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Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. * Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. * Shows how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's original people. * Foreword by Thom Hartmann, bestselling author of The Greatest Spiritual Secret of the Century.

Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi--pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic--live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people--as do many other aboriginal groups--possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day.

Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #414938 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Thom Hartmann, author of The Greatest Spiritual Secret of the Century and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Read it and you'll know what it is to be human in a wholly different way.

Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
It will fill you with hope for a human future more in line with what it means to truly be human...

Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Connect and Human Moments: How to Find Love and Meaning in Your Everyday Life
Each chapter in this book contains help, knowledge, and a new perspective...

Customer Reviews

The Way We Were
A truly inspiring work; touching and very human; wonderful stories of Wolff's time with The People (Sng'oi) reminding us of the people we used to be before we became too obsessed with what we call progress.

I love this book
I've now read this twice and will probably read it again. It's a lovely book that's heartwarming in that humans have the ability to be as some are in this book, but also sad that we are how we are now. It's definately an escape for a few hours to the world as it should be, I think I will treasure this book for many years.