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by Narrye Caldwell,L.Ac.

SOMETIMES, IT’S hard to tell the difference between a calling and a

craving. Both are insistent and hard to deny. But, denying a calling imperils our soul, while denying a craving is sometimes a necessary step toward health. Telling the dif-ference requires careful discernment. Of course, we tend to think of call-ings in terms of work or creative

pursuits, and cravings in terms of foods that are usually bad for us. Who ever felt “called” to the task of devour-ing a box of Godiva chocolates?

When it comes to food, I find there are two reasons why peo-ple experience crav-

ings. The first is lack of enough good quality fat in the diet. A defi-ciency of fat leaves us feeling empty, unsatisfied, longing for more. More of what, we’re usually not sure, but often we think it must be sugar, the fastest way to trick the body into thinking it has what it needs. Of course, sugar doesn’t give the body what it really needs, so very quickly we’re craving more. This produces an endless cycle with disastrous results (think diabetes, heart disease, obesity, fatigue, pre-menstrual syndrome, etc.) So, if you struggle with food cravings, try including a teaspoon of fat with each meal. I like coconut oil best, but you could also try butter and olive oil.

See what happens.

The other reason people have cravings is because of hidden food allergies.There are two kinds of food allergies. The immediate

kind cause dramatic reactions such as hives, asthma, and even anaphy-lactic shock upon contact with the offending food. For instance, peanut and shellfish allergies elicit this response in susceptible individuals. People who have these must avoid the allergenic food at all costs. But, there are also delayed food allergies that produce less dramatic, though equally problematic symptoms. Delayed food allergies set up chron-ic low-grade inflammation and auto-immune responses. Uncovering this type of food allergy requires detec-tive work. The best way is through a

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Our Theme here is the “Holiday Gift Guide”. We think of it as ‘green’

because it is about encouraging us all to give Gifts that are not made and shipped here from a far away place with a huge ‘carbon imprint’.

In this economic time, when life is a challenge for so many peo-ple/businesses (you know, ‘we’ the 99%??), how about purchasing a Gift Certificate from any business or service in this magazine? That would be a meaningful, interesting & unique idea/gift. That’s a WIN-WIN for you, your giftee, and the businesses in our magazine.

We believe that the folks fea-tured here in our “Essential Living Guide” (ELG) as well as the other featured businesses are of such high Integrity with quality services / businesses that you can only go ‘right here’, by purchasing from them. In fact, please consider any

& every business in Connection Magazine as one to Gift a certifi-cate from for your friends & loved ones (as well as yourself).

How about a Gift Certificate to a Class, a Healing Session, Intuitive Reading, Martial Arts class-es, a Massage or another type of Bodywork Session, an organically-made bed/mattress, Yoga, CranioSacral, a Chiropractic treat-ment, a Naturopathic Consultation, enrollment paid for a new career (massage, acupuncture, herb schools, etc.), retraining one’s brain via Psych K, an EMF assessment and their shielding protection, a Geiger Counter to assess radiation, HypnoTherapy, a Facial, Facial Toning, an Organic Hair Coloring, Qi Gong Session or DVD, gift a Thermography Session, a dining cer-tificate, etc., etc. It is time to ‘think outside the box’; walk our talk; be supportive of the local businesses

(especially, ones in this magazine) as they have proven themselves to be worthy of our business, etc.

And, let the businesses you see in this magazine know that you have seen their Ads or read their pertinent Articles when you go into them via The Connection Magazine (that helps us, as well). We are sharing these thoughts with you, very seriously, as people need and deserve our business. Gift some things differently this year.

And, look at page 3 here and go to our website to find out further things you can to do ‘be a team player’ with Connection Magazine. You’ll find some interesting ways to participate and possibly win some prizes. Thank you!

May your Holidays be filled with Health, Joy, Abundance, Peace & most importantly . . . LOVE!

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Imagine all the people living life in peace… You may say I’m a dreamerBut, I’m not the only one I hope some day you’ll join us And, the world will be [love] as one.

-John Lennon

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Children Eating Organic ~ pg 20

Gabriella’s Snow Day – a Benefit ~ pg 20

Tim Corcoran: Photographer; Outdoorsman ~ pg 39

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Santa Cruz and the Central Coast

A Photographic Celebrationof Time and Place

A fine art book by photographer Tim Corcoran

“This book is my dream through my art

to share my love and wonderment with the Central Coast.”

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IT MAY BE a bit soggy in Pogonip at the moment, but it’s sunny inside “Santa Cruz and the Central Coast — A Photographic Celebration of Time and Place,” a new book of photos by Tim

Corcoran.You may recognize Tim’s name as

founder of Headwaters Outdoor School in Mount Shasta, where he and his staff teach wilderness skills such as survival, tracking, edible and medicinal plants, nature awareness and Earth philosophy.

But his awakening to nature seems to have taken root in Santa Cruz County, where as a child he spent time on the North Coast

Davenport, or exploring the beach while his mother sunbathed near the Boardwalk.

His love for the land runs deep, and his photos show a colorful appreciation for what he calls “a dream place for a nature-loving kid.”

“I became a photographer at twelve years old. I began in earnest to document through photography the beauty of this wonderful meeting of ocean and land,” he writes. “This book is my dream through my art to share my love and wonderment with the Central Coast.”

A limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the author, are available now through his website, TimCorcoranPhoto.com. Individual prints are also available.

Tim dreamed of creating the book as early as twelve years old at Franklin Point. He lived in Santa Cruz for 30 years.

“I played endlessly with the land. I found love and great friendships. The meeting of sea and land at this place called the Central Coast is in my blood and always will be,” he writes.

of poppies opening for the light in Santa Cruz, a great horned owl eyeballing the camera in Pogonip, as well as redwood forests and great

gnarly branches.As a photographer, Tim has focused

attention on a few places in nature that he feel are profoundly beautiful and spiritual. Places

Those places include Mount Shasta, where he lives now, southern Utah, the Sierra

Nevada Mountains, all over California, Kauai, Hawaii and all beautiful places he’s traveled. Plans for the future include more books of photography documenting these places.

“I hope this book reminds people of what a treasure

we have and

inspiration and heart,” he writes. “I hope it brings out the dreamer and I hope the dreamer dreams of ways to protect what we have and bring back what we’ve lost.

“It’s not enough to love a place. In today’s world, we must do more. It’s our birthright to be born to the sea and land. In claiming that right,

in drinking in all the land and sea gives us, we

In January, Tim will be teaching The Winter Class at Headwaters Outdoor School (hwos.com).

Students will learn to brave the cold and discover the warmth and beauty of winter camping.

While winter camping in Mt. Shasta, Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and Lava Beds National Park, students will learn what is needed to enter a snow country environment

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shelters, such as snow caves, quinzhees, snow

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“I was raised with Nature as the most powerful presence in my life. I grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley of California,” he writes. “At that time in my

childhood these areas were mostly wild lands and orchards and creeks. I had three mentors who guided me through the skills of living with the land. I was truly lucky to grow up in such a beautiful area. My deep connection to the land from such a young age grew into a deep seated appreciation for the beauty of Nature.”

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Headwaters Outdoor School (hwos.com) and has recently published “Santa Cruz and the Central Coast — A Photographic Celebration of Time and Place.” Order by calling (530) 938-1304. Learn more at TimCorcoranPhoto.com.

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by Aja NiemannI first heard about the sensory depriva-

tion tank a few years ago in one of Joe Rogan’s podcasts, and an old friend kept telling me that I should try it out. He said that he had done it about a dozen times or so and it really made him feel great. Given everything I’ve read and all of the various other cleansing modalities, I decided to make my ap-pointment to do my first float.

I looked online and found ‘Be and Be WELL’ located in Ben Lomond, CA, owned by the husband and wife team Jai & Shanti Hudes. I was excited, curious, and even a little nervous. I called the next day to book my first float appointment with Shanti, who answered all my questions calmly and with lots of knowledge about flotation therapy (among many other heal-ing modalities). Right away I felt at ease. When I walked up the driveway the next day, the energy was amazing—it was calming, relaxing, peaceful and safe. When I first met Shanti, I felt a certain poise and grounding energy surrounding her. We spoke of many things before the float. She was in no hurry to get me in and out of there and took the time to answer the many questions I had for her. I picked her brain because I wanted to know exactly what to expect.

After showering, Shanti showed me into a back room that was painted a beautiful blue color and told me how blue is the color we see while in the womb and that it is the color of the light in

the soaking chamber. I just had to undress, turn on a button and hop in.

She said I could leave the tank open if I desired, but I wanted the full experience. I dis-robed and stepped into this silver time capsule

looking contraption. I laid there for about an hour and a half. Now, I’m a pretty antsy, can’t-stay-in-one-place, to save my life kind of per-son; even my acupuncturist cannot get me to relax at times. This was different. I listened to my breathing, thinking about nothing and everything. I’ve made a few

skydives and the sensation was similar to flying in the sky, which is something I really love to do. It was a very calming and peaceful sensation.

There was some light music on at first, but most of the time it was completely quiet which gave me the opportunity to focus on my breath-ing. Given that I knew I was lying in over 850 pounds of Epsom-salt, I kept breathing in good thoughts and breathing out any negative ones. I did this for quite a while in a deep meditative state. It was almost as if I was sleeping lightly and felt super relaxed and comfortable. It made me look at myself from different perceptual dimensions. The water supported me and there was no gravity. When I heard the music return, I remembered that it was my indicator and my time was done. I exited the tub and showered off.

Next I met Shanti in the room where the next client was preparing to go in. He was a virgin

What Is the Hype About the Sensory Deprivation Tank?

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Creative intelligence expresses throughout all endeavor, no matter the vocation. It is the progeni-tor of all action, the inspi-ration that motivates and manifests the dream.

Each day engenders challenge, and meeting daily demand calls for inspiration. Creative activity fulfills us. When I paint, write in my journal, create books, poetry, do Tarot

readings, maneuver life, I am deeply aware that the Divine Essence is flow-ing through me. I am a co-creator, Goddess and I. I am the brush; She is

the Artist. The creation that manifests is Love’s gift to me and through me. And I love sharing.

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Looking back, I don’t know if I was fully able to let everything go, but I do foresee the potential to go into a deeper meditative state in the future. I was just getting acquainted with the floating therapy process, getting my toes wet (no pun intended). There is much more soaking can accomplish. We are all just energy fields operat-ing on different frequencies, so it

Blessings, MelanieConsider Melanie’s latest book

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by David L. Biles, D.D.S., M.A.

Inever thought that I would con-tinue to learn as much as I do after so many years in practice as

a dentist. As a matter of fact, one of my early concerns was that dentistry wouldn’t offer as much stimulation as I thought I might need to be suf- ciently interested in my daily toils,

decades into my career. I could not have been more surprised as time has unfolded. Treating the trusting and grateful patients I do enables me to better understand how this oral system operates in health and disease and still keeps my daily interest. Each day I hear tales that astound me, challenging my understanding of the mechanisms of disease and dysfunction. I routinely hear from patients of brain fog clearing, whole body pain di-minishing, and energy increas-ing. Sometimes the reports are even more remarkable.

Recently, for example, a woman returned with her sister for a second opinion and examination, determined to help her sibling with her health concerns, touching all of the bases on possible solutions to helping her heal from a myriad of symptoms, dif cult to label medically. As has been my custom, I thoroughly evaluated her mouth on multiple levels, examin-ing her gums, TMJ, teeth, existing dental restorations, tongue posture, soft tissue, dental materials, and level of oral hygiene, utilizing digital x-rays, photographs, a laser cavity detector, and illuminated high mag-ni cation. My goal is to identify as many potential stressors in the oral cavity as possible, believing that the nature, magnitude, and duration of the stressors’ existence impact the immune system in, at the very least, diverting the attention of the immune system from other maladies.

During the course of the exami-nation, the former patient revealed to me that although she still had the antibodies for Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, SLE, she had not experienced any symptoms since completing treatment in my of ce seven years ago. That was why she had brought her sister in for an ex-amination and consultation with me. She wondered if a similar approach to dental care might be bene cial for her sister. Healthy mouth, healthy body, the American Dental Association says, so… of course I agree, being the good supportive dentist I am, applauding the ADA for some of the good work it does.

Another case history? Last week a gentleman suffering from high blood pressure, obesity, and shortness of breath informed my staff that he felt better than he had in years fol-

lowing several hours of full mouth periodontal debridement with our skilled registered dental hygienists. Even though he was still slightly numb, he said, later that evening his energy was signi cantly improved, as well as his mental clarity, includ-ing a reduction of whole body pain. All of this from just having his teeth thoroughly cleaned, because he, like 70-90% of Americans suffer from un-diagnosed gum disease. This was the third or fourth time I had heard such a revelation from a patient, leading me

to believe that rapidly lowering the total amount of bacteria in the head can have a signi cant effect on our health. Quickly.

The previous hypothetical link came to me when a physician called to acknowledge that her patient was now responding to her therapy fol-lowing a similar protocol. Prior to thoroughly cleaning her mouth and eliminating two cavities, this patient had been non-responsive to all of the physician’s efforts to stimulate her immune system and heal. She was now thrilled to see the patient’s prog-ress and called to understand why this was happening. We concluded that the reduction in bacteria was enabling her immune system to nally direct its attention to other priorities in the body rather than deal with an appar-ent chronic low grade sub-clinical infection in the head, localized to the mouth, primarily between and around the teeth. With this awareness came other implications, however.

The common denominator? A systematic approach to achieving a healthy mouth on multiple lev-els, attending to all of the possible stressors on and in the oral system, understanding that there are multiple types of stressors and each one exerts its in uence in a unique way. The stressors? Bacteria, number and type, from decay, gum disease, bad oral hygiene, poorly contoured, rough dental restorations that promote bac-terial accumulation and proliferation, inaccessible concave surfaces, plus the energetic effects of mixed metals, including the out gassing of mercury from silver colored llings, facilitated by the presence of gold. All of these physical in uences are impacting our

immune systems. Our symptoms we experience and report to health care practitioners are the logical result of this oral pollution. Unless the under-lying dental issues are strategically, safely, and effectively reduced or better yet, eliminated, then the medi-cal treatment regime we are engaged in will be little more than slightly effective symptom management. Ar-guably… the mouth comes rst.

This concept does not support the current perceived hierarchy in health care, however, as dentists do

not intentionally do medically related dental care due to the restrictions placed on both professions, not to mention the lack of communication and common understanding between the medical and den-tal professions. Nonetheless, the few dentists that do treat the whole mouth systemically oftentimes see healing of ap-parently unrelated symptoms. There are many reasons for this, including the somewhat obvious economic reasons,

where patients are more likely to seek care for a single tooth rather than a whole mouth. Plus, it takes much more skill to restore a whole mouth that one can only acquire after years of dedicated post-graduate work.

Detoxifying an entire mouth and rebuilding it better are tech-niques that are not taught in dental schools, necessitating specialized training, instrumentation, and travel. It has taken me over 15 years of soul searching and analysis, coupled with revelations from my patients over that time frame to become comfort-able with knowing that when patients unify their dentistry, health bene ts will occur. What those bene ts will speci cally be depends on the issues the patient possesses along with other factors, including the willingness to make lifestyle changes, if they have not also been examined and instituted already.

