Before going to bed the night of the election with a foreboding that Trump had won again, I listened to the “Largo” movement of Dvorak’s “New World” symphony. And wept.
Antonin Dvorak was a Czech composer in the 19th century. During the time “From the New World” was composed, he was working as musical director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. The symphony premiered with great anticipation on December 13, 1893, by the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.
The anticipation, which was such that Carnegie Hall had to install a significant amount of seating to meet the demand, was fueled by public comments Dvorak made months earlier. As reported at the time, he said, “the core of an American sound could be found in Native American communities and African-American spirituals, and it was these sensibilities he brought to his new composition.”
Given how the election turned out, especially how during his victory speech Joe Biden literally pounded the lectern while thanking the African-American community for supporting him, and then explicitly referred to the plight of Native Americans, my choice of music on election night was very apropos.
Listening to the “Largo” movement, you can hear the mournful echoes of innumerable Africans torn from their lands and families to become property, slaves of even the author of the Declaration of Independence (“all men are created equal”), Thomas Jefferson.
You can also hear strains of sorrow of the indigenous people that the waves of European settlers, fulfillers of “Manifest Destiny,” had conquered, displaced, assimilated or exterminated.
There are even echoes of the sadness of millions of immigrants, after leaving the Old World for the opportunities and possibilities of the New World, knowing they would never see their parents, siblings and homelands again. Dvorak had waded into deep rivers of sorrow indeed.
The first soaring notes of joy in the New World symphony aren’t heard until eight and half minutes in, and then only last for a minute before returning to the ache of wrongs never sufficiently righted, and sorrows never fully felt.
Is the joy and celebration of the apparent ending of the 21st century’s political manifestation of hate and malevolence premature? Almost certainly, but for a day at least, one shared them, as did the rest of the world.
Why is America still the hope of the world? Because there are no more new worlds to inhabit, Elon Musk’s creepy obsession with colonizing Mars notwithstanding.
The hyperbolic rhetoric by the commentariat about how America has resumed its “vital role as lodestar for the world” rings hollow. There is too much internal healing needed for the United States to resume being a beacon for the world. We have to now learn how to be a light for ourselves.
The tendency will be to become inward turning in the negative sense of the phrase—to think first and last about our own nation and locality. That propensity is strong on both the right and the left.
The right embraces a crude nationalism, waving symbols of division from the backs of pick-up trucks, totems of belonging to their version of the tribe.
The left advocates a ‘diversity’ of identities, promoting the ideology of localism, believing that if people disaggregate into the smallest possible units of communities and return to a Rousseauian ideal of ethnic tribalism, the Earth will eventually heal and humanity will magically be whole.
The ecological and evolutionary crisis of human consciousness is too urgent for any ideology of a return to the past, either a white nationalist past or an ethnic identity past. They only feed and intensify human fragmentation, disorder and destructiveness.
An hour before a dialogue I had with a group of people from Central and South America, as well as North America and Europe, Biden was declared president-elect. More than half of Americans, and most people abroad, immediately felt an enormous sense of relief.
One of the people in the zoom dialogue, a Dutch fellow based in Frankfurt, told of reading letters between Claude Eatherly, the tormented pilot of the Enola Gay that gave the all-clear for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, and the German philosopher Gunther Anders.
As the description of the book, “Burning Conscience: The Case of the Hiroshima Pilot Claude Eatherly,” says: “Over the course of some 71 letters, Anders and Eatherly struggled with the problem of taking moral responsibility in a time when ethics were the last thing most people seemed to want to discuss.”
Anders came to the conclusion that our cognitive abilities as humans had outstripped our spiritual and emotional capacity to understand what we are doing.
Emotional perception has nothing to do with indulging one’s emotions, nor is it the same thing as “emotional intelligence.” Emotional perception is insight, and insight and action are one.
Martin LeFevre
Dvorak’s “From the New World” Symphony, “Largo” movement:
1,872 people are in shelters, after Cyclone Eta damages 60 cantons in Costa Rica. The tropical storm is responsible for a rupture of a dam that protects Ciudad Neily. Experts hope that this weekend the storm will come to an end.
Effects of Eta were felt from Sunday to Friday. By Friday, the rainfall had decreased, but the National Emergency Commission explained that the effects of the storm are just starting to emerge in dozens of communities.
57,474 subscribers suffered from power cuts in recent days. 5,322 of them are still waiting for power to be restored.
Water supply has been a problem near Buenos Aires, because rains washed away the pipes.
Homes have been flooded and destroyed leaving 1,872 people in 59 shelters in various locations throughout the country.
26 points on roads have been closed, mainly due to fallen materials. On the South Inter-American Highway, there are seven points with total closure. On Route 237, a section of the highway completely disappeared.
Those in at-risk areas are urged to call 9-1-1 in case of emergency and transfer to temporary accommodation if needed.
Although the Prosecutor’s Office appeals to request to suspend the sanitary vehicle restriction, for now, it continues. Drivers are urged to respect all traffic laws, including restrictions, in order to avoid sanctions.
The Minister of Communication refutes the affirmation of a judge of the Contentious Administrative Court, who had said that the sanitary vehicle restriction is not effective against the spread of covid-19.
The minister’s point of view is that “Scientific and epidemiological matters are better handled by epidemiologists than people from other professions who are not experts in health, or much less in epidemiology.”
