Glenn Aparicio Parry - Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature

Parry has deftly removed egotistical consciousness from its putative mastery of things and reinserted it integrally back into nature, and in doing so everythingthought, time, space, humanitycomes to look different, more radiant, at once older and newer. [This] is even more than a prescription for restoring the world. In the pages of Original Thinking the world is already healthy once more.JEFFREY PAINE, author of Re-Enchantment

For over a decade, Glenn Aparicio Parry has been convening a unique gathering of minds, bringing a distinguished array of indigenous wisdom keepers together with Western scientistsnot to hold forth in front of an audience but simply to be in rich dialogue with one another, listening, learning, discovering fresh ways of thinking and understanding our aching world.DAVID ABRAM, author of The Spell of the Sensuous

The heart of Parrys journey taps the living pulse of sacred, deep dialogue and calls upon the reader to become an awakened, original reader, entering a sacred rite of passage toward the whole Self, heart and soul.ASHOK GANGADEAN, PhD, author of Awakening the Global Mind

Parrys gift is to bring out the core essence of humanity, love, and prayer as well as our infinite connection to nature.HARLAN MCKOSATO (Sac and Fox), former host of Native America Calling

Original Thinking is a call for humanity to return to our original purpose in the cosmos. Asking the most basic questions, Parry challenges us to set aside conventional thinking and ponder lifes firsts as blessings for which to be thankfulthe first thought, the first awareness, the first consciousness, the beginning of the cosmosin order to reeducate our minds, become one with nature as a state of being, and achieve wholeness through Spirit as our source.PHILLIP H. DURAN (Tigua), author of The Condor and the Eagle

Read this book and be liberated from the selfish, greedy, egotistic, and separatist thinking that is currently dominating and destroying our planet. Learn how to return to the origin of thought which brings us back into synchronization with Nature. It isnt hard. Parry provides excellent instructions.CAROLE HART, producer and director of For the Next Seven Generations: 13 Indigenous Grandmothers Weaving a World that Works

A brave and bold book that draws upon the power of ancient wisdom, ways of being in the world still rooted to a vibrant sense of the wholethe whole of nature, the whole of humanity, the whole of time. Here is a book that we actually need to read, for our sake and the sake of life on this planet. For those willing to risk thinking their way toward viable and necessary alternatives to the dominant pressures of globalized capitalism, for those aware of the drastic consequences of our ignorance of the spiritual in favor of a selfish materialism, this book is not simply a treasure. It may be the one guide we need to begin to sort out how we might yet save ourselves.MARK S. BURROWS, coauthor of Minding the Spirit

Original Thinking has to do with the movement between civilizations, between cultures, between languages, between worlds. It has to do with overcoming boundaries, crossing borders not only geographicallybut also psychologically and spirituallyin communication, in thinking, and in identity. It means that one is never finished, that one is always journeying onward. That one is always ready for the next experience.MONA POLACCA (Havasupai/Hopi/Tewa), member of International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

There is a lot of rich terrain to explore in the third space opened by the decade-long dialogue between indigenous elders and scientists that inspired this work. As one of the long-time participants who was personally transformed, I am delighted by how the book distills some of the wisdom and burning questions that were forged in our historic dialogues. And I am even more heartened by Parrys ability to translate that wisdom into practical solutions and actions.MATTHEW C. BRONSON, PhD, coeditor of So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World in Crisis

Reading Original Thinking felt like being stirred and mixed and rocked in a cradle between my left brain and my right brain. And I do suspect that there was an interconnecting subtle weaving process stitching together an even more supple fabric within my whole brain. And that this fabric that re-wove me into it re-wove me into the original memory of Wholeness of all of Creation.VICTORIA HANCHIN, author of The Seer and The Sayer