Dane - Yeah, it's been really humbling to see so much emotion authentically expressed from both sides, from the emissaries and those who have been impacted through the stories and the empowerment that we seem to be awakening in them through the knowledge of cacao and then the vice versa of the empowerment that they're receiving and the authenticity of seeing the emissaries in tears for their love of cacao.

And it's just humbling to to see that this unification, this like collaborative field of joining forces and wisdom and ways that's really striking a chord in the hearts of many. And I think that's a real tohu, that's a real sign for the truth, you know, something that stirs us so deeply that we are brought to allow the sacred waters of our own body to flow free.

Yeah, I feel like that's a blessing. It's a blessing that wishes to be expressed. And so it takes me back to this morning of sharing the word that we were so graciously gifted yesterday, which was manaangi. Manaangi-go, to Bless You, to Be Blessed. And I shared how much that was in resonance with Manaaki, which is to, you know, uplift, to protect, to empower, when you really boil it down, to give blessing to someone is no different than to to uplift and to empower them with mana.

And as we said that, you know, it started to rain and all of these people had prayed for sunshine. But cacao needs rain just as much as it needs sunshine. And after that blessing from Ranginui you know, with those beautiful rains, the sun came out and it's been the most gorgeous, gorgeous afternoon. And we've gotten to share swims and laughs and games and cocoa and it's probably one of the greatest days I'll remember of my life of something so unexpected, just really walking in the mystery.

Jordan - I think one of the things I've noticed in this particular community is they are struggling for money. They need more money to create a bit of structure and some systems. So things are quite difficult during the day to day. There’s a simplicity here, but they they need more money. They need roads so that they can transport the produce and some better infrastructure as well to produce the produce. And it wouldn't take too much, to be honest, after the roads to make things a bit better. But there's a massive opportunity here in this village. There's so much abundance here and there's like a seriously unified group of people.

I haven't really seen it before. It's kind of like a fairy tale, um, something that you kind of read of, but you don't really know exists. And it's, it's almost in a way, it's kind of like idyllic because they're all practicing as much as I've seen, they're all practicing Christians, which, you know, whatever your faith, this particular faith has brought them together under One and they all worship and move under One.

And that is the unification that has instilled values of community and Thanksgiving and faith within them. And it's quite interesting to see. I was having a chat with one of the elders today, Melody, and she was reminded because we'd come in and I wasn't sure if she thought we were missionaries or if we just reminded her of missionaries because she was 76 and she was… she was crying.

She was saying that this reminded her of 1974 when the first missionaries came to this village.
It was about 50 years ago. And they brought, you know, the gospel of Christ and that setting in that context to the village. And I just wanted to know a little more about that. And so I was asking them some questions and I said, you know, what does that mean for you? Like what was the result and the impact? And it was overwhelmingly positive from the elders, the nannies of the village said that Mr. Wilson and Mr.. forget his name. But two missionaries just came out of the bush one day and they just started telling people about Jesus and fully converted the entire tribe. And I said, What?

What did that mean for your tribe? And they said, Well, we were worshiping satanic gods, was the words that they used, and we were sacrificing to them pigs and other animals. And we weren't, we weren't unified. And there were some troubles in the village and in the missionaries came and they told us about about the true God, the way that they shared it.

And they set us up with school and education and Bible studies. And ever since then we've all been Christian and yeah, I mean, there's a lot of peaceful energy. And these women, um, they're very at peace and they're pure, you know, you can really feel it when you come from different spiritual contexts and backgrounds and modern day living.

You can feel... you can feel purity when you're around it. And I feel it here. And I was just very... it was a great perspective for me because I never quite had an in person perspective of the positive side of what those missions could do. And it appears to be overwhelmingly positive in this community. And I said to them, Do you still practice, you know, old traditions?

And they said, Yeah, we've maintained our traditional practices, but we've let go of the spiritual practices that that were damaging in the eyes of those missionaries. And we retain our traditional practices, but we practice, we read the Bible and we, you know, praise God, and that's what we do now for our spirituality and massive transformation in 50 years for this community.

And it was just from two, two guys that literally came out of the bush one day. And ever since then there were roads that were built and now there's roads that travel in. And Melodie was letting me know that her father had said or prophesied one day that there would be many, many people that come to this village and the future along these roads.

And I believe that's true. I believe we can all feel that there's something shifting here, and that's something that I felt.. it is a union of traditional indigenous wisdom and practices and village community living with a Christ centered message of unity, forgiveness and oneness, which is really the key of the gospel, you know, whatever you want to call it, modern day Christianity.

And various sects can take it into whatever parts of power they wish. But fundamentally that that's the message. And to see it being played out in a community, you can actually see the fruits of that message. And as far as I've seen, these are very peaceful, loving people and and that's just how it feels. So I found that really intriguing.

Dane - and I think that prophecy, you know, has already brought many people to this place, which, you know, they said that they haven't had a great deal of visitors. And the odd aid organization comes with support. But next year, in July, they have from all over the Solomons youth rally of Christians coming here together in the name of God and some from New Zealand, some from Australia and further abroad.

And that's in itself is a prophecy fulfilled. Yeah. 4000 people of of faith coming to this village, you know, I was sharing with Mercy today. And we were discussing that, that man, you all got a reason to get some cacao ready and it's going to be a lot of people that love Milo! You can all share in the spoils of Numbu and the “homemade milo” that is, you know, it's just these people have just been enilvened through this education.

