Aluna: A Journey to Save the World

In 1991, in the last edition of the original Beshara Magazine, we published an article by journalist Alan Ereira about an extraordinary people living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the north of Colombia. The descendants of a great civilisation which fled to the hills as the Spanish took over their lands, the Kogi had lived for 400 years in isolation, led by a class of priests called the mamas. They asked Alan to help them make a film in order to communicate with us the younger brother and warn us about the ecological destruction we are wreaking upon the earth. 

The result was a BBC documentary and a book entitled The Heart of the World. Thirty years later, the Kogi are making another attempt to communicate their wisdom, this time through a regeneration project, Munekan Masha, under the auspices of the UNESCO Bridges initiative. Alan talked to Jane Clark and Richard Gault about what it involves and the unified vision which underlies it. 

At the end of the article is a video of a recent talk he gave on the project which you might want to watch before reading the interview.

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