Commerciële spiritualiteit of wederkerigheid
Sommige mensen vergoelijken de industrie door te zeggen:
Ja, maar daar merk je als klant niks van, we maken de kristallen energetisch goed schoon.
Of: Ach, de spirituele kristallen zijn in veel gevallen bijproducten van het delven van de stenen voor andere industrieën. Koop ze maar gewoon.
Ik kan niks met de zielloosheid van zulke ‘spiritualiteit’. Wat is er spiritueel aan het verwoesten van een plaatselijk ecosysteem? Wat is er spiritueel aan het mediteren op een steen die onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden uit de grond is gehaald door een straatarme volwassene of zelfs een kind?
Hoe is het mogelijk dat ‘spirituele’ mensen niet voelen hoe hartverscheurend en bezopen dat is?
Ik heb geen kort en bondig antwoord op die vraag.
Onderstaande content heeft mij meer inzicht gegeven.
Snappen doe ik het nog steeds niet, maar ik begrijp het wat beter.
Guardians of the Sacred
het belang van een gezonde verbinding met de natuur
Veel oude culturen op aarde hadden een intelligente, holistische vorm van het conditioneren van hun kinderen. Geen zweverige tralala: mensen leerden om een gezond onderdeel van het ecosysteem te zijn. Wederkerigheid.
Een deel van de Amerikaanse mensen met indigenous roots hebben zwaarwegende bezwaren tegen het vercommercialiseren van rituele voorwerpen van de Amerikaanse natives. Hun bezwaren zijn gebaseerd op hele oude gebruiken. De uitspraken in deze video’s kunnen wellicht heel primitief, vreemd of zweverig overkomen op de westerse, rationeel/wetenschappelijk georiënteerde mindset.
Ik ga proberen om een brug te slaan. Een eenvoudige brug. Mensen die zijn opgegroeid in deze oude culturen zullen je veel meer kunnen vertellen.
Door dit soort ‘primitieve’ overtuigingen, gebruiken en rituelen kon er een vorm van conditionering plaatsvinden die mensen aanleerde om een gezonde relatie aan te gaan met alle deelnemers van het ecosysteem. Voor goede voorbeelden van deze vorm van conditioneren verwijs ik je naar deze 4 lezingen van Professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, of naar meer lezingen via de link in haar bio.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Storyteller
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology
Directeur, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
www.robinwallkimmerer.com
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The Teachings of Plants: Finding Common Ground Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge
Dr. Robin W. Kimmerer, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, SUNY-ESF
In traditional ecological knowledge, plants are regarded not only as persons, but as among our oldest teachers. If plants are our teachers, what are they teaching us, and how can we be better students? In a rich braid of ecological science, indigenous philosophy, and literary reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, Dr. Kimmerer will explore the material and cultural gifts of plants and our responsibilities for reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. -
Reciprocal Healing: Fostering Kinship and Reciprocity with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Opening Keynote Address, Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality - A National Confluence: November 05, 2019, Sedona, AZ.
Learn more about Reciprocal Healing: A National Confluence on our website: https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/reciprocal-healing/
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2014 Forum on Ethics & Nature: Robin Kimmerer
Center for Humans and Nature's 2014 Forum on Ethics & Nature held at the Chicago Botanic Garden: A Cascade of Loss, An Ethics of Recovery.The Forum explored the topic of extinction, balancing information with ethical reflection about the possibilities of biodiversity and biocultural recovery. For more video visit: http://www.humansandnature.org/forum-on-ethics---nature-project-8.php -
Robin Wall Kimmerer: "We the People": Expanding the Circle of Citizenship
Current debates on the future of public lands call for a focus on who is included in the ‘public.’ Who is inside the circle and who is not? Whose voices are heard, and whose are silenced? Indigenous people have largely been excluded from decision-making involving public lands—as has their sophisticated environmental philosophy and practice, derived from traditional ecological knowledge. How might the indigenous concepts of the personhood of non-human beings expand our notion of the public good? This talk explores facets of how respectful engagement with indigenous knowledge might re-draw the boundaries of “We, the People” as we consider our relationship to ancestral ‘public’ lands. This was the 2017-18 Clark Lecture.
Zorgvuldigheid als overlevingsinstinct
Als je zorgvuldig jaagt en handelt dan consumeer je geen massaproduct. Je beseft dat je te maken hebt met een medebewoner van het ecosysteem waar je deel van uitmaakt. Je neemt niet meer dan je nodig hebt. Want alles reageert op elkaar. “Alles is met elkaar verbonden” of “wij zijn één” zijn in essentie geen hippe spirituele kreten. Iemand die werkelijk begrijpt wat hij/zij zegt met zo’n uitspraak, heeft respect voor, kennis van het ecosysteem.
Door symboliek en rituelen te ontwikkelen rondom alle onderdelen en deelnemers van ons ecosysteem, zowel dierlijke, plantaardige als minerale deelnemers, ontstaat er bewustzijn van relatie.
Speaker
Texas state university
Member of the board of the Osiri University
Africa’s first online university to render an entirely African curriculum that is rooted in Africa’s ancient sciences and wisdom technologies
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Jim Dumont
Wat kan de moderne mens hiermee?
Anno 2020 is de kans klein dat we mensen nog op deze oeroude manier gaan conditioneren; in ieder geval niet op grote schaal. Maar of we het nou op een moderne of ouderwetse manier aanpakken: We zijn nog lang niet uitgeleerd van onze “primitieve” voorouders.
Een gezonde relatie met ons ecosysteem is essentieel voor ons overleven.
Of we het nou op een spirituele/religieuze of atheïstische/wetenschappelijke manier aanpakken:
De achterliggende inzichten over die relatie zijn essentieel voor ons overleven.
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Commercialization of Native Spirituality 1 of 3
Join Ms. Roberta Weighill she talks with Ms. Corine Fairbanks of AIM SB about the commercialization of Native Spirituality, Senator Albert Hale's proposal; SB1164 regarding the regulating of traditional Native American practices and the Hale Scouts Act currently being reviewed with the Senate under the bill of H.R. 310 which would provide for approximately 140 acres of public lands in the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America.
Show in 3 parts
(video reference in show is found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCLmT_M-qtk)
Also for more info on AIM SB - www.aimsb.org -
Commercialization of Native Spirituality part 2 of 3
Join Ms. Roberta Weighill she talks with Ms. Corine Fairbanks of AIM SB about the commercialization of Native Spirituality, Senator Albert Hale's proposal; SB1164 regarding the regulating of traditional Native American practices and the Hale Scouts Act currently being reviewed with the Senate under the bill of H.R. 310 which would provide for approximately 140 acres of public lands in the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America.
Show in 3 parts
(video reference in show is found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCLmT_M-qtk)
Also for more info on AIM SB - www.aimsb.org -
Commercialization of Native Spirituality 3of 3
Join Ms. Roberta Weighill she talks with Ms. Corine Fairbanks of AIM SB about the commercialization of Native Spirituality, Senator Albert Hale's proposal; SB1164 regarding the regulating of traditional Native American practices and the Hale Scouts Act currently being reviewed with the Senate under the bill of H.R. 310 which would provide for approximately 140 acres of public lands in the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America.
Show in 3 parts
Also for more info on AIM SB - www.aimsb.org -
Oren Lyons on Rights and Responsibilities
Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons comments on the missed opportunity in American history to base the nation on responsibilities rather than individual rights — in this collection of film interview outtakes from "Standing on Sacred Ground."
This video was produced by the Sacred Land Film Project, http://SacredLand.org, a project of Earth Island Institute. To deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice, the Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials—films, videos, DVDs, articles, photographs, school curricula and other materials. The Sacred Land Film Project uses journalism, organizing and activism to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.
Its latest project, Standing on Sacred Ground, http://StandingOnSacredGround.org, is a four-part series that chronicles indigenous people in eight communities around the world standing up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment. Watch them stand against industrial mega-projects, consumer culture, resource extraction, competing religions, tourists and climate change.
If you enjoyed this clip, please consider supporting our ongoing work by visiting http://StandingOnSacredGround.org/ and clicking Donate. -
Oren Lyons on Profit and Loss
Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons reflects on the costs of capitalism, greed and the win-lose business model that has led us to the brink of ecological — and spiritual — collapse. In outtakes from our amazing interview from Standing on Sacred Ground, Oren reflects on the importance of cooperation, the commons and looking ahead seven generations. -
Oren Lyons - "We Are Part of the Earth"
How did Oren first learn about his relationship to the Earth? Listen to his story...
