness community consciousness courage democracy earth ethics feminine generosity gift-economy groups harmony healing heart interconnectedness interdependence land life energy listening myth Native American nature new economy oneness perception place presence prisoners prisons relationship responsibility rites-of-passage sacred seeing soul spirituality story storytelling sustainability systems thinking trauma unity wholeness wisdom women Arts & Culture (57)
Books (21)
Community Building & Peace (71)
Economics & Business (23)
Education & Learning (30)
Films (12)
Food, Water, & Energy (9)
Health, Healing, & Psychology (64)
Indigenous Peoples (30)
Justice, Law, & Government (33)
Main Articles by our Grant Partners (26)
Media & Communications (5)
Nature & the Environment (56)
Oneness & Worldview (62)
Science & Technology (16)
Short Feature Articles (83)
Spirituality, Religion, & Philosophy (55)
Women & the Feminine (13)
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
PAGES
Topics
- Arts & Culture
- Books
- Community Building & Peace
- Economics & Business
- Education & Learning
- Films
- Food, Water, & Energy
- Health, Healing, & Psychology
- Indigenous Peoples
- Justice, Law, & Government
- Main Articles by our Grant Partners
- Media & Communications
- Nature & the Environment
- Oneness & Worldview
- Science & Technology
- Short Feature Articles
- Spirituality, Religion, & Philosophy
- Women & the Feminine
Kalliopeia Foundation: Podcast of Our Events and Conversations
-
Recent Posts
- Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff: Indigenous Elder Wisdom for Modern Times
- This Moment in Time by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
- Occupy Love
- Book: Only the Sacred: Transforming Education in the Twenty-first Century edited by Peggy Whalen-Levitt
- Book: Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence edited by Peter Burdon
- Voices of Vets with Michael Meade
- Book: The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time by Anne Baring
- Anne Baring: A Website for the Recognition of the Soul
- One Through Love
- Book: Becoming Native To This Place by Wes Jackson
- Engineering Bridges That Are Alive
- Interview with Peter Kingsley: Remembering What We Have Forgotten
- Sustaining the Human Spirit: Another Way of “Going Green”
Subscribe
Category Archives: Indigenous Peoples
Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff: Indigenous Elder Wisdom for Modern Times
Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff was born and raised with a traditional upbringing on the Pribilof Islands of the Bering Sea. His traditional name, Kuuyux, was given to him when he was four and means extension of ancient knowledge into modern times. … Continue reading
Engineering Bridges That Are Alive
In the northeast of India, the roots of fig trees have been trained for centuries to stop erosion from the flash floods of the Monsoon season and build living bridges that can survive any deluge: Watch video>>
Interview with Peter Kingsley: Remembering What We Have Forgotten
by Richard Whittaker, Works & Conversations, May 21, 2011
Peter Kinglsey: There are lots of people who use the word “challenge” to define what my work is putting on the table–spiritually and philosophically, culturally and historically. But to me it’s all very simple. Most of the problems we have in the West are not due to the fact that at the origins of Western civilization there’s something fundamentally wrong. On the contrary, there’s something infinitely precious at the origins of our civilization. The trouble is that it’s been lost because we started taking it for granted. We’ve gradually let it distort itself and so it keeps on falling down one octave, then another octave of understanding. I don’t really see how anybody on a philosophical, or spiritual, or any other kind of level could object to the challenge to wake up now and take responsibility for what we have been given.
Continue reading
Conversation: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Deep Water
by Richard Whittaker; June 13, 2011
Most of us in the west take clean water for granted. And generally we’re equally asleep to the profound role water plays in our lives. In an interview with Sam Bower of greenmuseum.org [issue #18] I brought up the question of water. He mused, “If you think of what we are, I mean we’re made up of cells and each little cell contains a drop of seawater. In some ways, all the little creatures that emerged from the seas found each other, bound together and found a way of collaborating and sharing the recipe over and over with helpful modifications, and here we are today! Every chance we get to replenish that connection to the seas is just a delight. In some way, it’s a reminder of home.” Sam pointed me to Betsy Damon [see issue#19] who has devoted her life to studying water, to creating systems for the restoration of degraded water and to raising consciousness about what she calls living water. “Basically, higher life-forms like water that has gone up and down the mountain ten thousand times,” she says, quoting an old Chinese proverb. Each of us, if we were to look carefully, would find that some of our deepest memories are intimately connected with water. We need to be reminded of this. Continue reading
Keepers of the Seeds:
How Native farmers and gardeners are working to preserve their agricultural heritage.
by Winona LaDuke
For 14 years, Caroline Chartrand, a Metis woman who recently traveled from Winnipeg, Canada, to the 8th annual Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference, has been looking for the heritage seeds of her people. It is believed that in the 1800s, the Metis grew some 120 distinct seed varieties in the Red River area of Canada. Of those, Caroline says, “We ended up finding about 20 so far.”
In Canada, three-quarters of all the crop varieties that existed before the 20th century are extinct. And, of the remaining quarter, only 10 percent are available commercially from Canadian seed companies (the remainder are held by gardeners and families). Over 64 percent of the commercially held seeds are offered by only one company; if those varieties are dropped, the seeds may be lost. Continue reading
A New Shade of Green:
Interview with Pierre Rabhi by Joseph Rowe, on the website “Illuminate Me” – “The priority of the agro-ecological approach is for people to be able to feed themselves, through respect and effective use of their own local resources. Production must … Continue reading
Beyond ecological stewardship: Toward a new planetary culture
Daniel Pinchbeck discusses the imminent opportunity for transforming human consciousness to better serve the needs of our planet. RSF Quarterly, Summer 2011. Download the pdf and scroll to page 4.
Flordemayo’s Vision of The Golden Child
by Flordemayo, The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
The Golden Child
I would like to share the message of “The Golden Child”. I was at a gathering in March of 2010 and from my bed I felt the presence of someone coming into my room.
The Cosmic Voice called me –– “FLORDEMAYO”–– I was sitting in a lotus position and saw a Holy One floating, or gliding into my room. He was wearing a red robe, red, like the color of a watermelon, and he said, “I have a gift for you.”
I extended my arms and he placed an Egg that was made of Earth. It was quite big and weighed nearly 14 pounds. I held this Egg on my lap, and I started to chant, “You are Love. There is nothing but Love. Love is all there is.” Continue reading
The Ecology of Magic: An Interview with David Abram
by Scott London. David Abram is an unusual combination of anthropologist, philosopher and sleight-of-hand magician. Though he worked as a magician in the United States and Europe for a number of years, he attributes most of what he knows about … Continue reading
Book: Walk Out Walk On
In Walk Out Walk On, authors Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze invite you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create … Continue reading