Don’t you think it is time we reconnected the mouth for dentistry and medicine? I welcome patients who are willing to invest in their health and educate themselves when it comes to understanding the particular stressors in their mouths. Likewise, I welcome the testimonials that only serve to validate a legitimate direction for the dental and medical professions to embark. We are here to heal, are we not?

Dr. David Biles is accepting new patients interested in a compre-hensive approach to health created in tandem with the patient. Dr. Biles brings awareness to health from a lifetime of study. Schedule a visit to see if an ideal approach to dentistry is what your body needs to heal, (831) 423-0121, www.drbiles.com.


The poems in this collection represent a distillationof Bishop's works and showcase her sense of humor,as well as her whimsical approach to the art ofwriting poetry. While the parameters of her wideranging poetic style are influenced by ‘sound poetry’and her affection for performance art, she stands infavor of the idea that poetry may return us to aspiritual place that invokes a ravishing journey ofinner awareness, peace, and soulful contemplation.

Read her article and learn more in the July 2015issue of The Connection Magazine.

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Selected Poems1987-2015The most comprehensiveoverview of her metaphysically inspired workpublished to date

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Gov’t: Shutdown at U.S. nucle-ar plant after 10 control rods acciden-tally fall into reactor core — Caused by ‘smoldering’ event, Fire Brigade on scene — Incident of this type could lead to overheating, potentially result-ing in ‘supercriticality’ — Official: No ‘immediate’ concern.

Record levels of Fukushima radiation detected off West Coast — Massive plume stretches for more than 1,000 miles — Reuters: Contamina-tion is spreading off U.S. shores — Radioactive cesium reaches 11 Bq/m3

at multiple location.Former Japan Official: “Un-

stoppable contamination of Pacific Ocean… is seriously menacing US West Coast” — “Fukushima now undeniably a global security issue… can’t be brought under control by single state” — Experts: Wave of radiation will be 10 times more than entire world’s nuclear tests combined “Very significant” explosion at dam next to U.S. nuclear site — ‘Plasma’ created due to tremendous amount of heat — Same type of phenomenon as lightning — Nuclear site’s fire depart-ment responds to blast.

TV: Underground wall around Fukushima reactors started “leaning” — Cracks developing due to rising water levels — Problems seen along almost entire length of sea wall — Try-

ing to make repairs to keep groundwa-ter from surging.

AP: “Alarming signs of oceanic distress” on West Coast — Record number of stranded seal pups, nearly 2,000% of normal levels — “Bags of skin and bones” — “In our 40 year history we’ve never seen this many animals”.

Surge in deadly ‘flesh-eating’ disease in Japan — “Shatters annual record” — Health experts issue advi-sories — Official: “Researchers are not sure why… There is so much we still don’t know” — Number of cases began rising in 2011.

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by David Brownstein, M.D.The most important thing you

can do to prevent any illness is to main-tain a strong immune system.

How do you accomplish that?

The first step is to eat a healthy diet, and the first step to a healthy diet is to maintain optimal hydration. The immune system will not function optimally in a dehydrated state. The body is made up of 70 percent water, while the brain is 80 percent wa-ter. I always encourage my patients to drink enough water.

Here’s how you do it: Take your body weight in pounds, divide by two and the result-ing number is the amount of water you should drink daily, in ounces.

But, it has to be pure water. Drinking beverages loaded with sugar and caffeine will actually worsen dehydration.

The next piece of dietary advice to optimize immune system function is to eliminate refined sugar from your diet.

In this country, we eat a tre-mendous amount of refined sugar. In 1915, the national average of sugar consumption was around 15 to 20 pounds per person per year. Today, it is estimated that Americans ingest more than 130 pounds of refined sugar per person per year.

Refined sugar is profitable for

the food industry because the refined product has a longer shelf life.

But the refining process re-moves the nutrients that are usually found in sugar. This results in a de-vitalized food source — and eating a devitalized food source leads to a devitalized body.

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Studies have shown that inges-tion of refined sugar also results in a depressed immune system.

In fact, the amount of refined sugar in two cans of regular soda — about 75 to 100 grams — can suppress the immune system’s white blood cells.

Specifically, this kind of sugar has been shown to inhibit white blood cells’ ability to engulf and destroy bacteria.

At the University of Utah, re-searchers found that female mice that ate a diet of 25 percent added sugar

— similar to a human drinking three cans of regular soda per day — died at twice the normal rate, and the males were less likely to hold territory and reproduce.

The authors of the study con-cluded, “Our results provide evidence that added sugar consumed at con-centrations currently considered safe

exerts dramatic adverse impacts on mammalian health.”

The next step to maintaining an optimal immune system is to avoid eating food contaminated with pesticides and syn-thetic hormones.

For this reason, it is best to eat organic fruits and vegetables as well as animal products that come from organically fed livestock raised in humane conditions.

Finally, it is helpful to supplement with vitamin

C. Humans are one of the few animal species that do not manufacture their own vitamin C. But vitamin C is an essential nutrient, which means that we must get it from our diets or we develop scurvy and die.

It takes approximately 3,000 to 5,000 mg of vitamin C per day to satu-rate the receptors on the red and white blood cells. If your stomach tolerates it, I recommend taking 3,000 to 5,000 mg of vitamin C per day.

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by Augustina Ursino

With great sadness, a Columbia City, Indiana, family shared with us that their infant son recently lost his life after receiving routine vaccinations and Tylenol.

One year-old Michael Whitesell loved playing with his older brother, Keegan. They were always together. No one predicted they would be forced apart after Baby Michael was vaccinated.

Michael Eugene Whitesell was born on September 30, 2014.

At the age of one, on October 19, 2015, he was taken in for his one year well-child visit. He received the MMR, varicella, hepatitis A, and flu shot vaccines. This is six vaccine doses.

Three days after this well visit, Michael had a slight fever. His pediatrician suggested to his parents that they give him some medication to reduce the fever. His parents gave Michael some Tylenol and his fever went down.

Michael seemed normal and was back to his old self. He was eating well and appeared to be fine. He even went to bed at the usual time and fell asleep in his crib.

Early the next day, just after seven o’clock in the morning, his mother, Brittney, found him lying on his stomach, cold, lifeless, and blue. She called 911.

While on the phone, Michael’s dad, Thomas, performed CPR on him. Both parents were in so much shock and just wanted him to come back to life, but he was already gone. Nothing they could do would bring him back.

Michael passed away on October 23, 2015, less than four days after he was vaccinated and given Tylenol.

Michael was found lying on his stomach but did not die from suffocation; the coroner already ruled this out. An autopsy was performed on Michael, but the results will not be given to his family for another two months or longer.

This is a copy of Michael’s recent vaccine record.

Michael’s Parents Were Inves-tigated And His Older Brother Was Removed by CPS

Both Michael and Keegan were being raised by their Aunt Brittney and Uncle Thomas Whitesell since birth. Their biological mother, Thomas’s sister, lives with some medical issues associated with epilepsy and the children’s biological fathers haven’t really been around to take on the parenting role, so the boy’s mother entrusted her brother Thomas and his wife to raise these children. Everyone was loved and happy and the children’s birth mother has always been in their life.

After years of trying to have children of their own without success, Brittney and Thomas felt blessed to provide a loving home for their nephews. They enjoyed being parents and loved raising Michael and Keegan.

When it came time to take the children in for their well child visits, Brittney and Thomas trusted the doctors with their children’s lives. They had their children vaccinated because they were just doing what the doctor recommended.

They didn’t know how harmful vaccines could be, until it was too late.

After Michael died, a routine investigation was done by Indiana’s Child Protective Services (CPS) and Michael’s older brother Keegan was removed from their home, in part because Brittney and Thomas are the children’s aunt and uncle, not their biological parents.

Keegan is only three years old and is now living with Brittney’s grandmother. Thomas and Brittney have been told Keegan will remain there at least until the autopsy report comes back.

Being investigated after a baby dies at home, after vaccination, is what grieving parents are put

through. Investigators are sometimes looking to blame the parents, instead of the vaccines. In this situation, it is hard to think CPS has a child’s best interest in mind when they know Keegan just lost his little brother and now they’ve taken him away from the only parents he knows.

Michael and his older brother Keegan were always with each other playing and they loved each other very much. Keegan needs his parents, to help him grieve. Telling him he can’t stay with those he knows as his mom and dad does not

seem to be in the best interest of Keegan.After having to accept Michael had passed

away, and then to have Keegan taken away, Thomas wrote, “It sucks not being able to grieve with our three year old boy ourselves, they treat us as criminals when we did nothing wrong.”

MMR Vaccine Package Insert Lists Death As An Associated Risk

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and vaccine manufacturers admit life-threatening allergic reactions and death can be the outcome of receiving any vaccine. [1]

The MMR vaccine Michael received is actually a 3-in-1 vaccine. The MMR vaccine is associated with these risks shown in the image provided, taken from the package insert. These risks clearly show that Michael suffered injuries related to the vaccines given to him, but the medical examiner and investigators who took Keegan away have yet to take notice.

Far too many parents have been put in this situation, being blamed for their child’s vaccine injuries. The vaccines cannot be ignored; they are hurting people and the government admits this every time a vaccine injury award gets paid.

The fact that death is listed as an associated risk of just one vaccine should be enough to bring attention to investigators dealing with the loss of a child after the child had a recent doctor’s visit. Parents need to read the vaccine package inserts and learn these risks. [2]

References1). www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-

effects.htm2). www.immunize.org/packageinserts/

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Prove Vaccines Killed A Person� Parents Should Be Able To Decline An Autopsy

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Vaccine Injuries� Giving Tylenol After Vaccination Can Be

Dangerous� A Retired Police Officer Speaks Up, Telling

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� Funeral Expenses Add An Extra Burden to Grieving Families

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Indiana Baby Dies in His Sleep Days After Receiving 6 Vaccine Doses

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There is a story of a Taoist farmer who had only one horse and one day that horse ran away. The

neighbors came to console the farmer over his terrible loss to which the farmer remarked, “What makes you think it is so terrible?”

A month later, the horse came home bringing two beautiful wild stallions with her. The neighbors became excited at

the farmer’s good fortune to which the farmer remarked, “What makes you think this is good fortune?”

Not long after, the farmer’s son was thrown from one of the wild horses and broke his leg. All

the neighbors exclaimed, “Oh, what bad luck!”. Once again the farmer responded,

“What makes you think this is so terrible?” A war had erupted in nearby lands

and every able-bodied man was sent into battle. Only the farmer’s son remained due to his broken leg. The neighbors congratulated the farmer for his luck. “What makes you think this is good fortune?” replied the farmer once again.

Disease, like the runaway horse or the broken leg, can seem like such a misfortune when it erupts into our lives. But, what possibilities does it open up? What becomes so much more valuable? What becomes frivolous? What does it teach us?

When one of my clients first met her multiple sclerosis (MS) in the dream like state of hypnosis she described it as a man in a black cape. “Oh, he’s up to no good I’m sure!” she exclaimed as he approached. I asked the man representing her MS, “What is your purpose?” Immediately the man replied to her, “I am not here to do you harm. I am only here to serve you for your highest good.” He then went on to describe in detail how she had always put her needs behind others; considering everyone else more important than herself. The MS was here to teach her to put herself first and only then serve others. As she healed her relationship with herself the man in black slowly began to retreat out of her life.

In a session with another client, her disease persona explained that the journey her soul had chosen, even though appearing as hardships, was in

fact her life’s mission. It encouraged her to write about her journey and what she was learning. These lessons would be the foundation of what she would one day teach others. In this case, she healed her fear and gained her life’s mission.

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When it comes to this time of the year, we are bombarded with e m o t i o n a l l y

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Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living” as he was on trial for encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs of the time and think for themselves. So I encourage you to ask yourself, how come I don’t think I must spend time and money in offering gifts at other times of the year. Or why is it that I particularly crave things with cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and ginger during December, and not much in July? And, how come I don’t have this expectation that I should be with my family on any particular evening of the year except on December 24th?

And though you feel tender and sad when you think of the loss of a loved one, how come you particularly allow yourself to grieve your worst during this month?

I am going to take a risk of sounding insensitive and say the answer to the above questions is: because you let yourself.

As I’ve treated persons feeling depressed, anxious and lonely during these months over the years, I’ve learned some typical negative beliefs that fuel the negative emotions experienced by most. Here is a list of commonly held beliefs:

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n I miss my loved ones at this time of the year because I really care that they are gone; this means I am loyal to them.

I’d like to suggest that you examine your own beliefs and see if you still agree with them.

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The days are getting shorter and colder, the sun is more distant and we’ve just enjoyed a proper storm with torrential downpour, bright flashes of lightening and bone rattling thunder. The seasons are changing, but are we changing with them?

One of the great novelties of the industrial age was when the rich could dine on food that was out of season and from the other side of the country or even the world. Bringing in fruits and vegetables by train or boat on ice was certainly a feat of modern industry and progress. They marvelled at their cleverness in having outsmarted the cycles of the earth. Or did they?

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Lively Let tersNeighbor Cell Tower Alert

You must be aware that the County of Santa Cruz plans to approve the installation of a 48 foot Cell Tower practically in our backyards. It’s important that you know the following information:

None of the people making the decision live in la Selva Beach. They claim to be influenced in their decision by a so-called “objective” third party Recommendation Study done by Talbot & Edison from Walnut Creek. Guess who paid for this “objective” study? VERIZON, yes, so much for the conflict- of-interest and the denial that this Cell Tower does not cause any danger to the people of La Selva Beach!!

All the scientific literature written in the U.S.A. and in Europe indicate that even low frequency emissions from Cell Towers cause alterations in DNA cell structure, miscarriages, childhood

leukemia, heart arrhythmia, brain tumors, cancer, insomnia, auto immune diseases, etc. There is obvious denial by very uninformed people.

Just as in the past there was so much denial against the link between cigarette smoking, cancer and heart disease. However, science won out!

Finally, forcing the cancer society and others to admit the link between smoking and disease.

Should we really endanger our children to numerous diseases that could possibly be avoided and let VERIZON take control over our lives? I spoke with Frank Baron from the County who informed me that the Supervisors were following written guidelines concerning Cell Towers that stipulate whether the Cell Towers met aesthetic qualifications rather than any concern over individual health.

I urge you to go to the web and the Connection Magazine and read all the articles regarding the dangers of Cell Towers and their proximity to humans.

I was told that Wanda Williams will be making the final decision, (she also does not live in La Selva Beach!!) I urge you to contact her and voice your concerns in the hope they move the Cell Tower away from our community and away from human beings.

The next Board of Supervisors Meeting regarding this issue will be on Dec.18th at 9am.

In addition, keep in mind that the installation of Cell Tower in our backyards will significantly lower the value of our homes. And, certainly cause dangers to our health.

Please call Ms. Williams at (831) 454-3183 and voice your concern even though she is in denial over the dangers that Cell Towers pose over our community. If she hears from you, she might be more open to learning more and maybe changing her mind and relocate this monstrosity somewhere else.

