Month: October 2022

Introducing Robyn Catchlove

On the mike at Radio Blue Mountains FM 89.1 Barbara Lepani: I recently met Robyn on a film shoot for Kalani Gacon's new film, Sole, created through the Mountain of Youth Film Project.  We got talking and discovered we had much in common, including dharma connections with Tibetan Buddhism.  I read Robyn's published book, 'Somewhere [...]

The New Face of Extractivism—Digital Ghost Workers

Extractivism Dr May Graham, a Queensland Aboriginal Elder and Academic has neatly summarised the essential contrast between the relationist ontology of Australia's First Nations cultures, which has underpinned the 65,000 + years of their continuous, sustainable and adaptive way of living in Australia, and that of the extractivist ontology that underpins global capitalism in all [...]

Ancestors and Lineal Connections in Multicultural Australia—The Third Archive

Australia's Cultural Foundation Australia finally acknowledges that our cultural foundations lie with the 65,000 years+ history of First Nations cultures, the oldest continuous civilisation on Planet Earth, encoded in the Songlines that criss-cross Australia and which acknowledge the immutable LAW of the interdependence of life—of all living forms, the Earth itself and the swirling solar [...]

Regenesis On The Inside

Regenesis is a multifaceted concept. There are many ways to look at it. Physical Regenesis. Spiritual Regenesis. Environmental Regenesis. Political Regenesis. Community Regenesis. Today I’m looking at it through the lens of mental health. I believe, like every other aspect of our lives, environmental concerns are affected by the mental health of our community. We […]