Vine Deloria Jr.

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TETrust in Experience

  9 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  9 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  9 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  8 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Robin Wall KimmererFORGE

  Braiding Sweetgrass — botany held in the grammar of animacy.

• Sobonfu SoméHEARTH

  West African Dagara teacher — grief rituals, intimacy of community.

• Eduardo KohnHEARTH

  How Forests Think — semiosis beyond the human in the forest's logic.

• Mogobe RamoseHEARTH

  African Philosophy through Ubuntu — wholeness as relational ontology.

• Linda Tuhiwai SmithHEARTH

  Decolonizing Methodologies — research from the position of the researched.

• John MbitiHEARTH

  African Religions and Philosophy — "I am because we are."

Short exercises in the same tradition as Vine Deloria Jr.'s thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.

• Anticipating objections →

  For every position, list the three strongest objections — then answer them.