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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  >>


A Dozen Ways to Safeguard Your Financial Privacy

America, the country that made right to privacy a credo, has lost its privacy to the computer. But it's far worse than you think.  more  >>


Affirmations: The Messages of the Flowers in Transformative Words for the Soul

To wish for a specific thing or condition in the physical world is ultimately fruitless if it is not in harmony with the real needs of the soul. The right use of an affirmation is to precipitate inner changes that are in harmony with soul destiny.  more  >>


All the Flowers of All the Tomorrows Are in the Seeds of Today

Voluntary simplicity is a lifestyle, and a strategy for gardening, too. Here are spring tips on how to maximize your garden's utility, and the fun you have gardening, while minimizing the theory and the hassles.  more  >>


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  >>


America's Decline: Learning from the British Empire

There is choice in the manner of a nation's decline, and a graceful decline starts with a recognition that the game is changing and we've lost the plot.
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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  >>


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  >>


Carrot

This poem offers reflections on the coming of a golden spring by a humble root vegetable.  more  >>


Credo

Mystical poetry from James Bertolino's Greatest Hits celebrates the web of life.  more  >>


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  >>


Developing Positive Sensitivity—Empathy: an asset, not a liability

Sensitivity is an issue of our times, it touches all types of personalities, ages, economic levels—it crosses all boundaries. Sensitivity can result in anxiousness or depression.  more  >>


Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Archive

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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  >>


Flower Essence Society Practitioner Profile: Steven Horne

Flower essences…help to strengthen the emotional vibration that has been repressed and allow it to come into conscious awareness so that it can find expression and be discharged.  more  >>


Flower Essence Society Values & Actions

Read how one small company puts its values to live lightly on the earth into action.  more  >>


Flower Essence Therapy: a Perfect Adjunct to Psychotherapy

Many years ago, Dr. Pappas was introduced to flower essences by a holistic physician and learned the value of them first personally, and then later in use with clients.  more  >>


Flower Essences Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Yarrow Environmental Solution and Five Flower Formula offered tangible results to people who, under other circumstances, would not have been open to using flower essences.  more  >>


Flower Essences' Connection to Nature's Transformative Power

Without a consciousness shift we can take in information and learn new ways, but we operate like addicts attempting to change through Herculean acts of will while dysfunctional patterns still hold us in their grip.  more  >>


Flower EssenceTherapy, Aromatherapy and Color Therapy: A Natural Synthesis

Begoña Siegrist utilizes flower essence therapy in combination with aromatherapy and color therapy. Working in tandem, these three therapies augment each other, helping both the practitioner and the client.  more  >>


GM Ban Long Overdue: Dozens Ill & Five Deaths in the Philippines

In July 2003, a farmer living in a small village in the south of Mindanao Island of The Philippines,[within 100 m of a field planted with GM maize], found himself and his entire family suddenly falling ill with fever and respiratory, intestinal and skin ailments.  more  >>


Good Advice Press Archive

Find all of the Good Advice Press articles at Satya Center here.  more  >>


Haiti Emergency: UN Aiding Death Squads

On Tuesday U.S. backed Haitian police reportedly entered the neighbourhood of Fort Nationalle, forced 13 people to the ground, and executed them one by one  more  >>


Haiti: Right-wing Thugs Revel in Bush's Victory

Brazil moves to expand the 'coalition of the killing' in Haiti by sending in more troops.  more  >>


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  >>


How to Make Every Day Earth Day!

Here’s a simple, fun, free thing you can do to help save the planet.  more  >>


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  >>


James Bertolino Archive

Read all of James' poems at Satya Center here.  more  >>


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  >>


Malvin Artley Archive

Find all of Malvin's astrology articles at SatyaCenter.com here  more  >>


Maya del Mar Archive

Find all of Maya's articles at Satya Center here.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


Morning Meditation for Radiance and Cellular Transformation

Fill yourself with Light to transform each day with this beautiful meditation from Steve Diver.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


Of Screeching Hawks & A Pacifist's Dilemma

The Iraq war took place, despite our protestations, to teach us the value and importance of concerted public action.  more  >>


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  >>


On The Nature of Leos and 2004's August Leo Full Moon

Discover the relationship between Divine Flames, Leos and Neutrinos as well as the way the Leo Full Moon will shape the upcoming cycles of life on planet Earth.  more  >>


On the Nature of Libras and the Libra Full Moon 2004

Libra is about how we come to arrive at poised, conscious choice. It is about how we manifest the love of God in every given moment as sensed by the great organ of pure “reason” —- the heart.  more  >>


Out of Step

James Bertolino's new poem is a meditation upon the synchronous and asynchronous dream-time of love.  more  >>


Palden Jenkins Archive

Find all of Palden's articles at SatyaCenter.com here  more  >>


Planet

James Bertolino's poetry helps us to remember our connection with planet Earth.  more  >>


