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explanation would have been helpful.
June's cover and Gluttony article signaled
the launch o f a 12-part series, where
Geoff Olson's wit would reveal how the
seven sins has been spun into motivating
principles o f consumerism. The series
continues with Lust.
This July's War President photo collage
cover may be more challenging than last.
It was for me. So in this magazine, you
will f i n d information explaining the
artist's intent and comments from view-
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the destroyer of illusions dancing on the
dwarf of ignorance; the seven deadly sins
are such illusions. T h i s edition's cover
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JULY 2004 • lOmmonGround • 5

 Estate on the content of the cable com-
SECOND I N A SERIES panies' porn shows.
These weren't shows with your average
plumber-meets-housewife plotline. Bell
suit of its quarry, the faithful were prom- ExpressVu was offering rape a n d
become erect...(with)... a couple of can-
nons firing arena-filling geysers into the
air:"
It all sounds like mindless fun, with
the cannon-spunk acting in counter-

Lust ised an afterlife in Heaven - the ultimate bondage scenes a s standard fare.
cosmic carrot (the stick being Hell). Not
that lust among the laity was entirely a
Somehow this material escaped the
attention of the CRTC, which perhaps
point to the teen queen's supposed
celebrity-virginity of the time. But con-
sidering the lip-synching singer has a
Story and illustrations by Geoff Olson bad thing from the clergy's point of view. was too busy policing Howard Stern's target audience largely comprised of pre-
The sins of the flesh always kept 'em use of the "F" word. Or maybe the regu- pubescent girls, with thousands of them
Greed drives the desire for prof- coming back for more confession. lators looked the other way because of present in the audience, you might won-
it at any cost. Envy is a main- The demonization of lust has arguably the size of the players in the Canadian der exactly what messages are being sent
taken a huge toll in human happiness - porn game. The conglomerate BCE Inc. and why.
stay of the fashion industry, and and ironically, repression may have also owns Bell Canada, the CTV television In the past 20 years, the demographics
marketing as a whole. Anger is fueled the technical progress in the West. network and The Globe and Mail - and for sexually-targeted consumer markets
subtly exploited in the Army of Centuries of policing eros may well have Bell ExpressVu. The latter's porn fare have expanded, including the elemen-
tary school years. In fact, lust has gone so
redirected its energies into commerce, originated from US-based New Frontier
One fantasies o f video games the arts, and sciences. And sexual shame Media, North America's leader in the mainstream that many of us accept this
and recruitment advertise- certainly never held back the erections distribution of hardcore pornography. sort of thing - a Gap ad with overtly
on Cape Canaveral and the New York The company trades on Nasdaq. erotic content, for example - as our cul-
ments. Pride fuels the "high skyline. But times change. Lust has been The Fifth Estate report indicated other ture's background noise. The megacor-
self-esteem" bandwagon. In the subject to the same cultural currents that corporate behemoths, such as General porations are as ready to push sexual
Motors, AT&T, and Time Warner, that imagery on kids as they are to offer
era o f hypercapitalism, these have effected gluttony, sloth, greed and
the other so-called deadly sins. All have have been "seduced"in the past by traf- stronger fare for an adult audience. This
and most of the other so-called been spun into desires promoted and ficking in hardcore porn through their is different, and is some ways more trou-
deadly sins have been rehabili- valorized by the consumer market. They subsidiaries. bling, than the straightforward problem
are profitable states of mind - for the of Internet porn - it's t h e market-
tated by the market as positive, system, if not the individual - endorsed sexualization o f the very
even praiseworthy, states o f and when it comes to
aigr togr young.
"Sex sells tween fashion,"
mind. "Sin" has been spun. lust, the lucre is
positively
ttit
announces a recent story in the
Hence, what I call The Deadly filthy. 1 0 ' 1 0 1 4 1 0 tOOr Vancouver Sun, describing
Spins. tog)* how thong underwear and
Playboy Bunny logos are
11/0 part o f a new fashion
"Give me chastity and continence, but trend aimed at young
not just yet:' - St. Augustine girls. Marketers pitch
fashion brands with
I'm a t the Vancouver Trade and names l i k e Porn
Convention Centre for The Everything to Star, Hot Buns, and
Do About Sex Show, an annual sales cele- TNA. According to
bration of tab A into slot B. You could reporter K e r r y
also describe the scene as HottieLand. Gold, "at a West
Most of those in attendance, including Vancouver e l e -
the salesunits in the booths, are buffed, mentary school, it's
bronzed, aerobicized, inflated, molded In cool for a girl to
or otherwise modified into Aryan ideals t h show her black bra
of beauty. (Well, not quite everyone. USA, the adult strap underneath her
Over at one stage, a heavy-set domina- porn business i s tank or tube topf
trix busts a half-hearted move to a tech- estimated t o total ' V For more than a decade,
no beat, while parading around a between $10 to $14 bil- MuchMusic and MTV have
scrawny leatherboy on a leash.) lion annually. And that includes the portrayed girls in heels and
I don't see too many smiling faces Internet and video rentals, porn net- So bikinis, bumping and grinding in
among the browsers; there appears to be works, pay-per-view movies on cable what's accompaniment to the bass-heavy
a certain grim determination in the buy- and satellite, in-room hotel movies, the p r o b - strut of cock-rock and hip-hop. For
ing and selling of pleasure here. The phone sex, sex toys and magazines. This lem? Joe or Jane • .... young girls, is this the payoff of decades
pneumatic consumers inspecting the isn't just some frill in the US economy. Average can vote with "cmoad of feminism, to buy into the semiotics of
lotions, lubricants, videos, vibrators, sex Frank Rich, a reporter with The New a remote or a mouse. No one is the strip bar and the back alley? By the
tour brochures, balms, beads, bondage York Times, p u t s i t succinctly: forced to watch any of this stuff. The time the Spice Girls came around to grab
gear and buttplugs might as well be "Pornography is a bigger business than argument is convincing on the face of it, the tween female market share, pre-
Puritans down at the general store, professional football, basketball and but it leaves out one important variable. pubescent girls were insisting on make-
examining the latest thing in stockades baseball put together!" People pay more Children. up and nail polish. "In 1998, the year the
and horsewhips. money for pornography in the US in a This leads us, naturally enough, to the Spice Girls were at their peak, tweens
It's been a long, strange journey for year than they do on movie tickets, more topic of Britney Spears, and a perform- spent $1.4 billion per year," according to
lust, from the catacombs of the early than they do on all the performing arts ance several years back in Vancouver. Gold. "In 2002, the figure had gone up to
Christian era to the convention centres combined. The bubblegum diva is on-stage. She's $1.7 billion per year."
of the cosmopolitan present. And adult porn, in fits and starts, with doffed her duds for a bra-and-miniskirt (When my sister went shopping for
From the standpoint o f the early advances and occasional retreats, is pole dance, after which hundreds of gal- her daughter at a high-end boutique
church, there were compelling reasons to going mainstream. I n 2001, Bell lons of water rain down on her from the specializing in fashions for 8-12 year
include lust among the seven deadly sins. ExpressVu, the Canadian direct-to - overhead rigging. She commences to olds, she was dismayed to discover
Clearly, such thoughts and feelings took home satellite TV service, shut down two shower on-stage, and launches into her padded bras in the store. She indicated
one's mind off Higher Things. And not of its adult film channels, True Blue and big hit, Baby One More Time. A reviewer to the staff this was inappropriate for
incidentally, policing human behaviour Extasy. The decision to pull the plug from The Georgia Straight describes the children, and the what's-your-problem-
through guilt and repression turned out came as a preemptive strike against pos- scene: lady response from a clerk speaks vol-
to be a powerful means to herd the sible federal regulatory investigations, "At the end of the song, four inflatable umes: "well, the kids seem t o like
sheeple. In the place of lust and the pur- following a broadcast on CBC's Fifth condom things flanking the stage slowly them!")

