the Indigenous Axiom and its Contrast
Axiom: acknowledge the "gift" of spiritual power, life-forces embedded within the landscape.
Power to transform and change material reality.
The landscape, and all its forms, entities and beings are endowed with spiritual power and a life force, of which human can access if properly approached.
Akin to Taoist notion of ch’i and wu wei, and Hindu and Buddhist notion of siddhi.