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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SECTION
by Geoff Olson
W h e n multimedia artist Laurie
Anderson performed recently in
Vancouver, she mused how life is often
like bad art. Characters come and go
and never return. The plot changes ran-
domly. Entire themes are abandoned
halfway through. Unlike art, life's point
of view is always first person singular, in
the present tense. (And usually a tense
present.)
So one big purpose of art, for both the
creator and the audience, is to give life the
form it often lacks. Any artist worth his
or her salt hopes to make a mark, to rise
above mere trends, even if that expecta-
tion is something of a tall order in a cul-
ture with the attention span of a ferret on
crystal meth.
Being ahead of your time has its down
side, evidenced by the struggling artist's
steady diet of Kraft dinner and humble
pie. Prophets are rarely welcome in their
own age—partly because of their habit of
figuring out something stinks before the
rest of us have even had a whiff. The cre-
ative contributor to culture has been com-
pared to a "canary in a coal mine," a refer-
ence to miners bringing the birds down
coal shafts because of their sensitivity to
toxic gases such as carbon monoxide. Any
with humans going cyber? The flesh- caught up with him: Blade Runner, Total
made-weird paintings of Hans Giger have Recall, Minority Report. All of these pro-
combined machinery with biology for ductions still seem like postcards from the
and music. Fear over mutated viruses? years, decorating rock album jackets and future.
Check out either Michael Crichton's novel inspiring director Ridley Scott's Aliens It's no surprise that some artists seem to
or film The Andromeda Strain from three film series. Domestic surveillance and have a crystal ball, if you consider they're
decades earlier. Frankenstein scenarios virtual worlds run amok? Pick up any of sometimes responsible for entirely new idi-
from genetically modified organisms? Philip K. Dick's novels from decades back oms. These are often jarringly dissonant to
That's a whole subgenre of bio-horror, for a possible preview of a reality we're the "cultured" eyes and ears of their time.
ranging from to Jules Verne's The Island building with our technical necromancy. Igor Stravinsky's orchestral composition
of Doctor Moreau to Margaret Atwood's Or go see the relatively recent films that The Rite of Spring provoked riots when
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 Awonderful disguise
Mike Scott and The Waterboys
by Geoff Olson
M o s t of us have experienced one
or two peak musical experiences
from live performances. A memorable
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The Waterboys' 2001 appearance at the
Commodore. Lead singer Mike Scott
mentioned catching a glimpse of
a cloven-hoofed figure in Stanley
Park, and then launched into the
incendiary The Return o f Pan.
Ignoring the local fire code, the
band burned the venue down.
Mention The Waterboys t o
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Taking their name from a line in
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Scott's efforts. The mythic references in
his stunningly melodic pieces are often
literary—bits of W.B. Yeats and C.S. Lewis
in particular. Yet the Scottish-born singer
hews to no denominational or doctrinal
line. This is truly world music. You may
Mike Scott
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1988 it switched its musical recipe with
Fisherman's Blues, an Irish stew of penny
whistles and violins, mistiming the Celtic
music craze of the early nineties. By the
time Michael Flately was swanning about
with Riverdance, Scott was recording
asolo album with a distinctly folkie
feel, his quietly transcendental Bring
`Ern All In. Another solo effort fol-
lowed, and in 2001, he reformed
The Waterboys for the thunderous
elegy A Rock In the Weary Land.
The lineup of the band was and
is ever-changing; with Scott as the
eye of the storm. According to The
Waterboys FAQ from the official
website, "Several Irishmen and one
Irishwoman have been members at
various times and the group was
based in Dublin from 1986 to 1991.
At other times the group has been
based in London or New York. The
Waterboys have had English, Welsh,
American and other Scottish mem-
bers too."
Perversely, there is no Canadian
distributor for The Waterboys last
album, 2003's Universal Hall. But
Scott is busy with future efforts, he
informs me by email, including "a
new album, a likely live album and
a DVD of The Waterboys on-tour
home movies and concert footage:'
The singer-songwriter expects them
to be on the same label, Puck, as
Universal Hall. (That means we will
have to content ourselves with import
discs, though his past catalog is available
here from bigger labels.)
Scott is quoted on website Kindred Spirit
on his musical influences. "I was a child in
the 1960s and for me the best of rock n'
roll was The Beatles singing All You Need
Is Love—they were right too —and Hey
Jude with its deep sense of forgiveness and
community. Both songs expressed unity
and transcendence, and for me that is the
highest purpose of rock music."
While today's radio-friendly rock-
ers continue to churn out their crop of
generically altered tunes, Scott is con-
tent to plant seed in greener fields. The
Kindred Spirit website notes that although
The Waterboys have been internationally
influential as a rock and folk band, "the
spiritual community has had little aware-
ness of the profound spiritual dimension
of much of their music." There are only a
handful of current rock n' rollers consid-
ered to be poets by fans and critics alike
(Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, and Nick Cave
come to mind), but no rocker touches on
the inner world and its mythic dimen-
sions with quite his intent or intensity.
Kindred Spirit's review of Universal Hall
flatly states that "never before has rock
music been so aligned to the Perennial
Philosophy, stood so balanced on the
pulse of the new paradigm, or articulated
 ARTS & E N T E R TA I N M E N T
such a purely holistic vision." And as a es, as one writer says, 'There is only one
bonus, you can tap your foot to it. of us here: "
For a two-year period in the mid-nine- In a time when genuine, heartfelt love
MOREANSWERSFROM MIKE
ties, Scott lived at an educational, spir- songs are thin on the ground, Scott's Geoff Olson interview of Mike Scott
itual community near Inverness called romantic tunes are often ecstatic, bound-
Findhom. less, worshipful, like the grand and simple GO Yo u seem to be a big fan of Jimi MS I wish someone had given me this
Mike remained as a long-term guest She Is So Beautiful, written about his Hendrix, who figures i n two o f your advice when I was starting out: Act on
