GAIA AND ALUNA
ALUNA IS CONSCIENCE
“Earth is best understood as a single, self-regulating, Superorganism. The planet is self-regulating through the interaction between living things and the inorganic environment on earth. Gaia’s goal is to maintain a balance in the ecosystem that allows Her to stay alive.” J. Lovelock and Lynn Magulis
Lovelock represents the modern view of why the earth changes are happening. The Kogi give us the indigenous view of the same. Both are very useful.
The Kogi believe they were placed on our Earth Mother to protect her and have warned us before of her imminent destruction. They say it is reversible even, while maintaining our life style, if we take action immediately. Lovelock adds that the right technology will save us. Many indigenous peoples believe that the planet is a living Being. The book of the Zohar would agree with them.
The Kogi have theories that they regard as truths as to how we have allowed this to happen and what must be done to begin the process of restitution and rehabilitation. Essentially we should treat her like our mother and the mother she is, to all of us. If the reader wants to take their understandings of the Gaia concept and the earth changes to a deeper level it is worth listening to what they have to say.
This short preview of the Kogi's philosophy is an introduction to the longer, full length movie below.
For those who do not want to watch the whole thing the preview will hopefully tempt you to watch the film. Below the link is a summary of what I think they are saying but it makes more sense after you have seen the feature. To me it was profound especially their views on the Darkness which sounds very much like the enigmatic Dark Matter of the universe which no-one can explain. Some of the truth of what they are saying of course is lost in the interpretation. I will do my best to write what I understood.
Aluna means "Conscience " (or also maybe, the right consciousness.) With this video one can begin to understand a little of this chiefdom hidden for centuries on a mountain in Colombia. This documentary helps us to better understand how to avoid the destruction of the world that they are trying to protect.
The "Mother" linked the sacred sites with a black thread of invisible thought.
The "Se, the Darkness in the heavens" is the mother of all things and it accelerates the universe and fills all space (sounding very much like what the Quantum physicists call Dark Matter.)
The Kogi were left objects like maps to connect with this Darkness. They believe that the Darkness is linked to the material world in critical places that must not be damaged. The Kogi can connect to "Darkness" with thought.
The ocean sites that are "threaded" together have connections with the mountains above and these connections are being destroyed. The rivers are born in the mountains but then go home to the mother below.
The Kogi make ritual "payments" above and below.
They take offerings from the mountains to make payments to the shore and vice versa. They walk these sacred threads to make payments with the understanding that this is key to healing the world. They take shells from the shore which are like seeds of knowledge. Burnt crushed shells are also placed in a gourd (segui) which is always carried. They taste the shell paste deposited onto the segue with a stick from inside the segui to connect with Aluna, with thought. Thought builds up on the segue placed by the stick. Each person carries a book of their thoughts in the segue. Segui means to know everything - to be given the segue means to listen. With this kind of dedication, prayer, meditation and love they have helped to preserve the earth but now it is up to us to reverse the damage that the "younger brother" (that's us,) has caused.
Bubbles in the water make connection from the lakes to the rivers to the ocean. The Kogi divine by placing a hollow tube in the water – the bubbles emerge from the ends of the tube which tell them what they need to know. The water speaks to them about the planet.
A sacred mountain destroyed by developers broke one of the sacred threads. A ditch that drained a mangrove polluted the lagoon and the port built there has disturbed the land that will now bring floods and mudslides. The rivers are drying out and the snow and glaciers are disappearing because these threads have been interrupted. There are special areas, special sites which must be preserved for the species that live there to survive. Alien plants are destroying the eco-system, taking over from native plants and sucking up the ground water (especially eucalyptus.)
The Kogi are describing a microcosmic dynamic which is destroying not only their habitat but also ours.
This more than one hour movie tells their story and may be worth your time.
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