He deeply disagrees with the judge and states that there are a series of international scientific studies demonstrating the importance of the sanitary vehicle restriction as a tool to reduce the levels of contagion.
The other side of the argument is that vehicle restriction actually creates more contact with infected people because it forces us to conglomerate on shared transport like public buses and taxis where appropriate social distancing is nearly impossible.
Because of the popularity of jewelry, it is natural to assume that there would be many specialized versions of it’s category. Even for containing the jewelry- or even for spirits themselves. Jewelry is made to be ornamental, so therefore can dress up your body and spirit as well. In fact, anything with ornate details can be regarded as jewelry itself, as anything divine is usually crafted with gold, silver and copper metals and the most beautiful gemstones one could hope to find.
Below, I have compiled a short list of modern objects fastened to our culture’s myths in the western world today. These items have derived from long ago and are the most sacred forms of new age belief and philosophy that exist today and they must be mentioned and treated with grace because of the fragile nature of their metamorphosis. Jewelry has a very important power over us and it’s important to understand and take hold of it instead of disregarding the true magic of Earth, which it holds.
By all means, I am sure we can blend the spirit world with many different elements in our fashion, design, technology and more, to serve higher purpose and form, but the truth is still undiscovered when it comes to everything that exists in the spiritual realms. Please take a good look at these objects and remember their blessing and energy next time you come across them as they will speak to our heritage and resonance of a nonphysical existence on another plane- to which we can one day travel together.
Chests
Chests are deeply regarded in history as safe places to guard what we hold precious, not only as individuals, but as a whole society as well. For example, the Ark of the Covenant, built by the Israelites is an ornate chest which was commanded to be built by their God, in order to establish a sentimental place & feeling for us to leave our own sins and burdens behind. One would imagine laying them out before God, as the vast space inhibited between both worlds, separated by the most holy and precious objects, stones, gems and metals available, which would span the distance and ages in between (like a bridge in time) metaphorically to reach him.
Probably the most common reason for the use of boxes in all forms was for storage and safe keeping. Anything with four sides and a lid can become a box, for a chest- it should be hinged. Chests are most typically made of wood, but special exceptions are made for religious ceremonies, anniversary celebrations and more. A chest is to be filled with spiritual energy and in turn it would be transformed into a blessing that would be bestowed in the future as an act of karma and decision, sent through the divide. The most delicate finishing and design were meant for the purest and lightest of requests, while those built thick and sturdy were made to carry only Earthly holdings, such as foods, weapons and other stock.
Pet Collars
Pet collars have been used since at least the receptions of the Egyptian pharaohs, dating back to at least the reigning of Ancient Mesopotamia, thousands of years ago in the BCE eras. The collars are worn around the animal’s neck and were used for many purposes. One such reason was to keep one’s dog (or other pet) safe and close. Although, generally they would be made of typical jewelry material and temporarily connected to a leash by a clip or other such attachment. Spikes and points were also gradually introduced into European cultures- in order to ward away dangerous wild predators of the area- such as wolves.
In fact, most pet collars are made for protection- even nowadays, where they are fashioned to ward away parasites, being lost (by engraving information) and to light up at night. Collars change in design depending on their purpose. They can be made of almost anything solid and malleable. Because dog’s were considered to be the spiritual guardians of the household- they are often depicted in ancient art walking alongside of Inanna- the legendary goddess of love and war in the original folklore, wearing leashes and collars.
Jewelry Casket
Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box used for jewelry, the word “casket” in this formulation, began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker’s trade. A casket or jewelry box, by definition- is a container that is usually smaller than a chest, and in the past were typically extravagantly decorated to represent abundance and subconscious formulation of expression of our unaddressed mortality.
The association with the dead is another example of the unyielding favoritism for acquiring jewelry which will last for centuries and most likely eternity, if the energy is interwoven correctly. One can collect pieces of time within these objects and they will hold value throughout Earth and the Heavens- maybe even the whole universe as well. The jewelry will remain with us through lifetimes and may come back to you, in essence or dream if treated properly.
Sigil
A sigil is known as a seal, sign or symbol which can ward away evil and curses. It can also be invoked in order to bring the magician the spiritual energy they request, information and authority, in order to heal and renew their spirits. It has become common to inscribe these sigils on pieces of stones, jewelry and anywhere you can imagine really to guide unwavering destruction departed from us before we knew what we did.
They hold a lot of spiritual power which one can access when they are in need of a boost of positivity and love. In regards to being used as a seal, they can also contain extreme chaos- by preventing the acceptance of negative attachment, restless spirits and even demons themselves- as the power of belief is known to be the strongest ability to have to overcome anything as it strengthens our faith and desire, leading us to gradually focus and connect with the other world in love and passion.
Sigils have been found dating far back to these times as well, with numerous gods and goddesses, such as Ishtar- Queen of Heaven, who is often shown with a lion in front of her, wearing a collar for divine protection and her honor. Lions in this sense represent her mightiness and they were both regarded as royal heros, companions who would detest the impure and fallible nature of mankind. If only for the ability to be tamed by the God’s themselves in acts of high intelligence, noble fate and cleverness to carry out their plans and lay the foundations of a moving, living kingdom. (Originally- she was known in other places as Inanna).