songs. Can you tell us a bit about him
in 1994, 'working in the kitchens and soulmate discovered during a mid-nine- in terms of inspiring you? Who else has your passions, trust yourself and learn
from your own mistakes. This i s the
gardens. He recorded his first solo album, ties stay at Findhorn. (Even a song of inspired you creatively? advice I would give any other artist.
Bring Em All In, in the foundation's small romantic refusal, like his earlier We Will
recording studio. Not Be Lovers, has a cosmic edge.) I can MS I was not a big Jimi fan in my youth, GO T h e song Bring E m All In could
Some of the songs from the album may find little to compare his love songi with though I respected him. Then in the early be read as a tribute to compassion. It
seem cryptic on first listen. Many listeners, in the archives of contemporary music, nineties I got turned on to him and shortly could also be imagined as the source
trained by generations of disposable pop but I do see similarities with the poetry of after had the dream from which the singing all created things back to their
music to ignore the words, do just that—a the 13th century Persian poet Jelaluddin Return of Jimi Hendrix song was written. beginnings in spirit. Would that be about
big mistake when it comes to Scott's musi- Rurni. At its core, Scott's music beats with The artists who inspired me as a teenag- right?
cal meditations. His songs work as straight a big, magnificent heart, fired by that one er were Dylan, The Beatles and Stones,
poetry, as evinced by the 1995 album's thing you cannot fake and that you rarely David Bowie and The Who. Later I loved MS T h a t is kind o f right. The song
breathtaking track, Wonderful Disguise hear in today's top 40: honest-to-God joy. Van Morrison, and in the late eighties I began as me singing back all the parts
So where does that joy come from? fell in love with Scottish and Irish Celtic of myself; lost parts, happy parts, sad
Through the curtain the daylight crept Mike responds that his term "big music" traditional music. I like loads of different parts, nurtured parts, neglected parts,
things though — not just the above. calling them all into my heart, effectively
I looked at my lover asshe slept means "seeing the divine in nature or to touch them all with love—and the song
And as I watched her face I wept art, or otherwise abroad in the world." GO O n Universal Hall, the songs are can and should be taken in a universal
It was a wonderful disguise. It's this sense of a bigger picture that simple, even lyrically repetitive. Yet I find way too.
informs his resilient sense of optimism. these to be among your most powerful
Scott recites the strangers he encoun- I asked about Dumbing Down the World, songs. Are you are trying to hit the lis- GO D o you have any thoughts on the
ters throughout the day: a driver turning a track from the distinctly dark 2001 tener by repeating these lines over and healing power of music?
to look at him in traffic; a blind man Waterboys album Rock in the Weary Land. over to break through at some level?
addressing him outside a m. useum; a fat The song addresses the broadcast media's MS A great thing about music is we are
woman in a queue; a drunk on the stairs ignorance-by-design, a cancer metastasiz- MS I have to confess that among the all free to choose to listen to whatever
ashe returns home; and the president "on ing on both sides of the Atlantic. In spite motives for those minimalist lyrics is the music we want to. I'm sure people who
the news at 10, looking like he could use a of this electric howl of outrage, in which one of deliberately directing the idea con- passionately listen to death metal are
friend." All of them, he decides, wearing a Jerry Springer gets particular mention, tained in the lyric beneath the radar of getting something valuable from it — a
sense of identity or belonging, something
wonderful disguise. Mike rejects a suggestion that the global the mind. And if I keep singing "I'm gonna that serves the phase or season of the
look twice at you until I see the Christ in
stupidity quotient has gone up since a you" over and over, without changing soul they're in. The same goes for me.
Stood in front of the mirror all alone certain day in New York. "Perhaps the lyric, the listener has to deal with that I listen to what serves me, and I like to
Examined my features, skin and bone apparent presence of ignorance is strong, idea. That was what I wanted with those listen to something that loves me; music
Looked at the face I've always known but who knows what is really going on? I songs. I also worked with affirmations that loves me and credits me with an
It was a wonderful disguise. would be more inclined to think that there over many years, and I appreciate the ability to perceive and respond to beauty
is increasing sophistication of awareness, power of a simple well-worded repeated and soul. And if that comes through the
He explained the inspiration by email. increasing coherency in the, world, espe- phrase. filter of death metal I might listen to that
"I was living in the Findhorn community cially with the opportunities for informa- too!
in the mid 1990s and started to see divin- tion exchange we experience in today's GO I take it you regard corporate rock
ity in peoples' faces, in their eyes. I told world." radio dimly. Can you tell us which band GO A n y chance you will play again in
But given the state of the world today, is was "playing endless mindless" in the Vancouver sometime soon?
a more experienced community friend
and she said 'you are seeing God in all his Scott optimistic for the human prospect? lyrics of Let It Happen? MS N o plans, but I always love playing
wonderful disguises. I knew in my heart "I don't get disturbed about the future. MS I have no opinion on radio because Vancouver. It's been too long!
then she was right—and now I know it in I try to be aware of what goes-on in the I never listen to it. The band playing the
my whole being." present, and to see it in an undistorted hooligan's lament in Let It Happen was GO Where are you living now? How's
"(Findhom) changed the way I look at way. I know there are reasons for all the Oasis. life these days?
life and other people forever," he noted seemingly good and bad phenomena we
on the Waterboys' official website. "I real- see—some reasons are very deep, most, of GO Yo u have followed your own star MS I live in Findhorn, and all is very,
ized everyone really is the same deep which I cannot perceive. I bless the world throughout the years. Any advice to art- very well.
underneath, with the same longing to love and seek to see it in all its aspects without ists and creators who may feel discour-
and be loved. Behind all our appearanc- continued on page 13 aged?

