The following article has some interesting concepts related to being in the Now: Tiny Amazon tribe challenges theory of language
The interesting part of this article is to me is "Because of their culture's ingrained emphasis on referring only to immediate, personal experiences, the tribesmen do not have words for any abstract concept, from colour to memory and even to numbers. There is no past tense, he says, because everything exists for them in the present. When it can no longer be perceived, it ceases to exist."
There are a couple of brief articles on Wikipedia about the Piraha, Pirahã people and Pirahã language.
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