How much is worth that which you hold most sacred?

What is the price you're willing to pay for progress?

The Wixarika nation is fighting for their rights to protect Wirikuta, their sacred mountain. The Mexican government has granted mining rights to a Canadian company which would greatly endanger the Wixarika's annual pilgrimage to Wirikuta. The center of the Cosmos in their religion would end up pillaged and soiled in search of short-term profit and meager jobs.

Fortunately, they are not alone in their struggle.

A collective of artists and musicians are trying to raise awareness of their plight, and to find a peaceful solution that will ensure the traditions of this indigenous group, along with opening sustainable opportunities for the Mestizos living in the Wirikuta area.

Aho Colectivo has prepared the Wirikuta Fest, a musical festival aimed to gather money & support to help the Wixarika in their legal battle.

If you would like to know more about this matter, please click here.

May the spirit of the blue deer prevail over greed.

8 Martinis - remote viewing magazine – Issue 7
Now in our seventh issue and going from strength to strength. This issue is packed with great articles and examples of remote viewing from some of the leaders in the field, the articles include:
• I Like the Way You Think - Lauren Kott
• In Memory of Dan Chevalier - The RV Community
• My Experiences With Telepathy And Clairvoyance Before They Were Called Remote Viewing, Part3 - Jean Millay, PhD
• “Viewer 001” - An Interview with Joe McMoneagle - Daz Smith
• RV Protocols - Part1 - Daz Smith, Lyn Buchanan & PJ Gaenir
• RV Protocols - Part2 - Joe McMoneagle
• What Was That Thing in the Sky Over Oakland, California in November 1896? - Jon Knowles
• Viewing Through Flash Bang - Teresa Frisch
• Joe McMoneagle - Remote Viewing Example Session
• RV Notice Board
• Remote Viewing Contacts/Websites
I would like to thank everyone who contributed and helped me with this Issue – its created a magazine I’m proud of.

You get order a printed full color magazine or download a FREE pdf one here: http://www.eightmartinis.com

A sad, SAD day for the Mexican arts.

Carlos Fuentes, our greatest writer, and one of the best in the world, has passed away. He was 83.

But he was much more than that: Essayist; editorialist; political & social critic. In short, a true intellectual giant.

I had the great fortune of meeting Fuentes once in person in 2010. My sister Angélica invited me to a teachers congress celebrated in one of the hotels facing Paseo de la Reforma, and Fuentes was going to give the final lecture.

It's a doubly memorable anecdote, because that day I was wearing my finest black leather jacket which I took off once we were seated listening to other speakers, and when we stepped outside the hall  --my sister and I-- during a brief recess, by the time we came back the jacket was gone! There's something to be said about the honesty of Mexican educators --or their lack thereof.

My sister was totally furious and was screaming and fighting with some of the organizers demanding that the jacket showed up, or else! I admit I was a bit concerned at first, seeing how I had kept the parking ticket I received at the hotel lobby in the inside pocket, yet once the proper measures were taken to ensure my car would not be allowed to exit the hotel without alerting me first, I was surprisingly serene and taking the loss of my jacket very philosophically. "What's done is done" I thought, and since I had gone there to hear Fuentes in the first place, I wasn't going to let the loss of the jacket interfere with my goal.

The organizers were so mortified --or fed up with my sister's rant-- that they even allowed us to sit in the front row of the auditorium, where I was in a great place to enjoy the words of Fuentes. I even worked up the nerve to ask something to him during the Q&A session; since the focus of the congress was the state of education in Mexico, I wanted to know what he felt about the over-saturation of information in the web, and how it was becoming more taxing to discern between reliable data and pure bunk.

Fuentes' reply pleased me greatly. He said that he wasn't too concerned with excessive information; quite the contrary, between an excesss of knowledge and censorship or other ways to restric access to information, he would always choose the former. I agree 100%.

At the end of his lecture I walked up to the stage, shook his hand, and asked him to sign my copy of 'La Región Más Transparente' (The Most Transparent Region). He wrote:

To Miguel,

Good question!

