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Heaven & Earth
A Message for Humanity
The Kogi Tribe’s urgent call for our realignment with the Great Mother
By Michael Brasunas
In the beginning, there was nothing. All
was darkness, Se. There was nothing at
all. Only the Mother. She was Aluna. She
was pure thought, without form. She
began to think. The Mother conceived
the world in the darkness. She conceived
us as ideas, as we think out a house
before we begin to make it. She spun
the thread, spinning us all in the story,
creating us in thought. And then came
the Light, and the world was real.
~ From the movie "Aluna"
A potent and extraordinarily
important message is emerging out
of a remote range in the far northern
reach of Colombia, South America.
In a rugged and nearly impenetrable
part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa
Marta lives a remarkable tribe called
the Kogi, who have been quietly living
in pristine harmony with the natural
elements and the life-sustaining
spiritual forces for many centuries.
 Kogi shaman-priests, called 'Mamas,' spend years in training, drawing their knowledge from the laws of nature and the energy of the land.
Photo Credits: "Aluna the Movie"
The Kogi shaman-priests are called
Mamas in their language, and they are
mostly male. They spend years training
to be able to discern what is real and
what is false, based on the language
of nature. They see more than just the
physical reality that can be observed
with the senses; they see simultaneous
dimensions of cosmic forces and how
they inform and weave into our reality.
The Kogi Call Us 'Younger Brother'
These Mamas say that the Mother
has been showing clear guidelines on
how to relate to and behave within
each physical place, according to the
original laws of nature. They also
tell us most of humans are more like
rebellious teenagers and do not pay
attention anymore, that we have
allowed our spiritual faculties to
become like atrophied muscles over
the course of many generations in
which our priorities have shifted to selfimportance,
indulgence, success, fame,
recognition, profit, and distraction.
Further, they say it is because of the
way we mishandle the great gifts of life
and energy that the world is in such
a dire situation. They say we do not
properly reciprocate for these gifts.
In fact, this is why they call us
Younger Brother.
Prior to the 1980s, the Kogi lived more
or less the way they always had. Then
they began to feel the adverse energetic
effects of human industrialization and
globalization, as well as tendencies
towards negativity and overly
mentalized and intellectualized
processes in our society. They began
to feel that what they call the "Heart
of the World" was being affected, and
that the hearts of mankind on both a
collective and individual level were
being forsaken for invented goals and
aspirations that ultimately lead to
more disease and depression rather
than towards cultivating greater
achievement and collective good. We
had lost our connection, they sensed,
and the planet, the Mother, was being
wounded. They could actually feel all
this from within their own sacred land.
Listening to the Kogi Wisdom
When the Spanish conquistadors
arrived on the Caribbean shores in the
1500s, the Kogi and their descendants
knew they needed to remain safely
physically isolated from the rest of the
world. They saw firsthand what would
happen to their indigenous wisdom
and their valuable understandings
of the ways of nature, and they knew
inherently how important it was
to preserve the ancient knowledge,
to continue to practice spiritual
engagement with the forces of nature
to maintain balance. They chose to
remain in their sacred mountains to
serve the role they say humans were
put here to do: to care-take and to
provide revitalizing energy to support
and sustain life on Earth.
We must each start to recover our original purpose.
The Earth, we learn, and the
intelligence within nature, requires
that humans protect both their
individual and the collective energy,
in order to maintain harmony for the
proper organization and exchange of
life-providing sustenance. The planet
is so vast and so exquisite, and, just like
within our bodies, each component is
critical and must function properly
according to its intention in order
for the whole to exist cohesively and
sustainably. The Kogi say we must
each start to recover our original
purpose and become empowered as
energetically manageable conduits
in the heart, giving back at the same
frequency and intensity with which we
take. If we do not reciprocate for what
we receive, then we deplete nature's
ability to remain in healthy balance.
Elsewhere in the Americas we
now know that over the course of
the last five centuries nearly every
tribe and culture has been, in some
way or another, removed, destroyed,
infiltrated, or assimilated. The Kogi
remained outside the reaches of
civilization, of Younger Brother, and
focused on impeccably maintaining
the diligent work of obedience to the
principles and integrity of life, as these
principles were handed down through
generations and through alliance with
the divine source.
