What does it mean to live with reverence for the earth? To see the land not as property, but as kin? To listen not just to human voices but to the voices of rivers, mountains, animals, ancestors?

For many Native and Indigenous traditions across the globe, this is not metaphor but reality. The earth is alive, animated with spirit. To harm the land is to harm oneself. To forget this bond is to lose one’s soul.

Today we turn toward Indigenous spiritual wisdom—not as anthropological curiosity, not as romantic nostalgia, but as living traditions that hold vital truths for our fractured world. We will ask:

And what can these traditions teach us about healing—of spirit, of land, of society?