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Sign Bernie’s Petition Against Disastrous Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Deal We cannot afford to let this trade deal hurt consumers and cost America jobs. Wall Street and big corporations just won a big victory to advance a disastrous trade deal. Now it’s on us to stop it from becoming law. This morning, negotiators announced an “agreement in principle” for something called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), meaning it will soon move to Congress for approval. The TPP would expand the same failed “free trade” policies to 12 other nations that have already cost millions of jobs and shuttered tens of thousands of factories across the United States. Make no mistake: if TPP passes, it will further hurt consumers and cost American jobs. So we must stop it, together. In the Senate, I will do all that I can to defeat this agreement. But I need you at my side in this fight, because we will be going against some of the biggest, strongest corporations in the world. Add your name to mine to stand against the disastrous Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Let’s show them that people can prevail over corporations. The TPP follows in the footsteps of other unfettered free trade

agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA that have been supported by corporate America and that cost America millions of decent-paying jobs. Since 2001, nearly 60,000 manufacturing plants in this country have been shut down, and we have lost almost 5 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. NAFTA alone led to the loss of almost three-quarters of a million jobs — the Permanent Normalized Trade Agreement with China cost America four times that number: almost 3 million jobs. These agreements are not the only reason why manufacturing in the United States has declined, but they are important factors. The TPP would also give multinational corporations the ability to challenge laws passed in the United States that could negatively impact their “expected future profits.” Take, for example, a French waste management firm suing Egypt for over $100 million for increasing the minimum wage and improving labor laws. Egypt’s “crime” in this case is trying to improve life for their low-wage workers. Or Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, has used this process to sue Germany for $5 billion over its decision to phase out nuclear power. Should the people of Germany have

the right to make energy choices on their own or should these decisions be left in the hands of an unelected international tribunal? We face the same threats here at home if the TPP passes. Virtually every major union and environmental organization in the United States is against the deal. Major religious groups are as well because they know what it could mean for some of the poorest people on the planet. Wall Street, corporate America and their representatives in Congress will try to pass this bad trade deal. This is our chance to make our voices heard. Click here to add your name to mine to stand against passing the disastrous Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal: http://tinyurl.com/nlf2vve Not a lot of presidential candidates would use their campaigns to influence legislation being considered in Congress. Some candidates haven’t even expressed an opinion on this critical issue, which, frankly, I don’t really understand. Thank you for standing with working families. In solidarity, Bernie Sanders

La La Land and the Power of Peace

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grown as Costa Rica recently decided to close public zoos in the spirit of honoring an animal’s right to freedom. They have adopted a no cage policy for animals in a time where humans are being caged at unprecedented rates around the world - ironically mostly in America - the land of the free. On the road to Indian independence many of Gandhi’s followers were met with armed forces bent on stopping their quest. When peace was persistent the armed forces were stopped in shame some even fled scared. Martin Luther King and many others showed similar success. For a time John Lennon was considered an enemy of the United States. Peace proclaimers are considered dangerous and are commonly killed by bullets - but they are hardly silenced. This is why our project has nothing to do with acting from fear. Rather, we are preparing for a future that is sustainable. Building and living in humane communities in peace is the only sustainable path. We choose to live in La La land. Light easily illuminates and cuts through darkness, yet no amount of darkness can ever dim the light. Aaron Carvajal is the Founder of Future of the Free and Under the Dome. See how we are taking action today by visiting future at www.futureofthefree. com and e-mail us at connect@futureofthefree.com.

Thus Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras all had civil wars followed by decades of violence and social unrest. This subsequently led to generations of lost boys who now form the deadliest gangs in these countries where more than a dozen murders occur daily in the cities. On August 16-18, 2015 there were 125 murders in just 3 days in El Salvador. This has led to an estimated 66,000 kids fleeing for their life in the last 2 years. Neighboring Costa Rica also had a civil war, but then officially abolished its military in 1948. What followed was peace ever since and the emergence of a safe haven in Central America. This goodwill seems to have

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any folks ask if our self sustainable dome project is to prepare for coming doom and gloom. There is a growing fear of what many call a societal breakdown which necessitates armed protection. Online and all around social media there is evidence of a growing interest in owning and learning to use firearms. Many call this a necessary evil, and proclaim we should get armed, be realistic - and quit living in La La Land. We believe the term ‘necessary evil’ is a pervasive oxymoron that in due time will no longer be an acceptable excuse for perpetuating violence. In the spirit of sustainability we choose peace as our protection rather than arms. Here is why. Everyone remembers learning of the forming of the Union from the original 13 colonies. We memorized the names of generals and dates of the bloody clashes with the natives. Most believe that there was no way to live in peace on the same land. We rarely hear about the peace in Pennsylvania where the non violent Quakers had no incidents of murder or rape living amongst the natives. It was not until the Union formed and the military established itself in Pennsylvania that killings began. Some Quakers then died - but only three that had joined

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Entrepreneur’s Journey Innovation for Sustainability – the Future is in our Hands

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by Daniel Robin eing an entrepreneur can be rough, even with partners totally on board. It requires tremendous sensibility impairment, at least at first. But if you want to make a big difference in the world, there is no better way. The world needs your business now more than ever. I’ve learned to channel my often manic spasms of creativity. Sometimes they appear as a seemingly great vision for starting a new business. Usually I just lay on the floor, take three deep breaths, and the madness subsides. But at other times an idea just won’t quit, no matter how hard I try to shake it off. Then what? This may explain the origins of the word “brainstorm� – like a fearsome storm, a sudden cloudburst soaks your office furniture and winds blow through, sweeping away all hope for normality. Best to have such reckless thoughts in the shower. But most entrepreneurs are actually not that careful. Take Elon Musk, for example. Do you think he managed to start Telsa and his rocket company (SpaceX) by being careful? We can only imagine what his (then) wife said when he told her about his space exploration company: “Hey, honey, remember what you said about $100,000 all-electric vehicles? Well, you’re definitely not going to like this idea either!� Bootstrapping has its virtues, but few of us have the capital to get our “big ideas� off the ground, like

Mr. Musk. Sometimes you must not let a resources gap stand in the way of manifesting your best visions. Raising capital allows you to carry out your mission on a much larger scale. Yes, it can be daunting,

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There are now unprecedented new ways to attract investment into a deserving venture. First, timing is key. What constitutes perfect timing? What are the signals of being too early or too late?

Thriving Business You invest meaning in your own venture, showing commitment, so prepare a plan, but don’t overdo it. The old-school method of making an elaborate business plan puts the cart before the horse. Lean is in, and short pitches and shorter strategic

plans start with the customer and value creation. Access to credit, with interest rates still hovering near zero, is the most reliable resource base. Skillful management of your creditworthiness is a life skill, putting you more in the driver’s seat. Second, once prepared, how do you find the right, “affinity� investors? This changes constantly. Consider that fundraising is now democratized. The crowdfunding industry raised $16.2 billion (167% growth) in 2014, owing in part to the US JOBS Act of 2012. Seems there is a platform for, well, just about everything – equity-based, loans, rewards- or perksbased, even donations-based sites. For more on affinity capital, and how to avoid mistakes, see in3group.net/ wbn/replay_offline.htm

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lications derived from these studies defined the molecular pathways connecting the mind and body. Many subsequent papers by other researchers have since Bruce Lipton validated his concepts and ideas. Dr. Lipton’s novel scientific approach transformed his personal life as well. His deepened understanding of cell biology highlighted the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions, and implied the existence of an immortal spirit. He applied this science to his personal biology, and discovered that his physical well-being improved, and the quality and character of his daily life was greatly enhanced. Dr. Lipton has taken his awardwinning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter. He lectures to conventional and complementary medical professionals and lay audiences about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles. He has been heartened by anecdotal reports from hundreds of former audience members who have improved their spiritual, physical and mental well being by applying the principles he discusses in his lectures. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology. Dr Lipton’s work summarizing his findings, entitled The Biology of Belief, (Hay House Publishing, 202 pages, $25, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-40192311-2). His new book, Spontaneous Evolution, Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here, (Hay House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-40192580-2) is available now. BruceLipton.com

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Fall – a Great Time to Cleanse!

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by Dr. Rachel Rozelle, ND nfortunately, we live in a toxic world, and because of this we all have some level of toxic exposure. We are exposed to chemicals in household cleaning products, foods, beauty products, carpeting, furniture, plastics, and much more. The use of alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, and poor dietary choices all add to this toxic body burden. Over time, these toxins can accumulate in the body and start to cause problems in your health. By enhancing your body’s detoxification pathways, and thus cleansing the body, you can help reduce you toxic body burden and reduce your risk factors for many diseases. It’s important to cleanse during the Fall season to help prepare our bodies for winter. During the winter months, our diets are usually heavier and we are less active then we are during the rest of the year, which can lead to a build up of toxins in the body. A Fall cleanse helps prevent the accumulation of toxins, and helps you to make healthier diet and lifestyle choices during the holiday season. The cleanse I’m co-leading this month will also focus on how to strengthen digestion as well as enhance the detoxification pathways in order to help you achieve more optimal health and an increased sense of well-being. Fall is a natural time of transition, which makes it ideal for a gentle detox cleanse that will reset your body and mind while priming you for a

winter of wellness. By doing a gentle cleanse during the fall, you can boost your immune system to help prevent colds and flu viruses. Cleansing the body also helps improve energy levels, mood, focus and attention.

Great ways to cleanse the body include cleaning up the diet, stimulating the liver and other detoxification organs, enhancing elimination, transforming stress, and removing obstacles to health. One way to clean up your diet is to remove common allergens, processed and inflammatory foods, alcohol, and sugar from the diet with a focus on a simplified diet full of organic vegetables, fruits, healthy fats, and hypoallergenic grains. There are many ways to stimulate your detox organs, which include saunas and exercise to increase sweating, hydrotherapy treatments to increase circulation and elimination through the kidneys, and herbs and supplements to increase detoxification through the liver. The liver is the powerhouse organ of detoxification, and should be supported

with any type of cleanse. Great liver cleansing foods include beets, broc broccoli, brussel sprouts, leafy greens, lemon, garlic, onions, grapefruit, apples, and avocados. Cleansing can be challeng challenging both mentally and physi physically. We are offering a doctorled cleanse to help assist you in this process. The program includes small group classes to learn more about how to safely and effectively cleanse the body, how to minimize your exposure to environmental toxins, and how to optimize digestive function. Our group classes help to keep you accountable and motivated, and give you a chance to bond with other cleanse participants. There will also be a fun cooking class for ideas and inspiration, led by Ayurvedic practitioner and Chef Talya Lutzker. Spaces are limited so please call soon to register. (831) 477-1377. Dr. Rozelle received her Doctorate Degree in Naturopathic Medicine from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, AZ. After graduation, she completed a one-year family residency at Southwest Naturopathic Medical Center. She currently works at Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center where she specializes in family medicine Call to schedule your free 15-minute consultation with Dr. Rozelle at (831) 477-1377.

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by Sylvia Booth Hubbard The government is ratcheting up its efforts to convince Americans to get flu shots. “You can’t walk into a pharmacy without seeing lines, and the government is now telling preachers to tell their congregations to get flu shots,� says Dr. Russell Blaylock, renowned neurosurgeon and editor of the Blaylock Wellness Report. “I’ve never seen anything like it. The incidence of flu across the United States is extremely low — there are virtually no outbreaks — and not a single child has died. Yet, the flu vaccine is being pushed as if it’s the greatest health advance ever discovered. “The vaccine is completely worthless, and the government knows it,� says Dr. Blaylock.

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REPLACING LB OST TEETH IMMEDIATELY Ignorance ECAUSE Kills IT IS...