Thanks, concerned neighbor, Carmen, La Selva Beach

Dr. Joel Wallach N.D. – Connection Magazine published that Doc Wallach was an M.D. which was in error (and that was due to an error on the magazine’s part as we incorrectly read his creden-tials.) He is a Doctor of Veterinary as well as a Doctor of Natur-opathy. Apologies for our error. However, we know that Dr. Joel Wallach is a very accomplished medical and health expert. Thank you Readers for the many Kudos we received for featuring Dr. Joel Wallach as our Theme. Pattie & Thom

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I wasn’t looking for a publisher at that moment, yet I’d found one. I could feel a

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The first query I made, via email, to River Sanctuary Publishing related to my quest for a professional editor. Annie Elizabeth responded quickly offering two referrals and the journey toward publication took a giant step forward.

Publishing a book is much different than writing one. When I finally met with Annie Elizabeth, some months later, a kindred spirit escorted me into her home. Here was a woman whose foremost concern was my humanity. It was nice to be in a relaxed environment. We sat down as if two old friends having tea. The book was now our shared adventure.

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I highly recommend River Sanctuary Publishing. Every time I contacted Annie Elizabeth whether the item related to large aspects of the publication, like ‘Front Cover design’, to little details, each was handled with equal professionalism and ease. Annie Elizabeth’s feedback in all areas of publication helped to ensure my book reached its potential. If you choose to publish with River Sanctuary, you will get maximum author commissions, professional guidance, creative control and most importantly, a caring, compassionate publisher.

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Protecting Children’s HealthChoosing Organic Food to Avoid GMOs

and Agricultural Chemicals

California Dreaming of a White ChristmasDecember 13th: 12pm to 4pm @ SkyPark, Scotts Valley

by Nicholas BakalarEating Organic Lowers Pesticide Levels in Children

[For more on this subject, please read The Cornucopia Institute’s recently released report, Protecting Children’s Health: Choosing Organic Food to Avoid GMOs and Agricultural Chemicals.]

Re s e a r c h e r s have found tha t when c h i l d r e n eat organic

fruits and vegetables, the amount of pesticides in their

Most organophosphorus pesticides have been phased out for residential use, but they are still widely used in agriculture. High doses in agricultural workers can be deadly.

The study, in the October issue of Environ-mental Health Perspectives, included 20 children living in Oakland, Calif., and 20 in the agricul-tural community of Salinas, about 100 miles south. The children ate a conventional diet for four days and an organic diet for seven days and

About 72 percent of their urine samples, col-lected daily, contained evidence of pesticides. Of the six most frequently detected pesticides, two decreased by nearly 50 percent when children were on the organic diet, and levels of a common herbicide fell by 25 percent. Amounts of three o t h e r pesticides were not significantly

lower on the organic diet. Lev-els were generally higher in

the Salinas children than in the Oakland children.

“There’s evidence that diet is one route of exposure to pesticides, and

you can reduce your exposure by choosing organic food,”

said the lead author, Asa Bradman, associate director of the Center for

Environmental Research and Children’s Health at the University of California, Berke-

ley. “But I would never say that conventional fruits and vegetables are unsafe. They’re all healthy.”

www.cornucopia.org/Organic/Childrens-Health-Report.pdf

Printed with permission.

Over three years ago, Gabriella Cos-ner, a four-year-old girl battling a rare form of cancer made one simple wish. She wished for snow on her 5th

birthday, which falls on December 24 — a white Christmas. What started with a blog request for information on snow ma-chines from Gabriella’s mother, Kristin, literally snowballed into an event that brought the entire community, including over 900 families in the last three years, together for a birthday gift that continues to give.

This year, Team G Childhood Cancer Foun-

parents, is gearing up for the 4th Annual Ga-briella’s Snow Day scheduled for December 13, 2015 at Scotts Valley’s Skypark in collaboration with Food Trucks A Go Go for some delicious

families can expect an appearance from Santa and two special surprise guests and a crew of char-acters you won’t want to miss, treats, shopping,

prizes all provided by an array of local business-es. A $10 dollar donation is suggested for anyone participating in snow play, games with prizes, bounce houses and more with proceeds going to Team G Childhood Cancer Foundation for pediatric cancer research and Hope Totes. Team G CC Foundation was voted the 2014 Scotts Val-ley Organization of the Year. To date, they have donated over 800 Hope Totes and funded over $93,000 to childhood cancer research.

This holiday season, bring your fam-ily and loved ones to celebrate Gabriella’s 8th birthday in a winter wonderland that is sure to be a fun and festive time for all. Your par-ticipation in this joyous event will not only aid

support all the local businesses and community members involved. 100% of the proceeds will

Looking to donate or volunteer? Contact Kristin Cosner [email protected] or info@

teamgfoundation.org (831) 239-5061 for more info.

About the Organization: Team G Childhood Cancer Foundation

was created in 2013 by the Cosner family shortly

treatments at the age of 5. Joined by cancer par-ents, Diego and Claudia who lost their daughter to the same form of cancer less than 2 years ago, these families along with the community continue to support children and families af-fected by pediatric cancer. Inspired by some of the amazing youth they encountered during each of their daughter’s treatment process, this family

cancer today. Their continued support comes in the form of Hope Totes, hospital survival kits created for newly diagnosed cancer patients, and funds dedicated to new and innovative treatment options.

Past Article: www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_20892468/sv-youngster-family-fighting-rare-childhood-cancer

More In the Media info: http://teamgfoun-dation.org/in-the-media/

e s e a r c h e r s have found

amount of pesticides in their

Most organophosphorus pesticides have been phased out for residential use, but they are still widely used in agriculture. High doses in agricultural workers can be deadly.

o t h e r pesticides were not significantly lower on the organic diet. Lev-

els were generally higher in

that diet is one route of exposure to pesticides, and

you can reduce your exposure by choosing organic food,”

said the lead author, Asa Bradman, associate director of the Center for

Environmental Research and Children’s Health at the University of California, Berke-

HEADWATERSOUTDOOR SCHOOL


By Foster Gamble

I have personally had hundreds of conversations about the climate: if it’s changing, who and what is responsible, what we can do, and how can we even know what source of information to trust? There seem to be corporate or government shills on both sides, each with an agenda to

promote. So how do we wade through the self-serving propaganda to discern the truth? And how do we evaluate the various perspectives without our emotional reactions or social pressure cloud-ing our judgment?

Following is a compilation of many of the conversations I’ve had, reflecting various perspectives and data, to help broaden the dia-logue and empower individuals everywhere to add their own critical thinking to this pressing and consequential issue. If you can respectfully correct or augment what is presented here, please do. The point of this is to get to the truth so that we can all take the most effective action.

Let’s start with what is probably the most common question:

Is there reliable evidence that the Earth is warming in a risky or anomalous way?

Some say it is unprecedented and verging on catastrophe.

Here is Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph that Al Gore featured in his

Inconvenient Truth.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says there is no recent slowdown in global warming, while the Space and Science Research Corporations says “the Earth is presently in a sustained phase of global cooling.” Still other experts agree that we are in a “pause” — without significant warming — for the last 18 years. Many suggest that conflicting data about whether or not the planet is warming is why the term “global warming” has changed to “climate change” (since a climate is always changing, that’s more reliable than “warming”). Some have moved on to calling it “climate dis-ruption” or even “climate collapse.”

Some of us are experiencing extreme heat (and drought) in our towns, like where I live in

Santa Cruz, CA. But I know others have been experiencing extreme cold, like in the upper Midwest and Northeast of America. So we have to do more than look at our own neighborhoods to see the true larger trends.

Some researchers look at surface tem-peratures, some at ice cores, some tree rings and more recently satellite measurements of the larger atmosphere. What do the different collec-tion techniques reveal?

Here is the big picture on historic tem-peratures. Much of the data from these various sources indicates that our planet has been warmer in the past, during eras before factories, power plants and cars. Check this out:

B e t w e e n 1990 and 2001, these prior warmer periods were cut off of Intergovernmen-tal Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) re-searchers’ graphs. In 1998, a paper was written by Mann and his associates that highlighted the hockey stick image and significantly heightened con-cern about dramatic planetary warming. However, Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick started

digging into the raw data and exposed errors and manipulations that completely invalidated the upward curve at the end. The data processing was so skewed that even random data would show a hockey stick shape. Mann sued his accusers for libel, but lost when it was demonstrated that their claims were valid.

Here’s another confusing and important contradiction in Gore’s presentation of the corre-lation between rise in CO2 (carbon dioxide) and rise in temperature. It has been pointed out that the graph itself, on closer inspection, shows that CO2 follows Earth temperature, often by many decades, instead of the other way around.

But I read that 97% of

scientists agree that humans are responsible for causing the

planet to warm?I found that 97 percent claim to be very

surprising, so I looked into it. Some sources are showing evidence that the number is actually more like 0.3%. In fact, according to reliable research and documentation, there appear to be a lot of dissenting opinions from climatologists worldwide, and even some distorted data to promote the different perspectives.

“It is astonishing that any journal could have published a paper claiming a 97% climate consensus when on the authors’ own analysis the true consensus was well below 1%,” said Dr.

David Legates, a geology professor at the Univer-sity of Delaware and the study’s lead author.

If the climate has been warming and cooling over thousands of years, what could be affecting the change in temperature?

Every system in na-ture is embedded in larger systems. To understand the behavior of the smaller one, intellectual rigor re-quires that we at least look to changes in the larger. The short-term warming makes more sense when we look at the larger time-

span. Given that the Sun is obviously the major source for heating the Earth and the rest of the solar system, we should be at least asking what might be the impact of changes in the Sun on our temperature, and in turn, how might the Sun’s ever-changing position in the Milky Way galaxy be affecting its temperature? Dr. Bruce West of the Army Research Office writes “changes in the earth’s average surface temperature are directly linked to … the short term statistical fluctuations in the Sun’s irradiance and the longer-term solar cycles.”

If the Sun were the major contributor to recent warming, then other planets might be expected to

be warming as well, right?Yes, in fact evidence of warming of Jupiter

and Mars has been observed, and it makes no sense that our CO2 pollution on Earth would have any effect on distant planets. Of course there are other researchers who argue that the warming of the other planets must be due to factors other than the sun — like “orbital variations, changes in reflectance and even volcanic eruptions.” Recently it’s being reported that there seems to be a “solar shutdown” — a period of very little sunspot activity that is reminding scientists of the patterns leading up to the “Maunder Minimum” — an extreme cooling period in the latter half of the 17th century.Why would researchers risk their

reputation to present artificial results?

Money, and lots of it. As we said in THRIVE, when a story doesn’t make sense, “fol-

low the money.” Many scientists and PR firms are paid large sums to make the case both for and against Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). So it’s up to us to seek the truth, by means of ra-tional, thorough investigation, empirical evidence and common sense.

So why hasn’t the public been exposed to this type of thinking?

Maurice Strong, the man who introduced the idea of “global warming” at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, set the initial charge to the IPCC in a way that completely ignored anything about potential impacts of the Sun, choosing to focus only on potential human causes — Anthropo-genic Global Warming (AGW).

Why would he do something so anti-scientific as that?

Strong, a long time agent of the Rock-efeller cartel, had a clear directive to organize human efforts against a common enemy, and that enemy was chosen, by elites in the Club of Rome (founded by David Rockefeller), to be “global warming.” This was spelled out in their document, Limits to Growth, in 1972.

Why were they seeking a “common enemy?”

Fear is the best motivator to convince people to give up their resources and freedom to battle some identified evil for “the good of the group.” Those seeking to consolidate power globally had tried a “global cooling” scare back in the 1970s.

Climate scientist Stephen Schneider, a global cooling promoter let some unusual truth slip when he told Discover magazine in 1989, “To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest.”

But then the climate started warming up and spoiled that

plan.In 1987, at the 4th World Wilderness Con-

gress, Edmund de Rothschild stated that CO2 is the cause of global warming, and that combating it needs money (ours). He founded the World Conservation Bank for this reason. This was to

Let’s Talk for Real — About Humans and Climate Change

Climate change may be the hottest topic on the table, reaching a level of religious zealotry on both sides of the issue. It’s remarkable that something with such dire implications can be so void of respectful dialogue and intellectual rigor.

Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/noaa-analysis-journal-science-no-slowdown-in-global-warming-in-recent-years.html

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/noaa-analysis-journal-science-no-slowdown-in-global-warming-in-recent-years.html

http://northwestpassage2014.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-global-climate-status-report.html

http://northwestpassage2014.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-global-climate-status-report.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9GWDhw1-k0

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/articles/mbh98.pdf



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McIntyre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McIntyre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_McKitrick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_McKitrick

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/14827/mann-made-warming-confirmed-chris-horner

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/14827/mann-made-warming-confirmed-chris-horner

http://a-sceptical-mind.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hockey-stick

http://a-sceptical-mind.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hockey-stick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/16/where-did-97-percent-global-warming-consensus-figure-come-from/

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/05/aussie-scientists-have-deep-divisions-on-global-warming/

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113216086/climate-influenced-by-solar-activity-082014/



http://www.wired.com/2008/06/army-vs-global/

http://www.wnd.com/2008/05/65165/

http://www.wnd.com/2008/05/65165/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11642-climate-myths-mars-and-pluto-are-warming-too/



http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25743806


http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/07/11/Earth-heading-for-mini-ice-age-in-just-15-years-scientists-say/2751436649025/

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/07/11/Earth-heading-for-mini-ice-age-in-just-15-years-scientists-say/2751436649025/

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-largest-pr-firm-in-the-world-promotes-climate-change-denial

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/julia-seymour/2015/10/01/lefty-pr-firm-pressing-media-blame-climate-change-hurricane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YCatox0Lxo

http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/selections-from-the-1st-ipcc-full-report-wg1/



https://climatism.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/the-creator-fabricator-and-proponent-of-global-warming-maurice-strong/

https://climatism.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/the-creator-fabricator-and-proponent-of-global-warming-maurice-strong/

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/01/global-cooling-compilation/


be the bank for the UN to use to ultimately collect a global carbon tax.

UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in 1988, was the first to put vast amounts of money on the table that would go to researchers who could provide evidence of “global warming”.

But the planet is obviously warming. I have seen countless clips of glaciers retreating over time and dropping huge chunks of ice into the oceans, and polar

bears stranded on ice flows. I have read that the Arctic and Antarctic ice is disappearing.

So have I. Let’s take these one at a time. Polar bears don’t get stranded on ice flows. They are prodigious swimmers that can traverse large swaths of open ocean. They climb out onto small patches of ice from time to time, and pictures of this in the context of claims of climate collapse seem very touching, but they prove nothing other than an implied agenda. Glaciers are always “calving” — dropping ice cliffs — wherever the cold ice meets the warmer ocean.

Glaciers which retreat for years, on the other hand, are a genuine indication that the lo-cal climate, at least, is warming. So we need to genuinely look into that evidence to see if they are retreating everywhere or just in some areas, and if this is true cause for alarm or part of normal cycles that have been going on for millennia.

There is conflicting and confusing data on the growth or shrinkage of ice at the poles. It’s tough to make sense of it. Here is some of it for your consideration:

Some experts claim the ice at the poles is disappearing at an alarming rate that will dramatically raise the sea levels, threatening coastal communities.

