Archaeoacoustics is the study of how sound and vibration is an intrinsic element of natural and built environments. Since sound and vibration have the power to modify, entrain and transform human consciousness, WISN supports original archaeoacoustic research as an aspect of indigenous science.
The Credo Mutwa Research Library provides a nexus for Indigenous Science and Western Science to ethically communicate and collaborate. Visit the Library
Since its inception in 2012, participants from around the world meet each year to explore indigenous dreamwork and reconnect with their their ancestors on these sacred lands during the annual White Lion Leadership Academy. Next year’s Leadership Academy is November 22- December 22, 2017
The blue eye of White Raven takes me in as I write. Thirty years have passed since I lived in my mobile home in the boreal forest of Southeast Alaska. It was there I met Raven both black and white and each gave me stories.
Most Central Asian people have all but forgotten that the snow leopard and the rituals, knowledge and Sacred Sites that held the teachings about the snow leopard, comprise a way of unity.
WISN and the SLC brought together Indigenous Cultural Practitioners and scientists for a historic gathering in Kyrgyzstan this September to find better ways of conserving the critically endangered snow leopards.
Indigenous Healers, Sacred Site Guardians, and their knowledge are endangered. Destruction of the environment, loss of traditional lands, fundamentalist religious pressures, poverty, and increasing Westernization mean that today’s Cultural Practitioners are the last generation to be raised in an unbroken cultural chain.
WISN and Kyrgyz Elders reignited the Uluu Ot, or fire ceremony, historically suppressed for more than eighty years.
WISN partners with the Global White Lion Protection Trust, of Timbavati, South Africa. Integrates science, culture, education and enterprise development for program fund development and to network the GWLPT worldwide with indigenous Elders who are guardians of the sacred species.
Apela Colorado leads the dreamwork that begins each day at Wisdom University’s New Chartres Academy.
In 2013, WISN travels to Jeju, South Korea, to participate in a United Nations Snow Leopard program, bringing Indigenous and Western sciences together.
Worldwide Indigenous Science Network presents Kahu Kapi’ioho Lyons Naone in an Unprecedented Conversations production.
Maui, Hawaii 2012
Dr. Apela Colorado, Worldwide Indigenous Science Network and Wisdom University pilgrims encounter a mystery at the Dordogne Caves, France, June 2009.
In 2010, WISN travels to Kyrgyzstan to meet with Indigenous Cultural Practitioners from around the world, re-igniting the Uluu Ot, sacred fire and reemergence of the Golden Age.
In 2002, WISN brings indigenous healers from Hawaii—Mahilani Poe Poe and Hale Makua—to meet with High Sanusi Baba Credo Mutwa.
Dr. Apela Colorado of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network speaks on the strengths of Traditional Knowledge in celebration of the launching of the Aigine Research Center in Kyrgyzstan.
Dr. Apela Colorado of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network speaks on the strengths of Traditional Knowledge in celebration of the launching of the Aigine Research Center in Kyrgyzstan.
South Korea, September 2012 at IUCN Conference.
Where do we go to find our indigenous wisdom? Worldwide Indigenous Science Network presents Kahu Kapi’ioho Lyons Naone in an Unprecedented Conversations production.
Maui, Hawaii 2012
Unprecedented Conversations with Hawaiian healer and elder Mahilani Poepoe. Filmed at an international gathering of indigenous elders in Bali, 2002. Supported by the Ford Foundation.
The Snow Leopard Conservancy (SLC) of Sonoma, CA is a partner of WISN. The SLC is the world’s leading authority on the study and protection of the endangered snow leopard, serving twelve Central Asian nations.