338) Vanessa Andreotti: Allowing Earth to dream through us
Jan 4, 2022
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Vanessa Andreotti discusses the clash between generational ideals, the urgency of protecting the Amazon and Indigenous rights, the concept of radical tenderness in social activism, and personal grounding practices for decolonizing the unconscious in order to allow the Earth to dream through us.
Challenging the foundations of modernity and embracing sobriety, maturity, discernment, and accountability.
Cultivating radical tenderness and shifting our relationship with language and knowledge towards honesty, humility, and hyper self-reflexivity.
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The Urgent Need for Support: Green Dreamer Fundraising and New Podcast Launch
The host emphasizes the importance of direct support to continue producing podcast episodes and promotes the Green Dreamer planners and a new interactive live podcast called Uprooted.
Understanding and Challenging Modernity
The guest, Vanessa Andreulti, explains the concept of modernity as a story of progress and evolution. She discusses the separability of humans from the land, the hierarchy between cultures, and the harmful effects of modern capitalism. She emphasizes the need to challenge the foundations of modernity and proposes a shift towards sobriety, maturity, discernment, and accountability.
Embodying Radical Tenderness
The guest discusses the concept of radical tenderness as the ability to be critical and loving at the same time. It calls for a shift in our relationship with language and knowledge, moving beyond consumption and control. Radical tenderness encourages us to walk the tightrope between naive hope and hopelessness, embodying honesty, humility, hyper self-reflexivity, and humor.
Supporting Indigenous Communities and the Last Warning Campaign
The guest highlights the urgent need to protect the Amazon and its Indigenous peoples. She discusses the Brazilian government's plans to open up the Amazon for predatory enterprises and the importance of witnessing and supporting Indigenous communities. She calls for a reconnection with the earth and a decolonization of the unconscious.
What might it mean for humanity to reach a level of maturation to be able to confront the multilayered crises we now face—calling upon us to “grow up and show up” for ourselves and our planet? And how might recognizing the broader contexts that each of our generations were raised in help us to have more empathy when navigating our differences?
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is a Brazilian educator and Indigenous and Land Rights advocate. She is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change at the University of British Columbia, and she is one of the founders of the "Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective" and part of the coordination team of the "Last Warning" campaign.
Vanessa is also the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and Implications for Social Activism.
The song featured in this episode is Brown Leaves by Desmond White.
Green Dreamer is a community-supported podcast and multimedia journal exploring our paths to collective healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Find our show notes, transcripts, and newsletter at GreenDreamer.com.
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