The Listening Earth Podcast
A Lakota holy man once stopped in a sea of grass to talk to a stone.
Addressing it reverently, he called to Tunkashila,
which means “grandfather.”
“Grandfather, tell me how the world began.’’
And the stone spoke......
COMING SOON!
Welcome to The Listening Earth
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.” - Nicholas Black Elk.
The Listening Earth returns to older ways of knowing. Land lives. The cosmos responds. Human beings exist within a larger living whole. Each episode explores wilderness as teacher, traditional knowledge as lived practice, and story as memory carried forward.
This podcast serves as a recorded hearth. It gathers conversations with Indigenous elders, earth-based teachers, historians, trackers, foragers, and storytellers who speak from experience rather than theory. Guests share knowledge shaped through tracking, plant work, navigation, ceremony, fasting, solitude, and years of direct relationship with place. Lived skill forms the ground of each discussion.
The work responds to a defining condition of modern life: disconnection sickness. Separation from land. Separation from body. Separation from community. Separation from meaning. The symptoms appear in anxiety, ecological damage, and loss of orientation. The Listening Earth addresses this condition through reconnection rather than commentary. Practice replaces abstraction. Relationship replaces consumption. Experience replaces speculation.
Experience stands at the center. Knowledge forms through contact. Walking. Fasting. Dreaming. Time alone. Many Indigenous traditions hold experience as authority. Truth grows through action and responsibility.
Inspired in part by the intellectual clarity of Vine Deloria Jr. and his work The World We Used to Live In, the podcast holds a simple conviction. The miraculous never vanished. Attention weakened. Meaning did not disappear. Relationship did.
The Listening Earth does not chase spectacle. It builds archive. Each episode preserves voice, context, and responsibility. Land teaches relationship. Responsibility follows.
Forest. Mountain. Ceremony. Silence. Inner ground.
The invitation is direct.
Remember.
Restore relationship.
Return to center.