Indigenous Communities & Mining, Deforestation etc. The Kogi's Big Screen Warning. In 1988 a BBC documentary filmmaker named Alan Ereira visited the homeland of the Kogi, one of the last surviving and most intact South American cultures remaining from the Spanish conquests. Residing on a towering mountain off the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the Kogi have carried on their indigenous traditions and profound spirituality in isolation from modern civilization for more than a thousand years.
Ereira’s historic film introduced the “lost” tribe with an urgent message to their “Younger Brothers” around the world: change your destructive ways and learn to live in harmony with the earth. Twenty years later, the Kogi are worried their warning has gone unheeded. Keenly aware that the most effective way to win modern hearts and minds is through the silver screen, the tribe has taken on a remarkable project.
The Kogi are deeply concerned that the ecological crisis we are facing has reached a critical point, with the survival of mankind hanging perilously in the balance. David Abram. Returning to our senses david abram nature. Contents Previous Next Returning to our senses T he fate of the earth depends on a return to our senses. Im beginning these thoughts during the winter solstice, the dark of the year, during a night so long that even the trees and the rocks are falling asleep. Moon has glanced at us through the thick blanket of clouds once or twice, but mostly left us to dream and drift through the shadowed night.
Those of us who hunger for the light are beginning to taste the wild darkness, and to swallow it taking the night, quietly, into our bodies. According to a tale told in various ways by diverse indigenous peoples, the fiery sun is held, at this moment, inside the body of the earth. Our spontaneous, sensory experience of the sun is indeed of a fiery presence that rises and sets. The world directly revealed to us by our senses came to seem more illusory and less essential than that truer realm hidden behind the appearances. The Ecology of Magic--David Abram. The Ecology of Magic David Abram (This chapter excerpt is from David Abram's Spell of the Sensuous) Late one evening, I stepped out of my little hut in the rice paddies of eastern Bali and found myself falling through space.
Over my head the black sky was rippling with stars, densely clustered in some regions, almost blocking out the darkness between them, and loosely scattered in other areas, pulsing and beckoning to each other. Behind them all streamed the great river of light, with its several tributaries. But the Milky Way churned beneath me as well, for my hut was set in the middle of a large patchwork of rice paddies, separated from each other by narrow, two-foot-high dikes, and these paddies were all filled with water. By day, the surface of these pools reflected perfectly the blue sky, a reflection broken only by the thin, bright-green tips of new rice. I was no longer simply beneath the night sky, but also above it; the immediate impression was of weightlessness. Fireflies! 1. The Kogi of Colombia--Lost Tribe of Pre-Colombian America.
Emerson Jackson, Dine Tribal Elder, with the Kogi of Northern Colombia, shown above. The Kogi know secrets about nature that would make our scientists rethink their ideas on the environment and the universe. They have a presence about them that commands respect. The power of their mind is beyond comprehension. But few people outside of Colombia know who they are and what they represent. Why do they call themselves the Elder Brothers and how can we learn to live in the spiritual world that this lost tribe lives in?
Who Are the Kogi? When the Spaniards arrived in Northern Colombia 500 years ago, the Kogi fled high into the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. In 1988 the Kogi allowed a BBC journalist, Alain Ereira to film a documentary about their culture. But the Kogi are concerned about what is happening to their sacred Mountain. The Kogi are the direct descendants of the Tairona civilization. Where do the Kogi live? The Kogi live in the higher regions of the Sierra Nevada.