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Why Bologna CULTURE

matters Professor Zamagni argues that the some 15,000 co-operative firms. More
ITALIAN CITY SHOWS US A BETTER WAY British shift to the welfare state after the than that, Emilians have developed a per-
byBob Williams Second World War was a noble experi- vasive co-operative infrastructure to sup-
ment by an advanced social democratic port small- and medium-sized firms.
Tt is hard to believe in this new century, ancient city walls. government. But the professor alio argues The end result of this pattern is proba-
l b u t when I was a kid growing up on The main square is Piazza Maggiore, that over time, we have seen the weakness-bly the most pluralistic networked system
Vancouver's east side, it was primarily an built in pre-Roman times, while the mag- es of this system, which can too often be of individual and family enterprises in the
Anglo neighbourhood. • nificent Piazza San Stefano a few blocks disabling amongst the very people it was world. The co-operative networks allow
The exception to all this, however, was away features a church going back to the designed to help, while ironically empow- the small firms to do what they do best,
a post-war influx of a growing number fourth century. Nearby, the city's vener- ering a distant bureaucratic elite. without the back offices (there's co-op
of Italians who made our neighbour- able yet vibrant University of Bologna, an At the same time, Zamagni. and his col- support for that), or the encumbrance of
hood their home. These new neighbours institution that goes back to 1088, was the leagues argue that we should maintain the international marketing (there's sectoral
brought with them what seemed to me an first university in Europe. original goals they had in Britain, while support for that) or funding for research,
exotic view of the world, and maybe more It was at this university, in the econom- re-thinking the process and the delivery or technological transfer (there's co-oper-
important to a growing boy, a love for fine ics faculty, that we began to understand system. That is precisely what they have ative infrastructure for that as well).
food and wine that was rare in our own the nature of the Emilian economy and the done in Emilia-Romagna. The result has been a galaxy of small,
Anglo household. profoundly different way the Bolognese The Emilians have determined that medium-sized, individual or family-
All of this is my way of explaining my do business. there must be a third side to the triangle, owned enterprises that work together in
continuing love affair with the Italians and The head of the university's graduate namely co-operation and reciprocity, a networked, co-operative way to jointly
the way they see the world. My renewed program in co-operative economics, Dr which is very much a part of their society produce high value-added products.
romance commenced once more on a Stefano Zamagni, explained the funda- and economy. These products are, in turn, exported.
study tour of the Emilia-Romagna region, mentals of their worldview; Zamagni sees The people of this region, while accept- In asense, the Emilians have built them-
which surrounds. Bologna, about eight a "balanced triangle" as the model for a ing the reality of a highly competitive selves the best of two different worlds.
years ago. It was in this amazing area just caring, advanced economic system. Two world, also believe there is a great need for Some have described it as the Emilian
east of Tuscany, that some of my colleaguessides of that triangle he describes in a co-operation as well as competition. Their Model.
at VanCity and I learned about the value manner common to most Western liberal own economy reflects this unique braid- These thoughtful folk havealso reworked
system of these people, their co-operative democracies: ing of these two threads of co-operation the social side of their society. Over the
economy and their unique history. •the market system and the exchange of and competition. past few decades, as the northern Italians
Central Bologna has maintained its equivalent goods. Emilia-Romagna is highly entrepre- concluded that the state was a poor deliv-
medieval structure despite being a bus- •the role of the state and the redistribu- neurial, with some 300,000 small enter- erer of social services, they began a mas-
tling medium-sized city It has centuries- tion of wealth to support the weakest in prises, of which 100,000 are small manu- sive shift in the delivery of what Professor
old buildings, many of which are linked to society. facturers. In addition, the region supports continued on page 31

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 Interview with
Joseph Chilton Pearce
by Brent Cameron
B r e n t : Joe, as you look back over 50
years and four books on child devel-
opment, I am wondering where you are
at today. What are you thinking and feel-
ing now? Perhaps as a starting place I can
quote from the last page of your latest
book, The Biology of Transcendence. "A
human nurtured instead of shamed, and
loved instead of driven by fear, develops
a different brain and therefore a different
mind. He will not act against the well-
being of another nor against his larger
body, the living Earth."
Joseph Chilton Pearce: I stand by that.
I:i Acupuncturist The word transcendence means the abil-
ity to go beyond limitation and constraint
Li Herbalist
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and that's what the biological system is
designed to do, provided nurturing and a
safe base are given. Over the past 50 years
researchers showed us more about the
Li Doctor of TCM real development of children than we've
ever known in history. Ironically in North
America our education system is specifi-
cally going point for point against every
FREE single research discovery made.
BC From John Taylor Gatto's research
INFORMATION into the founding and history of educa-
tion, he clearly states that education was
SESSIONS developed as a vehicle of social control
to condition children for the work force.
It was never really about nurturing the
Reserve your seat now! human spirit.
CI Mar. 3 L i Mar. 17 Z I Mar. 31 JCP Indeed. I think behaviour modifi-
cation is behind it really. Even though that
604.433.1299 might be outmoded up at Harvard it's
still the underlying force in education. So
you get a cultural conformity. Recently I
called it the conflict between cultural and
biological imperatives, the driving forces
thit we have within us to develop and the
driving forces in culture to make us con-
form to certain patterns and behaviour.
"The professional staff and That conflict literally splits the infant child
faculty at PCU College right from the beginning.
have really helped BC I n our work at Wondertree we
made the difference
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notice a significant difference in the qual-
ity of learning in children who are bonded
and are living in nurturing and open fam-
ilies. Their ability to learn is an entirely
different experience than somebody who
is in conflict with themselves and others.
JCP T h e very nature 'of most of our
educational system is that it sets up the fear
syndrome to coerce children into learning.
The fear of failure and constant testing,
the very act of testing a child throws them
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into a defensive mode at which point their
brain really has shifted its energy focus
from the higher intelligence down into the
ancient reptilian survival defence brain. So
testing in itself is unfair because you never
really get a working idea of where that
child is or what their capacities are. They
themselves haven't accessed their higher
intelligence in a state of defence like that.
2005, all supplements have to be subject
to pharmaceutical-type regulation, which
requires establishment of toxicity levels
and maximum/minimum dosages, before
they can be sold. The principal Codex
report which provides the "scientific"
grounds for this impending wholesale
removal of all supplements is in German
and not generally available.
Legal action was taken by health free-
dom groups on European Union con-
stitutional grounds and heard in the
International Court in Luxembourg on
January 25 this year. The result will be
E D U C AT I O N
BC Joe, I imagine that you, more than
anyone else, is responsible for introduc-
ing the idea of the triune brain, and more
recently the four-fold brain concept to the
world. Could you talk about the evolution
of the three-fold to the four-fold brain
discussed in your last book?
JCP Recently, at the Howard Hughes
medical establishment in the mid-west, a
powerful big research centre, a group of
geneticists and neurologists came out with
the following announcement. Through
DNA tracing they can prove that the older
neuro-system of nature, the mammalian
brain and so on, were a long time build-
ing, taking more than tens of thousands of
years. However, the recent developments
in the neo-cortex took remarkably few
years in an evolutionary time frame.
These scientists claim the human brain
was added to at a very late date and very
quickly, that there wasn't any of this ran-
dom mutation selectivity as proposed by
Darwin, which works perfectly well with
the foundational older brains we have in
our heads. They claim it doesn't work in
relation to the human brain. I think that's
a very interesting comment to come out
from some very sound scientific studies.
Research into the latest developing
aspect of the human brain, the pre-fron-
tal lobes, has been going on for close to 20
years now. It was only in about 1988 they
discovered that the adolescent goes into
profound brain growth spurts in those
lobes and that it isn't complete until about
age 21. All this new research into the ado-
lescent brain being so dramatically differ-
ent from either that of the earlier child or
the later adult has been brought up time
and again in the popular journals, like
Time and US News and so on.
That's very encouraging, because they're
pointing out that the brain itself, especially
its higher functions are in a profound and
known in June. Because of the inter-
locking international treaties to which
Canada is a signatory, Codex resolutions
are binding for Canadians, and the World
Trade Organization enforces compliance.
Federal bill C-420, which gets second
reading in Ottawa March 3, is designed
to protect Canadians from Codex.
To find out more and what you can do
to stop this process by supporting this bill
go to www.kospublishing.com and click
on the Codex alert banner found on the
home page.
rapid state of change and growth. This concrete and formal operational thinking. that before. But certainly the new field of that I just mentioned.
means the adolescent needs a great deal They become very idealistic and look for neuro-cardiology and all the discoveries BC Joe, these three factors relate direct-
more nurturing, empathy, understand- models of this new idealism in their cul- about the heart and the heart/brain con- ly to the development of the latest evo-
ing, tolerance and care than at almost any ture and when you get to thinking about nection make it perfectly clear what is lution of the human brain, the left and
other period in their lives. the kinds of models we're giving them, happening in that teenager. right pre-frontal lobes. Can you talk more
This verifies the work of James Prescott you shudder. It is apparent to the that these lines of about this?
many years ago at the National Institute The second factor is the sense of hidden research are contingent on one another, JCP I think it certainly brings to mind
of Health. He said the adolescent is as vul- greatness. They're convinced that deep and it all begins to focus on the teenage the work of a hero of mine from Princeton
nerable and subject to damage as the little within they have a core of themselves years as such a critical period. As a culture who died in 1994 named Julian James. His
toddler first taking its steps. Adolescents that is very great and that if people just we need to start and really be attentive and book The Origins of Consciousness in the
are taking their first steps into a new realized how great they were they would careful with those young people. Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, is an
world with new bodies and new brains in respect them. O f course, all we do is try BC I certainly agree. One o f our invaluable work and in there you begin to
formation and new hormones and they to capitalize on that and make them jump research projects about 10 years ago was pick up the reason for the twinned brains
need every bit the care and attention and through our hoops to achieve success. with a group of teenagers. For four years that we have through the higher third and
nurturing as the toddler. But, they're really talking about their own these young people were given freedom, fourth brain, and why you would need
Of course in North America we tend to transcendence that's involved in that big love and an opportunity to discover their that kind of division of labour. Exactly
treat the adolescent as public enemy num- shift of the brain that occurs in adoles- life's purpose. The past 10 years have seen how that works in the prefrontal cortex
ber one. We distrust and denigrate them. cence. such a phenomenal growth of intelligence I'm not sure, but it reflects exactly the
This is exactly the opposite of what they same kind of division of labour you have
need at this point in their lives. in the neocortex, the rest of the high brain.
BC That's an exciting message. It reflects It seems to me that it does serve two pur-
on the situation here in BC. Our govern- poses—to maintain unity and communi-
ment has just put increasing expectations cation and stability and so on through the
on our teenagers to graduate. Joe, when so-called right brain activity, and then the
you are here April 1 and 2, I hope you adventurousness and the free aspects of
are able to meet all forty of the teenagers the left hemisphere and its capacities.. You
that our government is unwilling to fund can't have one without the other. They're
because they refuse to take the courses sort of like creator and created lOving rise
imposed on them. They are some of the to each other.
brightest and most talented young people I think that holds throughout all these
I've ever met. They would all be recog- higher systems of intelligence. The one
nized as gifted if you understand Howard works for wholeness and the other works
Gardner's ideas of multiple intelligences. for novelty. You could say one works for
JCP Here in the US, you can get all sorts the unvarying stability of the system and
of money if you come up with a proposal the other for the variations that can eas-
for how to keep kids in high school. But, ily lead to instability but nevertheless are
if you try to get one penny for preventing continually opening up new worlds and
the damage that's being done to them you new possibilities. I think you have to have
can't get any funding for that. High school both from the evolutionary standpoint of
is one of the major places of cultural the human.
conformity and the price we pay for it is BC I f we think about how science
pretty steep. That certainly doesn't register understands light, it's either a particle or a
on government because they benefit from wave and it depends on how we measure
a compliant population: We've got to get Joseph Chilton Pearce and Brent Cameron it. Our two models for light reflect our
the message across to parents themselves, own duality of mind where the universe
because we can't expect it from institu- Finally there's a sense of great expecta- and wellness and heartfulness in these either looks like a particle or .a wave. In
tions. tion, that something tremendous is sup- young adults that it's been astounding. more general terms this duality becomes
By the way, I'll be happy to speak with posed to happen, and they wait for it right Currently a doctoral thesis is being writ- content and process. The content is kind
those teenagers. around the next corner or the next hill teri to investigate these results. It's been a of the male hierarchical perspective, and
One of the ideas that I will want to moment by moment. They always gesture phenomena that we never predicted and on the left side is the feminine, wave, nur-
share with them, that I am talking about to the heart when they're talking about seems to. point to what you talk so elo- turing, process part. We really need a mar-
everywhere, is the fact that teenagers are this because, literally, their next stage of quently about in your books, the intelli- riage between the two.
driven by three factors that we never give evolutionary development is in the off- gence of the heart. JCP This in turn relates to Gaia and the
them credit for. ing. JCP One of the things we find out about whole theory of the Earth and the current
One is a high sense of idealism. They Rudolf Steiner said the heart longs for imprisoned teenagers, who are there crisis that we are bringing about. There's
become very idealistic as early as 11 or 12. this and if the young person were opened because they didn't conform culturally, certainly an importance for the return to
That's part of the great brain change that to the heart it would teach us a new way is that they can be salvaged with so little the balance of the feminine that's involved
takes place following the shift between to think, and we've never thought of effort by appealing to just the three factors continued on page 33

