Our sense of personal identity is derived from this one context, the idea of place.
Not from combinations of collective identities: sex, race, social class, vocation, nationality, or religion.
It is existence itself, the present moment physicalized as place.
Of just being aware here and now.
Ngurra is a word that contains both physical and metaphysical connotations.
A sense of place.
We call on it and it calls to us.
It spreads over our whole life.
Thus the aboriginal ngurra describes both the physical place where they return to share food, dance and sleep, and the metaphysical act of ”dreaming” their country into existence.
The question of identity, of who I am, is resolved in the Aboriginal consciousness by knowing the full implications of where I am.