Blackfoot [Native Indians] of Montana and Alberta live in a world of constant flux and process—instead of fixed laws and organizations, the Blackfoot have networks of relationships with all living things, including rocks, trees, and energies of the cosmos.
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'In modern physics the essential stuff of the universe... exists as relationships and fluctuations... Indigenous science teaches that all that exists is an expression of relationships, alliances, and balances between what... we call energies, powers, or spirits.'
—F. David Peat
—F. David Peat
'Within the indigenous world the act of coming to know something involves a personal transformation. The knower and the known are indissolubly linked and changed in a fundamental way.... it is a dynamic and living process.'
—F. David Peat
—F. David Peat
'Quantum theory stresses the irreducible link between observer & observed and the basic holism of all phenomena. Indigenous science also holds that there is no separation between the individual and society, between matter and spirit, between each one of us & the whole of nature.'
'Like the Taoists, Blackfoot would never conceptualize reality as comprised of independent “particles,” but rather see all nature as a series of vibrations. This is epitomized in their language structures: they place virtually no emphasis on nouns.'
'Indeed, nouns in Blackfoot's language are only used as modifications of other verbs. It is said that an Indian can go an entire day without using a noun-structure at all! Of course as Europeans, our syntax is Subject>verb>object.
This is totally alien to the Indian.'
This is totally alien to the Indian.'
'This principle of vibration and verb-oriented ontology seems much closer to the reality modern physics is uncovering. The quantum potential, which is inherently a pure flow, is very close to the Indian concept of spirit.'
'Blackfoot language and culture are not based on objects interacting, but rather on forces and relationships. This is clearly closer to what quantum physics has found.'
'Blackfoot even have a rather explicit cultural belief reflecting the [implicate order hypothesis]. According to it, there is a force in nature that underlies and holds everything together, that transcends perception, belief and language.'
'Blackfoot believe that mind and matter are of the same nature yet different manifestations of the same force in nature that underlies and holds everything together [implicate order].'
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