Category: Our Collective
Posts about people in the Collective
MOTHER WISDOM MEDICINE – AYAHUASCA
Taking Ayahuasca, the wisdom mother medicine was quite a shock. That is, I never expected the result it would bring to my life. Called Dieta, nine of us entered the 9 day retreat with the serious intention of healing our minds through knowledge by dieting intensively on wisdom plants and much less so on normal […]
Ruby’s Beginnings – set in Australia’s early 1950’s—by Robyn Catchlove
God Goes Everywhere God goes everywhere. Maybe it was a vinegar stroke, certainly a masterstroke when He came to God’s Own Country. First Queensland, then the rest, not resting till He had initiated the faithful Vegemites into the right dream, The Great Australian Dream. Cellular Seducer. Fair dinkum. Dinkum enough for the bronzed, digger Aussies […]
White Male Fragility and Violence
Fathers and Male Violence This faded photo is of my father and mother in their old age. Now I am close to reaching that age myself. I know all about white male fragility and violence. My father was such a man. As a child I was just plain scared of him, and as soon as [...]
Ideas for a Garden of Stones Caring For Country Festival
The Garden of Stones The Gardens of Stones is a treasure of Lithgow, the city of Seven Valleys: Lithgow, Hartley, Kanimbla, Megalong, Tarana, Capertee, Wolgan. With its sheer cliffs extending from Lithgow north to Capertee, the Garden of Stones adjoins the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area to the east, and lies just north of [...]
The Story of Australia 2023+: Caring for Country; Multiculturalism; A Wellbeing Circular Economy
INTERCONNECTION In 2020, after the mega Gosper Fire had raged through the Blue Mountains, I met up with Dharug man, Chris Tobin, at his bush camp at Bell to talk about Caring for Country and the fires. Chris told me how the fires had raged through here where we sat and talked, but miraculously had [...]
Cut the Sky—Marrugeku Speaks to Climate Change and the Colonial Inheritance
References This post draws on two sources—both have profound insights for how the arts might respond to the core challenges of our times: Climate change and environmental destruction of Planet Earth through the cult of 'economic growth' Responding to Australia's contested history and the Uluru Statement from the Heart Escaping the prison of only Western [...]
From Transactional Living to the Gift Economy
Maleny Eco Village https://www.ecovillages.au/post/what-if-we-all-lived-in-the-gift-economy “Sacred Economics” by Charles Eisenstein https://youtu.be/-GoFzU3cRE4 Collective Stewardship Our ‘collective stewardship’ model was already too radical for most Australians. But we wanted to push ourselves further. We started the project by charging ‘rent’ (although we preferred the term ‘weekly contribution’) using an algorithm to decide how much each person pays – […]
Healing People, Country & Culture in the Symbiocene
Beyond the Anthropocene We are living in a new era: the Anthropocene. It is now widely acknowledged that the root of the climate change crises engulfing us is epistemic and caused by humans—the cumulative impact of our modern cultural ways of thinking. These are rooted in an extractivist approach to wealth creation and a profound [...]