North American indigenous concepts of the dialogical self

Mehl‐Madrona, Lewis; Mainguy, Barbara

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“…(2017,230) She challenges us to connect with the other-than-human energies that surround us. If we accept a relational model of the self (Hermans, 2014;Hermans & Gieser, 2012;Mehl-Madrona & Mainguy, 2018), then all beings with whom we relate contribute to the constitution of the self, which is dynamic-changing in response to the demands of the environment. Within this view, we can see all these relationships connecting to us, like fascial elements under the skin or fungal mycelia under the soil.…”

Section: Dependence On the Other-than-humansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding identity beyond the human

Mehl‐Madrona

2023

Anthropol of Consciousness

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Ecofeminists, environmental activists, and ecologists are calling humans to change our relationships to other‐than‐humans and more‐than‐humans. Indigenous people and knowledge systems are often exemplified as ways for non‐Indigenous people to relate to these entities. While Indigenous people have historically participated in epistemologies and modes of perception that rendered them more able to connect to non‐humans, these relationships have not always been peaceful or mutually advantageous. Examples are cited in which annihilating all beavers was the goal, and the fur trade is cited as a time when Indigenous people in North America gained mastery over animals that had previously threatened them, leading to near extinction for some species in some locations over a short time. Bear–human marriage stories provide us with another way to view the human–animal relationship, which is sometimes violent. Through multiple conversations with Elders over time, I have been accumulating a sense of Indigenous North American (INA) theories of mind, self, and consciousness. I apply the results of my discussions to the question of whether we are creating a new consciousness of relations with non‐humans that has not previously existed in INA thought, though it has its progenitors. I also apply insights from recent literature on psychedelics. This new thought arises from the current domination of the planet and animals by human beings and the relative lack of threat to humans from animals. Indeed, we are more dangerous to them than they are to us. Within this context, we can construct a new consciousness of non‐humans, which has its historical antecedents and which is also entirely new.

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Section: Dependence On the Other-than-humansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding identity beyond the human

Mehl‐Madrona

2023

Anthropol of Consciousness

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North American indigenous concepts of the dialogical self

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