PAN International Issue 62

PAN Provisional Astroshamanic News
International Edition, 5 March 2007, Issue 62.
Editorial Director: Franco Santoro.
Cluny Hill College, Forres IV36 2RD, Moray, Scotland. (+44(0)1309-672289. + PAN@astroshamanism.org

© 2006 Franco Santoro. All rights reserved. Permission must be granted by the author for publishing and use on websites. For permissions contact PAN@astroshamanism.org

What is Astroshamanism?
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This PAN covers the mystery boundary zones between Pisces and Aries, the Neptune’s sacred time leading to the Spring Equinox on 21 March 2007. The days preceding the Equinox represent a decisive area in the cycle of the zodiac. Pisces, the twelfth sign, is the ultimate frontier, where energy reaches its climax and then restarts again from Aries, the first sign. The conclusion of winter holds the potential either to repeat the routine of the same monotonous cycle or to shift into an alternative configuration.
This is certainly an amazing time to connect with the rapid development of the Astroshamanic Network worldwide. I am touched by how so many are joining forces and coming together for manifesting honourable intentions and serving the expansion of human awareness. Spring offers major opportunities to establish powerful large-scale healing initiatives in our communities and environment. If you would like to be more directly involved with the Astroshamanic Network and know about local and global initiatives, please contact network@astroshamanism.org. All main forthcoming astroshamanic workshops will support ways of promoting and creating group healing activities and initiatives. In particular, this is the case for the Findhorn Astroshamanic Summer Gathering from 20 to 26 July 2007 (see details below) and the Grand Original Quest: A Multi-dimensional Voyage through Space and Time at Corvaro (Rieti, Italy), from 15 to 21 June 2007 (see details also below).
I have just completed the Foundation Training in Astroshamanism, a two-week workshop attended by 12 motivated participants. The workshop started with a New Moon and ended with the Full Moon and eclipse. It was a pioneering event, abundant with insights and understanding. The workshop has been partially recorded and a transcription may be available in the near future.
From 10 to 17 March 2007 I run an Experience Week here at Cluny Hill College. After the Spring Equinox I fly to Paris and then to Bologna. In Jesi (Italy) I will hold The Way of the East, a seminar devoted to the energy of Spring and the element Fire, from 31 March to 1 April 2007. Later, from 7 to 13 April 2007, I run The Blessed Way of Passion at Findhorn, followed by the long expected Multidimensional Portals of the Senses: A Gateway Course in Astroshamanic Healing Touch in Frankfurt (Germany) from 20 to 24 April 2007 (Erik: emansson@hotmail.com Tel. 069/95504794 Mob. 0171-3493424).
May you be ecstatic, peaceful and firmly connected with the healing power of the season.
Blessings, Franco

The Findhorn Astroshamanic Summer Gathering: Navigating into the Healing Synergy of the Network
For astroshamanism to be truly helpful, it needs to operate in ordinary reality and bring tangible results that can be clearly assessed and appreciated. In the past years the main effort of many friends and associates on the astroshamanic path has focused on manifesting honourable intentions and creating pragmatic results in their lives or environment. An honourable intent is aligned with the whole, which includes both HAC and non-HAC. An intention is honourable when I accept the participation of a wider configuration with which I choose to align and interact. The year 2007 has launched a cycle of 6 years meant to establish a gateway between the human separated reality (HAC) and our core multidimensional identity (CMI). This entails expanding our horizons and daring to see what is happening beyond our limited individuality. The novelty of this current cycle is that it may cause a radical shift from individual to collective, global and multidimensional consciousness. A practical implication of this process is that more people are going to come together, creating, promoting and supporting multidimensional healing networks. This involves acknowledging our best potentials and expressing them in a way which is useful for a wider and luminous configuration. The primary questions here are: what are the gifts that I can offer to the world? How can they benefit all parties involved? How can I best express these gifts? How can they shine and expand? How can I share them with others? How can I receive the gifts of others? How can I integrate my gifts with all other gifts? What can create the best synergy?