This video was produced by the Sacred Land Film Project, http://sacredland.org, a project of Earth Island Institute. To deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice, the Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials—films, videos, DVDs, articles, photographs, school curricula and other materials. The Sacred Land Film Project uses journalism, organizing and activism to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.
Its latest project, Standing on Sacred Ground, http://StandingOnSacredGround.org, is a four-part series that chronicles indigenous people in eight communities around the world standing up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment. Watch them stand against industrial mega-projects, consumer culture, resource extraction, competing religions, tourists and climate change.
If you enjoyed this clip, please consider supporting our ongoing work by visiting http://StandingOnSacredGround.org and clicking Donate.
Oren Lyons
Native Nations Institute – diverse lezingen
Chief Oren Lyons is a traditional Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and a member of the Onondaga Indian Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or the Haudenosaunee (People of the Long House).
He recently retired from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a professor in American Studies and directed the Native American Studies Program.
Spiritueel toerisme is soms heel destructief
De Amerikaanse Natives hebben veel overlast gehad van grote groepen New Agers die stoned, high en dronken op zoek gingen naar eeuwenoude heilige plekken om ‘aan sjamanisme te doen’. Ze kwamen samen met honderden, soms duizenden tegelijk. Tijdens die ‘Rainbow Gatherings’ vertrapten ze de natuur en de heilige plekken van de Natives.
Het gevolg van spirituele toerisme
Talloze kristallen en andere ‘offerings’ moeten opgeruimd worden. Sommige mensen cremeren hun doden en gooien de resten in de heilige bron van de Natives, die ook een drinkwaterbron is voor de bewoners van het gebied. Waarschijnlijk krijgen ze daar een spiritueel gevoel van. De Natives werken zich vervolgens rot om alles weer te herstellen.
Activisme en juridische strijd
Activistische groepen hebben het beschermen van het landschap op zich genomen. Zij zijn ongetwijfeld op de hoogte van de goede bedoelingen die veel mensen hebben die zichzelf rainbow warrior of regenboogkrijger noemen. Maar die goede bedoelingen wegen niet op tegen de chaos die de spirituele hype op hun heilige plekken heeft veroorzaakt.
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Winnemem vs. New Agers on Mt. Shasta
Every year, California hosts PantheaCon, a gathering of pagans. This year we were invited to show film scenes and organize a dialogue about New Age appropriation of indigenous spirituality and to discuss protocols for visiting sacred places. This film clip from In the Light of Reverence (2001) depicts the conflict at Mt. Shasta, where Winnemem Wintu leaders Florence Jones (1907-2003) and Caleen Sisk have for years struggled to stop New Age ceremonial activity in Panther Meadows, which the Winnemem consider to be disrespectful, inappropriate and spiritually dangerous.
To read a blog on this issue by Project Director Christopher (Toby) McLeod, please visit: http://blog.sacredland.org/crystal-clear-new-age-dilemma -
Protecting Panther Meadows
Panther Meadows, on Mt. Shasta is the sacred genesis place of the Winnemem Wintu people. The US Forest Service has ignored numerous requests by our tribe and the Pit River tribe to close the meadow, due to its fragile ecology. We have led the efforts at restoration to bring the meadow back from years of overuse and ignorant treatment, but it has been an uphill battle. This weekend, with the possibility of many Rainbow people, who have been partying nearby, converging on the mountain, we decided to protect our sacred site. Here is one of many of the clueless, disrespectful people we have encountered. -
Cremations in a Sacred Spring
Once each year, the Winnemem Wintu make a summer pilgrimage to their sacred spring on Mt Shasta, the source of the McCloud River, to conduct a healing ceremony. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, New Age offerings — mostly in the form of crystals — disrupted the start of the ceremony as designated men had to clean the spring by removing all foreign objects. Recently, cremation remains have been scattered above the spring, below the spring, and — unbelievably — in the spring. In the last couple years this has delayed the ceremony for more than an hour, as the men sift the churning sands for bone fragments, tooth fillings, and other pieces of the deceased. The Forest Service has erected signs stating that this is illegal but the desecration continues. This clip extends the scene we edited for Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists, and allows Winnemem Chief Caleen Sisk to explain the situation in greater detail. -
Crystal Power in Chaco Canyon
Beginning with the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, another sacred place – Chaco Canyon, home to ancient Puebloan villages and Great Kivas – has been overwhelmed with offerings left by New Age practitioners. While filming In the Light of Reverence in 1997, we met archaeologist Wendy Bustard, the National Park Service curator at Chaco Canyon. Park Service staff have to clear away the offerings and catalog and store everything in the Chaco collection. Bustard spent a day with us, displaying an array of New Age offerings and reflecting on why they are considered offensive by native people. Here is a scene we weren’t able to include in the film.