Prayer Box Necklace
Prayer box necklaces are like id tags for the God’s. They contain religious information for communication and spiritual programming. You can access other realms, worlds and portals with them as you pray- which will summon up the spirits who relay the messages back and forth between the worlds of logic, solitude and unreasonable requests of the supernatural, outside the gates of our worlds. For assistance, one can typically beg to be noticed by the God’s, but there is no such guarantee and so most are made with substances to invoke the presence of the immortals, where one lacks the righteousness and recognition to attract them themselves.
A Tibetian Gau necklace is an example of one of these pendants, which is also known as an amulet, meant to guard the wearer from others and contains polished stones and corals for godly reception. You can contain your guardian spirit in one, as the voice of your heart and mind. They can bring powerful visions and premonitions, especially when immersed in water and allow us to transport from where we are to impossible places on our spiritual journies and path’s, where we let our true purpose and being unfold with vulnerability and praise of beauty in an indulgent restoration and reception of heart.
5 Out of the Ordinary Jewelry Objects
In fact, putting emotion into jewels, rare objects and out of the ordinary seems to be the basis for gathering luck and warding off death in all it’s dooming choices as we rise above our moralities with the help of the hands of the God’s- our ancestors and the dead. Our folklore carries on through legacies of people and name ships- which reintroduce the practical cosmic ideas which we have already inside of us and mirror the reflection of our creators intentions as well.
One can trap their hopes and desires in here and will that they purify us. From beyond ourselves to the eternal existence of life most incredible acts of love transcends limitless possibilities & dimensions made to be released from the abyss of the depths of tragic human circumstances and doom. Spirit’s love boxes and can easily fold to the circumferences of our divinity- through space and time in order to manipulate our memory for the greater good and empower us, so that we are not attacked for our weakness and made to fall apart at the sight of unwavering corruption and that the objects are also a reminder of the solid structure of everything.
In conclusion, these 5 out of the ordinary objects are uncommon devices which are at our disposal today. We can ask for the assistance of our ancestors, bodies of movement and the holy divine. Because the God’s and angels are made of the most holy light of God- they cannot refuse in their purity to comfort the sick and dying- this being in an ethereal sense and the way it impacts us for generations, lifetimes to come and the pain it may forever mark us with is reason. It is lifted up by the enlightenment in spirit of ourselves and how we effect those around us, who are like pillars of height and direction to enforce matter for which God can stand upon with us.
The objects we use to ascend and leave this world to travel onto higher realms of consciousness span the horizon of possibility and are brought back around again, until the cycle eventually overflows within and outside of us like a full moon- breaking light into extraordinary fractions and reasons, sharing this state of being to all- in forgiveness, repentance, realization and release. Also, knowing that each time, we go through difficulties with one another, we reach away from our highest selves and instinctively go to the chaos from where it has came in fear- (which we regret) until it reaches the direct location of force itself, flooding over what we had done which broke us down so that God had to release our burdens from us and turn them like a wheel, into nothing again and we could find peace in our salvation.
The first three cultivars of industrial hemp are now in Costa Rica, at experimental stations in Cañas and Guápiles, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) has started an evaluation about it’s growth and potential.
This marks the first authorized planting of industrial hemp in Costa Rica. Observations will be made regarding the adaptation of the plant to climate, precipitation and hours of sunshine, with the first results available in about six months.
The trial uses two zones to determine differences in the plant’s behavior under various conditions. Both are in experimental stations, in Guanacaste and the Caribbean, but one is in a greenhouse and the other outdoors.
All permits to grow the plants have been managed, however, there is still no law outlining the development of this activity. While industrial hemp is of the Cannabis family, as is marijuana, the production of the psychoactive component THC is very different. All parts of the plant can be used to make food supplements, topical solutions, bioplastics, sustainable construction materials, soaps, lotions, and clothing.
The men who murdered model Isamara Villalta, her boyfriend, and her brother, and threw their bodies in the river, in 2017, were given the maximum prison sentence, 80 years, by the Alajuela Criminal Court.
One of them was an officer of the Public Force and the other an active official of the delegation. They belonged to a criminal organization which devised a plan to steal money from the model’s boyfriend. They dressed as police and intercepted the car in which the victims were travelling. Under intimidation, they forced them to call someone to deliver a safe. After receiving the money, they murdered the three victims.
The mastermind behind the plan was assassinated, three months after the triple homicide. Another suspect was acquitted and yet another sentenced to 65-years in prison. The sentences can still be appealed but all three men are being held in preventive detention. Although sentences of 80 and 65 years were achieved, the law establishes that the maximum a convicted person can stay in prison is 50 years.
The father of the murdered model is satisfied that they have to pay for their crime yet dissatisfied by the fact that nothing can give him back his daughter.
Usually, an encounter with a wild animal, even in town, isn’t given a second thought. But encounters with animals in a meditative state (which essentially means a spontaneous state of inward stillness) ripple with meaning beyond words.
After sitting for an hour at the edge of town, with a smoggy view of the canyon and foothills, and the stones of the dry creek bed at my feet (the rains haven’t begun in California yet), the chatter and associations of thought give way to silence and responsiveness.
Since one doesn’t have a goal of quieting the mind, and effort and concentration have nothing to do with meditation, what compels one to sit for an hour?
