I grew up in a journalism family. My dad published a small-town weekly newspaper called The Windsor Beacon, as did his father before him. It seems like the "Beacon" was always a part of me… hence the masthead picture for this website.
… all to help people live with more consideration and kindness toward each other, and toward the planet and its other species.
Thanks to good luck, deep research, and lots of help from around the world and beyond (including from my wise, loving, and supportive wife Regina), I'm getting closer to achieving all those goals as I enter the autumn years.
Worldly matters. In the 1980s I worked with leading thinkers from many lands to launch a series of peace anthologies with penetrating views into modern social, political, economic, and scientific systems.
Other-worldly matters. Since 1988 (when near-fatal cancer caused me to rethink life and death) I've been immersed in a frontier field of research called ITC (instrumental transcommunication), the use of technologies to receive voices, images, and text from the finer worlds of spirit. I helped establish an international ITC panel that was able to sustain communications for a number of years with brilliant minds beyond our world—those who are sometimes called spirits and angels and ethereal beings, and who streamed pure, earth-changing information to us through our technical equipment. My main role in that group, INIT, was to gather up the contacts we received from the other side and to make them available to the public. One main aim of our group, after all, was to help enlighten humanity about our human spiritual heritage with the support and guidance of our spirit friends, especially The Seven ethereal beings whose messages are prominent on this website.
After giving hundreds of public presentations, seminars, and radio and TV interviews, and publishing a number of books and journals, I'm now (in 2014) withdrawing from the public eye in order to share the best information from those 35 years of research on two blogs I've set up for that purpose.
The two sites share some of the same articles that span life and afterlife, including The Human Story collection… but for the most part each site keeps its focus neatly on the appropriate side of the veil.
I hope you enjoy this two-pronged journey into human understanding, and join the discussions at the end of many of the articles.
Here on Macy Afterlife, the journey includes not just our planetary origins . . .
. . . but also our ancient human heritage . . .
. . . as well as our true spiritual nature . . .
. . . the influence of finer spiritual beings upon our lives . . .
. . . and what really happens to us after we die.
The contacts that I share on this site (those related to INIT and my own luminator photos) are based on years of serious research and are legitimate to the very best of my knowledge. They are the product of hard work, love, trust, and good will among colleagues on both sides of the veil.
That sums up the challenges of ITC research on Earth. The hormones and egos responsible for the savage side of human nature present a chronic obstacle to the unity and resonance needed to establish and sustain a contact bridge with the finer realms of spirit.
Once that obstacle can be overcome (and that will involve a refinement of human nature), ITC will be ready to enter a golden age. Love-based ommunication bridges between Heaven and Earth will open wide.
Until then, the contacts received by INIT members during a 6-year window of opportunity (1995-2000) and shared on this macyafterlife site stand as a reliable example of what is possible for our world… under fertile conditions of noble human attitudes.
That is one ambitious project……Good luck on your journey,I know I wouldn't dare….
Just a short note to thank you so very much for all the deep spiritual insights you give us. It's truly wonderful.
I must say I have by chance come across your research. I was reviewing a lecture by John E Mack when he referenced you and your work. My curiosity got the best of me and within ten or so seconds I was on the World ITC webpage.
I have two questions which arise in my mind every time I think deeply about this subject. How do you reconcile man's supposed path of evolution (from ardipithecus to australopithecene to homo) with the evidence presented to you? Also, I'm sure you're familiar with the research of Michael Newton. He presents a similar (and correct me if I am ignorant) but slightly different spiritual cosmology. How do you reconcile with his techniques and conclusions? Actually I am mistaken I have one more question. What about the conclusions of John E Mack with the extraterrestrial presence? How do they fit into man's progression?
Any response, even the possibility of you reading this, delights me. I am in college right now and try as much as possible to disperse this information to others, but I do not think it is ethical of me to do so until my confusions have been subsided and my thoughts organized. Being this confused and without any answers anymore is slightly frustrating, but I am trying to be patient.
I think there's a fine line between the worlds of spirit and the realms of ETs and UFOs. Both exist in realms of subtle vibration beyond our senses and sciences. Our spirit friends have made reference to various types of extraterresrial beings who move in and out of our world.
I suspect the complete evolutionary picture of humanity is like a big jigsaw puzzle, the various links that science has unearthed (australopithicus, neanderthal, hobbit…) are just a few puzzle pieces, and there are many, many more pieces yet to be found. How exactly the complete picture looks, of course… your guess is as good as mine. But I'm fairly certain that natural selection played no larger role in the big picture than did genetic engineering and cross-breeding by superhuman beings who were our distant ancestors.
I'm not real familiar with all of Michael Newton's research. I'm aware, though, that many afterlife researchers have many different views of the afterlife. I think it's just a matter of the spiritual realms and parallel physical realms being far too complicated for us to grasp with terrestrial patterns of thinking that are based in time, space, and structure. So, naturally, when we humans with our limited understanding view something that complex, we're bound to draw different conclusions as we try to reconcile the mysteries with our limited knowledge.
There seems to be a fine line between spirit and extraterrestrial. In my view, spirits, ETs and 'legitimate' UFOs all are able to move into and through our physical dimension and then exit into subtler dimensions… some of which are parallel material universes (in the case of ETs), and others of which are spiritual domains (inhabited by astral beings, ethereal beings, and so on).
I suspect that some of those ETs are involved in the on-going genetic refinements of humanity that (I believe) are aimed at adjusting our 'noble-savage' nature more and more toward the noble side… as we humans are able to civilize the world into a less savage place… so that our fears, animosities, greed, and other savage emotions become less and less necessary for our survival.
Is there anything you can tell me about a thought/mind bridge. Many thanks.
Here are links to some of the articles about the contact field (thought/mind bridge) that facilitates contact with the finer realms of spirit. Let me know if it has the information you're looking for. If not, plz be more specific.
Thank you for the links. I heard the term via evp and was wondering what exactly it meant.
Mandy, EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) is the precursor to ITC (instrumental transcommunication). EVP involves getting short, faint voices on a recording medium, like a tape recorder or digital voice recorder. ITC involves an open channel through which spirit can deliver long texts, images, and dialog through the electromagnetic energies of our technical equipment.
I'd like to make contact with you regarding an article for New Dawn magazine on the spirit faces phenomenon. Appreciate if you can drop me an email.
David, I'd be happy to write an article for your magazine.
I'll be in touch by email to get details.
I had mailed you a few days ago on our extreme interest in the activities of WorldITC and the findings and also summarizing our material and purpose in this field. This was mailed to you on your mail ID on the WorldITC site.
I am not too sure the mail has reached you or if you have discontinued using the worlditc mail id. We would like to make contact with you on the subject and would greatly appreciate if you could send a mail to me.
I'm happy you've made contact with me.
Your earlier email to me I did not receive, sorry to say.
and I think you do noble and important work.
I have contacted you before with questions and appreciated your responses. Your research and ideas are groundbreaking. The implications of some of your exploratory research defy so many of our conceptions and shed light upon some very controversial philosophical arguments. For instance, I am very interested in how your research adds to our understanding of the concept of time. On the banksides of the river of life you have reported that people have been observed living in the style of present and past peoples from Earth, but not in the style of potential future people. To me, this indicates that the future does not exist yet. There's many possible realities the concept of time could be….past, present, future existing at once, only the present moment existing etc.. From your research it seems to point toward time moving forward, with the future not in existence yet. It also implies that in the other dimensions time is somewhat synchronized with our time in the sense they are both moving forward at the same time.
My other question, a little unrelated, is why do people seem to always to appear in their last past life form out of all of their possible endless existences? If your earthside personality is derived from your current life's past, where youre born, your intelligence, your disposition, your economic class…I guess what I'm trying to say is do our lives on earth create this astral personality or does the earth personality emerge from our spiritual disposition? and if the latter is true, how is this possible?
Sorry for the hundred questions. Your research is a constant influence on my thought, but raises a lot more questions than answers.
Great questions, Cody. Our spirit friends have talked about 'fields of possibility' when addressing the future. Timelines forward from the present apparently can branch in various ways… and sometimes DO branch in more than one direction, spinning off into parallel worlds that continue to exist and advance simultaneously. Not an easy reality to grasp with our worldly minds!
