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An Arhuaco chief tells Conscious Collective that his knowledge is not of the dark or artificial world. His spirit belongs to the natural one, and his mountains are guides, protection, and food. People did not come here, he says, to suffer, fight, or lie. The natural order is already complete and lit, while many people clothe themselves in a darker spirit, invent as if at play, and fill the heart with a harmful fire. Looking at the natural world is what clears sight. A person who will not safeguard life for others has no direction, and living by the game spirit is a way of destroying yourself. His examples are cars, towers, planes, and buildings that fell trees, break mountains, and mine. An airplane does not make water. Inside the mountain, the same material gave pure water, air, and forest. Happiness bought by wrecking one’s house, food, and air is, in this teaching, the dark world’s thinking. Life is guaranteed by the green world. This is an Arhuaco teaching, not a claim about the origins of peoples.
Key points
- The chief locates his own spirit in the natural world and in the mountains that feed and protect him.
- He says many people live by a darker spirit even when they insist that the day is bright.
- Inventions treated as a game, in this teaching, turn the heart toward a harmful fire.
- Cars, towers, mines, and felled forests are his examples of development that cannot produce water or air.
- A life that wrecks its own food and shelter is, for him, evidence of dark thinking rather than progress.
- The guarantee of life, he concludes, is the green natural world.
Short quotes
la persona del mundo oscuro no ve el mundo natural
Arhuaco chief, Arhuaco teaching on the natural world
In English, he says a person of the dark world does not see the natural world. Watch at 1:14
Tipos de árboles, tipos de faunas.
Arhuaco chief, Arhuaco teaching on the natural world
In English, he then names kinds of trees and kinds of animals. Watch at 3:39
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