The Knowledge Keepers Past Present and Emerging …
Esther Pockrandt – Australia
… Reflections on Australian Indigenous Spirituality
Australian Indigenous Spirituality, Aboriginal depiction of Madonna and Child
This article was inspired by the moving Welcome of theosophists to the traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, the wisdom holders of the Indigenous Nations of the Vancouver area, during the recent 150th International Congress in Canada, and their subsequent inclusion in the programme. I live on the lands of the Kabi-Kabi and Jinibara people of the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland, Australia, and I was deeply touched by this honouring of the earth and all the gifts she shares with us freely, and still, even when we forget to look after her. We, as humanity and the earth with all her beings are one family, something which indigenous cultures still honour. The Welcome to Country as it is known here, is almost identical, the same call for respect, a ‘re-memoring’ that we are one family, yet, but visitors passing through.