Regarding multiple lifetimes of the same soul… one of our spirit friends related his experience, after getting settled in on the other side, of being accompanied to a hall, and a glass-like chamber… similar to what you might see on Star Trek. As he observed the scene unfolding in the chamber, he saw a "Fugger" (a 17th-Century European banker) riding in a carriage. As he became engrossed in the scene, feeling an unavoidable pull, he was warned by his friends to detach emotionally from the scene. He'd been that banker in another lifetime, and he could easily be "pulled in" to the scene, losing his current 'self' (as the late father of one of the ITC researchers).
So, that'll give you an idea of reincarnation and its effects on us after we die. I know it doesn't provide the complete answer… but the more I learn about these things, the more questions I find that need to be answered. It seems we won't know the full truth until we leave this world of limited understanding, get settled in on the other side, and then begin a new journey of spiritual ascendancy… moving ever inward through subtler illusions toward the truth.
Good luck with your seeking!
There is something I would add to this, and that is: Tell the people who are important in your life how much they mean to you, and why you value them. It is so easy to forget to let those closest to us know how much we appreciate their presence, their wise counsel, and the things they do for us, big and small. Tell them while they are still here with you, sharing your life.
I think this also helps.
. . . .I bought your CD, Bridges to Paradise made in cooperation with the Monroe Institute with their Hemi-Sync frequencies integrated, at your talk at the Theosophical Society in Wheaton, Illinois. I like it. Is it a consistent focus 10 throughout? Any special frequencies included? I ask because parts of it are really deep. That's good! But my other focus 10 CD's (also products of the Monroe Institute) are not so deep, and I was wondering.
The Bridge to Paradise CD (in the heart meditation segment) uses the same frequencies as TMI's popular Heart-Sync CD, which I believe is Focus 18, but I'm not sure. I agree: it takes you to a deeper, more peaceful place than their usual Focus 10… which is also used on Bridge to Paradise, during the journey to the paradise afterlife.
Hm, the question about persistence in EVP/ITC experiments is a little harder. You pretty much have to follow your feelings on that. Here's what I know from my research: Some people are born with a psychospiritual aptitude that facilitates ITC contacts. "Things just happen" in their presence… anomalies with electrical equipment. Some people gain this aptitude after a near-death experience. I suspect that anyone can foster that aptitude to some degree by fostering psychospiritual purity through meditation… but I'm not so sure that they can ever really excel at it. I know that continued EVP/ITC experiments gradually attract a spirit group around the experimenter, and the developing rapport sometimes leads to louder, clearer voices and better communications. Beyond all of that, each person can choose how intently he or she wants to pursue the experiments. I'd always recommend focusing on ethereal beings (angels) and inviting their support and help. They can help to raise your spiritual vibration and attract a finer group of spirits to come into your spirit group.
We have some good ideas on our http://www.worlditc.org website; click on "Tips for Experimenters" on the left of the homepage.
Hi, Mark, I'm not sure if I putting this 'comment', which is really not a comment, in the right place, so please forgive me.
Reveal your 5-15 top blog picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog (I have only five picks).
* Copy and paste the award on your blog.
This is an opportunity to share our knowledge of other blogs . . . although it is not required.
Congratulations and best wishes! Thanks for all you are doing.
I'm sure we'll be in good company with this… so MANY good blogs out there.
Dear Mark You know we love your work. Making available such research from Timestream is one of the sources I have found to be clear and accurate. Your writing as ever is engaging and wonderful. Keep it up! Sincere wishes from Bill and Deb as we get ready to move from Australia to New Zealand to further our alternative spiritual work. Best wishes from us and beyond. You are loved.
Thanks, Bill and Deb, very much appreciated.
Wishing you a happy holiday season and a spiritually rewarding life in New Zealand… which Regina and I have not yet visited but have heard only wonderful things about.
Is there a site where I can see the sort of alternative spiritual work you're involved in? i sense a resonance….
Bill and Deb, I think this is yours…?
I realize you're engaged in other activities of a spiritual nature however, have you completely abandoned research in ITC?
I no longer experiment, but I continue ITC research in the area of writing, studying (past contacts), and exploring future possibilities. The contact field hasn't accommodated exceptional contacts for the past decade or so. I'm hoping that changes in the coming years.
I can appreciate your position but out of curiosity, how will you know if contact can be established if you don't try? Do you still try to check-in from time to time?
June, I'm always open to new ITC breakthroughs. I "keep on top of it" mostly through my dreams and meditations. Intuitively I'll know when a reawakening starts to happen.
I have only skimmed the content of this web site having become aware of it from a comment made in an Interview I was listening to. I struggle with the ideas surrounding this Earthly existence. I had some lengthy discourses a number of years ago with some Guides, via a channel. They described this world as a rehabilitation Planet. My purpose here was to expand in consiousness. So, if this is true, why try and change things on this planet? The Ego, and all it's ugliness and tendency for destructive activity is precisely what makes this place such an awfull and yet wonderfull learning environment. It would be like going to a Marine training base, and disassembling all the obsticles and hazards, to make it park like. What good would that be?
And really, why are so many people concerned about the other side? We are of that other side! It would be like going to a movie and focusing all ones attention on the projector or other aspects of the movie house.
That seems to be the consensus… that Earth life is a soul school of sorts. A place for our finer self to learn and experience. If that's true, then yes, it would seem a waste of time to try to make things nicer around here.
In a nutshell, the light from the source (that manifests everything) grows dim by the time it gets this far removed from center, so there are pockets of chaos and darkness. Souls choose lifetimes on Earth as though enlisting for the front lines of battle, with the aim of eventually spreading the light, love, and wisdom into this dark and troubled realm.
I could be wrong about all that, but it's certainly the scenario that makes the most sense to me.
If I'm right, then it's IMPORTANT to try to make the world a better place during our lifetimes. That's why we're here: to spread light from the source out into the furthest reaches.
We also have secondary reasons for reincarnating…having to do with karma, mistakes we made in past lifetimes, and so on… but the primary purpose is to spread the light through our thoughts, words, and actions… (imho).
Hi Mark, I'd recognize you anywhere. Long time since Denver/Broomfield- huh? I'm finally getting around to looking over your stuff. congratulations on your slight shift into the spiritual and out of the experimental. you are nailing it right on the head as far as I'm concerned. Little did we know way back then… Huh ! If everyone trusted and allowed the truth that you are laying out for us all…..it would be a short hop to winning the game.
Did I ever get my book to you, by the way? I'm reading yours for the 2nd time.
Great hearing from you after all these years.
Are you and Linda settled in well on the northwest plains?
I enjoyed our weekly experimental meetings here in the lab… but yes, it was time to get more into the spiritual (and literary) aspects of the research.
No, I haven't seen your book yet. I remember you were working on it before your move west.
A lot of warm wishes to you both, from Regina and me.
I am really happy that I found your site (my brother directed me). I have very quick question. Does sleep paralysis has anything to do with spirit world or it's just a simple brain disorder?
Thanks for this question, Kristina!
I wasn't aware of sleep paralysis.
After some quick research, I'd venture to say, yes, it can be related to spirit.
For one thing, I suspect that very often when the body is in any sort of paralysis state (sleep, hypnosis, coma…), the astral body, or spirit body, is somewhat detached from the physical body, exploring the astral surroundings near the physical location.
So… in the case of "seeing" spirits in the room during sleep paralysis, I'd suspect that it's the astral body that's seeing them, and the information can make its way to the conscious mind the same way we remember dreams upon awakening.
I plan to do some more research on this and write an article for this blog in the coming days.
I was born and raised into a religion that my family belongs to. I followed that religion and study the believes until my late twenties. I am no longer an active member of the religion as I started to have so many questions about the purpose of this life, different religions/believes, death, afterlife, etc. However, while I was an active member of the church and by all the deep religious teachings/studies I had through out the years, I have to agree that there were many concepts I learned that make a lot of sense when reading your theories and research. For example, what you call "built-in Blinders", in my family's religion it is called the "Veil" – such as a veil that covers our conscious or memories of the "pre-existed life and spiritual world".