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 Envy-part 2 hoodwinked into thinking they can be
"famous for being famous?'
Place the cultural DNA of "other-direct-
ness" into the petri dish of the US enter-
Even for those who aren't actively tainment industry, and voila: you have
seeking celebrity, the camera-conscious the cult of celebrity, with envy fueling a
THE SEVEN DEADLY SPINS CONTINUES zeitgeist compels them to think of them- continually frustrated search for identity.
by Geoff Olson selves, if only subliminally, as starring in A sense of discontent is central to the rev-
their own productions. In Life: The Movie, enue flow. From the tabloid rack to the
movie critic Neil Gabler of The New Yorker cosmetic counter to the television celeb-
Greed drives the desire for profit at any cost. Envy is a mainstay claims the US entertainment industry rity profile, there's big box office in subtly
of the fashion industry, and marketing as a whole. Anger is sub- has democratized the idea of celebrity, pushing the consumer toward dissatisfac-
the idea of performance into tion with his or her appearance, lifestyle
tly exploited in the Army of One fantasies of video games and extending daily life: and identity.
recruitment advertisements. Pride fuels the "high self-esteem" "Over the years our movie going and Writes Gabler: "Acting like a cultural
bandwagon. In the era of hypercapitalism, these and most of television watching has been impregnat- Ebola virus, entertainment has even
ing the American consciousness with the invaded organisms no one would ever
the other so-called deadly sins have been rehabilitated by the contentions and esthetics of entertain- have imagined could provide amuse-
market as positive, even praiseworthy, states of mind. "Sin" has ment, until we have become performers ment?' He points to the strange case of Dr.
been spun. Hence, what I call The Deadly Spins. ourselves, performing our own lives out Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard professor
of the shards of movies. One might even and sixties icon, who "turned his death
Ateacher friend once told me he dis- selvesas we are and offers it back to us for think of American life, including quotid- into entertainment by using his computer
covered that 30-some students at the price of the product." ian American life, as a vast production webpage to chronicle his deterioration
the high school where he taught had a Most adults have some intellectual in which virtually every object is a prop, from prostate cancer, a show which ended
regular cocaine habit. The surprising defences against this paper-thin para- every space is a set, every person is an with a video of him drinking a toxic cock-
aspect: the female users were primarily digm. But children and adolescents have actor and every experience is a scene in a tail in what he called a 'visible, interactive
taking the drug to keep thin, rather than few or none, and today face a marketing continuing narrative." suicide "
get high. onslaught sharpened like stilettos by focus Nearly 50 years ago, sociologist David In modern day North America, celeb-
Bizarre, but not a total mystery. Many groups, psychographics and all the other Riesman identified the emergence of a rity and envy are joined at the hip: the
healthy young women find their bodies Siamese twins of the corporate-sponsored
spectacularly shabby in comparison to the social contract. According to US media
skeletal standard offered by Hollywood critic Todd Gitlin, "to speak of a culture of
starlets, magazine models and runway celebrity nowadays is nearly to commit a
wraiths. They envy the professional redundancy:' Instant stardom has become
anorexic's life-negating perfection, which the all-purpose spray-on, to be liberally
has been cross-referenced with all sorts applied on everything from products to
of media-mediated baggage: wealth, style, politicians, for a branded, otherworldly
status and power. glow.
Gluttony, sloth, lust, greed, anger, envy, To Cintra Wilson, sometime screenwrit-
pride: of the seven "deadly spins," the most er and former LA resident, this culture of
self-corrosive is envy. fawning obsession over superstars has
"It is certain that envy is the worst sin become the secular religion of our time,
that is; for all other sins are sins only one filled with false messiahs and empty
against one virtue, whereas envy is against rituals: "It is generally not the icons them-
all virtue and against all goodness," wrote selves that I jolly and assail; it's the huge
Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales. "For tumescent aura of Otherness, the gran-
envy is bitter about all the good things diose Largitutude and supermagnified
that belong to another, and in this way, it glamour of these deranged old musicians
is different from all other sins. For almost and dumb pretty kids and Sacred Cow
all other sins give some sort of pleasure in Ornamental personages that I attack."
themselves, save only envy, which always Wilson insists the machinery of fame,
has in itself anguish and sorrow?' with its promise of global attention and
Envy has probably been with humanity big bucks, can reduce real talents to cam-
at least since the emergence of conscious- era-hungry hacks, and the rest of us to
ness itself, the difference today is its cultur- hungry ghosts at a banquet where we will
al scale. It's become more than Chaucer's never find a seat. In a media-mediated
bitterness "about all the good things that world where you can never be too rich or
belong to another:' Envy is turbocharged too thin, it's no surprise that some young
by the consumer market's capacity to traf- outsiders will reduce themselves to drug-
fic in images, In a manner far beyond the taking wraiths in an effort to reach an illu-
grainy black-and-white halftones of only sory ideal.
half a century. ago. "In no other form of In the forward to her book, it' Massive
society in history has there been such a Swelling, the author smashes celebrity's
concentration of images, such a density hall of mirrors into shards, and exposes
of visual messages," writes art critic John the little person behind the curtain:
Berger. The visual landscape is the hook "I attack the maddening blizzard of tin-
for the forces of publicity: sel scattered in the icons' wake: the tidal
"Within publicity, choices are offered waves of false awe glaring off their shiny
between this cream and that cream, that suits. I swipe at the lurid neon head of
car and this car, but publicity as a system dark arts of spin. (In fact, with the excep- new type of social character in the US that the amplified celebrity wizard and not the
only makes a single proposal. It proposes tion of items such as cars and dwellings, he called "other-directed"—by which he frail, dumpy little nebbish behind the big
to each of us that we transform ourselves , many advertisers do longer flog, product meant, essentially, that one's goals were screen of fire, because deep down we're all
or our lives by buying something more. to the over-35 demographic. Studies show directed toward satisfying the expectationsdelicate and pitiable inside. I believe that
Publicity persuades us of such a transfor- you can only build "brand loyalty" by tar- of others. In other words, an audience. By deep down, everyone is fundamentally
mation by showing us people who have geting the five to 15 set.) definition, other-directed Americans were an OK Joe deserving of your civility and
apparently been transformed and are, as a Envy compels the young consumer of conscious of performance—a self-con- compassion, even the ones I really hate,
result, enviable. The state of being envied pop-culture towards the camera's eye, sciousness that led another sociologist, like Richard Dreyfus."
is what constitutes glamour, and public y in search of envy's Holy Grail: fame. So- Erving Goffman, to conclude that in the
is the process of manufacturing glamo.. called reality TV shows trade on this most- 20th century, "life itself is a dramatically Geoff Olson, is a Vancouver writer and
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Attack Poodles MEDIA
Book review by Geoff Olson
I f the Washington press corps are the good doggie, accepting your biscuits from he's been told in a brash voice, convinced
lap dogs, and the rest o f the main- the White House and aiming your doodie he thunk it up himself." Canadian pundit
stream press are the nap dogs, the ranks on the papers of the supposedly liberal David Frum, comes in for a well-deserved
of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are the press. Wolcott notes that attack poodles verbal beating: "Perhaps no speechwriter