6 •commoneround• JULY 2004

 Marketers have found an Eldorado in
barely formed libidos, and not inciden-
tally, studies indicate kids are having sex
at younger ages, and music, television
and fashion are implicated in the trend.
In his book The Disappearance o f
Childhood, sociologist Neil Postman
points out that the free and easy com-
modification of desire - not just in
advertising. but in cable programming
and prime time shows - erases an impor-
tant distinction between the universe of
the child and the adult:
"One might say that the main differ-
ence between an adult and a child is that
the adult knows about certain facets of
life - its mysteries, its contradictions, its
violence, its tragedies - that are not
considered for children to know.
As children move toward adult-
hood, we reveal these secrets to
them in ways we believe they
are prepared to manage.
That is why there is such a
thing as children's litera-
ture?' Postman writes
that television, with its
round-the-clock p r o -
gramming, makes this
arrangement impossi-
ble. "Television requires
a constant supply o f
novel a n d interesting
information to hold its
audience he adds.
"This means that all adult
secrets - social, sexual, physi-
cal and the like - are revealed.
Television forces the entire cul-
ture to come out of the closet, taps
every existing taboo. Incest, divorce,
promiscuity, corruption, adultery,
sadism - each is now merely a theme for
one or another television show. And, of
course, in the process, each loses its role
as an exclusively adult secret:'
believe how bad television is going to be
in 10 years," said poet Robert Bly in an
interview with writer Michael Ventura.
"You're literally going to have to protect
your children from it."
Given the cultural Chernobyl we seem
to be up against, we might wonder how
much we have gained over the repressive
climate o f earlier generations. Long
before there was a global media to both
connect and divide us all,
the early
Christians
LUST
believed n o
N3 WAc3
over the centuries, with all the campfire
tales of hairy palms and soul-sapping
succubi, there may be things more dam-
aging to the self and society than the
belief in a pathologically uptight father
figure in the heavens. Today's sexual free-
dom may seem infinitely preferable to
the psychological self-abuse of religious-
based repression. But are we willing to
pay for this freedom in the currency of
childhood?
The imagery o f
mass desire
for bod-
ies,
cars
shoes,
ordering - and suspended in a purgatory
of market-driven desire.
The central dogma of the unregulated,
free market is as false as silicone breasts,
though its specifics are rarely expressed
outright. It is the idea that a hole inside
one's soul can be sutured through a
financial transaction, and that the only
rituals left of any importance involve
buying or selling. Most adults have intel-
lectual and emotional barriers to this
bright and shining lie. But a child has
none.
So where does that leave us? In a posi-
tion o f greater responsibility, which
many parents now recognize. The num-
ber o f homes without televisions is
growing, as families learn that having
the one-eyed glowing box as babysit-
ter is less a welcome distraction
than a devil's deal. Marketers
may up the ante in an attempt
to grab mindshare, but I sus-
pect the response will be
somewhere between voting
with the remote and a Keith
Moon-style window-toss-
ing of the tube. Protecting
children from other areas
of the market, including
trends among their own
peers, may prove to be a
more difficult task.
Meanwhile, back at the
Vancouver T r a d e a n d
Convention Centre, the scene
has a certain Dante's Inferno feel
to it. My friends are in agreement;
its time to go. With some brochures
in hand, we stumble back out into the
cool night air, feeling vaguely creeped
out by the adult vision of sexual libera-
tion. Perhaps it was the joyless looks

The Disappearance of Childhood was
published in 1982. Postman told me
before his death last year that of all his
books, he believes this one has held up
the best. He's right: the thesis of this
work is more relevant now than when it
was first published. Given the cultural
trajectory since its publication, what
does this bode for the future? "You won't
homes a n d
among the buffed and bronzed that did
it. Wasn't the brave new world of guilt-
free eroticism supposed to be more fun
soul existed in isola- lifestyles, comes with a than this? Does the glum slumming
tion: there was some connection to a poison pill. It is the toxin of isolation- among dildos hint at the logical absurd-
divine ground of being. Yes, the flesh was through-desire; we are little more than ity of marketing lust, with sexual ecstasy
asource of shame, but such cultural con- the sum of our wants and needs, we are reduced to exchange relations between
ditioning emerged partly because the told, which can only be satisfied through human widgets?
body was - even more then than now - participating in the market. The ideal
the vector for communicable illnesses consumer is the one alone in the dark in Vancouver writer and political cartoon-
and unwanted births. And in spite of the front • of a movie screen, television or ist Geoff Olson can be reached a t
perverse view the church took of lust computer monitor - watching, paying, gefo@telus.net