Also, over the years, I started to build up my own theory of the creation of the earth. Of the creation of this world. I believe that there are so many other planets and universes that are much more advanced than ours and that our planet was actually created by these more advanced living beings (or what other people might call "ETs"). I don't believe in Darwin's "Evolutionary Theory" or that the man is the evolution of the Ape Species. I believe that this world (the earth) was created by using the matter of other worlds/planets from other universes and the fossils of the Dinosaurs or the fossils that "link the evolution from ardipithecus to australopithecene to homo" are actually parts (fossils) of the matter of many different planets that were used to make the earth. I know that this might sound weird, but I have a strong believe that we, as spirits, actually develop from one stage (world) to the other. I believe that there some planets (worlds) that are inferior than ours and others that are extremely more advanced and that we might have born in different planets and universes and we progress from one world to another as we aim to achieve the higher stages.
I believe in spirits as I have had my own "paranormal" experiences. And, as you mentioned in one of your articles, we have to be careful when wishing or calling for the spirits of our beloved ones. I believe that they are all around us, but in different dimensions. The synchrony between the physical and the spiritual world is different, and the contact experience can be very unpleasant (like the feeling of being possessed by a dark force/ or a shock).
I would like to have your input to what I have just describe to you. I am facing a phase of my life which I question everything: the purpose of this life, what comes after it, the purpose of all different believes and religions… I have had many loses in my life which have left a deep sense of emptiness. I forgot to mentioned to you but I studied Clinical Psychology, so I am very familiar with all the mental disorders and illnesses. I agree with you that there are so many misconceptions regarding schizophrenia/Hallucinations… I do agree with you that these people suffering from hallucinations are actually more sensitive/ or have a closer connection with the other side. Or that their "blindness/veil" is thinner than a "normal person", so they can see what we cannot see. They live between the worlds as in parallel and it can be very disturbing.
I just need to have some assurance or hear some other opinions about the purpose of all of our suffering. I would like to know what other people think about the after life and to expect regarding being re-united to the people we learned to love and we lost. The sense of emptiness or lack of purpose is so depressing. It feels like I am living in a vacuum / dark blinded world.
– Much of the natural life on Earth was engineered by intelligent beings from other worlds… something done either instead of or alongside darwinian evolution.
– The veil / blinders that block our view of the spirit worlds around us.
– Some people with finer senses can see beyond the veil. They might be inspired geniuses or psychic mediums or mystics or schizophrenics, depending largely on their disposition and the disposition of the spirits they interact with.
So, to your main issue… What's the real purpose of taking a lifetime on Earth and going through all the suffering this world has to dish out?
Some people say Earth is the lowest density planet anywhere, which I think could be true.
Some people say souls choose lifetimes on Earth as a learning experience, since the raw noble-savage lifestyles can't be found anywhere else, which I also think might have some truth in it.
But… my main view for the past 15 years or so has been that we (souls) choose lifetimes on Earth the way young men enlist in the military. The dense, low-vibration life here on the physical Earth is far removed from the finest realms of spirit of very high vibration close to the Source, where there's perfect light and order. Out here on the fringes, the life energy from the Source gets so slow and dense that pockets of darkness and chaos form.
The mission we choose at a soul level (I think) is to live a lifetime on Earth with the aim of spreading more light from the Source out into this noble-savage world… to battle against those pockets of darkness and chaos. We do that through our spiritual pursuits, and through our thoughts, words, and actions. The more we do that, the more we spread order into the farthest reaches of creation.
That might be the main purpose of "The Project" that the ethereals told us about: To see how far out into the denser realms the perfect light from the Source can penetrate and maintain its integrity… before degrading into darkness and chaos. If that's true, and if it's true that Earth is at the very densest of the material realms, then we humans on Earth do indeed have a very important role in the overall scheme of things!
Not always an easy life… but certainly an important one, at the soul level!
I see you were asking for other opinions about the purpose of our life (and the suffering that's bundled with it). I want to go ahead and chime in.
The world we live in seems to be a very dark world. It's a world where people tend to advance at the expense of others. It's a world where we seem to be empty vessels. It's a world where our spirit feels uncomfortable and trapped. I agree that it seems as if we are living in a "vacuum" of some sort. We're on the fringes of the spiritual spectrum. It gets very messy out here, and it seems downright depressing, empty, shallow, terrifying and hopeless. If malicious intent and negative emotions were dangerous toxins and chemicals, I'd recommend wearing a hazmat suit for the entire duration of your stay on Planet Earth.
Where do I believe we wind up after the expiration of our physical body? I'm still trying to figure it out, but I have to say that what we call the "afterlife" is indeed a place closer to "the light". It's a sort of cosmic existence. There are many different levels of existence, and we are the only ones who determine where our next location will be. A lot of Mark's work (and his colleagues) has helped me to connect a lot of dots, and I believe that the experiences and research of ITC researchers around the world have revealed some important bits of information to help us realize who we really are.
I've heard the phrase that we're a "spirit going through a human experience", and I think that could be true. I've never had a paranormal experience per se (I'm assuming you're referring to the manifestation of ghostly entities), but I've had some very profound and special times where I felt like I was more than my physical body. They were special awarenesses – ones that transcended our 5 natural senses.
If we're constantly thinking in the back of our mind that we'll be going to a better place after we're done with our endeavors in this world, then odds are that we will be going to a place that is superior on a spiritual level to earth (and that's actually most of the places that exist).
I hope this helps, Viv!
Thank you so much for your input. I agree that the Earth is a very dense/low vibration life source. I see the Earth as one of the dimensions that is probably one of the farthest from the light source/the core. And there are all kind of different level spirits that have chosen or have been placed to live in this world. Some are very high level spirits that have chosen to live here (or come back) to bring the light to the human beings that are in the darkness and some are very primitive spirits that still have a long journey of learning before reaching the next level.
Some of the experiences I had were very pleasant while others were very unpleasant. When I was young and I was falling asleep (the stage between conscious and unconscious – when the line between the "reality and blinder block" is very thin) I would sometimes jump out of my bed for seeing a very dark/swamp like place. With spider coming down on my face. Or I would listen and see kids laughing and playing around me in a vey nice bright full garden. I knew I was not "hallucinating" because I could still hear or partially see my surrounding – as an example, I was seeing and listening all these kids laughing and playing araound my bed but at the same time I could hear my mother washing her face in the nearby bathroom. It was like I was in between 2 different dimensions.
The latest experience I had was not very pleasant. It was father's day and I was in the process of divorcing my ex-husband. He had come for dinner that night to celebrate father's day with our son. But I felt very lonely and depressed when he left. My father died when I was 12 years old. And that night I really wished my father to still be alive and close to me. In the middle of the night I woke up to go to the kitchen to drink water, and I remember closing the kitchen door to keep my cats in there and not running around the house in the middle of the night. When I went back to bed (and I know I was still awake) I started to feel my comforter to "fluffy" like when the cats come on and start gently paddling the covers… I had felt that before but had gone out of the bed, as I was scared. But that night I decided to let it continue to see what would happen. I knew for sure that none of my cats were in the bed with me as I had just locked the kitchen door. So the fluffy on the covers continued and became more and more intense, to a point that I felt a very heavy presence on the top of me. All of a sudden I couldn't move, hear, breath, or scream. I was completely dominated by a very powerful force. All I could do (and I did in desperation) was to start mentally praying for God to help me and then the force was gone. I know that it might have lasted seconds, but it was very scary and powerful. Now I wonder if it was my father that tried to make contact and "embrace" me as I was crying and calling for him, and because he is in a different dimension, the synchrony between the two worlds caused the experience to feel like a sleep paralyses/a electrical shock. Or if it were really some dark forces trying to suffocate me… I was so scared that once I was freed from the force, I jumped out of my bed and went to sleep with my then 9 year old son.
I never had any other "encounters" after that. I just learned that I should accept that my father is gone and living in a different dimension and I should not disturb or be calling him.
I know that we have all different of level beings living in the Earth and most of them have a lot to learn and grow in order to pass to a higher level.
I just would like to know what are the plan for us, the purpose of being in this so dense and dark world. I sometimes feel jealous of my family for believing in their religion and knowing in their heart the purpose they have in this life. I wish I had found the answers for all my questions, but I am still searching for the purpose of my existence. I really appreciate that you two share lots of my own beliefs and I would like to continue learning and discussing your findings/researches/philosophy.