Synergy is that property of systems whereby the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It is the simultaneous action of various energies aimed at achieving honourable intentions. Synergy produces an unpredictable and astonishing power of manifestation that moves far beyond the apparent quantity of the forces involved. It is a multidimensional process, involving remote or unseen forces, parallel universes and the core tapestry of our being. A group high in synergy is one in which there is no conflict between selfishness and altruism, one in which it is not possible to be jealous because whatever others are or have will also benefit myself, one where I cannot hurt others because it is obvious that this will also hurt myself, one in which it is unquestionable that we are all part of the same whole. Although in recent ages this type of synergy has been ignored or rejected by most mankind, it is an integral part of reality and remains accessible to whoever is determined to navigate into its healing stream. The current planetary cycle offers a major opportunity to lay the foundations of new healing networks based on multidimensional awareness and synergy. This is definitely what we intend to promote in the astroshamanic realm. For this purpose a series of events are intentionally scheduled in the forthcoming months, such as the Grand Original Quest in Corvaro (15-21 June 2007) and the Findhorn Astroshamanic Summer Gathering (20-26 July 2007), about which I am providing some details below.
The Findhorn Astroshamanic Summer Gathering (20-26 July 2007) is a unique convergence of energy workers, trainees, organisers, associates and astroshamanic friends worldwide, aimed at supporting the weaving of a healing network aligned with the current multidimensional planetary shift. We will explore new ways of creating healing groups with the goal of lovingly serving our human and natural environment. We will encourage and share individual gifts, allowing them to harmonize and shine in the collective, laying vital foundations for manifesting honourable intentions. During this gathering we will also focus on:
- astroshamanic individual and collective rituals for healing nature and urban places, reconciling people, spirits and ancestors
- use and creation of power points, sacred cone circles, documents, artefacts and structures aimed at supporting multidimensional awareness, the retrieval of soul parts and the release of grievances.
- strategies and initiatives to face the current planetary challenges, and their potential effects on local and wider groups or communities.
- ways of creating, promoting and managing core groups, astroshamanic networks, mystery schools, distant healing work, sacred relationships and empowering energy exchanges among people.
- astroshamanic touch, primal embrace, trance dance, dream work and other advanced practices for collectively merging into the multidimensional realms in order to create bridges with ordinary reality and pragmatic healing results.
- devising, setting and celebrating a special healing gateway and Sacred Cone ritual to energize the Findhorn area and its connection with the grid of power centres worldwide.
- sharing experiences, friendship, care, playfulness and astroshamanic fun.
For information and booking: info@astroshamanism.org or Geline sheradashera@yahoo.co.uk

The Shamanic Way of Cinema by Franco Santoro
A most typical feature of Pisces and the ruling planet Neptune is its close association with creative arts, fiction and whatever involves giving form to the realm of imagination. This also entails the potential capacity to slide into parallel universes related with apparent works of fiction and access the keys of our creative reality generating mind. People with alien Neptunian traits (with Neptune conjunct Sun, Moon or Ascendant) are often endowed with such faculties, which may however be totally incomprehensible for them, as they definitely are for our consensus reality.
One of the basic traits of consensus HAC reality involves setting a constant discrimination between fiction and non-fiction. This aims at defining the boundaries between what is agreed as real and unreal, HAC and non-HAC, legally accessible or out of bound. Yet, although HAC is a separated reality based on the conscious denial and disregard of non-HAC, we have seen how in order to survive HAC has to draw energy from the united web of life and the multidimensional universe, of which it is ultimately a part. Since in HAC there is no official accord regarding the reality of non-HAC, the connection can only take place unconsciously or through means that do not affect HAC’s separation paradigm. These means provide the experience and energy of non-HAC, while at the same time preserving the boundaries of HAC’s separated reality by continuing to consider non-HAC as unreal. One of such means is the realm of fiction in literature, art, movies, theatre, etc. This is also one of the most common ways for non-HAC to filter into our separated world and dispense information or healing aids. There are numerous books and movies that give us an expanded view of reality and also contain coded non-HAC messages, spirit medicines, intentional multi-dimensional reawakening devices, gateways dynamics and other non-ordinary elements, which can potentially promote major developments in human consciousness when they are approached with focus and shamanic perspective. Here I also refer to fiction that appears on the surface as shallow HAC entertainment. These works are often more effective for they succeed in subtly delivering non-HAC information, while simultaneously complying with HAC standards. In this way only those who are open will receive the information. In order to identify such non-HAC elements an attitude of vigilance and focus is required whenever we watch movies or read books. This can gradually be trained and provide an effective source of access to the wider multi-dimensional network. Herewith I would like to emphasize that the distinction between fiction and non-fiction is a very recent development in human culture and is totally alien to tribal and shamanic traditions. For such cultures whatever can be experienced is indeed real, no matter whether it happens in a dream, fantasy, memory, desire or in what we consider to be the reality. Shamanic cultures and multidimensional beings operate on various levels of reality, each providing experiences. The experience has priority to such an extent that it is not truly essential to specify in which setting it takes place. Hence when tribal native people talk about their experiences it is not clear whether they occur in a dream, fantasy or in “real life”. The latter is merely an optional detail, which does not question the value of the experience itself. Tribal native people, as anthropologists have observed in their researches, are completely unable to understand our concepts of fiction and non-fiction, reality and imagination, HAC and non-HAC, unless they are thoroughly converted to our conditioning, which is indeed and alas what has progressively happened in the last two centuries.
