This video offers a profound shift from viewing nature as a resource to experiencing it as a living relative. It elegantly challenges modern human exceptionalism by grounding our identity in a sacred, reciprocal relationship with the Earth.
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The Breath of the Dreaming Body The Song of Kinship
Added:We call the four winds, [singing] we call the mothers, we call the father sky, we call the web of life. The dreaming body awakens the emerald heart beats. We are the thread, we are the weave, we are the whole.
So any [singing] iloha a halau, so any iloha a halau, the river [singing] is a blood, the mountain is a spine, the eagle and the serpent [singing] in the [music] sacred design. We do not own the soil, the soil owns our feet. [music] Every leaf, every stone, where the sky and [singing] the earth meet.
The [music] web is [singing] unbroken, the kinship is clear.
>> [music] [singing] >> Breathe in [singing] the green fire, breathe out the illusion. We are the humble participants [music] in the cosmic fusion. The dream is alive, the dream is [singing] awake. We take only what is given [music] for the creator's sake.
>> [singing] [music] >> The earth is our reward, not to lose.
>> [singing] [singing] >> The stones are heated in the womb [music] of the night.
The water hisses, turning darkness [singing] to light.
The smoke carries prayers [music] to the galactic center. [singing] We offer our thanks for the place that we enter.
Reciprocity [music] is the law, gratitude is the key. We give [singing] back to the earth what the earth gave to me.
>> [music] [singing] >> We lay down the crown [singing] of the [music] eagle's false might. We step from the shadows and into [singing] the light. Not masters [music] of nature, but children of clay. [singing] Dancing in balance. Night into day. The corn gives her life, the buffalo gives his strength. We honor the sacrifice, we honor the land.
>> [music] >> We take who the heart has opened.
[music] Where abyss complete.
The dreaming body rises, [music and singing] making the circle and sweat. I am the river. I am the stone. I am the breath in the forest.
[music] I am [singing] never alone. I am the kinship. I am the balance. I am the dream.
>> [music] >> The heart is open.
The web [music] is woven.
The field is unified.
I am. We are.
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