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Inspiring personal growth
FROM 1960 TO NOW - AN INTERVIEW WITH MARILYN ATKINSON
by Joseph Roberts
Joseph Roberts: You have an incred-
ible overview from decades of direct
experience in various personal growth
movements. What has happened over
the last 40 years and where are we
now?
Marilyn Atkinson: I think that as we
enter the 21st century we're entering a
new area of human development. I was
part of the gestalt movement in the
'60s and spent time with Fritz Perles,
and then in the '70s with Virginia Satir.
I explored a lot of different spiritual
paths— Sufi and Buddhist teachings.
I worked with the primal approach to
psychology.
I was very much inter-
ested in the whole rise of
the commitment frame in
large personal workshops
where people said, "Hey, I
can take my life in my hands
and move forward here."
So, I developed my own
seminars through those
years, working with NLP
therapy, solution-focused
methods and accelerated•
learning, and those were
all major learning frames
for me and a lot of other
people. But we are in a new
era now. The 21st century
is different.
JR How is it different?
MA First of all right now
the pressure for change is
huge. The rise of China and
India, all sorts of different
cultures melding into one
global stream, has created
a conversation. The con-
versation is on the internet.
It's happening between us
all. And that's never been
that way before. There's an
over-culture now forming
on the globe that has everybody in on
the same conversations. Afghanis off
in their corner know a lot more about
the world than 15 years ago.
JR While traveling and teachings
around the world, how do you see the
over-culture emerging?
MA This last month I was teach-
ing in central Russia, in London and
Norway as well as in various areas of
Canada and the US. Next week it's
Australia.
Erickson College is known through-
out Russia. We have centres, and I
was recently teaching in Ekaterinburg,
the third largest city in Russia, and
Voronezh a wonderful old city in the
centre of Russia. We have a strong
Erickson College established in St.
Petersburgh and Moscow.
JR What's emerging in Moscow?
MA It's like Chicago in the '30s.
There are some things that are very
much a play of black and white, rich
and poor. Yet, what's coming through,
like a tide, is the rise of a real intelligentsia humans." Other groups were considered
and it's a human one that we're finding in non-human and that's still to be found in
every culture that has to do with what I some of the political mythologies that we
call level seven thinking, a deeper under- hear spoken pretty widely in camps that
fight each other.
standing.
It's a focus on world culture and the If we look at the rise of different defi-
rise of a real interest in developing the nitions of what it means to be human
we find i t can mean to have enough
world, our communality in and around
even our differences. But the focus of success to go out and build your own
level seven culture—well, let me explain a entrepreneurial system, or to follow the
bit about spiral dynamics first. right political ideology, or it means you're
Spiral dynamics is the study of value politically correct in terms of taking care
systems or value means. They're huge of other people, but only the way you're
streams of values, like currents that go supposed to according to your group.
through the oceans, the big ones, to Japan I think what's coming out of the new
"level seven" currents is a
focus on innovation and the
human capacity for creative
thinking that can redefine our
relationships productively,
flexibly and with love.
JR Who are some of the
people that helped create this
new renaissance?
MA I spent a lot of time
working with Fritz Perles,
spent two summers as his
direct student. And also I
worked with Virginia Satir,
who was a brilliant relation-
ship specialist.
JR How so?
MA She was so able to step
inside someone else's feelings,
thoughts and emotions and
try them on herself and then
reflect them back. She was a
true rapport specialist, some-
one who understood deeply
how to take someone else's
point of view. Thus she was
able to do some things that,
for me, led to deep learning.
• One was her capacity to
work with family groups
where everyone was in tur-
moil and evaluating each
other. She'd create a sculpture
or England, that bring a whole tide of out of their body posture. She'd stop
new experience. With that, of course, everybody like statues as they were argu-
comes all the superstructure—the clothes, ing and say, "Just hold your posture" and
the music, the thought systems, the inter- get mama who was down on her knees
est in certain kinds of learning, habitats with her hands open up towards daddy
—everything goes with these streams. to hold it and exaggerate it until it looked
For example, Ikea is found all over the like she was beseeching the world towards
world. And it's not just good marketing. It the daddy who was pointing his finger
has to do with people's ideas about what's with his growly face and his eyebrows
intelligent design. There's an understand- furled, while little brother reached over
ing of intelligence that's shifting, which just at that moment to tease big sister who
is also visible in the current onslaught of was snarling in response. She'd stop them
ideas in the US as two cultural streams and have them all take a look around and
collide. say, "Is this what it's like?"
MA What's emerging today is a new After they saw themselves they couldn't
focus on what it means to be human and do that anymore, so she had a capacity to
that has evolved into different kinds and turn old judgments into perceptions and
styles of learning, especially and includ- when we take something that we hold as a
ing the rise of coaching. conclusion but turn it into something we
JR What does it mean to be human? can see, then we can change it. On some
MA Well, that's a really good ques- level she understood that and she began
tion. Our ancestors were part of little a deep understanding of working with
warring groups that felt only their group people on a different level.
was human, much like some of the tribes JR What was Fritz Perles like?
like the Navaho— the word meant "the continued on page 18
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OUR COVER
Photographer Gerry Deiter caught John Lennon in a
reflective moment in 1969. John was touching a Braille
watch given to him by a blind child who John had
asked, "If you are blind how do you tell the time?"
Digital editing in Photoshop by Geoff Olson. Another
of Gerry's great photos of the ex-Beatle accompanies
Olson's feature article We All Shine On: Remembering
John Lennon on the Anniversary of His Death. It's been
a long day's night and we have been working like a
dog making and unmaking cover designs... but in the
end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Peace on Earth and good will to all.

DECEMBER 2004 • COITIMMON1 • 5

 We all shine on CULTURE
REMEMBERING JOHN LENNON ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
by Geoff Olson

