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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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 Big Melt Meets Big Empty
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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 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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 Fearless Women
"You are the Energy of The Consciousness Which Pervades All, of infinite valor, the Seed of the Universe, that which is beyond limitation. By you, Oh Goddess, all is deluded by attachment, and if you are gracious, you are the cause of liberation in this world." 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 Earthquake Relief-HELP DONATE HERE
"There is no Port-au-Prince anymore. No one can be there without crying. Everyone is suffering. So many hurt. So many dead. So many without food and water. No aid from the Port-au-Prince airport has reached the neighborhoods I've visited. There's nothing. Everyone is waiting. We are the first group to be able to provide any relief to the St. Clare's area. The need is so great. It's very complicated to distribute aid because there are thousands and thousands of people without food and water in the community. We started yesterday. You have to be careful and pass out the food and water safely and compassionately, involving members of the community in the distribution process. This is how it can work smoothly and help the most people. We haven't had any violence." 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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 Impediment
Read this little inspiring 'pocket' verse from James Bertolino's treasure of verses, "Pocket Animals". 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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 Meditation and the Simple Life
Emptying the mind is the greatest activity. It seems as if you are doing nothing. It seems like escapism and selfishness to those who are egocentric. But only one among millions can do it. Read Swami Amar Jyoti's Satsang to learn more. 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 Gaza
Golda Meir said, “The Palestinians, who are they? They don’t exist.” Today Israel says, “There is no partner for peace,” and “There is no one to talk to.” The oppressed have become the oppressors and done a great hurt to another people. Israel must make amends.
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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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 The Year of the Iron Tiger: “The Tiger Leaves the Mountain”
February 21, 2010
2010 is the year to bring forth your inner tiger! If you have plans for your life, see where the opposition to those plans arises and face opponents squarely and honestly. There are always those who disagree, but if the design is sound it is time to act decisively -- especially if you know the design has come from within. more >>
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 Haitians Helping One Another to Survive
February 9, 2010
Johanna Berrigan, a friend of the foundation and Physician Assistant, spent a week in Haiti & says,"When I drove through the streets of Port-au-Prince, I couldn't speak. The devastation is beyond anything you could imagine. But I gained strength by watching how gracefully and with such dignity the Haitians are coping. They are taking care of each other, praying, singing, doing what they can to help one another survive..." more >>
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 UPDATE: Haiti Earthquake Relief-HELP DONATE HERE
January 24, 2010
I spoke with Lavarice this afternoon and he told me that over 10,000 people came to the St. Clare's rectory in search of food and water yesterday. The crowd was so large they were not able to make a dent in providing the aid needed. Lavarice continues to put out calls to the UN and other nonprofits asking them to come to the area with tents, water, and food. Some additional aid has trickled in, but not at the pace that's needed. Thankfully, two more trucks full of food and water, paid for with your donations, arrived late last night from the Dominican Republic. Today, the distribution of aid was a little easier. more >>
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 Dying for Rain
December 20, 2009
This hymn is dedicated to the poet's heart entangled in a World Wide Web of human desires, full of courage and strength. more >>
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 Virgo Solar Festival & Pisces Full Moon 2009
September 4, 2009
The full moon axis forms a Hard Rectangle with the nodal axis indicating struggles between instinctive and spiritual impulses, difficulties with people in one’s life and a general malaise about the direction things are taking until one sorts out what is actually going on. more >>
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 The Real Grand Chessboard & War Profiteers
August 29, 2009
The concept of global war as the response to violent Islamic radicalism is flawed. We ought not be in the business of invading and occupying other countries. That’s not going to address the threat. It is, on the other hand, going to bankrupt the country and break the military. more >>
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 Cancer/Leo Solar Festival Eclipses 2009: July & August 2009
August 6, 2009
Get ready for a global reboot!! This Aquarius Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, occurring Wednesday August 5 at 8:55 pm, EST, is the third in a series of such eclipses this summer. This series of eclipses began in 1360 and has foretold many wars and disasters, but there have also been reforms and new social orders instituted. more >>
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 Flower Essence Formulas: Powerful Remedies for Times of Crisis
May 29, 2009
Flower essences were first developed during an earlier time of traumatic economic and social upheaval, the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the face of today’s challenges, these potent plant remedies can be important allies as we seek the wisdom, inner strength, emotional equanimity and resolve needed to meet a new world crisis. more >>
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 Chrysler, the UAW, and a Small Car Named Desire
May 6, 2009