Yesterday in the park alongside the creek that flows through town (which thankfully flows year around), a young fellow was frenetically piling stones on stones about 200 meters downstream. Shirtless in the last hour of sunlight on an unseasonably warm day, his energy was prodigious.
It was as if he was racing against the end of summer, which hangs on even as the leaves begin to turn in California, until the rains return (hopefully) in a couple weeks. There’s no debate about climate change in this state, as the dry season gets longer and hotter every year.
At first the plunk and thud of rocks hitting rocks in the water was annoying, but watching my reactions, the sound became simply factual. Then I was curious. Why do people find it so hard to sit still?
Even after decades of meditating in nature, I sometimes feel restless, with an itch to do something, though I don’t get the urge to pile rocks on each other and build a makeshift dam like some human beaver.
Listening without judgment to the young man wasting his energy and time piling stones in the stream, I saw that we’re all prisoners laboring in the quarry of thought. It’s just that a few of us realize it, and are disturbed by the fact.
Meditation is freedom from this unseen prison, at least for some timeless interval.
It isn’t a goal of the mind but a drive of the heart.
One doesn’t think, “I must focus on my breath, and on quieting the mind;” one simply enjoys watching the play of light and shadow on the water and leaves, and delights in hearing the rippling current, and the sounds of the jays, hawks and ducks.
Even the sounds that humans make are interesting and enjoyable to listen to—as long as it isn’t an infernal leaf blower or people fighting.
Today, taking the loop back on the bike from the bone-dry creek along the edge of town, an eagle took off from the top of a lamp pole as I approached, spreading its massive wings. I squeezed the breaks and slowed to a crawl. The eagle circled around me, shocking the mind and heart with its grandeur.
Meditation is not a positive movement, but a negational one. It springs from passive watchfulness, which ends the observer, the ancient root of psychological separation.
It deepens with attention gathering unseen, and dissolving the dense ‘me’ that forms the gravitational center of thought and from which ‘my thoughts’ seem to arise. There are just conditioned thoughts; there is no ‘me’ in actuality.
Allowing awareness to grow quicker than thought, the mind falls silent, and time, which is the continuity of thought, ceases.
There is no time in nature; there’s only unfolding and ending, death and birth. That movement is within one when thought folds its wings and is completely silent within one.
As meditation deepens, one unexpectedly leaves the stream of the known and enters the house of death, which, as strange as it may sound, is synonymous with creation, love and perpetual beginning.
Make no effort to meditate, and follow no system, method or technique. Simply watch every thought and emotion as they arise, like you watch leaves passing by on a stream. The very act of passively watching quickens awareness, gathers attention, and ends the flow of detritus, which is the past.
Each person has to do his or her own inner spadework. No one can do it for us.
Solitude and sociality rightly exist in balance, different for each person.
Solitude is primary however, since all that is true and good flows from it, not from the group, much less the herd or the mob.
On the eve of the most consequential election in US history, what is the significance of the American election to the human prospect?
As difficult as it is to conceive, would it be better for humanity if America’s current malignant, malevolent administration continues, or would a return to some semblance of decency and fairness be better for all people, not just Americans?
The answer may seem obvious, but as with all true questions, there is no answer. We can only allow valid questions to seep into the mind and heart.
Before taking up this painful question however, we have to address the problem of evil and power.
Normally, in the course of human events, evil (which is man-made rather than supernaturally overlaid) exists as an undercurrent. It erupts and is expressed in many different ways, most visibly through acts of mass murder by individuals, such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Also by the depraved indifference of corporations or presidents, such as Big Pharma pushing doctors to prescribe opioids, or the malign neglect of an administration that’s allowed more twice as many people to die from Covid-19 as would have died with competent leadership.
There are times in human history when the intentional, collective darkness in human consciousness so permeates a people that it leaches up and seizes the levers of power. The 20th century examples of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin are obvious examples.
Though it’s still denied by the vast majority on the right and the left, the loss of “the soul of America” is precisely what has happened to the people. That enabled a narcissistic, amoral man to tap into the long-neglected darkness in the American psyche, giving expression and catalyzing it.
Denial and hope still rule even the most decent-minded political and ‘thought leaders.’ For example, Leon Panetta, the former Obama defense secretary, said recently, “The only pillar of our democracy I haven’t wavered on is our sense of trust in the American people.” Really, given Trump’s hard-core 40% mob base, plus another 40% of zombie Democrats?
I don’t mean to imply that there’s an equivalency; the rally habitués on the right are proud of their projections, and have made a science of hatefully “triggering the libs.” Even so, “polarization” is an empty catchall, and demonization occurs on both sides.
Since the post-World War II international order has fallen onto the ash heap of history, the centrality of American leadership, such as it was, is moot. The issue is the difficulty of facing, understanding and meeting the darkness in human consciousness. Which, in the beginning and the end, is within us.
At a fundamental level, there is no adequate philosophy of evil that has explanatory and therapeutic power. This is the kind of thing that passes for it in the MSM:
“When a toxic political idea is turned into a literal demon in a horror movie, the audience can imagine slaying it and escaping from its gory reign of terror… Horror is a call to action. It’s time to slay some monsters.”
As organized religion on one hand, and the Enlightenment ideal of reason on the other have eroded beyond repair, the conspiracy-mindset has taken root in the putrid soil of the rapidly decaying Western order.
Asia is hardly exempt, since man’s ecological crisis is global, as is the crisis of human consciousness itself.