yap dogs; the attack poodles in James "identify less with society's underdogs and in the analysis of the profession has done
Wolcott's hilarious evisceration o f US more with the top dogs, being the top rov- as much destruction to rational discourse
right wing media. ers of their own green pasture:' They hang and international comity than this little
According to the longtime Vanity Fair out with lobbyists, consultants, media wiggler, who history will rue as the author
contributor, the attack poodles really executives, political aides and millionaire of the infamous phrase 'axis of evil' in
came into their own after September 11, citizens. Bush's 2002 state of the union address:'
when the US press as a whole "unplugged Whose interests are they more likely to The author offers a priceless deconstruc-
and warehoused its bullshit detec- share, which cultural values are they going tion of CNN's Dennis Miller, the comic-
tors...becoming an accessory to the Bush to endorse? Not likely those of channel- turned-jingoist formerly with Saturday
agenda, its amplifier." Any voices of dis- surfing Larry and Louise Lunchbucket. It's Night. Live. "His esoteric references are
un-American or even treasonous. By the beg for treats at the black tie affairs of the ing out to incite the worst prejudices and
time of the buildup to Gulf War 2, there military-industrial-entertainment cocktail dumbest instincts of the studio audience,
"for pink-pantied appeasers in the steel of supertanker egos and fixed grins, each a hootenanny. Hack your way through the
cage death match between George (Texas party a Tom Wolfe novella:' hip convolutions and the sentiment that
Executioner) Bush a n d escapes is Kurtz's dying plea
Sam (Butcher of Baghdad) in Heart of Darkness, 'exter-
Hussein." minate all the Bruins!' "
You may recall the recent Dennis Miller's tragedy is
media dustups between Fox that in his slavish endorse-
News and Canadian news ment of a bomb-dropping,
sources like The Globe and cross-crazed president, he's
Mail, which had the temer- tied his fortunes with those
ity to question the "fair and
balanced" tag o f Rupert
of Bush. "You can almost
feel some cheap sympathy
Murdoch's US-based broad- for him, had he not been
cast network. In response, so giddy at the prospect of
Fox witheringly described playing court jester for a
Globe television reviewer court of blood:'
John Doyle as a "Canadian Although this is a book
about the radical right ken-
insult! nel, Wolcott plays no favou-
In his columns Doyle rites on the media's politi-
endorsed the idea that the cal spectrum. He hears the
Canadian cable airwaves "pigeon coos o f upscale
should be opened up to Fox, liberalism" o n National
in the belief that Canadians Public Radio, "where the
will f i n d i t hilarious, women sound as i f they
ridiculous fun. And while they're making a clay pot
Wolcott doesn't address the on the turntable and the
Canadian angle in his book, men sound as i f they've
the Vanity Fair contributor gotten in touch with their
gives us every reason to be feminine sides and can't
very, very, afraid of expos- leave it alone:' But the book
ing ourselves to this broad- is far more than a collec-
cast equivalent o f toxic tion of cleverly worded jabs
sludge. We already have and parries. There's a fierce
some US attack poodles in THE LOOTING OF THE NEWS IN A TIME OF TERROR moral intelligence click-
our midst — Dennis Miller, ing away behind Wolcott's
Robert Novak and his col-
leagues on CNN — but Fox
represents the real deal,
COTT prose. He even honours
the behaviour o f the few
poodles who stray off obe-
the slavering radical right dience school grounds, such
hounds from hell. Each chapter of Wolcott's hilariously as Lou Dobbs' bulldog CNN reporting on
Led by the apoplectic boyo Bill 0' Reilly, scabrous prose offers a quick biographi- corporate outsourcing of US jobs to Third
Fox News is "building better morons the cal sketch of some of the most prominent World countries.
American way," says the author. Whether among the attack poodles. Anne Coulter is Attack Poodles was released before the
this is by design or default, Wolcott notes the "Paris Hilton of post-modern politics, November election, so its dark jollity
a study that determined how Americans' an elongated zero, a white h ot sex sym- takes on an ever-somber hue in retrospect
global misperceptions vary significantly bol symbolizing nothing." Robert Novak, of Bush's win. The world changed last
depending on their news source. Those who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent November as much as it did on 9-11. Let's
who got most of their news from Fox in his syndicated column, "ha; long been a hope Wolcott's book doesn't end up on
had significantly distorted ideas of reality, favourite Republican garbage chute:' Fox's the Homeland Security's list of outlawed
including the belief by a significant frac- Sean Hannity "is an ideal mouthpiece for unembedded journalism.
tion of the viewing audience that Saddam Fox News because he's the simulacrum of Attack Poodles and Other Media
not only had weapons of mass destruc- Fox News' ideal viewer: the middle-aged Mutants by James Wolcott, Miramax Books
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within: the joy of Being.
Do not judge or condemn what you hear, It is not a trancelike. state. Not at all.
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not be worth having. In this state of inner
from beyond the mind. connectedness, you are much more alert,
W a t exactly do you mean by at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the more awake than in the mind-identified •
watching the thinker"l past. This is because the voice belongs to So when you listen to a thought, you state. You are fully present. It also raises
When someone goes to the doctor and your conditioned mind, which is the result are aware not only of the thought but also the vibrational frequency of the energy
says, "I hear a voice in my head," he or of all your past history as well as of the col- of yourself as the witness o f the thought. field that gives life to the physical body.
she will most likely be sent to a psychia- lective cultural mind-set you inherited. So A new dimension of consciousness has As you go more deeply into this realm
trist. The fact is that, in a very similar way, you see and judge the present through the come in. As you listen to the thought, you of no-mind, as it is sometimes called in
virtually everyone hears a voice, or sev- eyes of the past and get a totally distorted feel a conscious presence y o u r deeper the East, you realize the state of pure con-
eral voices, in their head all the time: the view of it. It is not uncommon for the self - behind or underneath the thought, sciousness. In that state,you feel your own
involuntary thought processes that you voice to be a person's own worst enemy. as it were. The thought then loses its power presence with such intensity and such joy
don't realize you have the power to stop. Many people live with over you and quickly that all thinking, all emotions, your physi-
Continuous monologues or dialogues. a tormentor in their subsides; because you cal body, as well as the whole external
You have probably come across "mad" head that continuously This is the beginning of are no longer energiz- world become relatively insignificant in
people in the street incessantly talking attacks and punishes your natura1state of felt ing the mind through comparison to it. And yet this is not a self-
or muttering to themselves. Well, that's them and drains them identification with it. ish but a selfless state. It takes you beyond
not much different from what you and of vital energy. It is the oneness with Being This is the beginning what you previously thought of as "your
all other "normal" people do, except that cause of untold misery of the end of involun- self." That presence is essentially you and
you don't do it out loud. The voice com- and unhappiness, as well as of disease. tary and compulsive thinking. at the same time inconceivably greater
ments, speculates, judges, compares, com- The good news is that you can free your- When a thought subsides, you experi- than you. What I am trying to convey here
plains, likes, dislikes, and so on. The voice self from your mind. This is the only true ence a discontinuity in the mental stream may sound paradoxical or even contradic-
isn't necessarily relevant to the situation liberation. You can take the first step right - a gap of "no-mind." At first, the gaps tory, but there is no other way that I can
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 Diversity creates stability ENVIRONMENT