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 Envy CULTURE

THE SEVEN DEADLY SPINS CONTINUES

by Geoff Olson that orchestrates all the attitudes I hate the This doesn't just hold in the entertain-.
most about the American mentality?" she ment profession. The LA zeitgeist has been
Greed drives the desire for profit at any cost. Envy is a mainstay wrote. "I thought I would fiddle like Nero packaged, shrink-wrapped, and stamped
with my nourishing little artistic pursuits for export to the rest of the US, and the
of the fashion industry, and marketing as a whole. Anger is sub- while Babylon burned." world beyond. Once the box is opened,
tly exploited in the Army of One fantasies of video games and What she discovered was a city so the contents skitters away like the face-
recruitment advertisements. Pride fuels the "high self-esteem" consumed by envy that its adherents are sucking critter in Alien, dripping acid on
sometimes literally disabled by it. In one every field of endeavour, from journalism
bandwagon. In the era of hypercapitalism, these and most of passage,she describes the most relentless-to science.
the other so-called deadly sins have been rehabilitated by the ly self-advancing among the LA acting set: I once received an invitation by a media
figure in Vancouver to attend a lunch
market as positive, even praiseworthy, states of mind. "Sin" has Hollywood extras.
"These types of actors are also the peo- hour gathering of successful artists, writ-
been spun. Hence, what I call The Deadly Spins. ple who will go horribly crazy if somebody ers and musicians. I attended a few times,
they know, or vaguely know, gets famous. but the vibe was all wrong. The chum-
Every time a friend succeeds, a little some- category, "what celebrity I resemble the They have to take to their beds, it's that miness felt disingenuous. At one of these
thing in me dies. most." Respi:indents offer "Meg Ryan bad, their lives are over, they are in Hell. lunches, the host leaned over and told
—Gore Vidal type," "Russell Crowe look-alike," and the They sink into a self-loathing depression me in a hushed voice the reason for my
occasional modest comparison to a lesser that lasts years, and it's all they can think invite: "you never know who's going to be
Tn the middle ages, the corrosive emo- star not considered conventionally beau- about: "That fucking bitch is famous and famous next." The invite apparently had
Ition of envy was an obvious choice tiful. Celebrity is increasingly the baseline I'm not?!? God loves Hitler more than he little to do with my work. It was about
for Pope Gregory's list of seven deadly comparison for ourselves and others. loves ME!!!" the buzz that was beginning to attend my
sins. Yet it is qualitatively different from The envy industry is everywhere these The deadly spin of envy is fed by the name. Unfortunately for the collector-of
the other scourges of the spirit. Unlike soon-to-be-celebs, whatever local buzz
anger, pride, lust, gluttony, greed, or I had failed to rise into the air-raid siren
sloth, envy never gives the illusion of national fame.
of short-term pleasure. From the This brings us to the ambivalence
moment i t starts, envy only brings that celebrity feeds. We both love and
anguish and sorrow. hate celebrities, precisely for having all
Weare flooded daily with mass media the things we don't, chief among them
images o f beautiful people having the constant attention of millions. So
expensive fun in magnificent surround- we like nothing more than demonstra-
ings. Of all the Deadly Spins— desires tions that the famous are just like us,
once considered sins and now spun into or worse. Yet the nimbus of really big-
beneficent forces by modern marketers money celebrity comes without a dim-
—envy moves the most product. The mer switch; it can't be turned off. No
nagging sense of not measuring up to matter how nutty Marlon Brando got
the super-beautiful, super-rich stan- in his old age, he hung on to his cachet.
dard set by popular culture festers away Bob Dylan can turn out any old piece of
under the collective consciousness like recorded crap, but he will always be the
an unlanced boil, driving us into the primal beatnik from Greenwich Village.
market for some fashionable fix. And in the course of a career suicide,
The disease has even inflamed mod- the megawattage of fame may even
ern relationships. A study conducted brighten into full-on infamy, which is
recently on the dating preferences of even more blinding. Robert Downey
men and women found that the expect- Jr.'s successive attempts at druggy self-
ed minimum for physical beauty has sabotage did not remove him from the
risen over the past two decades. Younger Hollywood A-List (at least not until he
generations expect more in a partner in was actually jailed and unavailable). In
terms of appearance. LA, a chemical dependency or some
Is this because of all the perfectly other spectacularly bad behaviour is
symmetrical faces, with their indices not h source of disapproval from polite
of glowing genetic health, staring out society, as it would be for the rest of us.
at us seductively from magazine racks It's the source of a book contract, or a
and TVs, or projected to godlike dimen- days, but one area of the world stands out. sense of entitlement that runs rampant series of teary "I'm-a-victim-too" appear-
sions on the movie screen? The authors According to Salon contributor Cintra through the US mindset, according to ances on Oprah or Barbara Walters.
of the study suggest this is indeed the Wilson, the event horizon of this spiritual Wilson. "If aperson in this day and age has "The implication of Fame in this value-
case. The multiplication of these media black hole is found in Los Angeles, and two cents' worth of talent, it is considered warped society is: you've made it," writes
images means there are greater numbers the-singularity where reality ceases entire- his sacred obligation to Go for the Gold, Wilson in A Massive Swelling. "You and
of young men and women who .will no ly is Hollywood. Wilson is arguably the or try and grab the big brass monkey ring, , your talents are so bright, you are some-
longer accept "average" looks. They want most savage critic of the celebrity-seek- and otherwise make six to ten demoral- how.physically and spiritually light-years
to re-imagine themselves as desirable hot- ing mindset. Her book A Massive Swelling izing career-and-connection-oriented beyond all us bone-sucking hacks. I yowl
ties—and if they sometimes doubt they is subtitled Celebrity Re-Examined As a phone calls a day, perform painful Top 40 in disgust at this bias." The acidic author
meet the pop culture gold standard them- Grotesque, Crippling Disease, and it effec- hits at all the high-school graduations and counsels against thinking of fame as some
selves, they can at least demand this bar is tively eviscerates the Californication of the bar mitzvahs, pay hundreds of dollars for glorious blessing bestowed on the lucky
reached by a partner. North American self-concept, along with eight by ten photographs of themselves few, who then demand our fealty. "Let
What animates this attitude isn't so the "kind of screaming pink self-loath- looking like sexually available newscast- us not worship these people, for it is like
much beauty per se, as the fact that the ing that burns supersonically through all ers, and audition with seething positive bowing down to a two-headed calf: unho-
famous are generally much better look- psyches in LA like a dated racing stripe:' energy for every Exlax commercial that ly and weird."
ing than the non-famous. The train is Wilson moved to Los Angeles in 1995, comes down the pike, until the day that
fame; movie-star looks are the caboose. with the intent to creatively carve out the opportunity for Fame reveals itself like Vancouver writer and political car-
On the popular singles website nerve. another aperture in its commodified cul- a pinpoint of light down the throat of a toonist Geoff Olson can be reached at
com, dating singles get to respond to the ture. "What better place to go than a city large python." gefo@telus.net

