On the 12th of November the Clissold Arms are showing the renowned film Aluna. The film will follow with a Q+A from the Director of the film Alan Ereira.

Drinks and food will be available to order. Free entry, Doors open at 7:00 film starts at 7:30, Clissold Arms – 105 Fortis Green, N2 9HR London, United Kingdom

Aluna Trailer from Alan Ereira on Vimeo.

Aluna the Movie

ALUNA is made by and with the KOGI, a genuine lost civilization hidden on an isolated triangular pyramid mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, nearly five miles high, on the Colombian-Caribbean coast. The Kogi say that without thought, nothing could exist. This is a problem, because we are not just plundering the world, we are dumbing it down, destroying both the physical structure and the thought underpinning existence. The Kogi believe that they live in order to care for the world and keep its natural order functioning, but they recognized some years ago that this task was being made impossible by our mining and deforestation. In 1990 they emerged to work with Alan Ereira, making a 90-minute film for BBC1 in which they dramatically warned of our need to change course. Then they withdrew again.

The first film had a stunning global impact, and is now probably the most celebrated film ever made about a tribal people. It was repeated on BBC2 immediately after its first showing, and then in many other countries – some 30 times in the US last year, not bad for a 20-year-old documentary!

It helped shape the Rio Conference, it led to the King of Spain visiting the Kogi and to a complete transformation of the Colombian attitude to these people. Today, each new Colombian President has to visit the mountain and seek their blessing.

But now the Kogi have summoned Alan Ereira back to say that we did not actually listen to what they said. We are incapable of being changed by being spoken to. They now understand that we learn through our eyes, not our ears. In the face of the approaching apocalypse, they have asked Ereira to make a film with them which will take the audience on a perilous journey into the mysteries of their sacred places to change our understanding of reality.

This is not a work of fiction. ARE YOU READY TO BE CHANGED?

Who are the Kogi Mamas?

The Kogi are a civilization that lived in South America long before Columbus was born.  When the invaders came, they hid in secret parts of their great mountain.  They are trained to take care of nature, and they still continue their work.  They understand the world is a single living being, with thoughts and feelings.  Some children are taken at birth and raised to work with it.  They grow up to be “Mamas”, Enlightened Ones.  They still live shut away, speaking only their own language.

They make small and careful interventions in nature, which they call “payments” or “offerings”.  When they have moved back onto lands destroyed by farmers and drug lords, they have brought back the jungle, so that its rivers low again and its animals have re-appeared.

They work with their knowledge of what they call “black lines”, which connect nature like an invisible nervous system in the earth.  This is where the healing takes place.

We need their help.  Every one of our communities needs their advice on how to care for our own land and our own water.  And now they can give it.

The Black Line Initiative

At last, they have allowed an outsider to learn their language and have agreed to a process being set up that allows them to give advice to any of us, anywhere in the world.  That is THE BLACK LINE INITIATIVE.

To get their advice, you have to explain to the Kogi what problem associated with your local patch of land or water, you are trying to solve.   The blacklineinitiative.org website shows you what to do.  The question is translated for the Mamas, who gather, consider it and respond.  The answer is translated back and returned, and the BLI will keep tabs on what happens next so that everyone can see.

Of course this takes money.  We have to fund the translation work and support the Mamas.  We are also trying to help them buy back land which contains nodes of the black line network in their own territory – places most simply described as sacred sites.  (The Kogi word, esuama, actually means a place of government and control.)

This is a very important new step in saving the world.  Having indigenous wisdom on offer for environmental consultancy is astonishing.  You can be part of this process.  You may not have a project you want to put forward yourself, but you can help others with theirs.

SUPPORT THE MAMAS.  SUPPORT THE EARTH.  SUPPORT THE BLI.  AND MAKE THINGS BETTER.

blacklineinitiative.org

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