Bringing the Land Back to Life
Alan Ereira talks about the wisdom of the Kogi Indians and an important new UNESCO project in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.
Published in BESHARA MAGAZINE – ISSUE 24: SPRING / SUMMER 2023
“In 1991, in the last edition of the original Beshara Magazine, we published an article by journalist Alan Ereira about an extraordinary people living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the north of Colombia.
… Thirty years later, the Kogi are making another attempt to communicate their wisdom, this time through a regeneration project. One of the most astonishing things in … [a] recent talk is the interaction between Kogi ambassador, Shibulata, and Richard Ellis, who was at that time Professor of Astrophysics at University College London.
Ellis shows him a picture taken by the Hubble Telescope, and says: “Look what we human beings can do with our technology? This telescope can see way beyond the level of sight of anything that a human being can see”. And Shibulata immediately names the only star in the picture.
… we westerners; we don’t really accept knowing at that level as true knowledge. We always want to have a physical evidence of things because we think that materiality provides true proof.”