| Tayria Ward, PhD
Recovering the Indigenous Mind
Humans are endowed with original biological equipment that might allow each one to be in regular conversation with the voices of the natural world--plant, tree, rock, wind, stars, birds, animals--had this equipment not bee
Education and enculturation practices and technological thinking developed over the last centuries have caused these sensibilities, indigenous to the human, to be ignored as if irrelevant. Evolution may allow such capabi
and the health and survival of necessary earth systems depend upon the individual's willingness to undergo this recovery. A deconstruction of the Western consensual reality, any private sense of entitlement and superior
reawakening to be able to tolerate the psychological and personal processes activated. Physicists have discovered that the human brain does not register information that it does not have a concept for. Therefore, not hav
we fail to hear. There is work to be done on our concepts.
Tayria Ward, PhD,was an ordained minister for nearly 20 years and later earned a doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica. She trained in the Dialogue work of physicist David Bohm, and has long taught this method
Lionel Corbett in Pacifica's Psyche and the Sacred program. Tayria moved to the North Carolina mountains to start a retreat center dedicated to the deep work of recovering indigenous sensibilities, where she conducts re
Indigenous Mind .
Ernst von Weizsäcker, Ph.D. is Dean of the UCSB's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. In earlier years he held positions in Germany as professor of biology, university president, director of a
became the founding president of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy. In 1998, he was elected a Member of the German Parliament, where he served as Chairman first of the Globalization Comm
Politic, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, and Limits to Privatization. |