…the indigenous world embraces a much larger and dynamically interactive reality than does our Western point of view. For many indigenous peoples, the fact that we live in a larger context than what our five senses can perceive is a given. That there are non-visible beings who interact with us on a daily basis is also a given. We in the West have become accustomed to thinking of these kinds of assumptions about reality as naïve or based on fantasy. For people who live in societies that take these wider realities as a given, they are anything but fantasies.

~ Nancy Napier, “Sacred Practices for Conscious Living, 2nd Edition”

Monument Valley, Navajo Land – photo by Gueshni, bigstockphoto.com