Op-Ed Contributor
The Truth of Natural Design
By Umballi Aloobi

Papua

Every since the South East Asian Mystical Cabal held in Jakarta in 1960 when the Omnipotent Kuballa, Swenze Cukolla of Swaziland, proclaimed that Western interpretations of the origins of the Universe were “interesting,” the western scientific community has seized on the quotation as evidence of support by tribal Witch doctors for their ideas on the origins of life.

This is not true. The SEAMC, while leaving logical explanations for natural phenomena to so-called “scientists, declares that the fire of the Human Spirit, known to us as Umballabacca, enlightens all humans beings as to the meaning and origin of the natural world. This includes all living things.

While the Western ideas of a common animal ancestry is compelling, and in many ways mirrors our own belief in Mashaweech, the Dog-Mother-of-Us-All, other ideas such as an unguided process of random variation and natural selection offends us. We think that such an odd compilation of ideas, which deny the unmistakable hand of Mashaweech cannot truly be called “science” but must be a religion.

Some have argued that since we do not know anything about science it would not be possible for us to make such a claim. To this we reply, “What we do not understand, we reject!” While we may not understand the so-called “scientific method” we do know that our Shamans have special powers to communicate with the One Creator and consequently we have no need for whatever “science” might offer.

Consider too the other teachings of our beloved Swenze Cukolla. In 1964, addressing the Huli people of Tari New Guinea he said, “When men look at the creatures of this world they must all come to the same conclusion. A single great mind has been at work! A mind that provides the snake with the rat, the jaguar with the baboon, the hawk with the mouse. Mashaweech, has provided. Mashaweech, has designed the world to be in harmonious balance. There can be no other conclusion for the rational mind.”

Later, addressing the biennial nocturnal gathering of Sulabi Shaman in Borneo he said, “Western man has claimed that life came to our people by ‘chance,’ by accident. What pale skinned fools they are! Look at this world! When the mongoose kills the cobra, is that chance? When you are hungry and your captive enemy slaves are fat, is that an accident? “ What the Omnipotent Kuballa was telling us, plainly, is that there is a great mind at work, one which guides over our every action. It is plain to any man who’s brain has not been eaten!

Naturally, our sacred writings support this idea as well. Ancient text from “The Time Before Shrinking” teaches us “All the world is seen. No man, no woman, no action is not unplanned. The All-Seeing Spider Nortubati weaves the lives and deeds of all people, through all time in his great web. No thing is without purpose!”

Our new Omnipotent Kuballa, Musharii Oookibi, has been wrongly quoted as seeming to support these Western notions of “ life-by-chance.” When the Great Musharii was just a simple Shaman in the mountains of New Guinea, he was alleged to have made a statement about all humans having a common ancestry. The Westerners who traveled through the area at that time took this to mean that our Omnipotent leader beleived in their radical ideology. Nothing could be further from the truth.

When he was installed as Kuballa, Oookibi proclaimed, “We are not alive by accident. Each person is the result of a unique drop of sweat from the rump of Darwinzi, Mashaweech’s great water buffalo. Each person is important, each of us is special.”

Now as the Western world encroaches on our people bringing with it strange foods, clothing and ideas, we must assert ourselves. We must stand up and proclaim the obvious truth. Scientific theories which we disagree with or misunderstand are wrong. Ideas which are different from ours are not good ones. Science, whatever it may be, is not real unless we say so. Anything else is an insult to human reason.

Umballi Aloobi the Chief Shaman of the Butoi Tribe of Mali. He is the author of the recent “Kaballa Speaks” a compendium of historical saysing by the Omnipotent Kuballa, Swenze Cukolla.

See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/opinion/07schonborn.html