E149| Serpent Lore, Indigenous Thinking, and Right Relation w/ Tyson Yunkaporta
A yarn on spirit and serpent lore with the remarkable thinker Tyson Yunkaporta, who works with Indigenous Systems Knowledge, Indigenous inquiry methods and complexity science to address global existential threats and issues in regenerative design. He is the author of Sand Talk, Right Story Wrong Story co-author with Megan Kelleher of Snake Talk.
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Chapters
00:00 On talking properly
04:31 Approaching circle, setting circle, keeping circle, closing circle
08:23 The trouble with reciprocity and the implicit
16:36 Law and lore: what's true and what's real
31:57 Flibbertigibbets, hard heads and two throats
41:27 The serpent as master of semi-permeable boundaries
46:06 Is the human being transitionary?
53:01 Hyperstition, Nagini and poison as medicine
57:05 Right destruction, wrong destruction, wisdom of crowds
1:01:29 The basilisk, empire, and evil as simplification
KeywordsTyson Yunkaporta, Snake Talk, Sand Talk, Right Story Wrong Story, Megan Kelleher, Indigenous knowledge, Aboriginal philosophy, law and lore, yarning, serpent stories, Rainbow Serpent, Rokos basilisk, complexity, wisdom of crowds, co-evolution, semi-permeable boundaries, ceremony, Indigenous economics, reciprocity, Tim Adalin, Voicecraft, Altered States of Conversation, philosophy podcast, metacrisis, Game B, deep time, capitalism critique, enclosure of the commons, evil as simplification, dragon mythology, Zoroastrianism, St George and the dragon, Naga, Quetzalcoatl, basilisk, Nick Land, hyperstition, theory fiction, animism, pluriversality, creolisation, Carl Jung, Harry Potter, Voldemort, transhumanism, feedback loops, closed systems, cultural diversity, protocol, embassy, Deakin University, Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab, The Other Others, Jim Rutt, Santa Fe Institute, democracy, manufactured consent, Trump, fascism, monoculture, regenerative systems
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Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk, Right Story, Wrong Story, and co-author with Megan Kelleher of Snake Talk. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.
Find Snake Talk on Amazon @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063568977?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
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Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. You can connect with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
On Substack @ https://substack.com/@timadalin
On Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/tim_adalin/
And on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-adalin/
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