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Pabst's sales by 15 percent in a two-year Conformity and nonconformity, while
period. "Pabst, desperate not to screw up polar opposites, are on the same axis.
the revival, is now struggling to figure out There are gradations of both in everyone's
how to market to this disparate hipster life, and while most people desire to be
generation without actually appearing to special, I'll bet few of us would want to
be marketing:'
think outside the box as much as a Van
Where Niedzviecki shines is when he Gogh or a Galileo if it meant a real loss
hobnobs with the eccentrics attempting in social stature or income. Niedzviecki's
to find some fringe. identity through the zinesters and scensters are not so different
new media. He visits the headquarters of from everyone else in desiring acceptance
The World Backyard Wrestling Federation and a paycheque; hence their dilemma
(with its poolside punchups viewable on as iconoclasts. Using the rubbery term
line) and the trailer park stars of the indy "nonconforming conformists" to address
film Mule Skinner Blues, people well past a multidimensional human experience
middle age hanging on to their dreams of means that Niedzviecki ends up describ-
making it big. The scenes from auditions ing everything while explaining nothing.
of Canadian Idol are instructive; although Hello, I'm Special is more of a snack
only a very small percentage of the thou- than a meal—a Hostess Twinkie of a trade
sands auditioning have a chance for a paperback. For all its tasty anecdotes and
ticket on the fame train, many of the sub- tart observations, it leaves you hungry for
urban divas and rappers are anticipating something more substantial.
a window seat in first class. He's also very
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Terra Madre H E A LT H A C T I O N
ASPEECH BY HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES
attheTerraMadre(MotherEarth)conference,Turin, Italy
consequence of globalization is greater tioned earlier are not simply going to head
unsustainability. It is all very well talk- back to the land overnight. But, surely, the
Ladies and Gentlemen, I can't tell you cial fertilisers, pesticides and GM, my heart ing meaningfully of the need for "glo- first step to finding solutions is being will-
how pleased I am to be with you sinks. The missing ingredient in these great balization with a human face", but the ing to face up to both the causes and the
today and to share in this vitally impor- plans is always sustainable livelihoods and reality is frequently somewhat different. scale of the problem—and this requires
tant discussion about the future of small its absence increases the existing, awful Left to its own devices, I fear that global- the globalization of responsibility.
scale agriculture and of artisan food pro- drift towards degraded, dysfunctional and ization will—ironically— sowseeds of ever- I have a feeling that by now it may be
ducers throughout the world. unmanageable cities.
The fact that no fewer than 5,000 food The one resource the developing world
producers have gathered here today, under has in abundance is people, so why are
the "Slow Food" banner, is a small but sig- we promoting systems of agriculture that
nificant challenge to the massed forces of negate this advantage and seem bound to
globalization, the industrialization of agri- contribute directly to further human mis-
culture and the homogenization of food ery and indignity?
—which seem somehow to have invaded It is a sobering thought, ladies and gen-
almost all areas of our life today. . tlemen, that almost all of the next one bil-
I have always believed that agriculture lion of net global population growth (over
is not only the oldest, but also the most the next twelve to fifteen years) will take
important of humanity's productive activ- place in urban slums. In one slum alone
ities. It is the engine of rural employment - which I'm not going to name because
and the foundation stone of culture, even it is in a country for which I have great
of civilization itself. And this is not just affection—more than 800,000 people, half
some romantic vision of the past: today of them under the age of fifteen, already Prince Charles and Percy Schmeiser find common ground on the
some 60 per cent of the four billion peo- live illegally in less than four square kilo- topics of organic farming, slow foods, and opposition to GMOs.
ple living in developing countries are still metres of the city. Even more sobering is
working on the land. the thought: what will these conditions greater poverty, disease and hunger in the quite well known that I am inclined to
So when I read "visions", such as That breed_ for the future? Hopelessness, crime, cities and the loss of viable, self-sufficient doubt whether GM food, for instance,
for the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, for extremism, terrorism? Who will deal with rural populations. I don't think anyone will be—on balance—a contribution to
instance, which are based on transforming these chickens when they come home to would claim to have many answers, tech- the greater good of humanity. In doing so,
traditional, local agricultural economies roost on a globalized perch? nological or otherwise, about what could I am not simply being dogmatic. I believe
into "powerhouses" of technological agri- Despite the best intentions of many, we possibly be done to reverse this process. it is both legitimate and important to ask
culture, based around monoculture, artifi- have to face up to the fact that often, the The 800,000 people in the slum I men- continued on page 15

Shifting towards kindness

UNIVERSE this world there are the helpless, and the must find ways to balance that with con-
WITHIN helpers. Throughout our lives we shift in cern and caring for the whole. Today's
by Gwen Randall-Young and out of these roles. If we are not help- children are given so much—computers,
less, that is, if we are not ill or infirm, then cell phones, and a variety of extra-curric-
If, at the beginn'ng and end of our lives we justifiable to have so much, when others it is for us to be the helpers. ular activities—that, without balance, they
depend upon others' kindness, why then in have so little. We can feel thankful our area While this may mean volunteering our will grow to be very self-centered adults. It
the middle should we not act kindly towards was not hit by a natural disaster, and go on time to help others, it can also simply would be wonderful if we incorporated, as
others? with our lives. mean being kind to all whom we encoun- part of every child's learning, an hour per
- The Dalai Lama Yet, there is a nagging doubt. We would ter. It can mean putting good energy out week of some kind of charitable activity.
surely offer assistance if someone right in into the world. Lest that sound like some The tsunami, as devastating as it was,
It was heartening for me to see many front of us were in need. When they are a metaphorical, esoteric concept, be aware seems to have initiated a wave of compas-
tourists who had been vacationing in world away, it is easy that scientists have sion throughout the world, and particu-
Thailand turn their efforts to helping the toputthemout of We a l l felt the pain discovered that one larly in school children. This is profoundly
Thai people after the tsunami disaster. our mind. We send person's negative, heartening. May it have initiated a shift in
Throughout the world, the tsunami trig- in our donations, radiating out from the parts hostile mood can consciousness, pushing the tectonic plates
gered in so many the desire to help our but then what more adversely affect the of selfishness permanently underground.
brothers and sisters who were suffering. can we do? • of the world that were hard immune system of May the consciousness of compassion,
It made me think about how so The world is a hit. It shocked our hearts another, though some kindness and selflessness remain with us,
many of us have the luxury of focusing on living organism, so distance apart. changing the landscape of human aware-
our own personal growth and evolution, what happens in one open. What we can do now If one is angry, ness—blessing the injured, sick, and
while others struggle merely to survive. part o f the world iskeep them open. critical or negative homeless throughout the world, members
I considered the irony of how we, in the `body, affects the to a partner or fam- of our communities here at home, and
West, can work hard at our meditation and whole. We all felt the ily member, he or our families.
spiritual development so we can learn to pain radiating out from the parts of the she is contributing to toxicity in the home
be in the moment, and develop compas- world that were hard-hit. It shocked our environment. If one becomes hostile while Gwen Randall-Young is an author and
sion, whereas in other parts of the world, hearts open. What we can do now is keep driving, that adds to the level of toxicity psychotherapist in private practice and a
in some communities, that is all there is. them open. Love, compassion and caring in the driving environment. Conversely, feature columnist for Commtin Ground
In our culture, where we can become shown to those in our immediate environ- being kind and gentle, patient, and allow- magazine. Her books and tapes are avail-
distracted by all that is material, it becomes ment will add to the health of the whole. ing, contributes to a healthy environment. able at www.gwen.ca, or, contact her at
easier to imagine we are separate from It is when we are helpless that we most In a culture such as ours, with such a gwendall@shaw.ca. They may also be
others in the world. It seems somehow rely upon the kindness of others. So, in strong emphasis on the individual, we ordered through Banyen Books.