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tongue space, but thinning weakens by David L. Biles, D.D.S., M.A. systems. Our symptoms we lowing several hours of full mouth immune by David L. Biles, D.D.S., M.A. the plate, and a should be minimized. nce patients decide to re- that you are ignorant “To be conscious great and report to health care never thought that I would con- periodontal debridement with our experienceis Since the Áipper may be necessary move unhealthy teeth, the step to knowledge.” –Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881 tinue to learn as much as I do skilled registered dental hygienists. practitioners are the logical result of for an indeterminate amount of time, next concern often becomes oral pollution. theperhaps underthough heGangrene. was stillDeath. slightly after so practice as Even protectively grown Unless over time, to medical care? No this by David L.many Biles,years DDS,inMA it is best to take good of it. 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Eat More Nuts to Lower Cancer Risks

by Margie King HE MEDICAL INDUSTRY is losing the cancer battle. Arm yourself with cancer-fighting nuts. Despite a decades-long, multi-billion dollar war on cancer, the global burden of this deadly disease is expected to rise 50% in just the next five years.[i] A handful of nuts a day could help protect you. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota took note of science finding that nuts are heart healthy. They asked whether nuts could also protect against cancer. They conducted a meta-analysis of 36 observational studies including 30,708 patients on the disease-preventive powers of nut consumption. They included 16 cohort studies along with 20 case-control studies. Their results published in Nutrition Reviews concluded that nut consumption was linked with an overall decrease in cancer risk. In particular, it was inversely associated with risk of colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, and pancreatic cancer.[ii] The combined studies which ranged from 4.6 to 30 years of follow-up found that, compared to patients eating the least nuts, those consuming the most nuts had:

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ctober is ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’. We question ‘the industry’ perspective of cancer and their ways to treat cancer. However, we continually research successful, alternative and healthful ways to heal and most importantly, prevent cancer. We feature two articles here: how nuts and also ginger can be cancer preventatives. We will continue to feature other alternatives in coming issues. Pattie & Thom

n a 24% lower risk of colorectal cancer, n a 42% lower risk of endometrial cancer, and n a 32% lower risk of pancreatic cancer. In addition, those eating more nuts had a 15% lower risk of cancer in general. The authors found no links between nuts and other types of cancers. The researchers noted some possible explanations for the cancer powers of nuts including fiber, protein, minerals, phytosterols, and phenolics compounds. Some of the most powerful anti-cancer nutrients in nuts include vitamin E, selenium, quercetin, resveratrol, and folic acid. Earlier studies had already established that nut antioxidants improve heart health.

In fact, nuts have also been linked to a 20% lower risk of death in general. Other studies have shown that nuts can also help: n Prevent gallstones and diverticulitis n Improve sleep by boosting melatonin n Protect bone health n Increase cognitive function Based on their research, the authors suggested eating five servings (28 grams each) of nuts per week. And, don’t worry about the fat content or calories. Diets that include nuts have been proven not to increase body weight, body mass index, or waist circumference.[iii] Just one caution. Nuts can be difficult to digest because they contain enzyme inhibitors.

They are also high in phytic acid which can block absorption of minerals in the body. Soaking nuts helps disarm the phytic acid. Buy organic raw nuts and soak them in water salted with Celtic sea salt or another high quality unrefined sea salt. Most nuts can soak eight hours or overnight. But some, like cashews, become slimy if you soak them more than six hours. After they’ve soaked, drain the nuts and roast them on a cookie sheet in a warm oven at the lowest heat – about 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

Or use a dehydrator. The top three cancer fighting nuts are: walnuts, pecans and peanuts— organic, of course!!) [i] Popat K, McQueen K, Feeley TW. “The global burden of cancer.” Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2013;27:399– 408. [ii] Lang Wu, Zhen Wang, Jingjing Zhu, Angela L. Murad, Larry J. Prokop, Mohammad H. Murad. “Nut consumption and risk of cancer and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” Nutrition Reviews 2015 Jul;73(7):409-25409-425. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuv006 [iii] Flores-Mateo G, Rojas-Rueda D, Basora J, et al. “Nut intake and adiposity: metaanalysis of clinical trials.” Am J Clin Nutr. 2013;97:1346–1355.

Ginger: 10,000x Stronger Than Chemo (Taxol) In Cancer Research Model

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new study reveals ginger contains a pungent compound that could be up to 10,000 times more effective than conventional chemotherapy in targeting the cancer stem cells at the root of cancer malignancy. A new study published in PLoS reveals a pungent component within ginger known as 6-shogaol is superior to conventional chemotherapy in targeting the root cause of breast cancer malignancy: namely, the breast cancer stem cells. As we have discussed in greater detail in a previous article titled, “Cancer Stem Cells: The Key To Curing Cancer,” cancer stem cells are at the root of a wide range of cancers, not just breast cancer, and are sometimes referred to as “mother cells” because they are responsible for producing all the different “daughter” cell types that makeup the tumor colony. While cancer stem cells only constitute between .2 and 1% of the cells within any given tumor, they have the seeming “immortal” ability to self renew, are capable of continuous differentiation, are resistant to conventional chemotherapeutic agents, and are tumorigenic, i.e. are capable of “splitting off” to create new tumor colonies. Clearly, the cancer stem cells within a tumor must be destroyed if cancer treatment is to affect a lasting cure. The new study titled, “6-Shogaol Inhibits Breast Cancer Cells and Stem Cell-Like Spheroids by Modulation of Notch Signaling Pathway and Induction of Autophagic Cell Death,” identified powerful anti-cancer stem cell activity in 6-shogaol, a pungent constituent of ginger produced when the root is either dried or cooked. The study also found that the cancer-destroying effects occurred at concentrations that were non-toxic to non-cancerous cells – a crucial difference from conventional cancer treatments that do not exhibit this kind of selective cytotoxicity and therefore can do great harm to the patient.

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The authors of the study further affirm these points: Cancer stem cells pose serious obstacle to cancer therapy as they can be responsible for poor prognosis and tumour relapse. To add into the misery, very few chemotherapeutic compounds show promise to kill these cells. Several researchers have shown that cancer stem cells are resistant to paclitaxel, doxorubicin, 5-fluorouracil, and platinum drugs [8, 16]. CSCs are thus an almost unreachable population in tumours for chemotherapy. Therefore any compound, that shows promise towards cancer stem cells, is a highly desirable step towards cancer treatment and should be followed up for further development. The researchers identified a variety of ways by which 6-shagoal targets breast cancer: n It reduces the expression of CD44/ CD24 cancer stem cell surface markers in breast cancer spheroids (3-dimensional cultures of cells modeling stem cell like cancer) n It significantly affects the cell cycle,

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resulting in increased cancer cell death n It induces programmed cell death primarily through the induction of autophagy, with apoptosis a secondary inducer n It inhibits breast cancer spheroid formation by altering Notch signaling pathway through γ-secretase inhibition. n It exhibits cytotoxicity (cell killing properties) against monolayer (1-dimensional cancer model) and spheroid cells (3-dimensional cancer model) It was in evaluating the last mode of 6-shagoal’s chemotherapeutic activity and comparing it to the activity of the conventional chemotherapeutic agent taxol that the researchers discovered an astounding difference. Whereas taxol exhibited clear cytotoxicity in the one-dimensional (flat) monolayer experimental model, it had virtually no effect on the spheroid model, which is a more “real world” model reflecting the 3-dimensionality of tumors and their stem cell subpopulations. Amazingly, this held true even when the concentration of taxol was increased by four orders of

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magnitude: “In contrast [to 6-shagoal], taxol, even though was highly active in monolayer cells, did not show activity against the spheroids even at 10000 fold higher concentration compared to 6-shogoal.” This is a highly significant finding, as it affirms a common theme in cancer research that acknowledges the primarily role of cancer stem cells: namely, while conventional techniques like surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are effective at reducing a tumor’s size, sometimes to the point where it is “debulked,” burned,” or “poisoned” out of the body even below the threshold of re-detection, the appearance of “winning the battle” often comes at a steep price, as ultimately the cancer stem cell population regrows the tumors, now with increased vengeance and metastastic invasiveness, resulting in the cancer “winning the war.” The monolayer model, which does not account for the complex immunity of actual cancer stem-cell based tumors against chemoagents like taxol, represents the old preclinical model of testing cancer treatments. The spheroid model, on the other hand, clearly shows that even 10,000 times higher concentrations of taxol are not capable of beating this ginger component at selectively targeting the root cause of the tumor malignancy. In their concluding remarks, the authors point out a hugely important distinction between natural anti-cancer agents and conventional ones that have only been introduced in the past half century or so, namely, “Dietary compounds are welcome options for human diseases due to their time-tested acceptability by human bodies.” Unlike modern synthetically produced and patented chemicals, ginger, curcumin, green tea, and hundreds of other compounds naturally found in the human diet, have been “time-tested” as acceptable to the human body in the

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largest and longest running “clinical trials” known: the tens of thousands of years of direct human experience, spanning thousands of different cultures from around the world, that constitute human prehistory. These experientially based “trials” are validated not by RCTs, or a peer-reviewed publication process, but by the fact that we all made it through this incalculably vast span of time to be alive here today. Consider also that if our ancestors made the wrong dietary choice by simply mistaking an edible berry for a poisonous one, the consequences could be deadly. This places even greater emphasis on how the “time testing” of dietary compounds was not an academic but a life-death affair, and by implication, how the information contained within various cultural traditions as “recipes” passed down from generation to generation are “epigenetic inheritance systems” no less important to our health and optimal gene expression as the DNA in our own bodies. Ultimately, this new study adds to a growing body of research indicating that cancer stem cell targeting approaches using natural substances present in the human diet for thousands of years are far superior chemotherapy and radiation, both of which actually increase the relative populations of cancer stem cells versus non-tumorigenic ones. For further reading on ginger’s anti-cancer properties, consult our Ginger Research database. Also, you can use our Cancer Research Health Guide for thousands of studies and articles about natural healing approaches for cancer. Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo. com, on the Board of Governors for the National Health Federation, and Fearless Parent, Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. http://tinyurl.com/pb2mlg8 Printed with permission.

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Center for Health Notes Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Case of Common Undiscovered Cause

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by Michael Slezak, ND ecently I had someone follow up with me at my clinic after completing one month of treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This was a young woman with a year long history of severe pain and bloating in her abdomen who had been evaluated by a good gastroenterologist, was given a reasonable diet plan, but was still in pain and discomfort despite having “tried everything”. Prior to seeing me she had been taking probiotics,

fish oil, glutamine and aloe, all of which could be helpful but didn’t notice any change. In my practice I see Dr. Michael Slezak, ND a lot of IBS, so her story sounded familiar. For her, it wasn’t a case of anti-inflammatory abuse for bad

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three main ingredients in processed foods. Food industry scientists have used ever so specific research in Dr. Katie Dashtban finding just the right amount and just the right grind of salt and sugar and fat to develop foods that we see presented to us at every turn. When a heroin addict decides to recover from his addiction, he doesn’t run into heroin on TV adds, billboards, and heroin for sale in grocery stores and restaurants. But with food addictions, we are constantly encountered with the addictive substances. I’ve also noticed a strong cultural factor that sets food expectations from very early age. For example, we expect convenience, we don’t expect to use planning and labor in preparing our own food. We feel entitled to satisfying an ever-changing wish for flavor, and lastly we have securely paired food and mood as inseparable companions. The above psychological and sociopolitical factors make the job of untangling from food addictions an amazingly challenging task. We therefore expect our other flawed industry, the pharmaceutical industry, to save us by pills that control our cholesterol and diabetes and depression and anxiety. Consequently, we fail, yet one more time, in gaining our health and noticing any real relief. Dr Katie Dashtban, Licensed Health Psychologist Owner of Medical Psychology Services, and Feeling Good Therapy and Training Center of Fremont Reach me at www. medicalpsychologyservice.com or (831) 621-1150 or www.facebook.com/ MedicalPsychologyServices

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periods or headaches which cause ulcerations in the intestines. Nor did it appear to be related to an adverse food reaction since she had done a fair job of eliminating the foods that commonly aggravate IBS. What I did find in her case was a high level of yeast in her stool. Candida/yeast overgrowth is a common finding on stool cultures. Although a small amount is considered normal it can often grow out of check with repeated use of antibiotics, hormones and

certain medications. It is an obligate fermenter, meaning it must have sugars or starches to produce energy, so a high sugar diet tends to bring out more symptoms. When yeast ferments these sugars, waste products are produced and absorbed which cause symptoms of bloating, brain fog, headache, and fatigue. My patient had all of these symptoms coalescing to render her unable to work. When she was treated with a natural antifungal she initially experienced a herxheimer or die off reaction, often a sign that the treatment is working. Herxheimer reactions usually manifest as general body ache, fatigue and possibly mild fever. They occur as a result of immune system cytokine production in the gut in response to yeast antigen release. Essentially the immune system gets worked up by all the yeast parts in the intestines, which it interprets as a big infection. Once

this settles down, symptoms often improve dramatically. After one month she no longer had pain or bloating in her intestines, her brain fog and headaches were gone, and her energy was up to how it used to be before she became sick. This might beg the question…why didn’t the gastroenterologist test for this. Stool cultures for yeast are largely unavailable by conventional labs, so it isn’t even considered in the differential diagnosis of IBS. Even with stool cultures, yeast may not grow when it’s clearly visible under the microscope. Working with an experienced naturopathic doctor who uses alternative labs may help in making this diagnosis and clearing up this common underlying issue with IBS. Dr. Michael Slezak, ND is an experienced Naturopathic Doctor practicing at The Center for Health in Santa Cruz, California. For more about Dr. Slezak see www.drslezak. com or call (831) 239-2645.

