Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

“The medium is the message” is one way to describe this work. Tyson interweaves story-telling, tool-and-weapon-making, images and gestures in the sand, the human body, songs, and radical truth-telling to convey knowledge in a completely different way from the english-language shaping of the world. Objects transform into relations, stories, and wisdom-holders. Western civilization is rendered from the semi-un-embedded eyes of an aboriginal worldview. This book returns us to ways of knowing deep in our bodies. Deep in our own histories as human, as part of creation. It is a gift. Read it, or listen to it.

Look up Tyson’s many interviews on YouTube, or listen to his podcast on Spotify, the Other Others, which is a series of ‘yarns’ with a diversity of people on everything from complexity theory, to climate, to Celtic renewal. Witness his ‘radical inclusivity’, and even his own questioning of it. He is painfully honest, blurty, provcative, messy, self-questioning, and a kind of ‘polymath’ in his own right taking on civilzation with humor and searing intellect. If you’re interested in exploring other worldviews and becoming more objective about your own, you’re in the right place with this podcast.