A most effective way to retrieve our original wisdom and the reality that has been deleted from HAC awareness is to read books and watch movies containing intentional or accidental non-HAC information and multidimensional awareness enhancing elements. Despite the prevalence of conditioned, invasive and encoding material, deliberately designed to preserve HAC’s paradigm based on separation, there are a number of books and movies in circulation supporting the reawakening and shift of our consciousness. The characteristic of these works is that rather than providing fresh knowledge or information, they stimulate or re-activate details already available in our mind and memory. These specifically refer to the experience of the reader or spectator and may be entirely different from the apparent contents of the works involved. The function of these books and movies is to operate as gateways into the multidimensional realms, yet in a way which allows entrance only to those who manage to see beyond their facade. As a result, in order to benefit from such books and movies, the attention needs to encompass the general themes together with certain details of those works and especially one’s inner processes and visions. Certain movies have healing, empowering, releasing and other specific qualities, which may develop later in the following hours or days. After watching such movies profound insights or intuitions may follow, together with vivid and significant dreams. Here I need to stress that people react differently to these movies, depending on their level of awareness and specific lineages.
From 1981 to 1988 I decided to thoroughly explore the realm of fiction from a multidimensional perspective, which led me to accumulate a large amount of information on the way in which non-HAC has survived in HAC through literature and cinema. The specific aim of my research was to identify multidimensional cryptograms and gateways, as well as themes and energetic prototypes associated with the astroshamanic Sectors and capable of inducing reawakening stimuli in our consciousness. During that time I looked through whatever was available in literature, art, theatre, magazines and cinema, while establishing links with associated non-ordinary realities. I also thoroughly considered what was happening in the non-fiction arena with the intent of understanding the outer mechanics of HAC and its close connections with alternative realities. Although there was no internet available, I could draw information from abundant sources, such as an international newsvendor, who would daily allow me to browse all the available press and magazines in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish. I would also travel in different locations all over Europe, examining material in public library or bookshops, attending cine festivals and other cultural events. One of the areas I focused upon was cinema. In two years I watched more than 1800 movies and for nearly half of them I journeyed into the related time-line stories and wrote a report. What follows is part one of a synopsis containing a provisional list of movies with strong non-HAC components. Part two will appear in the next issue of PAN. I am providing these lists merely as an example or glimpse of a vast study that I may expose in forthcoming years, especially as regards its shamanic healing implications. The lists refer mainly to titles with a wide international circulation especially in the English-speaking world. They also contain some updated references including the years from 1989 onwards. In the Text Book of the First Basic Level of the Operative Training in Astroshamanism I have already provided a short list of movies associated with each astrological sign, yet this is just a minute fragment of the original documentation. If you are interested to expand on this topic, please let me know. Each title in the list is preceded by the name of the director and followed by the year of production and its association to a Sector or Binary (in brackets). By clicking on the title you can get complete online details on the movie. If there are movies that proved meaningful for you or any shamanic experience concerning the realm of fiction that you wish to share, please contact me.