I still have some questions that maybe you during your life time of study and research can help me have a better understanding. We know that the highest level spiritual beings are the ones closer to the light/ to the core. However there are other beings that are evil and have chosen to leave in the darkness. Why would some spirits fight to progress to the light? Who are these spirits that try to divert the work and positive influence of the beings of light?
Will these spirits ever progress or there will be always a separation between good and evil? Maybe you can help me understand all the different levels/ dimensions which we travel through out our existence. From the very primitive level to the higher one.
I believe we had many beings of light that came to live in the earth to bring the spirit of unity/brotherhood /love – like Jesus Christ / Gandhi / Buddha / Mother Theresa and many others. All these high level beings lived a very humble and simple live and all they did was to spread love with their teachings.
However, there are still many evil forces pushing the humanity to commit monstrous and horrible things. Leading the humans to become selfish, aggressive, individualistic. All of these dark forces lead to war, prejudice, hate, disconnection. Exactly the opposite that the higher spirits have come to teach us. Why would some people let themselves get influenced by these negative forces? And why these evil spirits don't want to progress to the higher levels?
I know that I am asking a lot of questions, but I would like to have a better understanding on these different/opposite forces.
This is certainly Mark's area of expertise. In fact, everything that has inspired and influenced my current spiritual pathway actually began with my discovery of ITC, and http://www.worlditc.org. I have explored many other areas of spiritual development, but this one tends to make the most sense to me. I have so much to learn that it is overwhelming – but I know that I actually have a firm grip on the foundation of my spiritual development. I'm happy that Mark has this site, because it allows me to connect with people of like-mind, and it helps me to stay "on track", so to speak. I feel like my learning has only just begun – it's as if I have just read the introductory chapter in a very, very, very long and complex textbook. I now know the basic outline of things, but my learning needs to progress into the finer details.
I hope this was worth sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing with me your thoughts and refer the "Angels of Comfort" by Iasos. It was beautiful, peaceful, and calming.
I agree with you that there is so much to learn. I also taking the first baby steps towards a more profound knowledge and soul searching.
The teachings and philosophy of Mark Macy makes a lot of sense to my own beliefs. The many realms of existence / our extra-terrestrial inheritance. The extra-terrestrial inheritance explains the advanced civilizations we had in the past and the amazing constructions /buildings that were generated by these beings of higher knowledge. Without a very high tech knowledge, it would have been impossible to built the ancient structures such as the pyramids/ or a whole civilization like Machu-Picchu… It is amazing to finally find a site/blog that shares the beliefs I have developed through out my life time. But as you mentioned, there are still so many things to learn that can be overwhelming. I still have so many questions that I would like to find the answers.
Why did the human beings lost the connection with the higher beings?
Why were they exterminated from these planet? Why the planet earth was left in the darkness for so many centuries?
After the mankind lost the contact with the higher beings, the dark age came and lasted for a long time. But it is amazing that in a matter of 100+ years, the earth slowly start o came out of the darkness and so many things were discovered and developed: the electricity/ the telecommunication/ the cars/ the cure for many diseases/ the machines / the computers… The world continue to grow more and more into higher technology. Does it mean that these higher advanced beings have come back to our civilization and help us get out of the chaos of darkness?
Genius such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Albert Sabin, Alexander Fleming, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Carl Benz, and many others.
It is amazing to see the progress of science and technology in the last century.
I really appreciate your share and input.
How are the souls generated/made/born?
Is it our ultimately goal to reach the Etheral Realm? Or the Astral Realm?
What happened after we reach the highest level?
Are there more than one Universe, so the spirits that move/ grow from the Astral Realm can create their own Etheral/Core Realm and start a new kind of Universe / Life?
I know that these are very deep/ profound questions, but I really would like to know if you might have some input to any of these questions.
Souls emanate from the source (God, Brahma…)… like sparks from a 4th of July sparkler.
We all have one of those sparks within us, so this illusory life on Earth is just the outer shell of our complete self.
We are already, at this moment, living not just here on Earth but also in the astral and ethereal realms… at finer levels of our existence.
When we die, we just cease to exist out here on teh illusory fringe. but we continue to live at finer levels.
There are many material and astral and ethereal universes teeming with brilliant life… all spiinning off from the source..
What I've always wondered is if there are more than one source. Are there many Gods, all spinning countless universes? Or just the one God to whom we're all connected?
Hi I had a question about the astral planes…. You frequently mention Marduk and the third astral planes… are their many different 3rd level astral planes or is Marduk the only 3rd level astral plane where humans go when they die… are their more 3rd level astral planes besides just marduk and the river of eternity???
That's a good question, Jason. Since most of our ITC communications came from "Marduk" and "Timestream" and the "River of Eternity" and the "Third Level," these concepts tend to get kind of jumbled.
There are many, many levels or vibrationally discrete universes in the omniverse, all superimposed like radio signals that are jumbled together in the air around us. I think it's complex beyond what these material minds of ours can grasp, since we're kind of locked-in to 5 senses streaming information about our material surroundings into our physical brain. It makes it hard to see the greater reality without some inner work that lifts us beyond the 5 senses and the brain.
In order for a good spirit group like Timestream to communicate with us on Earth through ITC, it's important that we all share a common view of life on both sides… their reality and our reality. That's a big challenge because our limited view of the big picture here on our side. What is needed is some kind of model that simplifies infinity into something we can understand… and that's where "third level" comes in.
The River of Eternity encircles the astral planet Marduk, like a snake biting its own tail. I suspect that there might have been a massive river on the physical planet Marduk that also circled the entire planet… but of course that's just conjecture on my part. Structures in an astral world are sometimes templates or subtle copies of structures that exist in a corresponding material world… so it would make sense that the late planet Marduk had such a river.
Timestream is a sending station that sits along the banks of the River of Eternity on the astral world Marduk.
Thanks, Jason, for giving me the opportunity to put this all into clearer perspective. I've got the information scattered around this site, but it's nice to wrap it all up neatly in one place.
Thanks for the reply Mark I really appreciate it that cleared up a-lot for me. I had another question… do you think the government or some other organization may secretly research ITC or other worldly research in a covert fashion???
Thank you very much, Viv, for sharing your experience with me. I'm feeling better that I'm not alone in this case.
Hi Mark. I just started a blog of my own and would love to get your input on it, about it, or anything you might be able to add to make it more coherent. Thanks George.
Most people can only imagine the things you and other homeless people have to go through.
If you can keep going with the blog, I think it could open a lot of eyes.
Maybe even help to move legislation to get more help to the poor.
I like to keep in mind that life on Earth is just an illusion… not always an easy one or a pleasant one.
There's a better life in a brighter world awaiting everyone of good will.
Meanwhile, I would love to see a Basic Income program adopted in the States, giving every adult about $1,000 a month.
It's the only way I can think of to be sure no American is left out in the cold.
I was astonished, surprised and very glad to find your new website this evening! It seems we share some more interests than ITC. I will write more about this later. Good luck in your good work!
Many years since our good times in INIT.
I look forward very much to further dialog!
Warm wishes to you and your family.
I also have a more personal question to you. If you have a private email address, please tell me.
I remember the fascinating afterlife reports from Maggy's father, but I'm not sure if I saw them all (there might have been more published in Zoom). I agree that this is all valuable information, and should be made public.If Zoom has been posted online somewhere, I have not been able to find it.
Anyway, my email is itcmark@gmail.com. Looking forward to hearing from you!
I've been following your work for 11 years now, more or less, and I may be the only people in the world besides you and your fellow ITC contactees who've read everything you've posted on this subject of ITC, including reading all of the German translated pieces, despite their poor translation quality–still, invaluable, invaluable information.
Sorry about the couple of grammatical typos above lol…and I'm a writer and editor! I just type too fast.
Maggy was a very private person when I knew her. She and her husband avoided attention and publicity as long as I knew them, and they sought out collaborators only because of guidance from Technician and Timestream, who told the couple there had to be a unity among researchers before ITC could take the next big step.