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 Identification SPIRITUALITY

with your mind To put it more accurately, it is not so much that

you use your mind wrongly—you usually don't
THE GREATEST OBSTACLE use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You
TO ENLIGHTENMENT believe that you are your mind. This is the delu-
sion. The instrument has taken you over.

When you say Being are you talking to I am this or I am that. So it is only a to incessant thinking. What an incredible a lot of aimless thinking like most people,
about God? I f you are, then why don't small step from the word Being to the liberation this is! but I can still choose to use my mind to
you say it? experience of Being. Identification with your mind creates get and accomplish things, and I do that
The word God has become empty of an opaque screen o f concepts, labels, all the time.
meaning through thousands of years of What is the greatest obstacle to experi- images, words, judgments, and defini- Just because you can solve a crossword
misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so encing this reality? tions that blocks all true relationship. It puzzle or build an atom bomb doesn't
sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people Identification with your mind, which comes between you and yourself, between mean that you use your mind. Just as
who have never even glimpsed the realm causes thought to become compulsive. you and your fellow man and woman, dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves
of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind Not to be able to stop thinking is a dread- between you' and nature, between you to get its teeth into problems. That's why
that word, use it with great conviction, as ful affliction, but we don't realize this and God. It is this screen of thought that it does crossword puzzles and builds atom
if they knew what they are talking about. because almost everybody is suffering creates the illusion of separateness, the bombs. You have no interest in either. Let
Or they argue against it, as if they knew from it, so it is considered normal. This illusion that there is you and a totally sep- me ask you this: can you be free of your
what it is that they are denying. This mis- incessant mental noise prevents you from arate "other." You then forget the essential mind whenever you want to? Have you
use gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, finding that realm of inner stillness that is fact that, underneath the level of physical found the "off" button?
and egoic delusions, such as "My or our inseparable from Being. It also creates a appearances and separate forms, you are
God is the only true God, and your God false mind-made self that casts a shadow one with all that is. By "forget," I mean You mean stop thinking altogether? No,
is false," or Nietzsche's famous statement of fear and suffering. that you can no lon- I can't, except for a moment or two.
"God is dead." We will look at all ger feel this oneness Then the mind is using you. You are
The word God has become a closed that in more detail You a l s o r e a l i z e t h a t as self-evident real- unconsciously identified with it, so you
concept. The moment the word is uttered, later. all the things t h a t truly ity. You may believe don't almost
even know that you are its slave. It's
as if you were possessed without
a mental image is created, no longer, per- The philosopher it to be true, but you
haps, of an old man with a white beard, but Descartes believed matter — beauty, l o v e , no longer know it knowing it, and so you take the possess-
still a mental representation of someone that he had found creativity, joy, inner peace —to be true. A belief ing entity to be yourself. The beginning
or something outside you, and, yes, almost the most funda- may be comforting. of freedom is the realization that you are
inevitably a male someone or something. mental truth when arise from beyond the mind. Only through your not the possessing entity — the thinker.
Neither God nor Being nor any other he made his famous You begin to awaken. own experience, Knowing this enables you to observe the
word can define or explain the ineffable statement: "I think, however, does i t entity. The moment you start watching
reality behind the word, so the only impor- therefore I am." He become liberating. the thinker, a higher level of consciousness
tant question is whether the word is a help had, in fact, given expression to the most Thinking has become a disease. Disease becomes activated. You then begin to real-
or a hindrance in enabling you to experi- basic error: to equate thinking with Being happens when things get out of balance. ize that there is a vast realm of intelligence
ence that toward which it points. Does it and identity with thinking. The compul- For example, there is nothing wrong with beyond thought, that thought is only a
point beyond itself to that transcendentalsive thinker, which means almost every- cells dividing and multiplying in the body, tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also
reality, or does it lend itself too easily to one, lives in a state of apparent separate- but when this process continues in disre- realize that all the things that truly matter
becoming no more than an idea in your ness, in an insanely complex world of gard of the total organism, cells prolifer- —beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace
head that you believe in, a mental idol? continuous problems and conflict, a world ate and we have disease. —arise from beyond the mind. You begin
The word Being explains nothing, but that reflects the ever-increasing fragmen- The mind is a superb instrument i f to awaken.
nor does God. Being, however, has the tation of the mind. Enlightenment is a used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it
advantage that it is an open concept. It state of wholeness, of being "at one" and becomes very destructive. To put it more
does not reduce the infinite invisible to therefore at peace. At one with life in its accurately, it is not so much that you use Excerpted from The Power of Now by
a finite entity. It is impossible to form a manifested aspect, the world, as well as your mind wrongly—you usually don't Eckhart Tolle, $14. US, $15.75 Canada,
mental image of it. Nobody can claim with your deepest self and life unmanifest- use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. trade paperback, published b y New
exclusive possession of Being. It is your ed—at one with Being. Enlightenment is You believe that you are your mind. This World Library and Namaste Publishing
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sible to you as the feeling of your own tinuous conflict within and without, but you over. www.namastepublishing.com. A l s o
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Dharma T a l k w i t h M a r k
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The Secret Lives O f Office
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Word W h i p s 7-9pm. Timed
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ute stories O u r Town Cafe
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Shamanic Drumming Circle:
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FEB 18
Bolts o f Fiction 8-11pm. Open
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FEB 23
An Evening Of Spanish Music
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pm Lonsdale Quay Hotel, North
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FEB 24
NLP Info Evening - learn what
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FEB 25
Twisted Poets 7-9pm. Spoken
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Introduction t o F o o t
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judgment. I believe all is held in the divine
whole, and works together for good, for
love, for the evolution o f consciousness
and o f the universe. Why should m y
perspective have grown darker recently?
There are always challenging circumstanc-
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more challenging than those of 60 years
ago, or 30 years ago? I don't subscribe to
the idea that things are getting worse:'
In his songs, Scott the rejects the cynic's
perception o f the world as something
you deal with by hardening yourself. This
point of view, and his rejection of it, was
summed up in the apocalyptically sublime
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turbed. Ultimately, however, the Shadow believe that love is a central principle at
Behold the lights of London, doesn't have dominion over the singer's work in the universe? "Yes I do. I believe
The Skipper said as his hands shook, higher self. it is the stuff we are made of. That's why
His aura eaten by his jealousy we feel most real, most alive, when we're
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 ENVIRONMENT