Others say the ice is growing at both poles in ways that implode global warming theories and Al Gore’s prediction that the North Pole could be ice free as early as 2013. In May, 2014 the Guardian reported that the “collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet has already begun.” Appar-ently the mainstream media — NBC, the New York Times, CNN and more, didn’t notice that the article went on to say the predicted catastrophic sea level rise is “still several centuries off and potentially 1,000 years away.”Some, including NASA, say the Arctic ice is shrinking while the

Antarctic ice is growing.The potential for anomalous release of

huge amounts of methane from under melting permafrost in the Arctic would apparently be a very serious cascading event, accelerating greenhouse effects. We need to take this possi-bility very seriously, but that includes a realistic assessment of the nature of melting patterns and handling the science with more grounded balance than in this article which claims “Global Extinc-tion within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat

wave and Surface Firestorm.”Is there any actual evidence that scientists manipulated their data

to get a particular outcome?There have been extensive revelations

through leaked emails of fraudulent data distor-tion and withholding at the University of East Anglia — the major source of interpretation of temperature data. This turned into the so-called “Climategate” incident. Thousands of emails are now available which unveil the unethical and un-scientific practices of a few key players in the effort to shape the data to a political agenda rather than truth.

Here are a couple of excerpts with notes from editor John Costella:September 19, 1996: email 0843161829

Gary Funkhouser reports on his attempts to obtain anything from the data that could be used to sell the message of climate change:

I really wish I could be more positive about the … material, but I swear I pulled every trick out of my sleeve trying to milk something out of that… I don’t think it’d be productive to try and juggle the chronology statistics any more than I already have—they just are what they are … I think I’ll have to look for an option where I can let this little story go as it is.October 9, 1997: email 0876437553

Just months before the UNFCCC’s Third Conference of Parties (COP III), the critical Kyoto meeting of December 1997 which resulted in the Kyoto Protocol, … in an email from Joe Al-camo, Director of the Center for Environmental Systems Research in Germany, to Mike Hulme and Rob Swart:

I am very strongly in favor of as wide and rapid a distribution as possible for endorsements. I think the only thing that counts is numbers. The media is going to say “1000 scientists signed” or “1500 signed”. No one is going to check if it is 600 with PhDs versus 2000 without. They will mention the prominent ones, but that is a different story.November 16, 1999: email 0942777075

That background now paves the way to our understanding the historic email which generations of schoolchildren to come will study as the 33 words which summarize one of the most serious scientific frauds in the history of Western science.

Phil Jones to Ray Bradley, Mike Mann, Malcolm Hughes, Keith Briffa, and Tim Osborn, regarding a diagram for a World Meteorological Organization Statement:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temperatures to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. [emphasis added]

This ideological crusade rather than scientific investigation

shows up on both sides of the issue.

For example, Koch Industries and Exxon spend millions to cast doubt on Warming.Are there any scientists from the “inside” of various institutions

who have come forward to admit to or expose any of this sort of

behavior?Richard Tol of the University of Sussex

has participated in the work of the IPCC since the early 1990s. He has removed his name from the IPCC’s fifth assessment because it had become ”too alarmist.” “The panel is directed from within the environment lobby and not from within the science.”

A fellow panelist, Dr. Michael Oppen-heimer of Princeton, echoes Tol’s concerns, “There have been occasions where government interventions, by causing omissions, have diluted IPCC filings.” He believes the climate is changing and humans are the primary cause, but still chose to go public with startling reflections on how “the IPCC has changed from a scientific institu-tion that tries to be policy relevant to a political institution that pretends to be scientific…”

Researchers with the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group recently admitted that the es-timate given for the total number of polar bears in the Arctic was simply a qualified guess given to “satisfy public demand.”

The Australian prime minister’s chief business adviser has gone public with his warn-ing that climate change is a ruse. “…The real agenda is concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook,” he said, adding that the UN is against capitalism and freedom and wants to create a “new world order.”

OK, but there are always disgruntled in-dividuals. Are there any significant numbers of experts who disagree with what the mainstream media likes to call the “consensus” about humans causing disastrous climate change?

In 2008, to debunk the so-called “con-sensus,” more than 650 international scientists signed a report dissenting over man-made global warming claims. These included many current and former members of the UN IPCC and a canvass of more than 51,000 Canadian scientists revealed 68% disagree that global warming sci-ence is “settled.”

The same year more than 31,000 scientists across the US, including 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields such as atmospheric science and environment signed a petition rejecting the assumption that human production of greenhouse gases is damag-ing Earth’s environment.

I can see that some scientists would de-bunk AGW to get paid by oil companies who want to continue to pollute the skies with impu-nity, but, on the other side, why would anyone want to get scientists to produce data that would exaggerate global warming?

In THRIVE, we revealed the Global Domination Agenda in great detail. This is the plan by the would-be controllers to establish a one-world totalitarian government with the bankers in charge.

It sounds like some fictional James Bond film. But even if there were people willing to falsify science and media for money, how would that possibly serve this so-called vast global conspiracy? How would it work?

To gain complete control, they would need to convince enough people that it is vital that a new system be authorized to transcend and obsolete sovereign nations.

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” — Strobe Talbot, President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in TIME, July 20, 1992.

Every government is dependent on invol-untary taxation to support its operation, so the elite who would want to be in charge would need a new “legalized” structure to ensure that the entire human species is taxed to pay for it. Just demanding such a change outright would cause worldwide revolution. So instead the masses need to be convinced that it is in our best interest, in fact vital to our survival. This is where regimes and secret societies use the Hegelian dialec-tic — the “Strategy of Tension” described by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine, also called “Problem, Reaction, Solution” by David Icke in THRIVE. Enter Maury Strong to introduce the common enemy (the “Problem”) on behalf of these controllers.

So a world-wide effort is launched to convince the people that our existence is threat-ened by the phenomenon of climate change that humans are causing and that we should be very afraid (Reaction) and our only hope is to enforce coordinated global action to reverse it (Solution).

Maury Strong uses the Rockefeller cre-ated and funded United Nations to be the front for creating scientific “consensus” that Earth is drastically warming and it has nothing to do with the sun or any geo-engineering. Scientists rarely get funded who dissent from this story.

But the Rockefellers are oil magnates. Wouldn’t curbing carbon emissions hurt their

interests?The Rockefeller cartel is now fundamen-

tally built around banking. International bankers stand to benefit most from the carbon tax, cap and trade and a one-world government. As well, the consolidation of power and increased regulations drives smaller companies out of business and keeps developing countries from developing.

Speaking at the U.N. Earth Climate Sum-mit (1992) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Deputy Assistant of State Richard Benedick, who then headed the policy divisions of the U.S. State Department said: “A global warming treaty [Kyoto] must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect.”

It was former USSR communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev (who co-wrote the UN Earth Charter with Maury Strong) who said in 1996, “the threat of environmental crisis will be the ‘international disaster key’ that will unlock the New World Order.”

Simultaneously the United Nations is used to front a scheme to promote climate change as the reason to take away property from individu-als, tightly control their use of resources, herd them into dense urban vertical enclaves and further socialize the authority of the state over education, transportation, manufacturing, com-munication, media, justice etc.

How could a few possibly hope to impose so much control over

everybody else?This was called UN Agenda 21 and I

covered the history and intent in this blog. The new updated version of this was just promoted by the Pope (the church once again in cahoots with the state) in his September UN speech as UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Here’s a useful “translation” of the lofty, benevo-lent sounding generalizations that make up its 17 goals. It describes bluntly the agenda hidden


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within like armies in the Trojan horse. Obama (“The debate is settled. Climate Change is real.”) and many other government rulers have joined in to the effort to establish legal grounds and confis-catory rights for a one-world government — the New World Order — at the upcoming Climate Summit in Paris in November 2015.

Socialize the masses by taking control of the means of production and distribution, while corporatizing and protecting profits from legal redress through the fake “free trade” agreements like TPP and TTIP. Then wrap it all under the first one world government authority in history, set to be imposed on the world in Paris in November. This agenda is as clearly demonstrated in current events as the many other aspects we laid out in THRIVE, and which are only becoming more obvious and confirmed.

We stated in THRIVE that the globalists are seeking the creation of a one-world cashless currency to give themselves ultimate control over money itself. The government subsidized “smart grid” is a major piece of that. So-called “smart meters” are not only dangerous to health with their radiation, and intended as surveillance devices that will be monitoring every house-hold device and even human movement within homes, but they also provide a means to limit or terminate the carbon energy use of any person or enterprise.Let’s see how the smart grid fits together with other key pieces of

the control agenda.The Carbon Tax

In 2010, then Greek prime minister George Papandreou shocked many around the world by publicly saying that there may need to be new Europe-wide forms of taxation to help pay for the bail-outs that will be needed by the growing number of crashing economies in the Euro-zone. His suggestion included “carbon dioxide taxes” which “could provide important revenues and resources for funding such a [bail-out] mechanism.”

British Columbia, on the other hand, claims their Carbon Tax has successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions in a stable economy.Carbon Cap and Trade Markets

The mainstream magazine Scientific American has promoted Carbon Markets as the way to limit climate change without damaging the world economy. Nine US states joined to-gether in 2008 to create the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI. They claim success in reducing emissions and helping to fund energy efficient investments, new clean energy sources and rebates to ensure no harmful effects of the program.

These carbon taxes and rigged markets sound good to many, but so did the Federal Re-serve as a way to stabilize the economy and the Patriot Act as a way to make us more secure.

Is there more to these schemes than meets the eye?

Why would someone like Al Gore, who spent his entire political career shilling for the coal and nuclear industries, suddenly have such an epiphany about the environment? Why would he discourage developing countries from access to fossil fuels while maintaining several man-sions and flying around on private jets? What do we find when we follow the money? We find that Gore (as well as Maury Strong) stood to make huge profits from his carbon swaps until the Chicago Climate Exchange fizzled in 2010. (Obama was a board member of the group that funded it.) We find that Cap and Trade will accel-erate the takeover of the economy and further the concentration of wealth among the well-placed financiers. And it will not accomplish what is needed in terms of environmental protection, even though that is their justification for it.

IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer, speaking

in November 2010, advised that: “…one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistrib-ute de facto the world’s wealth…”

Lord Christopher Monckton has been one of the primary voices waking people up across the world to the hidden agendas for control that are behind the good sounding concerns for the environment. Here is a compelling presenta-tion of the propaganda as well as the facts that it hides. And here are several slides from his presentation:

Imagine the combination of the “smart grid” control system with a Carbon Tax (which has already proven in Australia to be so damaging to small companies that it was abandoned) and the Cap and Trade scheme (which allows major corporations to buy their way out of restrictions on their polluting while crippling developing countries and smaller companies.)

Observing all these interlocking initiatives can help clarify how big the incentive is for the globalists to suppress “New Energy” technolo-gies that would render the fossil fuel industry virtually obsolete.

If fossil fuels contain energy from animals and the animals got it from plants, which in turn gathered it from the Sun…where does the Sun get its energy from? Seems the obvious answer is that it is drawing it from space itself — the Plenum. Many New Energy devices skip these interim steps and access the ambient energy by which we are surrounded. Once again, expanding our context can provide us with workable insights and solutions from nature.

It’s important to see how control of energy is not just for maximizing profits but also for controlling people. For individuals drawn to this kind of behavior, there is never enough control to make them feel secure, so, literally, world domination becomes, for them, a natural and logi-cal goal. Most of them have been trained since childhood (Political Ponerology) that “There are two kinds of people in the world…those who are controlled and those who are in control. Which do you want to be?”But there is a real problem with

pollution, right?Yes, indeed. Miners suffer and die from

black lung disease. Soot from coal power plants hangs in a black cloud spreading acid rain and asthma over neighboring communities.

People in China are choking on carbon pollution so thick many wear masks on most days.

Our soils and rivers the world over are toxified to dangerous levels that are limiting food supplies and drinking water as well as kill-ing species.

This has to be addressed, as is now hap-pening in many communities. But the fact that humans cause pollution and need to stop that does not mean that humans are causing climate change or that anomalous global warming is even happening. That appears to be an unsup-ported leap.

Pollution can be addressed through prosecuting companies and individuals for put-ting dangerous health hazards in the air that we share. Air is part of the commons and it is our individual right for it to be clean. Holding pollut-ers accountable is truly a critical step. Allowing them to trade their pollution with Cap and Trade is both ineffective and immoral. Cleaning the emissions is expensive, so prices on fuel and heating would necessarily rise. That way users share in the needed reform, corporations aren’t given a free ride or even subsidized to dump their waste in the commons and individuals will need to be responsible for their decisions that affect us all. When polluters and consumers are held responsible, cleaner alternatives will become even more attractive and there will even be incen-

tive for corporations and governments to allow and participate in the release of “New Energy” devices that draw energy right from space without pollution or radiation. Fortunately, this is now happening without government suppression in India. The Tewari over-unity generator we re-ferred to in THRIVE, is apparently now finally about to be allowed out to the public.

Despite what many claim about nuclear power being clean energy, because it doesn’t emit carbon pollution, nuclear is the most dangerous source of power in history. The risk is so immi-nent and lethal, as we have seen with Chernobyl and Fukushima, that no independent company will insure the plants. Therefore they would not exist except for governments taking taxes from their people to subsidize the industry, especially to reap the dubious rewards of weapons-grade plutonium to keep making the bombs that threaten all life on Earth.

In a debate with Alex Epstein, Bill McKib-ben, renowned global warming advocate and founder of 350.org, lists various compelling di-sasters that he predicts from climate change: hot, sour and breathless oceans, melting of the poles, agricultural collapse, extinction of species, flood-ing of coastal communities, negative impacts to public health and GDP, risks to national security and to political freedom due to disasters leading to more centralized authority.

I believe Mr. McKibben is very sincere, and these are all very serious issues that demand of us several important lines of inquiry. First, if these disasters are actually going to happen because of human caused warming — and we can’t stop it — where are the discussions and planning for that? The same question applies if humans are not causing warming. Is it really safe to put all our eggs in any one belief basket and also assume that we can personally forestall disaster? Furthermore, will Cap and Trade and Carbon Tax actually solve these problems? If we were having televised, respectful, informed debates, we could be better sorting facts from fear-mongering, unpacking a spectrum of sce-narios and planning for them.

Second, virtually all of McKibben’s argu-ments are based on computer MODELS, not on actual evidence. The Earth’s climate is apparently way too complicated to model accurately as virtu-ally every model has turned out to be significantly wrong. Here are some glaring examples.

In 1971, famous futurist Paul Erlich pre-dicted, “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people,” and in 1974 he wrote, “America’s eco-nomic joyride is coming to an end: there will be no more cheap, abundant energy, no more cheap abundant food.” This got a great deal of press for the climate movement and for his career. What we haven’t seen is Erlich and the scientific com-munity publicly acknowledging that he has now been proven drastically wrong.

John Holdren, a protégé of Ehrlich who serves as science adviser to President Barack Obama, had a particularly dire prediction in 1986: “It is possible that carbon-dioxide climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.”

Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of 2001 and 2007 IPCC report chapters, writing in a 2007 “Predictions of Climate” blog appearing in the science journal Nature.com, admitted: “None of the models used by the IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed state”.

In 2015, the University of Alabama’s John Christy presented the following graph — showing a striking gap between predicted global warming and what really happened.

