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Myrna Ferguson

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY HERE?
5/16/2013 11:28:21 PM
HI Miguel,

Where did you get the channeling for Sitting Bull. I had to make a copy of it to keep it handy. It is excellent. It is a wonderful, fun read, so informative. I learned a lot from it.
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Luis Miguel Goitizolo

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5/17/2013 12:02:42 AM

Hi Myrna,

I got it from the 'Golden Age of Gaia' website (http://goldenageofgaia.com/) and specifically from this page: http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/05/transcript-sitting-bull-on-animal-totems-on-heavenly-blessings-may-6-2013-part-12/ .

Actually it is
from that site that I bring here and to the Mountain of Love about eighty percent of the New Age material that I ever post.

Blessings,

Miguel

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5/17/2013 10:46:44 AM

Mystical branch of Islam has resurgence in Somalia


Associated Press - In this photo taken Friday, April 19, 2013, Sufis chant and sway in a circle of worshippers, at the Sufi's main center in Mogadishu, Somalia. Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a comeback in Somalia since al-Shabab, an armed militant Islamic group, was pushed out of the capital in August 2011. (AP Photo / Farah Abdi Warsameh)

In this photo taken Friday, April 19, 2013, a Somali Sufi woman counts prayer beads during a ritual at the Sufi's main center in Mogadishu, Somalia. Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a comeback in Somalia since al-Shabab, an armed militant Islamic group, was pushed out of the capital in August 2011. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
In this photo taken Friday, April 19, 2013, Sufis chant and sway in a circle of worshippers, at the Sufi's main center in Mogadishu, Somalia. Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a comeback in Somalia since al-Shabab, an armed militant Islamic group, was pushed out of the capital in August 2011. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else's

Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a major comeback since al-Shabab, an armed militant Islamic group, was pushed out of Somalia's capital in August 2011. The Sunni insurgents had banned Sufis from gathering and prevented them from worshipping. Sufi sheiks, or elders, were attacked, graves of their saints were desecrated and rituals and celebrations became rare or secretly performed.

Beyond the circle of worshippers are dozens of women, some of them so moved that they are crying. Nearby is the grave of a Sufi saint where the worshippers go to pray to show reverence. Free food, including toasted coffee beans fried in oil, is distributed in wooden containers.

"With Allah's wish, we are here free and worshipping today," saidSheik Abdullahi Osman, a 72-year-old Sufi cleric, who has beads dangling from his neck. Sufis in Mogadishu spend hours feasting, praying, and invoking Allah's name. Traditionally Sufis used sticks to protect their shrines but now it's common to see a guard with an AK-47 slung over his shoulder in this seaside capital.

"There's no choice other than defending ourselves and our faith," said Mohamed Ahmed, an armed Sufi follower guarding the gathering. The arrivals were being checked and other guards stood outside a gate.

Ruqiya Hussein, a veiled woman, traveled from an al-Shabab-held town 90 kilometers (55 miles) away to get to a place of worship.

"I am thrilled to see my sheiks come back to lead us again," she said, squeezing her henna-tattooed fingers before she joined a group of women swaying and chanting rhymes.

Sufis were known for spreading Islam across Somalia through peaceful teaching and practicing tolerance toward other faiths. Some Sufis hope that their style finds fertile ground in a nation recovering from the wounds of extremism and war.

"Unlike others we don't kill or harass people. Instead, we provide examples of how to live." said,Sheik Abdirizaq Aden, the regional leader of the faith.

Al-Shabab, a group of al-Qaida-linked militants that seeks to instill an ultra-conservative brand of Islam across Somalia, controlled Mogadishu from roughly 2007 to 2011. The group still dominates most of south-central Somalia but has seen its territory reduced after military pushes by African Union and Somali forces.

The Sufis in the capital now feel free to practice their faith. In central Somalia, after the graves of sheiks were desecrated and killings occurred, Sufis used weapons to kick militants out of some key towns. The conflict in that part of the Horn of Africa nation persists.

Somalia fell into chaos in 1991 when warlords overthrew longtime dictator Siad Barre and turned on each other. Two decades of violence followed, but the capital and some other towns have seen strong security gains during the last 18 months that have allowed businesses and even sports leagues to thrive.


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5/17/2013 3:11:53 PM

How UFO believers make our government more transparent

"Every major military agency receives an enormous amount of requests about UFOs."

