Tending Toward Community (or, Community is a Pain in the Ass)

With Tyson Yunkaporta, Daniel Robert,  Chay Beriault, Jessie White, and John Wolfstone.

In part two of Community, we get into the path toward community, a zigzag and emergent pathway that can be confusing and extremely challenging. Which is why the alternate name for this episode is Community is a Pain in the Ass.
It's not easy to be building community while dealing with ancestral grief and despair over living in a fragmented, partial society.
And yet people make this effort, with goodwill and humor, and I doff my patchy hat to them.
We get into communication, communion working through conflict,
and we also get into nomadic community, which may well be the oldest form of community for humans, and is less about just roaming through the landscape and more about cyclically tending the land.
We'll be hearing from Tyson Yunkaporta about this from the Apalach band in Australia, who is working in the indigenous knowledge lab in deacon university working on bringing in functional nomadic communities in the modern world. And we'll also touch on the wonders and terrors of online community.

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To learn more about Tyson Yunkaporta excellent book, Sand Talk, you can go here.
In this episode Daniel Robert tells the story of the founding of the School of Mythopoetics. To hear more about this you can listen to this episode of the Mythic Masculine Podcast.
Jessie's beautiful art is here.
John Wolfstone's site, about rites of passage, is here.

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I couldn't put them all in the show notes here, but you'll find them in the transcript.

Music credit
from ccmixter:
romancito_-_San_Geronimo_Feast_Day
From freesound.org
165864__ananth-pattabi__traditional-folk-drums-hyderabad-india.mp3

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