My first desire
Was to drink from the well
Of love-
Nearby a heart shaped radio
Which makes music in frequencies
That cannot be seen by us
But, like a vampire
I wanted to aquire life
Even though I was already dead
With blood red lips and rosy flesh
to kiss you with
This time,
I did not want it
But, I did not know
The face of death like I thought I did
Because it is always changing
So, I can’t remember him
Yet, the first word I spoke was
‘Milk’
to my mother
Who gave me a copper bracelet
When I was born
To wear upon my wrist
For good luck to exist
Because I was starving
Then and now-
It’s left with the dead
Who want nothing
But words
To pray
To be said
Good things that were meant
To be forgiven for
Crimes they did not commit
But, maybe
I feel like I want to die
Because
I’m always hungry-
And I hate being empty
And tomorrow I will
Be sad as I rise up
Without her
To do it again
So, I melted the moon
Into silver bullets
For my weapons
Against the ones who
Hurt her
And I sleep in-
dreaming till noon
of you God
Where I wake up
And I know
Each night that
I sleep & drink
From a bowl of porcelain
Waiting for my resurrection
To feed
And be full again
CHOCOLATE
My first admirer
Gave me chocolate
And I ate it,
But-
I didn’t want to date him
So,
I took the letter
He wrote,
It was a poem
And I gave it to my father-
Who took the boy’s side
And I became evil
For destroying him
By
Saying
“No, I won’t.”
To being his girlfriend.
He must have been
Heartbroken
Because he
Gave me the sugar
From his family
And it was nothing to me
But, a treat.
I’m sorry.
But, I still
Have the ring
Made of amethyst
That my first boyfriend
Gave me and
It’s already rusted
I GUESS
I like chocolates instead.
PUMPKIN
Speak of the dead
The silence will wake them
Ghosts fly at midnight
By candle flame
They worship the words
On my tongue,
The jewelry on my neck
And the promises
That I said-
Which can bring you
Pleasure or pain
The wisdom won by
Carving out with a golden knife
Your happy face like
A beautiful life
A smile set free
Onto a glowing pumpkin
Beneath a leafy tree
Changing colors & lovers
Jack O’ Lantern
While the seeds
Of your dreams
All turned into food
And you knew I would taste
Best on your lips
Better
Than the humans do
Because
You made wishes
Underneath a full moon
For me
A destiny
On Halloween
And I was the one
That you couldn’t cut loose
Or everything would change
When night turned to day
And you realized I was gone
And it was winter again
With 1,503 new cases, Costa Rica is almost at 100,000 covid infections. 14 deaths were reported on Wednesday, bringing the total losses of life from the disease to 1,236.
Of the 1,503 new cases, 329 are due to epidemiological nexus and 1,174 due to laboratory tests. This number was a big jump, following two days with figures well below 1,000 (847 on Tuesday and 632 on Monday.
Of the total covid-19 cases in Costa Rica, 47,811 are female, 51,614 are male, 83,140 are Costa Rican and 16,285 are foreigners.
The age range of cases resulting in death is from zero to 100-years-old. By age group, there are 2 minors, 417 adults, and 817 senior citizens.
There are currently 531 patients hospitalized due to covid-19. 206 of them are in intensive care. They are aged 1-91-years-old.
60,738 people have already recovered from covid. These include 29,120 females, 31,618 males, 52,092 adults, 3,420 seniors, 5,155 children, and 71 still under investigation.
The Pan American Health Organization stated that Costa Rica has the highest incidence of covid-19 cases in Central America, established by the relationship of number of cases and the population.
The Costa Rica ambassador in Panama, Gioconda Ubeda, died, after suffering from a chronic disease. This has been confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She was a prominent diplomat who served many roles during her career. She was Vice Chancellor of the Republic, ambassador to Mexico, ambassador to Argentina, legal director of the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry, Secretary General of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, consultant for the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, host and producer of the Bitácora television program, and a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Costa Ricain Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law.
She made a great difference in issues such as nuclear disarmament, human rights, public international law, international humanitarian law, refugee protection and international migration.
The cause of her death was not covid-19, rather an unspecified chronic disease she endured for about a year.
The Foreign Minister expressed, “It is a painful loss, of an official who distinguished herself for her dedication and commitment to the country and the institution, and for her permanent struggle to defend and promote human rights.
As I stopped on the bike to look at the hills, I was confronted by at least 100 crows. They were on the ground by the dozens, and dozens more alighted on completed or partially completed buildings nearby.
Crows are very smart, and I could feel their awareness as they landed and swooped around me. Indigenous people did not dismiss such encounters, but saw signs in them, which educated people dismiss as superstition.
I couldn’t dismiss them, especially when they made a final circle around me, and then flew away, every one of them. People often think crows represent bad luck, or even a bad omen and death. But there were too many of them for such a limited, personal metaphysical meaning.
It felt more like what much of the literature on crows says, that they “symbolize transformation and change, especially spiritual and emotional change.”
Do crows have brains capable of symbolic activity? Experiments have shown that they can perform complex sequential tasks involving planning, so yes, they must have at least a rudimentary capability to think symbolically.