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The extended mind's sense of being stared at
An interview with
Rupert Sheldrake that biology was done, that it actually vio- get back to nature in the car. So our cul- ual people. There's a part of many people
lated the very essence of life, because ture is based on exploiting and destroying who know these things happen because of
by Geoff Olson and Joseph Roberts nearly everything we studied was killed nature only with regard t o profit. their experience, but people with a uni-
first. So it's not that there's one lot of people versity education feel they are duty bound
When I started doing research in devel- who love nature, and cherish it, and to deny they exist. So they have to pretend
According to British biologist and opmental biology, I realized that the pres- there's another lot who hate it, who just it's just a coincidence or something. So
author Rupert Sheldrake, our minds ent mechanistic system isn't likely to want to exploit or destroy it. They are the there is a split within the culture about
extend far beyond our brains and our come u p w i t h t h e answers. same people, just on different days of the these things.
bodies. In his most recent book, The Travelling, particularly in Asia, showed week. These are examples of the splits that GO: I was reading your conversations
Sense Of Being Stared At: And Other me that normal ways of looking at things come about through this mechanistic with Terence McKenna and Ralph
Aspects Of the Extended Mind, he goes are very culturally conditioned; it's possi- view of nature. So I think if we can have a Abraham, and have the impression that
beyond anecdotal evidence to laborato- ble to look at the world in a very different more holistic view of life, nature and the you were, and presumably still are, a mys-
ry evidence for psychic phenomenon. way. So it was a gradual realization over mind, then we will be able to reduce the tic as much as a scientist. I also get the
Psi, as it is sometimes called, is a wide- the years, a combination of emotional splits that exist. impression those two things aren't neces-
spread phenomenon in the animal king- responses, intellectual insights and expo- JR: One example of this split is the cul- sarily incompatible.
dom according t o Sheldrake, who sure to other cultures. ture of cottage life; There are magazines RS: Well, I think mysticism has to do
authored the bestseller Dogs That Know Joseph Roberts: Do you have an interest and TV channels promoting this cottage with direct, conscious experience of a
When Their Owners Are Coming Home: in music? life where you go to sense of unity; connection with nature,
And Other Unexplained Powers O f RS: I've played really enjoy your- connection with the others, connection
Animals. He posits that mental fields the piano since I self, if you're lucky, with the universe, connection with God.
project outside our local space/time and was about f i v e two weeks out of I've had such experiences, and these lie at
connect us to a collective memory years old. My father the year. the root of all spiritual experience, and
through what the soft-spoken thinker was keen on the RS: Or when you indeed lie at the root of all religions. I
calls "morphic resonance." flute and piano. My retire. No, this is a know that Terence and Ralph had such
Sheldrake earned a PhD in biochem- grandfather was a big thing every- experiences. Part of the challenge is to see
istry at Cambridge in 1967 and was a fel- church organist where in the west- how one can relate that to intellectual
low of Clare College, Cambridge, where and my uncle was a ern world, urban, endeavour in general and science in par-
he was director of studies in biochemistry church organist, so modern, high-tech ticular. There isn't actually a conflict, a
and cell biology until 1973. As a research I grew u p i n a civilization. I f you great many scientists have been mystical-
fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out musical family. My scratch the surface ly inclined; Einstein was, Newton was.
research on the development of plants mother played the of many people in A lot of scientists have this mystical side.
and the ageing of cells. The following piano. So I played it, what they really They often keep it quiet until they've won
interview took place last June on Cortes classical piano, and want, or say they the Nobel Prize or until they're retired. It
Island, during Sheldrake's 2003 visit to I sang i n choirs. really want, is to is a factor in many great scientists, that
BC. Music is an impor- live i n a remote they are impressed by the unity of nature,
tant part of my life. rural place and be and I think the sense of a unitary princi-
Geoff Olson: What in your life indicat- Now my kids are Rupert Sheldrake closer to nature. pal is definitely related to the mystical
ed the traditional paradigm of physics keen on music and The whole cul- experience. Now there are a lot of scien-
was incomplete? Was it more of an intel- they do something I can't do, which is ture is split; there's tists who are more concerned with the
lectual thing, or was there a moment in play jazz piano. So it is an important way the mechanistic, rationalistic side, espe- nuts and bolts or just getting on with the
your personal life that gave you this feel- to counterbalance intellectual endeav- cially from the 18th century onwards, but job, and finding out more details. But I
ing? ours. When I want a change from think- even in the late 18th century, there was a think quite a number of scientists have a
Rupert Sheldrake: I felt there was a gap ing about things, I just go and play the reaction against it in the Romantic move- strongly developed mystical side, and
between what science was teaching and piano. It's a completely different activity, ment, a kind of back to nature move- don't see it as contradictory to science.
what I was really interested in about ani- very relaxing. ment. And both of these are features of JR: You mentioned William Blake in
mals and I studied biology because I real- JR: Would you encourage people to Western civilization. It's not as if there is your discussion. Where do you place
ly liked animals. One of the things that reframe how they look at the world? one lot of people who are romantics and him?
fascinated me as a child for example, was RS: What's happening in our culture is another lot more sort of mechanistic. RS: "Happiness is to see the world in a
homing pigeons. How did they do it? I that we have a tremendously deep divi- Most people have two sides, a rationalist grain of sand, and Heaven in a wild
used to keep pigeons, I used to take my sion between the intellectual theory of the side and a romantic side. The rationalist flower, to hold infinity in the palm of
pigeon away from home and let it go and world provided by enlightenment and side is the public side that comes out at your hand, and eternity in a single
come back. So I was always very intrigued rationalist science, which most educated work and in public. The romantic side hour?' Blake was taking a mystical view.
by these things. people have been brought up to believe has to do with one's cottage life and week- He was talking about that perception
As I studied biology in school and uni- in, and our own direct, immediate experi- ends, one's gardens, one's pets, one's you can have when you're in the present,
versity I found the things that fascinated ence. Most people have telepathic experi- friends, one's family, it's the private life. where everything in the universe is
me weren't addressed and weren't on the ences with telephone calls from friends And I think the split is very damaging, somehow interconnected and reflects
agenda. Instead, the testing we did with and family, and many people have ani- because it prevents us from integrating the whole universe - where a grain of
the animals we were studying was to kill mals that seemed to read their thoughts. our lives. sand has something in it that connects it
them and then cut them up and extract Our present system rejects all that, and GO: In your Hollyhock seminar, you to everything else. There's a sense of the
enzymes. saying it's make-believe, or not scientific, used an interesting quote about skepti- dilation of time. So there's a fullness in
As an undergraduate and I read about and so we're forced to deny a lot of our cism and belief. the present, that is not just distracted by
the work of Goethe, the German poet and experience. RS:A 19th century psychologist, said he memories of the past or plans for the
botanist, who raised the possibility of a And another split in the present culture had to tread a middle path between what future. There's a tremendous rich full-
holistic science. Before that I thought sci- encourages a mechanistic, bottom-line he called the scornfully skeptical and the ness in the present moment.
ence had to be done a certain way. It's a approach to life from Monday to Friday. eagerly credulous.
shame, but that's the way past science And then the reason people want to make I don't actually find that's so much the Sheldrake's book, The Sense Of Being
used to be. Then I had this insight that a lot of money, often by exploiting nature, problem as the division between people Stared At, is now in paperback. He will be
another kind of science was possible; that is so they can buy a little place in the who take these things for granted because offering a seminar called Fields Of the
was an important intellectual revelation. country - or preferably, a big place in the they have experienced them, and the peo- Mind: Telepathy and Intuition, from July
It was based on an emotional feeling, a country - to get away from it all. On ple who say they're impossible. 29 - August 1, at Hollyhock on Cortes Is.
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Practising Democracy wins two species we share the planet with, we also resentment at how companies that are for Phytogenetics Resources (CNRF),
need t o heal the damage which has anti-labeling have robbed people of the Elizabeth Matus, affirmed that the World
Jessie Awards already been done. The restoration o f right to know what they're eating. The EU Food Program can acquire natural prod-
Practising Democracy was honoured by degraded ecosystems has to become a pri- result was closely watched by the US gov- ucts from Southern African Development
the Vancouver professional theatre com- ority activity for all of humanity in this ernment, which has started a trade dis- Community countries instead o f GM
munity with two awards in the small the- century. pute over GMOs at the World Trade foods.
atre category at the Jessie Richardson Drawing on his 15 years o f practical Organization. According to Mrs Matus, last year, the
Theatre Awards on June 14. experience in helping to restore Scotland's One unfortunate consequence is that World Food Program acquired maize
The first was for significant artistic Caledonian F o r e s t , A l a n Wa t s o n the industry is increasingly targeting from Zimbabwe and South Africa for
achievement f o r demonstrating t h e Featherstone founded Restore the Earth, a Africa as its new frontier, with unprece- countries that refuse GM foods and it can
power of theatre in the community. The UN-sponsored project to promote the dented assistance from the US govern- also do so for Angola, instead of bringing
second was for outstanding production, a ecological restoration o f the planet's ment. Both are relentlessly pressurizing food from the US. This contradicts earli-
breakthrough moment. For a Forum ecosystems. Speaking in Vancouver on reluctant governments under the guise of er claims b y the WFP that countries
Theatre play created and performed by July 24, Alan will show what can be helping the continent increase its food MUST accept GM food.
people living with chronic poverty to be achieved when people work with nature, productivity. Hunger and malnutrition in www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3
recognized this way by the professional rather than against her. He will also high- Africa and Asia are not caused by a lack of 823
community is very important for com- light t h e f o l l y o f agricultural technol-
munity-based art. destroying a n c i e n t South African churches
The Vancouver c i t y manager has forests as is still hap- weapons that can inca- ogy, but by a wide-
spread lack of access ask for moratorium
announced that responses to policy sug- pening i n BC today pacitate crowds of people to land and produc-
gestions from Practising Democracy will The S o u t h A f r i c a n C o u n c i l o f
and will present an tive resources.
be released some time in July. inspiring a n d e m - by sweeping a lightning- Needless to say, as Churches has issued a powerful statement
calling for the government to admit that
Stun guns to target crowds
powering vision o f a like beam of electricity well as getting money GM is a high-risk technology and to
new human culture from the Rockefeller impose a moratorium on further permits
According t o British magazine New which has as its goal across them are being Foundation A A T F being granted for GMOs in South Africa.
Scientist, weapons that can incapacitate the restoration of the
crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-
readied for sale gets m o n e y f r o m The statement affirms "Our conviction
Earth. USAID. I t a l s o that there is sufficient food for all our
like beam of electricity across them are To l e a r n m o r e receives s u p p o r t people, b u t t h e problem remains
being readied for sale to military and about ecological restoration and to meet from m a j o r agbiotech corporations, inequitable access to and maldistribution
police forces in the US and Europe. one very special individual who has dedi- including Monsanto, Dupont, Dow Agro of food:'
At present, commercial stun guns tar- cated his life to restoring the Earth, attend Sciences and Syngenta.www.gmwatch.org www.gmwatch.org/ archive2.asp?arcid = 3
get one person at a time, and work only at his talk and slide show on July 24. This 797
close quarters. The new breed o f non- presentation is a joint fundraiser for Trees USDA creates fellowships after
lethal weapons can be used on many peo- For Life and The Land Conservancy of nations refuse GM foods FAOaccused of pushing GM
ple at once and operate over far greater BC. Founded in 1997, TLC is a non-prof- After several African nations refused Through an open letter delivered on
distances. But human rights groups are it, charitable land trust working through- shipments of US GM maize (corn), the June 16 in Rome, hundreds of organiza-
appalled by the fact that no independent out BC. TLC protects important habitat US D e p a r t m e n t o f A g r i c u l t u r e tions from across the world denounced
safety tests have been carried out, and by for plants, animals and natural commu- announced a new fellowship, designed to the recent report by the UN's Food and
their potential for indiscriminate use. nities as well as properties with historical, bring junior and mid-ranking scientists Agricultural Organization as a disgraceful
The advent of wireless stun weapons cultural, scientific, scenic or compatible and policymakers from African, Asian public relations tool for the GM industry.
has horrified human rights groups. Robin recreational value. Vancouver talk 604 and Latin American countries to the US The FA O r e p o r t o n agricultural
Coupland of the Red Cross says they risk 733-2313 www.conservancy.bc.ca to learn from their US counterparts. biotechnology and meeting the needs of
becoming a new instrument of torture. But there is "absolutely no connection" the poor, was presented on May 17. In the
www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id space of a few weeks more than 650 civil
=ns99996014 GMO UPDATE between the countries' stance toward GM
foods a n d t h e fellowship program, society organizations and 800 individuals
Jocelyn Brown, the USDA's assistant from 120 countries drafted and support-
Aviable future for all species EUrefuses transgenic canola deputy administrator o f international ed an open letter, which strongly con-
Most environmental projects today Resistance to GM continues to grow cooperation and development, told The demns its bias against the poor, against
seek to prevent and/or limit the destruc- worldwide with all 25 countries of the EU Scientist. the environment and against food pro-
tion o f species and nature generally. refusing last month to approve as a crop a duction i n general. Among them are
However, to create a truly viable future, transgenic Monsanto oilseed r a p e Non-GMOs available for Angola many peasant organizations, social
both f o r humanity and all the other (canola), while in the US there is growing The coordinator of the National Centre continued on page 31