Tsunami relief shows humanity's

capacity to give
SCIENCE MATTERS
these areas are still living in squalid camps. mangrove forests helped buffer coastlines
by David Suzuki Such camps are breeding grounds for the from damaging waves. Yet many such eco-
samediseases that experts are concerned systems in the Indian Ocean were lost to
W h e n a wall of water crashed across the developing world needs our help every could become rampant in areas affected development in recent years—ecosystems
the shorelines o f Indian Ocean day. Those living in poorer countries do by the tsunami because of a lack of sanita- that may have offered some protection to
countries on December 26, it was a pow- not often have access to the services and tion. some areas from the tsunami.
erful reminder of just how vulnerable infrastructure that we take for granted. None of this is to say that countries Scientists are also continuing to warn
humanity can be to the forces of nature At the best of times they may not have suffering in the wake of the tsunami don't us about the effects of climate change
—especially people living in developing healthy food, medical services, clean water need our help—they do. But the tsunami —especially on developing nations that
countries. or sanitation. In times of crisis, what little was a sobering reality check. Our world lack the infrastructure to respond to more
Dramatic and devastating, the tsunami these countries have to protect their citi- is unpredictable and disaster could strike frequent severe weather events, rising sea
left about 250,000 dead, millions homeless zens can easily be overwhelmed. any time. When it does, it often hurts levels and changing precipitation pat-
and caused billions of dollars in dam- We also must not forget that the tsu- poorer regions the most. Yet, one glance terns that a warming world is expected
age. Fortunately, the world has responded nami isn't the only humanitarian crisis at the list of casualties from the tsunami to bring.
with an enormous outpouring of support. facing the developing world today. Last and it becomes clear that the disaster's Unfortunately, while the developed
Within days of the disaster, politicians in year, more than 1.5 million Africans died reach goes far beyond Asia. Canadians, world's response to the tsunami disaster
developed countries began to announce from AIDS. Every year, more than two Swedes,Americans and those of many has been heartening, our response to cli-
aid packages. Donations from the public million people die from tuberculosis and other nationalities also died. Our world mate change has been tepid at best. It's
have been even more remarkable. In fact, one million people die from malaria, most has really become a much smaller place. not that humanity lacks the capacity to
some aid agencies have stopped accepting of them in developing countries. These Since the disaster, there have been calls respond. Obviously, judging from recent
relief money specifically for the tsunami diseases are part of the reason why nearly for a better tsunami early warning system. events, humanity's capacity for compas-
disaster because they simply don't have one-fifth of children born in sub-Saharan That seems obvious. But warnings are sion can be profound. It's just unfortunate
the capacity to spend it on the ground in Africa will not live past the age of five. only useful if they are heeded. And we that it takes a tsunami to trigger it.
the afflicted countries. The tsunami has also taken the spotlight are getting all sorts of warnings about
But in all our efforts to bring some hope off other long-suffering regions, such as the future that we continue to ignore. We Take the Nature Challenge and learn
to those suffering, we mustn't forget that Sudan and Uganda. Millions of refugees in were told, for example, that coral reefs and more at www.davidsuzuki.org

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 Easter Islander Polynesian islanders of Tikopia, who live to know that their life and culture were
in the Solomon Islands 1,000 kilometres deeply valuable, and they held onto hope
east of Honiara (6,000 kilometres west of as they worked to change the way they

or Tikopian? Easter Island).

About 1,000 years ago, they too began
lived and protect their island ecosystem.
I hope you appreciate the power of
to observe the collapse of their island these ideas. The single most powerful fac-
ecosystem, but rather than go loopy, they tor in determining whether a culture will
EARTH FUTURE.COM decided over a period of several hundred destroy itself or rejuvenate itself is its own
by Guy Dauncey years to limit their population growth to inner choice whether to hold fast to hope
zero, to shift to forest-based permaculture, or to give up hope.
and to stop keeping animals for meat on As a planet, we certainly appear to be
A mong my friends, there are many When facing such terminal despair, the island. The result has been a complete isolated. If there are other space-beings
. . w h o are very troubled about the what can be more comforting than to turnaround, and they now enjoy a very who know of our existence, they are either
way things are going on our little planet, believe salvation is just around the corner, stable and peaceful life, of which they are being very shy, or they are obeying the
isolated on an obscure limb of the Milky whether of a New Age or a cultist variety? very proud. (See www.janesoceania.com/Galactic Guide to Immature Civilizations
Way galaxy. The Christian fundamentalist belief in the solomons_tikopia) (Rule 37: Don't reveal yourselves until they
Some have a deeply pessimistic feeling. end times, the Rapture and the imminent The critical piece which we need to halle stopped exhibiting paranoid aggres-
They despair of the way we humans understand is this. All sive tendencies), or
are ravaging our ecosystems: They positive change occurs they've been with us
point to Easter Island, where over in three stages. First, The Christian fundamen-all along, masquerad-
the centuries, the Polynesian set- you visualize the out- talist belief in the end ing as angels, devas
tlers first destroyed the tropical come, and picture the and other bright spir-
paradise they had found, and then future as a clear real- times, the Rapture and the its.
turned on each other and fought to ity in your mind. This imminent return of Jesus As a community
the death over the last remaining . is known as hope. of people, we are not
resources, while all the time pray- We practise it every is every bit as stupid as isolated. Our planet is
ing to some stupid stone statues. day, even though it chock full of people
The Mayans did much the same is often unconscious.
the Easter Islanders' belief who have the ideas,
thing. Secondly, you sum- that if they built enough the skills and the
They see this as a metaphor for mon up the will to
all humanity, and if you look at the act. You engage your
statues, their problems commitment needed
to generate the vision,
facts in a purely material way, it's mental and spiritual would be...solved. the political will and
easy to agree. Whether you consid- muscle, and decide to the results that are
er what we're doing to the oceans, Easter Island statues needed to steer our-
act in the direction of
the atmosphere, the forests, the farmlands, return of Jesus is every bit as stupid as the your vision. And then thirdly, you act. selves onto a different path. All that we
our planet's wildlife, the melting polar Easter Islanders' belief that if they built This sequence is true whether you are need is you!
ice caps, the toxins that are accumulat- enough statues, their problems would be aiming to win a soccer tournament, plan a Just remember this: it is we ourselves
ing inside our bodies, or the unbelievable mystically solved. If you doubt this, check party, or organize a campaign to stop vio- who are the heroes in the Earth-saga, and
sums of money that we spend on fighting out www.raptureready.com, and wonder. lence against women. there's nothing more that the villains want
while children suffer and starve, it does This is the kind of stuff that some mem- So here's the key. The Easter Islanders than for us to give up ansl say "It's hope-
seemas if we are behaving with the same bers of the Bush government believe in, lost hope. They were so isolated that less." Well, phooey to that.
short-sightedness and stupidity that have and use to shape their policies on Israel they lost hope of contact with other
destroyed previous human civilizations. and the Middle East. (See www.village- Polynesians, and lost the vision of their Guy Dauncey is editor of EcoNews,
Ronald Wright's recent Massey lectures voice.com/issues/0420/perlstein.php) heritage. From that moment on, their author of Earthfuture: Stories From a
A Short History of Progress, broadcast on My personal response to i t all is demise was ordained. Sustainable World, and president of the BC
CBC's Ideas, have strengthened this deep "Phooey!" In justification for my posi- The Tikopians did not lose hope. They Sustainable Energy Association. He lives in
sense of hopelessness and pessimism. tive outlook, I call to the witness stand the were close enough to other Polynesians Victoria. www.earthfuture.com

