opening opportunities for engagement between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples?
I think if we can develop those relationships, that can be beneficial because we’re so atomized in the “West.” Urbanization, alienation, disconnection, and loneliness are problems. Once we realize we are a part of nature, not apart from nature, that is going to be better for the human species and the environment.
Fundamentally, the problem is a clash of worldviews. Be it the mining, the plantations, or urban psychedelic tourists, it’s that Western perspective of seeing everything as a resource to be consumed rather than a relationship that has to be maintained.DL: Their perspective is that they’ve communicated with their spirits, and it’s time to try to wake up Westerners to a different relationship with the environment and with other people.