Healing the Degenerative Disease of Separation - An on-Going Regenerative Inquiry

Summary

In conversation with Chief Ninawa Inu Huni Kui, Vanessa Andreotti reflects: “When we are seeking justice, we tend to invest in a future outcome, a destination point, that we imagine from a position of autonomy and entitlement. This process is often driven by the desires of the ego and prevents it from being a collaboration with the Land. By placing all investment in certainty and control, and a predefined outcome, we are prevented from repairing and healing relationships in the present, which inherently needs to be driven by something other than the transactional calculations of the ego… Rehabilitation only works when there is consent, not only intellectual, but affective and embodied consent and the first step is admitting we have a problem, in this case, it is also admitting the depth and scale of our individual and collective problems.”

Rationale

It sharpens a tension we hold too: stopping the bulldozers now and healing the separation behind them are both needed, and often can’t be done at once.