The Forest People

Last night, I watched a Youtube video by my friend Helen Demetriou. It was called, "Pistis Sophia Guided Meditation" (and the Archangel Zadkiel). I did the meditation and I have not had an experience quite like this in a long time. I got intensely woozy from it, and it carried on over into my dreams during the night. I was visited by a rain forest shaman. His face came through a shimmering curtain. Perhaps it was rain, steaming heat or a water fall. He said, "The Forest People shall return!" I was surprised to hear this in English. Perhaps it was a telepathic statement rather than a spoken one. I cannot be sure. He didn't state it angrily, just excitedly, he had green leaves stuck randomly through out his hair. His was a cherub like happy face, almost elfish, I thought.

For years, I have wanted to meet an Amazonian shaman, finally, it seems I have. Tonight, I type in 'The Forest People' on the Youtube search and up popped this video: "Dream People of The Amazon" (see description below). It is a trailer for a new documentary. There are indigenous people in Ecuador who are reaching out to people in their DREAMS! Watching this one had me crying like a baby. Oh, man! If anyone were to see me now they would think me mad. LOL!

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Dream People of the Amazon

The story of the indigenous people, Achuar, who live in a remote and pristine part of the Amazon rain forest in southeastern Ecuador. The Achuar had no contact with the outside world until the early 1970's but now they are forced to band together ...

Last Friday, my friend Aki, in Hawaii, her passed over grandfather tried to communicate a message to forward to Aki. He was a Japanese doctor, that served with the Axis, in France during WWII. I could not understand his speech. He tried using pictures strung in a message like hieroglyphics. All I remember were some animals. Foxes? My dream was interrupted by a phone call. I wish I had not mentioned any of it to Aki.as I was sad and frustrated over it.

Aki has stated she has a feeling someone close to her will die this year. I'm sure the doctor had some important information he wanted to communicate. I could not understand him. Was he speaking Japanese or was his English spoken in a thick accent? I just cannot say for certain.

The quality of these experiences convinces me of their reality. In a strange synchronicity my professor at Central Michigan University lectured today, in my food and culture class, about how other societies, he is from Ghana, regard health and the spirit, and their superstitions surrounding it. Soul loss is something that comes up with these traditional cultures. A trauma, can be either physical or spiritual, and the soul can be loosen or shaken free from the body. The shaman or the traditional healer can put it back and thus make the person whole again. It is a fundamentally different approach, than western bio medicine model, to life and understanding health.

Back to the subject of the forest people. A further google search finds there is a well written book by the title of "The Forest People"(1961) by Colin Turnbull. It is about the life of the Pygmies in the Belgium Congo, later Zaire and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Turnnbull is an anthropologist and this book is a loving account of his time spent with them and not the typical dry detached empirical treatise you might expect of an academic.

The Pygmies are truly one with nature. They live a semi-nomadic life in the jungle. They are genetically are the original inhabitants of central Africa. They were in the region more than 10,000 years. Their Negro cousins are more recent arrivals and regard the Pygmies as naive younger brothers.

I'm reminded of yet another Youtube video titled: 'Science and Spirit'. In this interview with Rupert Sheldrake and the host discuss they split between science and the sacred. The Pygmies are so in tuned to the natural world that they, unlike most moderns, have the astounding ability to see the moons of Jupiter with their naked eyes. Secular science today dissects everything down to its smallest parts and has libraries full of books finding out about more and more of everything, and yet understanding less and less.

Science alienates people, today, from their experience. Peoples senses are weaken and dulled. They have lost the sense of awe. It is my contention is we can begin to reclaim it in our dreams. This is where we moderns can began again. My final thought on all of this? Listen to your dreams and wonders of worlds will be reveal to you.