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no significant differences were found in the three groups. Although the researchers were uncertain of massage therapy’s exact mechanism of action for easing back pain, they voiced several theories. One suggestion was that it either stimulated tissue locally or produced a general central nervous system response. Another speculation was that merely spending time in a relaxing environment and feeling cared for might have been responsible for the improvement. An additional factor to consider is the subjectivity that is impossible to eliminate in such studies. Patients in the control group were aware that the other groups were receiv receiving massage and this knowledge may have caused them to dis discount their own progress. It should be reiterated that the study suggests rather than proves the benefit of massage for back pain. Also, some members of medi the American medical community not associated with the research have ex expressed reluctance sug to accept the suggested benefits as being valid. Converse Conversely, the study’s authors offered their assessments of its import. Cherkin characterizes the results as being “pretty strong.” He states the massage was tested on patients who did not improve using the standard medical approach to back pain treatment. He feels that massage therapy is a reasonable thing to try for anyone getting insufficient relief from this malady. The coauthor, Dr. Richard Deyo, feels that massage appears to provide clinicians with another choice for managing the challenging medical problem of chronic low back pain. http://tinyurl.com/64spn8b http://tinyurl.com/6kte2km http://tinyurl.com/43497ly

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and anxiety. When you live by intent and capability, it does not matter what is happening or not happening, at least you are in control of what is happening to you. It is a more stable life.

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For a committed person, there is no such thing as failure. If you fall down 100 times a day, it is 100 lessons learned. If you commit yourself like this to creating what you really care for, your mind gets organized. Once your mind gets organized, your emotions will get organized because the way you think is the way you feel. Once your thought and emotion are organized, your energies and your very body will get organized. Once all these four are organized in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal. You are the creator in many ways.

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What a human being needs is clarity, not confidence. If you want to walk through a crowd of people, if your vision is clear and you can see where everybody is, you can just walk through the whole crowd without touching anyone. If your vision is not clear but you have confidence, you will walk over everybody. Because there is no clarity, people think that confidence is a good substitute. It just cannot be. Let’s say you make all the major decisions in your life like this: get yourself a coin, flip it. If it is heads, it is one way, tails the other. It works 50 percent of the time. If you are right only 50 percent of the time, there are only two professions that you can keep -- either a weather man or an astrologer. You cannot keep any other job on this planet.

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taught me. Slowness is transformational, whether you are talking about a high school reunion or dynamic equilibrium. There is an odd saying in martial arts, “Slow makes smooth, and smooth makes fast.� When we adopt slowness

Ted Mancuso Relaxing as a practice, we treat everything moving in life as though we were checking ballistics. For a martial artist, slow repetitions “groove a move,� clarifying just how the mechanics and neurological cascade changes with every inch of movement, ounce of applied power. Tai Chi is certainly not the only style in the courtyard that employs slowness as a training and discovery method. Slowness does not mean apathetic, sluggish, languid or indifferent. Rather, it is intention brought down to a laser-like coherence. It is the finger crawl of the safecracker. It is the momentary diary of our condition record-

ing, even as it happens, any flagging of concentration, nervousness at the skin level, anxiety in the heart. Slowness brings on quiescence and thereby establishes a place for stillness to sit in the soul. Oddly enough, slowness energizes. Sometimes it even frightens us because, as we see everyone running around and speeding up to catch up, we have the revelation that the world might not actually need us to constantly accelerate. We have another saying, “Go fast, never hurry.� Slowness allows us to see the hidden seam in everything. Eyes closed, hands folded, breath quieting; yet still we see the hurry to be someplace though we don’t know where. Throwing a punch can require, if only for an instant, a determined application where waiting and slowing brings itself to a burst of power and speed we could not even have imagined. To some, this is a welcome by-product of martial training. To me, after fifty years in the arts, this is the training itself. Ted Mancuso is the director of the Academy of Martial & Internal Arts, the oldest traditional Chinese martial arts studio in Santa Cruz. If you would like to keep updated on classes and seminars throughout the year, visit www.reelingsilk.com.

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by Ashlea Hartz, N.C., RYT and Dr. Ryan Slaughter, DC Golf is known as a gentleman’s sports. Often we picture playing a relaxing round on Sunday mornings and enjoying this friendly game long into retirement. But in reality this sport of skill and mental focus can really take a toll on the body. Golf may be considered a low-impact sport, but it is associated with a significant number of injuries. Considered one of the greatest golfers of our time, even Tiger Woods has been spending much of his career on the sideline because of injury. Since 2002 Tiger has struggled with injuries to his knee, back, Achilles’ tendon, and elbow. Ouch. According to the Dr. Ryan Slaughter, DC, “many golfing-related injuries are a result of poor joint stability, improper mechanics, and rotational force through joints in the body that are not designed to rotate�. The low back and knee specifically, are segments of the body that are designed to have great range of motion in flexion and extension, however they are limited in their ability to rotate. Without proper mechanics and stability in these joints the repetitive movement of the golf swing can lead to overuse injuries such as those seen in Pros like Tiger and many amature golfers today. I spoke with Dr. Slaughter to learn how to recognize a possible risk for injury, and what treatments are available for current injuries to get you back on the course and help you play at the top of your game.

Common Cause of Injury - Posture Analysis

When you break down the mechanics of a golf swing, you can see that proper joint rotation will play a big role in injury prevention. The body is designed to move, and is capable of a wide range of motions if it is kept in balance. “In any sport we are pushing the body to the limits and often asking it to do something it was not designed to do. But with the proper posture, strength and flexibility it should be able to bounce back to neutral quickly,� says Dr. Slaughter. In golf, the rotation of the body should come from the hips and the thoracic spine (the middle upper back behind the rib cage). Unfortunately, poor posture and weak stabilizing muscles can lead to a collapsed knee

during the swing, forcing the rotation into the lumbar (lower) spine which is not designed to rotate. You might first start to notice some stiffness in the lower back after a round or tightness in the joints such as your hips and knees. These are signs of improper posture during play that could possibly lead to a more serious injury in that area. If you are feeling pain or have an injury due to golf, the first thing to do is see a practitioner who can properly diagnose. When working with a Sports ChirotheraCONNECTION AD 3.75�such x 3.75� py specialist as Dr. Slaughter, the first round of treatment it to assess your injury through range of motion and stability testing. “It is important to not just treat the acute injury, but test the body to Michelle Wie hits a shot at the 2013 see where the injury stems from so you can get to the root of the US Women’s Open.

problem.�, says Slaughter. There are four common ways that injury manifest in the body: poor posture, repetitive movement, acute injury and sitting. Once the instability is identified, the doctor can start a personalized protocol of myofascial release therapy (or soft tissue work), and traditional chiropractic adjustments as needed to help the body to recovery. The next step is to add corrective exercises in the treatment plan to retrain the body to have proper posture and move correctly on and off the course. This includes a lot of core stabilization work. “Most patients I see have an instability in the core muscles, this often is the cause of too much time sitting at a desk and in a car,� says Slaughter. Finding time to add core stabilizing exercise to your golf routine will

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WHICH TELEVISION SHOWS ARE THE BEST & THE WORST FOR OUR CHILDREN TO WATCH . . .

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cording to the PTC, are: Fox’s Scream Queens (a “graphic and grotesque program”), CBS’ Life in Pieces (“explicitly raunchy” and “horrifically wrong for prime time”), and CBS’ Angel From Hell (“crude, obnoxious, and insulting”). But, does what kids watch on TV really matter all that much? “We have a vast body of research that documents a casual relationship between aggression on TV and in kids,” Melissa Henson, the PTC’s director of grass roots education and advocacy, tells Yahoo Parenting. Calling out the “sexualized media connection to negative outcomes for kids,” including teen pregnancy, Henson insists, “There are real world consequences for kids who are absorbing these messages without a filter or guidance from parents.” The Yale Parenting Center’s Director, Dr. Alan Kazdin, agrees. Citing TV news shows which graphically depict violence inflicted upon Syrian refugees, the horror of school shootings and other murders, the professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University offers Yahoo Parenting 9/11 coverage as an example. “Some children who watched the broadcasts about 9/11 were actually traumatized by it,” he says. “They’ve even come up with a term for it, ‘secondary terrorism.’” Television, Kazdin explains “can have an enormous influence on kids and their anxiety, trauma, aggression, and violence.” Because children go through stages where anxiety is “almost normative,” he says, watching violent or aggressive programs during this time makes them especially vulnerable to anxiety in their preschool years. “You really do have to be careful about what you let kids watch,” Kazdin cautions. “Even good role models and such on ‘positive’ programs are like tinkering with chairs on the Titanic. Kids aren’t going to get the moral of the story about the obnoxious kid who learned a lesson — all they see is a kid acting obnoxious.” And, what they see, he says, they do. “Positive messages are obviously better than negative ones, but kids don’t get the message — they see the actions. Those actions are what they mimic.” Ultimately, Kazdin says his best advice is that “parents watch with their kids when they can, and make sure their children are not watching a characteristic that they don’t want them to develop themselves.” http://tinyurl.com/njakw3u Printed with permission.

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10 Warning Signs of Cancer in Pets

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Herpes Simplex Virus TEM

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Yet it still retains a certain rustic simplicity and sacred more love and growth into your life, at the folfeeling as a place of pilgrimage for the few lowing longer events led by Barry and Joyce Vissell: Oct 14-20—Assisi Retreat, Italy; hardy souls willing to make the trek. And, like Saint Francis, Joyce and I, a few Feb 7-14, 2016—Hawaii Couples Retreat; years ago, were also climbing the mountain to June 4-11, 2016 — Alaska “Inside Messageâ€? seek forgiveness. We have often spoken about Cruise from Seattle; Jul 17-22—Shared the unconscious actions of our younger years. Heart Summer Retreat at Breitenbush Hot I have always considered Joyce’s misdeeds as Springs, OR. Joyce & Barry Vissell, a nurse/therapist “lightweight.â€? Like once she stole a piece of fruit from a neighbor’s tree, and her parents and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counmarched her down the street to apologize. 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that we do today. Shamanism is a spiritual method, not a religion, and it is probably the oldest spiritual technique in human history, dating back 30-40 thousand years. From a shamanic perspective, every part of nature has spirit—animals, rocks, trees and plants, rivers, everything, and we can only live harmoniously by respecting the vital spirit in every aspect of the universe. In all traditional cultures, the shaman communicates with spirits through a process called “journeying.” A journey is a sort of spirit flight into what we call non-ordinary reality, a reality that is only open to us through a shift in consciousness. This shift is most commonly achieved with the support of drumming. The shaman is someone

one particular form who is skilled at making of shamanism. After this shift, and has traveled learning to journey, extensively in imaginal your helping spirits realms to build working become your prirelationships with what mary teachers; they are called helping spirits. inform you how to These unconditionally lovproceed and how to ing spirits show themselves grow in your spirito the shaman in animal or tual work. human form. The shaman In ancient works in partnership with times, people were them for healing, divinacalled to shamantion, and the welfare of the ism in rather dracommunity. matic ways, perThere is a misunderhaps through a life standing today that only threatening illness people with extraordinary or a big dream that sensitivity can learn shachanged their life. manic practices. I want to These things still stress that shamanism is happen, but a call for ordinary people. This can also show up in connection with spirit is something that used to be JARVIS TOTEM SHIELD, ©1980 M. Gendron you as a pull on your common, and is a very basic human activity. heart, a longing for something—you’re not sure Shamanic methods (like journeying) are an what. It’s important to pay attention to this. My easily learned way for anyone, no matter what teacher, Dr. Michael Harner, always says “a shaspiritual path they’re on, to strengthen their man sees with the heart.” So go ahead, open the direct connections with wisdom teachers and door, explore and come to your own conclusions. Narrye Caldwell is a Doctor of Traditional spiritual vitality. But the methods require some Chinese Medicine, shamanic healer, and martraining and discipline. One way to begin is to take one of the Ba- tial artist. She has a private practice in Santa sic workshops in shamanic journeying offered Cruz, and is a faculty member at Five Branches by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. The University and the Foundation for Shamanic work taught by the Foundation, which is called Studies. For more information about her classes Core Shamanism, is not culturally specific, so and workshops visit www.narryecaldwell.com it doesn’t require an ancenstral connection to or call (408) 489-8268.

