Aboriginal Cosmology and Spiritual Renewal with David Tacey

Starting from his personal story, David talks about the two forms of cultures that are close to his personal upbringing. Australians and New Zealanders are close, neighbors, yet there are some significant differences. The Māori are warrior people and aboriginal people are not. As you know, the Māori put up a formidable resistance to the European invasion to their land whereas the aboriginal responded in many different ways. In Australia there is no indigenous renaissance, differently from the Māori. The countries are also strikingly different. One has to speak in the plural about aboriginal cultures, as there is often more than one. Speaking of languages for example in Australia there are 250 aboriginal languages and 600 dialects, whereas in Māori culture there is only one language to represent the Māori people, which makes it easier to stay united and to speak to the outside world. David takes us on a journey to explore how the 'old ways of doing things' is often associated to convention, lack of spontaneity, whereas the 'very old', the primeval is often the source of renewal in modern culture, both cultural and spiritual.