and security resulted in different approaches; to problems. within cities and towns.
As we reported on The Nature of Things, one I visited an urban garden of three hectares
SCIENCE MATTERS technique involved surgical alterations of the in Havana which was started by four people in
by David Suzuki cornea that have since been adapted as laser 1999 and now supports 76 paid workers who
eye surgery. The Soviets also developed an all live nearby. They grow worms to provide
I n the late 1950s, geneticists began of a single species or genetic strain) creates immense boat-plane that skims just above fertilizer for the soil, insects and bacteria to
to analyze individual genes in plants, vulnerability to new diseases, pests or envi- water surfaces and is based on very different control pests and plant species to attract pests
fruit flies and mice. Instead o f find- ronmental conditions. Human beings have principles of lift and drag from conventional or support insects that prey on pests. Human
ing genetic homogeneity or uniformity evolved another level of diversity— culture aircraft. And Soviet scientists exploited phage muscle are the primary source of energy to
within such specialized species, scientists —which has enabled us to flourish in diverse viruses that infect and kill specific bacteria as tend the crops, yet yields per hectare are as
discovered that genes controlling specific surroundings like the arctic, deserts, moun- a way to fight disease. These developments high as industrial scale agriculture. Local peo-
proteins existed in many different forms. tains and tropical forests. are a reflection of original approaches and ple buy the produce (which is fresher, varied
This phenomenon is called "genetic poly- Unfortunately, globalization and the applications. and free of chemicals), dozens of people are
morphism" and we now recognize such advancement of a single world economic I recently visited Cuba, a nation that has fully employed, the environment is cleaner
variability is characteristic o f vibrant, model have created conditions that dis- been deliberately blocked from the global and people develop a deeper appreciation of
vigorous species. But diversity is. actually courage diversity and economy by the US, and their relationship with food. By criteria of lit-
important on many levels. encourage homogene- saw enough to know eracy, medical care, infant mortality, extreme
Over the 3.8 billion years that life has ity in order to create Today, four fifths of Cuban Cubans have much to poverty and homelessness, the United Nations
existed on Earth, there have been enormous favourable economies teach us. T he Soviet col- rates Cuba as a developed nation. This, from
changes—the sun has increased intensity by of scale. In other words, agriculture is organic and lapse suddenly deprived a country that is in many ways cut off from
30 percent; the atmosphere has changed from a Wal-mart is a Wal- producers are working Cuba of its main market the outside world.
CO2-rich to high oxygen content; mountains mart is a Wal-mart. This for sugar and its source As human population swells and our cli-
and oceans arose and disappeared; warm has the effect of homog- towards 100 percent. of cheap oil. Pesticides, mate changes in the 21st century, we will
periods have punctuated ice ages—yet all the enizing the local cul- fertilizers and big farm encounter the limits of the resources our
while, life has flourished. The key to that per- tures and diversity that machinery became planet is capable of supplying. If we are to
sistence has been diversity at the gene, species might otherwise help provide resilience as prohibitively expensive. It was a catastrophic feed humanity and provide a high quality of
and ecosystem levels within the biosphere. conditions around us change. And this is why economic crisis which necessitated new solu- life for our people we should try to protect
As conditions change, the "pool" of vari- it is vital to encourage diversity within and tions. Today, four fifths of Cuban agriculture diversity at every level now, because we are
ability provides more options for adaptation between human societies—to maintain dif- is organic and producers are working towards going to need all the help we can get.
to the new environment. We've learned from ferent worldviews and ways of thinking. 100 percent. Vacant lots, and yards now grow
experience in agriculture, forestry and fisher- When the Iron Curtain fell, for example, food so that today, 80 percent of leafy (non- Take the Nature Challenge and learn more
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 Lessons from the trenches of life
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by Guy Dauncey
W i a t makes for success in life, love,
nd leadership? Everyone has dif-
ferent experiences, and different lessons
they can share. Here are some of mine,
gathered mostly from my working life as
a self-employed person.
Being you
1. Offer yourself in service to the Earth
or Spirit every day, and ask for insight,
guidance and support.
2. Seek your inner enthusiasm and then
follow it. Don't seek permission; jump
right in. Enthusiasm comes from the
Greek en-theos "the god within." Allow
yourself to fly.
3. Be guided by your vision, not by your
reactions to things you dislike. Visualize
the result you wish for. All success begins
in the mind, and shows up later in the
physical dimension.
4. Think ahead o f the problem you
want to address, and seek a solution at a
level higher. Invent the future; pull it out
of thin air. Be creative. Feel free to invent
new ideas, projects and initiatives.
5. Trust your intuitions. If you get an
inspiration and want to try something
unusual, do it.
6. Timing is key. Opportunities come,
then slip away again.
7. Take the time to read good, books
in the area you're working on. They're
often a source of inspiration. And listen to
music, too.
8. If you feel confused, take time and
seek your centre. Go to a place you con-
sider special, whether in nature or wher-
ever, and ask for guidance.
9. Don't seek after happiness. If you offer
your life in service to your greatest source
of love (and not the human kind), happi-
ness will come and sit on your shoulder
like a bird.
10. Know when to be silent, as well as
when to talk.
Being organized
11. Treat every letter, email or phone
call as if the person is, or could become,
a friend.
12. Create a list of your year's goals and
priority projects, and give them approxi-
mate timelines.
13. Create a weekly to-do list, including
phone numbers for people to be called.
14. Create a daily to-do list, and priorize
your actions. Some prefer to do big tasks
first, some small.
15. Create a folder or notebook where
you can keep notes for each project; but
don't drown in notes, especially in a meet-
ing. Priorize listening, and relationships.
16. Don't drown in emails: they will
consume your day. Try to answer those on
the same topic at the same time.
17. Invest time in research. There are
no shortcuts. Good research is invaluable,
and lends power to knowledge. Create a
good filing system, so that everything is
easy to access and up to date.
18. Keep all commitments; be on time.
Phone in advance if you're going to be late
or cancel.
19. In new situations, listen and then,
listen some more, until you have a grasp
of the situation and can contribute with
useful suggestions.
20. A clear project has clear energy. If a
project feels blocked, pause and reassess
what's happening.
Being kind
21. In a group project, seek to involve
other people as much as possible. The
world is full of people who are looking for
purpose, and a way to contribute.
22. Tune into your close co-operants.
Find ways in which they can play to their
strengths, as part of a team. Find ways to
reward and acknowledge. Time invested
in a phone call is 10 times better than a
single email.
23. Accept criticism wisely, even i f it
hurts. Be happy to say "oops!" if you make
an error, and accept full responsibility.
24. If negative energy comes your way,
say hello and let it pass straight through. If
it comes persistently, take time to ask the
person what's up, and clear away possible
misunderstandings.
25. Where possible, don't do business
with people you don't feel good about.
Steer a path around them.
26. If someone is becoming emotion-
al, listen with your heart, not with your
brain.
27. In meetings and workshops where
you are the leader, take time to connect
with each person. Always make space for
introduction of new people. Prepare a
space before people meet in it. Set a posi-
tive energy.
28. Carry your sense of humour wher-
ever you go. Remember the fifth law of
sustainability: "If it's not fun, it's not sus-
tainable!"
29. Above all else, be kind. The world is
full of grief and sorrow, and longing for
love.
30. Be grateful for all.
Guy Dauncey is president of the BC
Sustainable Energy Association www.bcsea.
org, and author of several books, including
Earthfuture: Stories From a Sustainable
World (New Society Publishers). He lives in
Victoria. www.earthfuture.com

