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Posted on August 31, 2007 @ 8:35 am by massimo | Filed under: blog

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I’m going to be off line for a week or so…Thanks to every one of you who have left
comments of support… Much appreciated!

 

dream theory in malaysia

Posted on August 26, 2007 @ 4:02 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog, people, wordpress

senoi theory dreams aynaku illustration travel

Disturbing visitors sometimes come to our dreams. We wake up then, asking ourselves their meaning . In Malaysia, Senoi have a theory of dreams, and dreams are important for those becoming “adepts” (healers). Ancient Senoi dream practices (dream sharing in morning groups and using techniques of dream control), are known as “Senoi dream theory.”
Mornings were used by families to indulge in the custom of dream-telling, where, for instance, a child’s fearful dream of falling was praised as a gift to learn to fly the next night.
Among the rules that the Senoi had was the following: “If there is danger in your dream, you should confront and conquer it.”
Anthropologist Kilton Stewart first visited Senoi in 1935 and in 1982 John Hassell, a trumpet player and composer relased the beautiful album “Dream Theory in Malaya” after reading a paper by Stewart.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: visitors

captain

Posted on August 19, 2007 @ 9:13 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, indonesia, travel, wordpress

mentaway trampsteamer aynaku illustration travel

The Mentaway Archipelago located  in the Indian Ocean, at about 100 miles off Sumatra’s west coast, used to be  far off beaten tourists’ routes…
A small cargo ship,  a tramp steamer almost, shuttled among those islands, carrying stuff of all sort and a few passengers. Coming to each island, the slow cargo finally anchored a few hundred meters from the seashore, waiting for the natives coming by means of paddle boats to get their stuff…it was a time consuming processes, and a beautiful way of travelling by sea. On board that ship I was too; as the only first-class paying passenger, I had the privilege of sleeping in the captain’s little cabin, instead of lying low the bare and rusty deck meant to ordinary native passengers. When off his duty the captain, a young ,cute and well mannered fellow, spent his time in the cabin and liked to tell about his young wife and family, who lived somewhere in the islands, in a house, he said, “where you can’t see the ocean, nor hear its sound”…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: captain

emergency

Posted on August 11, 2007 @ 11:17 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, news, people, wordpress

“That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war – war…”

So Bob Marley, some years ago… And war is still our greatest emergency. War is deep in our nature and …

green tea

Posted on August 4, 2007 @ 5:11 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa, blog, fun, travel, wordpress

Essaouira’s camping area was bordering the long sandy beach. I had got there at dusk, after a long, long drive, and parked my car by the sandy dunes. My two travelling companions and me sat on the sandy ground, and lit quickly the oil lamp with …