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He can not read or write. He can not even sign his name. But he can sing the future. iGubi is one of our last San Shamans on this planet.
If he does not have formal Western education, he holds the greatest knowledge, like a Book of Eli, to save humanity. Do we have the wisdom to realize that he holds the key to our future?
"We are the! Xõ The first to see the sun Our traditions go through the beginning and the end of time," says iGubi. "We lived before the borders. There was no fence. Now we have to adapt to the Nations.
But we were here well before the countries. Now we are divided. Our way of life is disappearing and our traditions are disappearing under the poison of Western consumption, "says iGubi.
Back from the Kalahari in Namibia where I spent time with this San Elder, iGubi, I was struck by the realization that we have a lot to learn from indigenous knowledge systems. "We see our traditional lands invaded by white farmers and other tribes.
They fence and graze their livestock, they destroy the natural vegetation.They do not respect our customs and the Spirit of Mother Nature or our traditional Nhora system understanding that our daughters represent the sacred feminine and must be respected.
By marrying our tradition, we respect the fact that we marry our way of life and we take care of our family , our community and our environment, our daughters are impregnated and left to their own devices, "laments iGubi
As a traditional leader, iGubi holds ancient knowledge that brings us to the beginning of time. conclusively that our, the human species that we are as birthplace Homo sapiens is in southern Africa.
Our true garden of 39; Eden stretches across southern Angola, northern Namibia and western Botswana. And the San are our oldest living ancestors.
iGubi considers the modern emphasis on competition and dominance on Mother Earth as the reason we face an ecological catastrophe. Instead of smart collaboration, reciprocity and sharing, we prioritize our needs among millions of other species as the only goal of life.
Reciprocity allows us to be human beings to each other and to this planet. The Guardian in May this year reported that "7.6 billion people in the world represent only 0.01% of living beings, according to a study conducted.
Yet since the dawn of civilization, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of the plants, while livestock kept by humans abound. "
Today, many fear the virtues of an age of self-sufficiency.In truth, there has never been such an age for our species. Since time immemorial, human beings have been obsessed with concepts of exchange, pacts, contracts, bargains, fairness and reciprocity that are virtually unknown to most other species
Our ideal hypothesis is that of a self-organizing society capable of making its way towards privileged future, in an ethical reciprocity with its environment and in a "nice" way of all the needs, expectations and desires of its members
to stand together and understand our shared humanity We do not respect the Mother Earth that nourishes our life
We do not understand that we are part of nature , not apart.We do not see the thread of spiritual energy that we r It's all about forests, rivers, oceans, wild animals, and our plants, all of which carry the spirit of the Creator. Therefore we live in disagreement and conflict.
I see it everywhere I go in the world. Our dependence on consumption means that we live on each other. High walls, separating the rich from the poor, prevent us from seeing the spiritual bonds between us and the splendor of the natural world.
Our roads are full of cars spewing poisonous gas, our cities are overpopulated, our oceans and our marine life are covered with toxic waste spills and an ever-growing list of extinct species and d & # 39; threatened animals.
My hope is that we understand that we are at a crossroads. South Africa is at a crossroads. We carry a deep "wound".
Our inauguration of democracy in 1994 was a global social pact that created a safe container for frank conversations about sharing our resources so that no one was left behind. We did not do that. The fact that millions of people go hungry in a country as rich as ours is an accusation against all of us.
Native cultures are adaptive. And we can learn from them. There is no room for a dominant culture to which we must all be conditioned or marginalized. We should strive to come out of our room where we do not socialize through our diversity and differences, but remain in the safety of our silos and social groups.
Finally, the higher moral purpose is the virtuous alignment; the survival of all mankind and progress towards higher levels of consciousness.
We will have to discover how to rethink the key aspects of our culture so as to restore the primacy of emotion, cooperation and intuitive knowledge in our relationships with each other.
And we will need to determine the best way to pursue the types of reciprocity that will test and authenticate the effectiveness and resilience of the new paradigm.
The adoption of appreciative ideals like these, and an awareness based on reciprocity and altruism, is only one example of a attempt to convey a more positive gift of thinking to future generations the priceless gift of the hope, the reorientation of our society to a culture of respect for the environment rather than a casual desecration.
A grateful society, underpinned by reciprocity, offers a way out of the clash of values between material growth and the erosion of the environment towards a recovery of our humanity.
SA is a living laboratory where North meets South and East West. We can create the new way to learn to live together. Mutual healing. To ensure that we go back in time to understand even the suffering of the First Peoples.
We must hold our dogmas and beliefs lightly and embrace mutual learning; so that the traumas of the wound, we all carry in our lineages, can be healed. For that, we need to incorporate the rich mosaic of healers as iGubi who carry the original wisdom of how we should live on Mother Earth.
Re-imagining, rearranging and reorganizing the country in which we live will be the greatest gift we can make to the world. And it will be on the occasion of the centenary of Tata Madiba a deserved homage to his legacy. As he often said, "It always seems impossible, until it's done."
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