ABSTRACT
Barry Lopez records the perspective of the indigenous Inuit hunters and how their observations of nature differ from those of the scientists. WEIRD culture has its implicit foundation built on a platform of mechanistic science that includes linear thinking and perpetuates a disconnection with relationship with nature, which is clearly pathologically destructive. Systems thinking that is used in the practice of systemic family therapy attempts to avoid linearity and focuses on relationships by attempting to pay attention in a way that is respectful, non-hierarchal, emergent, hopeful, and open to the possibility of systemic change. An alternative to the practice of using a mechanistic approach to encountering the world involves developing the skill of systemic thinking. The idea that nature itself is sentient, and talking to us, is also something that indigenous people have been telling WEIRD culture for a long time but it is very difficult to hear when people are convinced of mechanistic human centric perspective.