Alas, I don't have a photo which could have immortalized the moment. My sister was still so darn busy giving hell to the organizers about my jacket that she wasted the chance of taking a pic with her cell phone. I swear to God I wasn't bothered about it at all; the way I saw it, meeting such a literary legend was well worth a jacket ;)

Some days later Fuentes was invited to some TV program to talk about his most recent novel, and during the show he mentioned the congress he attended, and that he was pleased that some of the young teachers there kept copies of his oldest books *hint hint*

Oh! and remember how I said that had been a doubly memorable anecdote ? Well, I take that back: it was TRIPLY memorable. Because guess what? I got my jacket back!

Yeah. Believe it or not a week later I received a call from the hotel's administration telling me the 'person' who "had took my jacket by mistake" (yeah right) was willing to take it back so long as I accepted to not pick it up personally (?) but send someone else instead. My sister thinks the thief realized a person the size of the jacket's owner would be a bit intimidating, and presumably in a not too-cordial mood.

I don't know. I think about it as the Universe rewarding me for putting stock in the things that really matter. And meeting Fuentes was a rich experience that I'm happy to share with you know.

Farewell Carlos. The Universe decreed your departure on May 15th., the day in which we Mexicans honor our teachers; I couldn't really think of a more fitting way to underscore the importance of your career and the value of your legacy.

Descanse en Paz.

I just wanted to say that Daily Grail is one of the sites I check out every day for the last few years,I beleive I have some sort of emotional attachment to it even.And I really love our little community.

Beards For Bears is a campaign being run by Animals Asia, to end the abhorrent practice of bear bile farming. It's pretty simple -- you sign up, grow a beard, people sponsor you. So I've joined the campaign, and I'm on my way to growing a lush ginger beard by June 30th that will no doubt have everyone cracking Grizzly Adams jokes. Please sponsor my beard, and help a worthy cause.

I've put together a short YouTube clip giving a brief explanation as to how and why the 'winged disk' emblem so often seen throughout the ancient world came about.

Bearing in mind I'm no Spielberg

Gary Gilligan http://gks.uk.com/

Sot it turns out that some weeks ago I received an e-mail from Avaaz encouraging me to start a campaign in their site, and after thinking for a while it turns out that there was something I could campaign for: the preservation of Cabo Pulmo.

Cabo Pulmo is a somewhat remote marine reserve located in the Mexican state of Baja California, and enjoys such an incredible biodiversity that it's considered the most robust marine reserve in the world; until recently it was only visited by a few scuba-diving enthusiasts that sought to find a pristine environment far away from five-starred hotels and noisy Spring-breakers; but later I found out through the radio and the Internet that this ecological treasure is threatened to be destroyed by a Spanish real state company planning to build a giant tourist resort and a marina dock.

You see, every President in Mexico has the unwritten mandate to promote a new tourist resort during their term. Years ago it was Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, then came the time for Puerto Vallarta, Cancún and so on. The idea is to attract as many dollar-spending tourists as possible, at the cost of the local population and the natural ecosystem. F*#ck the coral reefs and the natural balance and bring in the yachts and the golf courses! "Hey mister, you wanna go take a ride in the parachute?"

The end result is that over time the tourist resorts get eventually depleted of their natural beauty, and then turn into ecological wastelands that need to be maintained at the expense of other less-popular regions, like the beaches of Cancun that need periodic replenishments of sand from nearby areas (Cozumel) because the mangrove that protected them from the seasonal storms and hurricanes were wiped out with the construction of all those fancy all-inclusive resorts. But eventually the tourists get bored and the real-state investors move on to the next virgin site to be exploited --with so many coastal areas in the Republic, there's plenty of places to pick from, right?

And now it seems to be the turn of Cabo Pulmo. But I say there has to be another way in which the locals can sustainibly exploit the vast natural resources of the region and attract tourists in a responsible manner, while preserving the beauty and incredible biodiversity of the site for future generations to enjoy.

If you think this doesn't sound like an all-too unreasonable idea, you might want to add your signature tot he campaign, and click here :)

PS: Many thanks to Rick, who seems to have been the culprit for my little campaign's early success. I admit that I kind of forgot about it but now I have more than 100 signatures! Let's see if we can collect a few more.