As I recall, "Zoom" was a short-lived publication, which I didn't receive nor translate.
I agree, this is amazingly important information!
I've known of this work for many years, as I first heard of it from Hans Heckman who came to me over a number of years for Chiropractic Care. Recently I was relating some of what I learned from Hans to someone and decided to see what has transpired since my last contact with Hans. That search eventually led me to this site.
I wonder if you could give me an update on Hans and Rita. I lost touch with them when they moved from Lansdowne. It's been so long, I don't imagine that they are still with us. I've always regretted not keeping in touch with them, I learned so much from them.
So much of the information on this site is compliments of Hans, who translated all of the ITC contacts that came through in German (and by far most of them were in German) into English.
He was a good friend, and it's wonderful to hear from someone who helped him out along the way on his worldly journey!
Thank-you so much, Mark! It was so good to read the article about Hans. Through Tanya, his granddaughter, I was able to reconnect with his daughter, Rita Marie, who I had also taken care of. She mentioned that you may possibly start working with Hans. If so, please keep me in the loop. That would be awesome.
Pat, I'm glad you've gotten to know some of Hans's family, a pleasure I never had.
I'm not working on an active ITC bridge at the moment.
It would be wonderful to be on contact with Hans, and with our mutual friend George Meek, and if that happens (they've got my phone number 🙂 ), I'll certainly post all the details here on this blog.
Best wishes in your practice…….
Thanks for the link and background.
Best of success with your experiments!
I hope you are well. I'm wondering if you ever still speak on ITC? We have a conference coming up….
No, I haven't given public presentations for a number of years.
The readers might be interested……..
Hello Mark, I was in communication with you about 20 years ago through your ITC web site. One of the pictures that I found so fascinating was one of a planet close to earth in another dimension. I was reminded of this when I read a science article on the theory of a multi-deme signal universe. It even suggested there are other Suns and planets occupying the same space but in a different dimension. I was looking for that particular photo but could not find it. Would it be possible to send me a copy?
I vaguely recall that image (and the image was also kind of vague, as I recall 🙂 ),,, but I don't seem to have that image in my files, sorry to say. It was originally published in one of Maggy's CETL Infonews issues, I believe.
Thanks for the link, which readers may find useful.
I'm not on Facebook anymore, but thanks for the invitation.
After several years of intensive research regarding all things afterlife finding you on YouTube left me in shock for a couple of days because it was so absolute for me. I knew and know what you are passing on is truth. I can't believe that such staggering information you have gotten is hardly talked about or viewed in mainstream I can only conclude that maybe people will only beleive what they want to however much evidence you have. I pass on your name all the time but most are in disbelief (I think). I get lots of electrical communication through an old laptop it stops on certain words and lately on 2s its amazing how dates will add up to 22 or bhe 22 or there will be 222. I've been filming it now but realise people will only think I am controlling my laptop somehow and thats another thing the laptop starts when I ask it to. I can't thank you enough for the work you do.
Thanks Kate, that means a lot to me.
I think humanity will awaken spiritually when the time's right.
I suppose the best that people like me can do is just to gather up the best ideas and evidence and truths, and put it all out there for anyone who's ready.
That is most uplifting to me, to read that text above from you.
Now, please tell me what is your concept of luck, like as you put it above, "Thanks to good luck." What about bad luck?
I am most keen to read what you have to tell mankind what is luck.
… I'm more in the "prescriptive" luck camp, thinking that most of our fortunes, for better are worse, are choreographed by spiritual forces. Not just ethereal beings, spirit guides, and other invisibles, but also the force of karma, or spiritual consequences for our thoughts, words, and actions mostly in this lifetime, but also carried over from other lifetimes.
That's the short version, but I'm sure the subject deserves a lot more reflection.
What's your view on luck?


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Chrissy Teigen: How The Model Became A Social Media Phenomenon
February 5, 2019 by Larry O'Connell No Comments
The model, presenter and author has more than 20 million followers on Instagram.
Christine Diane Teigen (born November 30, 1985) is an American model and author who made her debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2010 and, alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge, appeared on the cover in 2014. She formerly was a part of the lifestyle panel talk show FABLife and currently co-hosts Lip Sync Battle with LL Cool J on Paramount Network.
Teigen was born in Delta, Utah. Her mother is Thai and her father is of Norwegian descent. Her surname is pronounced /ˈtaɪɡən/ by the family, although she later came to prefer the "wrong" pronunciation of /ˈtiːɡən/. Teigen's father worked as an electrician and the family moved often. After living in Hawaii, Idaho and Washington, the family eventually settled in Huntington Beach, California when Teigen was a teenager. She was discovered by a photographer while working in a surf shop.
Chrissy Teigen has led a successful career, having been "discovered" as a model as a teenager and subsequently propelled into stardom.
She's now regarded as being one of the most influential individuals on social media, with millions of followers around the world avidly watching her every move.
Teigen has been known to frequently use her platform to voice her opinions with regards to a number of topics, including breaking taboos surrounding fertility issues, poking fun at her husband's singing career and expressing her staunch opposition to US President Donald Trump.
Her social media presence
Teigen has built a very strong reputation as being one of the most prominent individuals on social media in the entire world.
She currently has more than 10 million followers on Twitter and more than 20 million followers on Instagram.
Last year, Teigen posted a viral video in which she explained that people have been pronouncing her name wrong.
"I'm tired of living this lie," she says in the video, which has garnered more than 30,000 likes on Twitter. "It's Tie-gen."
She frequently uses social media to demonstrate her passion for cooking, posting videos of her many exploits in the kitchen.
In 2016 Teigen released her first cookbook, Cravings: Recipes for All the Good You Want to Eat, with her second book, Cravings: Hungry For More, being released this year.
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Run The Jewels Provide (Yet Another) Update On "RTJ4" Album
Will Smith On Race Relations In America: "It Isn't Getting Worse, It's Getting Filmed"
by Cherise Johnson
New York, NY – Will Smith made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday (July 28) to promote his upcoming film Suicide Squad and was asked by Fallon his thoughts on racism in America as well as the spectacle surrounding the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.
"Hearing people say that race relations are worse than they've ever been, it doesn't feel like that to me," the award-winning actor says. "Racism isn't getting worse, it's getting filmed."
The observation comes in light of the many deaths of unarmed Black men by police. The unjust killings of Philando Castille and Alton Sterling, less than 24 hours apart from each other, sparked a national outrage and demand to convict the officers who were caught on tape using excessive force.
"It feels to me like what happens in marriage counseling: once everything gets out on the table, the truth, once everybody's said everything they've been harboring, there's a really dark time when you're just looking at your partner like, 'Oh my god, that's what you think?,'" Will continues. "But there's a dark before the dawn. When everything gets out, it's a good thing. It just sucks bad when the truth is out. But I think everybody can see it now. And I think it's just a little darkness before the cleansing that we'll have as we move forward."
In the past, The Smith's vocalization of race relations had been politically correct, however, earlier this year Will's wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith staged a boycott of the Oscars due to their lack of diversity.
Check out Will Smith's interview with Jimmy Fallon below.
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Latest satellite imagery shows the river Brahmaputra disappearing into a 900 m underground tunnel in China.
In what is perhaps the first evidence of a possible diversion project by China, latest satellite imagery shows a massive new dam on the Brahmaputra river — Yarlong Tsangpo in Tibetan — with an underground tunnel that seems to engulf the entire water flow for almost one kilometre.
The Brahmaputra is sacred to Indians and Tibetans alike and has its origins in the Angsi Glacier in Purang county of Tibet. It has been in the news for water reportedly turning black on the Indian side and in connection with Chinese plans to divert it to the arid lands of the Taklamakan desert.
Although the Indian government has said that there is no evidence of any water diversion project, satellite imagery from 26 November 2017, courtesy US commercial vendor of space imagery DigitalGlobe, indicates a new project in an advanced stage. This report – based on latest satellite images — examines only the actual ground position. Measurements are made on very low resolution images and may not be exact.
The available images show a new 200 m wide dam that seems to have completely blocked the water of the Brahmaputra. The entire river seems to be forced into two inlets of almost 50 m width each towards the west of the river. The water flow comes out after around 900 m downstream in two outlets very similar to the size and shape of the inlets.