continued from page 11
whether some people's faith in the poten-
tial of this and other new technologies is
a product of wishful thinking, or of the
hype generated by vested interests.
In the long-term, are these methods
really going ttS solve mankind's problems,
or just create new ones? And how will we
regulate them effectively? There are a great
many examples of earlier, well-meaning
attempts to control pests or improve the
. environment which have gone drastically
wrong. And I'm simply not convinced
that we have absorbed the lesson, which
is that manipulating Nature is, at best, an
uncertain business.
Even if we discount the potential for
disaster, there is still the question of
whether this is the right direction to take.
If all the money invested in agricultural
biotechnology over the last fifteen years
had been invested in developing and dis-
seminating genuinely sustainable tech-
niques—those that work with, rather than
niques such as inter-cropping, agrofor-
estry, green manuring, composting and
biological pest control offer less prospect
of commercial gain to those who have
money to invest. The hundreds of mil-
lions of people who would gain are the
much-derided practitioners of so-called
"peasant agriculture", who have very little
money, but who are the long-term guard-
ians of biodiversity.
One of the arguments used by the "agri-
cultural industrialists" is that it is only
through intensification that we will be
able to feed an expanded world popula-
tion. But even without significant invest-
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 Your happy S
healthy heart tion, choose 1/3 cup each of any three ofi
brown rice, buckwheat, millet, quinoa, or
amaranth. Create your own unique com-
binations.
NUTRISPEAK 1cup uncooked grain (see combos
by Vesanto Melina MS, RD above)
4 cups water
Fifteen years ago, Dr. Dean Ornish revo- pasta, bakery products and bread. When 1/2 tsp salt (or to taste)
lutionized our approach to heart disease wheat and other grains are ground into
by demonstrating that individuals with flour, the grain cells are broken. Whole
1/2 cup dried fruit such as raisins, cran-
berries, currants, or chopped apricots,
-r
serious heart disease could reverse their grains that have been ground have a sig- prunes, figs or dates
1/2 cup fortified soymilk or rice milk
condition with lifestyle changes and with- nificantly different effect on blood glucose
out the use of medication. His four-point levels; intact grains are far more support- Place grains, water and salt (if using) in Certified/
program included: ive of etrcellent health. the top of double boiler or a heavy pot and
1. a very low-fat vegetarian diet (less This aggressive approach to cleaning bring to a boil. If using a double boiler, 0 ripmnic/
than 10 percent calories from fat), up your carbohydrate intake automati- place above boiling water and simmer
2. stress management and group sup- cally and drastically reduces your intake of for 2-3 hours. If pan is directly over heat, 50+ Prociu.ce,
port, processed foods, since so many are flour- lower heat, and simmer for 2-3 hours, Items-
3. exercise (such as daily walking), based. The recipe below is a great way to checking occasionally that it does not boil
4. avoidance of smoking. begin the adventure of using whole grains. dry. If necessary, add a little water. Add
After one year, 82 percent of the par- Plus, it's a heart-warming way to start dried fruit and milk and cook for another
ticipants experienced regression of their your day, on a chilly February morning. 1/2 hour. Serve with fresh fruit and your 0 rgfarud,c/ Er
disease, shown by angiograms conducted choice of milk.
at the beginning and end of the year. In Whole Grain Cereal
contrast, the disease continued to progress This recipe makes a satisfying and deli-
Makes 5 cups. N cattroai
in members of the control group, who fol- cious breakfast for a family. It can be used Vesanto Melina is a registered dietitian,. 600+ beacerleis-
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The joy of youth CULTURE
FILMS WORTH WATCHING
by Robert Alstead

