As we
experience the world, so we are also experienced by the world.
Life and
death are transformations of energy into new forms, the material &
energetic fuel of nature’s creativity.
Creative
participation with the living earth extends from birth to death and
beyond. At birth, humans come new yet
recycled through the elegant cycles of metamorphosis, transformation, and
regeneration that form the basis for all life on earth.
The body
is a creative, shape-shifting entity.
Native
science continually relates to and speaks of the world as full of active
entities with which people engage. To
our sensing bodies, all things are active.
Therefore, native languages are verb based, and the words that describe
the world emerge directly from actively perceived experience. In a sense, language “choreographs” and/or facilitates the continual orientation
of native thought and perception toward active participation, active
imagination, and active engagement with all that makes up natural reality.
The
verb-based nature of Native languages is also connected to the Native
cosmological assumption that we live in an interrelated living world in
perpetual creative motion.
A healer
choreographs or facilitates a process in which the patient is the real
leader.