J.Cameron, The Abyss, 1989 (12). W.D.Richter, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, 1984 (11). K.Hirokazu, After Life, 1998 (8). S.Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2001 (4.11). W.Allen, Alice, 1990 (12). K.Russell, Altered States, 1980 (12). S.Mendes, American Beauty, 1999 (8.7). J.Landis, An American Werewolf in London, 1981(8). A.Parker, Angel Heart, 1987 (8). R.Clair, A Nous la Liberté, 1931 (11). M.Newell, The Awakening. 1980 (8). R.Zemeckis, Back to the Future, 1985 (11). J/E.Coen, Barton Fink, 1991 (8). R.Howard, A Beautiful Mind, 2001 (11.3). H.Ashby, Being There, 1979 (6.12). E.A.Blatt, Between Two Worlds, 1944 (8). H.Hawks, The Big Sleep, 1946 (8.3). J.Schlesinger, Billy Liar!. 1963 (12.11). A.Parker, Birdy, 1984 (11.12). H.Koster, The Bishop’s Wife, 1947 (6). G.Ratoff, Black Magic, 1949 (8). R.Scott, Blade Runner, 1981 (11). J.Landis, The Blues Brothers, 1980 (3). N.Jewison, Bogus, 1996 (9.4). D.Liman, The Bourne Identity, 2002 (9.8). D.Trumbull, Brainstorm, 1983 (11.3). T.Gilliam, Brazil, 1985 (3). E.Bress, The Butterfly Effect, 2004 (4). R.Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920 (12.8). A.Mastroianni, The Celestine Prophecy, 2006 (3.9). R.Deodato, Cannibal Holocaust, 1980 (8). J.Dassin, The Canterville Ghost, 1934 (3.8). P.Almodovar, Carne trémula, 1997. H.Harvey, Carnival of Souls, 1962 (8). T.Singh, The Cell, 2000 (11.12). M.Carné, Children of Paradise, 1946 (5). R.Moore, Circle of Iron, 1978 (1.9). O.Welles, Citizen Kane, 1941 (10). B.Silberling, City of Angels, 1998 (7). M.Elvey, The Clairvoyant, 1934 (3). S.Kubrick, Clockwork Orange, 1971 (11). S.Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 (11). J.Milius, Conan the Barbarian, 1982 (1). R.Zemeckis, Contact, 1997 (11). F.F.Coppola, The Conversation, 1974 (3.8). C.Serrau, La Crise, 1992 (7.11). K.Costner, Dances with Wolves, 1990 (9). A.Proyas, Dark City, 1998 (10.8). J.Henson, The Dark Crystal, 1982 (8). R.Howard, The Da Vinci Code, 2006 (8.5). J.Dash, Daughters of the Dust, 1991 (4). R.Wise, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 (11). T.Malcik, Days of Heaven, 1978 (7.8). C.Donner, Dead Man, 1985 (3.8). P.Weir, Dead Poets Society, 1989 (9). D.Cronenberg, The Dead Zone, 1983 (8.11). A.Brooks, Defending Your Life, 1991 (7). A.Richmond, Déjà Vu, 1985 (7). J.Boorman, Deliverance, 1972 (8). K.Russell, The Devils, 1970 (8). K.Konaka, The Dimension Travelers, 1998 (11). K.T.Kwak, Doctor K, 1999 (11). R.Kelly, Donnie Darko, 2001 (4). R.Cohen, Dragonheart, 1996 (9). J.Ruben, Dreamscape, 1986 (12.8). D.Lynch, Dune, 1984 (10). S.Stern, Duplicates, 1992 (3.8). M.Curtiz, The Egyptian, 1954 (6). D.Lynch, Elephant Man, 1980 (8.12). A.Jodorowsky. El Topo, 1971 (5). P.Hyams, End of Days, 1999 (7.8). J.Boorman, Excalibur, 1981 (9). D.Cronenberg, eXistenZ, 1999 (3). W.Disney, Fantasia, 1940 (12). P.Weir, Fearless, 1993 (7.8). P.A.Robinson, Field of Dreams, 1989 (9.12). N.Coquard, The Fifth Element, 1998 (9). D.Fincher, Fight Club, 1999 (1). R.Fuest, The Final Programme, 1973 (10). G.Van Sant, Finding Forrester, 2000 (10.6). F.M.Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, 1956 (11.8). J.Schumacher, Flatliners, 1990 (11.8). T.Gilliam,The Fisher King, 1991 (9.8). R.Zemeckis, Forrest Gump, 1994 (5.12). M.Hodges, Flash Gordon, 1980 (9). G.Hoblit, Frequency, 2000 (10.11). D.Fincher, The Game, 1997 (5.11). A.Niccol, Gattaca, 1997 (10.11). J.Zucker, Ghost, 1990 (7.8). J.Mankievicz, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, 1947 (7). S.Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966 (3). G.Van Sant, Good Will Hunting, 1997 (10.11). H.Ramis, Groundhog Day, 1993 (10). V.Fleming, A Guy Named Joe, 1943 (7). H.Ashby, Harold and Maude, 1971 (7.11). C.Columbus, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2001 (12.5). H.Koster, Harvey, 1950 (3). E.Lubitsch, Heaven Can Wait, 1943 (3). S.Hicks, Hearts in Atlantis, 2001 (10). H.C.Potter, Hellzapoppin, 1941 (3.12). R.Mulcahy, Highlander, 1986 (1). A.Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, 1973 (3.8). . D.Mamet, House of Games. 1987 (3). H.Seidl, Hundsage, 2001 (11.8). A.Lyne, Jacob’s Ladder, 1990 (8). C.Crowe, Jerry Maguire, 1996 (7). J.P.Shanley, Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990 (8). R.Longo, Johnny Mnemonic, 1995 (3). P.Del Monte, Julia and Julia, 1987 (7.8). A.Stevens, Illicit Dreams. 1998 (7.12). R.Clair, It Happened Tomorrow, 1943 (10). F.Capra, It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946 (9). J.Turteltaud, The Kid, 2000 (4). I.Softley, K-Pax, 2001 (11). R.Donner, Ladyhawke, 1985 (7). D.McKellar, Last Night, 1998 (11.8). M.Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ, 1988 (5.11). P.Weir, The Last Wave, 1977 (11). B.Leonard, The Lawnmover Man, 1992 (11), R.Pearce, Leap of Faith, 1992 (9). E.Zwick, Legend of the Fall, 1994 (1). R.Benigni, Life is Beautiful, 1997 (7.10). A.Arau, Like Water for Chocolate, 1992 (2). F.Lang, Liliom, 1934 (10). B.Bertolucci, Little Buddha, 1993 (5). B.Forsyth, Local Hero, 1983 (10). F.Capra, Lost Horizon, 1937 (5). B.Khudojnazarov, Luna Papa, 1999 (3.11). R.Gavaldon, Macario, 1960 (8.6). A.Rudolph, Made in Heaven, 1987 (7). E.Subiela, The Man Facing South-East, 1986 (11). L.Mendes, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, 1936 (12.3). J.Sturges, The Magnificent Seven, 1960 (1). J.Whale, Man in the Iron Mask, 1939 (3). N.Roeg, The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976 (3.11). R.Stevenson, Mary Poppins, 1964 (6.12). A./L.Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999 (5.11). F.Lang, Metropolis, 1927 (10.4). S.Spielberg, Minority Report, 2002 (7). T.Jones, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 1983 (3). V.De Sica, Miracle in Milan, 1951 (11). K.Freund, The Mummy, 1932 (4.8).

Progress Report on Manifesting Honourable Intentions by Celia McKenna: During the New Year Manifesting Honourable Intentions workshop each participants agreed to shamanically work on manifesting a given intent, while at the same time supporting the intent of other participants, as part of a collective process of manifestation aimed at experimenting with the astroshamanic network dynamics. Great progress has been made on the work we each agreed to undertake; the authentic Intents that we audaciously committed to manifest. There was an agreement to operate collectively, to see the manifestation of these Intents as a collective enterprise and to make an agreement with Spirit to undertake practices aimed at supporting this, providing impetus for each Intent represented in the centre of the circle, a light flickering in the darkness.