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[UPDATE May 18th]: Orale!! Almost 1200 signatures by now.

Faith in humanity, fully restored :3

A crusty old Swedish carpenter and moose hunter channels "Ambres" and is just as amazed as everyone else by what comes forth.

http://theindustryexposed.com/index.php?...

"Gaga’s spiritual transformation is taking place in a dark, oppressive and militaristic backdrop. This trend in music videos has been discussed in The Transhumanist and Police State Agenda in Pop Music. The article describes how the public is currently being bombarded with militaristic and oppressive imagery, intertwined with sexuality, in order to desensitize the public and create a subconscious positive association. Alejandro is clearly a continuation of this agenda set by the rest of the industry. During the entire video, we see in the background a giant screen displaying scenes of social unrest, buildings on fire and military police running around, placing the viewers in a tense and oppressive ambiance.
The video opens with men marching to a militaristic rhythm, some of them having their heads covered, maybe hinting that those men are prisoners of some sort. One of men is inside a pyramidal shape while another holds a hexagram as the prisoners march. Is this a representation of the masses marching to the rhythm of the elite, holding up high the symbols of its own oppression?"
She also brings with her all of the Illuminati agenda and flashes in her fans' faces the symbols of their own oppression. I’m sure many fans have a gut feeling that something is wrong with her act, but still can’t stop listening to her. They must tell themselves, “well, there is nothing else to listen to.” And that’s what media monopolies are all about."

In our prime, we sought to be highly worthy and would strive at every event sequence to our soul to be in a high state of zeal. When we once knew the purpose of Existence and were still in contact with the source of our being and becoming, we knew that to be present in this physicality as an entity occupying a form here in Time/Space; we needed to strive for the very best by study and evaluation of all the parameters of this alternate reality. It was then a learning paradigm for the gestalt mind of REASON.

Every second of our stay here in Time-Space, we became better by knowing the totality. The extent of this realm of being and becoming is robust and full of many elementals that one must know in order to utilize as a tool of Human Leveraging. To leverage the nuances of the elements and principles of Deity is arduous and requires sufferance of the soul in order to expand consciousness in this realm. Though we have always had access to total mental expanse, the conditions in Time/space dimensions are another configuration that one must be patient in order to succeed as a worthy entity who acts are indeed worship to our Godliness.

Those who came before us made sure we learned how to negotiate the realms of testing here. The Seven of the One who created this reality via the Broadcast of the Tree of Sefirot (Always), made sure their mission was set in continuance by teaching us of the parameters found in the Laws of God as to how to Leverage in Truths with all the elementals found here.

They imparted the total wisdom of the Primary Technology and taught the means of LEVERAGING every particulate. One does not become worthy unless he/she seeks the Wisdom necessary to exist here. The Primary Technology is the way of this existence. It is how the Laws of God are kept in unison with its purpose. To stray away from the learning of these laws will impact the longevity of the entity. If one becomes worthy they move in grace up the Tree of Existence.

Gestalt Knowledge and Wisdom is/are a body of Godliness that must amplify to accompany infinite realms of potential. No negatives and all positives. It is readily apparent as to how one is to live here. The onboard cursor or brain allows physical interface of the mind to the task or physicality. If one strays past or over the laws present here, Worthiness is subsumed and all zeal is lost to waste within this "seeking to task ratio" of our presence here. Positive behavior is reinforced without one knowing it is taking place. Yet one can learn by stimulus response positives which are onboard and in the program of this realm. Negative acts usually have long-term results and in the end will cause the entity to deteriorate and lose worthiness.

To the majority of us still here, we have become lost and do not remember our primary mission in this state of being toward becoming. The long-term loss of a being who participates in Negative behavior is not on the pathway to becoming and will falter to defeat here. That is why one must strive to learn of all the issues facing existence. Those who have Liberalized their life will soon learn that they live a lie due to their selfish endeavors to boost up their own little godliness which is only a part of the whole rather than participate in the gestalt of the Is. Not that one is, but that whereby Is, is. Thus is the Crux of being and becoming.