#Reading #TheDreamingPath by Paul Callaghan with Uncle Paul Gordon, and loving it.

FIRST - what is the book about? from the Pantera Press website:
“Through conversations, exercises, Dreamtime stories and key messages, Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon will sit you around the fire and share knowledge that reveals the power of Aboriginal spirituality as a profound source of contentment and wellbeing for anyone willing to listen.
This ancient wisdom is just as relevant today as it ever was.
Themed chapters that bring together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal worldviews invite you to reflect on:
Caring for our place and the importance of story
Relationships, sharing and unity
Love, gratitude and humility
Learning and living your truth
Inspiration and resilience
Being present and healing from the past
Contentment
Leading”

SECOND just one of the many ideas that make this book so interesting;
Civilisations come and go … Empires and States rise and fall, right?
But the Indigenous Cultures and people of what is now called Australia have been surviving and adapting 10 times as long as those of us from the “modern” era.

Maybe we are wrong to assume “collapse is inevitable/ might is right/ may as well prepare for war cos lust for power/money never stops” - (an assumption that ruins the #Wakanda movies, for me at least)

Time to reframe our thinking