The project – currently under construction – is located 60 km east of Shannan township as the crow flies. The location is also almost 40 km east of Sangri county.
What has raised questions about this project is that another project – Tsangmo or Zangmu Dam — has recently been constructed just 13 km downstream. This run of the river dam was made operational in end-2015 and has a capacity of 510 MW power production. Beijing did not pay any attention to India's objections to the Tsangmo dam.
The construction of another dam 13 km upstream of Tsangmo which diverts the entire water inside the mountain suggests that its purpose may not just be hydropower generation. The purpose of this project is possibly for diverting a portion of the Brahmaputra to the parched areas of Taklamakan desert.
The geography of the area, when studied deeply with the elevation profile, clearly indicates that China may actually be planning to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra approximately 1,100 km northwest of the project site.
The path indicated on the image below shows the possible route of the underground tunnel which does not touch any water body on its way. The height difference at the project site and the point of Taklamakan desert suggest that a clear downslope will be available for the water to flow naturally without any additional constructions for large storage wells in between.
India being downstream of the Brahmaputra has full rights over its waters and any diversion of water from this river could likely hurt Indian agriculture. During any emergency, a sudden release of water from this project can also cause havoc on the Indian side.
Satellite imagery shows that polymer resin adhesives are being sprayed by China all around this project area as a dust suppressant system. The resin adhesives are commonly used for large construction projects but are never used for projects near water, according to some water projects construction engineers, since these polymer resin adhesives are said to be harmful to humans and animals.
The resin sprays have been observed over the last two months. The rough estimate of time for water flow to reach India from this project location is 15 to 20 days. The colour of the Brahmaputra water in Assam acquiring a darker shade, according to reports in the media, could possibly be due to the use of these resin adhesives at this project site.
Satellite images clearly show stone crushers and cement plants at the site. The products of this facility are obviously used inside these tunnels for construction purposes. The material being quarried from inside these tunnels is being piled along the river up to the road level. Most of the stones have been crushed to different sizes and some of it may be pushed into the river along with the water flow.
A large number of tippers and other vehicles are seen carrying material to and from this area. An administrative area is also seen east of the project with a large number of red-roofed houses and barracks, possibly living quarters for staff and may also contain administrative buildings.
It is too early to come to a conclusion that China is diverting the entire Brahmaputra before entering India. Discussion through diplomatic channel is definitely necessary. By the way, even if the entire stream is diverted, will the Brahmaputra valley become a desert as spread by the local news channel. Assam & Arunachal have lot of rivers to feed the Brahmaputra. Some problem may come in the dry season of course. So let us not lose heart and urge the Central Government to initiate dialogue with China.
India should completely stop the flow of all west flowing rivers which enter Pakistan. We also have an entire Thar desert to irrigate.
China can't divert that river to desert because low land desert is thousand miles away, it can't be done today or any forseeable future, even if China wants.
And without that thousand miles of tunnels to low land desert, China can't divert the river any where up to the high platues. (Even if you pump the water upto the platues nearby, it will eventually ended into the rivers).
In a word there is no easy way for China to divert the river to anywhere, either too far, or to high.
What's more, around the river it is not feasible to build industry or agariculture center due to traffic communication and environmental feasibility, that means even local consumption of water is not possbilee, too.
Apparently that tunnel seen in the imaginary is for power plant. In construction phase, all water is better to be diverted around the construnction site. In operation phase, that same tunnel can be used for power generation or flood releasing.
Be alerted is ok but don't lose logic India friends.
Surveillance aside , this shouldn't worry us one bit.
2. The kind of watershed that Tibet contributes to Bramhaputra is just one portion less than a fifth. Higher being from catchment areas of tributaries when it enters India, highest being in Assam.
For fellow news readers, stop fear mongering!
a detailed write up (link posted below) would help erase any fears, that, we've had a "Foreign Policy Failure" and all that. Its world of information & you guys need to read up a bit.
Appreciate the time and effort put in by the author but we need more than Google Earth imaginary to reach at conclusions. Being a "space technology superpower" I certainly believe that people in govt must have better access to tools and means to come up with concrete evidence. Certainly the image shows daming but as suggested a) if upstream dam is being designed for diversion then one can not envisage run of the river scheme 13 kms down stream. B) we need to ascertain wheather there is decline in lean period discharge in our reach of river, If yes than certainly we need to fight for our right. What is alarming is that China has stopped sharing hydrological data's. Without genuine upstream hydrological data's , hydraulics of river couldn't be ascertained down stream. C) As far as quality of water is concerned, it's not a rocket science to analyse the constituent of water. I am amazed even after weeks we don't know what is increasing the turbidity of brahamaputra water. My take will be , let's refrain from drawing conclusions without proper analysis and evidence.
India is left with no option but to force China to stop or reverse the construction of tunnel & the river diversion at the earliest.
It is clearly evident that Indias foreign policy is getting weaker every day with Modiji in power. Other than mass propaganda and fly-by-night diplomacy it is proven beyond doubt that Modiji do not have courage to confront China.
You are absolutely right! Feku is an unmitigated disaster for the country, as rightly predicted by MMS in 2014!
New dam is going 2 make entire north east India a desert arround 4 crore people will suffer.India govt should take d matter immediately chainese counterpart but recent foreing minister meet of india n china didnot matter this issue which is a matter of concern 2 entire NE.
I'm not sure if you really are a major general, but if you are, I am genuinely worried that a naive person like you rose up the ranks that high. I really hope you're only a teenager somewhere pretending to be a major general.
Anyways, I'm not sure how many betrayals, veiled attacks and even direct, confrontational attacks from China it would take for one to realize that China can, will and is doing everything it possibly can to undermine India. They're being increasiongly open about their intentions too these days. Openly blocking Masood Azhar at the UN, Openly blocking India's bids at the UN security council, openly blocking India's NSG bid, making vast and ever-increasing territorial claims and so on. China is on a drive to green swathes of territory in Tibet, and Xinjiang which are currently hostile, inhospitable and basically barren. In diverting the Brahmaputra, the Chinese also have the other tactical move over India wherein they can significantly slowdown India's progress. A Double whammy. This is exactly what's happening. China needs to be dismantled.
Any diversion of the river would lead to a massive decline in water available for agriculture in India. The government must examine the latest satellite imagery and must take actions nexxesory. It's evident that China would never ever bow to Indian demands, the only option left would be to excerpt international pressure. Everything will.depend on how we can exercise our foreign policy. It's high time to play as a hard power rather than a soft power.
India must be aware of the strategic designs of some foreign powers to see that India and China may not be allowed to live in comparative peace, so that these powers are able to restrain rising India. This is one part. Another part is that it is possible that China might be doing what it is being reported here. Way out for India: India MUST analyse the Brahmputra waters to find out the residue of resins etc. and make sure of the truth of these allegations. If it is so, India MUST not only protest to China but also participate actively in the South China Sea coalition against China and contain China's agressive designs.
This government has been an utter failure in terms of foreign policy as well as internal and domestic policies. I do not expect them to be able to perform any such activity. At best, they will suppress this news from the mainstream media!
Premature to reach a definitive conclusion. Possible yes but more in the realms of fantasy. Needs more examination. Tunnels may be for generating power!
Do you need to divert the complete flow of a river for power generation?
There is a power generation dam just 13km downstream.
Why do you need another one so close?
No power grid or power lines observed. Obviously purpose of this diversion not likely to be power generation only.
In any case, it is illegal for China to stop a trans-border river completely.
Yes, when building a power station on a river, in many cases you need divert all flow of a river, and then divert back once completed.
In some cases when the river is wide enough, you can just block one half river first (hence divert all flow to another half river) and build that half part of station firstly, then switch the flow back and build another part of the station.
India should drop few nuclear bomb on china soon.


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På Väg Till Skolan
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Yoga Gains A Place Behind Bars In Hawaii - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii's Mental Health Crisis
Yoga Gains A Place Behind Bars In Hawaii
Updated: Louisa DiGrazia won a $35,000 grant from the Legislature to expand yoga classes throughout Oahu's correctional facilities.