ne of the greatest discoveries I ever Ringo had—well, I was never quite sure York's Central Park for days afterward, anecdote is the "what if" scenario. Would
V../ made as a kid was on a trip to what constituency Ringo had — but for weeping and playing his songs. (As far the choice to appear on SNL have taken
Vancouver, visiting relatives. The pirate artists and angry-young-men-in-training, as celebrity worship goes, only Princess Lennon on a different route along fate's
treasure in this case was a Beatles record. John's caustic humour and cynical smarts Diana's death in 1997 could compare in garden of forking paths, away from Mark
Back home in Ontario, I had heard the made him a very agreeable model. public outpouring of grief. Both reac- David Chapman?
Fab Four's early stuff echoing out from The Beatles didn't exactly ride the tions were likely archetypal in origin. The Lennon's been gone nearly a quarter
my older sister's bedroom; Love Me Do, crest of a historical wave. The wave rode princess who dies young or falls into a century, but we still have his music and
Help, Ticket to Ride. But somehow their through them, and they released its ener- deep sleep is a central theme in fairy tales, film clips to remember him by. The man
1966 album Magical Mystery Tour had gies through song. And John Lennon was whereas Lennon wrote his own myth: a has become something of a cottage indus-
eluded my ears until the early seventies, the Big Kahuna, the guy hanging 10 on trickster figure whose musical sorcerery try for his estate, and while some have
when I discovered a cousin's scratchy the roiling breaker of sixties psychede- could command the global imagination, accused Yoko of a supposedly ghoulish
copy. • lia. By the time my Beatlemania hit full but could not protect him from the obses- exploitation of her husband's memory, she
A compilation of singles and b-sides, stride in my late teens, I had discovered sive attention of one fan.) has actually shown restraint and taste in
Magical Mystery Tour wasn't considered Tomorrow Never Knows from their 1966 Of all the anecdotes about John Lennon, the licensing of all things Lennon. (When
a "real" Beatles album by purists. I didn't album Revolver, in my f a v o u f i t e was the last time you heard Imagine used
know, and I wouldn't have cared if I did. which Lennon sings Lennon, like all great cul- involved the com- to pitch something? In fact, Yoko donated
What I recall is watching dust motes drift over a music track edy show Saturday its use to Amnesty International.) I say
in a shaft of sunlight in my aunt's living played i n reverse, ture heroes, was both of his Night Live. In April the more of the man, the better, so his
room, while four guys from Liverpool while reading lines time yet transcending it. A of 1976 the show's genius is not forgotten by a generation
flew me away on a vinyl disc. Penny Lane inspired b y t h e producer, L o r n e raised on Britney and boy bands. Take
and Fool on the Hill were terrific; but it Tibetan Book of the talent this prodigious mag- Michaels, appeared for example, The Beatles Anthology - an
was a few of the other songs, the offbeat Dead via Timothy
ones, that really captured my imagina- Leary. ("Turn o f f
nifies the possessor in the on national televi- expensive reliquary of image and song,
sion holding up a containing rediscovered fragments of St.
tion. I had no idea what Strawberry Fields your mind, relax and public eye; and here was a cheque made out John. As I type, I'm watching the much-
Forever referred to, but I was transported float downstream / to the Beatles for seen clip of the Beatles' recording All YoU
by the song's altered time signature. I Am It is not dying...") guy who had a mammoth $3,000. All they had Need Is Love. John and his bandmates are
the Walrus was even more indecipherable, The song still sound- ego to begin with. to do to claim it was in their Sergeant Pepper getups, and flow-
but I delighted in its word salad and lep- ed fresh when cov- to re-form briefly ers and confetti are scattered on the floor
rechaun chorus ("Expert textpert choking ered a decade later as a group and per- of the studio. The guitar-wielding Lennon
smokers, Don't you think the joker laughs by Electronica guru Brian Eno and Roxy form three songs on the show. Michaels sits on his stool, wearing granny spectacles
at you, Ha ha ha hee hee hee ho ho ho"). Music guitarist Phil Manzanera. It still probably didn't expect a serious response. and a handlebar mustache, chewing gum
For a child from the suburbs of Ontario, sounds weirdly timeless...and why not? But as it turns out, two of the ex-Beatles asa bugle strikes up the opening bars of La
the album seemed like something from It's about timelessness, after all. had struck up a truce of sorts at the time. Marseilles. Perhaps the opening was meant
another time, or another world. Too Speaking of things temporal, Lennon, "Paul and I were together watching that to cue the audience that this is going to be
young for the politics of the sixties, I Was like all great culture heroes, was both of show; Lennon said later in a Playboy another anthem—and indeed it was. The
old enough by the seventies to groove to his time yet transcending it. A talent this interview. "He was visiting us at our place song begins with one word repeated over
the music. Lenin-Marxism was for yippies prodigious magnifies the possessor in the in the Dakota. We were watching it and and over: "Love, love, love..." Lennon
protesting US imperialism; I had discov- public eye; and here was a guy who had a almost went down to the studio, just as a and McCartney had burned off the boy-
ered Lennon-McCartneyism. mammoth ego to begin with. A sense of gag. We nearly got into a cab, but we were meets-girl wrapping of past lyrics. This
I found that the Beatles songs I b e s t immortality clung to his image and music; actually too tired...He and I were just was a song about the flame itself.
were the ones penned mostly by the eldest that's why his death struck so many so sitting there, watching the show, and we The currency of the word "love" may
member. Paul had a fanbase of swooning sharply. When the Liverpudlian proved to went, "Ha ha, wouldn't it be funny if we have been deflated over time by the usual
teen girls, George had his constituency be all too flesh and blood on December went down? But we didn't." suspects .(Hollywood, the greeting card
among spiritual-minded introverts and 8, 1980, thousands milled about in New The most striking thing about that industry, Dr..Laura, et al). But back in the
mid-sixties, the Beatles were singing about
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(love of one for all) rather than eros (love there with his finest Beatles work. This
of one for another). was a joint effort from John and Yoko; his
Not all of Lennon's artistic efforts suc- tracks alternated with hers on the vinyl
ceeded. Like the trickster figures in all album. To avoid Yoko's rather interest-
mythologies, the singer/songwriter man- ing vocal stylings, you had to pick up
aged some embarrassing blunders. As the needle and move it to the next track.
the Beatles spiraled into bickering, legal The trickster from Liverpool had done it
wrangles, and a permanent split, Lennon again.
collaborated with his avante garde artist In interviews from this period, the for-
wife on the album Two Virgins. (I once mer Beatle said that his phone was being
had the opportunity to hear this effort, tapped, and that he was being tailed by
which competes with Lou Reed's Metal black cars he believed were from the FBI.
Machine Music for sheer unlistenability. (In October of this year the FBI was
Or perhaps I just didn't get it. ) ordered to release its files on Lennon with-
"The road of excess leads to the palace in a month's time.) One interpretation of
of wisdom," accord- this alleged inter-
ing to William Blake,
-and Lennon certain-
The Beatles didn't exactly est in the ex-Beatle
is that with Reagan
ly didn't shrink from ride the crest of a historical newly installed,
piloting his subma- US policymakers
rine-yellow R o l l s wave. The wave rode through were nervous with
toward fame's slip- them, and they released its Lennon's re-emer-
pery slopes. A messy gence as a public
heroin addiction energies through song. figure, given his
was accompanied by • previous involve-
some questionable career decisions. John ment in the peace movement and various
