Articles by Raviv Ayola:
David Hewsen’s “Mother Earth”
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, Creativity, Shamanism, Visual ArtThis beautiful guilded painting “Mother Earth”, by David Hewsen, is 4 X 8 feet and was installed, on the 9th of January, in the entrance of a heart center for a hospital in the United States.
Peru’s President denies the existence of Voluntarily Isolated Indigenous People.
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: AmazonAmazing new footage of a tribe under voluntary isolation from brasil. One of the new threats to these tribes are the migration of Voluntarily Isolated Indigenous Peoples from Peru, escaping illegal logging and oil companies. Peru’s president, Alan Garcia, has publicly suggested the Voluntarily Isolated Indigenous Peoples do not exist. In an article published in Peru’s El Comercio newspaper [...]
South America- Roads Under Construction
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: AmazonThe name of the game is INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DEEPER INTEGRATION IN SOUTH AMERICA. Also known as IIRSA. “The Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) is a bold effort by the governments of South America to construct a new infrastructure network for the continent, including roads, waterways, ports, and energy and [...]
Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising?
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsOnly the most controversial of President Alan García’s legislative decrees, which triggered the uprising, have been overturned. These decrees-promulgated under special powers granted to García by Peru’s congress in 2008 to ready the country for the new U.S. free trade agreement-would undo a generation of progress in protecting indigenous territorial rights in the rainforest, opening indigenous lands to oil drilling, logging, and other forms of resource extraction as never before.
On a personal note
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Barquinha, Experiences, Spirit & HealingI was asked about the Barquinha’s astrology. There isn’t any (I was told). Stars are a part of the creation. One can learn anything from anything. Some people can learn things by looking at stars. In the Barquinha they look at God. For a week I was preparing with prayers, candles, intensions… Daime work at [...]
41000 hectares of rainforest would be flooded in the next 4 years
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsFollowing the Inambari Hydroelectric Project, the Peruvian government would build a dam that would flood 41000 hectares of rainforest. 75% of the hydroelectric energy produced by the dam would be then sold to Brasil.
6 miners died during a protest in Arequipa, Peru
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsArequipa: “informal” miners speak of six deaths and several disappearances during yesterday´s night and this morning´s protests in Arequipa.
El Paro
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsGold Miners in the jungle of Peru are protesting against a new law that would force them into controlled, limited mining.
Oil Spillage
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: AmazonThe Passing of Glauco Villas Boas
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: News, Syncretic ReligionsGlauco Villas Boas (53), the founder of Céu de Maria Daime church in Sao Paulo, Brasil, and his son Raoni (25) were murdered in Sao Paulo on the morning of Friday, 12 of March 2010, a day before his 53rd birthday.
