| What do You Do When You Are Broke And The | | | | front of the Bolivian Military Border Police |
| Earth Needs You? | | | | Headquarters. Casually talking about the Island of the |
| It was around the time of the Solstice and I had | | | | sun and how lucky the people were to be heading |
| various signs and synchronizations that I HAD to be | | | | towards there for the solstice. |
| on the island of the sun, known to the ancient | | | | Soon enough of our bus had gone through customs |
| natives that still run the Island as the Birth Place of | | | | that they opened the doors to let people back in. I |
| the Sun. | | | | made another loop around the vicinity to buy some |
| This tribe is definitely a left behind collective of old | | | | crackers and got back on the bus. 15 minutes later |
| Native American Consciousness and has Lumerian | | | | we were heading off to Copacabana. |
| symbolic and methodology throughout their shamanic | | | | Once in Copacabana I was looking for my friend |
| practices. | | | | without success. I still had my $20 so I bought the |
| Even more so, there are fossilized 'human" bone that | | | | $5 ticket to the island of the sun and about $5 of |
| make up important structure in the temple. The | | | | food. I knew I would be there two or three days |
| pelvic bone of a woman is used as a shadow maker | | | | and would then have to get a bus ticket back so I |
| in one of the temples. As the suns rays get blocked | | | | was doing it all based on pure faith. |
| by this structure at different times of the day and | | | | FAITH IS POWERFUL. |
| parts of the year the shadows make animal shapes | | | | On the hour boat ride to the island I managed to talk |
| on an alter table. | | | | up a group of 4 people who were meeting the island |
| They are very sophisticated human healing | | | | for the first time themselves about the solstice and |
| technology as well as training grounds to plug into like | | | | the importance of the work that needed to be done |
| a socket or outlet and charge yourself up with | | | | with it and how they could get involved if they |
| energy. The Technology is intense. | | | | wanted. I gave them enough information for them to |
| So What is With The Bone? | | | | rightfully be very excited about the timing the just |
| It was two days before the solstice and I was | | | | managed to be going to The Island of the Sun. Two |
| pretty, knowing I would need the money I had for | | | | of them didn't even know it was the Solstice and |
| when I got back and would start doing more paying | | | | none of them knew it was used by the Inca and |
| work. I knew I would make money when I came | | | | Pre-Inca Empire for very important Solstice |
| back, I was coming out of a long service cycle | | | | ceremonies. |
| connected with the birth of my daughter so it was | | | | I ended up hanging with them the first day, checking |
| good. | | | | out a small portion of the island and graciously |
| About that, I as well had yet to find a person to | | | | accepting their invitation to food and drink. During this |
| watch my daughter for me. But I had no tension, I | | | | time I had seen my friend Selva on the Island and |
| knew it was all going to come together. And it did... | | | | she had gotten a cheap room at a hostel with an |
| At the last minute my friend Marisol, who runs a | | | | amazing view... well basically the entire island was an |
| massage center, got her English classes canceled and | | | | amazing view... but this one faced the rising sun so it |
| agreed to watch the baby. My other friend Selva had | | | | seemed fit for the winter solstice, the birth of the |
| two tickets to Bolivia and was using her second with | | | | new sun and new year in the birth place of the sun. |
| her boy friend who at the last minute couldn't go... so | | | | She paid for her room and the guy put my bag in a |
| there I was, with all logic saying I should be working | | | | cheaper room under hers. We then went and decided |
| for money for my baby getting on a bus with less | | | | to relax for the afternoon. It was the day before |
| than $80 on my way to Bolivia. I might add for an | | | | the solstice and I knew I would be up at 4 am the |
| American the Visa to enter Bolivia is $155 so my net | | | | latest the next day so I was cool for relaxing. |
| value was like 1/2th the cost of the visa. I wasn't | | | | As we were heading back to the hostel I saw the |
| worried, my shamanic abilities had gotten me through | | | | group of four I had been talking with on the boat. I |
| much more difficult situations when the Earth was | | | | decided to join them for diner, hey they invited me. |
| calling on me. | | | | Selva said she was tired and wanted to head back to |
| The first pass through the border went pretty well | | | | the Hostel. |
| but for some reason the tickets got messed up. You | | | | Diner turned into a few drinks and about 2 hours |
| have to travel from Cuzco to Puno and then in Puno | | | | waiting for the food. By the time we had finished |
| you get on a new Bus to Copacabana in Bolivia. | | | | eating and talking it was well past midnight. On an |
| When we got to Puno for some reason I was put | | | | island of such small population and tourism based |
| on a different bus than my friend Selva. I was like... | | | | around the ruins and spirituality... Everything was shut |
| "Okay" | | | | down. |
| So we went out to watch the sunrise over the | | | | I wasn't exactly sure what to do so I headed back |
| magnificent Lake Titicaca before splitting up, sure to | | | | to the Hostel Selva was at. The place was |
| meet again once in Copacabana. We watched as the | | | | completely black but my room was open and my |
