I’m think­ing a lot about this (para­phrased) com­ment from Jill Mil­roy, an abo­rig­i­nal woman from West­ern Aus­tralia, and one of the wiser humans I’ve ever spo­ken to. Take this as a pre­am­ble to more for­mal dis­cus­sion when the week’s over, and I’ve got time/​mind for a proper entry. This comes from my notes on this last weekend’s Lan­guage of Spirit Con­fer­ence. But let’s not let a state­ment as provoca­tive and exquis­ite as this go head­long into the ether, yeah?

The spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal worlds’ rules inter­act, constantly.

When sci­ence looks at indige­nous knowl­edge, sci­ence applies that knowl­edge as a sub­set. It doesn’t acknowl­edge it as a com­plete sys­tem, where West­ern knowl­edge is in fact part of a com­plete indige­nous knowl­edge system.

Dis­cuss.