Poem: I believe in turnips

A bit of earthy admiration from James Bertolino,the poet of planetary magic  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


Roxbury Farm Archive

Read all of the Roxbury Farm articles at Satya Center.  more  >>


Roxbury Farm Food

Read what it takes to grow organic vegetables for a community supported agriculture farm.  more  >>


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  >>


Rupert Sheldrake Archive

Read all of Rupert Sheldrake's articles at Satya Center here.  more  >>


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  >>


Save Money, Eliminate Debt, and Live Better on Less

If you're like almost 100 million other Americans, you get a refund on your taxes- the average is now $2,033, or $169 a month. That means you give Uncle Sam an interest-free loan every year.  more  >>


Sequoia

James Bertolino's new poem records a wordless conversation converying the fiery spirit of the poet's heart's desires.  more  >>


Soft Belly, Open Heart

A study in the flow of a loving life lived awake.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


Structure of the Universe

James Bertolino's latest cosmic nature poem, to help you contemplate our Loving Universe.  more  >>


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  >>


Ten Year Forecast for America’s Reform and Restructuring

With Saturn in Libra in the 10th house, the U.S. has the potential to eventually be a leader in a sustainable, just, and harmonious way of life.
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The Body Holographic

Word Smith Bertolino with another of his Jewels on the Nature of Being.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


The Cosmic Concordance Oct 2004

An extremely rare astrological signature this October points to revolutionary global change and an opportunity for accelerated spiritual advancement.  more  >>


The Distancing of Europe and America

Europeans, even the British, don't like being associated with crass, domineering and increasingly corrupt American-style capitalism.  more  >>


The Fed's Raising Rates: What It All Means

A jobless recovery, asset bubbles, massive foreign debt, financial industry scandals, and the end of Social Security as we know it? No problem. The Fed will just raise rates again.  more  >>


The Ladder

James Bertolino's new poem explores the metaphysical epistemology of every day life.  more  >>


The Role of Flower Essences in Rebuilding a Healthy Community

Plants and their energies are abundant, benevolent and are a grounding force; that’s exactly what is needed and what flower essences bring to people.  more  >>


The Roxbury Farm CSA Story

Read about the origins of community sponsored agriculture.  more  >>


The Scorpio Full Moon & The Nature of Scorpios

Mars takes up the call and the battle for supremacy between the Soul and the persona.  more  >>


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  >>


The Tibetan Refugee Water Project

Read about the important work on behalf of Tibetan Medicine and the Tibetan people by this non-profit.  more  >>


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  >>


The Wedding

This epiphanic love poem by James Bertolino startles the mind and opens the heart.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


Twenty Years of Good Advice

It doesn't take a lot of money to live a rich life.  more  >>


Understanding Cancers and the Cancer Full Moon 2004

Esoteric astrologer Malvin Artley helps us understand often misundertood Cancer natives and interprets important aspects of the July 2004 Cancer Full Moon that will impact our lives for months to come.  more  >>


Understanding Sagittarius: November Full Moon 2004

If I were a staff astrologer for Bush, I would have serious questions for his future and political life as he mounts the dais at the inaugural ceremony.  more  >>


Understanding the Historic 2004 Venus Transit

Esoteric Astrologer Malvin Artley explains how this Venus transit offers tremendous opportunities for self-transformation over the next eight months.  more  >>


Virgo Mysteries and Predictions 2004

In esoteric lore Virgo has always been associated with matter, with the gestation and eventual birth of “the hidden Christ” and thus with the Mother.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


Clean Coal? Carbon Capture and Storage Is A False Solution
July 18, 2008

CCS is considered so risky on a large scale that industry is unwilling to fully invest in it without a framework that protects it from long-term liability.  more  >>


The Magician
July 18, 2008

In this poem, memory uncovers a child's perspective and restores the magic of everyday life.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


City, Country or Suburb? Which Is Best During Peak Oil and Global Warming?
June 17, 2008

It isn't where you live, but how you live there that matters -- especially who your neighbors are, and how well you get along in your community. Because in this transitional age between petroleum civilization and post-carbon civilization we will find that "it takes a village" just to survive.  more  >>


A Mother, A Daughter, A Graph and Tears for Our Planet
February 20, 2008

Until a few days ago, I had never cried in response to a graph.
Now I have. This shows the biggest single year decrease in ice cover in a dataset which stretches back to 1979.  more  >>


Pisces Solar Festival, Full Moon in Virgo 2008 Forecast
February 19, 2008

Many of you may already feel the energies of the coming full moon and eclipse building. The scene has already been set by the precursor of the Moon Wobble and there is a feeling that something is about to happen.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


Mountain Lullaby
October 18, 2007

Another Love & Nature meditation from Jim Bertolino reprinted from his book, Snail River.  more  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>


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  >>