BCLiberals stalling on wind powerbyArne Hans

I / C stands to lose major investment incompetence or short-sighted favourit- In addition, the federal government has The BC government should commit to
dollars, jobs and significant federal ism for fossil fuels on the part of the BC an offer on the table to all provinces to purchasing the 1,000 MW of wind power
government subsidies i f the provincial Liberals if they don't say 'yes' to this wind subsidize up to 4,000 MW of new wind needed to secure the Vestas project and
government doesn't commit soon t o energy deal now," says Carr. power to the tune of about one cent per get going on the Sea Breeze wind proj-
accepting more wind-generated energy A letter dated December 16, 2004 from kilowatt hour. Quebec has leapt on this ect. It should purchase the power at the
into the provincial grid. Vestas to the BC Minister of Energy and offer with a guaran- $0.07 rate i t offered
Vestas, the world's largest manufactur- Mines requests a meeting and warns that tee to produce 2,000 the proponents of the
er of wind turbines, has approached the it has other investment avenues and must MW of wind power Duke Point gas-fired
BC government with an offer to invest get a government decision soon. To secure and other provinces plant near Nanaimo,
approximately $30 its i n v e s t m e n t are moving fast. If BC cancel the Duke Point
million to build a ...agreeing to purchase 1,450 Vestas asked the doesn't make a deci- deal and put BC on a
major wind turbine BC government sion very soon we profitable and healthy
plant in Squamish. MW o f wind power would to commit to pur- stand to lose millions green energy path.
The project would help bring sustainable devel- chasing 1,000 MW of dollars. The fed- Gerry Furney, mayor
generate 125 t o of wind power. In a eral subsidy for 1,000 of Port McNeil; Ian
185 direct jobs in opment and good, green jobs separate deal a 450 MW of wind power Sutherland, mayor of
a community hard to at least two regions of BC MW wind energy is $87 million a year. Squamish; a n d B i l l
hit by the loss of project b y Sea Despite the com- Shepard, chair of the
BC Rail jobs. But that really need it: Squamish Breeze on north- mitment in its ener- Mount Waddington
the B C govern- ern Va n c o u v e r gy plan to target 50 Regional District all
ment is stalling on
and the North Island. Island is ready to percent of BC's new support these power
the deal. go except .for BC energy production deals and are wait-
"It's a no-brainer," says the BC Green Hydro agreeing to purchase the power. as "clean and green," ing for positive action
Party's Adriane Carr. "Climate change is The government agreeing to purchase the BC government's on the part of the BC
now the biggest global issue. Here we have 1,450 M W of wind power would help energy arm, BC Hydro, has accepted only government. It's.time that BC catches up
the chance to do our bit to meet Canada's bring sustainable development and good, one wind power project, a proposal by and gets on board with Kyoto and green
Kyoto obligations by shifting to clean, green jobs to at least two regions of BC Stothart Energy to build a small wind energy.
green energy and at the same time garner that really need it: Squamish and the farm near Holberg on northern Vancouver Writer and film maker Arne Hansen can
lots of money and jobs. It's either sheer North Island. Island. be reached at editor@commonground.ca

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 Buffy Sainte-Marie's ARTS

magic is alive
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER INDUCTED TO HALL OF FAME
by Joseph Roberts

Joseph Roberts: Common Ground has a new arts and
entertainment section dedicated to raising awareness
and empowering people. I feel you're doing that.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: I just got back from touring, in.
Manitoba with the Cradleboard Teaching project, and
then Toronto and Ottawa. In Toronto we had a big gala
when Universal Soldier was inducted into The Canadian
Songwriters Hall of Fame. It was broadcast on CBC.
JR Universal Soldier is just as timely today as when
you wrote it.
BSM Yes, unfortunately.
JR For the past 28 years you've been working with the
Nihewan Foundation.
BSM I started the foundation a lot longer ago than
that. We started it in 1968 and it became a reality in
'69.
JR What does the word Ni-he-wan mean?
BSM It means "talk Cree", but it implies "Be your cul-
ture".
JR I remember listening to God Is Alive and Magic Is
Afoot a long time ago and want to thank you for putting
out that message.
BSM I re-recorded that on the album of Up Where
We Belong which is a collection of new songs and all the
songs that are most requested in concert. We've used
that song in the video concert I did for CBC, also called
Up Where We Belong. We got a Gemini for it.
JR A n d you've worked with UNESCO on a school
project in Canada.
BSM Melinda Barnes is the spokesperson for that. It's
really their project.
JR I'm curious about your degree in Oriental philoso-
phy.
BSM When I entered college I thought I'd be a veteri-
narian and I do love animals, but in the process of set-
tling in as a student I'd always been interested in people's
relationships with the Creator, so my study in world reli-
gion kind of focused down to oriental philosophy. So at
the University of Massachusetts I majored in that at the
same time as getting my teaching degree. •
JR Was that prior to God is Alive?
BSM Oh, much before. That was when I was in col-
lege in 1959.
JR When did you first pick up a guitar and feel it was
more amazing than you imagined.
BSM I probably was about 15 and in high school. I'd
played piano up until then, anything else I could get my
hands on, so I got my first guitar as a teenager which was
great for me because I was very shy and it was portable.
So I could take it anywhere I wanted to go and just enjoy
songwriting by myself. I t came very easily.
JR I've fallen in love with the guitar again..4D

All photos © Buffy Sainte-Marie

BSM I just got a new Godin and I like it very
much. It's a steel string, but it has a very beau-
tiful easy fingerboard.
JR When you write a song do you do the
words first or the music?
BSM Very often at the same time, but it
varies.
JR How would you describe the feeling when
you know something is coming through you?
BSM It's a little bit like dreaming. I guess I
don't have words for that. It's funny, because
the feeling itself is very non-verbal and similar
to what I get with animals when you just kind
of shut off your conscious verbal processes and
be a part of the moment, kind of shut up and
listen.
JR Do you feel expansion or a sense of con-
nectedness?
BSM I don't Icriow. It's kind of like a radio is
turned on in mrhead. I have no idea where it
comes from. There's another side to my writ-
ing that's very well thought-out and very delib-
erate. I'll get an idea for a song and kind of hear
this thing in my head.
If I get fascinated enough and it's a topical
song like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee or
Universal Soldier I'll just work on it, because
I have a goal at that point. Then it becomes
quite deliberate and almost like writing a col-
lege thesis because I have a goal to present it to
other people who might not have thought of it
in that way. Then I know I only have three min-
utes to make, in some cases, a very new point,
even if it's something as old as what Universal
Soldier is about - everybody being responsible
for the war.
JR I saw your concert on Salt Spring Island.
BSM That was a fun one. It's also a very,
very nice place to stay. I also remember some-
one coming in wearing a beautiful calico shirt
that I liked so much he gave it to me.
JR What's closest to your heart these days?
BSM M y animals. I have a really close rela-
tionship with horses, and a herd of goats and
cats and dogs and family. So my home front,
of course. But also the Cradleboard Teaching
Project. I just spent a couple of weeks in north-
ern Manitoba and Wmnipeg. The ministers of
education and heritage are really supportive
of the project, so I was just in Norway House
teaching teachers how to participate and stay
involved.
JR Tell us about your painting.
BSM Well, I was the first person to do big
scale digital paintings to appear in galleries and
museums. The paintings being exhibited now
were started in 1988.
JR I see your self-portrait in the red back-
grouhd on your website.
BSM There are a lot of other paintings on
the site.
JR You will be in Vancouver March 13 at
the Talking Stick Festival. Does that tie in with
other work you're doing?
BSM I n a way it does. Ulali is going to be
there as well, you know. D o n ' t miss them,
they're magnificent. I ' m also doing a work-
shop on the 14th but we haven't decided yet
if it's going to be a Cradleboard workshop or
a music workshop or what. But I'll be at the
Chan Centre both days. I love it there.

