Blood knowledge and place based knowledge
First of all, I would like to thank Alara, Geneviève and Katerina for their amazing blog post on the Waorani…
On capitalism
This week’s reading reminded me of a quote from Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein, “The financial crisis we are facing…
Desire and Suffering
If Maya farmers are exploited, it is not simply at the level of wages or prices, but more profoundly at…
Ontological separation, cognitive imperialism and developmental regime
The great British Philosopher Alan Watts succinctly defines epistemology as “who or what I am” and ontology as “who or…
Ayahuasca is the gateway beyond annihilation
Roger Rumrril asked in his interview with Guillermo Arrévalo the quintessential question of why people take ayahuasca, since there couldn’t…
All related
To me, indigenous agroecology is embedded in their cosmology – it is learning from plants; it is orchestrating the earthly…
Food, Spirituality, Colonization
I come from a land that wasn’t colonized and for the majority of my life indigeneity wasn’t part of my…
I am from
I am from rice, from a growing metropolis, and the Pearl River. I am from wontons and Cantonese medicinal soups,…