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All Change or No Change? Culture, Power and Activism in an Unquiet World, Part 2

13 February 2017 Leave a Comment

Welcome to the second article in this three-part series being co-published between Occupy.com and Transnational Institute. Read Part 1 here.... Part II: A Tale of Two Histories "In order to see the root causes of our planetary crisis, we must go back deep into human history and compare the cultural narratives that have given rise to the world as it exists today. Only then can the deep work of culture design begin." Read the full story by Martin Kirk, Jason Hickel and Joe Brewer.... Continue reading

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: activism, change, culture shift, global operating system, planetary system, political power, power, systems change, Wetiko

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: A Culture Without Fear

2 August 2016 Leave a Comment

An insightful article in Kosmos Journal from our community friends at Terra Nova Voice, Tamera, Portugal.... "First Nation tribes from North America coined a term to describe the ‘disease of the white man’ – wetiko*. In their understanding, wetiko consists of two essential characteristics: chronic inability for empathy and an egoistic fixation on one's own personal benefit and profit. The First Peoples used this word specifically because they could not fathom any other explanation for the … Continue reading

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: capitalism, community evolution, culture shift, healing collective trauma, late-stage capitalism, post-capitalism, societal change, Wetiko

Seeing Wetiko | Spoken Word by Alixa Garcia

28 July 2016 Leave a Comment

Awakening from the illusion of separation from a Native American perspective.... In this 4-minute video, author and spoken word activist, Alixa Garcia, artfully describes the meaning of wetiko and why seeing it can help change the world. "Cree Native Americans named Wetiko as a cannibalistic entity taking over the mind in an insatiable and lethal embrace. Wetiko is characterised as a psychic starvation that leads to an insatiable hunger. To see wetiko is to dispel its hold on us. Conscious … Watch video

Filed Under: Consciousness Tagged With: Alixa Garcia, awakening, compassion, interconnectedness, separation and loneliness, spoken-word, Wetiko

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