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The ELF of COCA at FOOTBALL WORLD CUP 1994

Jan 29 2017

Curiously – and also as a significant demonstration that the sacred green Coca incessantly reassembles the harmony of cosmovision – the elf of Coca certainly enjoyed a lot, darting into the bag of the draw for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

In fact the inaugural game was played in Bolivia, the Andean cradle of Coca, between Germany, the country where cocaine was isolated in laboratory, and the United States of America, one of the countries where the use of white powder is more spread and … home of Coca Cola.

COCA: “AND YET … it’s GOOD” …

Jan 29 2017

“And yet … it moves” … so claimed Galileo Galilei about the movement of the Earth around the Sun and the immobility of the star King, supporting the Copernican theory; he was accused of heresy, neglected by his contemporary society and he died alone, abandoned and nearly blind; however nowadays no one would ever contradict the confirmed hypothesis of Galileo.

Erythroxylum Coca is a shrub about one meter tall, with bright green thin oval shaped leaves, a creamy white flowers and reddish oval fruits similar to berries; it grows on the slopes of the Andes going down to the Amazon, between 600 and 2000 meters above sea level, where it is cultivated.

Jan 29 2017

In all original cultures – and markedly in the Andean world – it remains solid along the centuries the concept of cosmovision, which is based on cosmogony, a mythological step about explanation of the world, namely the global vision of reality in all its forms and manifestations, whose ultimate goal in the harmony of any part, material or spiritual, individually or collectively, recognizing diversity and plurality as richness in unity.

Jan 20 2017

When I was running the solidarity operation Rayos de sol in Bolivian region of Chapare, men and women used to gather in the evening, at the light of the oil lamp, in front of the table where the little mat with the leaves was prepared.

Although not yet fully aware, I was passively taking part in the ritual of the sacred green Coca, absorbing the aura of ancestral heritages that had never before convened me so intensely; by then I had clearly caught the meaning of the sacred mystery of Coca in its communitarian dimension, however I was anxious to find out the real mechanisms by which Coca leaves were considered a source of physical and mental energy.

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The ELF of COCA at FOOTBALL WORLD CUP 1994

COCA: “AND YET … it’s GOOD” …

The ANDEAN COSMOVISION

COCA and I, in BOLIVIAN CHAPARE