Rayos de sol | Sagrada Coca Verde

A CRASHED UTOPIA

Jan 29 2017

Meeting Peoples, in a world without borders, where the cultural realities can express themselves in the richness and variety of knowledges and ancestral traditions, as the sacred green Coca: an utopia … well worth any price.

It was July 1994 in the rainforest of tropical Bolivian Chapare, where for about a year I was running, as only expatriate, the operation of solidarity Rayos de sol, with the support of the fans of my adventures, even when … lost battles.

In collaboration with the indigenous communities and the leadership of the Federation of the Peasants Workers of the Tropic of Cochabamba (FETCTC), whose executive secretary was the aymara unionist Evo Morales Ayma, a micro-project got on the way, with the main objective of the integral development of the communities in that region, including the defense, enhancement and promotion of Coca, the sacred plant of the Andean-Amazon world.

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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A CRASHED UTOPIA

COCA and I, in BOLIVIAN CHAPARE