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Spencer Dub
| September 13, 2020
- Finished Reading: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.

Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?

Sand Talk provides a template for living. It’s about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everybody and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things.

Most of all it’s about Indigenous thinking, and how it can save the world.

It’s been a long time since I read a book that gave me this much to think about. At a time when I’m actively questioning in my life vaunted cornerstones of “Western”, “rational” thought, this book has provided me with dozens of branching paths and different ideas to consider.

There’s so much I have to learn.

Friends, read this too. I want to chat about it.

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