went off drugs, annotating the experienceleft wing causes a decade earlier. And files
in the 1969 howl, Cold Turkey, and joined reveal there had been a high level interest
Yoko in exploring Arthur Janov's primal in Lennon earlier. Some speculate that
scream therapy. Echoes o f his magical his 1971 song John SinClair was the spark
misery tour are-heard-on the brilliant 1971 for the FBI's watch list, eventually leading
album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. to the Nixon administration's efforts to
Mother is d howl of pain about childhood deport him. Sinclair was given 10 years in
separation, while.. Working Class Hero is a prison for selling two joints to an under-
bitter, clear-eyed remembrance of what cover officer. The song, performed at a
most British rockers chose to forget about benefit for Sinclair, contained the lyrics,
their beginnings.
Lyrically, Lennon was as unafraid of If he'dbeen a soldier man -
revealing his dark side as showing his Shooting gooks in Vietnam
light; and the contrast enabled him to If hewas the CIA
move from the self-loathing pyrotechnics Selling dope and making hay
of the White Album's Yer Blues to the He'd be free, they'd let him be
limnal vulnerability of Imagine's Jealous Breathing air, like you and me.
Guy. But what we sometimes forget about
the eldest Beatle is that he didn't just More than any one song, it is Lennon's
sing about peace; he was an active force catalogue that empowers the frequent
for it. With millions watching, John and description of him as a genius. In an
Yoko performed Give Peace a Chance live interview from the time he said, "When
from a Montreal hotel room, joined by real music comes to me — the music
such luminaries such as Timothy Leary, of the spheres, the music that surpasses
'Ibmmy Smothers and Allen Ginsberg. understanding— that has nothing to do
In December of 1972, Lennon record- with me, 'cause I'm just the channel. The
ed Happy Xmas (War Is Over) with the only joy for me is for it to be given to me,
Harlem Community Choir. John and and to transcribe it like a medium...those John and Yoko's artful Christmas 'War is Over, If You Want It" public art is poignant in
these time. Common Ground's editor Joseph Roberts, who imagined and coordinat-
Yoko accompanied the song's release with moments are what I live for." ed the 1982 Walk for Peace, climbed this billboard in front of the then newly opened
a global scattering of postcards and bill- I slipped on some headphones recently Vancouver Public Library in appreciation. Merry Christmas, happy Hanukah, and may
boards reading " War Is Over (If You Want to take another listen to No. 9 Dream," peace be with you this blessed New Year. As their song Happy Xmas says, "Let's
It):' The song will be re-released this Dec. continued on page 8 hope it's a good one, Without any fear, War is over, if you want it, War is over now."
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 continued from page 7 more rotation on the radio than any
from his "lost-weekend" album, Walls and other of the ex-Beatle's solo recordings.
Bridges. I never quite got this tune, but In a time when ignorant armies dash on a LENNONIN QUOTES
then it hit me; Lennon is describing a shared plain of religious fundamentalism, "Idon'tintendtobeaperformingfleaanymore. I "I think thebasicthingnobodyasks is why do
spiritual encounter. He hears a whispering the song has even greater relevance today. wasthedreamweaver,butalthough I'll be aroundpeopletakesdrugsofanysort?Andthat question
voice call out his name, and feels "sudden But whatever you think of the political or Idon'tintendtoberunningat20,000milesan hourhastoberesolvedbeforeyoucanthink,well, what
hot, sudden cold," as "music touches my religious sentiments, the central message tryingtoprovemyself. I don'twanttodieat 40." canwedo for thepoordrugaddict?Whydo we
soul:' Literal or metaphorical? Drug trip, is clear: think and feel for yourself, don't havetohavetheseaccessoriestonormalliving to
dreamscape, or something else? Whatever allow anyone to do your imagining for "Iusedto becruel to mywoman,and physically live?Imean,istheresomethingwrongwith society
he's on about, the lyrics seem to be more you — including some hirsute character - anywoman. I wasa hitter. I couldn't express that'smakingussopressurized,thatwecannot live
than just I Am the Walrus wordplay. with little round spectades. The. singer/ myselfandI hit. IfoughtmenandI hitwomen. Thatwithoutguardingourselvesagainst it?"
Lennon appears to be describing an expe- songwriter rejected all gurus, all isms, iswhyIamalwaysonaboutpeace,yousee.It is the
rience so intimate induding the hagi- mostviolentpeoplewhogoforloveand peace." "Theonlytimewetookdrugswaswhenwe were
and strange he can who better to convey a classicography that sur- withouthopeandtheonlywaywegotoutof it was
only communicate shamanic experience than rounded himself "Everything'stheopposite.ButIsincerely believe inwithhopeand if wecansustainthehopethen we
it i n song, asking and his bandmates. loveandpeace.Iamaviolentmanwhohas learned don'tneeddrugs,liquororanything.But ifwe lose
over and over, "Was a real shaman — the type St. John was actu- nottobeviolentandregretshisviolence.I will havehope,whatcanyoudo?Whatisthereto do?"
it just a dream?" defined by anthropologists ally no saint at all, tobea lot olderbefore I canfacein public how I
But who better to and Lennon himself treatedwomenasa youngster." "We'vegotthis gift oflove,butloveis like a pre-
convey a dassic sha- as the visionary who often was the first to say ciousplant.Youcan't justaccept it andleave it in
manic experience so (see sidebar). He "Mydefencesweresogreat.Thecockyrockand roll thecupboardor just think it's goingto geton by
than a real shaman
doesn't fit in well with the was a flawed human herowhoknowsalltheanswerswasactuallya terri-itself.You'vegottokeepwatering it.You'vegat to
—the type defined rest of the tribe? being like all the rest fiedguywhodidn'tknowhowtocry. Simple." reallylookafter itandnurture it"
by anthropologists of us, doing his best
as the visionary who often doesn't fit in to figure out the world and his place in it. "PartofmesuspectsthatI'maloser,andthe other"Whenyou'redrowning,you don't say 'I would
well with the rest of the tribe? "I'm not "It's quite possible to do anything, but partofmethinksI'mGodAlmighty." beincrediblypleased if someonewouldhave the
going to change the way I look or the way I not to put it on the leaders and the parking foresighttonoticemedrowningandcomeand help
feel to conform to anything," Lennon said meters,' the animated Liverpudlian told "Peoplealwaysgottheimage I wasananti-Christme,'youjust scream."
in his interview with Playboy. "I've always interviewer David Sheff shortly before his orantireligion. I'mnot.I'mamostreligious fellow.
been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life death. "You have to do it yourself. That's IwasbroughtupaChristianandI onlynow under- "Youhavetobeabastardtomake it, and that's
and I have to live with that, you know. I'm what the great masters and mistresses have standsomeof thethingsthatChristwassaying in afact.AndtheBeatlesare thebiggest bastards
one of those people:' been saying ever since time began. They thoseparables.Becausepeoplegothookedon the onEarth."
Whatever No. 9 Dream means, we have can point the way, leave signposts and teacherandmissedthemessage.All this bit about
a better angle on the singer/songwriter'slittle instructions in various books that electingapresident.Wepickourowndaddyout of "Now,in thesixtieswewerenaive, like children.
intent in the hit single Imagine, from the are now called holy and worshiped for the adogpoundof daddies." Everybodywentback to theirrooms,and said,
1971 album of the same name. cover of the book and not for what it says, 'Wedidn't get awonderfulworld of just flowers
but the instructions are all there for all to "IbelieveinGod,butnotasonething,notas an andpeaceandhappychocolate,and it won't be
Imagine there's no heaven see, have always been and always will be. oldmanin thesky. I believethatwhatpeople call justprettyandbeautiful all the time,' and just
It's easy if you try There's nothing new under the sun. All Godissomethingin all of us. I believethat whatlikebabieseveryonewentbackto theirrooms and
No hell below us the roads lead to Rome. And people can- JesusandMohammedandBuddhaandall the rest sulked.'We'regoingtostayinourroomsand play
