Holding the Fire: Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling The Delusion of Dominion with Celine Lim
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Oct 31, 2023 Celine Lim, an Indigenous Kayan leader from Sarawak, discusses the gap between her Indigenous world and city life, the challenges faced by indigenous communities due to destructive logging, the therapeutic benefits of nature, the challenges of maintaining indigenous culture, and strategies for combating pushback in policy making.
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Gap Between Indigenous and Modern Worlds
- There is a huge gap between indigenous living and contemporary society that causes spiritual and physical disconnection.
- Indigenous communities respect and sustainably manage resources, unlike consumer-driven contemporary lifestyles.
Therapeutic Silence in the Forest
- When Celine returns upriver, she experiences therapeutic silence that quiets her mind and breath.
- This natural quiet is absent in the city, making city life mentally noisy despite attempts at meditation.
Grief Drives Indigenous Activism
- The disconnect between urban and indigenous ways results in grief over loss of life-giving connection to the earth.
- This grief fuels the effort to prove ancestral ways are still viable and necessary today.