Finally, Socialism in Detroit! For months President Obama has been accused of socialism while pursuing Wall Street friendly policies. Now Obama has allowed the Union a 55% share of Chrysler stock -- the auto workers now own the means of production! more >>
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 Geo-engineering: A Measure of Desperation
May 6, 2009
There isn’t an urgent need to develop heroic climate engineering projects. We know how to solve the problem: reduce the amount of energy we use, replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources, switch to organic, localised food systems, stop the destruction of forests and replace some of those we have lost. So why take the risk? more >>
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 Wesak & Taurus Solar Festival 2009
May 6, 2009
There is hope for us yet. The next 18 months will be the make-or-break times. I have been sent a lot of emails about the end of the year 2012. That is not the time about which to be concerned. I have always maintained that. The time, if we are to be concerned, is now. The primary thing all of us need right now is a peaceful state of mind. more >>
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 Witches Abhor Torture
May 6, 2009
Witches abhor torture. We still remember the Burning Times, the campaign of torture and persecution carried out throughout Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries against anyone accused of Witchcraft or heresy. more >>
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 Why Bank Rage Is Not Populism
March 26, 2009
What’s going on today bears little resemblance to the great surge of political organizing that began in and spread through the South and West in the 1890s. To begin with, it isn’t now, nor is it likely to become, part of any larger mass movement. It’s directed at the worst excesses of the system, not at the system itself. And it doesn’t offer an alternative vision, beyond a few more progressive “reforms.” more >>
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 The Decade of Global Transformation and the New American Evolution
March 13, 2009
In this newsletter, using research compiled over the last two years from honest and reliable financial experts, environmentalists, independent journalists and famous astrologers, I will give you a bird’s eye view of the current global financial crisis, provide you with a clear outline of its scope, depth and probable duration, and together we will take a look at the BIG picture – the cultural, political, economic, social and environmental changes set to totally transform human civilization during the next decade. more >>
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 Too Big To Fail? Bailing out Banks, Automakers and More!
November 26, 2008
Bail out GM? For years, the Big 3 automakers used their power to dismantle public transit, scuttle clean fuel initiatives and enslave Americans to expensive cars, cheap gas obtained through force of arms, and suburban sprawl. Now the bill comes due! 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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 New Moon Ritual-Republican Convention 2008
September 2, 2008
"We are gathered on sacred ground overlooking the Mississippi to celebrate the new moon and to begin this week of demonstrations and actions outside the Republican National Convention. We have an intention for the ritual, an intention the planners have been working with here in the Twin Cities for months: to court an upwelling of earth wisdom." 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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 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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 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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 Mike Gravel: Still Principled After All These Years
July 28, 2007
Commenting that his fellow candidates “frightened” him because they refused to take the nuclear option off the table with regard to Iran, he confronted Obama with the question, “Tell me, Barack, who do you want to nuke?” more >>
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 Any Kind of Sovereign
July 3, 2007
Jed Myers explores the illusion of the separate self as mental illness in this humorous new metaphysical poem. more >>
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 The Fight Over The BP-Berkeley Energy BioScience Institute
July 3, 2007
The biofuels boom is already having devastating effects on the world's poorest countries and on planet as a whole by accelerating deforestation and climate change. The $500 million takeover of Berkeley by BP threatens to bring the world's end that much closer. more >>
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 The Right of Return
July 3, 2007
The question of the Palestinian Right of Return is big and crucial. But the discussion is predicated on factors and notions which do not really help the debate or a solution. This issue needs to be looked at, to some extent separately, in two different ways: the first concerns deep emotional-historical issues and principles, which are being discussed, and the second concerns planning, sustainability and real-life viability issues, which largely are obscured. more >>
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 The Unbearable Brightness of Being Right
July 3, 2007
Visionary scientist Rupert Sheldrake reviews a new book by Daniel Dennett that equates mysticism with fundamentalist religious fanaticism and makes a case for rational atheism. more >>
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 Where We Are; Where We're Headed -- The Road to 2012
June 30, 2007
On June 25th, Saturn made its final pass opposite Neptune, and that is very meaningful. Our collective disillusionment, social malaise, and the longstanding sense of being lost in confusion while sinking in quicksand are peaking right now after almost four years of Saturn-Neptune's scandalous revelations, endless deception, and fantasies polarized to realities. more >>
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 Three 9/11s and the Power of Satyagraha
June 1, 2007
There were three 9/11s in history. New York 2001. The bloody Chilean coup of 1973, and the non-violent one of 1906 —Gandhiji's satyagraha in South Africa. Two brought bloodshed, destruction, misery, and chaos. But the Mahatma's WMD — Weapon of Mass Disobedience — helped change the world for the better. more >>
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 Green Tea, The Elixir of Life?
