29. sep. 2007

Letters from the road: In the fourth world

The Paganyaw tribe (also called by their English name, the Karen) live in a swath of territory extending from Burma to Thailand and Laos. They are the most culturally and spiritually integral indigenous group remaining in the region, though like indigenous cultures everywhere, their days appear to be numbered.
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How can it be that this apparently weak, primitive culture could reveal so effortlessly a radiant, communal love like this – a love so often eclipsed by our own advanced culture? What do they know that we don’t?

©2003 Elias Amidon & Rabia Elizabeth Roberts, The Boulder Institute

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