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What are 2 Tells It True interpretations of Jan 6
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Link to YouTube Video What's True About Jan 6th?

What is 'Tells It True'?
An answer to this question

It's about how different groups of people, sometimes whole nations, have different understanding and practice of 'Tells It Ture' and Can't have conversations anymore

Start with PowerPoint explaining Why We Can't Have Conversations anymore?
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See Video at
https://youtu.be/06EZPnh0Fzg

Answer I give -
We need Amendment to True Storytelling® 7 Processes

Here 4 key images to the amendment to ways I was developing 7 Antenarrative Processes

The problem with this old way, is its too WWOK (Western Ways of Knowing), and excluses too much of IWOK (Indigenous Ways of Knowing

So the ammendment:

There are at least 2 pathways to 'Tells It True' and world is split between them.
One is WWOK (Western Ways of Knowing)
Other is IWOK (Indigenous Ways of Knowing)

Western Ways of Knowing (WWOK) has socialized most everyone

But (IWOK) Indigenous Ways of Knowing is holding on, barely...

There could be a way forward and that's in the slides.

OK, Short Story, I was an invited fellow at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and my Maori Colleagues introduced me to
Braided Rivers. The Maori people IWOK has to converse with the Non-Maori (Kaupapa setterlers), who are mostly WWOK.

A Braided River, is two kinds of streams mingling together.
I'm on a quest of 'Tells It True' to braid together conversational storytelling of WWOK and IWOK peoples.

Gerri McCulloh and David Michael Boje
are developing Chora as Way of Knowing
CWOK
based on McCulloh' (2015) work and Boje's work on the 7 antenarrative processes.

Download CWOK Slide Show

To me its True Storytelling® 2.0 and its the future of Quantum-Storytelling, as we bring quantum physics and storytelling (IWOK with its focus on Nature, Spirituality, Human kindness and answerability to Nature).

Tells it True takes courage and Freedom to seek the 'essence' of what's true	Tells it True requires being in touch
Tells it True has a Moral Compass	Tells it True is about plants, animals, not just humans
Tells it True requires research and that take time, even at a snail's pace of self-correcting your own true self.	It is title of a New Book A Sequel to the TRUE STORYTELLING Book

Purpose: Be a Someone Seeking-Truth, A Truth-Listener, and then Some who Tells It True. Having conversation with people with whom we disagree. Being Open to listening to one another, with respect. Creating an open and save space of tolerance, kindness, and co-inquiry, and together-listening to one another.

What if?

What if you could do TELLS IT TRUE in all your relationships?

Then you have a chance to live the true storytelling® life?

What if you could have TELLS IT TRUE conversations with politically divided family? What if you could have TELLS IT TRUE in conversations disagreements at work?

What if you can be authentic at TELLS IT TRUE with neighbors who don’t agree with your politics?

What if you can do TELLS IT TRUE in a kind, gentle, conciliatory manner, without judgment?

What if you can be genuine at TELLS IT TRUE in your disagreements without alienating those with whom disagree?

What if democracy actually depends upon genuine authentic TELLS IT TRUE conversations at the international, national and local levels.

What is the Essence of Truth? Download essay by Martin Heidegger 1944

... the essence of truth is not concerned with whether truth is a truth of practical experience or of economic calculation, the truth of a technical consideration or of political sagacity, or, in particular, a truth of scientific research or of artistic composition, or even the truth of thoughtful reflection or of cultic belief. The question of essence disregards all this and attends to the one thing that in general distinguishes every “truth” as truth.

To place the essence of truth in freedom — doesn't this mean to submit truth to human caprice?

Can truth be any more radically undermined than by being surrendered to the arbitrariness of this “wavering reed”?

- Martin Heidegger

On the Essence of Truth On the Essence of Truth On the Essence of Truth

An Introduction to Metaphysics (1944 German, 1961 Anchor Books (PDF, searchable Click Here).

"Being and Becoming

This distinction and opposition stands at the beginning of the inquiry into being. Today it is still the most current restriction of being by something other; for it comes directly to mind from the standpoint of a conception of being that has congealed into the self-evident. What becomes is not yet.

What is need no longer become. What“is,”the essent, has left all becoming behind it if indeed it ever became or could become. What “is” in the authentic sense also resists every on surge of becoming" (p. 95).

-Martin Heidegger

We can compare, contrast, find points of agreement/disagreements with Vine Deloria Jr.'s Book: The Metaphysics of Modern Existence (1979; updated edition with Wildcat, available at Google Books Click Here). See also Chap 1 (American Indian Metaphysics) in Deloria & Wildcat 2001 Place and Power, click here); and his YouTive videos, and amazing books.

His most unread and misunderstood book. It was to be first of three in a trilogy, the 2nd & 3rd never happened. So it is up to us to do the Volue 2 Tour De Force, and the Volume 3 Euro-Western Metaphysics Critique of Heidegger's Metaphysics, among other existentialist.
The good news, Vine Deloria Jr. 'Tells It True'

I understand this quot from American Indian Metaphysics (2001: Ch1) through the BEFORE antenarrative process (respect for stories already there). (Chap 1 2001: 1)

"In recent years there has been an awakening to the fact that Indian tribes possessed considerable knowledge about the natural world. Unfortunately, much of this appreciation has come too late to enable anyone, white or Indian, to recapture some of the most important information on the lands, plants, and animals of the continent. In a parallel but unrelated development, Indian religious traditions are now of major interest to whites, whose own religious traditions have either vanished or been swamped in reactionary fundamentalism"

YouTube: "The World We Used to Live In" give some clarity to a method for Native American Metaphysics.