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Cover wars
Climate change, political change, or both
by Joseph Roberts
H o w do you choose a magazine society where questioning authority is Right now, all over the world, people
cover? Striking the balance between criminalized. are organizing Fahrenheit 9/11 parties.
visual impact and the desire to keep Mainstream media could, in fact, be After seeing the film together, groups of
readers informed is crucial. In choosing renamed mainriver media because i t people are meeting in homes or cafes to
this month's cover, among the many keeps conglomerating and getting bigger. discuss the issues and celebrate their free-
issues currently demanding attention, The small streams of radio, newspapers, dom. Use it or lose it. Get healthy, get
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change. The second, political deceit. In a
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forests are clear-cut, there goes the
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and on our beleaguered planet.
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seewho will run the Empire. No, I am not
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vive, but I am not sure about its people. have converged into a raging, incessant need each other. Remind yourself and
As a member of the human race, and river, flooding its banks (with money). So your friends that love is still the most
someone who loves this planet, I think it in this bizarre, matrixized epoch, it is important state. Becauseas Martin Sheen,
is imperative that we educate ourselves healthy to change channels in mid-main- who portrays the president in the TV
strongly encourage you to read relevant
shops, surf the net, network with people,
and discuss with your friends what is real-
ly going down.
This month's powerful image came out
of left field. It was conceived of by Joe
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our freedom to speak out and express
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Rebuilding America's Defenses: Stra-
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education and health care budgets Century, a blueprint for running the
stripped to pay for ongoing wars against world written in September 2000 by the
"The Enemy." neo-conservative think-tank Project for
My comments were inspired b y the New American Century (PNAC).
Michael Moore's new film Fahrenheit Coup D'etat: The RealReason Tenet and
9/11, a film that absolutely must be seen. Pavitt Resigned from the CIA on June 3rd
Free I n t r o You might remember that i n Ray and 4th—Bush, Cheney Indictments in
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 You need nature; SPIRITUALITY

it needs you
by Eckhart Tolle the breath of nature. I f you had to in its embrace. It also holds you.
remember to breathe, you would soon
die, and if you tried to stop breathing, Only when you are still inside do you
nature would prevail. haveaccess to the realm of stillness that
W e depend on nature not only for that sustains all of nature. You cannot get You reconnect with nature in the most rocks, plants, and animals inhabit. Only
our physical survival. We also any closer to that intelligence than by intimate and powerful way by becoming when your noisy mind subsides can you
need nature to show us the way home, being aware of your own inner energy aware of your breathing and learning to connect with nature at a deep level and go
the way out of the prison of our own field - by feeling the aliveness, the animat- hold your attention there. This is a heal- beyond the sense of separation created by
minds. We got lost in doing, thinking, ing presence within the body. ing and deeply empowering thing to do. It excessive thinking.
remembering, anticipating - lost in a brings about a shift in consciousness from Thinking is a stage in the evolution of
maze o f complexity and a world o f The playfulness and joy of a dog, its the conceptual world of thought to the life. Nature exists in innocent stillness that
problems. unconditional love and readiness to cele- inner realm of unconditioned conscious- is prior to the arising of thought. The tree,
We have forgotten what rocks, plants, brate life at any moment often contrast ness. the flower, the bird, the rock are unaware
and animals still know. We have forgotten sharply with the inner state of the dog's of their own beauty and sacredness.
how to be - to be still, to be ourselves, to owner - depressed, anxious, burdened by You need nature as your teacher to help When human beings become still, they go
be where life is: Here and Now. problems, lost in thought, not present in you re-connect with Being. But not only beyond thought. There is an added
the only place and only time there is: Here do you need nature, it also needs you. dimension of knowing, of awareness, in
Whenever you bring your attention to and Now. One wonders: living with this You are not separate from nature. We the stillness that is beyond thought.
anything natural, anything that has come person, how does the dog manage to are all part of the One Life that manifests Nature can bring you to stillness. That
into existence without human interven- remain so sane, so joyous? itself in countless forms throughout the is its gift to you. When you perceive and
tion, you step out of the prison of con- universe, forms that are all completely join with nature in the field of stillness,
ceptualized thinking and, to some extent, When y o u perceive nature only interconnected. When you recognize the that field becomes permeated with your
participate in the state of connectedness through the mind, through thinking, you sacredness, the beauty, the incredible still- awareness. That is your gift to nature.
with Being in which everything natural cannot sense its aliveness, its beingness. ness and dignity in which a flower or a Through you nature becomes aware of
still exists. You see the form only and are unaware of tree exists, you add something to the itself. Nature has been waiting for you, as
To bring your attention to a stone, a the life within the form - the sacred mys- flower or the tree. Through your recogni- it were, for millions of years.
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Cities intensify climate problems

SCIENCE MATTERS
by David Suzuki

L w i n g in cities, it's easy to forget
about our connection to the natural
world. In human-created environments,
surrounded by concrete and asphalt, we
often feel isolated and insular - as
though we are protected from the forces
of nature.
In some ways, we are more protected,
but in other ways our cities can actually
make us more vulnerable. Consider cli-
mate change. A recent report from the
Harvard Medical School looked at how
human-induced changes to the Earth's
atmosphere affect the health of people
living in cities. And the conclusions
weren't comforting.
It turns out that all the carbon dioxide
and pollutants we are pumping out
through our tailpipes and smokestacks
doesn't dissipate as readily as had been
previously thought. In fact, much of the
carbon dioxide (the primary heat-trap-
ping gas) pretty much stays put, creating
a"dome" of it over our cities.
This does two things. First, it intensifies
the urban "heat-island effect" - that is, the
tendency of cities to be warmer than rural
areas because of all their infrastructure,
pavement and lack of green space. Higher
carbon dioxide concentrations add to this
effect, making cities up to several degrees
warmer than surrounding areas - similar allergens deep into our lungs. As the will further jeopardize human health in
to being in a crowded room with the win- researchers say: "Air pollution will act our cities as our climate warms. However,
dows closed. synergistically with the allergens to fur- the authors also point out that many of
In addition, the extra carbon dioxide ther deteriorate respiratory health:' the solutions to climate change, like
increases plant growth - particularly for This is a big concern, particularly for improving energy and fuel efficiency, pro-
opportunistic species that thrive in cities, children and the elderly, and it may help viding better transit options and creating
such as ragweed. Pollen from these plants, explain why the incidence of childhood more green spaces, all have the added
along with spores from fungi, are potent asthma has climbed steadily in recent benefit of making our cities more livable
allergens and can exacerbate asthma. years. In Canada, childhood asthma rates too.
Both fungi and increased f r o m That's something to consider when we
ragweed a r e In Canada, childhood 2.5 percent i n fill up our cars at the pump. Fuel prices
expected to thrive asthma rates increased 1978 to 11.2 per- may seem to have skyrocketed, but gaso-
in cities as our cli- cent i n 1995. line is still cheaper than bottled water or
mate warms. from 2.5 percent in 1978 Polluted urban milk. And burning vast amounts of it
Making the situ- to 11.2 percent in 1995. areas have the obviously harms our health and quality of
ation worse is "par- highest rates o f life. Rather than cutting fuel taxes, we
ticulate" pollution. Polluted urban areas childhood asth- need to be focusing on finding ways to
This is the black have the highest rates ma. One-quarter burn less gasoline. As the report con-
soot that comes of all children liv- cludes, "developing alternatives to fossil
out of tailpipes - of childhood asthma. ing in Harlem, for fuels is fundamental for the protection of
especially f r o m One-quarter of all children example, suffer public health:'
diesel vehicles. from the disease. Climate change may be something that
Particulates have living in Harlem... The cost of treat- we think of as happening "out there," but
been known to be a suffer from the disease. ing childhood it's really happening right here in our
problem for some asthma in the US back yards. The sooner we start address-
time because they can clog airways and is now estimated at $3.2 billion per year. ing the problem, the better off we will be,
even cause lung cancer. But the Harvard According t o the Harvard paper, because all the concrete and asphalt in the
researchers point out that it is a bigger increased heatwaves (like the one that world can't keep the climate out.
problem when combined with other killed 35,000 people in Europe last sum-
allergens like pollen and mould because mer), the spread of infectious diseases Take the Nature Challenge and learn
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placeable. This war is an obscenity. That's
why this image breaks my heart. Because
none of those men and women had to die

DANCING
in Iraq. They died for Bush's lies. And
that's not what they signed up to die for.
We failed them too. The least we can do is
vote out the regime that put them in this
horrible war, wrap it up, and get out.
Kimberly

Soldiers do not choose; they follow

orders, and choice goes out the window
the day they get t o basic training.

