John Greenhalgh

A modern-day male shaman will be interested in the #ANTHROPOCENE. . Much Western culture is deadly to human life, and to all creatures on our planet. #Meme_Chg.

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

WE LIVE IN A PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE. . Life asks us to reciprocate by contributing to the total wellbeing. . We begin by reflecting on our lives. . And then we act on what we learn, and reflect on the results. . That's life in a participatory and deeply interconnected universe.

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

Objective science represents the 'view from nowhere'. . No wonder scientists and philosophers are stumped by the 'mind-body problem'.

Bonnitta Roy's thesis provides further explanation:
https://t.co/qHKfCNUGNB

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

What we see as the physical world is only one of the manifestations of the process that we call the universe or life. . We ourselves are part of that same process. . This means that we cannot take an authentic 'objective' view of the world, as science has attempted to do.

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

GLOBAL COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATIONS
Psychologically healthy and mature people, in the face of catastrophe, do everything they can do to stop the forces of destruction.
https://t.co/tCRvBjROfr

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

"We simply cannot go on living this way. Our version of life on earth has come to an end."
https://t.co/TMSc3mfVsQ

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

The Earth asks that we give our gifts in return so that the world can continue. Those turtles ask us to remember the covenant of reciprocity...to honor an agreement: that at the beginning of the world they were our life raft, and now, so much closer to the end, we must be theirs.

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

"If our leaders don’t lead, then we have to. If all our leaders ask is that we are quietly complicit to destruction, we say, “We are a better species than that.”
https://t.co/mBpkGVg1EF

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

@Luna_Kareoki @WilliamsRuto That NPR link is a nice find @Luna_Kareoki. . But the larger picture relating to 'blame' is that human beings are the culprits, though most of it is done unintentionally - without sufficient awareness.

😂Instead of pics from Down Under, try a pic of earth from space, via NASA

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

... and I can provide an authoritative link, though it's quite long. . Let me know if you're interested.

And good luck and best wishes with what you're doing. ❤️( 🙃 from the land that's upside down 🏴‍☠️(Oops - Twitter won't let me scroll to the Aussie flag due to <1 tweet🙄)

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

WETIKO and Western Cultural Influences
Dear @Luna_Kareoki, as a fellow shaman, and with your background in Kenya, I thought you may like to know about this. . I'm comfortable with the idea that you may decide it is not something you want to address.

https://t.co/OTi1XV6htN

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

Thanks @Luna_Kareoki. . I've been following various threads related to wetiko, a kind of virus of the mind that has infected all peoples due to colonialism (though its beginnings were much earlier . . It's not easy to read about it, but it's well documented ...

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

The world is participatory, and we're overdue to wake up and take our place in it: participating in the World, offering up our unique gift - and taking personal responsibility for our land, the natural world, our only home.

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

BEING IN THE DEPTH OF THE WORLD
"A Kosmos in which everything is alive. ... it's time to reclaim those indigenous ways of being in the world. . To plug ourselves back into the web of life on this planet. ..."
https://t.co/8bJTbPx4SM

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

David Abram, ecologist, anthropologist and philospher of phenomenology in his books 'The Spell of the Sensuous' and the follow-up 'Becoming Animal' offers a rich (if somewhat complex) understanding of this way of being in the world.

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

THE WORK WE MUST DO
"it does not need governments or big organizations, but individuals whose hearts are open and who have heard the cry of the Earth."
https://t.co/h9HYc3QV8e

[John Greenhalgh @OzeShaman]

STATES FACE BILLION-DOLLAR NATIVE TITLE BILL

The High Court decision is its first assessment of native title compensation and could have major ramifications for state and federal budgets.- Australian Financial Review, 13 March, 2019

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HOW DO WE HEAL TODAY'S WORLD?
https://t.co/Rxs2mkoe78

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The colonisation of Australia is at the heart of calls for a national truth-telling process. This map tells the stories that have long been kept out of our history books...evidence of mass killings from 1788 until 1928: a sustained and systematic process of conflict and expansion

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https://t.co/QhBxMCbAIo