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As human impacts on the climate have worsened in recent decades, the Kogi indigenous people of Colombia stepped out of their centuries of reclusive and self-contained living in the coastal mountains and began to share a message of warning: that the destructive ways of humankind must stop before it is too late. Toward this goal, they allowed the 1992 filming of the BBC documentary, “From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning.”

Most recently, the leaders or shamans of the Kogi society, known as Mamos, sent an official representative to the United Kingdom to collaborate once more with British filmmaker Alan Ereira, this time in an effort to actively spread their message. In a live internet webcast with spiritual media group EsoGuru, Mamos representative Mr. Jacinto Zarabata shared about the Kogi Mamos’ spiritual way of life and how they have been seeing the rest of the world.

How much do the Mamos know about what is happening in the rest of the world, really?

They find out when they consult… because they have so much sensitivity. For example in… deep inside. In the thinking, in his “aluna” (thought). Suddenly, not just the Mamos, and others that have like a dream. Also, they consult.

So they know about things like the eruption of an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico from their dreams and through thoughts.

Of course, they immediately… Some of them say well, something is going on in some other place.

And then they act immediately, in the place where they have to carry out their spiritual work.

Well, it’s obvious that the Kogi Mamos do not need television, manage quite well without.

So this suggests that the Mamos possess powers or abilities that we would regard as, magical as not, not part of the material world.

They don’t work individually. They just do their work as a collective, as a whole.

They have decided to communicate this warning, more than warning, a form of understanding to change our understanding of the world, through the medium of film. And in order to do this, they’ve decided not just to make a film, but to invent a new kind of film. So I will be working with a crew which is partly Western professional, and partly indigenous trained, and they’re extremely good, I have to say. They are doing something amazing. “Aluna” will be a very remarkable film.

During an interview with Supreme Master Television in the United Kingdom, Mr. Zarabata further explained about the Kogi people’s timely environmental message.

My name is Jacinto Zarabata. I come from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, from the Kogi people. In the Sierra there are four tribes, which are the Kankuamo, the Arhuaco, the Wiwa and the Kogi.

At this time, I'm here for several reasons, because these days, humanity or people want to know the message of indigenous peoples.

So, that's why we have sent many messages.

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is on a Colombian mountain that is in between three departments, which are the Department of Guajira, Cesar and Magdalena that is in Colombia.

How important is it therefore for the human race, to stop the polluting of the environment?

The Mother gave us the territory to manage, to use. Today we are using the management that is not required. For example, if we remove a stone or cut a tree, what effect, what consequences or what risk could be caused for us? For example in mining operations of coal, petroleum, of many things.

Well, this is something that generates development for the human society, but for us it is not very important to do that, but that it is something that maintains the body or nature. For example, they operate this exploitation of mines of some minerals. But it seems that today, doing all that, you see a lot of avalanches, a lot of tremors, for example, earthquakes, which have caused damage in some parts of the country.

Today, there are institutions that have to do with mines, to see what happens. Perhaps we as men think a lot, but so what? It is nature that teaches us, and so, it is up to us to learn from it, we have a lot of things to learn.

I do not know if it's okay if I make myself understood.

It's okay.

According to your culture, how should we behave toward nature?

Well the message that one could give... it isn’t from me personally, but rather, the message is from the beginning, from the origin. So that each one of us was given some laws and some norms that must be fulfilled. And then in this case, we the indigenous peoples of the Sierra still keep our standards, which were left to us by our ancestral laws.

What specific advice that the Mamos give to us? There have been earthquakes in some countries that have destroyed some peoples. Half of the population. And, there have been hurricanes that have almost destroyed… Eh, with landslides. And also, there have been a lot of diseases.

Not just the Mamos eh, can send us the message. Also nature herself and in connection with the Mamo. It is already seen, the, the message, that we can start to listen and to ask ourselves: So how can we make the change?

What we can learn about the connections between our daily actions that is affecting the balance of the Earth?

Our ancestors, our roots, they left us how to have the connection, to co-exist with nature, for example, with water, with the wind, with fire, with all species. But it seems we've lost the knowledge or the laws or rules that were had. And then, there is what seems to be that we are destroying nature, but not knowing the rules or the laws that govern us. We must learn from nature, and that is why all of a sudden, there has been weakness and imbalance in nature that we ourselves we are seeing.

Can you tell us a little bit, how you connected more with nature or how you got closer to nature?

By having more connection, for example, respecting sites that are sacred for us. For example, which are the sacred sites? Those are the lakes, the snow peaks, the stones that have figures.

The older mothers, for example, ponds, the hills, and also the sites that cannot be exploited and also with minerals, for example. I do not think that we would not be happy to remove, let’s say, a lung, some piece of our body.

We would be incomplete.

We would be incomplete, and so the same: Nature is no longer complete, it is incomplete, and is no longer nature, but that is really manipulated.

Jacinto, being vegetarian – or for example, to practice a life where we don’t have to be involved with the massive killing of animals – will this get us closer to nature?

Yes, because it is something wicked that we are doing, for instance, to animals; in this case, we would not like, let´s say, that someone kills your brother, you don’t like him to be killed. So it is the same. All species that exist in nature, like animals, birds, so many things, they have to be respected, like we want to be respected.

This lack of respect and unnecessary killing for us to feed on is one of the biggest contributors to the imbalance of our Earth, what advice would you give us?

Well, in this case, it is because we are not following the norms and laws that Mother Earth has had, so, tempests appear, hurricanes, earthquakes.

So the major disasters that have happened recently, for example, floods in Pakistan, fires in Russia, landslides in China, even the ice in Greenland which is breaking up very fast, this is the way of nature, as you have told us, of sending us a warning that we must change? Or what is your opinion?

Exactly, it’s the same. She herself is sending us a message. What change can we have? And that is what we, each one of us, must ask ourselves.

But we become deaf, we're stubborn and that is why we do not want to live, and every day it’s going to start charging all of us our lives.

We found out that the Kogi Mamo, or your shaman, doesn’t eat any meat or food that is related to animals, while he is training to be a shaman. If it is so, could you explain to us the reason for this pure diet, with no animal elements?

Well, that's ... that's true. Why? Because when he is training, when he prepares to work with the animals, to work with the sea, to work with all the species that exist in nature, the Mamos prepare without eating salt, without consuming meat, without consuming many products.

And this is to be more connected with nature.

To be more connected with nature and with animals.

Thank you. Would you like to send a message to the world?

One of the things at once, I would like that... that this is not from a single person, but rather that, together, for example, the people of the Sierra, which are closer together, they know of their cultures, their traditions… that you understand, that these enter your heart too. This is something that is reality, what we're saying.

We are grateful to Mr. Zarabata and the Kogi Mamos for their urgent concern for humankind at this dire time. May we heed such caring counsel through actions to save our planet and live harmoniously among humans, animals, and the environment

Thank you, peaceful viewers, for joining us today. And now, please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television for Words of Wisdom, after Noteworthy News. May Heaven bless Mother Earth and all her precious inhabitants.