Awakening the Indigenous Soul in the Time of the Great Turning

Previously published as Awakening the Indigenous Soul in the Time of the Great Turning by Miranda Moon.

What if the crises of our time are not only signs of collapse—but signs of a profound transformation in human consciousness?

Awakening the Indigenous Soul in the Time of the Great Turning is an invitation to explore one of the defining questions of our age: Who must we become in order to meet the challenges before us?

Drawing upon ecopsychology, depth psychology, Indigenous and Earth-based wisdom, spirituality, cultural transformation, and lived experience, Miranda Orenda Moon explores humanity's passage through what Joanna Macy called the Great Turning —the transition from an industrial growth society toward a more life-sustaining civilization.

At the heart of the book is what Miranda calls the Indigenous Soul : a dimension of human consciousness that remembers something modern culture has often forgotten—that we are not separate from the Earth, from one another, or from the larger community of life.

The journey unfolds through four movements: understanding the Great Turning, remembering the Indigenous Soul, awakening deeper dimensions of consciousness, and exploring the possibilities of the future now emerging.

Along the way, Miranda explores Jungian psychology, the imaginal realm, ritual and community, the Sacred Feminine, the evolution of consciousness, and Homo Spiritus —the possibility of a more integrated human being capable of holding individuality and relationship, reason and intuition, strength and compassion.

This book does not offer predictions or easy answers. Instead, it offers questions, reflections, and possibilities. Each chapter invites readers to examine their own relationship with themselves, their communities, the Earth, and the unfolding story of humanity.

The Great Turning is not something happening somewhere outside of us.

We are participants in it.

Perhaps the future will be shaped not only by the systems we change, but by the human beings we become.