# Indigenous Wisdom > Indigenous wisdom in Bashar's teaching represents cultures that preserved connection to nature as living vibrational beings and holders of land respect while the Hopi tradition specifically treats certain lands as a continents heart. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/indigenous-wisdom # Indigenous Wisdom *People listen around an undecorated circle in a living landscape* In the sources linked here, Bashar treats Indigenous traditions — explicitly the Hopi and Navajo, and Indigenous "native cultures" more generally — as carriers of an intact memory of the Earth as a living, vibrational being whose balance is felt in specific lands. The teaching neither appropriates nor romanticizes these traditions; it presents them as peoples whose cultures "did not allow them to forget their connection to nature," and so preserves a body of knowing that the surrounding civilization has largely lost. A land held as a continent's heart When asked about a piece of land the Hopi regard as the heart of the continent — and whether its falling out of balance could cause havoc — Bashar affirms the framing in two senses. In the Hopi's reality it is the heart; and in a sense it is already out of balance, which is why the nation experiences so many "heart attacks." The same answer immediately reassures its holders that what they know about that idea is indestructible in its essence, even when the physical land appears compromised. The coming blending of civilizations will not return things to exactly how they were; the essence moves forward into a new variation, because otherwise there would be no change forward. Indigenous cultures as holders of nature-connection When asked about appropriate use of natural substances, Bashar declines to give a universal formula and instead directs the questioner toward experienced guidance — to those on the planet called shamans, and especially to Indigenous native cultures whose cultural framework "did not allow them to forget their connection to nature." The framing is one of proficiency: the knowing is held by peoples who never broke the thread with nature, not by an outside authority dispensing instructions. The answer explicitly invites finding one's "own shamanhood" as well, rather than treating the role as inheritable only. The Kachina as an Indigenous archetypal form The same session touches the Kachina frame in passing, treating it as an Indigenous expression of contact with quasi-planar realities — the spaces in between dimensions. An artist extending into Kachina-associated inner experience is described as moving through a different kind of "glue," extracting bits of information that can be expressed in physical reality; the fuzziness of external vision during such work is simply the quality of the dimension being extended into. This sits beside the broader Kachina teaching that frames such archetypal energies as reflective tools rather than authorities (see Archetypes). *Three separate paths meet beside a spring* Practical implications Honor the land as a living being. The Hopi framing is taken seriously, not metaphorically: imbalance in a land held as the continent's heart is presented as correlated with collective experience. Practical action is to respect and care for such places without demanding the surrounding civilization validate the framing first. Learn from those who never forgot. Where the question is about natural substances or nature-connection, the guidance is to seek experienced, nature-connected practitioners rather than abstract instruction — and to discover one's own capacity in that lineage, not merely to borrow from it. Hold the essence, not the frozen form. The coming blending will not restore the old ways exactly; carrying the essence forward into a new variation is the point. Holding to a tradition is presented as a living service, not a relic. Do not collapse distinct traditions into one. The sources name Hopi and Navajo specifically and speak of "indigenous native cultures" in the plural; the learner should treat each people as distinct rather than as a generic category. Representative passages In a sense, yes, and especially obviously to them in their reality. In a sense, it is already out of balance, and that is why, as a nation, you experience so many of what you call heart attacks. I also remind the dear Hopi that they can take heart in the understanding that what they know about that idea is indestructible in its essence.— Bashar, Basha Equality (basha-equality#qa-10) There are already many individuals, especially in what you call your indigenous native cultures, who are already very proficient at the understanding of exactly how to use these substances because their culture, to begin with, did not allow them to forget their connection to nature.— Bashar, Electro Magnetheric Geography2 (electro-magnetheric-geography2#qa-1) ## Related - [Earth Changes](https://sassani.app/topic/earth-changes) - [Ancient Civilizations](https://sassani.app/topic/ancient-civilizations) - [Unconditional Love](https://sassani.app/topic/unconditional-love) - [Gaia & the Earth Crystal](https://sassani.app/topic/gaia) - [Archetypes](https://sassani.app/topic/archetypes) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/indigenous-wisdom. The HTML page is the source of truth.