Reaching Out for the First Time
In the 1980s the Kogi determined it
was time to speak to Younger Brother
directly. It was time to tell him that
his ways were deleterious to the
health of our shared world, and that
unless we changed, we were going
to destroy ourselves. They allowed
a documentarian from the BBC to
bring a small film crew into the Sierra
to listen to their wisdom and hear
their message. The entire project was
orchestrated through spiritual readings
performed by the Mamas; they wanted
to ensure they were following the right
steps. The film, "From the Heart of the
World: The Elder Brother's Warning"
(viewable on YouTube) was released in
1990 and was seen by many.
Sadly, however, Younger Brother
continued to plunder and create
serious ongoing problems for the
world.
Twenty years later, the Kogis called
the same documentarian back, because
they realized they needed to come out
with a new message, with more specific
details about what they are urging us
to understand. Now, today, this film
has been completed. It was released
worldwide in October. The movie is
called "Aluna," and the Kogis hope
you see it immediately. It is available to
view online as well on DVD (see www.alunathemovie.com).
It is because of this important film,
and the noble cause of supporting the
Kogi mission, that I write this article.
It's Our Turn Now
The time has come that we must
do our part. These elders of ancestral
wisdom cannot do it alone any longer,
and they want us to learn how to
cultivate spiritual engagement and
integrate the messages and teachings
into our own lives wherever we are.
What they are asking us to do is to
consider seriously how we are living,
thinking, acting, and maintaining
ourselves. They wish us all to know
we are more than just physically
functioning bodies; we are spirits,
unique souls with a great potential
mission to fulfill. They want us to
protect the sacred sites of our world,
and to understand the Mother is living
within all of us; the Earth is a living
being, just as much as you and I, and
we are required to be an integral part
of its sustenance. We cannot keep
consuming without reciprocating. Our
role as humans is to protect the balance,
to align, and to serve. We are mighty
souls with dignity, and not meant to
be just personalities and ego-driven
desirers of more peak experiences and
endless consumption.
 A documentary film crew was allowed
access to the Kogi to film their lives and
record their message for the world.The Kogi wisdom asks us to engage
in devoted inquiry within and active
work to be able to be part of the
solution. By clearing our negative
associations with harmful activities,
actions, thoughts, ideologies,
perceptions, projections, blame, and
addictions; and by clearing resistance
and avoidance tendencies we allow to
keep us from revealing the truth, we
can then begin serving that which is
greater, that which truly sustains us,
and that which provides the nurturing
vital energy that maintains all existence
in its originally intended cyclical flow.
The Kogi believe we each made a
powerful agreement as a soul before
we came here, and it is both our
privilege and our responsibility to
recover that agreement and live from
it, amidst all the pressures in our
culture to do anything but. They say
we've allowed the light of our spirit to
become dimmed over and almost nonexistent,
and we create energetic debt
when we don't use the lifeforce we've
been gifted for the right purpose.
We are co-creators, and we reinforce
the status quo we see in the world if
we are alienated from connection to
our soul; but if we unplug from the
imposed understandings we've been
conditioned by, and rather infuse our
hearts with conviction to recover our
original agreement, we then establish
a level of resonance which will bring
us powerfully in alignment with the
energy that enhances harmonious
life. This will empower others to do
so as well and will serve as a great
achievement, setting the record
straight that we are here with purpose.
The Kogi are a great example, a
living testimony. They stand for what
they see and know, and tell us all to do
the same: Come back to the Mother;
Stand as a soul with a mission to bring
back harmony and balance. The next
generation is awaiting our legacy. The
living original wisdom is within each
one of us. Wake up, and stand as a soul.
What are we waiting for? It's time. We
agreed to do this and now we have to
get to work.
Michael Brasunas, LMBT, BCT has
been training in the Andean spiritual
arts with a mentor who works directly
in alliance with the Kogi Tribe from
Colombia. Michael's primary purpose and
work is to serve humanity humbly and
assist the planet to become revitalized in
the natural functioning of harmony and
balance, in accordance with the Original
Living Knowledge. To contact him or for
more information, you can visit his website
at www.recoverthesoul.com.
This article, written by Michael Brasunas and edited by Cam MacQueen, originally appeared in Pathways Magazine, a quarterly journal and resource guide for the greater Washington DC area committed to providing the public with free access to local resources and specific tools for improving life physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually
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