Historic evidence may not be sufficient to predict the future, but neither are computer models. This is why we need to be engaging people with multiple perspectives and planning accordingly.But doesn’t some group need to be in charge of regulating the

atmosphere just as an economy needs to be stabilized by a

government?The failure of all historic attempts to

centrally plan economies through socialism, communism, fascism and central banking is now clear to anyone who really looks. Predict-ing global climate through computer modeling is equally fraught with problems and error. It’s been said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” There is mounting evidence the global elite have been trying to apply this to con-trol the atmosphere and climate through what’s called “geo-engineering.” Many claim it’s just conspiracy theory, though there are over ninety patents for weather control. Others say that it is real, and the authorities want to do it, but they haven’t yet.

Paris

The visual and laboratory evidence is compelling that geo-engineering has been going on for more than fifteen years — covertly — in the form of SRM — Solar Radiation Manage-ment (“chemtrails”), the newer “chembombs,” and through high energy antenna arrays like HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Re-search Program). Oliver’s Travels, in Europe, uses cloud seeding from planes to guarantee rain-free weddings for 100,000 pounds. China bragged of using weather control for their Olympics.

Lake TahoeSome experts, like Harvard’s David Keith,

say the chemtrails can put aluminum and sulfuric acid in the atmosphere to reflect the sun and cool the planet to mitigate global warming. Others, like Dane Wigington say that the aluminum is trapping more heat from escaping Earth’s atmosphere and therefore contributing to more warming. Whether you believe the net effect is heating or cooling the atmosphere, the health and planetary ramifications of geo-engineering

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Continued from Page 23demand our attention. Poisoning the atmosphere for any reason is a fundamental violation of our human right to breathe clean air and the responsible individuals and corporations should be held liable.So what can individuals actually DO to make a difference in this

critical area?Get informed — Be discerning and open-

minded to seek truth. Start by reading through many of the external links referenced within this blog, along with the Additional Recommended Resources that we provide at the foot.

Share information with your peers. Social media is not only free, but it’s an extremely ef-fective tool for informing folks and catalyzing change. Whether it’s this article, or one of the many resources it provides, if you feel compelled to get this timely conversation started, please share. Similarly, if you see one of the many folks in positions of power who are claiming that this debate is “settled” on social media, challenge them.

Demand publicly televised debates among people with a track record of honesty, who have done serious homework and truly believe what they are saying.

Help others not to be duped by one faction or another into mindless zealotry.

Support (money, legal and business ad-vice, security etc.) the development and release of New Energy science and devices.

Demand Facts and ask questions. (See list in Resources below.)

Whether we are facing planetary environ-mental collapse or are being duped by false scare tactics into surrendering our freedom and our prosperity to a one-world, banker-run, totalitarian state, billions of lives hang in the balance. Most people were duped into the Federal Reserve scam under the pretense of “stabilizing the economy,”

into corporatist wars of aggression in the Middle East and the Patriot Act by fake WMDs and “spreading Democracy.” Let’s don’t let our heartfelt care for our ecological home be used to finalize the agenda for global domination.

Let’s do our homework, engage in respect-ful truth-seeking with one another, and collabo-rate effectively to secure a healthy, thriving planet for the future of all species.

Now what do you think is really going on with Earth’s climate? And what can we do about it?

Additional Recommended Resources:

Sample questions for productive Climate conversationsWhy is there no live, mainstream televised public

debate about global warming/climate change/climate collapse?

Isn’t it important to solve atmospheric pollution regardless of whether it’s a major factor in warming or cooling our planet?

If the planet were warming and continued to, even after humans had reduced atmospheric carbon below 350ppm, what would we do then? Is there planning going on for the future of coastal communities? And where is that discussion being had?

If other planets in our solar system are known to have been heating up, could the sun itself be a major cause of global warming on Earth?

What incentive would someone have for ex-plicitly forbidding IPCC researchers from mentioning the role of the sun in warming the Earth?

Some say we are in a “Pause” on global warming. Some say it’s heating more than ever. How do we determine which is true?

If CO2 is supposed to be the cause of global warming, what is to be made of the evidence that temperature changes lead, rather than follow, changes in CO2?

Have temperature fluctuations happened before? Did they happen before humans were using fossil fuels? Specifically, what is the history

of the Medieval Warm Period and why is it such a taboo subject?

What is the role of geo-engineering in climate change?

What is the role of weather manipulation in com-modities futures trading?

How do those promoting a new international tax, with a digital carbon credit currency, on be-half of a one-world government benefit from the anthropogenic climate change scenario?

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CO22 Crisis? by David Ray GriffinThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The

Climate by Naomi KleinAGW SkepticsThe Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the

Real State of the World by Bjørn LomborgClimate Change: The Facts edited by Alan

MoranThe Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein

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in WashingtonGlobal Warming: The Rising StormWatch The 10 Best Documentaries About Cli-

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straight to the UK GovtThe IPCC ExposedScience of Climate Change — Stefan Molyneux

with Dr. Patrick MooreSeminal ArticlesPro AGWThe top ten global warming ‘skeptic’ arguments

answeredHow to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses

to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming

AGW Skeptics

The Global Warming Hoax — 19 Irrefutable FACTS

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to Intelligence Problems (by CIA)IMF and Atmospheric PressureErrors and frauds of global warming scienceResearch Shows Unexpected Link Between Solar

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Warming DebateGlobal warming slowdown ‘could last another

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In a recent episode of the on-line radio program “Health Revolt,” Natural News editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, discussed a little-known “recy-

cling” procedure that few Americans likely know much about—the recy-cling of your pets.

“Although many of us probably do not agree with the climate change agenda, we can probably agree that recycling is a smart practice. However, what if the recycling being done is to your dearly departed pet? Moreover, what if that same ‘recycled’ pet is be-ing fed to your new pet?” says a tease for the program on the Red List News website.

That portion of the program was based on this Oct. 1 Natural News story, which noted:

“A special investigative report set to air in November is said to contain ‘shocking evidence’ that mega-corporations have conspired with government agencies to create a ‘genetic Armageddon.’

“According to the narrator of this promotional video, three undercover journalists—Tom Horn, Joe Ardis and Donna Howell, along with the re-mainder of the SkyWatch investigative team—join a host of global experts in the conclusion of a multi-year under-

cover inquiry that exposes what the U.S. government, the [Food and Drug Administration], and monster corpo-rations have been hiding from you.”“Changing the human race”

In his interview, Adams expound-ed upon the documentary’s findings and added some insight of his own.

“I think this is more of an issue of veterinary deception than a food chain issue,” he said, explaining that animals do eat other animals in the wild. “But, this issue of [animal] euthanasia of family pets is deception by veterinarians who are getting paid to keep the bodies of these euthanized pets, and then sort of sell them out the back door to these food and cosmetic, quote, recycling companies.

“Now, if you think about it,” he continued, “how are these pets euthanized? They are euthanized with a very toxic chemical that is given to each pet intravenously, first to render them unconscious, and then to stop their hearts.”

“These chemicals are toxic,” Adams said, “so when they go into the food supply, they end up in the dog food and have a harmful effect on pets [that] are eating that food.”

The concept also presents huge ethical issues, the Health Ranger noted. He said most people, when they leave a pet with a vet to be eutha-

nized, assume that the pet is going to be properly disposed of—not sold off and recycled.“Things you would never approve of”

“I never leave a pet with a vet,” he said. “I take that pet with me and I bury it and I have a ceremony, and I honor that pet. Return it to the earth rather than let it end up on some other company’s dog food cans.”

He added: “If you lose site of your euthanized pet, then believe me, things are happening to the body of that dog or cat that you would never approve of.”

Regarding the Skywatch TV investigation, Horn says the team of journalists has turned up things he’s not sure the world is ready to hear.

“We’re talking about everything from the food that we eat, to animals and pet animals, to ultimately hu-mans—literally, what we have been doing with genetically modified crops, what we have and are doing with trans-genetically made animals, what we fully intend to do with the human race,” he said in a trailer for the video.Sources used:

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New Dimensions of Relationship“When ‘I’m not Good Enough’ Meets ‘I Have to Take Care of Everyone’”

Joyce and Barry Vissell

by Joyce and Barry Vissell

These two core is-sues (or negative messages from childhood) often meet and interact

with one another, sometimes in disastrous ways. Usually the carriers of these issues are more or less unaware of them.

“I’m not good enough” (often, but not always, a man) thinks “I can never get it right, I’ll never measure up, and therefore I simply don’t deserve love.”

“I have to take care of everyone” (often, but not always, a woman) thinks “My job in life is to make everyone else happy, there is no one who can or will take care of me, and therefore I similarly don’t deserve to be cared for and loved.”

Interestingly, many people carry some degree of both of these issues. That makes life extra interesting.

But let’s look at the interaction of these two coming from separate persons. Cory and Ella, the parents of three small children, came to see Joyce and me in counseling. Cory had the “I’m not good enough” thing going front and center. The mes-sage was clear from his family of origin: “Cory, why can’t you do anything right? You screwed up again!” So, even as a child, he thought, “If only I can do it right, then I’ll get the love and approval I need.” But no matter how hard he tried, and how many “right” things he did, he still didn’t get the approval of his parents. There was always something not right enough for them to criticize.

Ella had the “I have to take care of everyone” syndrome for as long as she could remember. The oldest child in her family, she was expected to take care of her younger siblings. Her parents were both alcoholics and were too busy with their addictions. Ella was the only “grown-up” in the house, even though she was a young child. Like Cory, she tried to earn her parents’ love by her good actions, in this case taking care of the other children, preparing food, and cleaning the house. Did it work? Of course not! It never does. No matter how much of a “good mother” she was, she didn’t get the love she needed. If children are not loved for who they are, then what they do makes little difference.

So how did Cory and Ella get in trouble in their relationship as adults? Here’s an example. Cory loads the dishwasher and starts it up. Ella

out, “Cory, you forgot this dirty dish.” (Remember, she got obsessively good at cleaning as a child to try to win her parents’ love.) Because Cory still carries the message in his soul that he can never do it right, the slightest criticism (or even a criti-cal tone of voice) from Ella causes him to then announce, “Fine. You can load the dishwasher from now on.” This threw Ella back to her own default mode from childhood, having to take care of everyone, which she strongly resented. Not a pretty picture!

And from the other side, Ella is at home tak-ing care of the children all day. She loves doing this, but also looks forward to Cory coming home and helping with them in the evening. At 4pm, Cory calls to say he has to stay late at work because of a crisis. He states, albeit without enough com-passion or understanding, that he won’t be home to help with the children. She’s exhausted and irritable, in addition to carrying that old message, “I have to take care of everyone.” She defaults to the feeling, “there’s no one to take care of me,” and blurts out in anger, “Why don’t you just stay

at work!” And once again, Cory feels he can never do it right. Couple gridlock again.

Without awareness of these primary core issues, Ella and Cory are doomed to repeated fights. In the couple’s session, Joyce and I helped them clearly see these early life wounds. This alone

But it takes more than awareness. It takes being proactive with clear appreciations.

We asked Cory and Ella to face one another. Then we directed Cory, “Can you tell Ella that she is just as important as everyone else in her life?” Cory looked surprised, but quickly softened and spoke, “Of course you’re just as important as anyone else. To me you’re more important than anyone else. And there’s nothing you have to do to prove it. I’m committed to letting you know this every day.” Ella smiled and relaxed a bit. These were the words she most needed to hear.

Next we asked Ella, “Can you tell Cory what he does right and good enough?” Ella spoke, “Oh Cory, I’m so sorry I don’t tell you enough. You love our kids and me completely. You work hard for us. Even when you’re tired, you still play won-

everything that’s broken. I know how much you need to hear these things. I promise to let you know every day that you’re more than good enough.” We couldn’t help but notice the tear sliding down Cory’s cheek.

Are you more “I’m not good enough” or “I have to take care of everyone?” Or are you both equally? Remember there is a loving divine par-ent inside you who yearns to free you from this negative thinking. All you need to do is wrap your arms around yourself and speak words of loving

you heal and re-parent your hurt child.If you have a partner, does she or he carry

one or both of these issues? Have the courage to address your partner’s inner child with words of love and approval. And have the courage to vulnerably inform your partner about your own core issues. Healing and re-parenting comes from yourself, but it also comes from those you love. Ella and Cory know this truth … and practice it every day! So can you!

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Karin Leonard

Holidays: Celebration or Stress?How to Reclaim the Holy Days

PERSONAL MASTERY: Coaching for Success

by Karin Leonard

Re m e m b e r t h e childhood days of excitedly antici-pating Christmas morning? How

does that compare to your experience of holidays today? These days, the holidays are often associated with more pain than pleasure. Thanksgiving brings memories of overeating, and Christmas songs remind of crowded shopping malls. Where has all the magic gone?

Holidays were intended as “Holy Days” —special occasions with spiritual and social sig-

or Christmas may or may not be outdated, but surely there can be more to these occasions than obsessing over a turkey or frenzied holiday shop-ping. How about making this year’s holidays a true celebration of gratitude, love and renewal of spirit?Transform Stress

Ongoing pressure can weaken your immune system, taxes your nerves and takes the joy out of life. During busy times, it becomes crucial to schedule down time. Exercising, taking hot baths, having a quiet cup of tea—anything that gives your adrenal glands a break and soothes your soul will help to replenish.

Make an inventory of what stresses you about the holidays and list possible solutions for each of these factors. Set priorities—is it more important to get the perfect gift for everyone— or to be especially loving and peaceful during this time?Relax Right Now

Nothing is more stressful than your very own mind. Are you thinking of twenty items at once and holding your breath? That would have a similar effect on your body as a tiger charging towards you… Make a list of your to-do’s and focus on one thing at a time. You can be quite

experience each moment—whether you are tense or tranquil—determines your level of stress more than the number of tasks. And—remember to

breathe… Revisit Gift Giving

Isn’t it amazing that we live in a society where we have the luxury to worry about what to buy for whom, when people are starving all over the world? Tremendous amounts of money are spent each year on wrapping paper alone. I think it warrants a second look for us to make conscious choices about how we spend our money and energy. What is the purpose of our gifts? Con-sider alternatives which reduce your tension level and make you happy. For

the person who has everything, donate money in their name to a good cause. What about Food?

Holidays are associated with celebratory meals…and lots of them! There is nothing wrong with special treats—as long as you feel at choice about them. Make decisions ahead of time about how you want to relate to food this holiday season and beyond. Nurture yourself in other ways besides eating. Reclaim Meaning

How you experience the holidays depends

hold preparation for this season as inspiring labor of love or draining obligation? Sit down with your family and invent new traditions. Explore how to deepen your connection with family and friends, peace and compassion, soul and spirit this holiday season. The Holy Days are meant to

the return of the light. Away from the commercial madness, spend a quiet evening by candle light, read enchanted stories to the kids and reclaim the magic of the season.

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The 3 Components of your Soul Psychology Are Revealed through Scientifi c Hand Analysis

What is Hand Analysis?


than your doctor has time to give. Imagine there were another physician you could turn to for




Imagine a caring doctor who has time just to talk.





