How do you win a major international case for indigenous rights? Persevering over eight years, the Kichwa indigenous community of Sarayaku took their claims to the human rights system of the Organization of American States. In July of 2012, the Inter-American Court came down on the side of the community. The Court declared the Ecuadorian government guilty of perpetrating rights violations, having tried to force the entry of a foreign oil company against the community's will. You can follow the community's inspirational journey in Children of the Jaguar, an award-winning documentary co-produced by Sarayaku and Amnesty International. Eriberto Benedicto Gualinga Montalvo is the head of Selvas Productions and the director of the documentary “Children of the Jaguar“, winner of two film festival prizes: the National Geographic's award for best documentary and Columbia's Indigenous Festival prize for best depiction of a struggle by an indigenous people.
Sergio Magaña, “Ocelocoyotl”, is a well-known and respected healer in Mexico City, who has been initiated into the 5,000-year-old Toltec or Toltecayotl lineage of Mesoamerica. Sergio: "The last ruler of the Mexica empire, Cuauhtemoc, before Tenochtitlan fell down at the hands of the Spanish, said “Hide our treasure, because the sixth sun is coming back.” The treasure of course wasn’t gold, the treasure was knowledge, especially the knowledge of how to be a dreamer, and all those things. I am very happy to be able to share it in this time. Because for us, the entrance of the sixth sun started in 1991 and will finish the complete transition in 2021. Now we are in the main entrance to what we call the sun of darkness, the sun of dreams, the sun of the inside. Now the lineages of Nahualism are opening themselves to share, and I am part of this cosmic plan. Toltecs created disciplines based in the mathematical count, altering your perception through the obsidian mirror, and through other methods.
for the Aztec calendar, the long count is of 26,000 years. That’s what science calls the precession of the equinoxes. The main cosmic order is the number four that repeats constantly in the universe. For example, two solstices and two equinoxes; four phases of the moon, or elements. We split the long count into four, that gives you periods of 6,500 years. That’s what we call suns. One sun is of light, and the other is of darkness. What I explained before, in the sun of light – satisfaction is outside, God is outside, medicine is outside, everything is outside. It’s like being awake, in which you cannot see yourself. They are very good for religions. Now that we’re entering in the sun of darkness, the sun of darkness is like being asleep or at least with closed eyes. You are forced to see yourself, your own cave, your own conscience. You’re forced also to work with your dreams. That’s the first and the main temicxoch (lucid dream). It affects the periods of dreaming and the periods of not dreaming. The rotation of the sun is in 26 Earth days, so for the ancients, 13 became like the number of the sun. A lot of the exercises you do before sleeping to get consciousness in the dream have to do with the number 13, to put light in your darkness. The Pleiadies and Orion are considered the ones that rule the dreaming state. They repeat the same position in the cosmos. Every 52 years, one day in November, there is a perfect alignment of Orion, and it was said that’s why the dream has four times the power, because 52 is the number of Pleidies and Orion. There are many other measures that affect us – there are the mathematics of Venus and the moon, that for us is the division between the Tonal and the Nahual… there are measures based on the times that the moon, Venus and Mercury crosses between the Earth and the Sun. In the Aztec and Mayan calendar there a lot, a lot of different measures that are used for different things. All the dances and the exercises, the sweat lodges, and everything are based in those cosmic energies for us. They affect the dreamer. That’s the main explanation of how the Tole or the measure of the universe affects human consciousness.
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