A change in perception has occurred for many people, a release of real or imagined blocks; a transformation or change in perspective of existing conditions and a growing belief in our freedom to make choices. We are indeed the architects of our lives; the creators of our reality.
New ways and forms of nourishment are being explored on all levels, emotional, physical and spiritual. There is a sense of moving into a new phase of life; one strongly aligned with the Intent or “soul purpose” of the individual. And a sense of awakening of responsibility for the future, for the impact of our choices now on the planet as a whole and on the generations to come.
A sample of achievements:
The creation of supportive networks close to home as part of the process of creating wider networks to assist planetary healing.
Healing on a physical level: alleviating physical ailments and supporting healthy, environmentally supportive living choices; ending smoking; adopting a vegetarian lifestyle.
Creating employment opportunities: an invitation to exhibit, job offers, invitations to interview.
Securing resources to provide young people with access to live music and creative opportunities.
Financial successes, receiving resources to clear debts, almost “effortlessly”.
Connections with people: the development of new relationships and movement within existing ones; apparent barriers to freedom released and support offered as authentic needs are expressed.
Recordings of shamanic sounds produced in preparation for a CD to assist people’s journeys.
Not all that has been initially manifested has turned out quite the way we expected. These are not failures and it is important to remember this and continue. There is a need to review and refine the Intent- this is part of the composting process and may involve much pain. The important thing is to release this stage and redefine the Intent carefully. And to never give up.
The pain of the darkness is necessary in order to ignite the intent and I feel ecstatic. It is the start of a great movement and we are the pioneers.

Manifesting in Atlanta – A letter by Sandra Lee Hughes
Sandra is the Founding Artistic Director of Gateway Performance Productions. Her original theatre productions, combining stunning visuals, masks, dance, mime, music and text, have been performed in 30 states in the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico, Western and Eastern Europe. Hughes has also created a significant body of work for television. Awards and recognitions include a regional EMMY for "Outstanding Entertainment of the Year", inclusion in the American Film Institute Video Festival in Los Angeles with nomination for the Robert Bennett Award, two national CINDY Awards for Excellence in Children's Programming and National Distribution on Public Television.
My Friend, I’m extremely moved by what you've written [on PAN]. Over a year has gone by since I last saw you. Much has happened as a result of attending your workshop Manifesting Honourable Intentions, performing together and spending time with you in January 2006.The wish I expressed during the workshop to truly feel and be part of a community has happened in the most unexpected place - right here in Atlanta where I live and have lived for many years. A number of my existing relationships with people and organizations have deepened in significant and meaningful ways. I also find myself involved with new organizations and efforts that work for our collective good such as:
United States Social Forum (USSF): We must declare what we want our world to look like and begin planning the path to get there. A global movement is rising. The USSF is our opportunity to demonstrate to the world Another World is Possible! http://www.ussf2007.org/
Darkness to Light: Training adults to better protect our children from sexual abuse. www.darkness2light.org
I'm also currently a visiting artist in Griffin, GA - 60 miles south of Atlanta. Our Bee Project in this community came about as a result of my sharing what I learned from Sverre in your workshop. We’re working to raise consciousness by creating a community performance event for May 3rd of original poetry, dance, music and theatre about the plight of the honeybee. Our group includes students, teachers, parents, beekeepers, the Agricultural Experiment Station and many other community members.
The Atlanta paper and television stations had coverage both Sunday and today about a new and mysterious threat to the honeybee in this country called Colony Collapse. I don't yet know the details - as I don't watch television or read the newspapers. Others have contacted me about this. I hope Sverre will share his perspective with me.
I’ve begun working with a photographer on a book about my mask theatre work. The Title is: Re-membering the Mystery. The Mask Character categories are: the Healers, the Helpers, the Teachers, the Ancestors, the Humans.
I’m much braver and more articulate about sharing the source and meaning of my work due to the experiences I had with you at Findhorn.
Best of all, my grandson is happy and healthy. His baby sister was born on February 13th. His mother (my daughter in law) is doing very well these days - and my son takes great delight in his expanded family life.
Another outgrowth of my association with you is The Sophia Circle - a monthly gathering to focus energy and support for: at-risk women and children, At-risk species - especially the honeybees, the mentally ill, their loved ones and caregivers. The Sophia Circle celebrates its one-year anniversary on March 11, 2007.