Parodies of the Hollywood film indus- nightmare for his producers. Rick is blind Oscars - aboutamusicteacherwho wins continued from page 5
try have been worn thin by rep- enough to the politics to be drawn closer over and inspires his tough bunch o f chil- it was first performed in prewar Europe.
etition, and the idea of watching prima to the boy and his mother. He also has an dren at a Draconian boarding school by The music of the Beatles was considered
donnas indulging in movie-set forming a boys' choir. Critics decadent and destructive by the balding
melodramas might seem a try- are calling the film a French guardians of British high culture. Today
ing experience, especially when sell-out, but the feel-good the most shocking piece of art is the con-
the prima donna in question weepy has been pulling in temporary protest song- shocking only in
is a spoilt-brat, 1 2 -year-old the crowds in France. the sense that it is now so rarely heard on
movie star. However, Toronto- Walt Disney is in its tra- corporate rock radio. The music industry
based writer-director-star Don ditional stomping ground prefers to direct its promotional efforts on
McKellar's feel good comedy with Pooh's Heffalump the smoothed down, processed Pablum of
Childstar manages to negotiate Movie, which opens on mega-selling boy bands and teen Stepford
most of the pitfalls of the genre February 11. The anima- sirens. Programming behemoths like Clear
by blending a. smart script with tion follows the adventures Channel, which owns 1,200 stations in the
fine performances. of Pooh Bear and friends as US, prefers to not rock the boat, the vote,
Hollywood moguls desper- they track down a mysteri- or anything else. But artists like Michael
ate to wring the last cent out of ous purple beast in 100 Aker Franti and Green Day still get manage to
their hottest star before his voice Wood. get around the media matrix, which is still
breaks, send Taylor Brandon not completely monolithic - good stuff
Burns (Mark Rendall) to Canada Finally, if you are look- still trickles through.
to shoot an action thriller that Rick (Don McKellar) gets his first lesson in ing for something a little Like the lion in C.S. Lewis's Narnia, who
sounds like HomeAlone Meets Air working with a child star from Suzanne (Jennifer more highbrow, catch Al sang the world into existence, the best
Force One. Jason Leigh) when meeting at the airport. Pacino and ;reremy Irons artists seem to embody the spirit of cre-
Rick (McKellar), a struggling in The Merchant of Venice ation itself. Even comedy has its ahead-of-
indie filmmaker, who is hired to chauf- ability to negotiate the boy's manipula- before it goes. The Wolf on iofilm.com their-time visionaries, like Lenny Bruce,
feur the pre-pubescent star and his listless, tions and tantrums, which lands him with gave this his highest recommendation. Australian Barry Humphries and the late
hard-nosed mother Suzanne (Jennifer greater responsibility over the star, so that He writes: "The acting is spot on and the Bill Hicks. The skill of the standup proph-
Jason Leigh), quickly finds that he's got when Taylor disappears from the set, it is dialogue, commonly the trickiest element et is to say the unsayable, and put it such
himself into a lot more than he bargained Rick who leads the search for him. in Shakespeare adaptations, is impecca- away that repressed energy is released in
for. Taylor is permitted to act the little Although some scenes making fun bly delivered in a modern tone that really laughter.
Napoleon on and off set, getting through a of the movie industry machine have a makes the film accessible to audiences of The point of all this is that at Common
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continued from page 15 Dr. Carlo Petrini. so easily ignored, the answers will emerge
up from seven-and-a-half to twenty-two Slow food is traditional food. It is also organically. As the old saying goes, there
tonnes per hectare. local - and local cuisine is one of the most is safety in numbers, and people tend to
Imposing industrial farming systems important ways we identify with the place listen to organisations with a very large
on traditional agricultural economies is and region where we live. It is the same membership. They do!
actively destroying both biological and with the buildings in our towns, cities and On this theme it does seem to me that
social capital and eliminating the cultural villages. Well-designed places and build- the other great food movement with
identity which has its roots in working on ings that relate to locality and landscape which I am associated, the organic move-
the land. It is also fuelling the frightening and that put people before cars enhance ment, has so much in common with the
EtiCkSO CODege
acceleration of urbanization throughout asense of community and rootedness. All Slow Food Movement and this commu-
the world and removing large parts of these things are connected.
humanity from meaningful contact with
nality of purpose and direction ought to
We no more want to live in anonymous be a source of co-operation and, also of
discover
Nature and the food that they eat.
So this "flight from the
concrete blocks that are just like anywhere course, celebration! So I do hope that we
may see ever-closer links
the coaching
land" is happening in both
developed and developing
between these two impor- difference
tant movements.
countries. Unfortunately, And the importance of Expandyour skills, advance
these trends towards urban- your Movement cannot be your career, find success.
ization are almost inevitable overstated. That is, after all,
while societies throughout why I am here—to try and ... discover the power of
the world continue to put a help draw attention to the solution focused coaching.
low valuation on their food, fact that in certain circum-
denigrate food to the status stances "small will always
of fuel and abandon any loy- be beautiful", and to remind Coaching Forward
alty to their local and indig- people, as John Ruskin in Participate in a 2-day interactive
enous farmers. the 19th century did, back coach training experience.
But there is another con- in England, that "industry
sequence too. There is now
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called developed world we just food, for it represents only $199
are in the process of creat- an entire culture—the cul-
ing a nutritionally impover- ture of the family farm. It CoachingDiscovery Day
ished underclass—a genera- represents the ancient tap- A1-day introduction to
tion which has grown up on estry of rural life; the dedi- solution focused coaching
highly processed fast food cated animal husbandry,
from intensive agriculture
and communication.
the struggle with the natu-
and for whom the future ral elements, the love of Find how it fits your world.
looks particularly bleak, landscape, the childhood Sat., Feb. 12th
both from a social and a memories, the knowledge Thurs., Feb. 17th
health standpoint. and wisdom learnt from
As Eric Schlosser has
only $89
parents and grandparents,
pointed out in his brilliant the intimate understanding
book "Fast Food Nation",
fast food is a recent phenom-
of local climate and condi-
tions, the hopes and fears of
Neuro-Linguistic
enon. The extraordinary
centralization and industri-
succeeding generations.
Ladies and gentlemen, all
Programming
alization of our food system of you represent genuinely Get what you want.
Prince Charles and Percy Schmeiser at the Terra Madre
has occurred over as little as (Mother Earth) conference, Turin, Italy, 23rd October, 2004
sustainable agriculture and New applications
twenty years. Fast food may I salute you. for time-tested methods.
appear to be cheap food, and in the literal else in the world than we want to eat anon-
sense it often is. ymous junk food which can be bought Information Evening
Conversation between
But that is because huge social and envi- anywhere. At the end of the day, values Thurs., Feb. 24th 7-9pm
ronmental costs are being excluded from such as sustainability, community, health Prince Charles and
the calculations. Any analysis of the real and taste are more important than pure Percy Schmeiser NLP Practitioner Certification
costs would have to look at such things as convenience. We need to have distinctive Starts March 5th (7-weekends)
the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent and varied places and distinctive and var- We discussed Prince Charles'
Erickson is PCTIA Accredited.
of new pathogens such as E. coli 0157, ied food in order to retain our sanity, if speech and I talked to him about
Financing is available for some courses.
antibiotic resistance from the overuse of nothing else. my lawsuit with Monsanto on the
drugs in animal feed, extensive water pol- The Slow Food Movement is about cel- rights of farmers to continue to use
lution from intensive agricultural systems,ebrating the culture of food, and about their own seeds and plants.
and many other factors. These costs are sharing the extraordinary knowledge Prince Charles explained his
not reflected in the price of fast food, but —developed over millennia—of the tradi- organic farming operation i n
that doesn't mean that our society isn't tions involved with quality food produc- England and said that in the world
there are a number of great food E R I C K S O N
paying them. tion. So it is important to ask how this movements and he is very happy
Soperhaps, having said all this, you can gathering can promote those ideals more as an organic farmer to be involved. C O L L E G E
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you have been since you were over the age ple are uncomfortable focus from being the best why many carbohy- I also recommend that everyone take a
of 25 (when you were eating sensibly and with your success and drate-restricted diets good quality multi-vitamin daily, includ-
exercising reasonably) and maintained it determination, espe- to being our best, we can are so popular. But if ing 50 mg vitamin B complex, 500-1000mg
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body? Be sure that your expectations are these are their fears— not yours— and per hour just to function and our body build healthy cells.
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