Ep. 573 – Living in a Post-Truth World with Tyson Yunkaporta
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta joins Raghu to discuss our shared evolution of consciousness and navigating a post-truth world.
This week on Mindrolling, Tyson and Raghu have a conversation about:
- Living in a post-truth world where objective facts lose to emotional/personal appeal
- How coronavirus nudged us closer to fascism
- Cultural feedback routes and how America affects Australia
- Working with Indigenous medicine to connect to the spirit
- Navigating the grieving process
- Revolutions of consciousness through the eras
- Our universal connection and sharing of space with each other
- Disinformation and the build-up to our recent election
- Right story versus wrong story and how the truth gets blurred
- All of our relations, human and non-human
About Tyson Yunkaporta:
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.
Preorder Tyson’s book, Right Story, Wrong Story: How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell
“People are really suffering, and this feels true. This story reflects our feelings of terror and the need to preserve our cultures and communities and resources exclusively.” – Tyson Yunkaporta
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| 0:00.0 | so |
| 0:03.0 | so great to have you again on the show and to see your face. |
| 0:21.7 | And it's been a while since we talked, probably what? |
| 0:26.3 | I don't know, a year and a half, two years, something like that. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, it's been a while. |
| 0:30.1 | When did that book come out? |
| 0:31.2 | When did your first book come out? |
| 0:33.0 | That was 2019. |
| 0:35.9 | It came out. |
| 0:37.3 | Well, I think I talked to, ooh, so it's really three or four years ago. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh, man. |
| 0:43.2 | A lot of things are changing, and now we're talking at this massive inflection point in history, like right now. |
| 0:51.5 | We'll see the culmination of everything that sort of happened over the last four years. |
| 0:57.0 | It's pretty huge. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, talk about that. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, as you know, time and place is the same word often in our Aboriginal languages here. |
| 1:08.0 | So, yeah, so the place here, Bannerong Country, coming up to time, we're soon getting |
| 1:16.9 | some, you can see the little flower starting to start on the tea trees. |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, right, summer pretty much means soon I'll be able to buy light cheese at the supermarket |
| 1:26.6 | and cherries. |
| 1:29.3 | And there'll be jingle bell rock in the speakers there at the supermarket. |
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