Saturday, October 28, 2006

Zones of Ethical Coherence

The discussion was quite engaging when we noticed that only few students were participating in it, besides the teacher. Some just stood up and went away carrying their things. Silvia said it's always like that. It's always a minority that enjoys thinking... She said that the other day she saw from her window a woman cleaning the sidewalk with a hose. She went nuts, raging with anger over the fact that the woman didn't care about such a waste of water.

- Did you talk to her? We asked.
- No! What could I say? She has no perception of reality, and any attempt on my behalf to educate her would have been a waste of my time... Either she just wouldn't get it, or she would be offended, or still, she would feel so bad that she'd want to respond only to save face...

Then I started talking about zones of ethical coherence... How we choose things to be coherent in and neglect others that we're not prepared to make a change yet. For example: Silvia is very conscious about saving water, which is great. But she thinks that that's the way, the best way, or the only way to do it...

Then I said that that's one of the reasons I became vegetarian... To save water. Obviously she, as well as the rest of the c looked at me in chock... WHAT?!?!? she said. How come?

Well, What made me go back to being a vegetarian (and I say that because I consider that I'm almost 100% there) was information. Just getting informed did that. And the reasons were much of a social, economic and ecological nature.

You see, in the matter of water (and I'll write again to explain the rest) according to the UNESCO report in the World Water Forum, it takes 15 thousand liters of water to produce 1KG of meat. That means every time you eat a steak, you're justifying around 1500 to 3000 liters of water invested in cattle. Question: What uses up more water - washing the sidewalk or eating a steak? Silvia looked at me and said: I feel like that woman washing the sidewalk...

To eat or not a steak is not the problem. I'ts the industry. It's the ideology. It's the brainwash. And forgive my French, but... I HATE BEING MANIPULATED BY PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO F**KING REGARD AS TO WHAT IS THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE OF THEIR CHOICES - as long as their interests are met...

I might not save the planet by not eating meat, but I feel better not contributing in this way. I think it is the individual options we make that generate the collective positions we sustain. So there... Just to make it clear, I like meat and my mouth waters every time I feel the smell of a barbecue, because it's hard to erase my cultural programming overnight. But it's not so bad.

80% of our planet is water, of which 70% is salt water, and out of the 30% left there are 27% frozen in the arctic poles... so all we have are the remaining 3% that are spread among the rivers and aquifers. The projections say that at the rate we consume water today, there is water only for maybe another 50 years...

Monday, October 23, 2006

The tourist from Ganimedes - Chapter one

...It was 4:30 a.m. and they were calling us out of the tent. It was completely dark and very cold. We got up, Sandra and me, and went out. Everybody was already up. They were pointing at something, but we were not sure what it was... Right there, in front of the camp, there was a clear sphere-shaped mist, quite unnatural, standing still. It was a portal they said... And we were about to go in.




Once I read this book called "The Life Seeders". It was one of these books that sit on your shelf for ages and that when you finally get to it, you wonder why did it take you so long... It was terribly written. Not much technique and probably no review before editing. But it was the content of the book that was amazing and that spoke to me.

It told the story of these two Peruvian brothers, who were practicing yoga and meditation, and were trying to reach some kind of contact with beings fro another world. They had read about this being possible in a book, which was written by a scientist who was actually able to do it. He explained how, and they followed the instructions.

One day, in an attempt of group communication session, that's how they called it when they got together in a group and meditated in order to make some kind of contact, one of the two brothers lost control over his arm, which started writing on a page. It wrote: Hello. And it continued with the entity identifying itself as being from another planet. The group asked questions and the entity answered them without delay. Ant question, even about things nobody could know.

This happened a few times until they decided to get hard proof. They asked for an encounter, and the entity concurred. They set a date and time to meet in Chilca desert, just south of Lima. When they went there, in a group of about eight people, just at the right time, two ships appeared. They stayed hovering in a safe distance, but not very far, and communicated telepathically with all the eight that were there.

These encounters started to happen more frequently and these new galactic friends started teaching these people things. They started preparing them to make changes in the world, for the better. They said that on the course that the earth was following, it wouldn't be long before the human race would be wiped of the planet. They didn't want that.

One of their cities is on Ganimedes, they said, and on one of the occasions they even took one of the brothers there, through a portal. Ganimedes is the third moon of Jupiter, which in this photo is seen with its moons' shadow cast upon it.




So I went to Peru to meet this guy. He had been to the alien city in Ganimedes, and he'd seen their marvelous constructions. I thought that he might not be that "normal" to be telling these stories, but once I've met him, I was pleasantly surprised.