16 • CommonGround• MARCH 2005

 Buffy's story
FROMUNIVERSAL SOLDIER
TOROCKING THE CRADLE PROJECT

Buffy Sainte-Marie was a graduating a PhD in fine art from the University of
college senior in 1962 and hit the ground Massachusetts. She also holds degrees in
running in the early sixties, after the beat- both Oriental philosophy and teaching,
niks and before the hippies. All alone she influences which form the backbone of
toured North America's colleges, reser- her music, visual art and social activism.
vations and concert halls, meeting both As a college student in the early 1960s,
huge acclaim and huge misperception Buffy Sainte-Marie became known as a
from audiences and record companies writer of protest songs and love songs.
who expected Pocahontas in fringes, and Many of these became huge hits and
instead were both entertained and educat- classics of the era, performed by hun-
ed with their initial dose of Native North dreds of other artists including Barbra
American reality in the first person. Streisand, Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Janis
By age 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had Joplin, Roberta Flack, Neil Diamond,
appeared all over Europe, Canada, Tracy Chapman and The Boston Pops
Australia and Asia, receiving honors, med- Orchestra.
als and awards which continue to this day. Buffy had a unique career in the USA,
Her song Until It's Time for You to Go was Europe, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong
recorded by Elvis and Barbra and Cher, and Japan. She wrote songs and essays,
and her Universal Soldier became the established a scholarship foundation
anthem of the peace movement. For her to fund Native American study, spent
very first album she was voted Billboard's time with indigenous people in far away
best new artist. countries, received a medal from Queen
She disappeared suddenly from the Elizabeth II and presented a colloquium
mainstream airwaves during the Lyndon to Europe's philosophers.
Johnson years.As part of a blacklist, which In 1976 she quit recording to be a
affected Eartha Kitt, mommy and an
Taj Mahal and a artist, and to con-
host of other out- tinue asa student of
spoken perform- experimental music.
ers, her name was Buffy and her son
included on White Dakota Starblanket
House stationery as Wolfchild became
among thoSe whose well known for their times with scanned-in realities (photos, enriching core curriculum based in Native
music "deserved to five-year stint on fabrics, feathers and beads to create huge, American cultural perspectives. The inter-
be suppressed." In SesameStreet, where brilliantly coloured paintings, which she active multimedia CD-ROM Science:
Indian country and they taught us that describes as being "both reflective and Through Native Ameiican Eyes features
abroad, however, "Indians still exist." deep, hie new car paint". Her works have Buffy on camera as well as producer and
her fame only grew. As a composer, she graced the covers of Art Focus and Talking . director. Visit www.cradleboard.org to
She continued to won an Academy Stick magazines and been featured in MS learn more.
appear at countless Award in 1982 for magazine and USA. Today. Buffy Sainte-Marie's work is a reflection
grassroots concerts, the song Up Where As digital media caught on, Buffy of her own life —extremely varied and
AIM events and other .WeBelong as record- assisted many other artists in under- unique—and her special skill is in join-
activist benefits. She made 17 albums of ed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for standing computers as an additional tool ing seemingly unrelated ideas: A pacifist
her music, three of her own television the film An Officer and a Gentleman. for real art. She was keynote speaker at and a general. Indians and computers.
specials, spent five years on Sesame Street, With Dakota grown up, Buffy re- the Interactive '96 conference in Toronto, Electronic art and Native realities.
scored movies, helped to found Canada's entered the music scene in 1993 with her where tangible versions of her artwork In February 2005 Buffy's song Universal
Music of Aboriginal Canada Juno catego- comeback album Coincidence and Likely were exhibited amidst great media atten- Soldier was inducted into the Canadian
ry, raised a son, earned a PhD in fine arts, Stories (EMI), tion. Singing a concert with the Regina Songwriters Hall of Fame. •
taught digital music as adjunct professor Her art and music are also teaching Symphony with her magnificent huge continued on page 30
at several colleges, and won an Academy tools, and she uses these continually to digital paintings exhibited in the foyer of
Award Oscar for the song Up Where We enlighten. the concert hall, her continuing theme
Belong. 4, An educator before shewas ever known Cyberskins: Live and Interactive crosses
Buffy ainte-Marie virtually invented as a singer, Buffy lectures at colleges and media boundaries but always emphasizes
the role i f Native North American inter- civic venues on a wide variety of top- how Indians are alive and thriving even
nationaljictivist pop star Her concern for ics. She serves as adjunct professor in within the digital revolution.
protect* indigenous intellectual prop- Canada at York University in Toronto and In February 1996, Buffy released her lat-
erty, and her distaste for the exploitation Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in est album Up Where We Belong (EMI), a
of Native American artists and performers Regina, and in the US was an Evans Chair collection of new songs with new record-
has kept her in the forefront of activism in scholar at the Evergreen State College in ings of her best songs. She was recently
the arts for forty years. Presently she oper- Washington State. She has also taught at awarded the Award for Lifetime Musical
ates the Nihewan Foundation for Native the Institute for American Indian Arts in Achievement by the First Americans in
American Education whose Cradleboard Santa Fe, New Mexico. the Arts, who also paid homage to Buffy
Teaching Project serves children and An early Macintosh pioneer indigital and her legendary career by naming the
teachers in eighteen states. art and music, Buffy Sainte-Marie's works award after her.
• were among the first to be seen in muse- Since 1996 she has limited her con-
Deeper background about Buffy ums and galleries across North America. cert appearances to about 20 per year,
Born o n a Cree reservation i n She likens electronic painting to "painting speaking engagements to about the same
Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Buffy with light." Working on her Macintosh at number, and focused her time mostly on
Sainte-Marie was adopted and raised in home, using mainly Photoshop software, the Cradleboard Teaching Project, using
Maine and Massachusetts. She received she combines colours and light, some- her multimedia skills to create accurate,

MARCH2005 •CommonGround• 17
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 Organic, simple
and healthful
NUTRISPEAK
by Vesanto Melina MS, RD
O r g a n i c eating has gone mainstream.
Responding to consumer demand,
supermarkets n o w feature centrally
placed organic produce sections. Over
the past decade, the organic food indus-
try has increased at 20 percent per year.
What drives this growing support for
organic food? N o t surprisingly, savvy
consumers figure that if a whiff of insec-
ticides can kill bugs dead, these chemi-
cals aren't going to do us a whole lot
of good. After all, our cells respond to
poisons i n the same general manner.
And toxic herbicides aren't that appeal-
ing either, even if there's just a trace left
at harvest time.
Yet to put things in perspective, the use
of pesticides for agricultural purposes has
been a common practice for just half a
century. Prior to the 1950s, organic farm-
ing was the normal system of food pro-
duction. The pesticide industry and the
chemical warfare industry grew together
as siblings; the research that supports these
fields has much in common. Many pesti-
cides were registered long before extensive
studies established links to cancer and
other diseases and the sometimes-tragic
effects on farm workers became known.
The list of permitted chemicals varies
markedly from country to country.
According to a 1993 National Academy
of Sciences study Pesticides in the Diets of
Infants and Children, pesticide regulation
is outdated and flawed. The risk assess-
ment that has been done is based on adult
consumption of one pesticide at a time
or on animal studies. Yet the concentra-
tion of chemicals in the body of a rapidly
growing child is likely to create a different
and possibly higher risk. Furthermore,
we have no idea of the possible effects of
ingestion and interaction of a mixture of
dozens of these substances over a lifetime.
Are there further advantages to choos-
ing organic produce? Consumers report
that it tastes better. What factors contrib-
ute to the development of a flavourful
tomato or a luscious strawberry? Sunlight,
clean water and soil with the full spec-
trum of minerals and essential nutrients
are high on the list. Organic farmers keep
their soils balanced and well fed through
proper tillage, crop rotation and the use
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known as carotenoids. Canadians also like
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chain, we avoid the toxins that accumulate
in animal fats.
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It's been called "the original spiritual
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Tracking back more than 4,000 years,
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keep us stuck in the garbage and reveals
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Kabbalah, in Hebrew, means, "to receive:'
From this simple meaning we are able
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The question is, receive what?
Most answers usually include fulfillment,
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own life, it is of a non-physical nature.
The ancient Kabbalists called i t energy.
Since energy never dissipates the entire
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Kabbalah states, just as we are limited in
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see the energy of fulfillment. It could be
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 offer some hope, although there is a lim- to so much violence towards women in

Learning ited supply of the latter. Humour makes

the truth more palatable, if ultimately the
film ends up suggesting that some things
the 1947 partition of the Indian sub-con-
tinent. into India and Pakistan. Tens of
thousands of Muslim, Sikh and Hindu

together shouldn't be laughed off.

Sharks have had a bad rap. Ever since
Jaws made its big splash in 1975, sharks
women were abducted, raped and killed
in a kind of ethnic cleansing. The events
of that era come back to haunt a Muslim
FILMS WORTH WATCHING have had trouble shaking off their mon-
sters-of-the-deep image. Sure, if you are a
widow in 1979 asshe watches her beloved,
teenage son drawn into an Islamic funda- Erickson College
by Robert Alstead seal look out: sharks are ferocious preda- mentalist group. The film, from first time
tors. But, looking at it from a selfish human
point of view, more people die from light-
Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar, is at the
Ridge from March 18 to 24.
... discover
A few years ago Czech director Jan ning strikes than from shark attacks. Still,
..Hrebejk mixed farce with the unlike- we've hardly batted an eyelid as numerous
Finally, one other film to look out for
after March 4 is the documentary about
the coaching
ly subject of Nazi collaboration in war- shark species have been hunted—as tro-
time Czechoslovakia in Divided We Fall. phies, exotic food (like shark fin soup)
chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov's his-
toric contest with Big Blue, an IBM com-
difference
It made for a serious, moving and sur- or out of just plain fear—to the brink of puter, in Game Over: Kasparov and the Expand your skills, advance
prisingly funny movie. Hrebejk's latest extinction. Imax Sharks 3D tries to redress Machine. •
film, Up and Down (Horem Padem), the balance over the course of 42 minutes, Please note dates may be subject to
your career, find success.
tackles the awkward subject of racism by revealing the true nature of these pre- change. ... discover the power of
in his native Czech Republic with a historic creatures and by submerging us Robert Alstead writes for www.iofilm.ca solution focused coaching.

