Indigenous Wisdom


From the moment we enter school or church, education chops us into pieces; it teaches us to divorce soul from body, and mind from heart. The fishermen of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, feeling-thinking, to define language that speaks the truth. - Eduardo Galleano

By looking to the cultures of indigenous peoples, psychology can draw on wisdom forgotten in the wake of modernity. Values essential to our future such as conviviality, sustainability, and justice, are well understood by indigenous cultures.