Ritually murder the devil at mass? OMG what karma that would create! Or not.
I didn't think he had a body.
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i understand that a conducive environment is not necessary for meditation
other than beginners wanting it quiet (me too).
But meditation aside, Costa Rica is incredible. Forget the retreat and just go there. 1/4 of it nature preserve. When you go out of the city, the poor people are happy. They sit on their porches at night and talk. there are fireflies by the thousands, Arenal volcano heats hot spring swimming pools.
you can hear it rumble from the pools. There's graffitti on walls in San Jose that are love poems. You get this feeling in your heart that the energy is different there. They have rice and beans and eggs for breakfast.
My favorite place is "Finca biologica" (ecology farm). It's not a tourist trap yet. Family run, you walk down trails in the forest of old growth trees. Some of them 30 feet in diameter, and you can't see the tree tops. you come to a cliff overlooking banana plantations; everything in sight is green with the sun playing on it. You can hear the breeze far away.
You get scared on the trail because a herd of fifteen peccaries runs
past you, looking like brown baby pigs. There are small groups of coatamundies, sort of long tail raccoons that are always playing, chasing each other and wrestling, rolling around, up and down trees, squealing.
All the food there tastes better than here (USA) because we breed vegetables and fruits to look good on the shelf and transport well on a truck. They breed them to taste good. They grow their heirloom varieties and bring them short distances to little farmers markets in a pickup. Even potatoes taste better.
You can go to "Jungle lodge" by taking a four hour boat ride down a river. It's isolated and beautiful, and on the mouth of a river on the carribean near protected species turtle breeding grounds.
Etherfish
