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 A Day in the Life
Read about a real time day in the life of two farmers who bring food grown with love to 850 families in New York. more >>
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 America After the Elections
To say that I and most of my friends were displeased with the outcome would be slightly understating the fact. But, I feel it necessary to bring out a few things that people may not have considered around all this and—despite it all—I can see what is coming, and I have to say I still feel quite bright about the future. more >>
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 Angels Over Babylon
Sennacherib has returned
To haunt the empty halls of Ninevah.
Archaeologists have peeled his face
From palace walls and sent
His lion victories to London. . . more >>
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 Aquarius Foods in Mid Winter
Welcome to Aquarius, the middle sign of winter. In Aquarius our focus shifts from Capricorn effort and accomplishment to communicating with society, exchanging beneficial ideas and acquiring knowledge. By learning from others we adopt new ideas that change the very structures that we established in Capricorn. more >>
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 Bioremediation In New Orleans
There are many bioremdiation techniques that are fairly simple, natural, and applicable on a small scale and Common Ground has been working on a proposal to fund and train a worker’s cooperative to put them into practice. more >>
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 Carrot
This poem offers reflections on the coming of a golden spring by a humble root vegetable. more >>
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 Credo
Mystical poetry from James Bertolino's Greatest Hits celebrates the web of life. more >>
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 Cutting Carbon Emissions
The energy transition is gaining momentum. When the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, the proposed 5-percent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels in industrial countries by 2012 seemed like an ambitious goal. Now it is widely seen as an outmoded, grossly inadequate goal. more >>
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 Flower Essence Society Archive
The Flower Essence Society (FES)is an international membership organization of health practitioners, researchers, students, and others interested in deepening knowledge of flower essence therapy. more >>
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 Haiti's Father Jean-Juste Imprisoned!!
Fr. Jean-Juste, the Coordinator of the Feed My Lambs food program was beaten and dragged from the rectory of St. Claire's Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Oct.13,2004. Article, plus updates. more >>
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 How to be Fuel and Food Rich During Climate Change
Biofuels and incineration are bad ideas promoted by big governments. Solar power, anaerobic generation of energy from waste materials, and green algae for carbon capture and sustainable biofuels are good ideas that definitely will work. more >>
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 Lemon Chest Compress
Hot Lemon Chest Compress—to help overcome a lingering cough, a stubborn chest congestion and asthmatic wheezing. more >>
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 Let Thanks
An expression of Giving Thanks as an act of Loving Life, in all of its complexities from Seattle poet Jed Myers. more >>
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 Lilipoh Archive
Find articles from Lilipoh Magazine reprinted with their kind permission here at Satya Center. more >>
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 Love-Lies-Bleeding and Francis of Assisi
Love-lies-bleeding flower essence helps lift the consciousness beyond individual suffering to identify with world suffering. In offering one’s suffering to a higher purpose, while cultivating compassion for the suffering of others, one’s own pain no longer weighs so heavily on the soul. more >>
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 Mind, Memory & Archetype, Part II
Rupert Sheldrake explores the role of morphogenic fields in manifestations of collective consciousness -- animal behavior,social networks, human religious rituals, and the conventional wisdom of crowds. more >>
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 Mind, Memory and Archetype, Part I
The universe is more like an organism than a machine. The Big Bang recalls the mythic stories of the hatching of the cosmic egg: it grows, and as it grows it is more like a gigantic cosmic embryo than the huge eternal machine of mechanistic theory. more >>
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 Nature’s Poem
An offering of another visionary wandering through Nature brought to us by James as we dream through winter of summer days. more >>
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 On the Nature of Capricorn
A sign is both a representation and an emanation of a living Being, a Being of immense size, composed of innumerable Lives, of very ancient origin, of infinite wisdom and compassion and composed of Lives who were all once human far back in the mists of cosmic history. more >>
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 Out of Step
James Bertolino's new poem is a meditation upon the synchronous and asynchronous dream-time of love. more >>
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 Paper Window
Jed Myer's powerful new poem is a true comment about how the dead from war are all our own children, our own families. more >>
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 Peace Enters the World Screaming Hot
Seattle poet and musician Jed Myers helps us hear searing sonic feedback from the core of the soul of the Peace Goddess and introduces us to the immortal, piercing poignancy of the global geophysical Peace Song. more >>
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 Planet
James Bertolino's poetry helps us to remember our connection with planet Earth. more >>
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 Planting Daffodils
The poet sees a mirror of the immortal Divine Juliet in the dying light of late August flowers, the promise of the eternal recurrence of new life arising from the ashes of our manifest density, a promise of rescue in some future configuration of life force energy, from our obtuse allegiance to destruction. more >>
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 Prayer: A Challenge for Science
As soon as we have the idea that the mind can be extended through mental fields, and over large distances, we have a medium of connection through which the power of prayer could work. more >>
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 Released From Prison!
