Blog by Valerie
The word gift has a very interesting etymology. I remember being surprised as a child to learn that Gift meant ‘poison’ in German. Turns out it means …
Category Archives: Culture
Facts in Right Relationship
Blog by Lukas
Across the globe an increasingly dominant worldview sees reality as ultimately physical. There are various expressions of this worldview in Western philosophy, including: logical positivism, empiricism…
Our Trickster Nature
Blog by Valerie
Why does a crocodile hide underwater and then snap at prey (fight)? A sparrow swoop into a tree when there’s rustling on the ground nearby (flight)? A
… Toilet paper wars (from the Western worldview)
Blog by Lukas
The odds of any one individual getting the Corona virus are so far quite low, and the probability of severe symptoms or death even lower. Making individual …
Our Primal Nature
Blog by Valerie
Right now it’s easy to feel survival fears, to observe deeply ingrained panic behaviours and to hear people talk about ‘these strange times.’ I understand the sentiment, …
Alienation & Judgment
Blog by Valerie
I was perhaps one of Earth’s most alienated of beings, and by that I mean that I did not sense belonging here. My cultural context was such …
Reciprocity & the Resentment-Denial Dance
Blog by Valerie
This week I am moving through some grief. I had known that a friendship would end had been observing it fade away for a while, and I …
Healing Whiteness Trauma
Blog by Valerie
…“The first step in liquidating a people…is to erase its memory…Before long a nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world
Thanks-Giving at Solstice
Blog by Valerie
A few months ago somewhere in the outback around Broken Hill, I experienced a spiritual lightning strike inside. Something in me died, an old dream (maybe …
My Jewish experience
Blog by Valerie
A few weeks ago I was watching a couple of rabbis and their wives driving around Australia looking for Jewish people. They said throughout history Jews have …