IN THE Hopefully, their Commander and Chief

LIGHT
does not dishonor their valor and courage
by using them for personal gain o r
vendetta. Iraq is not about freedom, and it
is not about 9/11, and no matter how
many times people repeat this lie it does
not make it true. Did these soldiers serve
their country with distinction? Yes!
Should we support and honor them? Yes!
And the best way we can do that is to get
their comrades who are still stuck in Iraq
out of there as quickly as possible and
demand the Commander and Chief take
67- responsibility for this dishonorable war.
JS a world/jazz concert, SW
a contemporary ballet and This image proves that a picture can say
more than a 1,000 words... I stand in awe,
a theatre production all integrated this really is one of the most powerful
images I've ever seen... Joe, whoever you
are, thanks for sharing this with the
into a beautiful story.of life world; it's truly amazing. And to any
Americans here: Vote that idiot out, not
and reincarnation. just for the US's sake, but for us, people in
the rest of the world, as well...
Jack Random

You have n o need t o apologize.

Whether you wished to make a statement
The journey or not, art is not a passive medium, and
we each bring to it our own interpreta-
to Nirvana begins tions. And it's doing what all good art
should—provoking emotion, response,
contemplation, and debate. Personally, I
October 8th & 9th, 2004 was profoundly moved by the piece.
Pained to the core, as I looked over the
faces, just bewildered and hurt by the
Queen Elizabeth Theatre senseless human loss. We are a savage and
cruel race. For me, this is less about right
Vancouver, BC wing or left wing political debates or lean-
ings. This is simply an image which por-
trays how a few people can hold others'
destinies in their hands....and when you
www.dancinginthelight.ca send others to war, for whatever reason,
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politicians is to try to paint it as politi-
cization. Don't knuckle under that pres-
CommonGround sure Joe.
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Bravo, Joe! I wonder how much larger a
Milli-Cultural Arts Sod y picture would be made from the faces of
the children who died from Bush's
bombs—a lot larger, I dare say! Thank
you f o r t h i s powerful image.
Peter Sorensen

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 After being told the US is under attack after the second plane hit the World Trade Towers on 9/11,
George W. Bush continued to read My Pet Goat in a Florida classroom for seven minutes.

Fahrenheit 9/11 Moore vs Bush

by Robert Alstead

'They should make a film about Michael Moore's battle to get his latest docu-
1 mentary Fahrenheit 9/11 distributed in the States. What is it about the subject
matter that caused financial backers like Mel Gibson's Icon Productions to get cold
feet? Why did Disney want to block its release?
Even if you don't agree with his politics or his documentary style, Michael Moore is
a highly bankable, Oscar-winning filmmaker. His attack on America's gun crime epi-
demic, Bowling for Columbine, was the most profitable documentary in filmmaking
history. Even before its nationwide release, Fahrenheit 9/11 promised to better that, Michael Moore and Sgt. Abdul Henderson on Capital Hill attempt
having scooped the top film award at the Cannes film festival in May, received stand- to convince congressmen to send their children to Iraq.
ing ovations at its premieres and impressive reviews from around the world, including
from publications such as The Washington Post and New York Times. Have film dis-
tributors and theatre owners, who balked at releasing the film, ceased to be interested
in the green stuff?
Hardly. Moore's claim that distributors and theatre owners bowed to Republican
pressure to block the film sounds perfectly plausible. See Fahrenheit 9/11 and you begin
to realize why, as Moore has suggested, the White House wants to stop people in the
US from seeing this film so badly in the run up to the presidential election.
Moore's two-hour "op-ed" has the traits of his other films. It is an opinionated and
passionate argument full of gut-wrenching emotion, rancor and laugh-out-loud com-
edy.Yes, there are occasions when you feel that the edits are steering you with a heavy
hand in a certain direction, but Michael Moore is the first to admit that he is a parti-
san filmmaker. Love him or hate him, you have a pretty good idea what you will get in
aMichael Moore movie.
The big man features less on screen here than in previous films (he apparently had
asign in the edit suite which said, "If in doubt cut me out"). There are a couple of clas-
sic Moore-ish scenes of him on the streets in Washington canvassing senators to sign
up their children for the war in Iraq, but his lower profile otherwise allows for some
potent montages and interviews. His voice-over provides the narrative thread, joining
the dots to sketch a complex web of intrigue and corruption at the heart of the US gov-
ernment and the Bush family's relations with the Bin Ladens, and drawing it together
into a dynamite thesis. c o n t i n u e d on page 18

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 H E A LT H & F I T N E S S

What is a good diet?