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Letters here. Maybe someday soon...

Synchronicity is afoot! For the past
weekOFso I have been constantly listening
to Mike Scott and The Waterboys' This Is
the Sea re-release every time I am in my
car, which is a lot. Being the only person
I know who feels such a connection with
Mike's music, other than a Brit who intro-
duced me to the Waterboys back in '92, I
found it quite amazing to gaze down and
see the Common Ground cover! ...for I
agree with your take on Mike's music. It
truly has heart and soul—arare commod-
ity in rock and roll.
I was at the Commodore in '01 for his
last concert—anamazing concert. I only
wish I could have been present at some
of the earlier ones back in the '80s in
England. I was however at a little sold-out
church in Kits back in '94 or '95 where
Mike performed solo and did some of his
new solo tracks—pure magic!
At any rate, I just wanted to thank you
and salute your article and cover feature
on Mike and his music. Maybe it will help
to get him back here soon.
Perry Zavitz,
Vancouver
What a talented writer you (Geoff
Olson) are. I thoroughly enjoyed your arti-
cle, The Artist as Early Warning System. I
usually find it hard-slogging reading arti-
Thanks again,
Bob White,
Newfoundland
Beautiful, articulate, melodic, intelli-
gent article on Mike Scott. You are clearly
a skilled, gifted writer, Geoff. A joy to read
—for the content and your words. Thank
you!
Regards,
. Maria Hauschel
EDITOR'S REPLY: Welcome to our ous techno-propaganda and media brain-
new Arts and Entertainmeqt
section.
Re: Protest of fur auction
• I n watching all the differ-
ent coverage of the protest,
I watched with sheer horror
and intense grief the footage
of a fox being skinned alive,
his face bloody, eyes still blink-
ing, as well asa lynx struggling
for his life against the grip of
a leg-hold trap. It infuriated,
shamed, and pained me to see
such examples of the torture
humans inflict on other living
beings.
I appeal to the kind and
compassionate part of people
and ask you to please, please
stop buying fur of any kind.
If you buy it, you are the
cause, because you create the
to find some of the words I need to help
discuss the problems I feel are arising in
my family and the world as I see it. I shall
American war-mongering. As you
point out, these are blatant recruitment
ads that imply that fighting a war is just
a matter of pushing a few buttons with-
be looking forward to seeing and reading
more of your work. out seeing the whites of your enemies'
Thank you. eyesas you accumulate points to "win
Senior S the game." It's just sick!
The prophecies of Marshall McLuhan
Thank you so much for writing Anger: have come true over and over again.
the Seven Deadly Spins Continues in the With the use of so much technology
January edition of Common Ground. I've in the home we are isolated from other
been ranting privately about this insidi- human beings on an ever-increasing
basis. There is a new class emerging
that I've also been writing about:
the technologically marginal-
ized. I'm a community health
worker. From what I have
observed, the majority of peo-
ple in this class are elderly and
live in poverty. Because some
can barely afford a telephone,
much less a computer and
Internet access, they are left
out of the loop. What are their
options when just about every
information source these days
tells them that if they want
more information they need
to go to: www, a website that
I cannot accessbecause I don't
have the latest technology?"
I have found myself mar-
ginalized because I don't own
m o b • a cell phone. I was at a pub-
1"..4* A11110 lic event not long ago and I
needed to use a pay phone.

