I am back.  The use of “I” however is questionable.  I wonder how people can take a journey like this and return unchanged?  For me, the secondary effects of being transplanted into a world where the basic pressures that our ancestors felt was enough to finalize what I always believed.  Before I share with you all how Africa is special and what I experienced on my journey, I would like to thank you. 

I started writing this site not to change people or deliver a specific message.  I just wanted a site to share my thoughts, and see if there was anyone out there other than me who saw these things about our world?  Because as most of you would agree, talking about these things with most people out there gets you a confused look and a fascinated listener that says to you: “huh… you really thought of all these things?  Don’t you have any fun in your life? I mean you’re so serious dude…” 

So when I posted an article or two and I started to get feedback from people I never expected to hear from, I was amazed.  More over, readers started to refer other people to the site, and now strangers are emailing telling me about the revolution that has begun in their own lives because of a certain idea or article.  Not to say that the articles I write are my ideas, or revolutionary.  Rather that I want you all to know and understand that these ideas are not mine.  These have been discovered by me, as they have been by many, many other people before me and after me.  These ideas about our world, about how we all relate, and about what is real and what is happening in our societies are part of the wisdom that has been kept safe from the reach of consumerism.

It makes me happy, deeply happy to see that eyes are opening all around me, and that people who care actually exist.  It doesn’t matter if we are too late.  It doesn’t matter if there aren’t enough of us.  The only thing that matters is that you know and live the truth. 

Africa is very special.  Very few places in the world play host to so many of the parts of nature that work together to create the real reality.  Much of the world we live in today has been changed by us to remove the feeling of being part of the food chain from our daily lives.  The cities we build, our roads, our cars, our homes, our water systems, our power systems, etc. etc. etc.  Human civilization is winning the war with Nature.  Even with a valiant fight back, we “out-engineer” Nature regularly to prove that we will not be subjects to the laws indoctrinated millions of years ago. So we roam our concrete jungles feeling almighty and powerful.  Masters of our universes… in control, large and in charge.  But little do we remember that if our fragile little bodies are transplanted into the world that nature rules, we are low on the list.  Hiding and cunning our way around in small packs trying keep our little domain in the world of more powerful, more agile, higher skilled animals.  Our strength lies in our brain.  Our ability to create synthetic natural selectors that prevent our demise. 

When you enter a place where you are now part of the complex system that revolves around the idea of “what am I going to eat today?”, your priorities are on check.  Now that Maserati you’ve been eyeing doesn’t really seem of value in comparison to that wilderness course on how to identify edible plants.  Skills and wisdom become valuable assets.  When you have an opportunity to stay in a world where time and schedule does not effect the time you are awake, but the light from the sun, your perspective about what you do with your life changes.  In Africa you see people who choose to stay true to the wisdom their ancestors have passed down for thousands of years.  Despite their proximity to the modern world and the ability to easily incorporate modern life into their society, these people stay true to ancient ways.  Their life is immersed in the natural order, not removed from it. 

I met these people.  I spoke with them, and observed them.  I watched their subtle gestures, and facial expressions.  They are pure and simple.  Even in their relative poverty, they seemed complete.  Although from our perspective they would live so much easier and happier with modern conveniences, they still exude a happiness that is so rare in the modern world, that when we see a person that lives in that way, we look at them as if they’ve “checked out” and lost their minds.

The idea that happiness is tied to money.  The idea that happiness is tied to success, career, and obtaining wealth is what our society has been conditioned to live by.  Not to say that money does not secure comfort… it does… in this system.  But not happiness.  True happiness is found where people are connected.  Where a member of the “community” depends on the other members of the community  And because EVERY person is part of a community, and is directly responsible for other people, in-turn making them responsible for themselves, every person does their part.

In our world of money worship, responsibility has been deferred.  Money is the measure of right and wrong.  In a world where if you have the money you can be elected as leader, it is clear that success is measured in dollars, not in how responsible you are to your fellow community members.  We celebrate people like Donald Trump, and Michael Milken and reward legal thieves like corporate banks and military contractors with our children’s reserves.

I’m didn’t go to Africa and come back realizing we all have to live in caves.  Rather that we have a really good thing.  We are talented and highly evolved creatures.  We have a ability to help fix so many problems that can occur for life and nature, and us.  But instead of taking our intellect and science and using it for good, we have been derailed by a force so powerful that not only is humanity doomed, but nature and life as we know it is at risk.  Consumerism.  Greed.  Insatiable desire.  Immediate gratification.  All manifestations of the successful player in the game of modern society.

This revolution I keep talking about has been around since the beginning of man, and there are special people in parts of the world who have mastered the balance and the art of not letting this disease derail them from the truth and pure happiness.  Over the next week I will post articles on specifics of my journey.  I will give you insight as best I can to what is happening in a part of the world that few of us actually get to experience.

I met amazing people.  Remarkable human beings from the old world, and the new.  I made life long friendships.  I suffered and was pampered.  I felt vulnerable yet was the master at the same time.  All these contradictions happening at the same time.  That was Africa.  The birthplace of mankind still holds the answers for its salvation.  I will explain each of these as I post articles in the coming days.

It was good to know that people were waiting for my return and the rest of the story.  I’m proud to be part of the other species of human being… homo sapien sapien sapien