Above us only sky not provide it for you. I can't wake you up. saidwasright. It's just that thetranslations haverockandrollandnotdoanythingelse,because the
You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You gone wrong." world'sa horribleplace,because it didn'tgive us
On one level it's a just an exceptionally can cure you." everythingwecried for.' Right?...well,crying for it
hummable time from a former Beatle. On This wasn't just some forgettable senti- "Youcan'tcheatkids. If youcheatthem whenwasn'tenough.Thethingthesixtiesdidwas show
another, it's an unflinching prayer for ment about positive self-esteem or per- they'rechildrenthey'llmakeyoupaywhen they'reusthepossibilitiesandtheresponsibilitythatwe all
• p e a c e that locks our responsibility for one sonal power. It echoes a previous message 16or17byrevoltingagainstyouorhatingyou or had.It wasn'ttheanswer.It justgaveusa glimpse
another firmly in this world. But above attributed to another longhaired peace allthoseso-calledteenageproblems. I think that'softhe possibility."
all, Imagine is about the primacy of the freak: finallywhenthey'reoldenoughtostandupto you
individual imagination over second-hand "the kingdom of heaven is within you." andsay, 'what a hypocriteyou'vebeen all this "Realityleavesalot tothe imagination."
belief systems, induding those based on And that, my friends, is why John Lennon's time.You'venevergivenmewhatI really wanted,
exploitation of others: most memorable songs still move us, whichis you "You'rejust leftwithyourselfallthetime, whatever
young and old—because they strike that youdoanyway.You'vegot to getdownto your
Imagine no possessions deepest chord, the beauty within us all. societyis run byinsanepeople for insaneownGodin yourowntemple. It's alldownto you,
I wonder if you can. objectives. I thinkwe'rebeingrunby maniacs formate."
No need for greed or hunger Well we all shine on maniacalendsandI thinkI'mliabletobeput away
A brotherhood of man Like the moon and the stars and the sun asinsaneforexpressingthat.That'swhat's insane"Life iswhathappenswhenyouarebusy making
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My Soul
Book review by Geoff Olson
r r ony Hendra's spiritual memoir starts
1 off with a literal hang, as he recalls
having an affair with a married woman
at the age of 14. When the husband,
a devout Catholic,
discovers t h e t w o
embracing i n h i s
kitchen, he hauls off
he believes can save
the young fornica-
tor's
At first glance, Dom
Joseph Warrilow, who
had lived all his adult
life in a Benedictine
monastery on the Isle -
of Wight, looked less
like a saviour than
a friar rendered by
Warner Brothers. He
had "big pink hands
like rock lobsters stick-
ing out from frayed
black cuffs...a fleshy
triangular n o s e . . .
gigantic ears, wings of
gristle, at right angles to the rather pointy,
close-shaven skull. The long rubbery lips
To paraphrase Waterboys singer
Mike Scott, it was a wonderful disguise.
Underneath the cartoon countenance was
faith's real deal. Father Joe, no "Cathaholic"
addicted to dogma, was radiant rather
than wrathful, and offered Hendra guid-
ance rather than guilt.
As a teen, Hendra had all sorts of mad
enthusiasms, most of which only lasted
a few weeks, usually due to the real-
ity principle of no money or mentors.
"I'd been an astronomer, archeologist,
research chemist, brewer and vintner, race
car mechanic, minimalist poet (twice),
numismatist, lepidopterist, reporter, con-
cert pianist, angler, munitions expert,
operatic tenor, Olympic track and field
star, lumberjack and spelunker...Like all
my other teen dreams, the new identity
was like a tailor's fitting as I turned this
way and that to see how it looked in the
mirror of self-consciousness."
Hendra was searching for the one guise
that would trump the rest.
The teen abandoned his identity as
adulterer after a terrified introduction to
what turned out to be the benignly smil-
ing Father Joe. So impressed was Hendra
by Joe's Christ-like response to sin, that
he now had a real model to emulate. He
sums it up with the line, "i Was a Teenage
Monk."
Pursuing ,a monk's path seemed a
bizarre career path for a teenage boy in
the early sixties. His schoolboy chums
preferred the culture of rebellion and
musical protest: "To them, Peter, Paul and
Mary meant folk. To me it meant the two but the soul-searching correspondence
top apostles and the Mother of Christ... and occasional meetings with Father Joe
They were eyeing the emerging schism never ceased.
between Mod and Rocker and wondering Father Joe remained a rock in Hendra's
which way to jump in storm-tossed life, responding to his ques-
the crucial matter of tions on life, war, God, sex and sin with a
hair; i couldn't wait Socratic wit and a loving concern. What
to shave a bald spot makes Hendra's spiritual memoir so
in mine." appealing is that Father Joe comes across
Some o f these on the page as an enlightened presence: a
schoolboy associates nonjudgmental soul of great compassion.
went on to become In a time when Catholicism's darker side
well-known public is getting a well-deserved caning, Hendra's
figures such as cos- book is both a benediction and a caution;
mologist Fred Hoyle we're reminded that every organized reli-
and an "inarticulate gion has both its asses and its assets.
homunculus named Hendra himself comes off less admi-
Stephen Hawking?' rably than Father Joe. But as brutally
The great utility o f honest as this memoir is—and it is beau-
Hawking to his class- tifully written—it's been condemned as a
mates, Hendra writes, halfway measure in the auto-flagellation
was h i s speed-of- department. Upon publication, Hendra's
light understanding 30-year-old daughter accused her father
of math and physics. of sexual abuse. I f this is more than
"He usually had the familial opportunism, it raises the ques-
homework finished tion whether a piece of literature should
by the end of lunch be judged by the same standards as the
hour, and the thuggier elements in his author. Is Hendra's memoir retrospec-
class—including me—found it easy to per- tively damned by the hand that wrote it?
suade him to share it. (I'm reminded of one
Our math and phys- of my favourite authors,
ics marks were terrific, What makes Hendra's Arthur Koestler. Once
until the inevitable spiritual memoir s o the equal t o George
day of the test, which Orwell as a political
Hawking finished in appealing is that Father essayist and thinker, the
minutes and sat snuf- Joe comes across on the Hungarian author was
fling and grinning outed several years ago
and doodling for the page as an enlightened by biographer David
remainder of the hour, presence: a nonjudg- Cesarini as a violent
while the rest of us alcoholic and serial rap-
sweated through the mental soul o f great ist.)
now incomprehensi- compassion. I n a time Whether such accu-
ble scientific runes." sations stick o r not,
His enthusiasm for when Catholicism's Father Joe remains a
the monastic life was darker side is getting 'a glowing presence i n
eventually abandoned these pages. The comic-
for a comedic one. well-deserved caning, looking cleric strikes the
Hendra traded prayer Hendra's book is both a reader as one of the less
for laughter; j o i n - objectionable birds in
ing The Cambridge benediction and a cau- the aviary of organized
Footlights, h e was tion; we're reminded religion: one who gives
soon hanging out with wings to others by word
future Python alumni that every organized and deed. I f Hendra
like John Cleese and ultimately fails to live
Graham Chapman.
religion has both its up fully to Father Joe's
Relocating to the US, asses and its assets. wit, warmth and wis-
the might-have-been- dom, he still manages
monk became an edi- to lyrically convey the
tor of the humour magazine National soulfulness that went into the old bird's
Lampoon, and struck up friendships with efforts.
the Saturday Night Live and Second City
crowd. Hendra's talent as a satirist was in
high demand; by the eighties he was edi- Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My
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W e are an evolving species, and one endurance, for both the individual and pulsates through the outer regions of the happiness; consequently, they are "pro-
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My journey H E A LT H & F I T N E S S
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Agricultural dictatorship in Iraq