April 8, 2007
Green tea, the everyday beverage for hundreds of millions in Japan and China has emerged as the latest ‘miracle drug' for preventing just about any ailment humans can suffer from. Here's the science behind the news sensation. more >>
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 Perestroika in the West
April 8, 2007
Western civilization, now arguably the most conservative and ossified force for the status quo on planet Earth, is impeding absolutely essential changes necessary to save the environment and promote social justice, and must be restructured root and branch. There is no alternative. more >>
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 Four Years Ago Today
March 16, 2007
Time to let the rest of the world know that dissent is alive and well here in the U.S.A. Time to regenerate a movement as nature regenerates life in the spring, with the rising energy that alone can turn our interminable trudging into a dance of defiance. more >>
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 The Challenge of Affluence: A Root of America's Moral Crisis
March 7, 2007
The American ethic of self-indulgence born of our affluence enables people to saddle their descendants with their own debt, running up huge deficits in the national accounts. The habit of yielding to baser impulses makes it easier to support baser policies in the collective realm -- like wars of imperial aggression around the world. more >>
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 2007: Alchemical Portal
January 20, 2007
It's a year of potential major conflicts around the world. Yet we are entering a window of opportunity for developing sublime aspirations, as we simultaneously charge our personal auras and that of the planet with a flood of light. more >>
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 Save our Seas Part 1: Oceans and Global Warming
January 20, 2007
Global warming disrupts the oceanic web of life, and could result in die-off of the phytoplankton that sustain all oceanic life, releasing huge amounts of carbon and accelerating global warming even more. more >>
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 Save Our Seas Part 3: Acid Oceans
January 20, 2007
Global warming and acidification are damaging the phytoplankton at the basis of the oceans’ enormous food web, putting the entire biosphere in jeopardy. more >>
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 Understanding the Iran Crisis
January 20, 2007
George Bush's plan to "surge" more troops into Iraq could be the perfect way to preposition troops along the Iranian border in preparation for an Israeli air assault on targets in Iran.
Palden dissects this complex chessgame for us. more >>
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 Oceans in Distress
November 1, 2006
Save our oceans, save our planet. Pollution, destructive overfishing and increasing commercial exploitation are threatening the planet’s cradle of life. Learn how you can become an Ocean Defender. Take action now! more >>
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 Wanted: Fifty Million Farmers
November 1, 2006
The de-industrialization of agriculture in an era of expensive oil could be managed without catastrophes and could substantially benefit society and the environment in the long run. Here's how. more >>
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 Me and My Shadow: The Aftermath of the Lebanon War
October 11, 2006
There are so many global questions to sort out that the international community doesn't know where to start. So it holds necessary changes to a manageable, damage-limiting trickle, applying band-aids where possible. more >>
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 Day of Atonement
October 2, 2006
Jed Myers' new Yom Kippur poem explores the wonder, guilt, and pity of the human condition in the 21st century, as the temperature rises, and nations fight war after war -- over oil, water, religion, economic philosophies, race, and always, money. more >>
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 A New Middle East
August 30, 2006
The talk is of a new Middle East. But what new Middle East? A Middle East designed in Washington DC or Teheran, built to suit the needs of foreigners? Or a Middle East evolved by the locals, built to suit their needs? more >>
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 Words for Children
August 30, 2006
Poet Jed Myers shares a heartbreaking new poem that surfaces the pain of righteous rhetoric transformed into bullets, bombs and polarization in the Middle East. more >>
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 America's Moral Crisis
July 26, 2006
This presidency should be seen as a manifestation of the success of a set of amoral forces that have worked for a generation to take over the county. The success of these unscrupulous forces –arising from the political right– is due in part to a more general unraveling of the moral fabric of America. more >>
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 Give Peace a Chance: Noone Can Win the Arab-Israeli Wars
July 26, 2006
Only one kind of disarmament is possible: complete, comprehensive, global disarmament. Owing to the dominance of the strongest and the vulnerability of the weakest, the strongest countries need to take the initiative - ratchet down first, to convince the small guys that they can be trusted not to take advantage. more >>
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 Energy Politics & The Decline of the American Empire
May 26, 2006
With the decline of Washington’s “full-spectrum dominance,” and control of global energy resources, we are seeing the emergence of countervailing power blocs, primarily in Asia but also in South America. This is the end of an era. more >>
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 Immigrants' Rights: The New Revolution
May 26, 2006
The birth of a national immigrants' rights movement was triggered by the first of a two-year series of eclipses in Virgo and Pisces. Recent mass demonstrations are just the beginning of a long political process. more >>
