Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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On right relation, serpent lore, truth and reality, with Tyson Yunkaporta, who works with Indigenous Systems Knowledge, Indigenous inquiry methods and complexity science to address global existential threats and issues in regenerative design. He is the author of Sand Talk, Right Story Wrong Story co-author with Megan Kelleher of Snake Talk.

Chapters

00:00 On talking properly
04:31 Approaching circle, setting circle, keeping circle, closing circle
08:23 The trouble with reciprocity
16:36 Law and lore: what's real and what's true
31:57 Flibbertigibbets, hard heads and two throats
41:27 The serpent as master of semi-permeable boundaries
46:06 Is the human being transitionary?
53:01 Hyperstition, Harry Potter and poison as medicine
57:05 Right destruction, wrong destruction, wisdom of crowds
1:01:29 The basilisk, empire, and evil as simplification

Find a copy of Snake Talk at https://www.amazon.com.au/Snake-Talk-ancient-serpent-stories/dp/1923058460

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0