About this episode

Pat McCabe discusses the indigenous paradigm and its implications for understanding humanity with host Lynn Murphy.

Originally recorded at Science and Nonduality, 2021 Pat McCabe, also known as Woman Stands Shining, is a Diné elder, ceremonial prayer leader, and international speaker adopted into the Lakota spiritual way of life. In this conversation hosted by Lynn Murphy, Pat offers a profound invitation to examine the foundational assumptions of the modern world paradigm and consider what it might mean to live from a genuinely different understanding of what it is to be human. Drawing on teachings from her clan grandfather, her experience of intergenerational trauma and survival, and her deep inquiry into masculine and feminine principles, Pat maps the territory between the glittering world we are leaving and the green world we are entering. The conversation opens in ceremony and closes with a practice: a morning sunrise offering that anyone can begin today. Lynn Murphy is a strategic advisor for foundations and NGOs working in the geopolitical South. She was a senior fellow and program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she focused on international education and global development. She resigned as a ”conscientious objector” to neocolonial philanthropy. She holds an MA…

People in this episode

Host: Lynn Murphy

Guest: Pat McCabe

Topics covered

• indigenous knowledge
• modern world paradigm
• masculine and feminine principles
• intergenerational trauma
• spirituality

Keywords

• indigenous paradigm
• Pat McCabe
• Lynn Murphy
• ceremony
• spirituality
• intergenerational trauma
• masculine and feminine

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Science and Nonduality

Books & works: Little Singer

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