THE ORGANIC WAY
by Marya Skrypiczajko

Economic imperialism o f the worst gist of this chapter is that Iraqi farmers material from transgenic canola and corn career working for large US agribusinesses
Lakind has hit Iraq with transgenic are now only allowed to plant "protected" for instance is out of control in producing before going to work for the government.
crops being forced on the population. crop varieties defined asnew, distinct, uni- countries where "dean" certified seed is no So did Dan Amstutz who headed Iraq's
Saving seedas a tradition and a necessary form and stable. The heritage seeds Iraqi longer available. agricultural reconstruction.
way of life for Iraq's farmers and subsis- farmers have been saving since the time of In Iraq, all this is being touted as "agri- Sadly, Iraq is not the first country to
tence gardeners has been outlawed. Babylon do not meet these criteria; those cultural reconstruction!' The officials who have to deal with this sort of totalitarian
For thousands of years, farmers have that do are products of multi-national enacted this law claim it is to ensure Iraq tragedy. Variations on the situation have
saved the seeds of one year's crops to be seed companies and include rransgenic has a steady supply of good quality seeds already taken place in other poor countries
planted the following year. According to seeds. In addition, this order gives plant and to make it easier for it to become a that rely on aid from wealthier countries:
the Food and Agriculture Organization of breeders that claim to have discovered member of the WTO. They then tie this in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Cambodia are
the UN, in 2002, 97 percent of Iraqi farm- the new varieties the exclusive rights to to their goal of claiming to help better feed a few. Never do these regulations reflect
ers used seeds saved from the previous all production and sales the citizens of Iraq. the will of the local people.
year's harvest. They have also bred natural of the "protected" variet- Hmmm. Iraqi farmers While it is true that Iraq was not the
varieties of crops, particularly wheat, bar-, ies in seed and harvested previously usedseeds they most agriculturally efficient. country
ley and dates, to be better suited to their plant form. had specifically designed before the US invasion, this dictatorship-
particular climate zones. This monopoly will last for their growing condi- style approach is no way to improve the
This fundamentally natural approach 20 years for crop varieties tions. North American situation. It simply puts the power into
to farming has been a cornerstone of their and 25 for trees and vines. and European members corporate hands and puts the farmers into
agricultural system; it has preserved their Basically, it gives the large of the WTO do not have a poorer situation. After years of suffer-
agricultural heritage and been an eco- biotech companies con- to abide by similar restric- ing through a trade embargo, Iraq needs
nomic necessity. Now that's all changed as trol over Iraq's seed trade tions on seed use. Hunger access to new machinery, as well as fund-
a new patent law enacted by the US does and thus, a significant Personally-collected has so far not been solved ing and management advice. It also needs
not allow Iraqi farmers to save their own part of their agricultural seeds become illegal in any other under-privi- to continue to build on the work farmers
seed and forces them to buy seed from system. Furthermore, i t leged country by corpo- have already done breeding crops appro-
government-approved seed companies. forces Iraqi farmers to become dependant rate control of that country's seed market. priate to their climate. And on a moral
During the US occupation o f Iraq, on, these 'companies. These amendments It seems clear that this is actually about the level, Iraqis simply need the right to make
administrator Paul Bremer decreed 100 are not at all in line with Iraq's previous control and commercialization of Iraq's their own decisions about food and agri-
orders pertaining to Iraq's economic, patent law, which prohibited private own- agriculture system, not about helping the cultural policies. Without any of these, the
political and social future. These orders ership of biological resources. Iraqi people. • Iraqi people will never be free and never
are now in place until revised or repealed This will affect those of us outside of It is no coincidence that the US agricul- be able to feed themselves.
by a new Iraqi regime. Since the new Iraqi Iraq too. If the biotech companies intro- ture department, which aided Bremer in
government is tied to the US government, duce GE wheat in Iraq, it will spread writing Order 81, was headed by ex-man-
it is not expected to be revising Bremer's worldwide over time; transgenic pollution agement of the huge US seed and biotech Marya Skrypiczajko is the author of BC
orders any time soon. will contaminate regular wheat and relat- companies, such as Monsanto and Cargill. the Organic Way—Where to Find Organic
Order 81 is anew patent law that indudes ed crops because pollen transfer cannot be Ann Veneman, who recently resigned as Food in British Columbia. For more visit
achapter on plant variety protection. The controlled. Transfer of unwanted genetic US secretary of agriculture, had a long www.bctheorganicway.com

Mrs Schmeiser sues Monsanto for $140 „B..

M o n s a n t o was nervous before the the company told the Supreme Court The matter could be settled as soon herbicides are being used to kill unwant-
Supreme Court o f Canada nar- that Percy should have done to have as next March, but i f the Schmeisers ed canola plants.
rowly decided in May that Saskatchewan prevented a lawsuit against him. win this case an important precedent Parliament has yet to act on recom-
farmer Percy Schmeiser infringed its Monsanto respond- will be set. Since it mendations of the country's top court,
copyright on transgenic canola. Company ed by sending Mrs. Louise Schmeiser found has now been shown which said that the Patent Act should not
officials thought they could relax after Schmeiser a letter that genetic pollution be applied to plants, the Plant Breeder's
what they considered a big win. demanding that, she Monsanto's canola i n is a serious problem Rights Act should.
Now that decision may come back to stop harassing the her organic vegetable and that all transgen- Where this goes is anybody's guess as
haunt them. A keystone of Monsanto's company. Louise then ics can be traced back Prime Minister Martin is under pressure
argument in the case revolved around the paid several students garden and shelterbelt.to . its developers, to appease .the US. There are power-
fact that Percy did not notify the com- to remove the plants Louise sent several let- removal o f unwel- ful lobby groups in Washington want-
pany when he suspected that its Roundup from her garden and come plants could ing Canada to roll over on resistance to
ready canola, which he was not licensed to burn them. ters to Monsanto to comebe a hugely expensive transgenics and prevent things like man-
grow, had found its way into his fields. 'It Wishing to be com- and remove its transgenic enterprise. datory labeling laws.
is believed to have arrived both as pollen pensated for her $140 On the Canadian
and been dropped by trucks driving past expenditure and t o plants ' Prairies, transgenic For more on the Schmeiser family's GE
the Schineiser fields. prove a point, Mrs. canola of three types nightmare see www.percyschmeiser.com.
In 2002, Louise Schmeiser found Sduneiser then filed asmall claims action are outcrossing in farmers' fields with In a related casethe Saskatchewan Organic
Monsanto's canola in her organic veg- against Monsanto. By now the company non-GE canola as well as with each Directorate is suing Monsanto for loss of
etable garden and shelterbelt. Louise sent was getting really nervous that it might other. Some plants are now resistant to income due to an inability to grow organ-
several letters to Monsanto to come and be ordered to pay the well-documented three brands of herbicide from three ic canola because of transgenic pollution
remove its transgenic plants, exactly what claim and its lawyers stalled for time. companies and much more powerful www.saskorganic.com