I’ve been amazed at how many people around the world are taking a “wait and see” attitude toward the outcome of the American election. Especially since Pax Americana is already history.
To my mind, where this election is concerned, it comes down to this. If a breakthrough in human consciousness is imminent, then the last strut needs to be kicked out of the old order, so that a true global order can begin to emerge.
But if a breakthrough in human consciousness is not imminent, then the best we can do is hope for a return to decency and muddling through. Of course muddling through won’t be good enough, since the climate is collapsing and man is decimating the Earth.
What is required is an insight explosion in a sufficient minority of people worldwide to change the basic course of humankind.
That has never happened before, not since the emergence of so-called civilization, and not since the Cognitive Revolution ushered in “fully modern humans” some 70 millennia ago.
One thing is for sure—the entire Enlightenment project of evidence-driven reality is a bucket with a hundred holes that can’t be plugged. It’s high time to find a new container.
We’ve previously seen “Black Friday” become “Black Month” and now it’s further morphed into “Early Black Month,” starting at the end of October. Stores are trying to stay above water, competing to offer more promotions.
Stores in Costa Rica and globally have been closed due to the covid-19 pandemic for months. This leaves them with excessive products and desperation to sell. Businesses must reduce inventories.
The current situation led to a change in shopping behaviors. Many now shop online. This will likely last long after covid. E-commerce is part of our new way of life. Correos de Costa Rica expects a 50% increase in clothing, footwear, technology, and telephone accessory packages.
Forever 21 has a section on it’s website called “All Special Offers,” with 14 promotions. Amazon launched special holiday deals. Walmart announced three Black Friday sales events. The marketing manager for JetBox noted that there have been much more aggressive online store promotions due to the pandemic.
Deputies have approved, with 43 votes in favor and none against, a bill to reduce the tax on vehicle ownership to vehicles whose fiscal value is less than ₡15 million.
Vehicles with a value of up to ₡7 million will pay 50% of the vehicle tax. Those valued between ₡7 million and ₡10 million will get a 25% discount and those valued between ₡10 million and ₡15 million will get a discount of 15%.
This, unfortunately, leaves a gap of at least ₡50,000 million in income that the Government had expected to use to cover end-of-year expenses, like Christmas bonuses for public officials.
This is a gap of almost 0.15% of the GDP. The 2020 budget reflects a deficit of over 11% of the GDP, a historical figure that is bringing us closer to an economic crisis.
The first and second photos are of Deanna Jaxine Stinson, Psychic Medium. 3rd drawing is Captain America crossover with Wishfire aka Deanna Jaxine Stinson – drawn by Richard Vasseur.
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Pop star Miley Cyrus claims she was once chased by a UFO and made eye contact with an alien being that was aboard the craft. She revealed the wild tale during a conversation with designer Rick Owens in a recently published article for Interview Magazine. Asked if she believes in extraterrestrials, Cyrus replied “I had an experience, actually. I was driving through San Bernardino with my friend, and I got chased down by some sort of UFO.” In recounting the sighting, she likened the craft to “a flying snowplow” wherein “it had this big plow in the front of it and was glowing yellow.”
Cyrus went on to indicate that her unnamed friend also saw the UFO and that “there were a couple of other cars on the road and they also stopped to look, so I think what I saw was real.” Reflecting on the experience, the pop star said that she was deeply shaken by the event for days afterward and “I couldn’t really look at the sky the same. I thought they might come back.” As if her story was not strange enough, Cyrus indicated that the initial sighting itself did not feel particularly threatening until she looked over and saw a being seemingly piloting the craft.
“It looked at me and we made eye contact,” she recalled, “and I think that’s what really shook me, looking into the eyes of something that I couldn’t quite wrap my head around.” Cyrus is the second pop star to make UFO-related news this week after Demi Lovato shared a video of an unidentified craft on her Instagram page and claimed that she is able to contact ETs via meditation. Special Note: Demi spotted her UFO at Joshua Tree with her friends and Dr. Steven Greer. The two musicians’ willingness to talk about their experiences is rather indicative of how the phenomenon has become a significant part of the zeitgeist in recent years.
SPECIAL NOTE FROM PAUL:
UFOs have been seen all over the Los Angeles Greater Area, so to hear a report from San Bernardino, California is no surprise. Supposedly, there is an underground UFO base off Catalina Island. UFOs have been seen by many witnesses coming out of the water near Catalina Island and going into the water. Reptilian aliens have been seen by many witnesses in the sewer systems of Los Angeles. Tommy Stokes of San Bernardino says that he has lived in San Bernardino all his life and has witnessed up to 23 UFOs on several different occasions. He has seen cigar shaped UFOs, classic disc shaped UFOs and 2 globe shaped UFOs. On one particular night he encountered a small disc shaped UFO the size of a small house pass overhead. The UFO then came back and shined a bluish spotlight on him. The light remained on Tommy for about 2 minutes. Then the light did something odd. The light bent around as if it was looking at something from the back end. The light also stopped midair. The light did not shine all the way through, it stopped mid-air, like a Star Wars light saber, the light does not project out endlessly, it stops mid-air. After the light bent around, it went back into the disc and the disc flew away at a high speed. Tommy would not be surprised to know that Miley Cyrus saw a UFO. Besides all of the UFOs that are seen around Los Angeles and especially Joshua Tree, let’s not forget the Battle of Los Angeles, in which the military engaged with a possible UFO. And if you want to see a UFO at Joshua Tree, then check out this video: www.amazon.com/vdp/587ca11280f84509ba863d3e067875b1 – Many UFO sightseers flock out with Dr. Greer to Joshua Tree to see the many UFOs that gravitate to this intriguing desert area.
