Ways of Knowing

I am taking this course on Indigenous Philosophies, and it is getting under my skin.

I am seeing pictures in my head as I read the text.  I am reading work by Dei - 'Revisiting The Question' - and it began with images of Finland, and Eesti, then northern Ontario, lakes and trees, and sky, and the feelings of belonging that are here.

Then, moving into passages about belonging and connection, images of walking through a dark forest, and seeing sparks of light, and knowing they were people, and animals, connected with little strings of light. It was unreal.

This is not how I think. I think in straight lines, and angles, and took this course on purpose because I knew it would be hard for me.  I am having to look up concepts, and look up vocabulary, and I wanted something that would challenge me, and push me.  That is certainly happening.