To read a blog on this issue by Project Director Christopher (Toby) McLeod, please visit: http://blog.sacredland.org/crystal-clear-new-age-dilemma
Thanks to Lisa Law and the National Park Service for historic photographs. Music by Shane Watson. -
Rainbow Gathering 2015
News Director, Russ Miller, takes you on an exclusive "inside look" at Rainbow Gathering 2015; located near Deerfield Lake, Black Hills, SD. -
Stonehenge Stoners & Worshipping Wizards: 12 Hours at the World’s Biggest Pagan Party
We traveled to Stonehenge on the summer solstice—one of the most sacred days for pagans—to find out if the event's spiritual significance has survived the recent influx of drunken revelers.
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New Age Shamanism in Altai
Every year, California hosts PantheaCon, a gathering of pagans. This year we were invited to show film scenes and organize a dialogue about New Age appropriation of indigenous spirituality and to discuss protocols for visiting sacred places.
This film clip from Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists (2014) depicts the conflict in the Altai Republic of Russia, where Altaian shamans have for years objected to outside shamans conducting rituals at sacred places, which they consider to be disrespectful, inappropriate and spiritually dangerous.
To read a blog on this issue by Project Director Christopher (Toby) McLeod, please visit: http://blog.sacredland.org/crystal-clear-new-age-dilemma -
Vine Deloria Jr. on Spiritual Yearning in the West
With our 2001 film, In the Light of Reverence, still enjoying widespread use in classrooms around the world we are heartened that the film has withstood the test of time. In June 1997, we were fortunate to film a rare interview with the renowned, beloved Native American intellectual Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005). Vine is well known for his books, Custer Died for Your Sins and God is Red. We’ve gone back to the vault and created four extended film clips from our rare, four-hour interview.
Part 2 of 4: Vine Deloria Jr. — Spiritual Yearning in the West
Deloria talks about Native American struggles to safeguard spiritual practices from outsiders. He’s noticed “a desperate need to appropriate from somebody—not necessarily from Indians—an emotional feeling of authenticity,” especially among whites, and, he says: “I really feel sorry for them.”
Don't miss our new four-part film series, Standing on Sacred Ground — full details at http://standingonsacredground.org/
THE SACRED LANDS PROJECT
Als een heilige plaats vernietigd wordt gaat er waardevolle kennis verloren. Steeds meer wetenschappers zijn bezig met de vertaalslag tussen moderne wetenschap en traditionele kennis. Het is niet alleen voor de oorspronkelijke bewoners, maar voor de hele mensheid belangrijk dat deze heilige plekken intact blijven en zorgvuldig bestudeerd worden.
Since 1984, Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project has produced a variety of media and educational materials — films, videos, DVDs, articles, photographs, reports, school curricula materials and Web content — to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice.
Our mission is to use film, journalism and education to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and help protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.
Knowledge without Spirit
is like finding yourself on a cold night
with all the wood in the world
and no flame to ignite it.
Guy Finley
Moderne kennis en traditionele kennis vullen elkaar aan
Oude culturen die intensief samenleefden met de natuur waren anders vormgegeven en men leefde primitiever als wij nu doen, maar de mensen waren absoluut niet dom. Ze hebben hun intelligentie anders ontwikkeld als moderne westerse wetenschappers. Hun kennis over ecosystemen is verweven met en verwerkt in hun kunst, hun tradities en hun spiritualiteit.