The diagnosis is in. And you’re in shock. The treatment is all planned and your doctor is already on to the next patient. Did you even hear

what was said? Since when did you become irrelevant?Now imagine a physician with whom you feel safe to

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Imagine getting the support you need for your healing journey. Imagine making your life easier.




by Tina Burgan

Hand Analysis is the modern, scientific based form of the ancient art of palm-istry. Whereas palm-

istry is defined as foretelling the future from the lines of your palm, hand analysis seeks to further self-understanding through the examination of the entirety of your hands. To have your hands read is to stare deep into the truth mirror, to stand revealed before your very eyes. A hand reading shows you who you are today and who you can be at your best.

The hand analyst examines the overall

sic temperament, the thumb to see how you get things “under your thumb,” and the twelve zones

challenges. The lines of the palms are examined to determine basic wiring: the type of emotional system you have, what kind of computer you possess, which nervous system type you are, etc. Talents and hidden motivations are revealed.

Both hand shape and lines change over

months prior to birth. By comparing the original

dynamic map of your personality and charac-ter shown in the lines and hand topography, a hand reading gives perspective to your current circumstances in relation to the big picture of your life story.

What is Soul Psychology?Soul Psychology is a model for

understanding a person’s core nature and differs markedly from standard psychology. What would make you

feel this has been a life well lived, that you are not wasting your time on this

planet? What is your Life Purpose? What are your Life Lessons? Good questions, Soul Psychology ques-tions. Personality psychology can help improve behavior and

outcomes, but it is Soul psychol-ogy that engages the soul level, addressing the hunger for meaning, deep in the center of one’s being. Your Soul Psychology consists of three components:

Life Purpose: that which brings satisfaction at the deepest possible level. More than a set of goals, beyond right livelihood, your Life Purpose is your Right Life, an ongoing connection to a personal directive. It is your highest potential expressing itself naturally and powerfully in all you do, always seeking expression. To know

cance of past events and current circumstances unfolding.

Life Lesson: the biggest challenge, the part of you that needs the most practice and patience to master. It is your least evolved skill on a spiri-tual and practical level. It is the part of yourself you wish you didn’t have and that you try to avoid because there’s so much uncomfortable work to be done to become

WHO ARE YOU & what did you come here to do?

WHAT IS HAND ANALYSIS? Whereas palmistry is de�ned as foretelling the future from the lines of your palm, hand analysis seeks to increase self-understanding through an examination of the entirety of your hands. It reveals your soul psychology.

As an IIHA certi�ed hand analyst I examine the overall shape of your palm and �ngers to determine basic temperament. The lines in your palm are examined to determine primary wiring, e.g., the type of emotional system you have, what kind of computer you possess. Your �ngerprints hold the key toyour soul psychology.

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and Analysis is the modern, scientific based form of the ancient art of palm-istry. Whereas palm-

istry is defined as foretelling the future from the lines of your palm,

What is Soul Psychology?

understanding a person’s core nature and differs markedly from standard psychology. What would make you

feel this has been a life well lived, that you are not wasting your time on this

planet? What is your Life Purpose? What are your Life Lessons? Good questions, Soul Psychology ques-tions. Personality psychology

Tina Burgan

by Mary West

Turns out there’s one food that can eat away at your brain—literally. Scien-

tists at Charité University Medical Centre in Berlin have found eating large amounts of sugar or carbohydrates is linked to a smaller hippocampus, the area of the brain in-volved in memory. This could explain why they also discovered that high levels of blood glucose are associated with impaired memory and could potentially lead to dementia. Thus, sugar can harm both brain structure and function.

Diabetes, a condition characterized by chronically elevated blood sugar, is linked to a higher risk of dementia and reduced hippocam-pus size. In view of these facts, the study sought to determine the effects of sugar on people who don’t have the illness. Researchers monitored the long- and short-term glucose levels of 141 non-diabetic adults as well as imaged their brain with an MRI scan and tested their memory. They found higher levels of glucose were linked to shrinkage of the hippocampus and impaired memory. The results suggest sugar can alter brain structure and harm memory even in people who don’t have diabetes.Earlier Research Shows Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup and Refined Carbs Hinder Brain Function

The new research builds upon a study

ONE FOOD THAT CAN EAT AWAY AT YOUR BRAIN

conducted two years ago at UCLA that showed the effects on the brain of high-fructose corn syrup, a common sweet-ener present in many foods.

to spend a few days learning how to get through a maize. The next phase of the study involved

feeding them a fructose solution for six weeks and then putting them back in the maize to see how well they could remember how to navigate

and their brains showed a reduction in synaptic activity, which is the means the cells use to com-municate with each other.

shows cognitive decline can, indeed, take place as a result of consuming sugar and refined carbohydrates—even in small amounts, David Platt, Ph.D., CEO of Boston Therapeutics, tells Live in the Now. “In these studies, the consump-tion of sugar and carbs has been established as

and thinking skills.”“Just this year, for example, Mayo Clinic

researchers found that people aged 70 and older who consume food high

in carbs increase their likelihood of developing mild cognitive impairment fourfold, and the danger is also present with a diet heavy in sugar. Moreover, in 2009, a team at Wake Forest Uni-versity established that

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Guiding you toward peace of mind. Helping you decide what’s right for you. Helping you decide what’s right for you.Honoring all paths that lead to healing. Giving you the time you deserve. Giving you the time you deserve.

Source.” This is the One-ness space, our place of singularity...found inside the toroidal vortex.

I experience this ex-pansive place all the time and you can too. First, us-ing the Divine Heart Co-herence™ technique from last month’s column, shift

your heart, belly brain, and toroidal flow into the Joy/Love frequency. With eyes closed, allow the frequency to expand, visualizing its toroidal flow infolding and unfolding around and in and out of the vortex. Feel the Joy/Love…Be the Joy/Love.

Second, allow your consciousness to flow into the vortex…focus on the Unity of all Con-sciousness. Go within and Be.

I invite you to play with this visualization, have FUN, and observe what shifts in your life.

We are all One. When I embrace Joy/Love, it ripples through all Consciousness, the same way it does when you choose Joy/Love.

And…thus WE create the Shift!How powerful we collectively are when we

individually shift our focus from fear to Love…from anger to Joy!

Together WE create the Shift!I invite you to share your experiences with

our readers, please reach out to me through my web site.

Candace Stuart-Findlay is an Author, Speaker, Now Thought Educator & Transforma-tion Facilitator. Contact Candace through her website: www.empoweredwholebeing.com.


Authentic Identity and Your Health

John Voris

by John Voris

Studies show that psycho-therapists today spend most of their time work-ing with clients who have problems with

daily living and not real mental illness. Their clients are usu-ally dealing with marital issues, family conflict, job-related prob-lems, career change, and physical complaints related to stress and anxiety. In fact, surveys reveal that more than 90% of clients seen by private therapists are not hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. Most clients want to simply improve an already functioning life. They want to talk to someone who would listen without judging. They could discuss never before revealed secrets and not be afraid family and friends would find out. Therapists would give intelligent and constructive advice and not have a hidden agenda those families and friends often have.

All of my clients fall in this category and are what psychology would refer to as being within the range of normal. For decades, counselors, consultants, coaches, trainers and advisors, have slowly crossed over into areas that once belonged exclusively to psychotherapy. People may also notice back or neck pain at work along that re-sult from intense stress and anxiety. Your body’s reaction to stress may be headache, back strain, stomach pain, the lack of energy, losing sleep, high blood pressure and many other symptoms such as triggering genetic predispositions earlier in life. We also tend to dwell on our problems, which begins to exaggerate their real impact.

It has also been discovered that this type of pain is often brought on deliberately by your brain to distract your conscious mind away from what is occurring in your unconscious. That means the pain is real and you did not consciously

bring it about. For example, if we have been concerned with the possibility of being demoted at work and receiving a cut in pay, a backache could divert us away from this silent worry. College students concerned for their grades often report tension headaches, migraines, ringing in the ears, and sexual dysfunction.

After giving hundreds of readings in the last 35 years, I found that self-acknowledgement was far more therapeutic than I had previously realized. This prompted me to adapt the phrase, “There’s nothing to fix, only something to be aware of.” That awareness is in knowing who you are beneath your external personality. This reminds me of the famous Eng-lish philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, a 20th century philosopher who believed that...

“...if we have a common nature, this na-ture must have a purpose. Our nature could be fully realized if only we knew what we truly wanted.”

Sir Isaiah Berlin is saying: if we know the world and what it offers through our relationship with the world, along with knowing ourselves, we would also know what provides us with true joy, contentment, security and above all happiness. This knowledge would provide us with our own natural road map to success and full expression of our talents, skills and abilities. We would avoid much of what causes us conflict if we only knew who we were. When there are too many moments of misery and resignation it is most likely due to not knowing who you are and your body reacts.

If you are having neck, back or other types of pain doctors cannot explain, discovering your true identity could provide the answer. Email me at [email protected] for a session at your earliest convenient. Call 1 (888) 994-4544, www.johnvoris.com.

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Last column shared an effective tool to shift our energy from fear frequency dominant to that of Joy/Love…Divine Heart Coherence™.

Building on that, let’s explore what I believe is the key element of the torus, its central vortex. According to Nassim Harameinʻs research, singularity/all consciousness exists within this central vortex… that we are literally energetically infolding and unfolding in and out of the central vortex. Electrons seem to appear and disappear, he elucidates that they are infold-ing and unfolding from the vortex… that they are key as energy–information exchange vehicles between our holographic-fractal third dimension and the Unity Field of all Consciousness.

Remember, a torus is defined in the diction-ary as “a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, esp. a circle, around a line that lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g., like a ring-shaped doughnut).”

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The bed position that will ensure the best quality sleep and the most success in your life is when you have a commanding view of the door to the bedroom and a commanding view of the entire room from the bed. This position will give you an assertive position in life and help you see your opportunities. When you cannot see the door, you will know on a subconscious level that an intruder would have the advantage and a part of you could be on guard all night long. You will sleep better and the room will feel and look better when your bed has this commanding view.

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the room with out being in the path of a door. It is not always easy to follow all of these guidelines because most architects did not design bedrooms with Feng Shui in mind!

The strongest bed has a solid wood headboard securely attached to the bed frame. I do not recommend a foot board because people usually end up bumping into them and find them an-noying. Having your bed directly on the floor can contribute to feeling “stepped on” in life. The strongest bed is up off the floor, with nothing underneath it, so that the chi can flow. If you have draw-ers under the bed as part of the frame then keep neutral items there like sheets and blankets.

The bedroom is the most private room in the house and because of this sometimes people neglect it or over-

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• Clear out the clutter, and make space for the chi to flow. • Take out stuff that has nothing to do with sleep, relaxation, intimacy and dressing, making your bedroom your sanctuary. • If you cannot move a workspace, use a screen or curtain to hide it at night. • Create for yourself a nourishing place to retire to at the end of the day. • Sleep well!

For Feng Shui advice tailored to your specific situation, contact Megan at (831) 588-5424 or [email protected].

Megan Montero is a Feng Shui consultant, a Plant Spirit Medicine healer, and a Granicera in the Nahua weather working tradition of Mexico. She has been practicing Feng Shui in Santa Cruz since 2007 and offers consultations in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay areas and by phone. She practices Plant Spirit Medicine at her office in Santa Cruz. Learn more about Megan’s services at www.windandwa-terblessings.com. Stay in touch by signing up online for Megan’s Cycles of Chi newsletter.

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Re l i g i o n i s personal. For many in the LGBTQ com-munity, their

religious experience has been a place of deep pai n.

I grew up in the Jewish community in the “Con-servative Movement.” Be-fore I was “out” I was the program coordinator for a well-known Jewish high school leadership program. For our “Diversity Day” in the mid-1990’s, I brought in a variety of speakers who were diverse in ethnicity, religious practice and even sexuality. One par-ent was especially horrifi ed that a gay man spoke on a panel to his teenage daughter. The parent furiously called my supervisor and threatened to write an angry letter to every synagogue and Jewish newspaper in the community. I was not allowed to do that program again. That experience was a big les-son for me about religious community rejection. It kept me in the closet for many years.

I am grateful to witness the progress we have made. Things are changing across the religious land-scape. According to the Pew Research Center, roughly six-in-ten Catholics now express support for same-sex marriage. Even some devout Mor-mon leaders have apologized for the church’s involvement in supporting Proposition 8.

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Times are changing. Perceptions are shifting. Many progressive reli-gious leaders have been champions for justice, inclusion, and the celebration of human dignity. I hold out hope that formerly conservative religions and dogmatic religious leaders can turn into a force for true acceptance and justice.

I would not have imagined 15 years ago that my commitment to justice and human rights would ever be supported by any conservative

religions or religious leaders. But here I am. Amen.

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The case is a classic example of what globalization critics have warned of for years: that “free trade” agreements allow foreign cor-porations to force the repeal of laws that interfere with their profits, thereby gutting protections for consumers, workers and the environment. Observers warn that the soon-to-be implemented Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) contains the exact same provisions, and that more such forced repeals are soon to come.Your right to know: a barrier to

tradeThe story of dolphin-safe tuna began in

1972, when the Marine Mammal Protection Act banned the importation of any yellowfin tuna caught using methods that resulted in the death of dolphins. In the preceding decades, millions of dolphins had been killed by tuna nets.

In 1990, Mexico – on behalf of its do-mestic fishing industry, which continues to use dolphin-killing techniques – appealed to the WTO to strike down this ban. In 1997, Con-gress sought to resolve the issue by repealing the import ban and replacing it with a voluntary “dolphin-safe” label. This label could be placed on any tuna, regardless of fishing practices, if companies promised no dolphins had been killed. Tuna caught by killing dolphins could once more

be openly sold, but without the label.This concession was not enough. In 2008,

Mexico filed another WTO complaint, claim-ing that the very existence of the dolphin-safe label discriminated against the Mexican fishing industry. In 2011, the WTO ruled in Mexico’s favor. The U.S. has repeatedly weakened the dolphin-safe label in an at-tempt to strike a compromise.

The most recent ruling is final and can no longer be appealed: the label has to go, or Mexico can levy retribution against U.S. imports.

“Informing consumers of the fishing practices used to catch their tuna, the WTO con-cluded, represented a ‘technical barrier to trade,’” writes David Dayen at The Intercept.

Worse to comeAccording to Tim Reif, general counsel at

the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, the ruling does not actually require the U.S. to change its laws, as no international body can actually do that. But observers note that when threatened with trade sanctions, the U.S. consistently does change its laws. After all, the U.S. has already changed its dolphin-safe laws numerous times just in response to this single complaint.

In another recent case, the WTO ruled in May that a U.S. law requiring country-of-origin labels on meat and produce posed a trade bar-rier, and Mexico and Canada threatened $3.7 billion in sanctions if the law was not repealed. The House of Representatives voted to repeal the law in June.

The dolphin-safe ruling takes on particular significance in light of the ongoing debate over the massive TPP trade deal being promoted by the Obama administration. The TPP contains the same language that allowed Mexico to file

a WTO complaint over tuna. And while the White House claims that the TPP contains measures to protect wildlife, in fact the agreement contains only empty phrases binding members to “take measures” to combat wildlife trade.

The TPP has also been

criticized for provi-sions expected to lead to strengthen-ing Big Pharma pat-ents at the expense of human health, limiting GMO la-beling, outsourcing of more U.S. jobs, restricting Internet speech, weakening regulations of Wall Street, and promot-ing privatization of land and natural resources inhab-ited by indigenous people.