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Seeking the Underlining Causes of Imbalance

by Malin Ashby, Board-Certified stewards of their health, or soil if Naturopath you will, they may not know about re you re a c hthe importance of purified water, ing your goals sunshine, the natural processes and dreams in and organic food, breathing deeply, this fast-paced human support and sufficient rest”; world?? Or are then we need a health guide, and you too busy to think about this is what I consider my Holistic your health or wellbeing until Niche, Health Guide. you become ill or injured? I The secret weapon inside used to be a 40 hour plus per of you is amazing, your immune week social worker with a very system. Think of your immune Malin Ashby system as a most sophisticated stressful schedule and no exercise, meditation, or nutritional defense system in the universe. program: I used food instead to calm myself and This is not fiction. This system is active inside eventually was prescribed psychotropic medica- your body right now. This system is an active tions, an anti-depressant and a benzodiazepine army with an innate ability to adapt and protect to help me with low energy and anxiety. Did it you from infectious agents. If you peel back the work? I gained 30 pounds and became addicted immune system, it has two main parts: innate to Klonopin. and adaptive responses. In the beginning, the What did I do, eventually I quit my job and defenses are non-specific, non- super-skilled moved to Hawaii, but I had to take me with me. and working around the clock. However, as an I did not work except in my beautiful tropical invasion takes shape, the innate response is the yard, which provided exercise and wonderful first line of defense, it has two levels; first, the fruits and vegetables. I felt lonely, depressed, Giant walls, such as your skin, keeping bugs useless, and homesick for my family. I went out. The second line of defense is Inflammation. to OA, over eaters anonymous, an alternative Inflammation is your body’s response to harm doctor, who infused me with EDTA to release (trauma and Pathogens); it is a two stage process mercury from my body, and he gave me com- to help rebuild tissue. pounded hormones, which I needed. I found a The war goes on inside your body, imagine psychiatrist who believed me and listened when I a virus has entered your body; it passed the insaid,” I cannot take those medications, we came nate immune system, but it left a trail of evidence up with a plan and I took GABA for anxiety, and which your antigens recognize as foreign. Once SAM-E for Depression. My life began to change, inside, the virus takes hold of the cells machinery slowly healing. and a start replicating its own army, the immune In 2007, I began my schooling in Naturo- system does its job and threat is over. So far, we pathic Health at Clayton, then Trinity School are talking about the good it can do; however, of Natural Health, graduating in 2013. I passed the immune system can also turn on your own as a Board Certified Naturopath in 2015. As a body with chronic inflammation or Autoimmune horticulturist, I have been creating herbal infu- Disease. This is one aspect of how our body sions and concoctions for years. works or overworks. Here is my definition for Ka Mala NaturoPlease contact Malin Ashby at mapathic. “Ka Mala” means “The Garden” in Ha- linchief@gmail.com, (831) 706-5508 for waiian. “If people do not know how to be good information; website is coming soon.

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EssentialLivingGuide.com ELECTRONIC MEDIA, NATURE teacher who taught me how to esAND YOU cape the constraints of my physical by Christopher Love

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body. This sometimes was akin to henever I those moments I would sit by the am feelin’ water and drift off into fantasy, blue, I have Ă RDWLQJ DLPOHVVO\ ZLWKRXW D FDUH LQ a little sitthe world. This practice served me down by the for some time. However, something crick. What do you do? Nature is Christopher Love felt missing and during this time of such an amazing provider. She P\ OLIH , KDG GLIĂ€FXOW\ FRPSOHWLQJ offers us almost everything, such as food, water projects, keeping agreements and feeling conand the ecosystem that gives us life. She holds nected with life. for us a veritable smorgasbord for us to experiThen one day, I met another teacher, who ence; a playground for the young and old alike. had a completely different approach to meditation. She taught me practices that were designed to assist me to be fully present in my body and able to feel my connection to the earth and all that which surrounds me. I relate to this type of meditation, like how it feels when I would come out of the swimming hole, vibrantly alive, skin tingling and feet feeling every moment of contact with the dirt and rock I was climbing on. I remember sitting on the bank of my favorite swimming hole and contemplat“I remember the feeling when we crossed the fence from pavement ing how wonderful it felt to be in to earth; it was like all the weight on my shoulders would begin my body, to have a body and do the things I do. to disintegrate with each step. It is still like this today.â€? This new meditation pracSo many studies have been completed that tice changed my life. I became more grounded show us that time in nature can relax us. The in all my endeavors and more connected in many National and State Park systems boasts millions of my relationships. Things that were a waste of visitors a year. At a time when city life has of time began to fall away and I found myself become more hustle-bustle than ever, nature working on more meaningful projects. is still holding some vast pockets of peace and The statistic that most startled me the other relative quiet. day is that average American youth today spend I grew up in Kentucky in a small sixth-class less than 30 minutes of unstructured outdoor play city neighborhood called Druid Hills. I was forwhile spending an average of 7 hours sitting in tunate, just a hop over the fence would take me front of some type of electronic screen. into hundreds of acres of undeveloped land. My I remember my mom kicking us kids out best friend and I lived the life of Tom Sawyer the door after breakfast on the weekends and and Huck Finn. Our waterways were Beargrass telling us not to come back until lunch when the Creek and the Ohio River. Sadly, my childhood church bells rang. After lunch, it was the same playground is now housing developments and until dinner. We spent a vast amount of hours RIĂ€FH FRPSOH[HV , ZDV KRUULĂ€HG DW WKLV ZKHQ , outdoors, playing with friends, making up games returned for a visit some years back. I give thanks and organizing our own soccer, baseball, kickball for the countless hours I spent playing in creeks, DQG Ă DJ IRRWEDOO WRXUQDPHQWV :H SOD\HG KLGH EXLOGLQJ IRUWV Ă€VKLQJ DQG H[SORULQJ WKH ZLOG and seek, freeze tag (which we called frozen , EHOLHYH WKLV ZDV P\ Ă€UVW H[SHULHQFH RI catchers) and as we got older, truth or dare. meditation, that is, sitting in nature, without a cell We became socialized by being with each phone or any other hand-held electronic device. I other, which gave us opportunities to learn how to remember always having the time for meaningful navigate relationships and create friendships. As conversations, which was not over e-mail or fb. a result, I still have some of my childhood friends Without social media, we actually had to make in my life. I wonder how it is for our youth today the effort to visit one another’s homes to maintain and if they are getting the experiences they need connection; and make the effort we did. to know how to relate with life, nature and other We may not have had as many friends back human beings. then as we do now on fb, however, we actually We are also living in a time when it is actuknew these friends well‌ some might even arally being debated wether or not it is parental gue too well. I always knew how my friend was neglect to let your kids go to the park down the feeling, not because of a post they made, rather street by themselves. If this were the case in my how they looked when I saw them. childhood, I suppose my parents would have ,Q WKRVH GD\V ZKHQ OLIH ZDV GLIĂ€FXOW ZH been suspect. would drop everything and go spend some time in If you have an absence of nature in your nature. I remember the feeling when we crossed life, I do suggest you take the time to kindle a the fence from pavement to earth; it was like all relationship with her. My other suggestion is to the weight on my shoulders would begin to distake up meditation or any practice that brings you integrate with each step. It is still like this today. to presence and connection. We don’t need social I had favorite trees and rocks to hang out media to connect us to the world. Social media under, on and around. And there was a really is a tool to inform us and aid communication. special place with a small waterfall into a body However, it will never replace a sit-down by the of fresh water in which we would skinny dip on crick or a cup of tea with a friend. hot days. I returned from these visits replenished Christopher Love is a writer, educator and in some way and much more willing to face meditation instructor who welcomes corresponwhatever I had going on in my life. dence at Love@DevotionalLiving.org. In my mid twenties, I met a mediation

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Your Stove: Source of Wealth and Health

by Megan Montero its placement in the home to magine the deits functionality, is considered licious smells important. Can you see your of the kitchen, stove as soon as you walk in the with friends or front door? Does it share the family gathersame wall as your bed? Does it ing around as the work properly? Do you use it? magic of dinner is Your stove relates directly to created. This time of your wealth and health, effecting year, Mother Earth these aspects of your life, even Megan Montero provides us with an if you rarely use it. abundance of different foods to enjoy Feng Shui Tips for the care of your cooking and eating: red peppers, stove: eggplants, apples, winter squash, just 1. Keep your stove clean. to name a few. There is nothing like 2. Make sure all the burners are in good working order. 3. Use all the burners. If you don’t eat at home and only heat water, rotate the burner you use to boil your water. 4. Clear the stove of pots, pans and teapots when you’re done cooking. Keeping things on the stove when they’re not in use will affect the Chi (energy) of your stove. Stoves are associated with the fire element and the nourishment and pleasure received a teapot of water always kept on the from a home cooked meal. stove will dampen the fire chi. From the perspective of Feng 5. A mirror behind your stove will Shui, the stove is considered one of the give you a view of what’s behind you, most important elements of a house. which will relax you while you’re It’s a symbol of wealth and health. cooking. This will positively effect Everything related to the stove, from the energy that goes into your food. A

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mirror will also bring light to a space that is typically dark and it will feel like you have another window. Many clients tell me how much they like having a mirror behind their stove and my guests complement mine all the time. Thank your stove for the good work it does generating wealth and good health for you and your family. Care for it in a way that honors the support and nourishment it provides you, just like Mother Earth. For Feng Shui and Organizing advice tailored to your specific situation contact Megan at (831) 588-5424 or megan@windandwaterblessings. com. Megan Montero is a Feng Shui consultant, a Professional Organizer, 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. windandwaterblessings.com. Stay in touch by signing up online for Megan’s Cycles of Chi newsletter.

Successful People Turn to Chaldean Numerology for Answers

decode the alphabet for the purpose of extracting information true by Joanne Justis to the core. This was a any suclegacy handed down to cessful us by brilliant scholars people who were well beyond have distheir years in what they covered Joanne Justis knew, leaving us with a an ancient method for obtaining valuable information that is wealth of information so powerful, it’s nontraditional in nature due to the simply magic or rather, beyond magic. Chaldean Numerology is a provfact that this has been a well-kept en ancient science that deals with the secret dating back to 4004 BCE. With that being said what a surprise significance of numbers, and how the if the world knew that a mathemati- vibrational patterns or energy frequencal formula existed based on sound cies contained within numbers can and phonics that was developed to influence your life and your future. Numbers define order and structure and are measurable and predictable allowing us to see beyond the veil of the external world to understand both the divine design of our lives and who we are as earthly personalities in this incarnation. Certificate of Science & Master Instructor The numbers of your name and Suzie@ThetaHealingBenefits.com birthdate can show you a design and blueprint that reveals the full potential your life holds, and describe both the “I cannot speak highly enough of Suzie and her compassion and ethics possibilities that are available to you and the choices that can lead to your as a ThetaHealer®. As someone who was once diagnosed as greatest success. This information 100% fully and functionally disabled, I can say that ThetaHealing® has gives you options for controlling changes in your life and helping to made me whole again, and my connection to myself and Creator and discover how Numerology gives you All That Is is deeper and more fulfilling than ever. I've made nearly a insight and clarity for making better full recovery that would not have been possible without Suzie. Her choices. By promoting Chaldean Numergifts and heart fullness literally saved my life. Utterly phenomenal. ology the intent is to initiate a renaisAnyone with Suzie in their life is truly fortunate.” D.L. Marana, AZ sance, a revitalization, if you will, of a proven, ancient science left to us by mathematicians, philosophers, spiritual leaders, and scholars combined, and to reintroduce the correct system of numbers; thereby, challenging the “I am so grateful for having found you and for the incredible difference you have validity of a bogus system still being made in my life. Thank You!!! I am a different person” - S. Radia used today.

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INNer DIalOgue

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by Rainya Dann

A man is what he thinks all day long.