Today, 11-29-04, Fr.Jean-Juste,of St Claire Church in Delmas, Haiti, was released after almost 7 weeks of illegal detention. The release follows a sustained campaign of int'l support for Fr. Jean-Juste by prominent religious figures, lawyers, grassroots groups & human rights advocates in Haiti & throughout the world. The release shows that collective action for justice can succeed,& offers hope for Haiti's other 700 political prisoners.
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 Richard Katz & Patricia Kaminski Bios
Richard and Patricia are authors of numerous articles and books about flower essences, including the best-selling Flower Essence Repertory, now in its fifth edition and translated into sixdifferent languages around the world. more >>
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 Rosalie’s Healing Story
Sitting there with our feverish and congested child in the middle of the night, it was all we could do not to panic and rush her straight to the hospital for antibiotics. But because of our commitment to avoid them, we called our anthroposophical doctor, who told us to do three lemon wraps a day. more >>
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 Roxbury Farm New Land Purchase
Roxbury Farm purchases 100 acres of new land, in cooperation with Open Space Conservancy and the National Park Service, keeping the land in agriculture. more >>
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 Saffron Brown Rice with Carrots
Serve this dish as a main course or side dish. According to Ayurveda, saffron has wonderful healing qualities for all body types especially as a “blood revitalizer”. more >>
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 Sequoia
James Bertolino's new poem records a wordless conversation converying the fiery spirit of the poet's heart's desires. more >>
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 Solar Power Comes of Age
Solar power is poised to enter the mainstream energy market with novel materials that boost energy conversion efficiency and bring down manufacturing costs. more >>
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 Spirit or Empire? The 21st Century Revolution
I am introducing the discourse of “spirit” back into social activism because the problems we face, dear friends, cannot be solved by the same kind of mind and heart that created these problems in the first place. more >>
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 Sunflower & Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Study in Spiritual Surrender
The Sunflower essence is a catalyst for developing one's personal identity in relation to a larger spiritual Self. Love-Lies-Bleeding essence has proven to be a powerful balm for those undergoing great physical and psychic pain. When the soul has been stretched to the breaking point, it can enter another dimension of spiritual awareness. more >>
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 The Case for Building International Community
We're all God's little children. We have a job to do, building a new culture and civilisation, a new humanity occupying one wee planet on the edge of a provincial galaxy. If we don't, all of human history could come to little or nothing. This is the importance of the international community, and the clock is ticking. more >>
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 The Concept of Evil
The concept of evil is intellectually valid and spiritually important, and crucial to understanding the current state of political affairs in America and around the world. more >>
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 The Ladder
James Bertolino's new poem explores the metaphysical epistemology of every day life. more >>
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 The Long View: Uranus Uprisings in America
It seems quite likely that the end of the transit of Uranus square to US Mars in February 2009 will signal the end of the hyper-militarism that has colored the tenure of the self-styled War President George W. Bush. more >>
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 The Sumatra Earthquake
My purpose in this writing is to look at some of the deeper factors at work with this tragedy and to give a bit of perspective on things. Human memory and perception has a tendency to be notoriously short and we, as a species, are more prone to look at events rather than the meaning behind them. more >>
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 The Universal Organism
Sheldrake's theory that the Universe is a living, evolving, intelligent organism synthesizes the warring views of creationists and evolutionary theorists while avoiding Biblical fundmentalism and secular materialism in favor of post-Newtonian scientific spirituality. more >>
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 The Warrior God Changes Direction
A more circumspect foreign policy waits until Bush is out of office, although the mood of the country is clearly already shifting. Unfortunately, planetary indications for 2007 and 2008 suggest a strong potential for Bush to unleash the aggressive Martial impulses writ large in the stars. more >>
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 The Wedding
This epiphanic love poem by James Bertolino startles the mind and opens the heart. more >>