Much satisfaction and joy has come into my life due to the experiences, intents and focused energy in your workshop as well as your belief in my theatre work. I deeply appreciate all your support and efforts on my behalf.
Beyond this, these are challenging times. So many are suffering. Friends and associates experience personal and professional chaos as well as life-threatening diseases. I've discovered that those who would destroy my personal and professional life are also doing their best to destroy the work of others who serve the same goals as I do. It takes constant focus to transcend the extremity of the surrounding circumstances and continue to write, perform, teach and participate in community projects. At times, the effort to keep physical and emotional suffering at bay seems monumental.
Your continued support and guidance is deeply needed. If I don't participate as much as I'd like to, it's because the vastness and intricacies of the worlds you and our associates inhabit, at times, elude me. These matters were much more accessible to me when I was at Findhorn. Out here on my own, I can only seem to keep simple principles in consciousness for any length of time.
Thank you for all you do and all you make possible. Love and blessings, Sandra

Corvaro: a dream becomes reality by Liliana Cozza
I came to Corvaro by chance two years ago in August. With my partner Luciano, I was looking for a place to spend my holiday, but every resort was full up. One day we were going to the nearest Lago del Salto and some dear friends gave us a brochure of the area that positively struck us. We started calling and …incredible but true …in the village of Corvaro, in a small guesthouse, there was a space available during the week of August! My first impact with the village was disappointing: scattered anonymous houses along the plain and some ruins on the slope. We asked an old man where the guesthouse was. He mumbled and then showed us the direction, telling us: “You don’t need to ask”. We looked at each other astonished. When we arrived to the guesthouse, the owner told us that the room was sold up because some guests arrived, but at the same price he could give us a whole flat nearby. We accepted willingly and after dinner we went up through the streets of the old village. A special feeling, like something magnetic in the air, started wrapping us … Crumbled houses with wild plants and empty windows, and the moon lightening the walls and the fortress, a bell-tower, and a romantic Latino-American music coming from far awa! Suddenly something opened up inside me…
The following morning I went along the steep streets again, in search of something I didn’t know. I started feeling a magic atmosphere. I closed my eyes, breathing the air full of scents of aromatic plants and I saw the village completely restored: the houses with the roofs and the chimneypots and flowers by the windows, artisan’s shops and small restaurants… I went up to the fortress: the sky was deeply blue and a peaceful sensation came into my heart while I was looking at the buzzards flying over me with spread wings.
The day after we went to visit a small medieval village completely restored in the Riserva della Duchessa and there Luciano told me that it could be the right place to realize the dream we had before knowing each other: to create a meditation and awareness centre where many people could live together in a common intent, living in their own places but spending together part of the day. I immediately felt enthusiastic and asked if there were houses for sale. The owner of the restaurant told us that in Cartore it was impossible to buy, while there were houses for sale to restore in the old village. Instantly a voice from the next table told us in a solemn tone: “If you want to buy a house here in the village refer to Gaetano Calisse!” We went out of the restaurant and, incredible to say, Angelo Calisse, Gaetano’s brother, was walking to us. He accompanied us around the mountains and the woods of Corvaro. He got us in touch with Gaetano and he told us that the houses for sale were actually stalls with mangers. He was pleased to accompany us… You don’t need to ask!
Among so many houses for sale there was Gaetano’s one: a stall just out of the ancient walls next to the medieval door still standing up: Porta Calata. My heart was beating fast and something told me to buy that house, but I didn’t know if I could get enough money. Calling my family? Better not: surely they would tell me that it was another foolish idea! I spent two days and two nights very upset and the morning when I had to give an answer to Gaetano, Luciano bought the newspaper and by chance we read the horoscope: “for natives of Taurus, Jupiter is transiting in your sky: “Don’t delay buying or selling houses today”.
I became dumb and signed the documents, with my heart beating strong but sure to be right, even if I didn’t know what would happen… “I was the owner of a stall in Corvaro…” smiling I imagined my mother’s face when I should tell it her, and smiling I thought that also Jesus was born in a stall!
