This is the first in the multi-part 'How we Know what we Know' series. Nameh has gathered a number of voices who have engaged with this and another question inviting spiritual explorations.    First in this series Nameh welcomes, Haley. Haley is a former wilderness educator who is completing her Masters degree in environmental management at Yale. Haley shares how various in-roads inform how she connects and engages with her world. Haley has a plethora of teachers (see resource list below) informing who she is today.    The question, how do we Know what we Know started this conversation. Haley offered a few radical questions such as...  'What would it look like if the cultural American 'story' was determined by the original Native communities?' 'What would it look like for privileged white America to give up power and had the control of "the story" over to someone else?'     Considering the heavy topics, Haley shares how she works to find balance and avoid cynicism and navigating her way from dark spaces. The conversation also speaks to what one's self-righteousness may actually be hinting towards. How the Buddhist teaching, 'attachment leads to suffering' can be misunderstood to mean one doesn't care about the outcome.    Haley is wicked-smart with old-soul wisdom who's contemplations inspired Nameh's curiosity.    RESOURCES: Biggest Little Farm (movie) Braiding Sweet Grass (book) by Robin Will Kimmerer  Grammar of Animacy (essay) by Robin Will Kimmerer  Hannah Gadsby's Nanette (Netflix special) Charles Eisenstein (human)  Radical Dharma (book) by Lama Rod Owens (Buddhist teacher) and Rev. angel Kyodo Williams Mary Evelyn Tucker (Yale educator) John Grim (Yale educator) Aad Guray Nameh (song) by Snatam Kaur  -- see also DTL episode Becoming Nameh for full story   SONG: Celtic Soundscape with Nature Sounds by Allen Grey