Managing Editor of Koha, Mere Takoko, speaks with Töhunga, Rose Pere, about why Mäori businesses should tap into the cultural knowledge of ‘Hawaiiki-Tautau’ in order to create businesses that can sustain the ‘mother energy’ of Papatüänuku.
We are all born with great power and wisdom. And yet some people struggle through life and only catch a glimpse of their inner potential. But if we move in the right direction, all the markers point to a beacon in the night. For author and well-known spiritual leader, Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, that light begins with Whänaungatanga.
“The sooner that humanity ‘works that one out’ and remembers that we are all whänaunga – and that we all seek sustenance in regard to the four directions, that we are indeed Ngäti Ra – the better.”
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Quotes from Rose Pere
“My ‘grandmothers’ and ‘grandfathers’ across the board were my ’speaking mountains. They taught me and my immediate family intuitive intelligence and psychic abilities through intergenerational learning and teaching.”
“It’s about ensuring that the lungs (the trees) of Papatüänuku are well taken care of. She has to heal herself, her axis is on a tilt, and we have to help her as she returns to her natural state of perfection by 2014.”
“The largest eagle in the world lived here and we need to be more like them so we can soar above everyone else and see the world from a different perspective.”
“One of the things we have to do is to enable people to stand in their own power so they can do what they need to do to progress forwards. We have to link into the mother energy, which is all about families.”
“We could embrace people in a very simple way – through whanaungatanga and teaching others how to give the breath of life back into Papatüänuku.”
“There’s a whole lot of things we could do for ourselves as well as the world community and Papatüänuku herself. As far as I’m concerned we cover the Achilles heel of humanity.”
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