The teaser of a 30 mins documentary currently in post-production, featuring Aunty Jinta (Isira), Mirning Adhnyahmathana Wisdom Keeper and Elder. Aunty Jinta takes us through deep listening practices and explains the Four Sacred Pillars that are crucial for humanity’s connection, healing and awakening. This ability to connect with our soul and Mother Earth is innate in us all. As Aunty Jinta said, “we are all indigenous in the core of our being”. Ngaligumerra, We Are One.
About the Four Sacred Pillars of Life:
The heart of Isira’s teaching is Holistic Awakening. While the predominant western model of awakening focuses on individual consciousness, Isira’s holistic approach has us awaken to the sacred in all of life. It is an awakening that is integrated, embodied, and grounded, rather than siloed, conceptual, and abstract.
Inspired by the wisdom of indigenous cultures, Isira teaches that we must awaken to what she calls the “Four Sacred Pillars of Life.” While one of these four pillars is the Self or Spirit, they go beyond the Self to include our interconnected relationship with three other essential dimensions of life—the second is nature or earth, the third is kinship or others, and the fourth is the cosmos or universe. While conventional thinking assumes that our spiritual connection must start with Self or Spirit, instead, Isira teaches that for awakening to be holistic, it is essential that we start with our connection to earth or nature.
Through Holistic Awakening, we move out of the mind into a lived experience in which the sacred is restored to each moment of our day-to-day life.
The documentary also features:
Aunty Babanginy (Michelle Lewis), Whadjuk Nyoongar elder
Uncle Rikijon Powell, Wailwan Wiradjuri elder
Director/ Producer/ Editor: Re Lim (Culture Unboxed)
Cinematographer: Ryan Andrew Lee
Colorist: Daniel Pardy
Music:
“Infinitum” by Ancestral Elephants
Special Thanks:
The team who supported our Sacred Reconnection event, and the participants for joining in the journey.
