Consciousness: Tiokasin Ghosthorse

What if language was not a tool for naming things, but a vibration of relationship?

What if intelligence wasn’t a human asset, but an ecological rhythm?

What if consciousness is not what happens in our heads—but what happens between us, through us, with the land, with water, with wind?

 

Come gather for a conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota elder, host of First Voices Radio, master musician, and steward of relational ways of knowing. Rooted in the vibrational teachings of the old Lakota language, a language shaped by Earth and used to speak with, not about, Tiokasin invites us to unlearn the dominance of human-centered thought and listen again to Earth as consciousness.

 

First Voices Indigenous Radio

 

Butterfly Against the Wind

 

Topics

 

• 00:00 Introduction and Greetings
• 00:48 Introducing Tiokasin Ghosthorse
• 01:28 Tiokasin's Background and Philosophy
• 04:36 The Concept of Land Acknowledgement
• 05:59 Relational Values and Indigenous Wisdom
• 08:02 Language and Consciousness
• 16:09 Mystery and Present Consciousness
• 27:54 Environmentalism and Connection to Earth
• 35:04 Understanding WIA and Innocence
• 36:34 The Role of Elders and Wisdom
• 37:58 Relational Intelligence vs. Western Education
• 39:14 Cultural Trauma and Language Suppression
• 45:41 Earth Consciousness and Modern Anxiety
• 50:04 The Illusion of Control and AI
• 58:38 Ceremony and Earth Cycles
• 01:03:32 Final Thoughts and Gratitude

Connect with more with Tiokasin and dozens of other speakers and elders  in the SAND film Series The Eternal Song

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