—Emerson ccording to a beautiful Native American story, we start on our earth walk as pure consciousness. We walk on a spiral further and further from who we are. At some point on our life journey, we wake up and reverse our direction, in search of our psychic fingerprint, or our essential self. We journey within to return home. It is like walking into a house as a pure being and there are cobwebs everywhere. They may stick to you, but are they you? The question is how not to identify ourselves with the cobwebs. The costume is not the dancer, is it? As Stephen Levine says, “Fear is not the problem, it’s our identification with the fear that is the problem.” In 1984, I met Hal and Sidra Stone PhD who created Voice Dialogue, which is a process to awaken consciousness. They gave me a map of my psyche. “The map is not the territory,”

but if you are in the middle of the desert and you want to go to Santa Cruz, a map can be helpful. The psyche is the collection of energy patterns (beliefs, fears, desires, etc.) we call Rainya Dann sub-personalities or inner archetypes. Getting to know your pusher, pleaser, critic, protector, vulnerable child, and all the other members of your inner family, can support you in understanding yourself and others. Begin to listen to which sub-personality is speaking. The pleaser wants to feel appreciated. The critic might say, “You have to be perfect.” The pusher says,” Just one more thing—as soon as you get this done, you’ll feel better.” The mind evaluates, trying to figure everything out. The shy child feels timid, the victim feels helpless, and the playful child is creative. We all have quite a cast of characters. As you begin to listen within, the

question is not what you say, but who is saying it. Do you ever find yourself judging others? Listen to the voice. What is it saying? This is a part of you that you have not yet accepted inside yourself. For example, you hear “She is so stupid!” What part of you feels stupid that you have not embraced? “He is so sloppy!” Is there a part of you that is afraid of being sloppy? Self love heals. Say to yourself “I love the part of me that feels stupid, or I accept the part of me that feels afraid of being sloppy.” On our earth walk, we carry the light of awareness, the capacity to witness life in all its aspects without judging the energy patterns. How to come back home to yourself? Breathe into your heart, allow it to soften and something inside relaxes. Become aware of what you see, the sounds you hear, and the sensations you feel. Be present to what is.

Ask yourself, “Who is talking?” Which sub-personality is speaking? When you catch yourself judging someone, say, “That’s an interesting perspective!” and celebrate your differences. Pay attention from the inside out. Honor the power of the heart. As Amma says, When you behold the entire universe as a play of consciousness, what is there to do but smile? Rainya Dann has been teaching Voice Dialogue for over 30 years. She welcomes you to call for a free 20 minute consultation to explore how Voice Dialogue might support you, (831)4257837. Rainya is offering free introductions to The Voice Dialogue Process, Wednesday October 14 & 28, 6:30-8 pm. Saturday, October 24th, 3:00-5:00 pm at 420 Happy Valley Rd, Santa Cruz. Visit her website www. RainyaDann.com.

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after taking the Basic DNA and Advanced DNA 2 ThetaHealing classes. Then, five weeks after completing the Manifesting and Abundance class my income had doubled again. My income continued to increase dramatically. In November of 2012, I took the Game of Life class, which defines and clears your family, society and business blocks. The results were Chaikin profound. As I champagne toasted to the New Year of 2013, I realized that for the first time that I could remember, I was very happy and content with my life! Thanks to Lynda, I truly feel like I have been given a key to the universe and anything is possible.” —Kathy Abma, Multiple Business Owner Capitola, CA

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Pesticide Treadmill Jeopardizes Food Safety

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by Dr. Mercola n late March of this year, glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s bestselling weed killer Roundup, was reclassified as a “probable carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO). Glyphosate is most heavily applied on genetically engineered (GE) corn, soybeans, and sugar beets, but it’s also commonly used to desiccate (dry out) conventional (non-GMO but non-organic) wheat and protect other conventional crops from weeds.

California to Put Cancer Warning on Roundup

In response to the IARC’s determination, British and German retailers have started removing Roundup from its lineup of weed killers sold to the general public. France has also announced plans to restrict its sale at garden centers.1 The IARC is one of the research agencies from which the California agency of environmental hazards gets its data to declare carcinogens under Prop 65 and, as predicted, environment officials have now issued a notice of intent to put a cancer warning on Roundup.2 Glyphosate cannot be washed off and can remain stable in foods for over a year.3 But what many don’t appreciate is that Roundup is actually far more toxic because of its surfactants that synergistically increase glyphosate’s toxicity. GE crops are much more heavily contaminated with glyphosate than conventional crops by nature of their design, and this fact alone blows a massive hole in GMO safety claims. Considering that, plus the fact that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not test foods for glyphosate residues due to the high cost of doing so,4 a Prop 65 label would probably be appropriate for most non-organic processed foods as well — those with genetically engineered (GE) ingredients in particular. Time will tell if California will ever take it that far, as that would truly be the death knell for Monsanto and other chemical technology companies, but it’s definitely something to consider when you’re buying your groceries.

Evidence Abounds Showing Glyphosate Is ‘Definitely’ Carcinogenic

While the IARC stopped short of a stronger cancer classification for glyphosate there’s ample evidence showing it is quite “definitely” carcinogenic.5 Dr. Anthony Samsel even claims to have uncovered evidence showing Monsanto has known glyphosate promotes cancer (http:// tinyurl.com/qdal8lu) since 1981. That’s 34 years! Feigning ignorance as usual, Monsanto has called for a retraction of the IARC’s findings — a demand that is likely to be unmet, according to Aaron Blair, a scientist emeritus at the National Cancer Institute who chaired the IARC Working Group. Blair has publicly defended the

group’s classification of glyphosate, saying it is “appropriately based on current science.” For a review of the published studies6 questioning the safety of glyphosate in terms of its effects on human and animal health, check out this compilation by Dr. Alex Vasquez (http://tinyurl.com/prphzpw), containing 220 pages worth of research. Another illuminating and heavily referenced 80-page report7 worth reading through at your leisure is “Banishing Glyphosate (http:// www.i-sis.org.uk/Banishing_Glyphosate.pdf)”, authored by Drs. Eva Sirinathsinghji and Mae-Wan Ho, with cooperation from six other researchers, including Dr. Don Huber and Dr. Nancy Swanson. Recent follow-up research8,9 by Gilles-Éric Séralini — whose initial lifetime feeding study (http://tinyurl.com/9ytj5oe) revealed massive tumor growth and early death — shows that long-term exposure to even ultra-low amounts of Roundup may cause tumors, along with liver and kidney damage in rats. In this study, the dose used was “environmentally relevant in terms of human, domesticated animals and wildlife levels of exposure,” prompting the authors to suggest Roundup may have significant health implications.

Did You Know? EPA Raised Allowable Glyphosate Limits in Food Two Years Ago

Some of the studies implicating glyphosate as a serious hazard to animals and humans go back several years, yet in July 2013, right in the midst of mounting questions about glyphosate’s safety, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised the allowable limits of glyphosate10,11 in both food and feed crops. Allowable levels in oilseed crops such as flax, soybean, and canola were doubled, from 20 ppm to 40 ppm — just 10 ppm below the level at which Roundup may cause cell death, according to research12 published in 2011. Permissible glyphosate levels in many other foods were raised to 15 to 25 times previous levels. Root and tuber vegetables, with the exception of sugar, got one of the largest boosts, with allowable residue limits being raised from 0.2 ppm to 6.0 ppm. The level for sweet potatoes was raised to 3 ppm.

At the time, Beyond Pesticides criticized the EPA’s decision, saying:

“Given that alternative methods of growing food and managing weeds are available, like those that exist in

organic agriculture, it is unreasonable for EPA to increase human exposures to Roundup.” All such complaints and concerns fell on deaf ears, and Monsanto’s well-oiled PR machine maintained glyphosate’s extensive safety record. Fast forward a mere two years, and glyphosate will now carry a cancer warning label in California...

EPA Should Reassess Its Decision on Glyphosate Tolerance Levels...

It’s important to remember that the allowable levels of glyphosate were recently significantly raised, because IF the US government does implement glyphosate testing for

food, as indicated by the EPA back in April,13 then we’ll probably still be assured that levels are “within safe limits,” as we were back in December 2014 after the USDA tested a number of foods for glyphosate.14 But in light of glyphosate now being recognized as carcinogenic, it would seem prudent for the EPA to reassess its tolerance levels in foodespecially when you consider that the vast majority of all processed foods are made with GE ingredients that are more heavily contaminated. Just how much glyphosate is the average individual getting, if they’re eating a primarily processed non-organic food diet every single day of the week? Samsel and Seneff’s groundbreaking research published in June 2013 — a mere month before the EPA raised allowable levels — suggests glyphosate may actually be the most important factor in the development of a wide variety of chronic diseases, specifically because your gut bacteria are a key component of glyphosate’s mechanism of harm (http://tinyurl. com/kvff7jl). Another study15 published the following year investigated the effect of glyphosate on Americans’ health, noting that glyphosate interferes with many metabolic processes in both plants and animals. The researchers also pointed out that previous studies

show glyphosate “damages DNA and is a driver of mutations that lead to cancer.” Transgenic Bt Products Are Not Working Out Very Well Either While Roundup Ready and other similar crops are designed to withstand heavy doses of herbicides, Bt plants are equipped with a gene from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which produces Bt toxin — a pesticide that breaks open the stomach of certain insects and kills them. Bt plants are engineered to produce this pesticide internally. One of the selling points and touted benefits of GE crops like Bt cotton and Bt corn is reduced pesticide usage, as the plant itself will kill any bug that chews on it. There are three important points I want to make about such claims. For starters, just like exaggerated herbicide use has led to the rapid development of resistant superweeds, so have Bt plants led to the emergence of resistant pests. According to The Times of India,16 farmers in Punjab and Haryana are seeing significant losses of their Bt cotton crops to the whitefly. To address the problem, increasing amounts of pesticides have been applied. This isn’t necessarily a new problem. According to the article, in 2002 farmers applied so much pesticide to fend off the whiteflies that soil and groundwater is thought to have been affected, and many now blame the exaggerated use of pesticides on the clustering of cancer cases being detected among those living in India’s cotton belt. Secondly, research17 has shown that Bt crops, just like topical pesticides and herbicides, alters and destroys soil microbiology. According to the authors: “Our data showed that the cultivation of Bt maize significantly increased the saturated to unsaturated lipid ratios in soils which appeared to negatively affect microbial activity.”

The Biggest Bt Fraud of All

Third, but really most egregious of all, the Bt toxin produced in these Bt crops are NOT included as part of the total human pesticide exposure. This despite the fact that Bt plants are actually registered with the EPA as a pesticide18 (which helps explain why Bt plants damage the soil just like topical pesticides and herbicides do...) This is a gross misrepresentation and outright fraudulent propaganda. How can they claim reductions in pesticide exposure as a result of Bt plants when every single cell of the plant contains it? And how can they not include the plants in the pesticide

usage data when the plant itself is registered as a pesticide? The failure to count the toxin inside the plant, and only counting the pesticides applied topically, is a significant loophole that makes Bt plants appear to provide a benefit that in reality simply isn’t true. In fact, the reality is even worse than that. Topically applied Bt toxin biodegrades in sunlight and can also be washed off. The Bt toxin in these GE plants, on the other hand, does not degrade, nor can it in any way be removed or cleaned off the food because it’s integrated into every cell of the plant. Moreover, the plant-produced version of the poison is thousands of times more concentrated than the topical spray, so in reality, Bt pesticide exposure has risen exponentially — no matter what the pesticide usage data says. Adding insult to injury, Monsanto and the EPA swore that the Bt toxin produced inside the plant would still be completely safe as it would be destroyed in the human digestive system. Alas, this turned out to be false when, in 2011, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of 93 percent of pregnant women tested, 80 percent of umbilical blood in their babies, and 67 percent of non-pregnant women.19 Clearly, it is not destroyed inside your body; it bioaccumulates in your body, and research20 suggests it may produce a wide variety of immune responses, including elevated IgE and IgG antibodies, typically associated with allergies and infections, and an increase in cytokines, associated with allergic and inflammatory responses. Another study21 published in 2011 found that Bt toxins affect human cells, both in isolation and in combination with glyphosate-based herbicides, including Roundup. Pesticidal crystal proteins Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac, two subspecies of the Bt toxin, were tested on cells from the embryonic kidney cell line 293, looking at specific biomarkers indicating cell death. Concentrations ranged from 10 parts per billion (ppb) up to 100 parts per million (ppm). Cry1Ab caused cell death starting at 100 ppm. Roundup alone was found to cause necrosis (cell death resulting from acute injury) and apoptosis (cellular “suicide” or selfdestruction) starting at 50 ppm, which the researchers noted is “far below agricultural dilutions.” According to the authors: “In these results, we argue that modified Bt toxins are not inert on nontarget human cells, and that they can present combined side effects with other residues of pesticides specific to GM plants.”