By Brittany Lyte / December 20, 2018
Locked up for nearly half his adult life, Mark Kainuma found he could take control of his anger and quiet his racing mind through the ancient practice of yoga.
It's a skill he has cultivated while incarcerated at Waiawa Correctional Facility.
The 46-year-old Pearl City native said yoga has given him a system of self-care and healing. He believes his commitment to bending and breathing will help him break his cycle of imprisonment and reoffending.
Yoga instructor Louisa "Lu" DiGrazia has been teaching classes in the Oahu jail and prison system for more than two decades. This year the Legislature awarded her $35,000 to expand the program. Cory Lum/Civil Beat
Kainuma has been in and out of prison since 1997 on charges including kidnapping and abuse of a family member.
"Yoga for me gave me an opportunity to like use what's tangible, which is my body, to reach something that's intangible, which is my thoughts," said Kainuma, who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
On Wednesdays, Kainuma attends a three-hour yoga class in Waiawa's education building, where instructor Louisa DiGrazia teaches inmates how they can use yoga to reform their destructive tendencies.
(Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story identified DiGrazia as a volunteer yoga teacher. While she previously volunteered to teach classes in the Oahu corrections system, she is currently being paid by the state.)
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Yoga Is Helping Combat Vets Find New Strength And Peace Of Mind
Petite with a head of bouncy blonde curls, DiGrazia has been teaching yoga in the Oahu jail and prison system since 1992. Her goal is to save these incarcerated men and women from their trauma and pain, offering new tools for a more joyful and productive existence.
She has mostly been going at it alone, promoting yoga as therapy to prisoners in an era when it was considered the sport of far-out hippies.
This year her efforts won $35,000 in grant funding from the Legislature, allowing her to recruit, train and pay four additional yoga teachers to teach their own classes in state corrections facilities on Oahu. By early 2019, DiGrazia said she hopes to quadruple the scope of the yoga program at Waiawa, Halawa and Oahu Community correctional facilities.
"Inmates are on the bottom of the totem pole for funding — that's kind of what I've observed over time," said DiGrazia, who has donated dozens of yoga mats to her incarcerated students.
"But I think more than ever the system is recognizing the value of yoga practice. This is the moment of critical mass I've been waiting for where so many people know about yoga and its benefits and accept it."
To her students, DiGrazia is "Ms. Lu" — their energetic, pliable confidant. She discusses the brain-ravaging effects of sugar and what The Beach Boys really meant when they sang about good vibrations. She cracks jokes, offering to play a Led Zeppelin song before turning on meditation music.
With an encouraging pat on the back, she acknowledges her students with a whisper of, "let it go, let it all go," or "you're doing great!" This goes a long way in a population of men who don't often get positive reinforcement.
Waiawa Correctional Facility inmates, from left, William Brooks, Dante Rackley and Brendan Hill practice what DiGrazia calls "laughing pose." DiGrazia encourages humor as a quick feel-good fix and a coping mechanism. Cory Lum/Civil Beat
Teaching Patience And Empathy
Of course, not every inmate who signs up for the class is receptive to DiGrazia's teachings of self-discipline and proper spine alignment. But for every stiff-shouldered macho man who resists, she said there's another tough guy in the group who's willing to soften.
"Sometimes I feel like these guys got arrested to come to this yoga class," said DiGrazia, who uses humor to break the ice and build trust with her students.
"Guys will come up to me at the end of class and say, 'That's the first time I've relaxed in years.' Some of these guys have never been relaxed their entire lifetime."
"Most people would be surprised how decent and super-intelligent a lot of them are, it's just that they've been forced into square boxes where they don't fit."
"Sometimes I feel like these guys got arrested to come to this yoga class." — Louisa "Lu" DiGrazia, instructor
David Chad, a 31-year-old Waiawa inmate from Kauai, said DiGrazia's yoga classes have taught him patience and increased his empathy for others.
Yoga also helps him focus on his own positive growth.
"We're in here with so many personalities and everybody's at a different level, and this helps me from getting sucked in," Chad said. "I evaluate myself and the situation, so I don't get involved in something that I don't need to be involved with."
DiGrazia instructs Waiawa Correctional Facility inmates, from left, William Brooks, Dante Rackley and Brendan Hill. Cory Lum/Civil Beat
Dante Rackley, a 39-year-old Waiawa inmate, said he found DiGrazia's yoga class when he was searching for a new method of thinking.
At first, he was skeptical of the merits of balancing on one foot or improving his downward-facing dog. But he has come to accept these yoga techniques as valuable tools for cultivating awareness of his thoughts, emotions and breath.
His favorite part of the class is when DiGrazia instructs her students to stretch their arms up toward the sky, throw back their heads and laugh like you've just heard the most hilarious joke in your life.
"The reason I like it is because I was a little hesitant to do it at first because, I mean — well, you saw it!" Rackley said.
"But once you do it and you give it your all — I mean you've got to laugh like you just heard the funniest joke in the world. I don't know what it does in your body, but it's like laughter and humor is good therapy and it works."
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Interest rates for Treasury notes and bonds have increased modestly since the Treasury announced plans to sell three new issues this week, and analysts expect that yields are now close to the levels that insure good investor demand.
Because investors are loath to commit themselves to buying the $27 billion of new issues so long as prices are falling and rates rising, the outlook for this week's financing might appear bleak. Among the explanations for investor caution are the anticipation of stronger economic activity with upward pressure on rates later this year, the lack of action to reduce Federal budget deficits, and weaker demand from Japanese investors who are worried about additional declines in the value of the dollar.
But many analysts said that, as the deadline for bidding drew nearer, the combination of higher interest rates in recent trading sessions and hopes that bond prices would begin to rise again after the auctions would elicit good demand from domestic and Japanese investors. Late Friday, the three-year notes to be sold Tuesday were at 7 percent, while the 10-year issue for sale Wednesday was at 7.43 percent and the 30-year bonds for sale Thursday were at 7.46 percent.
A rebound in consumer and business spending is widely forecast for later this year, but economists concede that they can only guess about when the effect of lower interest rates, improved terms of trade for American exporters and lower oil prices will rejuvenate the economy.
Last Friday's report of a modest rise of 206,000 jobs on nonfarm payrolls included a 27,000-worker decline at manufacturing companies and helped confirm many forecasts that the nation's gross national product might increase at only about a 2 percent rate in the current quarter. Earlier this year, officials at the Federal Reserve projected growth at 3 to 3 1/2 percent.
''I think we need another drop in interest rates to put the economy on a firm footing,'' said Wayne Lyski, a bond portfolio manager at the Alliance Capital Management Corporation. ''The move to lower rates will not require a leading move by the Federal Reserve,'' he said, adding that lower rates could result from weak short-term credit demands, low inflation and the lack of additional Treasury bonds until August.
In the last few years, Japanese investors have been among the largest buyers of long-term Treasury bonds, but a sharp drop in their purchases during April has led to concerns about how much they will buy this week. In favor of continued Japanese buying, analysts said, was that the 7.46 percent yield for the new 30-year Treasury issue last Friday was 2.66 percentage points more than 10-year Japanese Government bonds, a difference that is less than in 1985 but very wide in terms of today's lower interest rates.
According to many analysts on both sides of the Pacific, the stability of the yen at about 170 to the dollar could encourage more buying by Japanese investors because they would assume that the risk of a further rise in the yen had declined.
''The latest talk among Japanese investors is that they would have interest in the 30-year auction if the coupon is better than 7 1/2 percent,'' said Naboru Takesaka, head of government securities sales and trading for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo. ''The Japanese are not about to chase the market,'' he added, noting that today is a holiday in Japan, and that Treasury bond prices had been declining recently.
The gradual increase in oil prices has been widely cited as a reason for weakness in the bond market, even though the higher prices were not the result of any agreement by oil-producing countries to curb output. The rise in the yield of the outstanding 9 1/4 percent issue from about 7.1 percent on April 16 to 7.61 percent last Friday coincides with the increase in crude oil futures prices from less than $10 a barrel to $14.73 last Friday.


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Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors said they expect four per cent sales growth in 2018, suggesting a slow recovery from a slump linked to their lack of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in the United States of America and diplomatic tensions with China.
