True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World
In this book, Samantha Sweetwater weaves philosophy, indigenous wisdom, ecological insight, psychedelic vision, and body-based practices to help you meet chaos and disruption as doorways to your deepest healing, fulfillment, and purpose.
25. Tending the Wild, Charles Eisenstein
A reflection on Indigenous relationships with land and the ways California Native communities intentionally tended and shaped ecosystems over generations. Drawing on Kat Anderson’s Tending the Wild, Charles Eisenstein explores a different understanding of stewardship, one based not on leaving nature untouched, but on developing intimate, reciprocal relationships with the living world and learning how to participate in its regeneration.
13. How and Why Did We First Lose “Right Balance” with Mother Earth?
A reflection on how humanity may have lost its intimate relationship with the Earth and with one another. Drawing on Indigenous teachings, Goddess cultures, and Marija Gimbutas’s interpretation of prehistoric Europe, the piece considers the relationship between connection, reciprocity, patriarchy, exploitation, and our growing separation from the natural world. It ultimately asks what we can learn from older ways of relating to Earth and each other as we face today’s climate crisis.
22l. Indigenous Ways of Working with Sacred Medicine
A panel discussion exploring Indigenous approaches to sacred medicine, healing, spirituality, and psychology. Leslie Gray, Kevon Simpson, Belinda Eriacho, and Kelly Yi discuss Indigenous worldviews, traditional healing practices, sacred plant medicines, cultural context, and the importance of bringing these perspectives into contemporary approaches to healing with respect and cultural awareness.
22k. Kat Anderson – Tending the Wild
A reflection on Indigenous relationships with land, community, and the living world, drawing on M. Kat Anderson’s Tending the Wild. The book documents how California Native communities actively tended landscapes through practices such as harvesting, sowing, pruning, and controlled burning, challenging the idea of untouched wilderness and offering a different understanding of stewardship and reciprocity.
22j. Chumash Story on “The People of the Heart”
A Chumash story about the “People of the Mind” and the “People of the Heart,” offering a powerful reflection on humanity’s relationship with the Earth. The story calls on us to awaken the wisdom, spirit, and compassion within our hearts so that we can help restore balance and protect the living world.
22i. Seeds of Life with Grandmother Jyoti Ma
A webinar exploring the wisdom of seeds, both the physical seeds that sustain future generations and the inner seeds of growth within each of us. Grandmother Jyoti Ma and other elders share teachings on heirloom seeds, Indigenous wisdom, reciprocity, sacred relationship with Earth, and nurturing the conditions for healing, unity, and a more collaborative way of living.
22h. Indigenous Teachings
A collection of books exploring Indigenous knowledge, community, ecological wisdom, and ways of living in reciprocal relationship with the natural world.
22g. Turtle Island: A Message from White Eagle During the Corona Crisis
This message from White Eagle, attributed to a Hopi Indigenous perspective, reflects on the COVID-19 crisis as a time of uncertainty, reflection, and transformation. It invites us to care for ourselves and others, reconnect with spiritual practice and community, and draw on Indigenous traditions of resilience, ritual, art, joy, and connection to move through difficult times with greater clarity and purpose.
22f. The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
David Korten draws on wisdom traditions from Africa, the Andes, Asia, and other cultures to explore a worldview grounded in interdependence, community, and care for the Earth. Through principles such as ubuntu and buen vivir, he examines how our ideas about purpose, power, economics, community, and education might shift toward greater wellbeing for people and the living world.