Labeling GMOs Is Necessary to Protect Public Health

The food industry has spent $51.6 million on a series of efforts to defeat GMO labeling laws,22 including lobbing for HR 1599, which would bar states from implementing their own GMO labeling laws. As of July 21, Monsanto alone had spent $2.5 million lobbying Congress.23 In a Continues on Next Page

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“Real Food” Entrepreneur Cultures a Growing Food Revolution

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n the last few years there has been a groundswell of individuals and organizations rebelling against the industrialization of our food supply. And the number of Real Food businesses is growing to meet the demand – organic and sustainable foods, traditionally fermented foods and beverages, gluten free baked goods, bone broths, etc. Clean nutrient dense foods, which are not highly processed or sterilized for long shelf life, are becoming commonplace. Many of them involve fermentation processes which are beneficial to the digestive system and subsequently the health of the entire body. Elaina Luther, a prominent mover and shaker in this growing community of real food advocates says, “We are committed to bringing back into awareness the food traditions of the past that were useful and beneficial to human health and vitality”. As a seasoned small-business entrepreneur, Elaina founded Culture Club 101 in Pasadena, California, a combination specialty food store, learning/mentoring center and special events venue, which focuses on providing the best of the best in traditionally prepared foods and beverages. Additionally, a new location is being built to accommodate the phenomenal growth and will include a real food café and broth bar with expanded kitchen and fermentation facilities. Success in the world of business, particularly in artisanal food production, requires good healthy amounts of realism, common sense and experience. For many budding entrepreneurs, these are the important details that can make or break a successful business. Fortunately for budding entrepreneurs, Elaina’s passions also include teaching traditional and fermented food preparations and business mentoring. Several of her former interns now also run real food businesses, many of them in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County areas. On November 13, 2015 at the “Wise Tra-

ditions Conference”, sponsored by the Weston A. Price Foundation, Elaina will deliver a relevant presentation, “Culturing a ‘Real Food’ Fermentation Business”. The focus will be on encouraging potential and upcoming entre-

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similar vein, in 2013 and 2014, agribusinesses, agricultural organizations, and trade associations spent more than $11 million lobbying for an early version of S1500,24 which eliminates the need for permits to discharge pesticides into rivers, lakes, streams, and other bodies of water regulated under the Clean Water Act. International trade agreements also threaten to restrict transparency about food — how it’s produced, and where it comes from. Why are these industries spending so much money and going to such great lengths to eliminate transparency about toxic exposures and potentially harmful substances in our food supply? Could it be because they realize how bad the situation really is? And that if public knowledge grows by even just a little bit, they won’t be able to continue running business as usual? Anyone who has taken the time to look at the available information will see that the situation is unsustainable and nearing a breaking point. The human body can only withstand so many toxic assaults before it falters, and we’re already seeing young adults, and even children, exhibiting health problems you wouldn’t ordinarily expect until well into adulthood. We need to turn this situation around. At present, the most urgent action item is to press our US Senators to reject HR 1599, so that efforts to label GE foods

Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan) introduced a bill that would preempt states’ rights to enact GMO labeling laws. It would specifically prohibit Congress or individual states from requiring mandatory labeling of GMO foods or ingredients. It would also allow food manufacturers to use the word “natural” on products that contain GMOs. Unfortunately, the bill has been passed in the House and now heads to the Senate. There needs to be an extra push to put an end to the absurdity. It’s imperative you contact your senators today urging them to not support HR 1599. Tell them this bill is an attack on consumer rights and states’ rights, and you expect your elected officials to protect you. You can find your senators’ contact information by clicking the button below, or by calling the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. To set up an in-person meeting with your senators, contact their district office. It’s really imperative to concentrate our efforts on our senators right now, and to inform them accurately. They’re being deceived by industry lobbyists, and this is our last chance to preserve our right to know what is in our food. http://articles.mercola.com

Elaina Luther preneurs to start their own real food businesses. The presentation will also feature a panel of real food business owners for a Q&A session with the audience. More information about Culture Club 101 can be found at: www.CultureClub101.com The 16th Annual Wise Traditions Conference, sponsored by the Weston A. Price Foundation, will be held November 13-16, 2015 at the Anaheim Marriott, in Anaheim, California. This health and wellness conference teaches holistic, natural approaches to resolving chronic health challenges. Notable nutrition and alternative health experts, organic farmers give practical solutions for a greener, healthier lifestyle. Call 540-722-7104 or register online: WiseTraditions.org.

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Heirloom Plants and Your Health by Gina Locatelli and Allen Morgan

UPCOMING FREE SEED & CROP SWAP FESTIVAL AND WHY IT’S ESSENTIAL TO SAVE SEEDS

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On Saturday, October 17th, Allen Mor- as 200 free herbal plant starts. In addition, he will gan, founder of Santa Cruz Heirloom Seed be selling 157 SSE seed varieties. Please feel free to bring something to share at the and distributor for Seed Saver event like jams, jellies or garden Exchange (SSE) will be hostvegetables. If you bring seeds ing a Free Seed & Crop Swap to share, Allen will be happy to Festival at the Native Revival properly categorize them for you Nursery located at 2600 Mar for future seed swaps. Any funds Vista Drive in Aptos. The event donated at the festival will be diswill take place from 12 – 4 and tributed to the Santa Cruz County will include a live folk band and Fair Agriculture/Horticulture speaker, permaculture expert, Department in order to further David Blume. Please bring a youth education about gardening favorite dish to share, as there and food production. will be a potluck at 1 PM. This Whiskey Hill Farms will be is going to be a very popular providing free tomatoes for the event; last year over 300 people public to enjoy. David Blume, attended, and one gentleman was from as far away as Italy. David Blume, CEO of Whiskey CEO of Whiskey Hill Farms and Hill Farms and founder and founder and CEO of Blume DisPlease come and take advantage CEO of Blume Distillation tillation, will discuss the topic of of Allen’s extensive knowledge with Administrative Director, “regenerative agriculture.� This about seeds, seed swaps and the Jannet Schraer. permaculture process rejuvenates importance of cultivating and the soil with each crop, as opposed to depleting storing heirloom seeds. Allen will have free seeds from crops avail- nutrients in the soil through “typical organic pracable, which include: lettuce mix, kale, chard, tices.� David is also the author of Alcohol Can Be a habanero peppers and Rocoto Peppers, as well Gas, which happens to be a national best-seller.

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Seed saving is vital to the preservation of our future food source, and our planet’s survival depends on a genetically diverse food supply. This is why the cultivation of heirloom seeds and the proper storage of them is imperative. Did you know that there are “seed vaults� throughout the world; the most well-known ossuary being the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergennear Longyearbyen located about 810 miles from the North Pole. This seed vault, like others, is an attempt to insure against the loss of seeds during a large-scale regional or global crisis. Do you think that you and I will have access to these seeds in a crisis? Do you realize the kind of people overseeing many of these operations and facilities? Look this subject up and start educating yourselves about what is really going on. What you will find will encourage you to begin collecting a seed base.

seeds from fruit, flower or vegetable varieties that were grown before World War II. These “parent� seeds are very unlike the hybrids that have dominated the commercial vegetable market since the 1950’s.

Revival Nursery, 2600 Mar Vista Drive, Aptos, CA; Allen Morgan: santacruzheirloomseed@gmail.com; SSE: http://www.seedsavers.org/; Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: http:// www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/;

Obtaining Seeds

Many heirloom varieties of seeds were preserved by home gardeners who saved their seeds from family garOaxacan Green Dent corn and Inca Gold Corn dens year to year. Other seeds from the Amazon provide excellent seeds that travelled around the world in guarantee many future yields. pockets or in letters of immigrants, which is why the same We recommend that when and Victory Seeds: http://www. variety often appears in many places you buy seeds, that they come from victoryseeds.com/. These companies around the world. These were healthy, hearty, uncompromised heirloom a reputable company such as: Native are dedicated to providing a worthy Continues on Next Page

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Whiskey Hill Farms’ Integrated Pest Management

identifying, and supporting beneficial ing cilantro, dill, marigolds, chives, by Jason Hillenbrand In our practice of permaculture insects helps to prevent unnecessary and fennel. Another approach is planting applied to certified organic agriculture, pesticide use—and naturally supports Whiskey Hill Farms looks to nature’s an overall healthy ecosystem. Going decoy plants, plants which the harmful further, creating beneficial insect pests—such as aphids—enjoy. This designs and systems for guidance. When confronted with a par- habitat invites and encourages helpful attracts them away from your prized vegetables, and conticular pest, instead of centrated onto a few jumping to the concluspecific plants. Decoy sion that we need to plants include early spray any pesticide or cabbage, nasturtium, insecticide approved for and radish. use in organic producAnother way tion, we apply natural we practice IPM at principles and identify Whiskey Hill Farms which specific beneficial is by building ponds insect preys on that pest. throughout our greenWe then create habitat houses. Surrounded on our farm to support FREE B12 by with largepurchase arrangements these beneficial insects— of rocks, ponds proof so they can naturally vide habitat for toads, reduce the damaging inMeyers Cocktail - $99.00 snakes, and lizards—all sects, without our use of, whom prey on pests. even, certified organic By utilizing sprays. Michael Wachtel, Co-founder and CEO and Jacob When farmers de- Freepons, Director of Operations of Whiskey Hill t h e s e e l e m e n t s — regularly introducing cide to use organically Farms with Allen Morgan (middle), Founder of populations of particucertified pesticides, they Santa Cruz Heirloom Seed. lar beneficial insects, know there is no way to planting crops that attract beneficial target just the specific pest. The spray predators in the garden. One of the more ubiquitous insects, and planting decoy plants will kill any insects—both harmful and beneficial—and can necessitate beneficial insects is the Lady Bug. around our greenhouses—we at Whiscontinued spraying. This can result in Lady Bugs help eliminate destruc- key Hill Farms can proudly say, “We a vicious cycle of farmer dependence tive pests in the garden—such as don’t spray!!” aphids, mites, and scale. A single Go to: www.WhiskeyHillFarms.com upon the use of chemicals. At Whiskey Hill Farms, we Lady Bug can eat 5000 aphids in its Call: (831) 722-4455. implement “Integrated Pest Manage- life! To attract and keep Lady Bugs ~ Innovative Organically Grown Spement” (IPM). The IPM approach in the garden, provide them with a cialty Crops ~ works well in agriculture, and in gar- water source and sources of pollen (a Please let us know that you read this den cultivation. Not all insects, weeds, favored food). The easier you make in Connection Magazine and how you or other living organisms require it for them to find food and water, the like our new Column in The Healthy domination, elimination, or overt con- faster they learn that your garden is the Planet section of the magazine, called trol. Many organisms are innocuous— place to stay! Attract Lady Bugs with ‘Whiskey Hill Farms’. some are even beneficial. Monitoring, some common garden plants includContinued from Previous Page product in order to help their fellow humans, and each of their mission statements reflect that. Save your heirloom seeds from your garden each year. This is a sure way to safeguard your seed stock for the next growing season. Or attend a “seed swap” like Allen Morgan is providing at his festival in October. Allen, as a distributor for SSE, follows the model that they have established in order to help everyone obtain the heirloom seeds that they will need for the future.

