June’s Full Moon
Johnson Tsang’s Under the Skin from his Lucid Dream series (2018) captures my feelings in this very moment right now on the 4th of June 2023, a full moon this morning. Its called a Strawberry Moon but my walk took me down into the wooded cemetery on the shores of the sea and not past […]
Something
A Something can also be experienced as a startling moment of synchronicity and convergence in the researcher’s lived reality, whether on-Country or in cyberspace or a workspace. It may emerge as an unexpected or unexplainable synchronicity within the data itself. (Yunkaporta & Moodie, 2021) Stumbling across a rather large chunk of text that encapsulates the […]
Thinking with your hands
“… it is often far more time-consuming to attempt to describe hand-work in words than simply to demonstrate it.” (Smith, 2022) “…finally, and most significantly, if we conceive of skills as arising at the interface of the human senses and human body with the natural environment…” (Smith, 2022) “Thinking with your hands” – as a […]
Knowledge systems and making space for the embodied and experiential
Liberating myself from technical specifications of word count, third person voice, tone and choice of words is the power given to me in my own blog space – my ba, if you will – where I can play around with bits of ‘knowledge’ and rearrange them as I will. There are new concepts that I […]
I am thinking about thinking
“Knowledge creation is a continuous self-transcending process” Nonaka, Konno, & Toyama, 2001 My introduction to Yunkaporta’s work led me to dive more deeply into the exploration of thinking about diverse knowledge systems. I can taste unformed thoughts in my mind but do not yet have the words to manifest them. What could help me help […]