| sun rose over the great expanse of the largest lake | | | | bags still there. No one seemed around and though I |
| at the highest altitude in the world and I left Selva to | | | | hadn't paid yet, I needed a place to sleep. I |
| Meditate on her own as my bus was scheduled to | | | | immediately feel into a deep sleep. |
| leave before her own. | | | | At probably quarter to four in the morning I woke up |
| The Bus to Bolivia was a completely different story | | | | sharply. I had heard there was a temple of the sun |
| than the bus to Puno... I went from being the only | | | | on the south eastern side of the island and though I |
| "foreigner" to looking like I might actually be the only | | | | had not found it the day before, which would have |
| Peruvian. This left me feeling a lot better about my | | | | been smart, I went out with a determination to begin |
| chances of border crossing without any problems... I | | | | the New Fire Ceremony for right before Sunrise in |
| dressed in clothes I thought wouldn't stand out in to | | | | this Temple. Unfortunately I was mal informed and |
| little or two big a way, jeans and a black jacket. I | | | | the Temple of the sun was actually on the |
| really needed to make this trip happen. | | | | completely other end of the Island but it made for |
| I actually had a third motive for making the trip, my | | | | some interesting events. |
| visa for Peru had expired a few weeks before and I | | | | I found myself again, jumping 6 foot ledges in the |
| was thus illegal. Each day past your visa counts as $1 | | | | dark, climbing walls to unknown property trying to |
| USD you have to pay when you leave the country. I | | | | find where I had thought I was told this temple was |
| was about 12 days over and again my total cash | | | | located. I continued for an hour and a half without |
| was about twenty bucks. | | | | any luck and the best place I found that most |
| When I got to the Peruvian Side of the border I | | | | resembled a temple was actually someone's house. |
| managed to work the situation, Shaman Style. There | | | | As I knew Sunrise was approaching I decided to just |
| was a clearly tourist girl in the line a couple of people | | | | head down to the beach and get myself on the |
| ahead of me. She didn't speak Spanish but she was | | | | most eastern part of the island to do the fire... as I |
| having problems due to her thinking her visa was 90 | | | | knew it had to be done with the rising sun. |
| days... but it was actually only 30. She therefore | | | | Getting there I ended up finding an amazing cave |
| owed about $45 dollars to leave the country. | | | | which 'coincidentally' was basically directly below the |
| Since she wasn't speaking and the border patrol | | | | mountain top where the natives did there fire |
| officials weren't speaking any English I took | | | | ceremony to the rising solstice sun. I found this out |
| advantage of the situation to not only get ahead | | | | later when I met with the four people who had |
| quite a few people in line but also make myself look | | | | listened to my wisdom on the boat and my advice |
| like a good Samaritan in front of the border control. | | | | about how they should do a fire ceremony for the |
| The tactic worked Quite Well. | | | | rising solstice sun. |
| I succeeded in making the agents feel like they had | | | | They had gone to the mountain top where I had |
| done a good job in getting their country money by | | | | showed them and linked up with a group of natives |
| explaining to the girl where she had to go to pay the | | | | performing their ceremony and had a great time. As |
| $45 and what they were actually talking about. The | | | | my purpose is to actually destroy all old methods of |
| whole situation, with me translating took about 15 | | | | doing things to make space for new consciousness |
| minutes and after I just made myself next in line... | | | | to enter our global collective I was being guided to |
| the agent hardly even looked at my passport as he | | | | avoid all the native ceremonies with all the works I |
| stamped it, officially signing me out of the country. | | | | was doing. I wasn't specifically intending it but I was |
| The first phase, avoiding paying the $12 of my $20 | | | | following my heart intuition and like always with |
| of late visa fees was successfully avoided. | | | | intuition... you understand the meaning and logic behind |
| We were then all advised to walk across the border | | | | it afterward. |
| and do what we had to do on the Bolivian side of | | | | After I finished my fire ceremony I managed to climb |
| immigrations... and then we would be let back on the | | | | up the mountain and end up right in the backyard of |
| bus. I have learned, through experience, that the | | | | the Hostel I stayed at. No one seemed around so I |
| best way to break law is to casually break the law in | | | | quietly made my bed, gathered my things and left. I |
| front of the law men like you were doing nothing | | | | didn't feel too bad about not paying as I was there |
| wrong. | | | | solely for the purpose of doing direct work for the |
| So once on the Bolivian side I followed the masses | | | | Great Earth Mother. |
| towards the control check point, veered off to the | | | | In the Next addition I'll out line how to perform |
| money exchange spot, exchanged some money and | | | | works for the earth to give her back energy that |
| then linked back in with the first people leaving the | | | | we as humans have been taking for too long and too |
| check point after getting their papers stamped. I | | | | much without the proper giving to match the taking. |
| then hung out talking with two people, sitting right in | | | | |