Marc Salmon is joined by Aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta for a wide-ranging conversation about Indigenous knowledge systems, Aboriginal culture, comedy, Buddhism, ecology, power, and the stories that shape the worlds we live in.

Together they explore why humour keeps power in check, right story versus wrong story, high and low context cultures, animism, serpent lore, meme magic, and how stories can become either medicine or curses.

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Topics include:

• Storytelling
• Aboriginal knowledge
• Comedy
• Buddhism
• Animism
• Ecology
• High and low context cultures
• Power and hierarchy
• Right Story, Wrong Story
• Serpent lore
• Meme magic
• Decolonisation
• Systems thinking

Guest:
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, arts critic and author from the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland.

His work brings together Indigenous knowledge systems, complexity theory, ecology and systems thinking to explore how stories shape culture, identity and our relationship with the living world.

He is the author of:
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
https://www.booktopia.com.au/sand-talk-tyson-yunkaporta/book/9780062975621.html

Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking
https://www.booktopia.com.au/right-story-wrong-story-tyson-yunkaporta/book/9781922790439.html

Snake Talk: How the world’s ancient serpent stories can guide us
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/snake-talk-9781923058460

Indigenous Knowledge System Lab Website:
https://ikslab.deakin.edu.au/

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About the podcast
The Bardo Podcast is hosted by comedian Marc Salmon.
Conversations with comedians, mystics and philosophers trying to make sense of it all.

Music by Marc Salmon and Robert Fuller

Artwork by Zoe Brownstone - Check out her special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJkF4QSNPmE&