The case of dolphin-safe tuna “should serve as a

warning against expansive trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership that would replicate rules that undermine safeguards for wildlife, clean air, and clean water,” said Ilana Solomon of the Sierra Club.

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Money creates an environment that fosters hard work, responsibility, and the opportunity to do and be whatever you dream. Our democracy is a meritocracy where anyone can succeed. If this is the case, then we merely need to teach our young to thrive in the world we live in. If not, then we have a greater responsibility. Either way the question remains, “What will we leave the next generation?” As of the writing of this article the national U.S. debt is $18,609,854,385,435.22 and raising with every second. Does this mean the next generation will be descendants of debt? Who do we owe so much to - and why? Most work all day everyday, yet the debt.

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tered on a fictitious concept we call the economy. What happens when this illusion ends? Our descendants will be left with whatever the dollar and debt decide. Should we put all of our faith in the magic arm of the market or the magic of our own true words, actions, and feelings? Aaron Carvajal Please visit futureofthefree.com for more information or e-mail us at [email protected].


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“Prop 37 – Right to Know; Label GMO Campaign” Did It Win or Did It Lose?

Editor’s NOTE: THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE VALIANT VOLUN-

TEERS THAT EDUCATED PEO-PLE ABOUT GMOs and OUR RIGHT TO HAVE OUR FOOD LABELED SO WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN CHOICES! THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!!!

Did Prop 37 fail or win? Though support at the ballot

box was 43% pro PROP 37 and 57% against Prop 37, that ‘other side of crooks, lying liars and 1%’ did not really win. WHY? Because even if their products are not clearly labeled as to having GMOs, we now know WHO they are!.

We hope you have saved our Connection Magazine from last month’s October 2012 Issue as the Cover has a chart from the Cornu-copia Institute on it to spell out who is who (that is also online on our website). And, with all of the Articles that people have read in various magazines/newspapers, and all of the educating the marvelous Volunteers have done to inform us, etc.—let us know who the greedy corporations are (and with ulterior motives—we are ‘in the KNOW’ ??!!. Below, you’ll see a number of the greedy corporations. NOW, people know!! Read on and you’ll nd out about the lies. We encourage one and all

to BOYCOTT the corporations and their GMO-poi-soned products.

P.S. If any-one says there is not enough sci-ence out there to show us the ramifications of GMOs, read the center feature of the THEME in our October Is-sue. It states the science. Check it out. NOW, this is a national/in-ternational issue. Now, onward!

Thank you b e l o v e d Vo l -unteers for the ‘right to know’ everywhere and to other states and countr ies who have sent in their support in various ways.

With heart-felt appreciation for the Coura-geous and Truth-ful Ones,

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Proposition 37 appears t o h a v e

failed at the ballot box in California,

according to the California Secretary of State ballot measures results. The GMO labeling ballot measure, which would have required food companies to label the GM content of foods, was defeated with the use of over $45 mil-lion in fraudulent advertising and dirty tricks funded by

• Monsanto, • PepsiCo, • Coca-Cola, • Kellogg, • General Mills, • DuPont, • Bayer and • other food and • pesticide companies.

Over the last month, this cabal of deceptive companies has funneled money into a campaign of criminal fraud which, among other crimes, fabricated a fake FDA quote and sent out mailers that fraudulently used the FDA seal. A criminal complaint has already been led with the FBI.

The “No on 37” campaign also used fabricated front groups and impersonated a police organization (among others) to send out yet more fake mailers to voters, claiming that the police oppose GMO labeling. That fraudulent claim, of course, is entirely false.Huge victory in terms of GMO awareness and grass roots support

The grassroots effort to pass Proposition 37 was supported by the efforts of millions of activists, plus financial donations from Mercola, Nature’s Path, Amy’s, Dr. Bronner and other companies. Natural News donated $10,000 to the effort and pro-vided comprehensive editorial cover-age of the grassroots effort. Click here to see a chart of who gave money to the effort (http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/themes/Cornuco-pia/downloads/prop37-poster.pdf).

And click here to see some of the “natural” brands that betrayed con-sumers (http://www.naturalnews.com/Infographic-Natural-Brands-Betray-Consumers.html) with the “No on 37” deception.

Those brands include: • Kashi, • Silk, • Cascadian Farm,

• Larabar and more.In many ways, the “YES on 37

Campaign” was a huge victory for awareness. The campaign organized over 10,000 volunteers in California alone and succeeded in achieving a massive social media presence.

The “YES on 37 Campaign” also forced Monsanto and the bio-tech giants to spend $45 million to defeat the measure. That’s a record expenditure by the world’s largest toxic pesticide companies to try to prevent consumers from knowing what they’re buying. Remember: GMOs are the only products that consumers accidentally purchase without knowing what they’re buying.

What’s clear from all this is that GMO labeling has a foothold in the minds of American consumers, and this effort to label GMOs is going to be repeated state after state, year after year, until victory is achieved.

The biotech industry can no longer keep its dirty little secret: There’s poison in your food, folks, and the big food producers abso-lutely do not want you to know that you’re eating it.The GMO labeling battle has only just begun

Monsanto and other companies appear to have won this showdown in California, but they are going to lose the war of deception against consum-ers. As awareness of GMOs continues to spread, people will demand honest labeling in increasing numbers.

The huge burst of awareness on Prop 37 has a lot of people asking the questions: Hey, what are GMOs? And, why aren’t they labeled on foods?

That question will ultimately spell defeat for Monsanto, Kellogg, General Mills, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and all the other evil, deceptive cor-porations who bankrolled the “No in 37” criminal fraud that deceived a majority of California voters.

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Heirloom Plants and Your Health by Gina Locatelli and Allen Morgan

What is an Heirloom, Really?

Before we get started letting you know about an exciting upcoming event and providing you with fascinating interpretations of what an Heirloom is, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The spring of 2016 will commence our third year as writers of the “Heirloom Plants and Your Health” column with Connection Magazine. We hope we have been of service to you as we have imparted our research and opinions on the subject. This enlightening and informative magazine has enriched our lives as readers and has offered us an opportunity to speak to all of you as writers. Our sincere thanks to Pattie Mills and Thom Coby, owners/editors of the Connection Magazine, for their ongoing support, kindness and inspiration.

Upcoming Event for Santa Cruz Heirloom Seed:

Valentine’s Heirloom Tomato FestivalThis Valentine’s Day, give her (or him) the gift of health…Black Krim Heirloom Tomato seeds

and plant starts! The Valentine’s Heirloom Tomato Festival will take place from 12 – 4 PM on Sunday, February 14, 2016 at the Native Revival Nursery located at 2600 Mar Vista Drive in Aptos. It will be hosted by Allen Morgan, founder of Santa Cruz Heirloom Seed and distributor for Seed Saver Exchange (SSE). Mark this event on your calendar now! Create a Valentine’s Heirloom Tomato Festival “date” or “activity” coupon for your significant other or special friend and slip it in their stocking this

Christmas! As with Allen’s other festivals, there will be free crop seed giveaways, which include: lettuce mix,

kale, chard, habanero peppers and Rocoto Peppers. He will have several hundred heirloom tomato starter plants available for purchase, as well as 157 SSE seed pack varieties of vegetables and herbs to choose from. Please bring something to share at the event like jams, jellies or garden vegetables. If you bring seeds to share, Allen will be happy to properly categorize them for you for future seed swaps. We are sure that you will have a great time and leave with lots of goodies! Seed you there!

What is an Heirloom? In the seed world at Seed

Saver Exchange, an heirloom variety is a repeated validation of its true source; it is offspring that has the genetic make-up and characteristics of the mother plant without interruption, or better said, has not been hybridized. Its “heirloomness” is based on the passing of the seed from generation to genera-tion while maintaining its purity.

A bounty of over a dozen varieties of heirloom

tomatoes.

Three types of Heirlooms What?

What we have found to be true is that there are three types of inter-pretations about what an heirloom is. There is the “historic” version as described above; there is the GMO version, which many multi-national seed companies rely on; and there is a third adaption coined, “heirloom on a stick.”

To explain the “historic” ver-sion of an heirloom, let’s talk about the Black Krim Tomato. This tomato fits in with our definition of what an heirloom is, as we stated above. It is true to its original seed ancestors and maintains high levels of nutrition. It has the highest anti-oxidant level of any of the tomatoes today. These vitamin-packed black beauties are delicious, and when cooked, their

lycopene content increases. Lycopene is a high-quality antioxidant, which can assist with good blood vessel health (atherosclerosis); it may be helpful in preventing osteoporosis; it can improve heart health and lower cholesterol; it contains high levels of vitamin C, as well as vitamin K, B1, B2, B3, B6 and E; and it contains anti-cancer benefits. The Black Krim Tomato grows at its natural pace and is subject to pests and bad weather.

According to the new marketing of the multi-national seed companies like Monsanto, an heirloom is anything that is fifty or more years old and is therefore anything that has been cre-ated in the lab or hybridized within that window of time. This relates to GMO (genetically modified organisms) and refers to foods that have been geneti-cally engineered for reasons unrelated to health and nourishment. They are also known as genetically engineered and genetically improved. GMO foods have been known to contribute to serious health issues on livestock, as well as humans. Proponents of GMO claim that there is more production and yield; they resist undesirable pests, weeds and disease; and they are en-vironmentally friendly requiring less herbicides and pesticides.

Then there is the “heirloom on a stick.” This peculiar designation cor-relates to the propagation of plants off of a stem stock that is mass produced to provide rapid plant growth and plant uniformity. While great for a quick harvest and crop consistency, as well as overall production, this “cloning process” has serious issues. This meth-odology eliminates the development of the root system of the plant and

thereby restricts the full range of min-eral and nutritional absorption. When the plant cannot absorb nourishment, it cannot provide nourishment.

The hearty Black Krim heirloom tomato is beautiful,

rich in anti-oxidants and absolutely delicious.

SummaryWhich of the three versions of

Heirlooms do you want to consume? Do you think that a hybridized ver-sion of the Black Krim would have the outstanding nutritional values that its “historic” cousin would have? Are you comfortable eating GMO foods, which are neither required to be labeled nor have an admission about potential health risks? And finally, does quick yielding and similar look-ing produce appeal to you if there is no sustenance?

Do you know where the food you eat comes from and how it’s grown?

to speak to all of you as writers. Our sincere thanks to Pattie Mills and Thom Coby, owners/editors of the

Valentine’s Heirloom Tomato FestivalValentine’s Heirloom Tomato FestivalValentine’s Heirloom Tomato FestivalThis Valentine’s Day, give her (or him) the gift of health…Black Krim Heirloom Tomato seeds

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Santa Cruz’s Own Reggae/Soul Band, LOve eTeRnaL, Rebirthed in Hawai’i. new album in the Works!

Maybe you remember Love Eternal as the founders of Santa Cruz Rejuvenation Festival, or maybe as regular guest musi-cians at Inner Light, or maybe

from one of more than 100 shows they put on in Santa Cruz alongside artists like Shimshai, Fan-tuzzi, Freedom, Diane Patterson, and countless others. Either way, Love Eternal made a lasting impact in Santa Cruz and the greater Bay Area. So where did they go?

The band, formed in 2003 by Shawna and Jahred Namaste’ recorded 7 albums, played countless shows, and even put on their own fes-tivals in California. “I will always consider Santa Cruz as Love Eternal’s birth place” says Jahred. But in the fall of 2011, Shawna and Jahred made their first trek to the Big Island of Hawai’i and fell in love with the magic and spirit of aloha they found. They both knew right away that though they would always love Santa Cruz, Hawai’i was to be their new home. It was a big move and a ton of work, but in the fall of 2013, Shawna, Jahred, and their 3 teenage children made the 3,000 mile journey to their new home in the Puna District of Hawai’i.

In August of 2014, Love Eternal’s lead guitarist Ray Sunshine, plus his wife, and two children; joined the Namaste’ family in calling the island home. However, living in paradise isn’t always paradise. Two days after the band reunited, Hurricane Iselle devastated the East side of Hawai’i where they lived. “It was trying times, but our community was united, and I knew we would get through” says Jahred, “we picked our family up at the airport, brought them home, and started taping windows and filling water jugs.” However, a hurricane was just the beginning. Hawaii is an active volcano, and as the devasta-tion of the hurricane slowly became the past, the threat of a steady flow of lava headed right for their beloved town became the present. Always positive, the now three founding members plus gifted percussionist Dov Abrams, put their music to work, releasing a song and video titled “Go with da Flow” as well as organizing free concerts for the community they had grown to love. Between the lava and hurricane, their faith was surely tested, but luckily Pele’ had other plans, the lava threat gave way, and the bands core stayed strong.

The story doesn’t end there though. The band became even more passionate about their mission, writing new material, and performing across the Island, even opening and producing tours for reg-gae legends Pato Banton and Prezident Brown. “We quickly built a strong fan base here on the island, but something was still missing,” states

Jahred, “we love playing as an acoustic act, but missed the feeling of the full band sound we had back in California.”

Before the call went out, the answers came. In the summer of 2015, the band found the miss-ing players they had been looking for. Prolific composer and bass player Ryan “Ladybug Lion” Ande found himself drawn to the music and message of Love Eternal, bringing with him extraordinary rock/reggae drummer, Salvador

Hernandez. The band was complete, the sound was hitting, and the response was huge! The new rhythm section hailed from Seattle Washington and brought with them a hard hitting edge that the band had been searching out, while still being fully confident in the Roots Reggae sound that had been at the bands core all along. Quickly the group of six dedicated musicians went from being a small ensemble to a headlining act with an ever growing fan base.

The music flowed effortlessly with the new team, and the vision became clear, it was time for a studio album. Without hesitation, the recording sessions began. In the first 8 days, the album went from idea to reality with 14 songs meticulously chosen and the rhythm parts recorded. “I am abso-lutely confident that this is the best work we have done” says Shawna “The collaboration between the musicians is amazing, and the message of the lyrics is feeling clearer than ever.” Musically, the new album is a mix of Roots Reggae, Soul, and Acoustic Rock, and as always, with Shawna a n d J a h r e d leading the vo-cals, the mes-sage and lyrics are a blessed reminder that anything is pos-sible.

The new album, All that I got, is planned to be released in time for the holiday season and can be pre-ordered by visiting Love Eternal’s website www.LoveEternal.org or contacting them [email protected].

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The Catalyst: Thu. Dec 31st, 9pm, Beats Antique, elec-tronic/world fusion dance trio bring their new album and multi-media touring show “A Thousand Faces”, a journey beyond the sonic realm that’s part odys-sey, part genre-warping rock opera. The album follows every stage of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey to create an unforgettable uniquely communal expe-rience for the audience, $55.00 - $95.00.

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The Crepe Place: Thu. Dec 31st, 9pm-1am, Harry and the Hitmen, six musicians serving up classic Motown and Soul with their own unique flare. Three big sets in the back room, some party favors and a complimentary glass of champagne, $20.

Crow’s Nest: Thu. Dec 31st, 9:30pm, Extra Large, fun and funky dance music, includes balloons, blow-ers, and those funny hats, $15.

Don Quix -ote’s: Thu. Dec 31st, 9pm, The Sun Kings, a musically remarkable tribute to the Beatles, $40, optional three-course dinner, $27, also champagne and party favors.