Oeroude spiritualiteit: wetenschap uit een ander tijdperk
Steeds meer wetenschappers zijn bezig met de vertaalslag tussen moderne wetenschap en traditionele kennis. Maar open staan om te leren van mensen die geen universitaire diploma’s hebben is niet voor iedereen vanzelfsprekend en daardoor gaat kostbare tijd verloren.
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Guardians of the Sacred (2017)
Guardians of the Sacred follows 20 sacred site guardians from around the world as they journey to the Hawaiian island of Kaho‘olawe for shared ceremony and strategic dialogue before attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Honolulu in September 2016. Along the way they share heartfelt stories of success and failure as they commit to work together in a worldwide effort to protect sacred places and indigenous land rights.
Instead of traditional protesters, these guardians are “protectors” — they protect their lands and waters for future generations, by addressing both the ecological and the spiritual dimensions of land and water. This new framing of activism emerged into public consciousness at Standing Rock in North Dakota, at the same time we were filming these remarkable leaders articulating this powerful alternative way of seeking social and environmental justice.
Through our footage at the IUCN World Conservation Congress we see that the conservation movement is awakening to the value and importance of indigenous leadership as we all seek a way out of global crisis. Balancing politics and spirituality is an essential element of this new way forward and indigenous guardians of sacred sites are grappling with these issues in a deep and fundamental way that offers new hope.
Produced by the Sacred Land Film Project
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Aluna - An Ecological Warning by the Kogi People
https://www.alunathemovie.com/
Aluna means "conscience ". Enter the last theocratic chiefdom in America, hidden for centuries on a mountain in Colombia. The Kogi have made this amazing documentary to help us understand how to avoid the destruction of the world that they are trying to protect, and of ourselves.
To continue spreading the Kogi warning of an ecological disaster, we have now made Aluna available for free in 15 different languages -
Dr. Dawn Martin Hill - Where Science and Prophecy Meet
Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival 2020
Dawn Martin Hill, Mohawk, PhD in Cultural Anthropology and founder of the Indigenous Studies Program, McMaster University. She is Mohawk and resides at Six Nations with her family. She is the only First Nations CIHR College of Reviewers Chair. She has been publishing Indigenous knowledge research since 1992, her book, Indigenous Knowledge & Power: The Lubicon Lake Nation in 1997 documents the human impact of oil and forestry extraction in northern Alberta. She has numerous peer reviewed publications in Journal of Aboriginal Health, NAHO and chapters in books including, In the Way of Development, Strong Women Stories and Women’s Spiritual Traditions. She directed and produced three films on culture, women and Indigenous community healing. Her primary research over two decades is working with women and youth to develop Indigenous ways of knowing strategies, holistic assessments of community wellness, traditional medicine and improving quality of life. She is PI of three Global Water Futures Projects, Co-Creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools, an Indigenous knowledge led scientific team, and Ohneganos: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Training & Co-Creation of Mixed Method Tools, all-female led teams. She founded the Haudenosaunee Environmental Health Task Force to build infrastructure of environmental health research located on Six Nations to explore how Indigenous families’ wellness is impacted by lack of access to clean water. She is publishing a Haudenosaunee research teams CIHR-IIPH , “Tehtsitehwa: kenrotka: we (together we pull it from the earth again) – The Ohero:kon youth Health Intervention”, focused on rites of passage program for youth as a nation building strategy. She presents at the IPPF-UN with her governance teams supporting young community women research on exploring environmental rights of Haudenosaunee women to land, water and bodies.
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2018 Parliament | Jim Dumont Addresses the Indigenous Peoples' Assembly
Jim Dumont, Onaubinisay, an Ojibway-Anishi-nabe of the Waubezhayshee Clan and professor at the University of Sudbury of Laurentian University, addresses Indigenous Peoples' Assembly on November 2nd.
The 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions was hosted from November 1st through November 7th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Hosted in collaboration with the local Toronto interfaith and faith communities, the seventh Parliament convening gathered to engage on the theme, "The Promise of Inclusion & the Power of Love: Pursuing Global Understanding, Reconciliation, and Change". Learn more at parliamentofreligions.org/2018