Seed Sharing

SSE, http://www.seedsavers. org/, offers an alternative model to big agriculture through their work, encouraging participatory preservation among members, and by signing the safe seed pledge. SSE knows that the future of our planet depends on a genetically diverse food supply and carries out their important work by: • Maintaining thousands of varieties of different plant types—from amaranth to watermelon—in one

of the largest seed banks of its kind in North America. • Regenerating seed in isolation gardens and storing them in ideal conditions. • Distributing heirloom varieties to members and the public through the SSE Yearbook and the SSE Catalog. • Storing varieties in back-up locations at the USDA Seed Bank in Fort Collins, CO and at Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. These off-site deposits remain the property of SSE. You, too, can get involved in preserving the biodiversity of our plant life by sharing some of your family’s heirloom seeds. When you come to a seed swap, feel free to bring something to share so that the items can be registered and recognized as your contribution (with your family name) and you can become an important part of the future of community seed swaps. There are two categories for seed collection; one is categorized as heirloom seeds and the other is sorted

as conventional seeds. Just indicate which it is so proper registration takes place according to the protocols and formal validation of SSE. Finally, thank you to the hundreds of you that attended the Santa Cruz County Fair extending your support to Allen Morgan and his masterful display regarding heirloom herbs and flowers and their medicinal value to the body, both internally and external. It was a fitting follow-up to our trilogy of articles published in Connections Magazine July, August and September of this year. Visit Allen at santacruzheirloomseed@gmail.com and on Facebook

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IN My LIFE — A MuSICAL THEATRE TRIbuTE TO THE bEATLES A review by Janet Leonard In My Life — A Musical Theatre Tribute To The Beatles, featured renowned Beatles tribute band, Abbey Road at the Rio Theatre. ighlighting several factual events starting with The Beatles’ Cavern Club performances in November 1961 to their final, and unannounced, concert in January 1969 on Apple Corp.’s office building rooftop, In My Life delivers an awesome multimedia display and four actors/ Nate Bott (“John”), Axel Clarke (“Ringo”), musicians performing great Chris Paul Overall (“Paul”) and Jesse Wilder (“George”) sounding live versions of Beatles’ songs among costume changes and Beatles’ discoverer and mansang and hugged and played his Rickenbacker ager, Brian Epstein (actor Murphy Martin), narrat325 rhythm guitar just to John’s usual stage right ing the action between songs against a 9′ x 12′ to George’s (Zak Schaffer’s) Gretsch Tennessean video screen backdrop displaying a continuous Chet Atkins rockabilly style lead guitar intros and stream of photos and live footage of the Beatles’ tasty not yet slide guitar like riffs. And of course, real time experience during the 1960s. Ringo’s (Axel Clarke’s) minimalist Ludwig drum kit The bands’ vintage instruments sounded banging out Ringo’s deep distinctive “back beat, period perfect in Abbey Road’s capable hands, you can’t lose it, any old time you use it!” enhanced by radio version precision on cue vocal Audience participation was highly but selecharmonies. Paul (Chris Paul Overall) is a better tively encouraged at appropriately good times, Paul than Paul in vocal range, and he’s a rightincluding standing, clapping and singing. Everyhander who learned to play a Hofner 500/1 violin one knows and loves Beatles’ songs, especially bass left handed just like Paul. John (Natt Bott) everyone at this show.

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by Janet Leonard anta Cruz Music Festival is on Sat. Oct. 10 th , from 2pm-1am. Back for it’s third year SCMF will be taking over the historic downtown area, linking together more than ten downtown Santa Cruz venues for an eleven-hour music marathon. SCMF has put together a lineup of internationally known acts as well as hard hitting local Santa Cruz and Bay Area artists, this year with more than 100 bands and performers distributed over thirteen stages. For one low price you get your magic wristband that gets you in everywhere. For example: At The Catalyst at 11:30pm, RJD2 is Ramble Jon Krohn who plays psychedelic, electronica, hip hop and rock. At 7pm, Delhi 2 Dublin plays Bhangra, electronic, funk, dub reggae, hip-hop and Celtic, hence their name. At The Poet & The Patriot at 5pm is 3upFront, a local alternative punk rock band together since 1998. For more info on who is where and to buy tickets go to: http://santacruzmusicfestival.com/. Harvest, Hops & Hounds, Sat. Oct. 24th, 3-6pm, hosted by Coastal Dog Owners Group, a fund-raiser where 100% of the proceeds go to the

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by Karin Leonard & Daniel Robin ach month, we select our favorite or otherwise important 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 movies@ innerevolution.com. Enjoy!

a WaLk In THE WOODS

With Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen Entertainment: 3.5 Message: 4 Stalwart acting by Robert Redford (74) as travel writer Bill Bryson (who’s 1998 book the film is based on), and uber-crusty Nick Nolte (79) as his former, severely out-of-shape and borderline friend, Katz. Together, they carry this extended stroll along the 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail. Though meandering at times, there are enough great laughs, a good dose of heart, and gorgeous scenery to keep us engaged and wondering what could happen next. Thoroughly enjoyable (1 hr 38 min).

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With Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley Note: intense, terrifying and graphic images Entertainment: 3 Message: 4 Taking a trip to the top of Everest is a dangerous undertaking — unless you do so from your cinema seat. This adventure takes us to the tragic and true-to-life events of 1996, when eight climbers lost their lives during several simultaneous ascents of the famous mountain. The developing disaster is emotionally well anchored and nuanced by the main characters. Fantastic footage of the gorgeous Himalayans a real treat, however, the grim reality of extreme conditions are not to be taken lightly. The film does a great job of providing a seemingly realistic and cautionary glimpse into the severity of this undertaking: surviving and dying in such hostile conditions, the tremendous preparations needed, the challenges of leading groups up the sacred mountain, making life-and-death decisions while conducting business (consultants sometimes pay a price),

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SC County Animal Shelter on 7 th Ave. This event is at Living with Dogs, 8022 Soquel Dr. in Aptos. Music is by the Rayburn Brothers who play Americana, rock, folk and country. Enjoy fine locally crafted beers & wines and fresh air, farm to table dining experience by Local Harvest. The emcee is KSBW’s Phil Gomez. There will be a raffle and top prize is a Tahoe Cabin Stay. Buy tickets or make a donation at http://www.coastaldogs.com/ or call (888) 682-6972. And of course, you can bring your leashed friends. Some music scene highlights: Coaster’s Bar & Grill: Sat. Oct. 31st, The Devil Himself, alternative metal, hard rock 4-piece. Perfect for Halloween! Rockbar Theater: Wed. Nov. 4 th , HammerDown, a Santa Cruz old school metal band playing Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, among others, plus some amazing originals. Rockbar Theater is at 360 Saratoga Ave in San Jose, offering a rock star decadent setting with high back plush chairs, specialty Rocktails and cuisine fit for royalty. If you’re a local band who would like to play on a 50 foot stage for “Local Band Wednesday” go to http:// rockbartheater.com/wp-content/ uploads/2015/06/Bands-03.pdf

Concerts in Retro: Here are my reviews of some recent shows. Remember this is only my opinion. At The Catalyst: Live in The Atrium, at an extremely intimate venue, I saw The Original Drifters, which is a collection of five gentlemen, mostly in their 70’s, who played with the Drifters, some for over 40 years, each one having their chance at the microphone. They don’t move as fast but they still groove. My favorite songs were, “There Goes My Baby”, “Up on the Roof” and “Stand by Me”. PS If you go see “The Drifters” they are all fairly young guys who sing Drifters songs. At Seabright Brewery: The Billy Martini Show was even more fun than usual because Billy was on drums as well as singing so the drumbeats were precise and intense with collaboration from Heath Bullet on percussions. These guys have performed together for years and it shows. Also they played four originals, which I always hope for and love! By the way Happy Halloween!!! My favorite month! 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 janetfaplanet@ gmail.com to tell me about gigs for live reviews. Put “Music Connection” and your band’s name in the subject line.

and riding that unforgivi n g r a z o r ’s edge above the clouds. Wo r t h s e e ing if you can stomach the events (2 hrs 1 min).

this one. Tom Cruise is still boyishly charismatic and an effective action hero, full of swagger. Will he ever age? The settings are glamorous, grand and intriguing, the women beautiful and mysterious, while the story line is reasonably engaging and interesting. So if the spy thing is your cup of tea, you will enjoy the ride. (2 hrs 11 min).

THE MarTIan

With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara Entertainment: 4 Message: 4.5 Ready for a training mission on Mars? It is so much like being in space, with a hefty dose of real-world science, humor and heart. This creation by Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner), based on the bestselling 2011 sci-fi novel by Andy Weir, delivers, big time. Riding on the coattails of NASA’s whispers about future manned missions to Mars, and recent findings of water on our red neighbor make for exciting, intelligent and meaningful entertainment, in all its terrestrial realness. According to Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, much of the science — which he calls “its own character” in this movie — is surprisingly accurate. At the center for much of the film, Matt Damon fills his character’s space boots beautifully, with great humanity and an indomitable and ingenious spirit, daredevil courage, and great comic timing. Damon’s fine performance deliver lots of fun and fantastic teachable moments, including those about sustainability here on “spaceship Earth,” for reflection and admiration – a fabulous film to take the whole family (2 hrs 21 min). More about the science: nasa.gov/feature/ninereal-nasa-technologiesin-the-martian.

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With Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner Entertainment: 3.5 M e s sage: 2.5 One of the best in the series — entertaining, gripping and reasonably intelligent from start to finish. Solid and sophisticated, there is more of a “Bond” (gentlemen spy) feeling to

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With Priscilla C. Shirer, T.C. Stallings, Karen Abercrombie Entertainment: 1.5 Message: 4 Actually, a Christian Family movie, with clear Christian principles and values to make you grin from ear to ear, … or not. It is an orgy of goodness. Religious films are a tough one, often as monotheistic as the characters are one-dimensional, and so removed from being art, the axioms are everything. Literal interpretations of the bible are extremely hard to take for those who are non-believers and it does not hold back or attempt to “trick” the viewer into changing their predisposition. Preachy is an understatement. So who is it for? It is so simple and transparent, that for someone at end of their rope, this could lead to some serious salvation. To the rest of us, it is absolute nonsense. Well-intentioned nonsense, about the power of prayer, but nonsense nevertheless (2 hrs).

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by Susan Springfield f I could give anything to this world, it would be a vision for a positive future. I’ve seen a few science fiction films this summer and sadly, the only intelligence that evolves is artificial intelligence. Futuristic movies may have dazzling skylines and astounding technology but the men still settle their differences with fist fights and the female characters are mostly robotic sex objects. The plots are just glorified power struggles. The technology evolves, but the people stay the same. Can you imagine going to the movies and seeing the characters relating in a future where the resources of the earth are protected and shared? What interesting things might be happening in cultures that honor and nurture the best qualities in human beings? When I pose this question, people yawn. They can’t imagine an interesting plot. Where’s the drama? What’s a hero’s journey without the battle? We need a leap of imagination. Literally, a leap! When we look into our collective future, we can’t just add new technology and change up

the furniture and fashion. Susan Springfield Neuroscience is telling us we can rewire our brains. If our minds can shape our brains we can be deliberate in our own evolution and we can accelerate the process. We can update our ideas about human nature but we need the vision of what might be possible. Who do we need to become as the future humans that might inhabit a shared and peaceful planet? As crowd sourcing reaches outside Hollywood, maybe new storytellers can inspire us with tales about what we might become. Here are some movies I’d like to see. The New Leader is a Group. Some neuroscientists are already talking about “mind looping” and the mind that exists between people. This is the story of a group of people who come together to discover a collective intentional mind. They begin with techniques for collaboration and are soon drawn into a shared world of coincidence and mystical unity where each finds a place in a deeply held purpose. A Real Alternative Lifestyle. It’s pretty clear that this greed thing

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by Candace Stuart-Findlay thought it would be fun to talk about tori in relation to the interconnectedness of US. Candace Tori is the plural of torus, Stuart-Findlay and is defined in the dictionary 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).” Here’s an image of a torus. As you can see, it is a consistent selfperpetuating cycle of electromagnetic energy

flowing in and out of itself. The flow pattern is called the “Toroidal Flow.” Notice how the energy flows in and out of the vortex center. The following quote from a Cosmometry. net article states, “In this way we can see that there is a seamlessly dynamic exchange of energy and information (a.k.a consciousness) occurring throughout the entire cosmic experi-

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is maladaptive. Research has shown that after reaching a certain income, more money does not lead to more happiness. This is the story of humans who, through brain training, deactivate the drive for acquisition and material hoarding. Large groups of people turn away from the material treadmill and find each other in communities of purpose. Young people and baby boomers begin the trend that leaves each person asking how they truly want to live. Playing the Field. This is the story of people who practice the mental skills that re-route the mental circuitry of reactivity into empathy. Part psychic, part communication expert, part energy worker, these mental ninjas are masters of consciousness. They see through the twisted thinking of violence and activate a field of energy and influence that is biologically compelling. There is no danger to a “heart worker”. These aren’t summer blockbusters yet, but who knows, they could be. A whole new genre might emerge that replaces doomsday violence with vision and hope. Susan Springfield is a practitioner at the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Cruz, 1818 Felt Street. The Sunday celebration service begins at 10:30am with an earlier meditation at 10:00. Susan speaks on the 2nd Sunday of each month. Learn more about our line-up of fall classes at cslsantacruz. org. or call (831) 462-9383.

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ence. It is like a “stepping down” and “stepping up” from level to level wherein the balance of energy dynamics comes into coherence appropriate to each scale. And yet there is only one whole energy flow occurring throughout the entirety of it. This is what physicist David Bohm calls the Holomovement.” (http://www. cosmometry.net/the-torus---dynamic-flowprocess) Nassim Haramein, in his DVD “Black Whole,” offers his definition and purpose of the toroidal central vortex, echoing Bohm. Haramein says that we (remember that WE are electromagnetic energy) are consistently infolding and unfolding into and out of the central vortex, where information is inter-dimensionally exchanged with all of Consciousness. I invite you to visualize the torus energy movement around and through the center of your “body” as you infold and unfold from within the center of all Consciousness. 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! If you wish 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, and Transformation Facilitator, www.empoweredwholebeing.com.

