by Evan Dwan | Apr 30, 2020 | News |
Rachel Carson grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. She and her dog, Candy, spent a lot of time exploring the woods and land that surrounded her home. Rachel was fascinated by the life that lived here – the plants, animals and insects. Her brother and sister were much...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 29, 2020 | News |
Culture can be understood as the social environment in which a person lives. Culture is the context in which energy and information is shared through patterns of interaction, rituals of behaviour, symbols and structures of the environment. Culture itself is a...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 29, 2020 | News |
Relationships – the energy and information shared between people – create habitual ways of being in the world through patterns of interaction. Styles of communication and ways of relating are passed on from one generation to another. These patterns occur within...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 29, 2020 | News |
Karen Armstrong, in her book, A short history of myth, writes that in old times the hunter and shaman of the tribe had to turn their backs on the familiar world, enter the unknown and face fearsome trials. Their journey took them out into uncertainty where they would...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 29, 2020 | News |
In hunting societies, animals were not seen as inferior beings but as possessing superior wisdom. Anthropologists observe that modern-day indigenous groups often refer to animals or birds as ‘peoples’, the same as themselves. They tell stories about humans becoming...
