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When I first arrived and bought the property of what’s now the Buenaventura Retreat Center in this hidden and serene valley in Costa Rica, there was no electricity, no land lines or cell phone service, no TVs, no washing machines, no refrigeration, no ice, and definitely no internet!

And lets not forget to mention the road conditions back then, a 20 mile 4×4 only drive to town took nearly 3 hours over cloud forest covered mountain ridges and through lush and dense valleys of primary rainforest on a bumpy, rocky and often very muddy back-country dirt road. That was 2001… Buenaventura in the Flintstones era.

We have a report of a Costa Rica South reader being told to leave his house for two hours while a company performed the fumigation that he requested. He walked to a nearby coffee shop to read a book and wait. When they finished, the exterminators met him at the coffee shop and he paid them and received his keys back. When he returned to his house some personal items of value where missing including field glasses and a calling card. Please be aware of this possibility and, if possible, stay within sight of your house or pack valuables away before providing access to exerminator company employees.

THE BIG SHIFT – GREAT CHANGE IS COMING TO THE PLANET

By Dennis Gaumond

 A Vibrational Universe 

Almost everyone is aware that enormous change is happening to this planet even if they are only aware of climate change. Although there is no doubt that global warming is affecting the earth-changes, there are many other enigmatic phenomena, such as an increase in seismic activity, solar flares and anomalies in the rest of the solar system that are harder to explain. There are other factors driving the changes. This article will offer some alternative explanations, which will hopefully enable us to better comprehend this process of change. It has been given many names – Armageddon, the Apocalypse, the 2012 thing, the Ascension, etc – but I prefer to call it the Big Shift. Although many of us understand the Shift in an intuitive way, a left-brained, logical understanding is also very useful in bringing us balance and clarity.

Like many Americans, I have gone bankrupt because of our for-profit health insurance system. Unlike most Americans, I am leaving the system altogether, and coming to Costa Rica. International moves are expensive, but the cost of repatriation dwarfs the risk of becoming financially crippled for simply getting sick. My daughter has a pre-existing condition. She is four years old. There is a cyst on her heel that will, we are told, go away naturally in a few years. We made the mistake of going to a doctor, and having this bump examined, so it now resides in her permanent medical records.