This is a glimpse of the protests that have been taking place in Hong Kong for the last months. The film encapsulates some of the events that occurred during the period 9.12 to 10.21, 2019. Millions of people poured onto the streets only to note how the city's unelected CE turned a deaf ear to their demands. As a result, several incidents have happened all across the city. The movement that seeks greater democracy and freedom has been on a standstill since the outbreak of Covid-19. As protesters lose international momentum due to the pandemic, Beijing's central government intends to enact the National Security Law, violating the agreements reflected in Hong Kong's Basic Law and breaking the "One Country, Two Systems" premise. Under the new law, dissent will be effectively criminalized. Freedom of speech will be restricted, including controls of what is published online. The once self-proclaimed 'Asia's Finest' Police Force has become a source of hatred, with countless claims of brutality and abuses of power. Tear gas rounds shot by officers are counted by the (ten) thousands, as are the protestors that have been arrested. Most recently, these include 15 veteran pro-democracy activists and lawmakers. No police officer has been held accountable for the time being, despite the vast amount of misconduct evidence caught on camera. Filmed and edited by Rafa Zub. instagram.com/rafazub Music licensed on Musicebed.com - Discovery by Makeup and Vanity Set. Additional sounds on freesound.org.

So as we said in our "Navigating With Reason" essay which was released on the 3rd of January, the 2020 astrological forecast called for us to "strap in, for this year is going to be a wild ride." Now in June, how is that prediction been panning out?

While I aim to have my work not cover current events but instead timeless events, it's fair to say about a dozen super tipping points are spilling over currently on spaceship Earth. The latest being massive protests in the US over 300+ years of sanctioned murdering of African Americans by corrupt authority figures. Another is what's going on in Hong Kong.

I have been trying to get my buddy Ed Liu, who lives half in Hong Kong and half in Hawaii, and used to have the Psychedelic Milk podcast, on as a guest of An Infinite Path recently. It was aiming to be too difficult to make manifest, but Ed's largest want for having a conversation on the podcast was to help get the word out about what's going on there. Even though it's from The Wall Street Journal, this short documentary does a quite good job of laying out the timeline of the pro-democracy Hong Kong protest events.

Having free time to work on yourself is truly a gift. As many around the world are fighting for basic freedoms, it's sometimes, if not oftentimes, easy to forget how good we may have it.