ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that every person on this planet has the innate human capacity to be Indigenous; that is to be in intimate relationship or resonance with the world of spirit, the earth, and other human beings. It represents an inquiry into cosmology, human agency, and well-being in a time of ecological peril. It is based, on the authors own positioning as a white, Indigenous and migrant woman living in Canada, whose psycho-spiritual history is both colonized and colonizer. The chapter deliberately works with ruptures in everyday consciousness, to the more collective aspects of the "World Unconsciousness". The psycho-spiritual historical narratives of both Ngai Te Rangi and the Cree Peoples are detailed; in part to pay tribute to my people, Ngai Te Rangi, and because these narratives form a significant part of the psychic ecology of place and people throughout the respective periods of exile, transformation, and re-claiming articulated in this chapter.
