[Terrapreta] understanding indigenous culture

[David Yarrow]

alberto machado is an agronomist and farm consultant in brazil who i met at the acres usa ecofarming conference in st. paul last december.  we had long,enthusiastic talks about soil and indigenous culture.

baby garroux is a former TV news anchor who trained as a medium and quit broadcasting to start a temple.  in my life, she is one of half a dozen people i feel certain is trained and skilled at authentic communication with the ancestors -- they speak, she listens.  this is no mardi gras party intoxication; her's is a serious professional vocation and community responsibility.

john todd is a scientific pioneer/bioneer in the transion from industrial to ecological engineering of nature -- an early ark builder for our oncoming exodus toi a new form of culture and society.  terra preta biochar is #4 in his draft version of a recipe for soil rescue and remediation.  sea minerals are #1 in my recipe.

~dy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Yarrow 
  To: Alberto Machado 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:14 AM
  Subject: Re: sustainabletable


  pasted below is an article from Soul Brasil by my friend and orixas priestess Baby Garroux.  she came here in 2003 and i took her to onondaga lake.

  also, attached is a preliminary paper by dr. john todd about soil regeneration which i believe is right on target.

  David Yarrow
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  "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, 
  if one only remembers to turn on the light."  
  -Albus Dumbledore





  Awakening Consciences
  By Baby Garroux

  Almost all of mankind in its most intimate
  moments, searches for the awakening
  of the human conscience. In moments
  of silence and reflection, even the most
  alienated of societies certainly wants to
  rescue something that has been lost in
  our historical past. For millions and millions
  of years humans have tried to find dignity
  in their lives confronting powers, not only
  those of a darker nature, but also the cultural
  and socio-economical powers. I would
  like to point out that humans are eternal
  "searchers". He searches for happiness, for
  joy, peace, and a better condition not only
  for himself, but for all of his selves.
  The way man found out how to resist to
  the adversities of life and find answers for
  what has been lost or is forgotten is through
  religion, spirituality, concentration and
  the studies, searching for the knowledge
  against the ignorance forced and subliminally
  forged by the Power. In this sense of things,
  those who search ended up meeting with
  a phenomenon: the awakening of
  the conscience.

  Shamanism is a term that designs the
  philosophy of the fusion of mental, spiritual,
  physical and psychological worlds. It isn't
  a religion. It's a way of existing on the planet.
  Groups of people who contradict the
  imposed religions adapted to this state of
  being in the world throughout the times.
  Ancient civilizations already practiced this
  philosophy. In the modern days beings
  with a conscience acquired the feeling of
  love for the Mother-Earth and understood
  the need to practice the conservation of
  the Planet. For this, we can say that every
  Shamanic creature is also an holistic being.
  Those that are really into these patterns
  are visionaries. Those who lie and make
  a commerce out of the faith won't last.
  In Brazil hundreds of indigenous organizations
  look for same goal: the defense of the
  ancestral knowledge, of the cultural legacy.

  The Brazilians are a very mystical people.
  They're intuitive and worried about the
  dreams. They're religious and bring inside
  themselves the heritage of the Indians,
  Black, White and Yellow people - as it can
  be seen through the many kinds of religions
  and spiritualities. The beautiful thing is the
  respect shared by all creeds, faiths and
  doctrines. The shamanism and the
  "pajelança" are different things and that's
  why a shaman is a shaman and a pajé is
  a pajé. Just as a father or a priest are
  just themselves.

  Every person has his own specific pace
  for working and formation. The exchange
  is marvelous and ecumenism should be
  more common in Brazil. In the indigenous
  traditions the pajé is the maximum human
  represented expression for cure and spirituality.
  His gift is innate to his nature because it
  goes from father to son. No pajé goes
  to the "pajé's school", he acquires his
  knowledge through tribal ancestrally, and
  since his early days watching his grand
  and grand grandfathers practicing their
  prayers and cures for the safety of the
  community. The pajé is a man with
  absolute no regard for material possessions.
  He's a visionary by nature. His biggest
  possession is the gift received with all the
  honors by the Creator. He is always in
  connection with the extemporal world,
  with focused and well observed attitudes.

  The pajé is a wise man and he's always
  ready to help his people, donating his
  cure in solidarity. There's no capitalism
  involving a pajé and the sick, between the
  pajé and the community.

  What pajé and "pajelança" represent, in
  fact, is the biggest natural born expression
  of the traditional knowledge: which is
  considered the Indian intellectual property
  even if he has absolutely no scientific
  basis to understand the defense of his
  indigenous rights. On the other side
  every pajé belongs to a specific Indian
  ethnic group, with its own values, habits
  and creeds. A pajé from a certain ethnic
  group can act in a different way from one
  that comes from another group. He can
  have, if he wants to, a capitalist relation
  with his urban counterparts because his
  work is basically the same of a doctor
  among us. In the African traditions it's the
  ialorixá or babalorixá that represents this
  knowledge. It's he who keeps the resistance
  alive. The pajé, the shaman, the ialorixás,
  the babalorixás, the fathers, the priests
  awaken our conscience, and make us
  remember that we are all the same.
  ------------------

  * Baby Garroux - Oyananda lives in São Paulo and
  travels the world spreading and experiencing the
  Brazilian culture through the dance. She visited
  California last March and April. For further information
  about the author and her workshops please contact
  us info at soulbrasil.com or call (818)508-8753
  in São Paulo (011)4666-5235 or (011)9716-2536.
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