Hyundai and affiliate Kia said demand was expected to soften in the U.S. and Chinese markets as they unveiled a combined sales target of 7.55 million vehicles this year, from 7.25 million vehicles last year.
"The market environment is expected to be difficult due to a slowdown in major markets like the U.S. and China, prolonged low growth in the global economy and trade protectionism in major countries," Hyundai said in a statement.
Sales slumped seven per cent last year from 2016, falling well short of the group's target of 8.25 million vehicles and marking its third consecutive annual miss, as buyers in China and the U.S. increasingly shunned sedans for SUVs.
A diplomatic row between China and South Korea over Seoul's deployment of a U.S. missile defense system also hit the brand's sales in the world's biggest auto market, although two countries recently agreed to normalize ties.
An analyst at Korea Investment & Securities, Kim Jin-woo said: "This year's target for Hyundai and Kia is lower than expected. It seems to be a conservative target, reflecting a slow recovery in China and ongoing U.S difficulties."
The forecast came as the Korean won strengthened to a more than three-year high against the dollar on Tuesday, threatening the competitiveness of South Korean exporters as their Japanese rivals benefit from the weakening yen.
The expiration of a tax cut on small-engine cars in China also would be a negative for Hyundai's sedan-heavy lineup, the automaker said.
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"Orange Mist - Zen of L.A.," by Relja Penezic
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Discover some of the art that's catching our eye lately. Here we'll also bring you the stories behind some of today's most fascinating works of art, straight from the mouths of their creators.
10 Earth-Conscious Artists We Love
April 22, 2016Posted by Daryl Gammons-Jones
Happy Earth Day… For many of us, April 22nd serves as a friendly reminder of something we already know: It's essential for people across the planet to band together to protect and sustain our precious home. One of the most valuable things about art is its potential to inspire activism and change. Any artwork that gets people thinking and talking about vital issues that affect us all is a great gift. These works from some of Saatchi Art's most popular artists are no exception.
Explore some of our favorite eco-minded artwork and learn about what inspired the artists to create these works in the slideshow below. Click on each image for additional views or to learn more.
Arsenic and Water, J Henry Fair
J Henry Fair's vivid landscapes highlight the beauty that sometimes lies within destruction. This gorgeous abstract is actually a photographic documentation of fly ash slurry from coal-fired electrical generation station in South Carolina.
1. Gazing down on an otherworldly coal ash impoundment in Shippingport, PA. Little Blue, by Saatchi Art artist J Henry Fair
2. A detail from Relja Penezic's painting Orange Mist - Zen of L.A. offers a dreamlike smog-ridden sky as a focal point for contemplating our impact on the planet.
" Depicting the unseen life-force, the global breath essential for a functional life support system on planet Earth. This painting explores the topical theme of climate change and how as a species we are now on thin ice, and how our isolated actions when seen as a whole could be upsetting the very balance of life on Earth. "
- Saatchi Art artist Kate Williamson
3. Breath One: Atmosphere, an original acrylic painting on canvas, by Saatchi Art artist, Kate Williamson
" What a funny race humans are. The only species that destroys its own environment. The only species that has to pay to live. A species led by a self-elected 1% so cleverly obscured at the top that the other 99% don't even know it. They pump poisons into the air, into the seas, into the skies, into the water, even directly into food's DNA so that food makes its own poison, and into the drugs for the diseases accumulated from all those poisons. They try to play god, but they do not know that nature is god. We are all but nature's guests. "
- Saatchi Art artist Miss Aniela
4. Nature's Guests, limited edition art photography by Saatchi Art artist Miss Aniela
Heatstroke, original art photography by Saatchi Art artist Miss Aniela
5. Home, by celebrated photographic artist Flora Borsi is an elegantly styled reminder of how air quality and pollution impact us all.
Max Serradifalco uses "Web Landscape Photography" and Google Earth satellite maps to create his striking views of Earth without a camera.
6. WLP 12 The blowing of Abu Dhabi, by Saatchi Art artist Max Serradifalco
" Many people seem to be unaware of our destiny, as if they did not know the beauties of our world, those beauties that Max Serradifalco has managed to bring back to light in a thoroughly innovative way, giving a sensitive hopeful cry for the protection of our heritage. By making use of one of the most exploited technologies of our times – the Internet and its almost monopolistic research engine... Max has virtually wandered about our planet looking for places with very different features, but above all discovering a new way of observing and re-interpreting every corner of the Earth. "
- Maurizio Marco Tozzi, Boundless Photography
WLP 23, by Saatchi Art artist Max Serradifalco
Cardiff-based photographer Steven Irwin's multi-layered artwork "explores the tension and coexistence of nature and the man made," and the constant evolution of the landscape around us.
7. Wilderness, a photomontage by Saatchi Art Artist Steven Irwin
8. Exploring the nature of things... Naomi White's abstract imagery skillfully channels light and form to magically transform "non-biodegradable, reviled plastic bags into seemingly organic forms, imitating the very nature plastic threatens."
A detail from Plastic Currents (Blue Interior), by Saatchi Art Artist Naomi White
" By isolating plastic bags, icons of waste, we are asked to consider our role in their affects, but also the transformative power of the photograph, altering a simple bag into something other worldly, full of possibilities."
- Saatchi Art Artist Naomi White
Plastic Currents (Opening), by Naomi White
Matthias Haker's atmospheric photography is a testament to the tenacity of nature and the infinite potential for beauty found in the cycle of life.
9. Reconquering, by Saatchi Art artist Matthias Haker
10. Restoration, by Saatchi Art artist Elle Hanley
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Daryl Gammons-Jones is a contributor to Saatchi Art's blog. In addition to writing about art and design, she specializes in collecting, creating, and producing images for a diversity of creative endeavors.
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Town councillors urged to treat each other respectfully in heated debates
Councillors in Walsall have been reminded to treat each other respectfully within the council chamber during debates - despite existing laws that protect their speech
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Elected members in Walsall have been advised not to cross the line in the language they use during heated exchanges in the council chamber.
Walsall Council's head of legal and democratic services Tony Cox presented a case study to members of the standards committee at a meeting on Monday (September 30) which set out pitfalls councillors face.
The case in 2009 involved a Flintshire County Council member being found guilty of 14 breaches of that authority's code of conduct "by failing to show respect and consideration for officers, using bullying behaviour, attempting to compromise the impartiality of officers and conducting himself in a manner likely to bring his office or the council in disrepute".
The councillor was disqualified from being a member of that council and any other authority for two and a half years.
Mr Cox told Walsall members that the hearing looked at levels of proof and took into consideration freedom of expression within the Human Rights Act.
But while all politicians have an "enhanced protection", particularly in the council chamber arena, Mr Cox urged them to conduct themselves respectfully to ensure they didn't fall foul of existing laws.
Members of the committee said the public expected them to conduct themselves as councillors 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Mr Cox said: "The case I refer do is quite topical in terms of freedom of expression.
"In this case, they looked at the issue as it affects politicians. There is an enhanced protection applied to all level of politics including local. Article 10 protected not only the substance of what was said but also the form in which it was conveyed.
"In a political context, the immoderate, offensive, exaggerated and aggressive may be tolerated where it would not otherwise be.
"The courts recognise that politics is an emotive and passionate business and sometimes in our chamber, language can get quite heated and that is the nature of politics.
"They also noted that politicians were subject to wider limits of acceptable criticisms - you're in the public eye and are public figures.
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"Politicians are expected to be more thick skinned and tolerant. It was also said there should be enhanced protection for those who comment on politics and politicians - most notably the press.
"Where politicians may indulge in debate that can get quite heated there is a bigger zone of tolerance rather than for example in this case where politicians use offensive language to an officer.
"As your monitoring officer, my advice would be to still act with courtesy to each other and try to avoid being insulting to each other.
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"I have to say in general that the behaviour within the chamber as a whole tends to be within the bounds of acceptability.
"I thought it would be useful to set out this case and it is quite topical at the moment and while you have a wider zone of tolerance, that zone of tolerance only goes so far.
"I have always said local councillors have an incredibly difficult job and are often the first point of call when people are distressed.
"There is a very high level of expectation on politicians which is why I think we have to do our best as a local authority to uphold the best levels of conduct."
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