Homework Reflections: Your Story of Self
- Promises are important to create our reality
Dream Lab
- Spirituality & Environment
- Ocean
- David: Wolf(?) Tree near his house, West Coast Oceans
- Manchester by the Sea
- Meditation: Taichi- helps with the energy flow, QiGong- try before sleep and just as you wake up in the morning!
- In western countries, awareness is based on quantifiable measures, which has different connotation compared to eastern or indigenous philosophies
- Western philosophies has a reductionist approach and “separateness in our culture; is there a way to approach systems based on communities or more family-based (family beyond blood)
- 天人合一 : describes the oneness/wholeness(一) of human(人) and nature/universe(天）
- Chinese Medicines: Elemental Framework & Temperature
- Think beyond just individuals
- Data: is it in service of humanity & nature
- Danger in anthropomorphizing nature, does nature have its own agenda?
Happenings in the chat
- Jon Zepeda: the first time I saw a whale. We were on a boat and it came up to the boat, and it was so large that you couldn't see it all at once, only in bits. the guide told us that based on the markings, they recognized the whale, and that it had been photographed in the same are nearly 100 years ago. It reminded me of Carl Sagan's pale blue dot speech. And I realized whatever problems I might've had at the time were small in the large scheme of things
- Alberto Pepe: The sea! I grew up in a village by the sea, and the funny thing is that every time I return to Italy I can’t see it until I reach my hometown. So the first thing I see returning home is this very very blue sea and I feel like returning to breathe again.
- Eric Millikin: I grew up in a very rural area, in the woods of Michigan in the north of the United States, where seeing more than human species was a regular thing. Now I live in a pretty urban area of Richmond Virginia, so experiences with animals are much more rare. So, now if I see a vulture eating a dead rabbit, I can just watch them forever. Sharing lunchtime with a vulture is one of my new favorite ways to spend time.
- Guile Twardowski: I was in Chile 2 years ago, in a place called elqui valley, and it is one of the best regions to stargaze on earth. The first night there I took a walk a bit out of the town and when I looked up I could see for the first time very clearly the milky way path. It was a profound and emotional moment for me
- Jenna Ahonen: When I first started mushroom foraging, it gave me an excuse to spend hours in the forest wandering around but I never really knew what I was looking for so I didn’t feel as connected to it initially. But, the first time I found a huge patch of chanterelles on my own was surreal — it gave me such a different perspective on what nature provides, not only in terms of as a food source but also in that nature has its own treasure hunts as well! Alberto asked: what's chanterelles @Jenna ? are they very different from regular mushrooms? Jenna answered: @Alberto: They are a delicious golden-color edible mushroom! (But otherwise not that different!) In the store, they can be typically very expensive to buy (and don’t dry well so you can’t buy them dried), so at least I hadn’t had many opportunities to eat them until I found them myself:-)
- Ziwen Meng: 天人合一 It describes the oneness/wholeness(一) of human(人) and nature/universe(天）
- Carlos Silveira: I think one of the deepest connections between me and nature is actually a ritual thing that I do, stay aware of every kind of living being around, it is about profound reflection while the observation is going on, a kind of feeling to try to understand and empathize with the being itself, wherever I go. Maybe one possible start of everything could be when I started to frequent the scouts when I was a kid.
- Alberto Pepe: the concept of 上火 from Chinese medicine makes so much sense? II found it somehow intuitive to associate food to internal "heat”, even for me who has no background on it. Elaine added: @alberto oh wow I have a personal experience with that. I grew up in a Chinese household and most of the time my grandma tells me that I lack body heat so she likes to make me this finely chopped/minced chicken soup with ginger. Alberto answered: sweet! I wish this concept could be more widespread in the Western world…my grandma used to make me chicken broth too, but without the whole Chinese philosophical intuition of it. Sima added: @Elaine In Iran we believe in many herbal medicines based on this body heat. Also food like ginger, cinnamon, banana, walnuts,... were used to increase that heat!
- Margarita Mora:
Speaker: Margarita Mora
Director of Partnerships at Nia Tero
- “Indigenous people can move us to a more balanced lifestyle”
- The importance of recognising the coolness of Indigenous People!!!
- There is an overlap between health ecosystem and indigenous territories