04/11/2025
Importance of Innocence
Why indigenous youth need to be heard
This time next week, world leaders, government officials, and climate change experts will be gathering in Belem to speak about our kinship to the Earth.
Until now, there hasn’t been a seat at the table for young indigenous minds, children who’s connection to nature is rooted and cultivated, and who’s innocence and purity has not been convoluted by modernity. Sadly, in Western Culture, we underestimate the intelligence of the next generation, we give them toys and games, and at worst, screens, undermining the purity of their connection to their heart, and not recognising how this very pure wisdom is something that adults are very often trying to return back to.
Kurikindi, a shaman and world renowned leader from Ecuador saw in a vision that he would take children to a big climate event. He later received an invitation to COP30 in the Blue Zone, and wants to take a delegation of young people from the Amazon to stand beside him, and give the children a voice.
Not only are these children those who will live the future that is so often spoken about and will be spoken about at COP30, but they are educated in such a way that the shamanic understanding of kinship with nature is present. These are voices that need to be listened to, visions that need to be tended to, and as the new generation is exceedingly closer to the divine than we’ve before known, it’s important that this spiritual understanding is honoured. Kurikindi calls this the “golden mind” and he works with people young and old to nurture this.
We’ve set up a crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of bringing the children to COP30 - something never been done before.
If the part of you that remembers that visionary time, the purity of childhood, and the longing with you for us as a whole humanity to cultivate a healthy relationship with Mother Earth is spoken to with these words, we’d really appreciate support in sharing the campaign and in donations, to make this vision a reality - for the children of the rainforest, and for our collective future.