Now, let’s step away from popstars seeing UFOs and let’s get some chills with Melon Heads in Michigan and in Ohio, see below:
MELON HEADS
The melon heads of Michigan are said to reside around Felt Mansion, although they have also been reportedly seen in southern forested areas of Ottawa County. According to one story, they were originally children with hydrocephalus who lived at the Junction Insane Asylum near Felt Mansion. The story explains that, after enduring physical and emotional abuse, they became feral and were released into the forests surrounding the asylum. The Allegan County Historical Society asserts that the asylum never existed, although it was at one point a prison; however, the story has been part of the local folklore for several decades. Laketown Township Manager Al Meshkin told the Holland Sentinel that he had heard the tales as a teenager, noting that his friends referred to the beings as “wobbleheads”. Some versions of the legend say that the children once lived in the mansion itself but later retreated to a system of caverns (or caves in a nearby hill left over from an abandoned zoo). Some versions of this legend say that the children devised a plan to escape and kill the doctor that abused them. It is said that the children had no place to hide the body, so they cut it up in small pieces which they hid around the mansion. Rumors exist that teenagers who had broken into the mansion saw ghosts of the children and claimed to see shadows of the doctor’s murder through the light coming from an open door. The legend has spread throughout the region, even becoming the subject of a 2011 film simply titled The Melonheads, which is based around the West Michigan legend.
Legend in Ohio
The melon head stories of Ohio are primarily associated with the Cleveland suburb of Kirtland. According to local lore, the melon heads were originally orphans under the watch of a mysterious figure known as Dr. Crow (sometimes spelled Crowe, Krohe or Kroh or known as Dr. Melonhead. Crow is said to have performed unusual experiments on the children, who developed large, hairless heads and malformed bodies. Some accounts claim that the children were already suffering from hydrocephalus and that Crow injected even more fluid into their brains.
Eventually, the legend continues, the children killed Crow, burned the orphanage, and retreated to the surrounding forests and supposedly feed on babies. Legend holds that the melon heads may be sighted along Wisner Road in Kirtland, and Chardon Township. The melon head legend has been popularized on the Internet, particularly on the websites Creepy Cleveland and DeadOhio, where users offer their own versions of the story. A movie, “Legend of the Melonheads”, released in 2010, is based on the Ohio legend and various other legends in the Kirtland area.
SPECIAL NOTE FROM PAUL:
An interesting twist to the Melon Head story is that Stephen Hathrow from Michigan says that he was chased, along with his two camping friends by a so-called Melon Head. The Melon Head had a large melon shaped head, that reminded Stephen of a big white honey dew melon. The Melon Head was 3 ½ feet tall, thin arms and hands, thin legs. The Melon Head seemed at times to glide and float. Stephen was not able to make out any facial features. As the Melon Head chased Stephen and his friends, it came upon a deer. The deer was frozen in its tracks and the Melon Head touched its snout. The deer then collapsed. The Melon Head then seemed preoccupied with the deer and no longer was chasing Stephen and his friends. About 30 minutes later Stephen and his friends saw a small triangular shaped UFO hovering in the sky and then zip away. Could Melon Heads actually be extraterrestrial humanoids that now have a bad reputation as being fugitives from a mental ward? Special Note: Stephen Hathrow mentioned that his Melon Head incident occurred at Isle Royale National Park.
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An internal audit found emails in which a Logistics Manager requests that a supplier of masks make an advanced payment of a sanction for a delay in delivering five million masks. An intimidating phone call about the issue was also reported.
The CCSS assures that this is against protocol and is not an endorsed procedure. Therefore, it asks the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate.
It was on May 27 that MR Political Communications won the emergency contract for $1.9 million to supply masks for the protection of health personnel. The masks were to enter the CCSS warehouses the first week of June. None have been delivered, to date.
The CCSS never collects fines in advance. The procedure is to deduct fines from future payments. The supplier never sends payment of fines. In the event of delays by a contractor, public entities can charge fines per day up to a maximum of 25% of the total value of the contract.
Six officials face administrative investigations in regards to this issue, which is in the hands of the Public Ministry.
Eleven people died in Costa Rica, from 2006 to 2015, from causes related to cosmetic surgeries. One case is still in court. On this October 12, a 27-year-old teacher, mother, and sister lost her life at a clinic not equipped to revive her.
Because of blockades in recent days, she decided to have the procedure at a place close to home that a friend had gone to. It was in an ordinary house in which they created a room for operations. The doctor is listed as a general surgeon in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Costa Rica.
The woman’s sister dropped her and the friend off and went to get her car washed with plans to return in two hours. After an hour she had a bad feeling and returned to the clinic to find her sister convulsing.
The friend reported hearing the patient yell “Oh, it hurts!” She didn’t undergo the procedure because the complication happened at the very beginning. When the sister arrived she heard the friend saying “You can do it Arelys, you have to fight, you cannot die.” 9-1-1 hadn’t yet been called. Everyone was running. There was no anesthesiologist or specialist. There was not even oxygen. There was nothing with which to resuscitate or intubate her.