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 Through the Eyes of Abundance
Marin County California is on its way to becoming the first all organic county in the United States. How did they do it? And how can others follow their example? more >>
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 To Be a True Friend of the Jewish People
I can think of nothing more unfaithful to the strong Jewish traditions of social justice than the current climate of vicious denunciation towards anyone who raises criticisms of Israel’s policies. more >>
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 To Be Loved By Nature
James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization. more >>
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 Toward an Activist Sprituality
The integration of magic and activism sometimes means bringing magic into an action -- doing a spiral dance in the midst of the tear gas of Quebec City, or in Grand Central station surrounded by riot cops. It might mean starting our strategic planning with a trance or a Tarot reading, or invoking Water as we work against the privatization of water resources. more >>
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 Weather Report Summer 2004
This garden is our cathedral, where we pause to reflect upon the inter-relations between earthly life and spiritual realms, and to continuously express our gratitude for the abundance of beauty in our lives. more >>
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 What if Foundation Update 2007
Margaret writes in her latest letter: "The Education Coordinators at St. Clare’s who work closely with Fr. Jean-Juste, have done an outstanding job identifying and working with the students. In June, 90% passed the state exam so were able to advance into the next grade." more >>
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 What Water Says
James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization. more >>
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 Obama's Magic Moment -- A View from India
November 7, 2008
A nation has gone against its historical record. Risen above its worst prejudices in one, emotional, incandescent moment. A small step for world peace and social justice, a giant leap for America.
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 Indexing Humanity, Indian Style
November 5, 2008
117,000 women dead From childbirth, but, take cheer, the market is soaring!
It all happened around the same time. The day the Sensex crossed 19,000, India clocked in 94th in the Global Hunger Index--behind Ethiopia. more >>
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 Meltdown Strategies: Financial Disaster and Climate Change
October 14, 2008
The environment is not an afterthought: it’s the ground of economy, security and survival. Environmental protection, environmental justice and regeneration must be our top priorities, because they are the only sound foundation for every other endeavor. more >>
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 Haiti Hurricane Relief Appeal
September 11, 2008
"At another food program some 8 miles south of our food program, a security guard shot at the crowd who were desperate for a meal. An unconfirmed report said three hungry people died, 12 were wounded. Some small children were crushed within a crowd of starving young men, women and elderly people. The luckiest and very little babies hold onto their mothers or big sisters in the hope of some food." more >>
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 Solar Power for the Masses
August 20, 2008
Solar cells are getting better and cheaper fast as oil prices soar. Investors are flocking to solar start-ups. Soon it will cost as little to get electricity from the sun as from the grid. Highly distributed small scale generation linked to an upgraded electric grid is the way ahead. more >>
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 The New Age of Water: Creating a Water Battery
August 20, 2008
The most significant scientific discovery of this century could be about highly structured water -- liquid crystalline water, which could be used as a virtually unlimited energy source. Scientists are now working to create a solar-charged water battery that could usher in a new age of hydro-power. more >>
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 The Magician
July 18, 2008
In this poem, memory uncovers a child's perspective and restores the magic of everyday life. more >>
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 The Corporate Grip on Food Tightens
July 4, 2008
We have dismantled vital parts of our agriculture and with it, the livelihoods of millions. At a time when debates in India highlight the un-viability of corporate agriculture, giant corporations are betting the opposite. For them, at least, the current food crisis holds the promise of an undying source of super profit. more >>
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 9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics
June 17, 2008
The unthinkable — that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians — has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. Is the American "deep state" somehow implicated with al-Qaeda in the atrocity of 9/11? more >>
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