I recently attended a talk by a Mamo of the Arhuaco—a teacher-priest charged with "maintaining the natural order of the world." His people have lived on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountain in Colombia, isolated from the industrial world for centuries.
The honorific maestro isn’t tossed around lightly. Santiago, carried the weight of leadership with effortless, consummate grace. This is why his tragic, unfair death from COVID-19 this spring is being mourned so widely.
The power and abundance of our Earth can never be overstated; what is commonly overlooked is humanity's exploitation and neglect of its own life source.