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cles by literature scholars, because they
seem to try too hard, but your writing
has an appealing depth and flow. I found
it highly insightful. Have you emailed a
copy of your article to Mike Scott? I'm.
sure he'd appreciate it very much. Thank
you for sharing your gift with us.
Lots of love,
Lorraine Sims, Vancouver
Just wanted to pass on that your article
on Mike Scott and the Waterboys was a
pleasure to read.
I managed to catch the band play in
Toronto...and it was by far the best show
I have ever witnessed...they pulled me in
and gave me something extra special...
Your words really made those memo-
ries come flooding back—the Waterboys
have always had a strong following on
the Rock, but alas they have never played
demand The most effective { couldn't find one. When I
way we can put a stop to these asked a police. Officer where
appalling acts is to use our I could find one he stared at
powers as consumers. We can me like I was speaking a for-
use our dollars to say we will Eckhart lobe • HRH The Noce of W i g . • D w h i Suzuki • [trees Deadly Spin • S l a y Sian. eign language. After looking
not stand for such abuse. for some time I discovered
Sincerely, that there weren't any pub-
Marianne Verigin, washing for a while now. Most recently I lic phones available. The assumption
Society for Animal Freedom and decided to write something about the use seemed to be that all of us own cell
Equality, Burnaby of video games to make war look like "fun phones. Sorry, can't afford one. This is
www.animalequalityorg for profit" when I was subjected to a very very disturbing. The lack of pay phones
offensive ad for the game Mercenaries on is also a safety issue. •
I have never tried to email a complete the Comedy channel, of all places, where I could go on and on about this but
stranger before but here goes. I have just players were gleefully invited to "blow I'll spare you right now, although I
read your excellent article (Anger, the the living snot" out of people, buildings, think there needs to be something writ-
Deadly Spin) and was really impressed by or whatever stood in their way. There is ten about the technologically marginal-
it. I am a senior who doesn't subscribe to censorship in place regulating portrayal ized class.
newspapers anymore. I• really related to of sex, use of offensive language or rac- Thanks again for bringing this to the
the way you articulated some of the frus- ist comment, but here we have the media public's attention.
trations I am experiencing with my chil- promoting high-tech violence in order ..Gwen Russell, •
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ARIES (March 21—April 19) emotions. Solutions appear to help you
You could do well to invest eliminate any feelings of ill will. Current
wisely and not cut corners to celestial openings could compliment
get properly informed. Being your daily events. Personal reckoning has
frugal and focused shall improve the its day in court. You are getting on with it
matters at hand. Coming into yout power •and know what you need to accomplish.
lately has helped you to lose your inhibi-
tions. You will win if you play the game A k . SCORPIO (Oct. 23 — Nov.
and keep your eye on the sparrow. 21)
Relationships are at a cross-
TAURUS (April 20—May 21) roads. New levels of relating
You feel elated and i n the are your main desire. The connection you
grqove. Candles will be lit for seek is deeper and you may need solace
romantic dinners. Canoe trips to find your centre. Take some time off
will ignite wonder and wild abandon- to rewrite your dream-mate wish list.
ment. Whatever you so cherish is within Patience is key.
your grasp. Free up your calendar for the
invitations that are on their way to you. SAGITTARIUS ( N o v. 2 2
—Dec. 21)
GEMINI (May 22—June 20) The ground beneath your feet
Not everyone is able to read is solid and your emotions are
minds. They may pretend balanced. There will be some challenges
to know what you need. ahead, but you are better equipped to
Although you may feel stealthy in your handle them. You have come through the
communications, they can be parlayed most difficult times arriving with great
now. It's your approach that is improv- aplomb and personal style.
ing. Your secretive side may come out of
the shadows. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 — Jan.
19)
CANCER (June 21 - July 22) Perhaps the lid blows off your
Your senses open up like a cool temperament. I t has
flower. Your cravings may full reign after building up over sev-
instantly get satiated. It's as if eral moons. Utilize this time to forge
you can dial up what you desire. This is with tools that allow you to make your
a colossal time to invest in luxury items mark. The gods of destruction will work
or simply indulge in your taste buds. through you to rebuild on new terrain.
These will be lasting pleasures. Nothing
is taboo. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 — Feb.
et•
19)
LEO (July 23—Aug. 22) You've walked a mile in other
You g e t t h e chance t o people's shoes, now it's time to
embody the qualities within slip into your own moccasins. Courses in
your heart. You arrive at your self esteem are needed or you could teach
purpose and identify with others for a them, as we all teach what we need to
more compassionate path. Feeling that learn most. Ask yourself if your intention
you have to walk across hot coals to arrive is to gather sympathy or gain release from
at your goal is subsiding. You have the insecurities.
way and the means to shine.
411
PISCES (Feb. 20—March 20)
VIRGO (Aug. 23—Sept. 22) A new independence that you
You may be witness to those haven't tasted before now spar-
around you not keeping their kles within you. The break-
commitments. You can be the through that you used to dream of has
heavenly one and keep your word. Indeed come. You can shape life the way you
it's a rare thing to find honesty. People want while you dance to your own tune.
can only inspire you to stay true to your- The angelic-beings hear your words of
self. You are the emissary and it is not a thanks and merriment. Happy trails to
path -for the trendy. you.
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For the past eight years, the board at
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The course is comprised of tours in the
region (everything from successful social
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and the magnificent Ducati motorcycle
plant). The remainder of the program
takes place at the university, with the
Stefano Zamagni. continued from page 9 "I don't want to die, it's just, some-
Dr Zamagni, who heads up this work at smell, what was the touch of really living? times, I don't know how to live." Wiping
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Duke of Hazards The entire premise for this plant in
the first place is that the sub-sea cables
which carry high-voltage direct-current
gas pipelines, coming from off-island. As
Prince Rupert found out last year, when
residents gathered in the civic centre to
WOULD DUKE POINT'S GAS BURNING to Vancouver Island will be classified as keep warm, pipelines can break too.
ELECTRIC PLANT BE SUMAS 3? outdated in 2007 and new lines won't Several truly on-island solutions were
exist until October 2008. First, they are offered but were bounced out of the ten-
by Johnny Frem not being "retired" as some media has dering process for various reasons. Green
reported. I n fact BC Hydro maintenance Energy has a planned bio-mass plant,
C ometimes choices are driven by an sion lines from off-island. And finally, BC plans show that it intends to keep them up Norske Canada has a demand side man-
%..) agenda of politics or greed with igno- Hydro offered to guarantee the price of and energized until 2014. They just lose agement solution wherein it offered to
rance to the long-term consequences to gas for 25 years to anyone agreeing to take their "reliability" rating from a system- shed its load (one quarter of Vancouver
the environment. The choice by the BC its gas-fired project to completion, a gas planners point of view. Yakout Monsour, Island's total load) i f there were any
Utilities Commission t o allow a con- guarantee that will be paid by BC electric- senior VP o f system management for interruptions in service, two companies
sortium to build a gas-fired electrical- ity ratepayers. BC Transmission Corporation, testified offered transmission solutions, there is a
generating station at Duke Point near Now the Commission is allowing the before the Commission that he was com- fully permitted 450 MW wind farm ready
Nanaimo seems like one such decision. same project it had rejected the first time pletely comfortable handling the problem to be constructed on the north end o f
The Commission granted permission around as too expensive—even though BC with current system assets until the imple- Vancouver Island that has already passed
February 17 for BC Hydro to sign the citizens would be asked to pay extra when mentation of the transmission solution in environmental review. Also several addi-
electricity purchasing agreement w i t h the price of gas to the plant increases, 2008 to 2009. tional smaller runs of river hydro and
Duke Point power—a project of Pristine even though it's unneeded, unwanted and Second, several other solutions to the waste wood plants were offered during
Power. Several interveners have indicated unhealthy, even though in the Liberals' loss of those cables' reliability rating have tendering.
that they will file appeals. throne speech they vowed to continue also been suggested. Some at BC Hydro If this "temporary" solution is allowed
The Commission said virtually the same their opposition to a similar gas-fired plant seem adamant that the only solution then what might become of Duke Point's
project was too expensive in September —the Sumas 2 project under consideration they are willing to entertain is a gas-fired gas-fired generating plant? Could it be
of last year, sending BC Hydro back to south of the US border near Abbottsford, plant. They discarded such submissions to that the BC Utilities Commission or BC
find a cheaper way to bring electricity even though i t the hearings as Hydro boards were stacked with pro-gas
to Vancouver Island. Unfortunately BC violates t h e i r Norske Canada's and pro-oil members? Would this future
Hydro, anticipating approval, had already commitment to The green l i g h t t o drive a "demand s i d e local market demand encourage off-shore
gone ahead and bought the turbines for green energy in climate-changing, gas-guzzling management" oil drilling? It is time for all stakehold-
the project for about $50 million. A n that same throne solution, where ers, including ratepayers, to consider this
interesting question here is who autho- speech, and even toxin-emitting electric generat- Norske offered important decision because we all would
rized this massive purchase prior to BCUC though a t a s k ing plant at Duke Point came to reduce its use pay the environmental and increased elec-
approval? force of the big- of electricity trical costs.
Instead of looking for a new way to sup- gest industrial one day after Canada ratified should the island For further information and to voice your
ply power, BC Hydro put out the call for users of electric- the Kyoto Protocol ever approach opinions contact the following:
tenders and defined it such that the likely . ity i n B C a r e crisis during the BC Utilities Commission
answer to its call would be a gas-fired plant. against it. period o f 2007 www.bcuc.com
BC's utilities commission is supposed to The green light to drive a climate- and 2008. As one of the largest users of BC Hydro www.bchydro.com
prevent monopolistic practices. Allowing changing, gas-guzzling toxin-emitting electricity on-island it could resolve any BC Sustainable Energy Association
a corporation, any corporation, including electric-generating plant at Duke Point shortfall in electricity very easily by shut- www.bcsea.org
BC Hydro, to define the parameters of the came one day after Canada ratified the ting down some of its pulp mill process, BC Transmission Corporation
case under consideration appears to be an Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations which is what it offered to do. Norske is www.bctransco.com
abdication of that responsibility. Framework Convention o n Climate also concerned with uncontrolled increas- BC Wind Energy Association
First, BC Hydro "encouraged" the new Change, likely putting Canada in breach es in gas pricing and thus the cost of gen- www.bcwea.org
project by offering its untouched turbines of our international treaty obligations. erating electricity. David Suzuki Foundation
at discounted prices if the bidder agreed One estimate states Duke Point would BC Hydro's position is i t wants "on- www.davidsuzuki.org
to take on the Duke Point gas-fired plant produce as much poisonous exhaust as island generation." But in fact Duke Point Green Party of BC
project. Then BC Hydro specified to the 40,000 more cars each day. In the long is the farthest thing from "on-island" with www.greenparty.bc.ca
bidders that the electricity could only be run it seems we are being driven down Alberta gas piped in across the Georgia Independent Power Producers of BC
generated on-island. Transmission lines the wrong road in regards to air pollu- Straight. Another solution was offered by www.ippbc.com
coming from off-island would not be tion, lung damage and increased medical Sea Breeze Pacific Regional Transmission Norske Canada
eligible for consideration — even though costs. Asthma is already one of the lead- Company which is preParing to build a www.norskecanada.com
it defined the project as only a tempo- ing causes of emergency hospitalization new transmission line across the Strait of Tsawassen Residents Against High
rary solution and the final solution after among children in BC. More air pollution Juan de Fuca. Hydro dismisses electrical Voltage Overhead Lines
2008 would be new BC Hydro transmis- makes it worse. Not a clean choice. cables from the bid process but it allows www. Travhol.com

continued from page 7
in the whole ecological crisis.
It's amazing how aware of this our
young people are. The teenagers, a lot of
the high school students, are very much
aware that we're damaging the living
body of the Earth. Certainly my daugh-
ter in college is painfully aware of all these
issues.
All of this is trying to bring our soci-
ety back into balance with the feminine
and there's a great deal of resistance to
the idea that your teenage male needs
empathy, nurturing, care, love and so on.
That's anathema to the American idea of
the macho, competitive, driven male get-
ting out there and winning his wings and
making his place in the world..
BC With the US being a world domi-
nant power, it's very hard to put an army
together of gentle people.
JCP That's true. People who are nur-
tured don't make very good soldiers or
competitive business tycoons. The idea that
we're not born on this Earth for this sort
of thing certainly negates the American
dream and the people in power right now.
This is a time of real crisis. The aston-
ishing level of violence and suicide in our
children is simply a mirror of the crisis in
adults and our whole society. All we can
do is keep addressing the issue. If you want
a brain system that functions and if you
want to breed true intelligence and bril-
liance in young people, nurturing is the
key. I t also means establishing for them
the safe space. They must feel safe, pro-
tected and nurtured to open up and just
learn. Otherwise they're using half their
mental energy to protect themselves and
guard against the world out there, and SelfDesign Learning Community currently
the other half to learn whatever they need has 500 learners working online across
to protect themselves. It isn't working, it the province of BC and the Wondertree
hasn't worked. Learning Centre is working with children
We need to think instead of building an 5 to 13 in Vancouver. www.wondertree.org
educational system based on nurturing and www.selfdesign.org
every young person, giving them a feeling
of absolute safety and security. They thrive Joseph Chilton Pearce has written many
on a feeling that they're 'where they belong best-selling books on human development.
and that they're loved and wanted. If the He has raised five children and over the
. schools were just switched to that simple past 30 years given more than 2,000 public
idea we would see profound results. addresses around the world explaining the
latest research in child development to par-
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Wondertree Virtual High and SelfDesign a message that encourages everyone to love
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