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The Crisis of Consciousness

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre There’s a lot of talk these days about a “revolution in consciousness.” The vast portion of it is just that—talk. It simply isn’t true to say “we’re in the middle of a revolution in consciousness.” But...

What Is God?

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre Stephen Hawking recently said that we should avoid contact with extraterrestrials, because they “might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet.” Now he says “science makes God unnecessary.” Hawking...

$2.8 million to supply Costa Rica’s Immigration Authority with Foreign Resident Cards

TCRN Staff $2.8 million to supply Costa Rica's Immigration Authority with Foreign Resident Cards The credentials feature optical security media, the same technology at the heart of the U.S. "Green Card." Delivery of cards is expected to be completed by the...

Costa Rica Independence – 189th Anniversary

TCRN Staff Costa Rica is 189 years old, and she looks great!!! How far has she come in 189 years? What makes Costa Rica the “The Jewel of Central America”? Interestingly enough… Costa Rica was the first Central American country...

Court Rules Against Random Stop and Searches

A preliminary ruling last week by the Constitutional Chamber of Costa Rica's Supreme Court (Sala IV) that police cannot stop and search citizens without “a solid indication that the person has committed a crime” has caused strong opposition. Public Security...

Society and Solitude

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre Society and Solitude The world grows more parlous with each passing month, with no sign of genuine hope for humanity’s future. Here in ‘the greatest country in the world,’ the idea and image of America is...

Can Psychological Time End?

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre Overhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock—solid and sharp edged protrusions from the gently sloping grasslands behind them. Many have huge slabs balanced on top of them, some looking like they had been...

I Want My Country Back!

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre I had a cousin, born a few days after I was in the same Midwestern town, with whom I was close growing up. In some ways Mike and I were as different as night and day,...

Chinese and American Confucianism

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre China just passed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Never mind that per capita income in China is still at Algeria’s level. It’s an important milestone, though it raises the question of qualitative...

Prisms of the Sacred?

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre The first hint of autumn is in the air. There’s a subtle change of light and atmosphere, and more tangibly, a new breeze in the treetops. The first, lightly anchored leaves are falling into the creek....
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National Geographic Spotlights Bribri Cacao Farming in Costa Rica

Deep within the Talamanca mountains near Costa Rica’s border with Panama, the indigenous Bribri community of Yorkín maintains an...