In New Guinea there are apparently hundreds of people groups that have "never had contact with the outside world." Obviously, most of them must have been photographed from aircraft, or reported by jungle tribesmen who have contacted them. Many of them have probably had violent/ warning encounters with outsiders, just no further introduction Exploration has not yet run its full course in that land, on account of danger.
In Brazil there are similar people groups who have retreated further into virgin jungles, which the government has accordingly designated as havens for these self-determined isolationists.
There are some more pockets of such shy civilizations elsewhere in the world. Surely there is at least a wandering family or two in the northernmost lands?
What keeps a people at a distance? Is it just a combination of various fears and a desire for solitude? To grand degrees I respect these wishes... there is much wisdom there. Yet, as a spiritualist, I ultimately desire communion with all other people, so I am naturally eager to make contact. I have much to learn and appreciate concerning these things...
-Lumen
Doesn't the Bible say we were designed to long for companionship? Isn't that why God made Eve? I'd think incest would become a problem with such isolationists after a while.
ReplyDeleteAs with Adam and Eve? What did they do- marry their children or have their children marry each other? Or were Adam and Eve just representative of the human race, and not its literal point of origin?
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