The general feeling about customs and visions of the world is cut and dry. When conversing about traditions one hears phrases such as, "Many years ago it was like that, nowadays we've modernized." We love technological success and instant communication. If something...
Mountains acting like mountains fulfill their purpose. What should humans do to re-establish communication with the voices of Earth? — · — The relationship with the earth is completely mediated by the technological world. But the traditional word for technique,...
Today on Veus en Xarxa we talk to David Loy about how to apply the wisdom of Buddhism to our Western world and global problems. Committing to conscious activism as a gift we give to the Earth, not knowing if we will get away with it, but convinced that we cannot stop...
This moment of confinement is propitious to reflect on the change of attitude that this wisdom proposes to us. A change of personal attitude is the key because it is interconnected with the family, social and natural environment. If one does not improve oneself,...
Erika Zarate and Òscar Gussinyer, promoters of Resilience Earth, awaken wisdom in seeking regenerative ways of life, not just sustainable ones. Reconnecting the rhythm of humans with that of nature, and being able to contribute to it with an action that brings life...
In this conversation we ask whether this crisis is a crisis or a failure of humanity. The answers lie in local initiatives that are building alternative development models linked primarily to the land. Now more than ever, the answer lies in the land. Learn to live...
Underneath the autobiography of each of us there is a hidden wisdom that guides or would guide us if we knew how to listen to it. Reading history from other parameters (synchronicities, dream and bodily signals). Paying attention to them is entering into dialogue with...
Sitting among the remains of the foundations of the ancient city of Lauro , surrounded by a magnificent forest full of periwinkle, broom, rosemary, wild mint and primroses; the rocks strike me. Spring has swallowed them up, but you can still see the stone walls wisely...
Today on Veus en Xarxa, Lluís Planas brings us Xirinacs' perspective on wisdom. What is it, where to find it, why be wise? From the concepts in Globàlium to how to apply this wisdom that we all have to work together for a better life, Lluís shares it with us in this...
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt has been one of the elders of Uniterra since the very beginning. He has been a promoter of intercultural philosophy in Europe, creating the first chair at the University of Bremen. Responsible for the North-South Dialogues and the International...
In the past, people traveled on foot. They knew how many days it took to get from one village to another. They entered into dialogue with wolves, rivers and mountains without fear. They understood that each being has its own field of life and consciousness. They...
One day the sun god wanted to visit the earth turned into a great white wolf. I wanted to see the wonders that everyone told about that planet. That same day the night god, the moon god, also wanted to visit her and also chose to transform into a wolf. In his case, in...
Josep Maria Mallarach talks to us about how to re-root ourselves in the place and the Earth to which we belong. We are currently in an antithetical paradigm of ecosophy supported by a very powerful technological machinery, and the health crisis is just one branch of...
We talk to Xavier Melloni about how to let wisdom emerge in crisis situations like the one we are experiencing. Is COVID-19 an enemy to fight, or a teacher to listen to? We all share a common destiny (…), everything I see outside is also inside me. And, in a way, the...
With Eduard Costa we say goodbye to this nourishing stage that these months of reflection have brought us. The voice, halfway between the visible and the invisible, is one of the ways in which Eduard shares the fruits he gathers from inspiration. An inspiration that...
With the reading of this text by Ivan Illich we begin a section on the passage of time , within the Uniterra blog. A reflection on the human condition that goes through the acceptance of limits and our earthly origin. A look that sees the processes of disintegration...
Once upon a time, in a very distant forest, there was a very deep valley. It was called the valley of the wooden deer. It was a valley where a very rare species of deer lived, unique in the whole planet. People called them wooden deer, not because they were made of...
"Of those who first philosophized, the majority thought that the only principles of all things are of a material nature. And that is that of which all things that are are constructed, and from which they are first generated and finally decomposed, however much their...
In the universe there is an established order that encompasses the entirety of creation, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. Everything in it is energy, vibrating electromagnetic fields in a constant relationship of interdependence. Numbers represent...