I participated in one of the contact camps, which are still made in Chilca desert. It was a blast! But one thing remains to be seen: One of the most memorable moments of this organization was in the late 70's, when they brought out to the desert as much as 200 people, including TV and radio stations, newspapers and more... The encounter was staggering! Mother ships, with big and small ships coming in and out of them, moving about like it was the most natural thing. It seemed like a Spielberg movie.

Did it come out? Yeah! It did. TV, Radio, Newspapers, the works... Did it change anything? Well... no. So the result was that these tourists from Ganimedes, decided that direct contact doesn't do much besides satisfy immediate curiosities, and that a better way to work with humans is to keep physical distance, due to the fact that the purposes were evolutionary.

So in the last few years, the physical contacts diminished a lot, and now they almost don't occur.

What I was witnessing was about as exciting as it gets nowadays. I wish it was different. I wish I could have a 3rd degree encounter with them...


I wish I could go to Ganimedes...


Friday, October 06, 2006

True story

It's a little long... but it’s just for the ones who like this stuff...

I was awake... Strangely, I felt my neck hurt in an odd way. I could see the other people lying in their mattresses, and the monitors who were taking back and forth the people who needed to go to the restroom.


There were about eighty people in the room, and the temperature, as it is habitual in these courses, was very low. I could see the main instructor on her chair, in a deep trance, altered-consciousness like sate. She was sustaining the energy field so we could have our opportunity to experience ourselves what had been taught so much in all those theoretic classes.
I suppose that someone has to be very powerful to sustain an energy field that big. The room was quite large. But as always, I just can't give in to so much theory without questioning it... If I were a little bit more religious (and by religious I mean in my attitude of belief, not in the sense that what we were practicing was a religion, no! It was science!), maybe then, it would all be much easier for me, as it is for everybody else...

It seems to me that I'm the only one who listens to the classes and to peoples’ stories of their experiences and think: "what are they talking about? I’ve never felt that... I’ve never seen that...”

Anyway, it's true. It is seen as a pretty wacky thought in our skeptical society to develop what should be called trans-dimensional-existence, but ultimately everybody calls it psychic abilities, or others consider it to be some kind of voodoo stuff... whatever. I don't care. Every culture and religion has some kind of a phenomenon that can’t be explained, and that’s a fact, and that’s universal. Lots of people have out-of-body experiences all over the planet, and they are usually afraid of telling people about them ‘cause they don’t want to look weird…

The day before, I was there too. They called whomever was "ready" to go feel the field formed around the main instructor, "it feels gelatinous" they say... I wasn't called. I felt bad, like I was rejected or something... Heck, like I wasn't good enough. But the next day they called me. I was happy. The thing is... well... the thing is I didn't feel zilch, nothing, nada... Oh, well, I guess I'm just the only guy here who is never gonna have any kind of extra-sensorial experience... How very Charlie Brown of me... So I went back to my mattress.

And so I was awake, like I told you before… Suddenly, an elderly woman came and sat down by my side, on my mattress, leaned over and put her hand on the mattress on my other side, pinching by accident my flesh, and smiled to me. I thought “man, those old folks that came in a group to this course don’t really know the rules, do they?” Then she started talking to me, no whisper no nothing. Laud and clear. I thought one of the monitors will be here soon to take her away, poor grandma… It took me a while to get over myself and realize that not only she was talking to me, she was talking to me in Hebrew! Well, things were getting really weird, ‘cause I’m Israeli, and Hebrew is my native language – but I wasn’t aware of any other people that were there that spoke it too…

She said “we were looking for you” and I thought, gee whiz! What is that?!? I replied “you speak Hebrew? I was born in Israel, in the city of Haifa!...” to which she answered “I know, I lived there in ‘32”.

My neck was starting to really hurt, so I decided to fix the position of my head and relieve it. When I started moving my head, I heard a snap, a kind of crack or pop, inside my head, and the woman disappeared right in front of me!!! The back scenery continued exactly the same, the room, the people, the movement… I was awake…

Later it was explained to me that a possibility was that I somehow managed to slightly get out of my body, but only a millimeter or so, and I couldn’t notice it, I wasn’t out nor in – so I perceived both dimensions at the same time… And it all seemed so natural and normal - I mean, I couldn't differentiate between the woman or anyone else... it made me think about how we expect something like that to happen and be a mind blowing experience… It was just so normal, and it didn’t seem any different than any regular situation.

But the thing is… I was awake the whole time… I never lost consciousness...

This is a true story that happened to me around five years ago. What it meant? I don't know... But if only for the fact that in lucid consciousness I could talk freely with someone who had no physical body, and that it seemed so normal, that I couldn't even tell until after the fact.

It has never happened since.