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 Dietary HEALTH `61 F O O D

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SCIENCE MATTERS
by David Suzuki
at have you done? What have you
\ d o n e ? It's the question I wanted to
ask my friends in the US after last month's
election result. But I already knew the
answer. They did everything they could.
They just lost.
So now we have four more years o f
George W. Bush's regressive social, environ-
mental and foreign policies to look forward
to. That certainly doesn't bode well for sci-
ence, the environment or human rights in
the USA, or elsewhere for that matter.
Do such statements make me "anti-US?"
According to many pundits...and politicians
weighing in on both sides of the border
after the election it does. Apparently, dis-
agreeing with the US popular vote makes
you either anti-American or "intolerant" or
some sort of "high-minded liberal elitist."
Even some of our elected Canadian par-
liamentarians insist that any critical analy-
sis of the US or its policies simply amounts
to anti-Americanism. The irony, of course,
is that this is exactly the kind of "you're
either with us or against us" mentality
that drove many of the criticisms of the
Bush administration in the first place.
In his first term, President Bush
forged a path of US unilateralism in the
world community. He pushed a "me-
first" agenda and was willing to trample
human rights, science and the environ-
ment to do it. Just ask the 5,000 scien-
tists, including 48 Nobel laureates, who
have signed onto a statement accusing
the Bush administration of "manipula-
tion of the process through which sci-
ence enters into its decisionsf
Yet now, those who dare criticize the
choice of the slim majority of US voters
who picked Bush are being accused of
being anti-US. Well, if being anti-US
means being against the war in Iraq,
supportive of women's rights, support-
ive of progressive environmental poli-
cies, against the missile defence system,
supportive of stem-cell research and
supportive of same-sex marriage, then
vote overwhelmingly to ban gay marriage,
I will speak up. Disagreeing with a ban on
same-sex marriage is not a matter of being
out of touch with "US values." It's a matter
of human rights. When one group in soci-
ety is singled out and repressed and not
sign me up. But I don't believe it does. given the same opportunities as others,
Simply disagreeing with that slim major- then their rights are being violated. That
ity of voters does not make a person anti- is simply wrong. It doesn't matter if the
US. In my youth I received a scholarship majority of people voted for it. You can't
from a US university worth more than my vote away human rights.
father made in a year and it allowed me Pundits who insist that critics o f
to attend one of the finest colleges in the President Bush are anti-US are really say-
world. Later I earned a PhD there and I.am ing that if 52 percent of Americans believe
forever grateful to the people of the US for anything then that's what the US stands
that. When I returned to Canada, I could for and everyone else has to respect that.
not compete with my peers elsewhere in This is a morally relativistic viewpoint that
the world because of the poor funding doesn't even withstand the most basic of
available in Canada at the time. I stayed in scrutiny and critics of the Bush adminis-
the States because I received a large grant. tration should not be bullied into believ-
I will never forget the generosity of the US . ing it does.
and owe a huge debt of gratitude. But it is Those of us who feel that 52 percent of
precisely because I love America that I am US voters made a mistake on November
so profoundly disturbed by what is going 2 don't hate Americans. On the contrary,
on there. Unquestioning acceptance of the we care enough about the people and the
status quo isn't exactly a US ideal. In fact, ideals the country is supposed to represent
it strikes me as decidedly un-US. to be very, very concerned.
So yes, when 52 'percent of US voters
cast ballots for Bush, I will say that I think Take the Nature Challenge and learn
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continued from page 4
MA H e was kind of scary for me.
I was very young when I was working
with him. He was brilliant, brilliant as a
psychotherapist. He could take someone
and intuitively get him or her to start
expressing, but in those days I could see
there was no pattern. He wasn't someone
you could really study like Virginia. I
spent quite a bit of time with Fritz, but in
fact we were studying his genius. What I
learned from Fritz was that there's a flow
of seeing that people have, that when you
learn to get into that flow you can see the
world at a much deeper level than you can
otherwise.
My analogy might be the difference
between being able to run 'a personal com-
puter like we can now. You can produce a
magazine with a personal computer and
understand a lot more of the deep struc-
ture of developing a result. In those days
it was all hit and miss and Fritz's hit and
miss was wonderful to watch, but it was
very difficult for his followers to under-
stand the deep structure of what he was
doing. It was a hard road for his students.
Now, Milton Erickson was another mat-
ter.
JR You named Erickson College after
him. What about him made such an
impact?
MA First of all, he was a very simple
person in terms of the way he treated life
in general. He gave himself to his inner
intuitive process in such a way that he focus on getting the right drug, the right themselves.
allowed his deeper knowing to do all anti-depressant, to somehow fix your bro- Another principle was that people
the work. He understood the difference ken chemicals—it's not needed. As soon deserve no blame. This world seems to
between the conscious and deeper know- aswe discover the flow of your intuition, • have so much black and white thinking,
ing selves such that he could allow his of our deeper learning, away we go into so the growing awareness that people can
perception in any given situation to truly the reaches of our own development and come back from all sorts of spins and
do the work Only later would he, and very we begin on our path in a way that takes downsides and really discover their own
lightly, bring his conscious mind along to us home. vision is new. I think Christopher Reeves
chatter about what it. all meant. Milton JR That people are okay is a wonderful is a good example of someone who found
was very focused on simply allowing the principle, did he have others? his vision even in complete adversity.
work to happen through him in the same MA Yes, that people have all the resourc- With coaching we're working with that
way that most great es, they need, and this capacity of people to reinvent the moment
spiritual teachers do. All of that becomes very is the heart of coach- and discover a game worth playing even
JR How did he do ing. You can sit down when they think some aspect of their
it? easy when you simply with a client and as development corners them. Everybody's
MA H e had some notice that, first of all, you ask questions you got some area where they're not quite so
basic principles and begin to assist the per- sure of themselves —. maybe their goals
I've discovered when people are okay:.. And, not son as they find their in learning or relationship or health or
we truly work from only are people okay, but own understanding finances or even their spiritual areas of
those principles every- of what they need to development.
thing happens— psy- you specifically are okay. do. So, coaching is not People discover they deserve no blame
chotherapy, coaching, about giving advice or for the seeming sidetracks, that those are
the whole process of
There's nothing broken. assisting or taking over highways into deeper learning.
human development, the game from some- JR It's a path to discover a part of your-
any kind of learning, and the whole qual- one. My most .recent analogy is that it's self that you didn't realize.
ity of discovering your own creative devel- like curling — people throw their own MA Milton's model was that there's no
opment. All of that becomes very easy purpose ahead of them and a good coach such thing as failing. He had a wonderful
when you simply notice that, first of all, clears the way for that purpose to aim and framework on failure, that if something's
people are okay — that was one of his hit its mark. worth learning it's worth doing badly
fundamental principles. And, not only are Milton was very much like that. He at the beginning. We had fail forward.
people okay, but you specifically are okay. listened deeply for people's purpose. He So we can treat everything as a feedback
There's nothing broken. was hugely aware of the human spirit, of frame for becoming satisfied with our
A lot of the recent understandings of the passion that people had for life and he own path.
the brain have supported this completely. saw people as heroes. He really gave room JR What was he like?
Human beings are really okay. All this for people to find a place to deeply respect MA He was amazing. Milton had polio