T h e r e has been a lot o f press lately
about low carbohydrate diets, i n
particular the Atkins diet. The problem
with most diets is they are not nutri-
tionally complete. The Atkins diet which
does not emphasize the need to keep
your diet low fat, is one of these. We are
often asked what Dr. Colgan eats and
what type o f "diet" we recommend.
Here's the answer:
Proteins:
Protein is an important part o f any
good diet and we advise the intake o f
good quality protein such as chicken,
turkey and fish. Lean red meat is accept-
able occasionally. Dr. Colgan eats a lot of
Dr Michael Colgan fresh fish, lean turkey and chicken. We are
fortunate to live somewhere where we
have access to locally grown, often organ-
ic, meats and fresh caught seafood. When
you buy fish try to purchase deep-water
fish and/or cold-water fish. Think careful-
ly about where the fish was caught, as
some areas are obviously more polluted
than others. The G u l f o f Mexico as
opposed to the coast of Alaska.
Fish i s usually poached, grilled o r
baked. Chicken and turkey is usually
baked, roasted, grilled or barbecued. If oil
is needed it is as little as possible. Good
quality stainless cookware will help with
this. No deep fried food at all, and the
only sautéing is usually done in a wok
with very little oil. Keep your protein
source low fat. No hamburgers, no bacon
and certainly no fried foods of any kind.
Carbohydrates:
Carbohydrates include a l l sugars,
starches, grains, beans, fruit and vegeta-
bles. Some of the basic ideas of the Atkins'
diet are correct. Excess carbohydrates are
more readily stored as body fat. If you eat
more carbohydrates than the energy you
require, you will put on body fat. So to
lose body fat you must do two things. Eat
carbohydrates that are not easily stored as
body fat and exercise sufficiently to make
the body use stored body fat as an energy
source.
We encourage everyone to get all their
carbohydrate needs primarily from fresh
vegetables and fruit, preferably organic.
With every meal Dr. Colgan has either a
fresh salad or steamed vegetables along
with some fresh fruit. He never eats
starchy vegetables such as white potatoes.
You can consume a large amount of fresh
vegetables and never put on any body fat.
Dr. Colgan seldom eats bread, but
when he does i t is always wholegrain
bread. The only cereal he eats is old-fash-
ioned oats, never any o f the popular
boxed cereals. He never eats pasta of any
kind. He will occasionally eat wild o r
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unshelled nuts such as walnuts and enjoys
organic pumpkin and sunflower seeds.
These choices are high in essential fats.
The amount of and types of carbohy-
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lifestyle, age and exercise level. Endurance
athletes require more carbohydrates than
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much higher. So determine your carbohy-
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will be able to enjoy that lovely pasta din-
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by Kareen Zebroff
A g e is relative. An attitude. It used to
be that yoga-over-40 books like mine
were meant for people who looked, felt
and acted old. No more. Nowadays, even
over-50 is hip, probably because the pig in
the python baby-boomers are exercising
and eating ever more conscientiously, the
more their thickening waistlines and
creaking bones give them intimations of
mortality.
So, when exactly does senior yoga
begin? Technically over-65 perhaps, but
my friends of that age would certainly not
consider themselves seniors yet, i f ever.
Actually, senior yoga is simply a gentler,
thoughtful yoga that takes into consider-
ation our "centre of gravity" vitality.
That is to say, the bringing up to par of
our general "resonant range" of health by
dealing with the problems existing in our
three often overlapping hierarchies: the
physical, emotional and mental planes.
For, you are least ill when you have a skin
condition, and you are most ill when you
have severe mental problems.
Our physical plane is most compro-
mised when ill health negatively affects
our vital life-force o r prana, sex, rest,
sleep, the five senses and other obvious
physical factors. O u r emotional plane
cannot remain healthy when it begins to
suffer from limiting thoughts and percep-
tions, anxiety and depression. And, our
mental plane begins to show signs o f
trouble when we experience confusion,
extreme forgetfulness, o r a n y other
restrictive changes in understanding and
consciousness, that affect our freedom
and creativity:
If we are healthy with the help of yoga,
age becomes just a state of mind. Take my
friend Irene who, at 83, continues to have
enthusiastic get-up-and-go, a bounce in
every quick and steady step and wonder-
ful healthy energy, despite odd aches and
pains. We have put our minds together to
come up with some helpful recommen-
dations for you to be the same. (Please
check with your doctor first, and with
other health-professionals such as natur-
opaths and chiropractors.)
1. Make the rest of your life your pas-
sion. Be its wise old, experienced archi-
tect.
2. Do yoga, it really works, but is best
done after warming up, and with some
props.
3. Start with a good teacher to instruct
and individualize programs for you.
4. Listen to your intuition, in yoga prac-
tice or anywhere else, to guide you along.
5. Go only as far, and hold only as long,
as you can, never compare or compete.
6. Design a schedule that works for you,
however bizarre it sounds to others.
7. Remember, yoga poses and breathing
are all about "allowing and unfolding."
8. Ears over dropped shoulders, expand
chest, slacken jaw, tilt pelvis, root feet.
9. If debilitated, start with lying-down
poses, n o t standing ones; y o u w i l l
improve.
10. I f depressed, use a continuum o f
poses such as Sun Salutations and back-
bends.
11. Also t r y supplements: CoQ10,
chromium, SAMe, St. John's wort, and
essential fatty acid (EFA) oils.
12. I f debilitated, massage good veg-
etable oil into the skin, rather than taking
it by mouth.
13. If digestion is bad, get lots of diges-
tive support through extra enzymes,
hydrochloric acid to digest proteins and
both acidophilus and bifidus.
14. Hugely important is to test your pH
with test-strips from the pharmacy to
achieve and then adjust it with the follow-
ing food in the right balance. Your pH
should be between 6.8 and 7.4, with 7.2 as
ideal.
15. Acid: meat, eggs, fish, dairy, grains,
nuts, c o r n , sauerkraut, artichokes,
rhubarb and plums.
16. Alkaline: fruits, vegetables, millet,
buckwheat, almonds, brazil nuts, peas,
lima beans and soy.
17. If too acid, eat a 70:30 percent ratio
of alkaline to acid food. I f too alkaline:
use a 60:40 ratio of acid to alkaline foods,
as many health problems arise from an
imbalance.
18. Eat a good hearty breakfast, medi-
um lunch and light supper. Never drink
ice water with meals.
19. The six most important nutritional
steps for seniors are:
• good protein or whey protein-pow-
der, at every meal. No sweet snacks.
• use good EFA oils, not margarine or
shortening.
• alkalize yourself through fresh fruits
and vegetables, five to six times a day.
• avoid any high-carb "white foods"
such as sugar, flour, bread, cake and cere-
al.
• exercise, eat wisely, drink lots, walk
and enjoy your food and your life.
20. Buy organic, esp. apples, grapes,
berries, peaches, pears, celery, potatoes,
spinach and green beans.
21. Drink only four ounces of water per
half-hour or you will lose trace minerals
in urine.
H E A LT H & F I T N E S S
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some spirulina. leave you feeling down and done in.
25. Think of hot flashes as facials for the 34. Even if you have faults, repeat often:
body. Then shower and use a loofah. "I deeply and completely accept myself:'
26. Do the Kegel exercises and Aswini 35. Learn to protect and ground your-
Mudra, for better bladder control and sex. self by putting yourself in a golden light.
27. I f bed ridden, or on long car or 36. Meditate the easy Dalai Lama way
plane trips, take one-quarter aspirin per with any positive repetitive thought or
day t o prevent dangerous deep-vein prayer.
thrombosis. 37. Know when you are well off com-
28. To avoid blood clots and swollen pared t o many others, and then give
ankles, use support hose all of the time thanks.
especially so, in hot weather.
29. For burping with heartburn, try the Kareen Zebroff's classic, revised book,
homeopathic r e m e d y K a l i u m The ABC o f Yoga (Foulsham title: A
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Moore asserts that even before entering
office Bush had an agenda to wage a war
on two fronts - the first front being on the
people of Iraq to advance interests of his
corporate supporters (or "his base" as he
likes t o call them), including the Bin
Laden family, and the second, through his
War on Terror, to keep a stranglehold on
the people of the USA by keeping them in
a perpetual state of fear.
The film opens by revisiting the presi-
dential election of 2000. "Was it all just a
dream?" asks Moore, retracing h o w
George Bush Jr. managed to scrape into
office with an alleged 537 votes in Florida.
The turning point came, says Moore,
when Fox News Channel decided t o
report that Bush had won Florida on elec-
tion night when all other channels were
reporting Al Gore as winner. Coinciden-
tally, the man at Fox who made that deci-
sion was Bush's first cousin.
In this early investigative part o f the
film, a flood of assertions and questions
ensue. We learn that one of Bush's best
friends, and financial supporter of one of
his early businesses, was also banker to the
Bin Laden family.
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WITHIN is catching up with Spirit. accessed directly. Similarly, Jesus said, to that process? Can we be the lucid
by Gwen Science is teaching us now, that all "The kingdom of Heaven is within you," dreamers in this dream of life? I think we
Randall-Young things are connected. Hindu mystical wis- while Rumi offered, "When you seek can.
dom has long taught that maya, the illu- Him, look for H i m i n your looking. In order to do so though, we must be in
sion of separateness obscures the under- Closer to you than yourself to yourself:' touch with our spirits, we must make
The soul's fundamental purpose is the lying oneness of reality. Kabir, the 15th It would seem to me that whatever soul, room for soul to be felt, and silence, for it
shaping of knowledge into material form. century Indian poet said: "Behold the or soul knowing is, it has been a constant to be heard. With the growing dominance
One in all things. It is in t h e h u m a n of technology in our lives such as com-
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Theoretical physicist you astray." human brain may be a of era o r worldly screen televisions, soul is being squeezed
out. If soul's purpose is to shape knowl-
Cosmologists knowledge. Modern
he n e w physics i s turning o u r teach us that we are hologram fragment of day expressions o f edge into material form, what kind of raw
1 notions of reality upside down. Our made o f the same the universe - the whole wisdom are n o t material are we giving it to work with? Is
notions of life unfolding in a linear way stuff as the galaxies — more insightful o r the material form manifesting globally
are being challenged. Time is an illusion, yet, l o n g a g o of the universe existing profound than those today a reflection of the kind of "knowl-
edge" we have been shaping?
there is no objective reality, everything is Cardinal Nicholas of within that fragment. intuited in the past.
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happening at once, we live in parallel Cusa said "The uni-
universes. These are ideas that at one verse is in each person in such a way that dependence upon, and favouring of left- notion o f being conscious extends far
time might have seemed ludicrous. We each person is in it; and so every person in brain rationality over our more intuitive, beyond our own individual thoughts and
now must consider these possibilities, as the universe is the universe:' sensing capabilities has handicapped us in psyches. We must be collectively con-
radical as they might seem, as radical as Scientists suggest that the human brain terms of accessing this wisdom. scious o f the world we are creating.
the ideas of a round Earth, or the sun as may be a hologram fragment of the uni- What is different now, is our emerging Perhaps we should turn everything off for
the centre of our solar system must have verse - the whole of the universe existing understanding that soul is not something a while, and just listen...
seemed when they began to dawn on within that fragment. Thus we would that emerges out o f physical form, but
human consciousness. have access to some kind of understand- that physical form is an expression o f Gwen Randall-Young i s a psycho-
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Low-carb ice-cream, low-carb beer. low carbohydrate. There was a 7 - 9 per-

