Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World

by Doug Good Feather

The spiritual practice for our body is to get back to nature to spiritually rejuvenate, reenergize, and heal. We have to relearn how to see with our “forest eyes.” The key to contemplating nature is to see beyond the form of the beings in nature, which helps us to understand the energies that are required to have a system that exists in harmony. It helps us to understand the space and the beings differently. It takes a little while to sit with this concept and understand it, because we’ve been taught in the modern world that nature is just a pretty place full of resources for humans to exploit. Try looking at it this way: the deer did not cross the road, the road crossed the forest. See the subtle yet profound difference? That’s the difference between seeing nature with a disconnected mindset and seeing Mother Earth through our forest eyes.