18 •C7MMOn8OUnd•DECEMBER 2004
 Deep hope
—dark the times, however dire the threat, I to others. The boundary was established
will never give up, hope. As long as there in the 17th century as a way to keep the
is breath in our bodies, we can continue church happy by not poaching on its
to hope and work for victory." This is territory, and to guarantee that scientific
the kind of hope that Churchill offered evidence was solid and tangible. "Here,
EARTHFUTURE.COM the British people in the darkest years of there be angels" was not something that
the Second World War, when Hitler had lent itself to scientific scrutiny, so it was
by Guy Dauncey occupied most of Europe. It is the kind of easier to leave it alone.
hope that many activists hold tight to as But in leaving it alone, science deprived
they struggle to end the onslaught against itself of access to the whole inner world
nature that the human race is pursuing, of consciousness. Later, some scientists
Once-fertile fields lie fallow leaves to fall to their quiet winter beds, led by the world's most powerful nations would say that consciousness was simply
where the seedswere never sown, snow to fall, and poets to write sad odes to and corporations. an artifact, created by the brain's chem-
and dust is deep around the dreams lost hopes and passing loves. And there is deep hope that says, istry. They would even deny that animals
where idle winds have blown. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Bird and "However dire things may seem, the uni- (and male babies) felt pain. Their intellec-
So unfulfilled ambitions fade whale migrations. We owe them all to that verse wants life to succeed. It wants dreamstual descendents still insist that evolution
and slowly disappear, ancient collision. to be realized and love to be fulfilled. Deep is no more than a random process of self-
while introspective hours pass It also created the moon. The metals in down in its evolutionary origins, it wants ish genes, seeking to replicate.
in swan song to the year. the planetesimal sank deep into the Earth's life to discover that it is part of a wondrous If we acknowledge that the spiritual
- S.F. Records core, and some of the rock was flung back miracle, with a spiritual nature and that world is real, because of our own inner
into space where it coalesced to form the all consciousness journeys towards whole- experiences, we need to cross that bound-
I t all began 4.5 billion years ago, 50,000 moon, causing lOvers all over the world ness." ary. In so doing, we open the possibil-
years after the Earth was formed, when to experience the most enchanting of Is this just an interesting idea! Is it an ity that evolution is more than a random
Earth's crust was still molten magma. feelings. article of faith, like the virgin birth, regard-material process, and we have to ask the
A planetesimal the size of Mars came Here on the wet, west coast of Canada, less of what sciencesays? Is it a foolish fal- critical question, "If spirituality exists,
crashing into the Earth, pushing it off its as December moves towards the longest lacy that gives us comfort against the cold where did it come from? Where is i t
vertical axis, creating the tilt which gives night of the year, and hopelessness for emptiness of space, despair and death? going?" It is here, when you ponder deeply •
our planet its seasons. As Earth orbits some becomes worthy of its own shrine, Or is it a potentially valid description of Onthe nature of love, life and the universe,
the sun once a. year, the tilt affects the it seems appropriate to dwell on hope: For evolution that may one day be proven sci- that deep hope emerges. In spite of stupid-
amount of sunshine that reaches parts of as the winter solstice passes, at 4:42 am entifically, becoming a new guiding para- ity, in spite of cruelty, in spite of death, a
the planet at different times of the year. on Tuesday, December 21, Earth's orbit digm, linking science and spirit, political. deeper force prevails and lives within •us,
When the northern part of the Earth around the sun will begin to bring us lon- change and human hope? every day.
tilts towards the sun, we receive more ger days and more sunlight. Wehave to hold strong to science as the
sunlight, causing lovers' hearts to break There are three kinds of hope. There is means by which we explore the secrets of Guy Dauncey is author' of Stormy
into song, and everything to burst into simple hope, that says, "I hope I win the nature; but we must also remember that Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate
blossom. lottery," or "I hope my children find love, science has set itself an artificial bound- Change (New Society Publishers) and other
When the northern part tilts away from and happy marriagesf ary, limiting its inquiries to the realm of titles. He lives in Victoria.
the sun, we receive less sunlight, causing There is heroic hope that says "However matter, leaving the realm of spirit and soul www.earthfuture.com

at age 15. Can you imagine going to sleep

with what seems like a bad cold and wak-
ing up four days later only being able to
move your eyeballs? He nearly died in the
interim and ended up on life support and FRAMED
was in a wheelchair for a while.
In those days what they did was move AND
the bed into the kitchen. So from there
Milton watched his baby sister and began MATTED.
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head like her and he began to get some FINE ART
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and the doctors say today that he literally The David Suzuki Foundation, through
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years after that first paralysis he was walk-
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He discovered that people could,
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charge of the metaphor of their own life.
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the environment
by Vesanto Melina

W o u l d you like to have a positive
impact with your gift giving this
holiday season? Do you shy away from
Christmas commercialism, yet wonder
what to offer those you love? Consider
these gifts that keep on giving and that
have far-reaching benefits:
•Items that help people enjoy the great
outdoors: skis, tennis rackets, bikes, snow-
shoes, boots, a compass and whistle for
hikers.
•Sets of sports equipment for a couple
or a family. If you're flush with cash, buy
high-end items, otherwise head for your
local sporting goods recycling store.
• A family cross-country season pass.
For example, a pass to Cypress Mountain
includes unlimited snowshoeing and tub-
ing, provides regular, fun exercise, and
is cheaper than a one-time family ski.
holiday.
• Clothing and footwear that your loved
ones can use to be outdoors and appreci-
ate nature.
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sons, Gortex socks available at Mountain
Equipment Co-op and other sporting
goods stores.
•A really good rain hat.
• For potential travelers, stocking items
and fascinating books on various destina-
tions. (Check out The Travel Bug and the
travel section of bookstores:)
• Monthly bus passes to help your loved
ones use transit systems.
•For a wheelchair-bound friend or rela-
tion, HandiDart tickets (www.indepen-
dent-living.ca/HandiDart.asp)
• For an elderly person, an invitation,
redeemable on request, for a trip to the
park or out for a cup of tea. own gift basket.) a better world.
•Assistance in getting a Christmas tree • A gift of organic produce, delivered •Buy as little as possible for Christmas;
or decorating their home for the holidays, for a few weeks (by one of Vancouver's make gifts or baked goods; send letters
for an elderly person. .many services, or by Ladybug Organics and love.
•Baking together. in the Fraser Valley.) •Spend time with people (instead of
•For a preschooler, glue, coloured paper, •Stevia powder or drops, the herbal giving things.)
pipe cleaners, and whatever else you can sweetener that won't disturb blood sugar • Invite friends or neighbours for a
think of, assembled in a do-it-yourself arts levels. potluck dinner at which you discuss great
and crafts kit. Check out Ruby's Dog on •An aromatic gift basket from Saje or ideas, new dreams and share how to trans-
Main Street for materials. similar. form your smaller or larger community
•Membership in EarthSave (www.earth- • A subscription to Adbusters maga- from the religion of consumption to the
save.bc.ca), Amnesty International (www. zine (www.adbusters.org) vision of sustainability.
amnesty.ca), Western Canada Wilderness •Common Ground magazine mailed
Committee (www.wildernesscommittee.each month (to someone far away; who Vesanto Melina is a regular 'columnist
orgy, Suzuki Foundation (www.davidsu- misses BC.) with Common Ground. Her website is
zuki.org), the Burns Bog Society (www. •A sampling of veggie burgers, so peo- www.nutrispeak.com
burnsbog.org) or another worthy orga- ple can discover their favourite brands.
nization. (This is a possible gift for someone with
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local seminar.
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who is trying to change eating habits.)
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from time to time. Victoria and other locations, see www. You know it works in your per-
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house cleaning, babysitting, or a foot mas- products, products tested on animals, or by advertising in locally owned and
operated Canadian media. There is
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DEC 6 & JAN 17 DEC 18 JAN 16 - FEB 12 MAR 6 - 12 MONDAYS WEDNESDAYS