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The Music of the Spheres: Astrological Insights by Susan Heinz

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hen the cool evenings settle in, and the Big Dipper swings beneath the North Star right after sunset, we experience the Libra time of year. The wheel of the zodiac turns. Now we must find our balance once again, as life speeds up and change rearranges our landscape. Mercury retrograde has played its trickster games, flinging the financial markets up and down, as well as causing miscommunications to abound. It ends its trickster phase on October 9th. The New Moon in Libra takes place on the 12th opposing Uranus, the planet of liberation, revolution, radical change, and unpredictable outcomes. The mystery and beauty of the planetary dance is now in the predawn hours as brilliant Venus greets the new day before the birds begin to sing. Chaos, uncertainty, and challenge confront us as the old paradigm continues its breakdown, meanwhile we can attune to the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, (in the East on the 24th, 25th, 26th). This is an indicator of wellbeing, protection, love, and under Virgo, service to others, and the higher good. We can consciously choose to focus on gratitude and openness to each other during this time, as we ride these erratic waves of change. While Mars opposes Neptune on the 6th, its difficult to see our way clearly. We may find ourselves moving ahead, then question our movements. Spin is thick in the political world, though fact checking picks up as three planets gather in Virgo. With Mars conjuncting Jupiter on the 17th, problem solving, and down to earth analysis takes place. The Sun enters Scorpio on the 23rd, as we feel the darkening of the length of day. Scorpio time of year arrives with the sense of descent, and a movement toward the winter months, deeper feelings, more intimate, and often intense encounters. The Full Moon takes place in Taurus on the 27th, a crown of nightly light to mark Samhein eve, on the 31st, ancient Celtic celebration of the new year, and midway mark between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, when the veils are the thinnest between the worlds. Twelve opportunities for October 2015: For Sun and Rising Signs Aries (Mar 20-Apr 19): This month focuses on relationships, finding your balance between yourself and others, between your independence, and consideration for others. In major ways there is a shift taking place for you, a letting go, and a regeneration. The challenge is that you have to let go before you know what will replace an old

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behavior. Allow yourself to slow down and analyze your habits of thinking, bringing you understanding what needs to change. Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): To take advantage of this time, put things in order, organize yourself, and clear your space. This can be a rewarding time of creativity and general enjoyment of what you love doing. The full Moon accentuates the Taurus/Scorpio polarity at the end of the month. Deep feelings shake the usual calm of Taurus. You may at this time feel both your strength and your vulnerability. Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): In the usual Gemini way, you feel a polarity of feelings this month, confident, expressive, playful, but also serious and responsible. This is an excellent time to be completely honest with yourself in your relations with others, what is working, and what isn’t working. You can now balance discipline with creativity. Taking time to retreat and reflect, clearing and cleaning your living space, will support more enjoyment. Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 21): Your home is a place of activity now. This is the time to you honor your deep inner wellspring, a time to plant a seed, a wish, something to grow into manifestation. Rearrange your living space. Bring in something new, something that inspires you. A new perspective is breaking through. You can be especially helpful this month with your clear communications to others. Leo (Jul 22-Aug 22): This month, you are struck with new insights. Or perhaps you have a sudden change in perspective that helps you to breakthrough. This shift in perspective brings about change in your health and daily routine. You may find that you feel more grounded and excited about what you are involved in and what you want to accomplish. You feel yourself at an important turning point. Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): This is a sweet time for you. You feel motivated and interested in following a path that is before you. Your analytical qualities are strong as well as your artistic sensibilities. It may not be clear what others are wanting of you. It is important to get very clear communication from others so that you can decide if that is something you can do or want to do. Defining and discerning your interactions with others is essential this month. Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): This month, focus on yourself! Writing is highlighted as well as your creative abilities. Unexpected situations may arise in relationship, so be flexible. An issue may come up that needs to be discussed. When you recognize what it is, take your time with it. For the next couple of months, your artistic abilities are heightened and you enjoy spending

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he present has a long distance love affair with the past. Things thought resolved surface for further refinement. My current challenges reached overwhelm when returning home from meeting with my daughter’s transplant team to the news that my car had died. Sleep was fitful and I awoke with butterflies in my stomach for a few days. Maintaining a pleasant demeanor became work. I find it interesting that my car blew its head gasket during a peaking of the WAVE X intergalac-

time on your own with a project that inspires you or you are bringing to completion. Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): Something comes up at work or in the day-today routine that calls for decisiveness. This shifts the situation and allows you more space for your own reflections and enjoyment. It is a good time to step back, reevaluate where you are, review your goals, and decide what you would like to create. Making the time to put things in order, and just slowing down to really taste and experience the beauty in your life supports your outlook. Time with friends is especially rewarding now. Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): Enjoyment and abundance is highlighted for you this month. You are enjoying what you are doing and your heart feels full. While at the same time, you feel your responsibilities, the goals that you have set for yourself. You can experience more focus and discipline in your life now, especially as you balance it with enjoyment with those you love. This is a good time to share your knowledge, a good time for editing, research, and refining whatever you are working on. Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19): This is a good time for you to be in the public! Is there something you want to learn or to bring into your work to enhance what you do? Restating your goals seeds this cycle toward success. Your creative, imaginative nature is stimulated, and it is a good timing to move forward with that project you have been thinking about. Let go of any expectations around it. Instead schedule time when you can let your mind go, and immerse yourself into the doing. Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): This is an excellent month to take up a study, to teach, or to travel to a conference. You are now able to penetrate into the nuances of the subject matter, and to assist others to transform and change. It is an especially sweet time to be with the one you love. You experience something new together that is beautiful and heart warming. It brings change into your life. Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): This has been, and is, a time of enjoying your friends and those you love. People appreciate you, your sensitivity, your humor, your good spirits. You are on the edge of something new, something dawning in your awareness. Pay attention to this new idea, new perspective. You return to your daily life with renewed energies, and deeper insight. 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 consultations, call (831) 479-3751, or go to www.susanheinz.com.

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tic energy coming through to Earth. I felt like my head gasket had blown! I remember experiencing a similar energy surrounding Melanie Gendron 9/11 and the destruction of the twin towers at the National Trade Center in New York. Tarot’s Tower card represents cosmic direction or intervention. Everything gets thrown up in the air and lands as it will. A shift in conscious perception ignites a new perspective, and life takes on a new normal. Accept, surrender, adapt and renew. Ground in silence with meditation, and from that state of being, act. Quiet invites answers to prayers. Centering clears the mind and establishes equilibrium. Eliminate that which does not

play eternity, those patterns of behavior that are non-productive. Trust, for in the silence, love is all there is. And keep on keeping on! BTW, I do require a dependable car.... Could there be one out there in exchange for original art? Blessings, Melanie Melanie Gendron, creator of The Gendron Tarot is available for intuitive tarot readings, offering also art, unique gifts, tarot services and products, (831) 335-9064, email gentarot@comcast. net, visit www.melaniegendron.com. “Melanie’s intuitive counseling ability and uplifting visionary art create a marriage well-suited to Tarot. The symbolic archetypes stir innate inner wisdom to empower the mind, expand the heart, and provide practical guidance for daily living.” —John Gray, Ph.D., author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

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Posted by CN Staff on October 07, 2015 at 10:56:23 PT by Jennifer Smola, The Columbus Dispatch olumbus — A nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research on cannabis plans to build a $24 million medical-marijuana-research facility at a proposed Licking County grow site if voters approve ResponsibleOhio’s marijuanalegalization amendment this fall. Work at International Cannabinoid Institute Research Foundation will focus on marijuanacentered therapies for certain medical conditions, such as childhood epilepsy, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. The nonprofit group would lease 15 acres from the property owner of the Licking County site, located in Pataskala, for the 40,000-square foot facility, the group announced on Tuesday at a news conference outside the Statehouse. ICI began working on its flagship research facility in 2013. After the ResponsibleOhio amendment was proposed, the group decided to work the facility into the confines of the ballot initiative, said ICI founder Garrett Greenlee. ICI seeks to prioritize medical-marijuana patients, Greenlee said. Because the amendment would legalize personal as well as medical-marijuana use, the nonprofit was concerned patients would get “ lost in the shuffle,” he said. “We promise to be great stewards of the medical program here in Ohio.” The ICI facility would offer a safe, protected place for long-term studies on the effectiveness of medical marijuana, said Dr. Suzanne Sisley, who researches potential uses of marijuana to treat veterans with post traumatic stress disorder and will serve on the board of directors for ICI’s research foundation. “Ohio, you have a golden opportunity in front of you right now,” she said. “You could move to

Pataskala Mayor Mike Compton, who has opposed the proposed marijuana farm in his city, said he’s more comfortable with the idea of a facility strictly dedicated to medical research, but not if it bleeds into recreational use. “I don’t think we always get the full and the straight story,” he said. Issue 3 would legalize the purchase and recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 or older as well as possession and use of medical marijuana for people with a qualifying medical condition. The cultivation end of the for-profit business would be controlled by 10 investment groups that have bought into the business by making multimilliondollar investments in the campaign. In a statement Tuesday, Licking County Chamber of Commerce President Cheri Hottinger said the research facility doesn’t change the group’s opposition to the marijuana issue. “Today’s announcement by the financial backers of the marijuana monopoly is yet another attempt to divert attention away from the negative aspects of Issue 3’s morally bankrupt proposal,” the statement said. “This announcement has no bearing on our staunch opposition to Issue 3.” If Issue 3 fails, ICI would look to build its research facility in a state where marijuana is legal, Greenlee said. But if the issue passes, ICI has long-term plans; the group has agreed to a 99-year lease with the Pataskala site land owner, Greenlee said. “We like Ohio, we prefer Ohio, we’re going to do everything we can to get Issue 3 passed.” Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH), Author: Jennifer Smola, The Columbus Dispatch, Published: Wednesday October 7, 2015, Copyright: 2015 The Columbus Dispatch, Contact: letters@ dispatch.com, Website: http://www.dispatch.com/, URL: http://drugsense.org/url/7RXCL0jP. CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives, http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical. shtml Printed with permission.

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by Monterey Bud On Oct. 6, 2015 Marijuana News pect to be notified by January 1, 2018. As part of the esterday the good folks at Reform Tax and Regulate plan, the initiative allows for three CA unleashed their ballot initiative to different tiers of taxation for legal marijuana: $2 per legalize weed in California during the sq. ft. of canopy on commercial cultivation, $15 per 2016 presidential election. Provided it oz. on the first sale, and a 10% retail sales tax. passes, California’s initiative to legalize Caveat: as it’s currently written, local municimarijuana could cultivate marijuana-friendly bars, palities could forbid marijuana shops from legally clubs and restaurants throughout the state. operating, provided they get voter approval first. Similar to the initiatives in states that have alLeaving the door wide open to firing up ready legalized recreational marijuana, California’s outside of private residences, consumption would proposed initiative would allow adults 21 or older to be perfectly legal in “a private residence or such personally possess up to 1 oz. of chronic in public other location as permitted under this Act.” That places. Additionally, California’s initiative would also said, consumption “in a public street, school, allow those so inclined to share up to 1 ounce with playground, public transit vehicle, or any public other adults and grow the plant at home. property” would be seriously frowned upon and In contrast to the other states that have considered an infraction, subject to a maximum passed recreational marijuana legislation, Califorfine of $500. nia’s initiative would restrict cultivation at home by www.marijuana.com/blog/news/2015 area: allowing no more than a total of 100 square Printed with permission. feet for growing weed. If passed, the initiative offered up by Reform CA would create the Office of Cannabis Regulation as part of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. The newly created California Cannabis Commission • Medical Marijuana Evaluations would manage the • Natural Alternatives to new industry and be charged with Prescription Medicines licensing and regu• Intuitive Health Consultations lating all marijuana • Energy Balancing Therapy businesses within the state. • Pain Management Required to start handing out Consultation includes advice on proper usage and dosage, and “provisional liknowledge of how to treat each patient’s individual condition. censes” to current We also offer follow-up visits for MMJ patients. medical marijuana Don’t wait for your renewal, Ask an expert! collectives by July Find out how cannabis may benefit your Health! 1, 2017, the Office of Cannabis Regulation could then allow legal recreCall for all ational sales to beinfo. & appts: gin. Those granted licenses under the 140 Dubois St. 79 Soledad Dr. new rules could exCannabisPlus.net

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