Why Peru May Be a Key to Real Sustainability (and Food): Day 7
Day One: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25555
Day Two: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25600
Day Three: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25617
Day Four: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25641
Day Five: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25660
Day Six: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25681
Day Seven: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25704
Day Eight: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=25736
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General Bert and I just walked back on the uneven sidewalks and cobblestone streets of Cusco from Greens Organic Restaurant, one of 7 magnificent restaurants which use the organic products they grow on their own farm for their meals.
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Since we had a HUGE lunch which I’ll tell you about in a moment, we wanted a light meal so we each had an appetizer salad. Appetizer? Maybe for a giant. Each was totally organic, more than ample and contained things like roasted fennel, figs, roasted mushrooms and cream cheese.
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Cream cheese???!!!??? Yup! Fantastic.
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Just another example of what happens when you are in love with food and understand it deeply, as every restaurant in Cusco appears to be and do.
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This morning, we set out to the South of Cusco and visited the so called “Sistine Chapel of Peru” at Andahuaylillas, less than an hour south of Cusco.
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It is one of the richest churches in South America, literally dripping with gold and opulent display of the iconography of the conquistadors.
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When Newt Gringrich and his wife wrote about their visit to Lima, Cusco and Machu Picchu last week they idolized the determination of Francisco Pizarro, the conquistador who worked so hard and so successfully to destroy the local culture, rape its riches and send them home to the Spanish Court and “save” the souls of the vanquished.
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This church was built by enforced labor (read “slave”) and was decorated by the artists and artisans forced to the task.
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I guess Newt and I live in different galaxies. In the one that I inhabit, the enslavement, genocide, culturecide and resource-rape of a people (which you could perfectly well call an early stage of globalization) is not something to admire.
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Newt admires it. I suppose that makes sense in the galaxy where he hangs out.
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I hope there is some way to make sure that my galaxy and his do not intersect in any way whatsoever.
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The artists conscripted to this task left signs of their inner consciousness: the sun above the central alter is the sun image that belongs to Inti, the Incan Sun deity, not to the Christian one. The front alter, dripping with opulence ripped from the people, boasts a huge conch shell, sacred to the Inca, stating “We are here. You may enslave us, you may kill us, you may beat us down, but we are still here and we have left our artistic calling cards of defiance in your sacred site, built, as so many churches are here, directly over our holy site!. We are here. You may rest assured that we survive.
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On Thursday night, Gen. Bert and I will meet with a small group of Cechua (Incan) men and women and teach them Remote Viewing techniques so that they can find and reclaim the lost knowledge of the Incas.
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European Stone on the Left; Inca Stone on the Right
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Why? Is it more than curiosity?
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What does this have to do with you? Quite a lot, really. Let us say that lost arts of food preservation came your way and you were able to use simple, effective non-refrigeration, non-electrical. You might be well on your way to a safety stockpile.
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And suppose we have world class herbal and other natural treatments which are more effective than medicine and you know where to source them and how to make and use these long forgotten remedies. Would you then be even more free of a false dependence on dangerous and useless pharmaceuticals?
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We think so, which is why we’ll be teaching these people to RV and will be supervising their development as viewers.
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After we left the “Sistine Chapel of the Americas,” which I was glad to do because its opulence on the back of extreme cruelty and poverty induced by the Chapel owners, we headed for a pre-Incan site called Tipon.
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No shade. Hot. Windy. Arid. Awe inspiring!
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A town of about 5000 with room for many more. Since it was a way-station on one of the main Inca trails to Cusco, the capital, there were undoubtedly many more people there much of the time.
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Their main problem was water. The Inca induced them to join the empitre without a fight, apparently by promising abundant water resources. And, indeed, they did build extensive and impressive aqueducts.
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Gone when the Spanish came to destroy it, like so, so much else.
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But if our Remote Viewing experiment is successful, we will soon begin to unfold the secrets of the city, like all the other secrets of this amazing area. You see, with Remote Viewing information is available anywhere and anywhen.
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Does it work? Ask General Dozier who wes kidnapped by hostile forces. The US had not a single clue where he was so General Bert’s RV team was tasked with finding him. They did so and troops were sent to rescue him, whch they did sucessfully.
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After visiting the ruins, we had lunch at a pretty astonishing restaurant which is a known Tourist place but there was no card, no name that I could see.
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We all had meals and juices and so on. Jaimie, our driver, Hunbert and we had a full mean each with juices: we all ate for under $40 US.
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Then back to the hotel by mid afternoon.
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I collapsed for a 2 hour nap and General Bert did the same.
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I HATE hot and the fatigue that follows it — this is part of the reason that I tend to stay away as much as I can from hot climates.
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Tomorrow we’ll meet with a traditional doctor here and will be videotaping that interview. Apparently there is a no holds barred that with the weaving collective in the evening and will video tape our discussions of how we can use our technologies and so on to help them sustain their life way. And what we learn will help you sustain yours.
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More to follow.
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Yours in health and freedom,
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Dr. Rima