She was in pain and agony for two more hours until the ambulance finally arrived. By then, she had almost no signs of life. She was given oxygen and taken to the hospital but she died after attempts to revive her.
App development is a must in today’s mobile innovative business environment. From social media to ecommerce, there are applications for nearly every use case. Many companies are relying on remote DevOps teams to fill the skills gap when it comes to app development and deployment. Which means you need to have your processes in order for a successful launch.
For instance, utilizing Docker container files and a Docker registry can streamline a number of application development and deployment processes for your remote DevOps team. Giving you more time to manage your business without worrying about managing your company’s DevOps.
This can equate to big time increases in efficiency, productivity, and profits. But how can you serve up simplified processes to get the results you want and need to stay competitive? Let’s take a closer look at the key app development tips for your remote DevOps team.
Utilize DevOps Tools Like Docker
Giving your remote DevOps team the tools to be efficient and more productive when it comes to app development is essential. Docker is one DevOps tool that can make this happen.
How? Docker makes it easier for developers and engineers to develop, deploy, run, and update applications via containers. The containers allow DevOps teams to package an app, including the app’s dependencies and libraries, for deployment in a single lean package.
This allows the app to run on any machine, regardless of settings. This eliminates the need for virtual machines and virtual operating systems. Thus increasing performance while decreasing application size.
Application Functionality And Performance Trumps Beauty
This is a major app development tip that many remote DevOps teams forget about. A sleek beautiful application is certainly great, but if the functionality and performance lacks, users will be sure to abandon the app, regardless of how pretty it is.
Can you have your app cake and eat it too? Absolutely. In some ways, this is where container images come into play again. However, focusing on performance and functionality first, and then tidying up the application after, may prove far more valuable.
Look to remind your remote developers and ops pros that functionality and performance wins over beauty. Let them focus on making the best product first, and leave the best looking product for later. This is when updates can serve purpose.
Ensure Top Notch App User Experience
This is critical for your app development team, especially if they are remote. Give them the autonomy to build out a powerful user experience, because they are the experts after all.
The application your remote DevOps team is building needs to be responsive, highly intuitive, provide an ease of use, as well as simplified navigation. Empower your DevOps team to think like users, and let them take the app for test spins during development.
And don’t forget about the offline user experience. Depending on what type of application your team is developing, an offline experience may serve up even more value to users. When there is no internet connection, or if the internet connection is lost, have offline functionality that doesn’t disrupt the overall user experience.
Testing Is Very Important To App Development Success
Another top app development tip is all about testing. First, your remote DevOps team should be testing the application with a large number of user skills. Having a variety of skill levels during testing can help your DevOps team tweak UI to ensure development success.
From the first time app user to expert app-smiths, test the application with users of different mobile device comfort, educational levels, backgrounds, and location. If the UI is good for all, the app will be sure to make waves after launch.
What about devices? Great question. Testing doesn’t end with UI. You also need to encourage your remote DevOps team to test the application across multiple devices. And not only iOS and Android devices either. Test on everything under the sun.
But be sure to test your app on devices that fit your target demographic. THis can be easily found using key analytics, you should have from your market research.
In Conclusion …
App development can be very profitable if done right. Especially if you’re utilizing the skills of remote DevOps teams to get the project done. Communication is the top rule of thumb when working with remote teams. But always be sure to give your team the tools and guidance they need to be successful. Have you used a remote app development team? Tell us your story.
Twenty-first century nationalism is just atavistic tribalism with cell phones. After two world wars spewed from nationalistic sewers in the 20th century, yet another scourge of jingoism infects the world. What will it take to finally purge the scourge of tribalism from human consciousness?
On the left, American sentimental nationalists like Roger Cohen make one last stab at progressive spiritual and metaphysical denial:
“The essence of America is openness. History, geography, immigration and fate have established that. The shrinking of the American mind under Trump therefore amounts, for Americans, to a dangerous denial of themselves.”
American nationalists on the right, like Ross Douthat, have schizoid dialogues between their dark side and their darkest side. The lesser of two evils wins in Ross by surrendering the man-made chaos that Trump epitomizes and maximizes to Christianity’s Father God:
“It wouldn’t entirely surprise me if, by some miracle, Trump won one more time — if his presidency is part of a bipartisan chastisement, and God isn’t finished with us yet.”
The “us” that “God isn’t finished with” is, abnormally, America. To white nationalists on the right, and ‘right’ nationalists on the left, the United States remains the center of the world.
All nationalists feel their nations are the center the world of course. The difference is no empire since the Roman Empire, which encompassed the known world surrounding the Mediterranean, has spread its rapacious culture like America has.
And no other nation in history has its tentacles in three-quarters of the nations of the world through its obscenely bloated military, which sucks up a trillion dollars a year just to keep it unquestioningly afloat.
Therefore if Trump wins again, miracles will have no more to do with it than they did the last time. Democrats will just have a harder time blaming a screwy electoral system, even with Republican voter suppression, and President Trump’s ‘fluke’ will become as immaterial as Senator Flake.
So if we define God as immanent intelligence, what is She up to? It is an awfully small-minded God that’s concerned with the fate of one nation, especially a nation of such military strength and spiritual weakness as America.
