Repinted from Travellers Teacup blog by Citt Williams

Art by Arpitam 

An undercurrent and thought provoking keynote from Rop Gonggrijp who opened the annual Berlin hackers event, Chaos Computer Club in a sold-out Congress Center 27/12/10

Chenrezig Sand Mandala from Dropbear on Vimeo.

Juice Media Rap News, with Robert Foster. Episode 6 of the Investigative Rap Journalism has dropped: December 2010 and Cablegate has burst open. With a steady trickle of Diplomatic communiques leaking out every single day, the Book of Revelations is expanding dramatically. In all the hubbub, the global community is forced to ask questions of its leaders. Will the world ever be the same again? Join your affable host Robert Foster, as he executes a rhyme inquisition on some of the key players in the Wiki-saga. It's diplomatic Rhym-aggedon...

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Find out more about: Wikileaks: ‪http://wikileaks.ch/‬
Over 9000 links to more info on Wikileaks: ‪http://www.betterworldlinks.org/index...‬
Regular coverage of Cablegate in The Guardian: ‪http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/inter...‬
Hillary's response to Cablegate. ‪http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3NNzB...‬ (Boy, this is fun to watch straight after Rap News!):
Full video of introductory Bill'O clip: ‪http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=x0Bc6p1...‬
Original bed-intruder song - credit for the awesome melody goes to maestro composers, The Gregory Brothers: ‪http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW...‬

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The Ayahuasca Sessions is a companion collection of interviews by journalist Rak Razam with the curanderos, shamans, ayahuasqueros and seekers that drink ayahuasca. In over two dozen sessions Razam lets the shamans (and the seekers) explain in their own words the demands and dangers of their profession in the 21st century and what they think the unprecedented explosion in Western interest in shamanism forbodes.

Boldly designed and with over 100 black and white photographs, the collection features interviews with Guillermo Aravelo, Percy Garcia, Ron Wheelock, Dennis McKenna, Ph.D, Jan Kounen, Alan Shoemaker, and more. A classic text for those interested in the booming business of ayahuasca tourism, entheogens, spirituality, anthropology and counter-culture studies.

Percy Garcia Lozano comes from a tradition of curanderos and was initiated into the science of ayahuasca at age ten. Now in his early 30s he is one of the new breed of indigenous shamans straddling two worlds – his indigenous heritage and the globalized 21st century. He lives in Iquitos and balances his work between treating locals and the growing rise of Western ayahuasca seekers.

translation by Chuck

RAK: Percy, how long have you been a curandero?

PERCY: I come from a tradition where you are born to become a curandero. You don’t choose to become a curandero. And the person who wants to enter the science of curandismo when he is older, it is because he will be called. He will have a calling.

The tradition I have learned has been handed down to me by my grandfather, who was himself a powerful maestro. So I have been preparing myself [to be a curandero] since I was ten. I am the only grandson that follows the tradition with healing plants. My grandfather – Enrique Garcia Mozombite – prepared me to have the strength to complement ayahuasca and to be strong enough to work with this most sacred of plants. It was a long and enduring initiation, in that the apprentice curandero must come to know not just the kind of plants available and the properties of each, but establish a relationship with the spirits in the plants. It’s a very demanding job being a curandero, and many youth aren’t carrying on the traditions.

RAK: What Is your understanding of ayahuasca and the world of the spirits?

PERCY: Ayahuasca is Quechua for ‘vine of the dead (souls)’, but at the same time, as a healer, we don’t call the dead spirits – we call them Allies. Ayahuasca is medicine. It is strength, intelligence, wisdom and healing. In this way everything is in accord with tradition. While nature represents what life is, ayahuasca is the mother of us all. I have used the vine since I was 14 years old and started on a long series of diets with the master plants. The diets were simple to begin with and as the years progressed my ability to do more intensive diets increased, as did my connection with the plants. It is a long and hard road to travel to become a vegetalista healer, one who heals with plants, especially when this knowledge starts when you are a child. But I learned about the spirit in the ‘vine of souls’, ayahuasca, and how to prepare it, as well as other medicinal plants like chacruna and others...

This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book: The Ayahuasca Sessions, conversations with indigenous curanderos and Western shamans  by Rak Razam. For the full interview download the PDF below.

Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Dan Schreiber, Australia's answer to Terence McKenna, a grand intellectual thinker and the founder of Starseed Gardens in the Byron Bay Shire. In this epic, far-reaching conversation Schreiber explores the heart-mind-pineal relationship of consciousness and shares his experiences learning from tribal peoples across the globe. What is the entheogenic connection between the Amazon and the Outback, ayahuasca cosmovision and the Dreamtime at the End of Time? Learn the secrets of the Australian cane toad–and its DMT/ bufotenine secretions–as Schreiber explains its role as an activator for the tryptamine-acacia fields across Australia. How does the devic world under the surface of nature itself fuel the current flowering of planetary consciousness? Schreiber describes the cascading role of entheogens shaping planetary culture to the tipping point we are now living through, and the whole-systems theory of Gaian "galactivation" as we remember our personal and collective awakening… This conversation is itself a catalyst and a turning point for moving forward: A highly recommended, lengthy dialogue that links up many existing theories into a collective whole to guide us deeper into the new paradigm…

This has got to be the biggest Memetic war act of our life time.  William Gibson will be smiling somewhere. Finally the Cyberpunk aspect has come into full effect.

How it works thanks to Max Keiser:

1 – JP Morgan has a huge short position in Silver – tied to a huge,
extremely precarious derivatives position some estimate to represent
approximately 1.5 trillion in risk to its balance sheet.

2 – Various exchanges around the world have been caught manipulating the
price of Silver using ‘naked’ short sales; i.e., counterfeiting.

3 – Of all the actively traded commodities traded around the world, Silver
is one of the least plentiful and its supply is shrinking.

4 – Hedge funds are taking physical delivery of Silver – adding substantial
demand as well as exposing these exchange’s naked short positions – who are
scrambling to deliver – jacking prices up to multi-decade highs – and
inspiring these predatory funds to buy more Silver.

5 – There are billions of people around the world who are aware that banks
have been committing fraud and embezzlement who are upset that their
politicians seem only interested in helping the banks commit more fraud –
who are looking for a cheap way to non-aggressively fight back and
decapitalize these banks.

6 – Many of these people have the access and wherewithal to purchase 1 or
more Silver coins – thus removing even more bullion from the market –
forcing additional scrambling by dealers to fill orders – inspiring the
funds to buy and take physical delivery of more Silver – creating a colossal
short squeeze – in which JP Morgan stands to be the biggest loser.

7 – Buying Silver is how the world is monetizing its anger at the banks who
stole their wealth.

8 – Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver

Or as the Sex Pistols may have put it:

On the road in Peru with Mitch Schultz, who talks about the making of his documentary The Spirit Molecule, based on the Rick Strassman book of the same name, and why he was driven to make an independent documentary about DMT. In 2002 Schultz had his first experience with dimethyltryptamine and the entities therein: nothing would ever be the same. Schultz convinced Dr. Rick Strassman to lend his story and credibility as the narrative backbone of the documentary, studying DMT in controlled medical conditions with legal patients under the auspices of the US government from 1990-1995. Why has nature seeded DMT throughout most living things: as a strategic neurotransmitter, a language for nature to communicate within itself? What is the value of contact experiences with entities in innerspace? How can film communicate a glimpse of the DMT realm and how ready are mainstream audiences for it? Join experiential journalist Rak Razam and filmmaker Mitch Schultz in search of the answers...

Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war—the biggest leak of classified military documents in history—sending shockwaves across the Fourth Estate. Rap News marks the occasion by inviting into the studio the former US Secretary of Offense, Donald Rumsfeld. But what starts out as a conventional Rap News interview soon descends into mayhem as the live feed is hijacked by News World Order, eager to spin the record like a disc jockey on crack. Enter Bill O'Really, the champion of Fair & Balanced journalism, dragging us screaming into the No Spine Zone. Only divine intervention can save us now, from a fate worse than death. But beware of imitators; not all is what it seems to be! Join us for a rollercoaster episode of Rap News, featuring a very very special guest appearance.

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Find out more about:

Wikileaks & the leaked Iraq War Logs: http://wikileaks.org
Julian Assange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGqE7...
Bill O'Reilly at his finest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNV...
UN Human Rights Commissioner calls for inquiry into US/IRAQ after seeing Wikileaks evidence: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pa...
"Underground" by S. Dreyfuss & J. Assange: http://www.xs4all.nl/~suelette/underg...

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SUBTITLE CREDITS: Many thanks to Siltaar, Koolfy & Co. @ La Quadrature du Net IRC channel for English and French rhyming caption subtitles (oh-la-la! merci') * GERMAN: Many thanks, Raphael Wegmann for German rhyming caption subtitles * PORTUGUESE (BR): thank you, AthenasBR; GREEK: Thank you, Panosis.

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