Coming home

Dookie Hills - Yorta Yorta Country

A warm blanket of Living Language tucks in around us. We are heard, we are held by Earth.

Fragments of broken thinking are flying through our cultural witnessing like pieces of a flimsy building in a strong wind. The structure of modern language divides everything into living and lifeless. Modernity, and all that it inspires is cracking under the very foundations of a binary brokenness.

Us and them, yours and mine, good and bad. This modern oppositional perspective situates us in conflict. The very definition of ‘living’ and ’lifeless’, evokes unthinking ownership over that which is not apparently sentient. Numbing us to extraction and extractive thinking - what can I get out of this?

We have become separated into individuated striving beings. Possessive and blinded. And the Voice of Gaia is beginning to growl.

But the ancientness of Living Language moves patiently through the cracks. Blooming through those born that don’t fit in. Quietly, cleverly, resourcefully regenerative. We hear a distant knowing, barely audible, just beyond the wind, moving through the breath within us. Beckoning recognition, re-cognition.

The English language is, at most, 1,600 years old. Compare that to languages that thread their way through 100,000 years and beyond. Old, old languages that, where they still survive, continue to sing the intelligence of Earth and Cosmos.

Indigenous language, as I understand, knows no nouns, nothing is lifeless. Verb based, intuitive languages, vibrating with life. Within which everything is in a state of an expansive, ancient becoming within an internal - eternal, intelligent aliveness. Everything is animated, everything watches, everything knows.

It’s a voice that we are all connected to via ancestors who precede 1,600 years. A language that by it’s very nature sits within our bones and waits to be remembered; to again, be mindful of.

“Peace on Earth is a concept that comes from a language of dominance.." says Lakota Elder, Tiokasin Ghosthorse. “..It’s an anthropocentric point of view, where humans are the centre of everything.. Peace with Earth is where change happens, when we are humble enough to relate.. One way is rational, the other is relational”

So the time has well and truly come, I believe, to dare to step out of the illusions of modernity. To allow the gravity of intuition to be felt and heard, despite it’s being treated as psychologically abnormal within our society.

It’s time to settle the rush and stabilise a state of peace where Living Language, intuitive language can be felt and expressed, regaining its innate positioning and strengthening within our under-standing.

Our stabilising holds steady a thought born from an expansive relationship. A voice that stems from the branch of Eternal Nature that we are.

Serana Whitefeather Hunt-Hughes

Excerpt from the February 2025 newsletter. To receive monthly newsletters please subscribe below..