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 Wesak Festival 2006
May 11, 2006
The Taurus Solar Festival at Full Moon in Scorpio celebrates Buddha's Birthday. This year's stars tell us the time has come for many of us to step up to the spiritual mark and present the highest gifts of our natures to the world at large. more >>
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 The Road to 2012
April 15, 2006
NOW is the time for us to prepare to participate positively in the dynamic process of evolution -- spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. There truly is very little time. more >>
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 Easter Festival 2006
April 4, 2006
The Easter story, as well as the life of Jesus, is a reminder and an allegory of the long evolution of the Soul of every person and of the sure and certain knowledge that we will all eventually attain the same status of the Christ. more >>
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 Pisces Festival of Salvation 2006
March 14, 2006
The basic quality here is one of purification. All issues that have lurked beneath the surface will come up for reckoning. For most people this will mean that relationship crises will manifest. more >>
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 Global Food Trade & The New Slave Labour
February 24, 2006
South African farmers pay labourers in part or in full with alcohol. A steady stream of alcohol is given to the workers throughout the day. Not too much to make them drunk, but enough to make them dependent. more >>
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 Aquarius Solar Festival 2006
February 13, 2006
This year will be a period marked by heightened tensions in the world, but also by the capacity for great insights to come out of that tension. Special effort should be made to spend quiet time reflecting on chosen paths and upon bringing people together.
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 Alternative Resources Wish List
February 2, 2006
Today I’d like to bring to your attention a most worthy project that brings clean water, medical care, agricultural assistance and other necessities to the many thousands of Tibetan refugees living in India. more >>
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 Fr. Gerry Released!!/Urgent Health Alert for Fr. Jean-Juste
January 29, 2006
We have great news: Political prisoner Fr. Gerard-Jean-Juste, “Fr. Gerry” is right now on a plane in the air from Port-au-Prince to Miami. A cancer center in Florida has agreed to treat his leukemia, so he will get immediate attention for the cancer, as well as for the pneumonia he contracted this week. more >>
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 Capricorn Solar Festival 2006
January 14, 2006
The only thing we have to do in preparation for the re-emergence of the Kingdom of Souls on Earth is to perform to our personal, spiritual best. That may sound simple enough, but rest assured—if you seek to do that, even in half-measures, then the entire weight of your own negativity will stand in the way of your doing so, as well as a portion of your family’s, community’s and national negative imprinting and conditioning. more >>
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 2006: A Challenging Year
December 13, 2005
We are all in the same boat, and we are all challenged to navigate choppy waters during 2006. Past unresolved situations will now hit us in the face. The chickens are coming home to roost. more >>
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 The Nature of Scorpio: Scorpio Full Moon 2005
November 15, 2005
This Full Moon holds a great deal of frustrated energy within it. The release points are fiery and explosive. The gains to be had in terms of understanding and revelation are formidable, though. Still the mind! more >>
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 Bug Power
November 13, 2005
Waste-gobbling bacteria may be our dream ticket to clean renewable energy. Will the elusive hydrogen economy run on potato waste? more >>
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 The Road to 9/11
November 13, 2005
How covert US Asian operations financed by heroin trafficking empowered radical Islam. How big oil entangled America in unsavory alliances to control Asian pipelines. How it all led to 9/11. Discover the role of the CIA, Big Oil and the Shadow Government. more >>
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 The Spiritual Nature of Libra: Libra Full Moon 2005
October 13, 2005
Choice must be made. If there was ever a theme for Libra, that is it. There are two basic ways in which we choose—with desire/mind or with inner knowing. The latter involves faith when we cannot see or directly sense what is on our path. more >>
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 Health, Human Rights, and GM crops
October 3, 2005
Adopting GM crops when oil and water are both rapidly depleting under global warming, and when industrial monoculture is showing all the signs of collapse is a crime against humanity and our planet. more >>
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 The Global Organic Foods Boom
October 3, 2005
Organic certification standards were initially developed by farmers and farmer organizations but new, third-party, market-driven and government mandated standards threaten to turn the organic food market over to corporate agribusiness. more >>
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 Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply
October 3, 2005
Farmers on the island of Bali in Indonesia once planted 200 varieties of rice, each adapted to a different microclimate; now only four varieties are grown. Ongoing, massive genetic consolidation is being driven by the centralization of the seed industry which is in turn consequent upon fuel-fed globalization. more >>
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 Lopez Obrador: Will He Transform Mexico?