Just when you were getting used to cent drop in muscle power and 6 percent
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the kind of physical training you are and, consequentially, poor athletic per-
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carbohydrate diet is the initial weight loss, for years, was shocked to find earlier in
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80% of your immune
our society has become so wrapped up in sides, blood pressure and weight were all
being thin, that any successful weight loss beyond unhealthy levels. True enough, Dr system is bowel related
method gets the thumbs up. There's no Atkins may have promised that the low
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Immunity Is The KeyToGood Health
normally. Cutting back on carbohy- fat is low-carb but that Staying healthy i s ventativemedicine plays a vital role.
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such as sucrose, lac- people were eating beforejust like calories. is compromised you how it works. Muchresearchhasbeen done
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fructose. During the our super-sized portionsbehind the popularity Theimmune system is properlymodulatedimmunesystem will help
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down to glucose and fructose (monosac- has loaded its plates with excess carbohy- action but rather a com- thebody, including food poisoning, allergies,
charide) which are then absorbed into the drates since World War II. Cutting back plicated infrastructure cold, flu, parasites and cancer causing anti-
blood primarily through the small intes- on carbohydrates is just going back to the thatdependsupon proper nutrition, healthy gens.Probiotics re-cultivate good bacteria In
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to our physiology. sity statistics. body'simmunesystem is around the diges- bacteria has no place to colonize. Also, by
When you eat a meal high in carbohy- With an estimated 2,000 low-carbohy- tive tract and 20 percent is part of the skin, cultivating friendly bacteria, the bowel is able
drates (such as pasta, potatoes or bread), drate packaged food products on the bonesorgansand other tissue.The question to more efficiently assimilate nutrients into
your blood sugar levels will skyrocket - market, the trend towards low-carbohy- you must ask yourself is, why do some the blood stream, affecting immune function
usually within an hour. Refined sugars drate consumption has become a lifestyle
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True enough, blood sugar may be con- you at a permanently healthy weight, abarrier to invading antigens, bacteria and system modulators is a must for everyone,
verted and stored as fat, but only when while providing adequate fuel sources to viruses. While pharmaceutical drugs are especialy for children with developing bow-
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the caloric intake of the other nutrients, So are carbohydrates good or bad? My
of illness, they often do not directly address moredigestive trouble because of bowel
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And the dance goes on

Dancing in the Light A live performance extravaganza

Playwright and recording artist Clayton A: Yes, it begins in ancient India, where
Carrigan has produced the ultimate love the boy's guru gives him a sacred scroll
story. Dancing in the Light is a theatre pro- that explains the secrets of life, then over
duction, a world music concert, and a con- many incarnations and tests, the story
temporary ballet integrated into a beautiful unfolds. The last scene is in the psyche-
story of life, reincarnation, and a soul's delic '70s so the journey covers many cul-
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plays at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre While the Journey is non-religious, it is
October 8-9 (www.dancinginthelight.ca).spiritual, and subtly touches on the new
The CD of the same name is available at world awakening that seems to be hap-
music stores this month. In the following pening. What makes the story unique and
interview with Brad Thomas, Carrigan captivating is the way the actors, dancers,
talks about his upcoming production. and musicians all play a part in the story
line. It's told through the performance of
Brad Thomas: What would you say is the stage actors, while the ballet dancers
the essence of Dancing in the Light? and world musicians also play a major
Clayton Carrigan: Dancing in the Light part at different points along the journey.
is not so much about dance as it is about Q: How would you define the musical
the quest to find the joy of the divine style?
light. It is actually a beautiful, feel-good A: The style is very world beat, starting
story of life, love, and spiritual awakening. with Indian classical, new world with a
Most of us feel we are on a spiritual jour- Latin/ modem jazz crossover. It's a very
ney in one sense or another. Dancing in melodic, musical stew of sorts. It's hard to
the Light brings this feeling into the realm put a finger on one musical style that
of reality by challenging our imagination would best identify it. I guess if you took
of what could be. Journey to Nirvana is the sound of Sting, Sade, and Simply Red,
unique in that the audience will watch with a few Indian classical and Latin
and experience a soul journey over many musicians and put it into a world beat pot
incarnations. In this case, it spans four and stirred, you would have asense of the
lifetimes over four historical periods of music.
our history. A different lesson is learned Q: Who are the musicians?
during each life or rebirth until one day A: I am really excited about the band.
something very interesting happens. We have some of Canada's best jazz and
Q: Your story of the Journey to Nirvana world musicians, including fusion maes-
takes place over thousands of years. tro Jesse Zubot on violin, Michael Creber
(formally of the KD Lang band) on keys will feature seven or so tunes from this
and piano, Mr Jazz Piano Miles Black also CD, and the same band will perform the
on keys and piano, wonderful bass player show.
Miles Foxx Hill along with Phil Robertson Q: Dancing in the Light choreographer
on drums, and Rafael Geronimo—Mr Sandra Botnan has a notable production
Latin—on percussion. Angela Kelman of and dance background. How did she find
Farmers Daughter fame also stars as a her way into this project?
guest female vocalist. All of these musi- A: Sandra is one of the finest contem-
cians have won many music awards; it's an porary choreographers around. She has
all-star band. Some wonderful East Indian such a good understanding of how music
classical musicians will be playing tabla, and dance fit together. Sandra was with
harmonium, and sitar during the per- Cirque du Soleil for a number of years,
formance, and also from India, we have a and she also helped write and create the
beautiful Indian classical singer named Cirque DVD The Journey of Man. She has
Kirin Tohan, who is very popular within also worked with the Las Vegas show
the East Indian community. We're waiting Mystere and toured Europe with the hit
for the final confirmations, so we can't French musical Notre Dame de Paris. She
mention all the names just yet. has a long list of great credits, and the
Q: You are releasing a CD called quality she brings to the show is her cre-
Dancing in the Light this month. ativity as a choreographer.
A: Yes, and I am very happy with the Q: Is Dancing in the Light primarily bal-
way it turned out. I started writing it when let or does it include other dance forms?
I was in India a few years back, and it just A: The dance aspect of the show covers
evolved from there. There is a such a beau- a spectrum of styles and moods, which fit
tiful cross of world music styles merged together well with the story. You have con-
into a west coast feel. It ranges from Latin temporary ballet and Indian classical
jazz to a very melodic world beat sound. styles with yoga postures.
There's definitely an eclectic flavour, but There will also be a special performance
there is also a consistency of style. On Tell of First Nations aboriginal dancers per-
Me More, Bill Runge plays a beautiful solo forming along with the ballet dancers in a
on soprano sax, and on another tune, Jesse surrealistic number that fits into the 1800s
Zubot does a jazzy East Indian classical scene beautifully. The magic of the show is
violin crossover. Gaye Delorme is a special the fact that it is not just a dance show, but
guest on one track, and he is probably one that the dance performance becomes a
of my favourite guitar players. The show part of the story-telling. ❖

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Compassionate weight loss
NUTRISPEAK
by Vesanto Melina
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Ihave written six food and nutrition
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With A11-1\ atural
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When I glance in the mirror, I see one Cutting out the "bad" carbohydrates has Lion of high complex carbohydrate and
more result of all those hours sitting at proven to be an effective part of weight high protein sustains us between meals,
the computer, interspersed with recipe management. Refined sugars and grains without those low blood sugar moments
testing. Fat. Yes, about 20 extra pounds. are easily converted to fat, while provid- of desperation that send us to the bakery
What's the solution? Join the low-car- ing little nutritional value. Eliminating or candy counter.
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Let's look at the facts. Low carbohydrate is to get nutritional value along with every ed protein intake for the day, plus signifi-
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fat work for some people, for a time - until on highly nutritious foods. We can do this such as folate. The carbohydrate present is
they succumb to the effects of high cho- with a more healthful vegetarian or near- released into our system in a very gradual
lesterol (bad for the heart) and high acid vegetarian diet that delivers plenty of pro- manner because half of this carbohydrate
loads (that can lead to kidney damage). tein, vitamins and minerals. Legumes mix is fibre. The glycemic indexes of
Yet there is some good sense to be such as lentils, split peas, beans and soy- lentils, peas and beans are extremely low,
found in the low carbohydrate diet craze. foods are a foundation. Their combina- in the range of 26 to 38, compared to glu-
cose at 100.
We can't get away from it; the bottom
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movements and scientists.
The open letter says the 200-plus-page Mendocino County's ban on growing
FAO document struggles to appear neu- GMOs and make i t illegal for other
tral, but is highly biased and ignores avail- California counties to pass similar laws.
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economic and health impacts of GM International, a group affiliated with
crops.
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Then they turn round and say, 'We don't
know why you're protesting:"