Since then I had to take many decisions even when my family didn’t agree… but anyway my character became stronger and carried me trusting more and more the divine, following my choices, even if I would lose the affection of my beloved ones, supported by my daughter Rossana and by my boyfriend.
Now I don’t have a house in Rome anymore. I live in Corvaro with Luciano, who bought himself a stall and is starting the rearrangement. Together we realized a common dream, having an esoteric association based on the deep awareness of our personal responsibility in every moment of our life, on the importance to open our hearts, living with engagement, presence and joy, as much as possible.
The association is named “Terra di Luce” (Earth of Light) and the house “Centro di Meditazione Samanta” (Samanta Meditation Centre). I received the name Samanta during a meditation and the meaning, which Luciano has found in Internet, is “Sacred Girl”; its origin is North American, but the farther root of the name is Jewish, and means “the one who listen to”… If we’ll be able to overcome the first impact, where S. shows a roughness and surliness really dreadful, the doors of an enchanted garden will be opened. Imagination, delicacy, fervour, warmth, tenderness … and so on, S. tries defending her secret world as fragile as perfect and she protects herself in an armour that can be dismantled.
At the opening we were 30 people, and during the first workshop, held by Franco, everything was magic just like when I went up to the fortress the first time. Guidance and blessings came one by one and last Sunday all my family gathered here together, celebrating the house and finally accepting my choice, and one person attending Franco’s workshop received clear guidance and decided to buy a stall and come to live here. The adventure goes on, we could be so many, a family of light that lives in contact with the nature and works for thanking the Universe for this wonderful opportunity and there are still many houses to restore and to bring to life and I wish that a lot of people will come here to realise the dream of a Earth of Light!

At Corvaro from 15 to 21 June 2007, Franco is holding the Grand Original Quest, a special astroshamanic retreat aimed at expanding our multidimensional awareness in a resolute and penetrating way, at the dawn of the imminent and potential planetary transformational processes. This workshop provides a direct and experiential understanding of the many-sided of our nature meant as an emanation of the universe, known and unknown. We will employ various practices from ancient traditions, learning how to navigate through different energy fields, identifying apparent anomalies, fractures, blocks, power points, healing gifts and zones. We will be trained to use the astroshamanic system of the 12 Sectors, the binary and trinity codes, the basic cartography of stellar circuits and other strategic applications for the retrieval of our original 12-strand DNA. The workshop also covers the theme of parallel universes, time-space gateways and the multidimensionality of the physical territory, including the exploration of numerous aspects of occult and non-ordinary geography. We will investigate our most ancient roots, connecting various parts of our ancestral life, releasing old blocks and wounds trapped in our inner and outer landscape, unfolding luminous potentials and promoting healing in the environment at all levels. The programme includes: soul retrieval, time-space voyages, distant astroshamanic healing, trance dance, astroshamanic touch, visionary walks, activation of multidimensional portals, advanced applications of the Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone and other practices, which will develop spontaneously according to the motivations and visions of the participants.
The retreat takes place in the medieval village of Corvaro (one hour from Rome), between the lake of La Duchessa and its wild mystery mountains. It starts on the last New Moon of Spring and culminates with the Summer Solstice. The dates and place of the retreat have purposefully been chosen to support this type of work. The event is open to participants of all nationalities and is held by Franco both in English and Italian. This is the first prologue workshop of the Astroshamanic Gateways Series, a series of events devoted to the experiential understanding and astroshamanic exploration of multidimensional gateways, alternative configurations, the Sacred Cone and the Provisional Order.
If you are interested to take part I invite you to book at your earliest convenience. For bookings or information please contact: Franco info@astroshamanism.org or Liliana Cozza, liliana.c15@libero.it +39/0746.306529, or 3478853271 or 3490724072.

Disclaimer: All information provided in PAN is presented solely for inspirational or recreational reading, and it is not meant to substitute the recipient’s direct experience and investigation. The information is also given to strategically exemplify the different features of astroshamanic cosmology and is not intended to reflect Franco’s opinion or astroshamanism in general. Franco does not necessarily endorse any of the ideas and views expressed in this literature, including his own.

[i] All times in PAN are given in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).