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Knowledge and Wisdom Traditions
Bringing Indigenous, scientific, philosophical, and spiritual knowledge systems into dialogue.
How do we come to know reality?
Research Questions
- What is knowledge?
- How do different cultures come to know reality?
- What can emerge through dialogue between Indigenous, scientific, philosophical, and spiritual traditions?
- How do different ways of knowing complement one another?
- What makes knowledge trustworthy, transformative, and alive?
- How is wisdom cultivated and transmitted?
- Can a relational understanding of knowledge contribute to the future of science and society?
Current Research
Indigenous knowledge systems
Relational ontology
Epistemology
Science and wisdom traditions
Kanyini and science
Knowledge transmission
project 1
Ubuntu and Kanyini
Brings African and Australian Indigenous wisdom traditions into dialogue around relational ethics and belonging
project 2
Tjukurrpa and the Unified Field
Brings Indigenous cosmology and contemporary science into dialogue through a relational understanding of reality.
project 3
Kanyini, Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
Compares Indigenous philosophies from Australia and North America to explore universal principles of kinship and care
project 4
Resonant Knowledge vs Linear Knowledge
Contrasts relational, participatory ways of knowing with linear models of knowledge and information
project 5
Kanyini and African Sufi Wisdom
Investigates love as a foundational principle organizing relationships across human and living systems
project 6
Relational Intelligence: Kanyini and the Ontology of Artificial Intelligence
Explores how Indigenous principles of relationship and responsibility can inform the future development of artificial intelligence
project 7
Aboriginal Languages as Already-Rheomode
Examines Aboriginal languages through Bohm’s concept of the rheomode as living expressions of process and relationship
project 8
From Dreaming to Quantum Field
Explores convergences between Aboriginal cosmology and modern field-based understandings of the universe
project 9
When Science Overreaches
Examines the limits of scientific reductionism and the importance of dialogue with other knowledge traditions
project 10
Knowledge That Walks
Explores knowledge as a lived, embodied practice transmitted through participation and relationship
project 11
Holding Without Holding
Investigates Indigenous approaches to stewardship based on care, responsibility, and non-possession
project 12
Relational Ontology as Structural Recurrence
Develops a unifying relational ontology across science, philosophy, Indigenous knowledge, and spirituality
project 13
The Trinity as Relational Ontology
Reinterprets the Trinity as a universal model of relationship, participation, and living reality
project 14
Sound, Relation, and the Lived World
Explores sound and listening as participatory processes that shape relationships and lived experience