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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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 Be Not Immune
James Bertolino shares his raw vulnerability to the impulses of his Muse with our readers in this new poem. 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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 Dennis Bernstein Archive
Dennis Bernstein is a regular contributor to Pacifica's Democracy Now, and Associate Producer of Pacific News Service. He is currently cohost of KPFA's Flashpoints News Magazine, and is a frequent commentator on WBAI airwaves. 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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 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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 If Not Us, Then Whom?
We face numerous challenges as a peace movement on this cold day in Albany. The US attack on Falluja is nearing an end, but there will be more Fallujas. 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 III
Is the mind located in the brain or is consciousness a field phenomenon? Is consciousness a byproduct of brain chemistry or does mind - and soul --exist both within and outside our bodies? Here are some experiments you can do at home to explore the nature of consciousness. 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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 My Sister's Daughter
James Bertolino celebrates the mysteries of birth and the cycles of life in his latest poem about the recursive nature of human existence. 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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 Planet
James Bertolino's poetry helps us to remember our connection with planet Earth. 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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 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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 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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 Saint John's Wort
Saint John's Wort is an outstanding herbal remedy steeped in many folk legends and traditions of healing. It has five-petaled, bright yellow blossoms with protruding stamens which flower at the height of summer. 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 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 Wedding
This epiphanic love poem by James Bertolino startles the mind and opens the heart. 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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 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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 Why Do I Farm Organically?
I like to take walks on the farm and during each walk I find something I had not noticed before. In the winter, I spend time visualizing what the fields of the farm will look like in the next season, and I know that this practice contributes greatly to the success of a particular season. more >>
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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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 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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 Chinese New Year Predictions for 2008 Part 1
February 8, 2008
2008 is the Year of the Rat! Expect an important year full of change, reversals, power plays, learning to save for a rainy day, and learning about who our true friends really are. It's a long story, so this is a two-part letter! more >>
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 Chinese New Year Predictions for 2008 Part 2
February 8, 2008
In this year, especially, take the time to sit by the path you have chosen, wait and watch. The truth you are after will appear. The trick is not to blink, be distracted or fall asleep when it appears. I hope you find it. more >>
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 Peering Into the Future: An Agenda for the 21st Century
February 8, 2008
It's 2008, but we are at the first dawning of the 21st century, and much of the world seems to be focused firmly on what can be seen in their rear view mirror. Our problems are global problems, and so are the solutions for a better world. more >>
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 Capricorn Solar Festival: Year-End 2007 & What Is to Come
December 14, 2007
Astrologically, it's been a very difficult time over the last two years. We are now given two months to recover, refresh, relax and repair our psyches before monumental changes sweep through our world in 2008 and for the next dozen years! more >>
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 What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?
December 14, 2007
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our dependence on depleting fossil fuels. more >>
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 It's Mars Retrograde: Hurry Up and Wait!
November 18, 2007
Mars goes stationary on November 15th, thru end of January 2008, so we're likely to be stuck in stop-and-go traffic on the Business Loop for quite awhile to come, with speed traps and breakdowns along the way. more >>
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 Big Melt Meets Big Empty
November 14, 2007
Since fuel depletion alone will not result in sufficient emission cuts, and since carbon capture and storage is problematic, if nations are serious about climate protection the discussion must center on leaving coal and other low-grade fossil fuels (such as tar sands) in the ground. more >>
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 Cold Fusion: Back on the Menu
October 21, 2007
The implications of cold fusion are enormous. It means that a cheap, much safer and controllable source of nuclear energy is on the horizon. It may be possible to use the same kinds of low energy nuclear reactions to transform existing hazardous radioactive nuclear wastes into more stable, non-radioactive elements. more >>
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 Nine Decades of Non-Violence: The Story of Satyagraha
October 21, 2007
Satyagraha was Gandhi's peaceful protest movement in India that triggered the drive for independence in that country. Here's the story of an old Muslim gentleman who followed Gandhi and has practiced Gandhian precepts for fifty years. more >>
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 Pipeline Through Paradise: Big Oil's Plan to Tap the Arctic
October 20, 2007
One quarter of the world's untapped oil and gas reserves lie in the Arctic. Politicians, oil execs, and the media focus on the Middle East and West Africa but most know that the Arctic is the real prize in the ongoing international struggle to control dwindling energy resources. more >>
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 Mountain Lullaby
October 18, 2007
Another Love & Nature meditation from Jim Bertolino reprinted from his book, Snail River. more >>
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 The Importance of Plumbing
September 5, 2007
The decade of the 2010s will unfold as another lightning-bolt chapter in the recently accelerated evolution of humanity toward substantive change in how we live, work, and play on this garden planet. more >>
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 Virgo Solar Festival and Eclipses 2007
August 23, 2007
As with everything that has been going on since the start of this century, we are being coaxed or even forced to look inward for our answers and not rely on someone else to prop us up or solve our problems for us. Enjoy what this eclipse brings, for there are many hidden blessings in it! more >>
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 Climate Change: Opening the Window of Opportunity
August 1, 2007
If moving closer to the heart of things - moving from the symptom of rising temperature to its cause, CO2 pollution - produces the ability to solve multiple problems with a single solution, then what might be the power of reaching even deeper - into consumerism, into our sense that the Earth is ours to dominate, into the assumptions of the industrial age? more >>
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 Impeach Bush Now! Bypass the Corporate Media!
August 1, 2007
About half the American people favor the impeachment of Bush and of Cheney. Such public sentiment is unprecedented in American history, and such numbers demonstrate the potential for an unprecedentedly massive social movement. more >>
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