Here are some useful places in Cusco for the spiritual traveler.

South American Explorers http://www.saexplorers.org/ They have a club house in Cusco that has lots of information on tours and sharmans etc in Cusco and the whole of Peru (and other countries). They are very friendly and speak Spanish and French in addition to English. Not sure about Portugese but you can ask! They also have double rooms with shower for USD $12/day and there is a beautiful garden there to hang out in. It is a great place to meet other travelers and get tips. You can also email them with questions. Non-members can visit but to use all facilities and get discounts on tours you need to be a member which is $60 per year. There are also club houses in other countries.

• San Blas market - a few blocks from SAE. Cheap place to buy veggies and get lunch for less than USD $2
  
  

• I recommend staying in San Blas area rather than city center because 1) it is cheaper 2) less touristy 3) only 5 minutes walk from center anyway. 
   

• There are many temples and ancient stones in Cusco area. You can hike to the Temple of Monkey and Moon from San Blas in about 30 minutes. Nicki teaches a yoga class at the temple of the Monkey each week.

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Here is another story (from the well respected Guardian Newspaper) on how our government doesn't follow the 4th amendment when it comes to reading your email. No need for probable cause in order to search...

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Today I saw several hummingbirds feeding. According to the book "Animals Speak" it is a symbol of freedom and joy. Relates to my travels. And also to the Wednesday Gathering this week on Polyamory as self Determination.

This week I am in Iguazu Argentina visiting the famous Iguazu Waterfalls here. Here is the triple border of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil and is surrounded by national parks in all directions that have preserved the rain forest since 1932. I arrived in Este Paraguay - which is a border town famous for smuggling and discount goods - though sometimes the brand name goods are knock offs. There was a wild west, almost criminal air to the town. Next day I took a taxi ride the few miles to Puerto Iguazo in Argentina and went through three counties in less than an hour - my passport got a workout with 4 entrance/exit stamps. This part of Argentina is much more affluent than Paraguay - with most of the business being tourist related.

It rained all day but I didn't let that stop me going to visit the waterfall. It didn't matter because in the boat trip we got so close to one of the water falls that I got soaked anyway! The power of the water is immense here - I really felt a connection to Mother Earth with the water and the rain forest together. There are many walkways around and on top of the falls - actually there are about 290 water falls in all arranged in a horse shoe over 2700 feet long. The river above the falls is really wide here. I was able to walk to within feet of the top of the waterfall called The Devils Throat - which is 270 degrees of thundering water. As I stood there, getting "rained" on by waterfall mists I visualized all the toxins in my body draining out to the ground just like the water cascading down by me. It really worked well to drain my sinuses and help me to relax!

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This idea resonated with me and I have listen to many of Carol Looks EFT CDs. Recommended

More on this topic and detailed EFT tapping phrases for it at

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If you are interested in traveling long term here are some resources that I have found useful

• http://www.sovereignman.com/ - escaping from single sovereign nation to have multiple flags - practical advice on money, passports, doing business in other counties. Free blog and newsletter, paid in depth actionable info, monthly teleconferences and local resources rolodex if you become member
• http://www.internationalman.com/ - forum and newsletter for permanent travelers. Some good reports if you register. Similar content to sovereignman at less cost. I use both to cover more bases.
• http://www.qwealthreport.com/ - blog and newsletter for internationalizing yourself and your finances. Free website and paid membership.
• http://www.tynan.com/ - nomadic life style tips and ebook. Good tips on saving plane costs and traveling ultra light, his annual gear reports are fabulous!
• http://www.locationindependent.com/ - how to get started traveling and working abroad, good on dealing with emtional objections, first steps, family issues. blog and (paid) ebook.
• http://www.vagabonding.net/ - practical tips on traveling freely and light. blog and book
• http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ - 4 Hour Work Week - how to spend less time working and more time doing what you love. Tips on mini-retirements, outsourcing, starting your muse. Blog and book. The second edition has lots of on the ground tips from readers.
• http://freelanceswitch.com/start/a-comprehensive-guide-to-starting-your-freelance-career/ - a free good step-by-step guide to starting your own freelance business (in English and French)
• http://100startup.com/ - how to start up your (remote) business for $100 or less, 6 free PDF guides under the Resources section
• The travel.stackexchange.com/ - travel stack exchange is good for researching and asking travel questions. Free site. Quick response to questions.

Vagabonding quote from Lavinia Spalding

"Don't think about it too much. Don't make pro and con lists. Pro and con lists are nothing but trouble. If you think about it too much, you'll just end up staying home. … My family and friends often say to me, 'I'm living vicariously through you.' Don't ever live vicariously. This is YOUR life. Live."

If you have any other website or books that you find helpful let me know

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When I a mfeeling angry I am use a phase that I learn from Millie's latest book "I'm sorry. I forgot. I love you". I said it to myself directed at the other person in my mind (and from my Self!) several times and the anger is gone and my tummy is relaxing again. It is great way to remember the unity that we all are one. Even the parts that I create anger from reacting to!

(Millie's book is called Crafting a Community - recommended)

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I do daily energy clearing exercises to keep my vitality and health good. I think this is especially important in these rapidly changing times. So this week's Wednesday gathering on Polarity Therapy for Vitality is interesting to me

Here in Paraguay I have been reading "The Second Son" by Charles Sailor, a novel that explores what happens when a Brooklyn ironworker discovers that he has amazing healing powers and is thought by some people to be the second son of god. Interesting to look at how people give their own power away and even when he points this out to them and helps them to help each other directly some people still want to worship him instead. Also on how many give away theor power to governments, business, religions etc. If you like spirituality, self empowerment and a good story then I recommend checking it out.

When I was in the jungle last week I also saw some slash and burn farming - where they cut down the jungle trees and bushes and burn them in order to grow vegetables and grass for cattle. The problem is that the soil in the jungle is very thin and basically mostly sand. Only having the complex mix of trees and bushes and animals does it thrive.What I noticed is that the grass fields were much drier than the jungle and many fewer species too. I don't know for sure bu but I think after 10-20 years even the grass can not grow and the land could tend to desert. Isn't this what happened in the Sahara in Africa? Forest cut down, grass land over grazed, dries out, turns to desert. At the hotel I was staying at this week they had a satellite photo of the whole earth and I noticed that the north of Africa was yellow and brown (desert) whereas the same area in South America and the Far East was green (jungle). I am guessing that before the agricultural rise of man in Africa 10,000 years ago that North Africa was a tropical forest like the Amazon is today. What a loss for our planet! I felt sad.

Perhaps the earth needs some energy healing too. Perhaps that is partly by the 2012 healing of all the people on our planet... so we can see that all is one and that hurting the planet is hurting ourselves.

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The fake newsman Stephen Colbert covers the fake news on 9/11 - news so fake that it is funny!

Michael

Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. (From http://www.corbettreport.com/911-a-conspiracy-theory/)

(Watch French, German or Portuguese translations of this video.)

TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.

These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.

Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.

The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.

The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.

The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.

NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7′s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.

The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.

This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).

Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFK and incubator babies and mobile production facilities and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.

If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.

This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, SEC, MSM, White House, NIST, and the 9/11 Commission. Because Ignorance is Strength.

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