Italy: a contradiction Dr Patel said manufacturers put trans-

fatty acids into food to prolong its shelf life,
and [promote] heavily advertised foods that
were full of fat and sugar. Then they wanted

in terms to put new genes into crops and animals to

reduce the human obesity and diabetes that
their owns foods produced.
"The corporations that brought the sys-
BC THE ORGANIC WAY tem to its knees then come in and get the
by Marya Skrypiczajko profits," he said.
www.gmwatch.orglarchive2.asp?arcid=379

Scene 1: Fresh hand rolled pici pasta; organic farmer who was selling his own cooks and make everything from scratch Moore hypes problem insulin
well-dressed folks cycling to the out- organic herb mixes. Nowhere did I see are not educated on the subject of organ- It's interesting that in his argument with
door markets to fill their baskets with fresh organic produce for sale. ic food. Bio 2004 protesters, Patrick Moore used
spring artichokes, rapini greens and long Giovanni Ricci, the organic herb farmer Since 2000, it has been obligatory for "genetically engineered insulin" as the one
fat fava beans; buffalo milk mozzarella so from Castellina in Chianti spoke of the school cafeterias to feature organic foods example of the supposed new medicines that
fresh it was made only hours before lunch; struggle of small organic farmers who are in their lunches, but the program has not are having us all "living longer than ever:'
old olive groves and vineyards around working with a minimum of impact on been strictly overseen and has not been To quote Stephen Leahy, a writer specializ-
every picturesque corner of countryside. the land to set themselves apart from the implemented everywhere. New legislation ing in technology and the environment, "20
Scene 2: Frozen bruschetta for sale in large companies who mass produce has recently been passed though which years later and how many breakthrough
supermarkets of monstrous proportions; organic products. He preferred to use the dictates that by 2005 all lunches served in products has biotech produced? Gene thera-
one car per person zipping down the lanes terms ecological and ethical in reference the cafeterias must be 100 percent organ- py may actually have harmed more people
of medieval villages; garbage strewn on to his style of farming because he felt he ic so that all children will receive one than it's helped. Genetically engineered (GE)
the sides of city and country roads; piles had nothing in common with the huge organic meal per day. If they manage to crops haven't aided hard-pressed farmers,
of disposable plastic plates in the homes farms producing only one type of tomato make it happen, I think it will be a very improved the quality of our food or fed the
of excellent cooks. or wheat. He also explained what a chal- impressive standard to inspire other hungry. The few drugs derived from GE such
Italy, motherland of local, seasonal and lenge it is for the small farmers to find countries. as insulin simply replace existing products
home-cooked food, has become a contra- markets for their products as the big Nonetheless, organics is the quickest while creating new risks. In fact, there is evi-
diction in many ways. I spent the last two supermarket chains aren't interested in growing sector of agriculture in Italy. dence that in Britain alone thousands of dia-
summers here working as a hiking guide buying from them, nor are the small veg- Organic agritourismos (B&Bs in farm- betics have suffered a deterioration in their
wandering from village to village and con- etable stores that find organic produce too houses) are popping up all over the coun- health from GM insulin.
tinually had my eyes, ears and taste buds expensive. For the moment, he and most try. I recently read that in Sicily an estate www.btinternet.com/—dairejr/Insulin/insul
open to any new organic food experience other small farmers sell only through the once owned by a mob don in the town of _Lhtrnl
and have come away wowed, disappoint- weekly local markets. Corleone (where The Godfather was www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=37
ed and confused. Researching the subject, I discovered filmed) has been turned into an organic
In general, I found Italians to be very that 30 percent of all organic food sold in olive farm and vineyard and that the villa Backlash curbs GM investment
knowledgeable about their food and Europe is produced in Italy. That is two has been renovated to become an agri- An article in the New Zealand Herald says
wines and noticed the small food shops thirds of what is produced within the tourismo. They have yet to take any reser- investment in GM food is drying up in the
that exist in every village stock mostly country. In Italy, the majority of organic vations for guests though. world's biggest GM market, the US, because
local and seasonal produce, yet I struggled food is grown in Sicily and Sardinia, but So, it remains a bit of a mystery to me. consumers in the rest of the world are not
to find organic food in the majority of processed in the north. Northern Italy is The country so passionate about food and willing to buy its products.
regions of Italy. For example, in Tuscany, a the more industrial, wealthy and interna- so vehemently opposed to genetic engi- Roger Wyse of San Francisco-based Burrill
beautiful agricultural province of central tional part of the country and it is there neering (the Italian Foundation for the and Company, the biggest investment firm
Italy, I managed to find only one small that the large majority of Italian organic Environment states "GMOs are almost focused on life sciences, said the consumer
organic wine shop that also stocked some food co-ops and organic-focussed restau- like nuclear risks") has yet to embrace the backlash against GMOs has forced a lull in
organic dried goods, a limited range of rants are found. The demographics of organic movement in a big way. projects aimed at modifying food. "We are
mass-produced organic foods in the large organic food shoppers here are similar to probably looking at three, four or five years
supermarkets and organic olive oils and those of BC: educated folks in their 40s. It Marya Skrypiczajko is the author of before the GMO issue subsides sufficiently
specialty food items in pricey shops cater- seems the younger crowd are more inter- BC the Organic Way - Where to Find that we will feel comfortable investing in it,"
ing to foreign tourists. Only once at an ested in cell phones and fashion, and the Organic Food in British Columbia he said.
outdoor market did I meet a passionate women over 50 who are phenomenal www.bctheorganicway.com www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=37

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from the heavy metal Bloodhound Gang's
The Roof Is On Fire, "We don't need no
water; let the motherfucker burn. Burn
motherfucker burn."
Moore writes on his web site: "I want all
teenagers to see this film. There is nothing
in the film in terms of violence that we
didn't see on TV every night at the dinner
hour during the Vietnam War. Of course,
that's the point, isn't it? The media has
given the real footage from Iraq a cleans-
ing - made it look nice, easy to digest.... I
trust all of you teenagers out there will
find your way into a theatre to see this
movie. If the government believes it is OK
to send slightly older teenagers to their
deaths in Iraq, I think at the very least you
should be allowed to see what they are
going to draft you for in a couple of years."
It's difficult to argue that 15 or 16-year-
olds are not old enough to make up their
own minds on this. Whatever the result,
the irony is that the more that they try to
suppress this film, the more people want
to see it.
Marine recruiters in Flint, Michigan approachingteenagersoutsideashopping mall to enlist in the military.
Michael Moore's web site is
www.michaelmoore.com
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her family. As the film reiterates: so much Robert Alstead writes for www.iofilm.com
anguish and pain. For what?
At the time o f writing, Miramax,
CONTROVERSY..WHAT CONTROVERSY?
Fahrenheit 9/11's production company,
was appealing t h e M o t i o n Picture
Association of America's decision to give
the film an R rating, which requires chil-
dren under 17 to be accompanied by a
parent or adult guardian. Is it justified?
Certainly, there are some scenes that are
hard to stomach: a blurry long shot of a
public beheading, faces scarred beyond
comprehension by napalm, a horrifying
picture of a baby mutilated by a US bomb
attack and the charred corpses of US sol-
diers strung up in the street. But the effect
is to say, "This is war. It's ugly. Don't do
it."
Another scene, reminiscent o f
Coppola's a n t i -Vietnam c l a s s i c WINNER I BESTPICTURE "s,
Apocalypse Now, shows marines talking 200ACANNESFILMFESTIVAL .#
about the adrenaline rush of going into
Iraq guns blazing with the music cranked
up i n their field headphones while
footage rolls o f tanks torching Iraqi Editor's note: I saw the film and strongly
Asecretservice officerquestionsMichael Mooreacrossthe street frorn the Saudiembassyin Washington. buildings. W h a t apparently caused recommend it to you. Go see the movie.

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