September 22, 2005
The popular left-wing Mayor of Mexico City is running for President on a platform of people power. Will Mexico join the South American revolt against globalization? The stars favor change --and they favor Obrador. more >>
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 Toxic Gumbo: Hurricane Katrina and Environmental Justice
September 21, 2005
The Coast Guard estimates seven million gallons of oil got free from at least forty-four factories, tank farms, and other facilities to join the floodwaters of southeastern Louisiana. This is nearly two-thirds the amount of oil left in Alaskan waters by the Exxon Valdez. more >>
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 Katrina: The Spiritual Significance
September 14, 2005
What will happen if we have another disaster of this nature—like an earthquake or the like—and it takes place near or in one of the major coastal cities elsewhere in the US? The Universe is giving us warning signs and it's up to us to act! more >>
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 Listen to the Animals
August 31, 2005
Why did so many animals escape the December 2004 tsunami? What is the nature of their "sixth sense" that warns them of impending natural disasters? Do humans share that ability? Scientists have an obligation to find out more! more >>
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 The London Bombings
August 31, 2005
The British people will not be terrorized. We do not seek war. There is a public recognition of the multicultural nature of our country, and we accept and include Muslims and all others as part of our society. more >>
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 How to Avoid Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse
August 30, 2005
In the near future insufficient oil supplies will lead to extreme price shocks, price volatility, acute shortages, geo-strategic conflicts and dislocations in the global economy. The Oil Depletion Protocol provides a global management tool to help the world community cope with earth-shaking changes. more >>
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 Understanding Leos: Leo Full Moon 2005
August 19, 2005
Leo carries the torch of illumination, be it through science or through self-discovery. Dawn always represents the start of a new cycle, and that sort of energy is strongly with us at this time. People feel ready for something new. Folks are also growing increasingly dissatisfied with things as they are. more >>
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 Festival of Goodwill: Gemini Full Moon 2005
May 19, 2005
The call has gone out—“Unite! Cast your Light outward into the world and know that your voice will be heard. The ones who wait will hear your voice and see your flame. Lay aside that which keeps you separated from your fellow travelers and walk in concert with them." more >>
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 Is Social Security Broke?
May 9, 2005
The answer is a resounding NO, contrary to what the right-wing spin doctors say. Look at the system's birthchart. Social Security is more stable than the NY Stock Exchange. more >>
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 Global Warming: The Boiling Point
April 1, 2005
I believe that if the U.S. people knew the imminent danger, they would insist on change. This is exactly what the oil and coal industries fear, and so with their powerful crony, GW Bush, they are keeping this crucial information from the American public. more >>
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 Deconstructing the Spiritual Nature of Pisces
March 10, 2005
Pisces is the sign that most embodies the “World Savior”. Pisces Full Moon marks a finishing up of the year’s preparatory business prior to the inauguration of the high spiritual festivals of the spring and summer. more >>
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 Haiti After Aristide: A Failed Occupation
March 1, 2005
UN forces are allowing political assassination attempts on former Aristide officials and police massacres in Port au Prince's poorest neighborhoods. The poor eat mud cakes while rape and pillage proliferate. more >>
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 The Rooster Crows at Noon
February 15, 2005
Chinese astrology tells us about global and personal conditions and tendencies due to manifest in 2005 -- the year of the Green Rooster. more >>
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 The US in 2005 -- Predictions for the Year Ahead
January 6, 2005
The U.S. is being called on to let go of many of its ego props and to open to a higher level of spirit. This will be particularly difficult for a nation showing the arrogance that the U.S. is presenting to the world.
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 Whither Next, America?
February 12, 2004
The American Dream seems to have become a nightmare, and no US president or alliance of billionaire magnates can change that. more >>
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