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Severino’s Bar & Grill: Thu. Dec 31st, 8-12pm, The Billy Martini Show, high energy 70’s musical tribute dance party, free admission but limited seat-ing, optional 4 course dinner, show, and champagne toast at midnight, $99, also hotel room package deals for $328.Concerts in Retro:

Here are my reviews of some recent shows. Remember this is only my opinion.

At The Catalyst: The Blasters heated up the stage. 30+ years of tour-ing and these guys are still on fire! Rock & roll with a layer of rockabilly and more than a hint of punk, cult legends putting on a very memorable show. Together since 1979, despite a devoted fan base, critical acclaim, and several songs in movies and TV, The Blasters have earned limited commercial success, but decades of touring have made them tight as a band can be. Opening for The Blasters, Gamblers Mark, a three-piece

rockabilly riot, played sharp super fast numbers that brought the house down, featuring one of the most beautiful up-right basses I have ever seen, made and played by bassist Tristan Cole-Falek. Very impressive!

CD Review: “Prayers for the Water” by Heather Houston. Heather, a lifelong Santa Cruz singer, songwriter, recording artist, private voice teacher and vocal empowerment coach, founder of Women’s Spirit Song, and director of women’s global music choir “Yala Lati”. Heather describes this CD as “an invita-tion to fall in love with the spirit of water through the spirit of music”. It’s a beauti-ful musical offering infused with gratitude and devotion for our life-giving waters. Heather has an exquisitely soulful voice. This is an inspiring CD for listening and meditating. It would make an awesome Christmas gift for any music lover. You can buy it online at iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon, or locally at the Herb Room and at Inner Light Ministries book store. Preview Heather’s songs and learn about her important work at Heath-erHoustonMusic.com—10% of the proceeds of “Prayers for the Water” go to the local non-profit Save Our Shores, SaveOurShores.org.

Are you a local band that would like your CD reviewed in this publication? Send your CD to Music Connection, c/o Janet Leonard, PO Box 3916, Santa Cruz, CA 95063. Call (831) 325-4605 or email [email protected] to tell me about gigs for live reviews. Put “Music Connection” and your band’s name in the subject line.

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Each month, we select our favorite or otherwise impor-tant films to be featured on this page. We rate them, subjectively, on a scale from

1 (worthless) to 5 (awesome) in terms of their entertainment and message. We leave the plot details and storytelling to the filmmakers and instead attempt to characterize, highlight strengths and hint at purpose. Reach us at [email protected]. Enjoy!BrooklynWith Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters Entertainment: 4 Message: 4.5

One of the best films this year— luminous, gorgeously captured, deeply soulful, with a timely, much-needed message about immigrants (formerly known as “foreigners”). Both visually stunning and deeply felt, this is a sur-prisingly gripping and intimate story of coming to America, with all the risks, hopes and dreams, as well as requisite heart-wrenching separation from home, family and friends. With brilliant perfor-mances throughout, Saoirse Ronan shines in her role as Eilis, an Irish girl looking for a better life in Brooklyn. We witness her coming to fullness, and discovering her true self, as the story progresses. The artfulness of the film makes her gradually, ever-more radi-ant, making her new world a home. A passionate vision of the 1950s Ameri-can “melting pot,” made remarkably personal, thus a powerful story for all, especially if your own roots were once planted elsewhere (1 hr 52 min).The Good DinosaurWith the voices of Raymond Ochoa, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Steve ZahnEntertainment: 4 Message: 4

What if a meteor didn’t wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? Would they have evolved into the dominant sentient species on earth, and we would be wolf-like half-breeds? Not likely, but plausibility aside, this playful idea comes to life in this visually stun-ning, engaging adventure. The sincere quest of a fearful Apatosaurus named

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which will likely resonate with children of all ages, and delivers meaningful mes-sages through the popular Mesozoic creatures. Overall, this breathtaking journey with life-like nature scenes, delivers good laughs and likable charac-ters—a lovely treat for the whole family (1 hr 40 min).Love the CoopersWith Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Marisa Tomei, Diane KeatonEntertainment: 3 Message: 3.5

This is family dysfunction-on-pa-rade. Yes, we’ve seen much of it before, and clichés abound, but it is not without charm, laughs or touching moments. It can be quite therapeutic to poke fun at the Holidays and witness other people’s strained family relations. You may also enjoy connecting (or reconnecting) with the essence of the season, simultane-ously giving your traditions a “meaning makeover.” A holiday romp that is plea-surable, if you don’t take it too seriously, so just enjoy the slightly goofy ride (1 hr 46 min).SpectreWith Daniel Craig, Chris-toph Waltz, Ralph Fi-ennes Entertainment: 3.5 Mes-sage: 2

Everything you would expect from the Bond genre—nonstop thrills and action, big explosions, and romantic intrigue, as the elusive and untouchable 007 does the impossible before breakfast, uses his fantasy spy toys exactly as intended, all the while having his time with gor-geous Bond “girls.” Dan-iel Craig is back, as the steel blue-eyed, ultra cool, attachment-phobic action

hero, making women swoon and men want to be him—or at least want to be the idea of him. (We still miss Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan!) But if you are in the mood, you won’t mind that the film is overly long—at 2 hrs 28 min it could have used tighter editing—as it delivers all the international mystery and satisfying escapism you’ve come to expect.The peanuts MovieVoices of Madisyn Shipman, Franc-esca Capaldi, Mariel SheetsEntertainment: 3 Message: 4

The beloved characters come to life on the big screen, awakening child-hood memories for adults and providing charming, classic entertainment for all ages. There is a lot of filler mate-rial (Snoopy’s meandering Red Barron battle scenes), stretching to make it full-length as a feature film, but in this age of over-the-top digital effects and nonstop violence, it is refreshing to relax and delight in the simple life and uncom-plicated challenges of Charlie Brown and his companions. Like an uplifting visit with an old friend, the coziness of cherished and long-enduring memo-ries, the Peanuts leave an afterglow of warmth and enchantment (1 hr 26 min).

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Personally, you may fi ne yourself stretched between pressures of doing things right and responsibilities, self judgment, even shame, versus going with the fl ow, being accepting, while embracing new imaginative possibili-ties. We are stressed between an old way of being, and the possibility of manifesting a new dream or ideal. Invite in Saturn to assist in organiz-ing, grounding and scheduling how to build a new reality for yourself.

This is Saturn’s great gift. It cre-ates limits and focus, it brings on, and sustains the labor to birth new forms in our lives. We are walking the bridge, crossing into the new paradigm, re-envisioning a new order on Earth. Each of us participates in this rec-reation based on the quality of our consciousness.

The beginning of December carries the intensity, potential vio-lence, and reactivity of Mars aligning with Pluto and Uranus until the 20th. During this time, we witness it around us, feel it within. Instead of reacting, take actions that clear out the old, change our environments, move our bodies to feel the vitality of life. Be mindful in relationship! Many situations are in volatile states, fi nancial markets, and society, in general.

The New moon takes place on Dec 11th in Sagittarius, highlighting the need for change and taking action on those changes. The Sun enters Capricorn on the Winter Solstice, December 21st, as the light begins to grow. This brings us to the New Year with grounded positive growth. Previ-ously hidden issues are now brought forth. The Full moon graces Christ-mas day, experiencing its impact on Christmas Eve. This is an excellent time to hold our vision for renewed life, peace, and honoring the dreams each of us wish to manifest.

Twelve Opportunities for December 2015: For Sun and Rising Signs

Aries (Mar 20-Apr 19): Now is a time of examining your beliefs. Un-conscious expectations, ideals, and dreams are brought out to be seen in the light. You are sorting and asking yourself what is realistic, what is it that I want to manifest? This will unfold over the next year. Be patient. Be aware that a surprise may come from another that unsettles you. Let yourself witness how their energy is manifesting. Know that you can respond when the time is right, while breaking old patterns.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): You are in transition, trying to give form to that which is not yet ready to manifest. Friends are important at this time to support the possibilities that are trying to come into being. They can support and ground your hopes and goals for the future. You feel deeply this month and sense the fragileness of life. The Solstice time changes the energy for you and brings fullness within your heart.

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): This month, you focus on relationship. There is a need to simplify and spend time refl ecting on how the relationship is working. Where do you see eye to eye, and how can you achieve some practical necessities? You are looking at your ideals versus the truth of what is manifesting. It is time for straight talk.

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 21): This is the month to get organized! You feel the largeness of what you would like to accomplish, or the ideal of that big adventure. But you must now deal with some practical realities. It will serve you well to keep focused on how to daily implement your projects. It is an excellent time to attend to your own self-care and health matters. Christmas brings a sense of well-being and deep enjoyment, especially as you refrain from sharing your opinions.

Leo (Jul 22 -Aug 22): This month, you stand out! You give your insight and knowledge to others. People may not realize the great sensitivity you have toward others and how you would like to help. You may feel caught between tak-ing charge versus not being sure what to do. Change things up. Whatever you do, do it differently. Trust your insights.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): You experience imaginative possibilities. A realm of creative insight has returned and calls you in. You may wish that you could totally let yourself go to this world of nature and art, but at the same time, you continue to be pulled to

family and home responsibilities. You are entering a time of changing what your foundation has been! For some, that is dynamics in the family, for others it is the rhythm they live by.

Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): Venus enters Scorpio and your engagement with others becomes more intense, with great depth of feeling. It is, as well, a time of great affection and en-dearment. There is a reassessment of your own value as well as the need for unstructured time. Be kind to yourself as your mind may now easily see what is wrong or negative. Use the Saturnian energy to your advantage by choosing what you will let yourself think about. Completion of projects is uplifting now.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): You experience a lot of love in your life right now. There is a sweetness that is manifesting. If you take your time, you can deeply experience that a dream is manifesting in your life, and it feels good. Enjoy! At the same time, it is good to watch your fi nances. Take time to get grounded and refl ect on how to step by step proceed.

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): In your home, you are manifesting a dream come true, a sweetness of love or a surge of creative expression. You have been working hard to come to this place and you are arriving. You feel yourself in a balancing act between your fi nancial responsibilities and the dreams you want to manifest. What-ever you are doing, change and being innovative, thinking outside the box is working for you!!!

Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19): This is an excellent time for you to begin a project that will develop over the next 6 months. As you take time to refuel yourself by retreating, something new enters your life. Writing, speaking, and communication, in general, becomes a theme for December. It is an excel-lent time to communicate the love and appreciation you feel. It becomes a foundation for your journey through this time.

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): You are known as a teacher. Whether you do it through an established structure or through your personal contact with people, you are deeply valued for your insight and perspectives. This month, this quality is prominent and you feel the freedom to enjoy what you have created in your life and family. You feel both great freedom and responsibility. Now the two are intertwined and fl ow together.

Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): You are particularly aware of the transforma-

tive energies in all of our lives. Everything grows, evolves, and changes. You are es-pecially alert to tracking energy, feelings, and nuances. Something is changing in your life or around you. It is al-lowing something new to appear, a new seed has been planted and fruition will come. To prepare for this you are letting go of something.

Susan Heinz is a professional astrologer in Santa Cruz for 33 years, bringing together traditional & esoteric astrology, Tarot and Qabalah. For info on her Friday monthly astrology groups, her Qabalah, astrology and or, painting classes, and for personal con-sultations, call (831) 479-3751, or go to www.susanhe inz .com.

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Santa Cruz and the Central Coast

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IT MAY BE a bit soggy in Pogonip at the moment, but it’s sunny inside “Santa Cruz and the Central Coast — A Photographic Celebration of Time and Place,” a new book of photos by Tim

Corcoran.You may recognize Tim’s name as

founder of Headwaters Outdoor School in Mount Shasta, where he and his staff teach wilderness skills such as survival, tracking, edible and medicinal plants, nature awareness and Earth philosophy.

But his awakening to nature seems to have taken root in Santa Cruz County, where as a child he spent time on the North Coast fishing with his father in Davenport, or exploring the beach while his mother sunbathed near the Boardwalk.

His love for the land runs deep, and his photos show a colorful appreciation for what he calls “a dream place for a nature-loving kid.”

“I became a photographer at twelve years old. I began in earnest to document through photography the beauty of this wonderful meeting of ocean and land,” he writes. “This book is my dream through my art to share my love and wonderment with the Central Coast.”

A limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the author, are available now through his website, TimCorcoranPhoto.com. Individual prints are also available.

Tim dreamed of creating the book as early as twelve years old at Franklin Point. He lived in Santa Cruz for 30 years.

“I played endlessly with the land. I found love and great friendships. The meeting of sea and land at this place called the Central Coast is in my blood and always will be,” he writes.

Inside you’ll find pelicans taking in a sunset at Natural Bridges State Beach, fields of poppies opening for the light in Santa Cruz, a great horned owl eyeballing the camera in Pogonip, as well as redwood forests and great oaks filtering sunlight through grand and

gnarly branches.As a photographer, Tim has focused

attention on a few places in nature that he feel are profoundly beautiful and spiritual. Places that awaken the heart and fill the soul.

Those places include Mount Shasta, where he lives now, southern Utah, the Sierra

Nevada Mountains, all over California, Kauai, Hawaii and all beautiful places he’s traveled. Plans for the future include more books of photography documenting these places.

“I hope this book reminds people of what a treasure

we have and more people will go into it and find

inspiration and heart,” he writes. “I hope it brings out the dreamer and I hope the dreamer dreams of ways to protect what we have and bring back what we’ve lost.

“It’s not enough to love a place. In today’s world, we must do more. It’s our birthright to be born to the sea and land. In claiming that right,

in drinking in all the land and sea gives us, we must find time and a way to protect our land.”

In January, Tim will be teaching The Winter Class at Headwaters Outdoor School (hwos.com).

Students will learn to brave the cold and discover the warmth and beauty of winter camping.

While winter camping in Mt. Shasta, Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and Lava Beds National Park, students will learn what is needed to enter a snow country environment

and live in relative comfort and safety.Students will learn to build winter

shelters, such as snow caves, quinzhees, snow pits, igloos, bark tipis; fire making, with bow drill, hand drill, camp fires in the snow and wood gathering; hunting and trapping (no animals will be trapped); and snowshoeing, ice travel and basic avalanche awareness.

There will also be time for observation and identification of wildlife, such as ducks, geese, eagles, hawks, owls, songbirds, deer, antelope, porcupine, coyote, rabbits, squirrels, bobcats and mountain lion.

Other classes include:n Boys Rite of Passagen Vision Questn Exploring Plant Medicinen Nature Awarenessn Wilderness Skillsn Earth Philosophy Level 1

“I was raised with Nature as the most powerful presence in my life. I grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley of California,” he writes. “At that time in my

childhood these areas were mostly wild lands and orchards and creeks. I had three mentors who guided me through the skills of living with the land. I was truly lucky to grow up in such a beautiful area. My deep connection to the land from such a young age grew into a deep seated appreciation for the beauty of Nature.”

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Headwaters Outdoor School (hwos.com) and has recently published “Santa Cruz and the Central Coast — A Photographic Celebration of Time and Place.” Order by calling (530) 938-1304. Learn more at TimCorcoranPhoto.com.

Photo by Tim CorcoranForest Detail, San Lorenzo River, Santa Cruz, California.

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