Unlike humans however, they certainly don’t symbolically mediate their experience. Symbolic activity is both our great gift and our great curse as a species.
On one hand, the evolution of conscious symbolic thought is the single greatest adaptation that evolution has ever produced on Earth.
On the other hand, it’s the most disastrous evolutionary adaptation for the Earth, since the creature in which it evolved—us—is bringing about catastrophic climate change and the Sixth Extinction, which are decimating the diversity of life.
The breakthrough that brought about “fully modern humans” (Homo sapiens sapiens, a double insult to intelligence, given that sapiens means ‘wise’) was the Cognitive Revolution. It occurred about 70,000 years ago, and gave humans the linguistic, technological, cultural, artistic and spiritual capacities we have today.
Major technological developments after the Cognitive Revolution included not only much more sophisticated stone tools, but also little things such as oil lamps and needles, and big things such as boats, which took people to Australia at least 50,000 years ago.
Though there was some intermingling with other hominid species such as Neanderthals, our species did to other hominin species what we’re now doing to many animals on Earth—we wiped them out.
The Cognitive Revolution appears to have taken place after the Toba Super volcano eruption in Indonesia, which may have produced a geographic and population ‘bottleneck,’ which in turn generated the evolutionary pressure for the cognitive leap.
Humankind faces a different kind of bottleneck at present, one belied by our overwhelming numbers (nearly 8 billion and growing).
The present bottleneck is of the very consciousness that brought us tremendous success as a species, allowing man to dominate all other animals and the biosphere itself in what scientists glibly call “the Anthropocene Age.”
This bottleneck is both outward–a man-made global ecological crisis; and Inward–a blockage and deadening of the capacity to feel, care and grow as human beings.
For example, as Americans have demonstrated during the pandemic, half the people are so self-centered and stunted they don’t care whether their own community members get Covid-19 and die. In a society and world like this, what is the alternative to ‘numbing out?’
The consciousness humans have known since the Cognitive Revolution took place is based on thought, which is to say on symbol, memory, association and reasoning.
That consciousness is essentially separative, divisive, fragmentary and accumulative. Darkness/evil is its by-product, and leaders who are “immoral, amoral sociopathic liars who function from a core of insecure malignant narcissism” are logical ends.
Liberals might ask: What about Indigenous peoples? Didn’t they live in harmony with nature?
Setting aside the fact that when people lived in nature they had no choice but to live in harmony with nature, the integrated beliefs, rituals and social structures of indigenous peoples reflect a continual concern with maintaining balance with the natural order. Indigenous people would not have had that concern if humans were ‘naturally’ an integrated species.
More to the point, with very few exceptions, humans do not live in the wilderness anymore, both because there is very little wilderness left, and because contact with the modern world brings with it the technologies and pathologies of the modern world. What’s left is a valiant attempt by a dwindling minority of indigenous people to preserve the old languages, traditions and customs of the indigenous past.
The pluralistic delusion is that diversity still exists within and between cultures and peoples, and that, as one activist said to me recently, “There are many beacons of light, even in America.”
The naïve hope is that somehow at some point in the foreseeable or distant future the forces of light will defeat the forces of darkness, and that humans will once again live in harmony with the Earth and each other. But if our written and evolutionary history is any indication, such a time never existed.
It turns out that so-called mystical experiencing, which flows from direct, unmediated perception of what is, is the way out of the ecological, spiritual and social bottleneck produced by our species. (God does have a sense of humor!)
That means enough humans have to make the leap from symbol-based consciousness to consciousness based on direct perception and insight, or man will continue to destroy the Earth, and humanity.
The U.S. is the nation with the highest number of covid-19 cases and deaths, at 7,896,895 and 216,073 respectively. There are 40,000 new cases every day. Because of this, travelling there is generally avoided at this time. Still, some have urgent business to attend to there and must find a way.
Such was the case of one man who had to fly to the east coast and then get to the middle of the country. He had many questions.
Should I go?
Is it necessary?
Can I go?
Will I have to quarantine each time I cross state lines?
Where are the mandatory quarantines?
Will I be able to get a direct flight to a small town?
Can I circulate through airports to a connecting flight without quarantining?
What are the new restrictions on flights?
How risky is it to be in a closed plane with someone who might have covid?
His experience was that, as in most buildings in Costa Rica, the airport required masks and there were people taking temperatures at the entrance. Once inside, things looked normal except that there were fewer people and there were markings on the floor and seats to remind passengers to leave space between them when on line or in waiting areas.
Masks were even required on the plane except when eating or drinking. Arriving in New Jersey, the man noticed a lack of people monitoring symptoms. This was because they use cameras that are sensitive to body heat.
In the U.S., the use of masks and requirements about where to use them vary from state to state and are generally not enforced. The Government seems to rely on people choosing to do the right thing. Some do not. In some states masks are used even outside and in other states they are worn more as a fashion statement than a means of protection, leaving the nose uncovered.
Flying between New Jersey and Missouri would be possible but would leave a paper trail that led to mandatory quarantine so the man opted to get there by road trip, as quarantine rules don’t apply the same to car travel as to air travel.
