![]() What is the sacred but a sense of intimate authentic belonging with life starting with ourselves and with each other. We begin our conversation in prayer and fully drop into the sacred. We are now involved as being Stewards of the Earthwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization. I feel grateful to have met Anita in the intimate and inspiring space of the Earthwise Tipping Point System Wisdom Collaboratory. She bridges indigenous teachings with the latest science to inspire people to live meaningful, empowered lives while caring for the earth and each other. She is also the author of seven books including The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times. Who is Anita? Anita is Aztec and Mexican American and she is a transformational leadership consultant, speaker, coach, and a podcast host. As you’ll see in this conversation with Anita, we have the opportunity to step into her life and to feel the truth and richness of her lineage. Even so, it is a blessing to have this wisdom so readily available through our indigenous brothers and sisters. If we go back far enough we all can find those roots and connections. In truth, I had simply forgotten my indigenous roots and the golden thread connecting me had been broken. In the 90’s, I remember hearing John Trudell, American Indian Movement activist and artist, say, “we are all indigenous.” It stopped me in my tracks and dropped me into a still point of inquiry about belonging and wholeness, because I wanted to understand why I didn’t feel that I was indigenous even though I was producing this event with him on his Spoken Word tour and I had gained the reputation for being a white journalist who could be trusted by native people’s. Given this, and one that can embrace us in hope, we are all indigenous. In this way 7 generations is not just a brand, but it is a way of being in right relationship with all life. In this way, the indigenous are those people who never left being stewards of the deepest connection with life and they are honor bound to share these ways of being with their family and community. One definition might be that you have a direct path to the original instructions given to your ancestors, that you are still listening to nature and the wisdom of life’s living systems all around you, you remember you are one. Because the meme ‘indigenous thinking will save the world’ is very popular these days, it’s important to ask, what does it mean to be indigenous. ![]() My hope is that our words activate and support you in your own learning and growth process. What I love about this conversation is that we dive straight in and bypass the superficial altogether. Have you ever wondered what indigenous wisdom means and why it might be closer to perennial wisdom than we imagine? Let’s explore this together. ![]()
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