News Update Hello Friends – I hope you are all doing well. I have decided to start posting about countries and places I visited but didn’t get around to posting about. I’m starting with my trip to Cambodia in South-East Asia last year in October…
Crossroads Crises in Perspective (Part 4) – Peak Energies in the Spotlight ** This series of essays contains readings of reports, articles, and presentations that are in the public domain, with provided references. Readers are encouraged to approach the text with critical yet open minds.…
Beyond Angkor is a range of other temples, all a tuk-tuk ride away from each other (some are a few kilometers apart while others are virtually next to each other). One could easily spend a week visiting these temples at a leisurely pace, or one could take 2 to 3 days at a minimum to see the most important ones.
The Most Impressive Temples This post features pictures of the three most impressive temples that I visited in South-East Asia in October of this year (2024) – ‘Candi’ Prambanan, ‘Candi’ Borobodur and Ankor Wat. Background: Visiting ancient sites from time to time is a very…
Open/Save PDF Crossroads Crises in Perspective (Part 3) – Truth and Energy at the Crossroads (Updated) ** This series of essays is based on readings of reports, articles, and presentations that are in the public domain, with provided references. The content contains futurology based on…
Crossroads Crises in Perspective – Part 2 The Greatest Trek: A Crisis in Thinking and The Way Out (Newly Updated) [Note: For continuity this chapter has been shortened – a copy of the longer version can be accessed here] ** This series of essays is…
Gobekli Tepe and The City of Prophets Sanliurfa, previously known as Urfa (and before that Edessa) boasts not only one of the most ancient cities ever uncovered by archeologists, it’s also a location where a number of prophets in ancient history hailed from, in particular…
A Country at the Crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East Is Georgia (the country) situated in Europe, the Middle East or Asia? World maps tell me that it is in Asia, but more specifically it’s in the Caucuses. The Middle East is apparently…
Open/Save PDF Crossroads Crises in Perspective (Part 1) – The Bottleneck Ahead ** This series of essays is based on readings of reports, articles, and presentations that are in the public domain, with provided references. The content contains futurology based on cycle science and the…
Few places can compete with Mauritius when it comes to exotic sounding French names (from an English language perspective). In the north there is Cap Malheureux, and as you move down the west coast you find Péreybère, Grand Baie and Trou au Biches – all…
DOWNLOAD Dear Friends, It’s finally here – this e-book is a compilation of some of the most important chapters first published on this site on the subject of Energy Shifts. I’m making a copy freely available for download for personal use – see links…
Humanity at the Crossroads (Part 3) – Humanity at a Turning Point ** These essays are written for individuals who have a spiritual interest in Navigating the Greatest Shift. They contain futurology based on cycle science and the mystical sciences. Readers are encouraged to read…
Humanity at the Crossroads (Part 2) – The Cyclic Reordering of Civilizations ** These essays are written for individuals who have a spiritual interest in Navigating the Greatest Shift. They contain futurology based on cycle science and the mystical sciences. Readers are encouraged to read…
Humanity at the Crossroads (Part 1) – A World Out of Balance ** These essays are written for individuals who have a spiritual interest in Navigating the Greatest Shift. They contain futurology based on cycle science and the mystical sciences. Readers are encouraged to read…
Navigating the Greatest Shift: 2022 to 2032 (Part 2) – Creating Structure Through Consciousness Note: This series follows on from the Darkness Before Dawn series Oneness and separateness exist at the same time. There will never be only separateness, neither will there ever be only oneness. At…
Navigating the Greatest Shift: 2022 to 2032 (Part 1) – Raising Consciousness Through Truth Note: This series follows on from the Darkness Before Dawn series — We will be witnesses to the confrontation of the Negative and Positive forces, the eternal fight among polarity, the…
August 8, 2021: A life and travel update from your host at GypsyCafe.org South Africa: Cape Winelands and Cape Town In January of 2020, two months before the first Covid-lockdowns were implemented world-wide, I arrived back in Cape Town, my city of birth. I had…
Darkness Before Dawn (Part 1-E) – The Lights Along the Way Note: This Chapter was first published at EnergyShifts.net The Seasons of the Yuga Cycle Just like with the Maya cycles, the 24,000-year Vedic Yuga Cycle consists of fractals, which are smaller cycles within the…
Few people expected so much turmoil to arrive so suddenly in 2020, whereas if it happened just after 2012 it might have been less surprising. However, it always takes a while for shifts to build momentum, and the larger the shift, the longer the delay. It would seem, though, that the real shift is now finally underway.
The Maya creation myth depicts a battle between the forces of dark and light in the story of the Hero Twins, two brothers who are summoned by the Lords of Xibalba for a ballgame with them in the underworld. What follows is a classic and rich example of The Hero’s Journey.
The objective is to identify patterns of events that occur whenever a particular katun is active. Through this method, what typically happens during a katun becomes sufficiently clear to make predictions for what would or could happen when that katun is active again in the future.