Blog by Valerie
In the previous post I wrote about how complex it is to honour multiple cultural identities, ground ourselves where we are now and honour the ancestors of …
Tag Archives: cosmology
The Red Road
Blog by Valerie
The concept of the Red Road comes from Westerner’s attempting to understand the way indigenous cultures of North America structure their lives and see the world, though …
Calendars, Seasons & Cycles
Blog by Valerie
There are four types of calendars:
- A lunisolar calendar follows both the cycles of the moon and sun. Because the days, weeks and months are fixed, holy-days
Peace Circles
Blog by Valerie
“Stories are medicine…embedded with instructions” that guide us about how to live our lives (Estés, 1997). Practices of talking circles, or peace circles, have emerged …
Dignity & privilege
Blog by Valerie
One of the basic premises of an Earth Ethos, and of indigenous teachings generally, is an innate worthiness of being. It does not depend on behaviour …
Questioning Cosmology
Blog by Valerie
Stories are great teachers. They help us give meaning to events, teach core values, and inform our understandings of social order and individual identity (Engel, 1993…
Holiness
Blog by Valerie
Most of you reading this, like me, grew up a Judeo-Christian culture. And like many of you, I experienced conflicts and hypocrisies with aspects of those teachings. …
Earth Ethos: an embodied philosophy
Blog by Valerie
An Earth Ethos considers healing to be synonymous with justice. This philosophy is based on indigenous wisdom, where “indigenous” refers to cultures grown in connection to specific places …