Death, as a guide to knowing with the body, calls in the flesh and grounds us in our mortality. We are not our bodies, but rather temporarily inhabit them. Though we may fantasize about all we could do with infinite life, we know it results in a rather vacant relationship with the world, and ourselves.
Read MoreThe High Priestess - guide to knowing with the mind. Sometimes we may forget to view the world with all its complexity and texture, so much so that we lose sight of all the infinite possibilities that come with such a place. In our stillness, we can forget the world is a dynamic place, full of wonder and constant change.
Read More“In Indigenous ways of knowing, we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects for our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit.”
- Greg Cajete, as quoted in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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