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There is a completely different order of consciousness than we usually know. Most of us have experienced it sometime in our lives, at least momentarily, but as conditioning and beliefs solidify, they prevent experiencing the consciousness beyond thought.Since the...

Over the last six years the percentage of North American tourists in Costa Rica has declined, new figures show. However the percentage of visitors from Central and South America has increased.

Jose Solís, TheCostaRicaNews.comLately in the movies, it’s all about going back to origins. Films have suddenly become obsessed with the idea of showing us how some of our favorite characters became who we first knew them as. Whether you...

A prominent national writer, who said in 2010, “America is almost a rogue state,” also derided the only alternative. “Trying to love all of humanity…keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being.” That’s...

June 2011 schedule of events (in English) for Costa Rica's National Theater, located in downtown San Jose.

The government has announced new guidelines to strengthen the surveillance in agricultural food production and improve sanitary conditions in places where food is prepared and sold.

Though the sky is clear overhead and sunshine bathes the land, clouds have banked up against the foothills, with the look of an impending thunderstorm. Alongside the creek at the upper end of the parkland, the wind suddenly roars...

Harassment of indigenous people, violence against women, and killings of journalists in the Americas. Those are some of the concerns Amnesty International has raised in a newly released report on human rights on the continent.

Overlooking a long section of the creek (which has become a small raging river after an unprecedented mid-May storm in California), I heard a terrible squawking and squealing to my left. The hideous life and death shrieks came from...

I lived in a gentrified section of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco for a while in the 1980's, about ten years after the hippie movement that began in ‘the Haight’ ended in America. I noticed a funereal trend with young...