Sagittarius & C a p r i c o r n
Astrological D i n n e r s N o w
at Star Anise Restaurant! Join
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by Astrologer Dawn Muncaster.
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ment. To reserve: 604-732-5538
DEC 8
How to Manage Holiday Stress
with Geoffrey Ayi-Bonte 7-8pm
Free admission Lonsdale Quay
Hotel, North Vancouver contact
info: CMHA 604-987-6959
DEC 10 - 19
Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche 2004
visit to Canada, Victoria. See our ad
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DEC 11
Shamanic Drumming Circle.
Journeywork t o connect w i t h
your non-ordinary reality power
animal spirit guardians/teachers.
Re-discover your aboriginal heart.
Saturday. 7pm. Newcomers wel-
come. Vancouver Multi-Cultural
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www.shamanichealing.info
DEC 12, 13, 14 •
Introduction t o F o o t
Reflexology c o m m e n c e s
Certificate Weekend Course.
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Institute o f Reflexology (604)
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DEC 15
John Reishman a n d Trisha
Gagnon World renowned mando-
lin players Benefit Concert - free
admission 7-8pm Lonsdale Quay
Hotel, North Vancouver CMHA
604-987-6959
DEC 18
Wolfsong W i n t e r Solstice
Celebration. Saturday, 7 p m .
Participate chanting shared,
sacred songs of the spirit of the
land. Bring your N. American
hand drum, cedar flute, didg-
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Multicultural Centre, 1254 W. 7th.
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DEC 19
Christmas In The Round chant-
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MantraVani Orchestra 7:30pm,
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W.2nd Ave 872-7117
DEC 24
TLC's H e r i t a g e Christmas
Celebration. Activities include:
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cheese reception. Call The Land
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DEC 24-27
Christmas Celebration Retreat.
A spiritual celebration of the inner
beauty o f Christmas. Special
meditations, contemplate, relax.
Delicious food. Walks to beach,
forest. SRMH Centre 1-604-740-
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DEC 29 - JAN 1
New Year Gathering. Come and
imbibe peace and beauty at our
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food. Trails to beach and wood-
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DEC 31
Walking t h e Labyrinth with
Jerry DesVoignes and the One
Voice Harmonic Choir St. Paul's
Labyrinth 5-7pm 1130 Jervis St.
By donation. Sacred chants/man-
tras, Throat Singing, Tibetan bells,
conch shells. jerry@healingvoices.
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JAN 14, 15, 16
Introduction t o F o o t
Reflexology c o m m e n c e s
Certificate Weekend Course.
Intro: $10. Course: $295. Pacific
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JAN 18
The Silva Method Presentation
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See o u r a d i n t h e Resource
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Catherine McCreary, VanCity board member; Elain Duvall, chair,
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Wilson, executive director of Phoenix Drug and Alcohol Recovery
and Education Society, winner of the 2004 VanCity award.
JAN 20
Humanitarian I n t e r v e n t i o n
talk by lawyer Gail Davidson,7:30
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Shambhala Buddhism Open
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TUESDAYS
Reflexology Student Clinic ses-
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appointment. Pacific Institute of
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WEDNESDAYS
The Healing Bodywork Centre
offers a "Pamper your Partner"
evening every last Wednesday of
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Hawaiian Healing Night 7pm.
Hawaiian guided Meditation,
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meditation i n s t r u c t i o n , s i t -
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Energy Psychology Workshops
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11am . Dec 19: Festival of Light.
Dec 24: Christmas Eve Healing
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"We are pleased to see so many of our

VanCity Si million
Funds come from a percentage of VanCity
profits set aside each year for community members working with us to build better
initiatives. communities," Mowat says. "We fully sup-
The two other finalists included Pacific port their choice of the Phoenix Centre.

grant for drug rehab
A Surrey non-profit organization has
won a $1-million grant from VanCity
Credit Union to build a drug and alcohol
addiction services centre in Whalley.
This year's $1-million VanCity award
goes to the Phoenix Drug and Alcohol
Recovery and Education Society to com-
plete a $5.6-million campaign t o build
the Phoenix Centre near Surrey Memorial
Hospital. This 34,000-square-foot centre
will be one of the first projects to integrate
addiction services, transitional housing,
employment and education services under
one roof for more than 100 recovering
addicts per year. It is expected to be open
next fall.
"The construction o f the Phoenix
Centre will be only. the beginning of the
VanCity award legacy. The real legacy will
be in the lives of the individuals who find
the necessary support to overcome their
addiction and build the skills necessary to
make a contribution to their community,"
Legal Education Association f o r i t s This project will take a visionary approach
KidStart mentoring program to create a to delivering much-needed services and
permanent mentoring centre and expand we look forward to seeing the difference it
says Michael Wilson, executive director of services across t h e Lower Mainland will make in the years to come." For more
the Phoenix Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Vancouver Island; and the Queen information about the Phoenix Drug and
and Education Society. Alexandra Foundation for Children t o Alcohol Recovery and Education Society,
The $1-million VanCity award, the larg- build a one-stop centre for child, youth visit www.phoenixcentre.ca.
est corporate gift of its kind in Canada, and family services in Victoria's western Letters o f intent for the next VanCity
was established in 2001 by VanCity's board area where there are many single-parent award will be accepted from non-profit
of directors to support and low-income fami- organizations in the communities VanCity
the social, environ- lies in need. serves starting in March 2005. www.vancity.
mental and economic the Phoenix Centre... "These w e r e a l l com/Community/CommunityPrograms/
well being of the com- will take a visionary worthy initiatives. We Grants/TheVanCityAward.
munity. The funds are would have been proud VanCity is Canada's largest credit union,
available to non-profit approach to delivering to fund any o f them, with $9 billion i n assets, 305,000 mem-
groups i n t h e Lower much-needed services but the decision was bers, and 41 branches throughout Greater
Mainland, Fraser Valley up t o o u r members," Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Victoria.
and Victoria. says Elain Duvall, chair VanCity owns Citizens Bank o f Canada,
The Phoenix Centre was chosen from of VanCity's board o f directors. "The serving members across the country by
three finalists by VanCity members who VanCity award is about innovation and telephone, AT M and the internet. Both
voted by ballot, online and over the phone the Phoenix Centre, with its integration VanCity and Citizens Bank are guided by
for their choice of project in September of health, social and economic services, a commitment to corporate social responsi-
and October. This is the fourth year of has really shown that. We think that i t bility and to improve the quality of life in
the award that saw applications submit- will make a huge difference, not only in the communities where we live and work.
ted from 80 non-profits and the highest the lives of recovering addicts, but on the Common Ground has been a VanCity mem-
number of votes in the award's history. health of the community overall." ber since 1982 starting at Branch 1.

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