There is a group of people in America that may be more committed to prying documents from the government than just about anyone else: People who believe that Unidentified Flying Objects are real.

UFO believers have been dutifully trying to prove the existence of alien lifeforms for decades, largely by submitting countless Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. These requests are so exhaustive, they've actually spawned new laws for how government decides to give up its other (more mundane) secrets.

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"There are individuals who file FOIA requests every single time a new report of a UFO comes in, asking all the relevant agencies to look for mentions of a triangular object" says Kel McClanahan, an attorney specializing in national security and privacy law. "Every major military agency receives an enormous amount of requests about UFOs."

One of those FOIA requesters is 32-year-old John Greenewald Jr., a television producer and writer in North Hollywood, Calif. He says he's filed hundreds of FOIA requests about UFOs. He filed his first request when he was 15, and received a four-page document detailing the 1976 Tehran UFO encounter that read "like an X-Files episode." After that, he says he "was hooked," and has since amassed more than 700,000 pages of government documents, most of which he's posted online.

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He's not the only one. Larry Bryant, who spent decades writing for U.S. Army publications, claimsthat he has "filed more UFO-related lawsuits in federal court than has anyone else in the entire universe."

It's not unusual for a UFO FOIA case to make it to court. In a 1981 case, Ground Saucer Watch v. CIA, William Spaulding, head of a small UFO group, alleged that the CIA was hiding information about the "Robertson panel," a government intelligence advisory committee that met in 1953 to investigate a spate of UFO sightings. The group filed a FOIA lawsuit, which forced the CIA to conduct a search of all UFO-related documents — even if it was a piece of paper stuck under a secretary's desk.

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According to the CIA's website, "It was much like the John F. Kennedy assassination issue. No matter how much material the Agency released and no matter how dull and prosaic the information, people continued to believe in a Agency coverup and conspiracy."

McClanahan says the real implication of this case came in determining how far down the rabbit hole an agency has to go to find a document. "While the court ended up ruling against Ground Saucer Watch, it took for granted that the agency had to do a full, comprehensive search for requested documents. And it also set a line where if you're looking for say, every document about Martin Luther King Jr, and one of those document mentions a church burning, the government is not expected to reasonably find the document related to the church." Today, the original 1981 case has been cited in hundreds of other decisions, and the CIA proactively puts UFO documents dating all the way back to the 1940s on its website.

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Like the CIA, other government agencies are expected to search in every nook and cranny for a FOIA request, even one about aliens. In a 2007 case, Kean v. NASA, a plaintiff requested historical documents concerning an object that allegedly fell from the sky and crashed in Kecksburg, Pa., in the 1960s. The court ultimately determined that NASA didn't adequately search for the documents, and directed NASA to come up with a plan to look for them again.

Even when a UFO group doesn't win a case, like what happened in 2001 in Citizens Against UFO Secrecy v. DOD, it still provides useful information for Americans wishing to file future FOIA requests. In UFO Secrecy, the plaintiff produced dozens of eyewitness accounts of the alleged UFO, but the court determined that "speculation that documents exist is insufficient to create a genuine issue of material fact." So even if Benghazi conspiracy theorists produced dozens of eyewitnesses to support a certain allegation, it makes no difference if the government doesn't have any documentation of it. "Because of this case, you'll see plaintiffs fighting about whether or not something happened — but a judge working by the book will rule against them, because they didn't fight the right fight," says McClanahan.

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Finally, say that a concerned American is looking for all information related to harmful contaminated water at the Marine Corps Camp Lejeune military base. Would the more effective search be "water tanks and toxins," or "water tanks or toxins?" Thanks to Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, the government ultimately has to choose the conjunction that is not unusual and unreasonable, so the hypothetical requester doesn't end up with a lot of information about random water tanks.

Whether or not you fall into the camp of the 36 percent of Americans who believe that UFOs are zooming around Earth, you've got to hand it to the persistence of the believers — the CIA and theNational Security Agency are actually dumping UFO-related cables on their public websites. "What other advocacy group can say that they're getting the government to proactively disclose everything there is to know about a subject?" says McClanahan.

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As John Greenewald Jr. puts it: "I would say all of my requests have been successful, in a way. Even a negative response tells a story and offers evidence... In regards to UFOs, there is always something to look for."

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY HERE?
5/17/2013 6:16:59 PM
Dear friends, here is part 2 of this great article by Steve Beckow

Humanity’s Decision to Ascend Collectively – Part 2/3

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