Glenn Aparicio Parry, Ph.D. is an educator, international speaker, entrepreneur, and visionary whose life-long passion is to re-form thinking and education into a coherent, cohesive whole. He's the founder and past president of the SEED Institute, and is currently the president of the think tank: The Circle for Original Thinking. Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Conferences from 1999 - 2011 that brought together Indigenous Native Elders and Western scientists in dialogue. This series of conferences was moderated by Leroy Little Bear. Parry is an avid outdoorsman and makes his home in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, NM, with his wife, dog, and cat. He is the author of Original Thinking: A Radical ReVisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Books 2015) and Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (Select Books 2020)

Interview Date: 2/19/2021      Tags: Glenn Aparicio Parry, sacred purpose, Native America, natural rights, equality, liberty, America’s shadow, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Andrew Johnson, reconstruction, suffrage, chaos, myth of the old woman and the black dog, insurrection on the capital, Trump, racism, White supremacy, George Floyd, Barack Obama, Derek Black, KKK, respect, love, Cory Booker, sacred politics, the Munich Security Conference, every voice matters, Social Change/Politics, Indigenous Wisdom