To say the least, I doubt that another “Trump presidency is part of a bipartisan chastisement.” It seems Douthat’s God is a nationalist, albeit one that stands above the fray in divine comity (and comedy) even during the nastiest of times.
People old enough to remember the dizzying events of 1989 (the Tiananmen massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall) know what a ‘hinge of history’ feels like.
Though it seems the hinges of history have rusted shut (or rather rusted open, seeing how wide the gates of hell have opened), do we stand at another hinge of history, the second in even a 50-year lifespan?
Given there is some kind of Intelligence beyond the unintelligence of man, clearly the Donald is playing a bit part in a much larger drama involving, though certainly not revolving around the shrunken stature of the United States of America.
That said, Douthat’s self-comforting notion that “Trump is too incompetent to pull off anything so ambitious as stealing an election” is dangerous as hell. Both Democrats and Never (Again) Trump Republicans have continually been taken in by the incompetence of the man, while underestimating the evil the man channels.
Going from the slime to the sublime, it’s a risky business exploring the mind of God. If God isimmanent however, rather than above and apart, then potentially at least, God is, to some degree, within us.
And if that’s true, “Nosce te ipsum” is not just the dubiously cumulative journey of self-knowledge, or even the pathless path of self-knowing, but via negativa (the negational way) to the sacred.
Just as there is no fixed entity as a “Supreme Being,” there is no fixed providential plan external to us. The plan, if we can even call it a plan, can only unfold with our participation, unwitting or witting (preferably witting).
Clearly any cosmic intelligence worth its stars would want potentially intelligent life, wherever it evolved in the universe, to live in harmony with its planet, itself and the cosmos. But let’s face it; Homo sap is still heading headlong in the opposite direction.
This ‘context’ throws an entirely different light on the darkness that is pan-Trumpism, and on the more-annoying-than-destroying global plague that is Covid-19.
So what is the future of humanity, even the near future of humanity?
Looking into the vacant, dead eyes of the narcissistically mask-less one can see one future; looking into the searching, empathic eyes of the masked one can see another.
The amusement park is one of the happiest places in Costa Rica, usually. This year, it’s closed, due to the pandemic. Just 23 employees keep everything up to date. They describe it as a sad year.
Workers used to get excited about their jobs there, noting that they would take the bus among families with children screaming of excitement from a few stops away when they saw the tops of the rides.
The park is now so silent you can hear the birds. The kiosks and restaurants are closed and the train is not running. The water slide and lake are dry. The rides are maintained every other week to keep them in good shape. Otherwise, the park is asleep, it seems.
It’s been like this for seven months and will stay this way indefinitely, until it is safe to reopen. There’s no goal or idea of when that might be, as it depends on how the covid-19 situation continues.
266 employment contracts were put on hold in March, at the start of the pandemic, and another 62 were put on hold more recently. Among those out of work are the six senior citizens who patiently took visitors on a train tour of the entire park, sharing their spark and experiences.
Each year, before the covid-19 pandemic, the park was able to donate approximately ₡120 million to the National Children’s Hospital. This year, there is no income and no funds to donate.
The management dreams of soon hearing joy fill the park and being able to share the earnings with the children’s hospital.
The failed Diquís plant was a project that spanned three administrations but didn’t get far. Still, somehow, ₡88,557 million were used for this project that was stopped in 2011 and cancelled in 2018.
The Comptroller’s Office is investigating how this could have happened. Specifically, it has opened an administrative procedure against the ex-hierarch, three other former workers, and one current employee.
All of them must appear in court on November 2. The reasons that the investigation is directed toward these individuals has not been disclosed. The preliminary investigation was completed and possible irregularities found.
The procedure may lead to sanctions like disqualification from holding public office. ICE may be ordered to recover resources, if patrimonial responsibility is confirmed. A formal investigation will be conducted.
“I am and I will be against trawling,” said President Carlos Alvarado during his campaign. Has he changed his mind? Many organizations and institutions call on him now to veto the law approved in Congress on Thursday that would allow trawling once again.
The practice is widely believed to devastate the ecosystems that so many sectors and families depend on. The fishing technique was suspended in 2013, by the Constitutional Chamber, due to the environmental damage it caused. The door was left open to restart it if a sustainable outlet was demonstrated.
A new type of net was tested and shown to capture 75% shrimp and 25% other marine life. Older practices caught a much larger percentage of fish and turtles. Still, these studies are under question because they were carried out so quickly without taking into account the conditions in different sectors of the seabed and during different parts of the year.
The United Nations Development Program called on Costa Rica to not backtrack on the progress made in conservation and sustainable marine management, for which it was awarded the “Champions of the Earth 2019” award.
Three European airlines will be resuming flights to Costa Rica soon, the first, Air France, on October 31st. They’ve been absent from the country for seven months, due to the covid-19 pandemic that left borders closed.
The first flight will arrive from Paris with 300 passengers. In December, the frequency will be increased to three times a week, on Saturdays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
British Airways and KLM have also confirmed they are to resume flights between Europe and Costa Rica. They will do so in November, in time for the start of the high season.
By the end of October, just three months after reopening to commercial flights, there will already be 48 weekly operations.
Europe is a great market for tourists because of the population’s high educational level and appreciation for both nature and culture. The opening of new flights will contribute to the recovery of the tourism sector.
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