And I think it's really illuminated the potency of cacao, but also just the potency of knowledge. You know, knowledge shared. Nothing, nothing sort of withdrawn or made secret, you know, and I know that we're weaving this with the Cacao ambassador but I just think this is also just the thread of many, many different other knowledge systems that could entirely empower these people. Through colonization, through corporate greed, they've been held back from certain knowledge systems.

And it just really, really sort of brings it home to me. It's like, what? What haven't we been told? You know, like even back in our own country, what it is that that's perforating our society is I mean, we only have to even look at nourishment, you know, our country has the highest mental health rating yet, we were also held back from the modern flows of cacao as a medicine for people. We know how good Cacao was for our mental health and for our wellbeing, yet we are just the same.

We are pushed on Milo and sugary beverages and other addictive substances and it’s a repeating pattern that we know holds secret, knowledge that is universal. You ‘damn’ people, people should be free. Knowledge should be allowed to come through in a collective consciousness and then shared with the collective. And I look forward to seeing how this one simple piece of wisdom empowers them and begins their journey of asking more questions of what's possible.

And I hope that through us capturing their expression and their curiosity and their desire for knowledge, that their story plants a seed in many more, whether they're in the Solomons or whether they're back in New Zealand or on the other side of the world, to question what it is, I don't know, and what is potentially being hidden from my plain sight that allows me a better life because we're all entitled to a better life or entitled to the sense of peace, autonomy and sovereignty.

Jordan - Yeah, I hear that. And I think, for me, it's just so important to remember the grand scheme of all of this and this reemerging of culture that's taking place, and to drop the labels, to drop the history, to forgive and acknowledge. But it's time to move past all those cultural boundaries and restrictions and just feel the true presence of love.

So I don't believe there are any rules. I don't believe it is in any way to turn up, because if you come in with identification on who you are and where you're from, then you've already put shackles behind your back because you're creating separation. So it's just like the main song that they've been singing, that we've been singing is like one big family.

One big family. We're all God's family. He's my brother, she's my sister. We're one big family. And there's no segregation, no separation there. So we just need to keep dropping the labels and enjoying each other's presence because we're all sons and daughters of the same living God, which is the same loving spirit that created everything and has a fundamental frequency of love.

And that's a good place to be. Yeah, frequency of love and abundance. Yeah. And that's the reemerging, I think, you know, it's like that frequency of abundance is what is reemerging back into this culture because that's what's been kept from them by greed. So the greed has actually said, your lands are abundant, therefore we're going to take, take that abundance, but we're only going to give you minute percentage of that.

And so the reemerge is coming back in and saying, did you know this is what your stuff is worth? So you can continue to be abundant within your growing and your lands. But now you're going to actually get the piece of the pie that you've been missing. And I think that's what's going to surprise people the most, is, you know, what potential there is for them to make money in the form of abundance.

Dane - And they're also sharing a form of abundance with us, which is simplicity. And I think they're sharing in their own abundance of finally eating a product that they've grown tirelessly with so much effort and realizing that, holy damn, this is like the good stuff, you know, this is something that we can nourish and nurture and we have a living treasure amongst us and sort of had, you know, felt before this trip that piece at the end of the tunnel that with great appreciation for cacao and for what it is they have, that it will in turn provide them with a greater sense of reverence for the trees and for the place that they have. And, you know, I keep already seeing them being like, Oh, we need to clean these up. And, you know, excuse us, it's not very clean. And bro, remember, you know, it's a stepping stone and it's just showing their eagerness to like, yeah, want to be better? I want to do better because they’re realizing that they have something of worth and they’re of worth.

I really look forward to seeing how the Numbu community grows with that and grows with the support of Debby sharing, even more. And then, you know, the roads are really important. But first and foremost, the sovereignty of this community to empower themselves, to feed themselves, to really become one with cocoa in the creation. And then those roads will naturally open up when they're ready.

Jordan - Yeah, that's true. I agree.

Dane - in the words of a great man, Dixon, all in God's timing. Hmm. You know, he said, Yeah, God's timing in response to, Auntie Flo, and she asked, Why has no one shared this information with us until now?

Yeah, Dixon shared “it's God's timing”

Jordan - special things happening in this village. And I look forward to that. And we look forward to returning here and doing what we can to collectively help, because there's an example that's being set here.

Dane - I feel like there's a part of me that acknowledges the beauty of being brought divinely to this community, divinely with no cameras, just phones to be one of many, not apart from, but a part of. And I just feel so true in my heart that when I say we'll be back, we bloody will be. And not just once. I feel like this will be a place that we come to many times over as Manaaki, just as ourselves, you know, because as showing up as Manaaki if we don't do anything other than show up as ourselves.

Jordan - Yeah, that's it bro, and intuition

Dane - you know, and bringing heart for creation and connection, playing music, sharing love, sharing story, sharing presence, you know, we're not out here as some media company who shows up with one hat one day and then goes home and puts on another or takes one off. We walk barefoot into these experiences with the locals, jump off the same cliffs and same trees, eat the same food, walk hand in hand.

We ain't separate, we are one in the same. And on that note, we've got our beautiful, beautiful wahine Debby offering us coconuts.