To get back into Costa Rica, he would need a PCP test but that’s not a problem because they are widely available, free, and fast.
The traveler noted that the effect of covid is seen and felt more in Costa Rica than in the United States and is not as marked or obvious in the States where it seems that life goes on as normal for the most part.
An alert from the Ministry of Health warns us not to drink “Fiesta Blanca” guaro, as it has taken the life of a young father, seven others, and made many more critically sick. This is because methanol, extremely toxic, was in it.
While the company that makes it has a sanitary permit, it is still unclear whether the original or falsified version has methanol. In any case, it is nearly impossible to tell the difference, so even bottles thought to be original must be avoided.
Additionally, there are alerts for risk of alcohol with methanol for the following: Chonete, Cuerazo, Sacheto, Gran Apache, Estrella Roja, Montano, Barón Rojo, Timbuka, Molotov, Perla Gris, Bombillo, and Kosako.
These must not be sold or enjoyed. Information about any store selling them should be reported to 9-1-1 for public safety. If you have ingested any of these you should go to an emergency room at once, before severe symptoms.
Steven Álvarez Castillo had Fiesta Blanco on Saturday and lost his life two days later, at just 23-years-old, leaving behind a distraught mother.
He began to feel sick the morning after consuming the product and overslept. He arrived at work late, was sleepy, and had an altered pulse. He was not himself. Normally a great employee of the hair salon, he was late and he even cut someone when trimming a beard. This never happened before. He was ordinarily responsible and attentive. He went home early because he was feeling unwell.
Then more serious effects began to take a toll on his body. He had terrible stomach pain and couldn’t stop vomiting. He was faint and couldn’t get up the next morning. He couldn’t see. He stopped responding and his eyes were moving in a strange way. He was taken to Hospital Mexico. His vital signs were very low. Doctors did all they could but he passed at around 7 pm.
The bottle he drank from was handed over to the authorities and they tested the drops left and discovered methanol.
Others in the same community got sick with similar symptoms starting on Monday. Seven others died from the same cause. 11 others, including friends of Steven, are hospitalized in delicate condition.
This may be an all nighter. The caller is a Medical Doctor / Brain Specialist. Experiencing poltergeist / demonic activity. Constant knocking on his door at his office and his home. The occupant is constantly being scratched and the entity’s scratches are in 3s -disrespect for the Trinity. Recently received a scratch mark that went straight down his back. We will be investigating both places, office and home. Address to be at, his office: Lodi, CA. Fictional Name of Client: Fred Johnson. Fred does not want to be on camera, and does not want to be identified as a doctor. HPI Case Number: 5U30P751M9604. Special Note: The client only allowed us to investigate his office and not his home. We gathered enough evidence, in which he was satisfied and it did not require an all-nighter.
HPI PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS ROLL CALL
Deanna Jaxine Stinson – Psychic Medium, Financial Officer, HPI Co-Owner; Paul Dale Roberts – HPI Co-Owner; Master JM Isidro Jr; Brandon Smith; Kathy Smith; Nick Asevedo; Jo Jo Asevedo; Justin Cortez; Jason Wilkerson.
INITIAL BRIEFING:
The Professor briefs all of the paranormal investigators in the parking lot. He tells us that things started happening in Vallejo. Those things are paranormal activity. The entities may have followed him here to Lodi. The first incident was a loud 3 knocks at his back office door and when he opened the door, no one was there. More knocking started happening and again, no one is ever there. Objects move about in the office. The Professor, a very intelligent man who went to prestigious schools has now became nervous and decided it was time to call HPI.
Red Phantom Chaser
THE INVESTIGATION:
We had two teams. One team was called “The Outsiders” and the other team was called “Team Double Dutch”. We had two investigative sessions, one outside and one inside and then on the 2nd round, they would switch areas. Nick and JoJo Asevedo acquired all sorts of EVPs that sounded like unearthly growling or howling. Many times the ghost radar was going crazy and names were being thrown out on our ghost devices. We captured a CLASS A EVP outside, where Deanna detected an entity. The EVP was 3 words and the voice was of a little girl and there was no little girl with us during the investigation. You can hear the EVP at one of the video clips in this article. When an investigator asked on his recorder, is anyone here and we get a background voice saying…”we’re all here!” EVP. Jason felt an entity brushing up against his skin and hair. The first round of our investigation, we gathered all kinds of evidence. The 2nd round, the entities must have pooped out and the evidence was insignificant. Deanna picked up on entities across the street, so I went over to the building across the street and the lights in the building started blinking off and on and I captured one EVP in which was a small whisper. The ghost detector was throwing out names like Nancy and a few other names.
THE CLEANSING:
Deanna conducted a metaphysical cleansing with the help of Master JM Isidro Jr. I conducted a Roman Catholic Office Blessing. Let’s just hope the entities are gone. The Professor was saddened that we captured an EVP of a lost girl spirit and he hopes she will find her way to heaven. The Professor says the girl sounded like she could be 5 years old. Listen to the EVP and you be the judge. Special Note: The Professor is associated with one of the scientists on The Entity case. To learn more about the Entity case, see here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity
