Hopefully, this is the last update.

THE NOT-SO-LOST TRIBE

by Mike Krumboltz – June 23, 2008

A few months ago, mainstream news outlets reported that a photographer had found a lost tribe of warriors near the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Photos of the tribe backed up his claim. As it turns out, the story is only half true. The men in the photo are members of a tribe, but it certainly ain’t “lost.” In fact, as the photographer, José Carlos Meirelles, recently explained, authorities have known about this particular tribe since 1910.

The photographer and the agency that released the pictures wanted to make it seem like they were members of a lost tribe in order to call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group. The photographer recently came clean, and news outlets, perhaps embarrassed at having been taken for a ride, have been slow to pick up the story. Now, the word is starting to spread and articles in the Buzz are picking up steam. Expect a lot more brutal truth in the coming days.

“However, what does bother me, for one, is the attitude that bigfoot is virtually established (as a reality, and an ape at that), which is simply not true.”

No, it’s not true. What is true is that there is far more evidence for the sasquatch than there is for almost any other species that has ever existed prior to its formal confirmation by science.

To say otherwise is – I have to keep saying this – to openly profess utter ignorance of the evidence.

There sure is more evidence for the sas than there was for these members of our own species, wot? The analogy is precise and correct.

As long as those labelled as “uncontacted” have any form of contact with other tribes, they would be very much aware of the “modern” society. It is extremely difficult to believe that they were totally unaware prior to the fly-over photography session. The very reaction of defensiveness or defiance shown in some of the aerial photos almost proves that they are VERY aware of us (and what the implications of our “civilization” are for their traditions, lifestyles and forest resources).

In our not too distant past, our Western minds would look at these peoples and think “primitive” and “barbaric” and otherwise inferior to us. That view is hard to maintain today, when on virtually any street corner in the good old USA we find the heavily tattooed and body pierced folk in ball caps and tattered jeans. Who is the more primitive looking?

As to Endroren’s comments: I personally believe bigfoot is a mixture of contemporary myth and hoax. Yet, I’m not dogmatic about it and do not assume it is the only “correct” way of looking at the issue. So I welcome varying points of view, including Endroren’s notion linking bigfoot and native peoples in a hypothetical. We should be open to various ideas.

However, what does bother me, for one, is the attitude that bigfoot is virtually established (as a reality, and an ape at that), which is simply not true.

Before the breakdown of the bicameral mind, before the rise of ego-sphere-based conscious awareness, however, human apperception was rooted in feeling, dream-time, animistic identity transparency — and the logics employed to order cognition were not of the binary order of value. That this was so has recently received strong support from the demonstration that Aymara, the ancient language of the Andes, is based upon a 3-valued logic. (See: http://www.aymara.org/ and in particular the chapter entitled: “The Trivalent Logic of Aymara” which you get to by clicking on “bibliography” and then on “Logical and Linguistic Problems…”)