by Barbara Lepani | Apr 26, 2024 | Our Collective
The Dilemma Since becoming involved with the Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network (GBMCAN), and becoming its president in 2022, I have become increasingly distressed by the way in which the arts and culture sector is not integrated into the idea of community...
by Barbara Lepani | Apr 12, 2024 | Our Collective
Escaping the Western Cultural Prison of Dualistic Materialism I spent last weekend catching up with my Rigpa dharma community at the Sydney Rigpa Centre in Newtown, for a special Buddhist retreat with Patrick Gaffney. Patrick co-authored The Tibetan Book of Living and...
by Barbara Lepani | Apr 12, 2024 | Our Collective
Experiencing Country as a Living Presence Unlike the Western knowledge system, anchored in Cartesian dualism, First Nations knowledge systems are anchored in a worldview whereby all of nature is alive with spiritual agency, celebrated in the core idea of Country and...
by Barbara Lepani | Jan 2, 2024 | Our Collective
The Map is Not the Territory My friend Inge Riebe is an anthropologist who has long grappled with one of the main challenges of her discipline. How do you get to understand a very different culture to your own from its own side, and escape the trap of seeing...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 27, 2023 | Our Collective
The 2023 NENA Conference, Canberra Life After Capitalism Organised by the New Economy Network Australia, led by Michelle Moloney of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, this conference brought together a wide variety of organisations and ‘experts’ engaged in developing...
by Barbara Lepani | Oct 19, 2023 | Our Collective
The Strange World of Institutional Economics On Wednesday, I tuned into Professor Holden’s (UNSW), a scion of the Academic Economic Establishment, at the National Press Club on what the mainstream economics professionhas to offer us about visions for the future. For...
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