The Indic Mind: An Approach to the Metacrisis
Reality Roundtable 8 with Mohit Trivedi, Abhishek Thakore, and Kejal Savla
On this Reality Roundtable, I’m joined by Mohit Trivedi, Abhishek Thakore, and Kejal Savla, three NGO leaders in India active in driving social and cultural change using the perspective of the Indic Mind. As a subcontinent, the Indic people have faced crisis after crisis, yet have still held onto the optimism and compassion foundational to their culture. Submerged in this history and context, there is so much for the West to learn from those active in the metacrisis space in India. How has India’s unique history shaped the way they approach coming resource constraints, as they prepare to experience disproportionate global heating and extreme weather?
Mohit Trivedi is the co-found of 2069 Ecosystems. He is also a learning designer, facilitator and movement weaver, with a passion for spiritual and socio-political transformation. With a background in psychology, nursing, alternative education and social entrepreneurship, Mohit is aspiring to have harmony in his relationships with power, money, work and connections with others.
Abhishek Thakore is a serial social entrepreneur and a systems change expert with over two decades of experience. As the founder of The Blue Ribbon Movement, he has created an ecosystem of initiatives aimed at building youth leadership, civic engagement, and thriving cultures across the social sector.
Kejal Savle is the co-founder and CEO of Wisdom Tree, an NGO whose aim is a world full of hope, where women's education and empowerment plays a central role, the lives of people in rural India are better, and all people live in dignity and security. Kejal is a weaver of social change for humans and systems.
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Nate, How is indic different from indigenous?
These are colonised shallow minds which can't see that they are one and the same. Both like the word Hindu itself comes from the root 'indu' which is same as indic and indigenous.
Here is an indic/indigenous view on the way forward that might interest you.
https://chandravikash.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/delhi-world-government-conference-2024-concept-plan-1-0/
I love this discussion on keeping process and "being" together central to any change of paradigm that will help us through the metacrisis. It dovetails nicely, I think, with Iain McGilchrist's discussion of right brain, left brain (the Master and the Emissary), but in a sense this Indic mind or the mind of Interbeing is less elitist than Iain makes it sound (read the great writers etc.) And as a sidebar, who started using the concept of Interbeing first, do you know? My first intro was via Charles Eisenstein and his book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible.