#ILLUMINOUS. OR LUMINOUS MEANING FULL#

I asked them for the fat they had been collecting from the boa.

By the edge of the river, I came upon a couple of Indians cooking a boa on a spit. They know that you don’t belong here.”Ĭertain that all of nature could smell my underarm deodorant, my hairspray, my toothpaste, my athlete’s foot powder, I looked around for a way to cover up my scent. The shamans came up to me and said, “See? They know that you’ve been kicked out of the garden. First step, second step, third step, and then, everything stopped. The sounds of the macaws and the monkeys and the parrots from all about were as an orchestra.

#ILLUMINOUS. OR LUMINOUS MEANING FULL#

From all around me, the forest was full of song. “Go back into the rainforest and see what happens.” So I turned and went back into the forest. “Alberto, go across the clearing,” they said. One day, I was walking with a medicine woman and her husband deep in the Amazon. These greedy, rapacious paradigms that pose humans as a dominator over nature are no longer sustainable. It is a mythology that is predatory, that is abusive, that reaps the cream of the earth – timber, water, topsoil – and passes the furtive costs onto future generations. Our problematic mythology is collapsing all around us. Not resource problems, but the problems centered around human beliefs, the troublesome elements founded in our mythology. I see the main problem as a spiritual one. But every crisis brings with it a marvelous opportunity and this is why we stood up and said, “Me!” Our work is to find new solutions, to develop sustainable ecological practices in commerce, business, and medicine. There is to be a tremendous culling of humanity because the earth can no longer sustain this parasite humanity has become. The indigenous peoples have a body of prophesy that says up to two-thirds of humanity will be eradicated in the next decade, between now and 2012. The Earth has an immune system that recognizes what is toxic and will do what is necessary to eliminate it. But the problem the Earth is facing is simple: do away with the parasite affecting it. Who owns the water? Can private interests own the water? And how do we distribute water to places that don’t have it? The problems we face are vast and overwhelming. At the human level, the distribution of water is a huge problem.

It is no longer a matter of global warming or carbon emissions, but the possible collapse of the entire climate system – a catastrophe beyond imagination. The legend reminds brings to mind a scene in The Lord of the Rings when the dwarf says, “No chance of success, certain death ahead? What are we waiting for!” Of course, our odds are better than those faced by the dwarf, but the problems humanity is facing are huge. Knowing we could make a difference, we jumped up and said, “Me!” “Who would like to volunteer?” the angel asked. Extenuating circumstances in an extremely difficult and challenging time would require extraordinary effort to bring about peace and heal the heart of the world. In the medicine tradition of the Inca, legend tells of a great angel who looked into the future and saw that humanity would face an enormous task at the beginning of the 21st century. Many prophesies in the indigenous world speak of this time in human history as a period of great transformation.

Illuminous. or luminous meaning