CP - 004 March 2012

Issue Four March 2012
Gregg Braden
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A Vicars Wisdom
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Choice Point features insights from some of the worlds leading change-makers-including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson, Arielle Ford, Tony Benn, James Caan, Gregg Braden, Dr. Larry Dossey, and His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa, this inspiring book reveals exclusive material not seen in the lm, and explores its exciting discoveries in greater depth. It shows you how to understand your world like never before, how to align your own true purpose with the patterns of the universe, and nally, how to be the change that you want to see in the world around you. All businesses should be a force for good Richard Branson If you make the commitment to align to your purpose, and know that purpose is aligning with the purpose of the universe at that moment in time, youre going to have an extraordinary life - Jack Caneld The fractal pattern of my life, if I choose to do nothing, will probably continue and perpetuate the same patterns of success or failure...unless I choose to make a change Gregg Braden
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8 - 10 CONSCIOUSNESS, CHOICES, PURPOSE AND THE GREATER MEANING OF LIFE

As Harry Massey completes his lm Choice Point: Align Your Purpose, we look at why this type of documentary is so very important at this time in history.
28 31 DOES MANIFESTING WORK?

NLP practitioner, coach and specialist healer Arielle Essex explores the reality concerning manifestation and what really works.
32 35 ZENOS FRUDAKISS BID FOR FREEDOM!

Greek artist Zenos Frudakis has produced a startling sculpture that truly moves the soul.
12 15 ITS CYCLIC, ITS CHANGING AND WE ARE PART OF IT

An interview with Gregg Braden talking about why he wrote Deep Truth, his new book.
36 39 SASSYOLOGY: THE ART O SASS

Author Lisa Clarke has embraced the subject of womanhood and brought it right bang up to date...with a twist.
16 20 THE PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE AND THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE RAINFOREST

An interview with Pachamama Alliance founder Lynne Twist who explains her journey that started this whole project and why.
40 42 THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL AMBASSADOR

Krueger had a vision and put it into practice. He is truly a change-maker and has got the ball rolling in the face of adversity.
22 25 THE REV. PETER OWEN JONES ON HOW CONSCIOUSNESS AND HUMANITY ALIGN
Rev. Peter Owen Jones has lead a colourful life and has learnt some incredible wisdom that he imparts in this delightful interview.
43 44 DITCH YOUR INNER CRITIC

Life coach and author Amy Alhers takes low self esteem to another level and how to beat it with a 5 step plan.
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46 47 BOOKS
Reviews on books that may help with your own journey.
Disclaimer All content in Choice Point magazine is provided for general information only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your own doctor or any other health care professional. Choice Point magazine, or any contributors to Choice Point magazine, is not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of this magazine. Choice Point magazine is not liable for the content of any external website listed, nor does it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of the sites. The views expressed by authors of articles published in this magazine are solely those of the author and are not necessarily the views of or shared by the editor, publisher or directors, shareholders and employees of Choice Point. Copyright. Choice Point 2012 all rights reserved. No part of this magazine can be reproduced in whole or part without the written permission of the publishers. Unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope if they are to be returned. We cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or photographs or for material lost or damaged in the post. Letters submitted to Choice Point magazine or to its editors are assumed to be intended for publication in whole or part. Choice Point 2012
49 51 WHAT IS THE MEANING OF PURPOSE AND ARE YOU ALIGNED WITH YOURS?
Charlie Stuart Gay looks at how life is a journey and a process, and why being aligned is the key.
53 55 SOME INSPIRATIONAL CLIPS FOR YOU TO CHECK OUT AND ENJOY 58 61 DOES GLOBAL SCALING INFLUENCE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES IN OUR LIVES
Scientist Dr Rainer Viehweger has brought us a scientic explanation that you can ignore at your peril make your own transformation clearer with this wonderfully researched work. This article is ground=-breaking, so be the rst to know all this information!
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e have been busy behind the scenes getting everything up to speed in readiness for the launch of the Choice Point movie...and we are all done bar the shouting, so you can expect to be able to see this fabulously inspirational full length documentary this Spring, not long to wait now! So, whilst we have been gathering our thoughts and preparing our movie, I have been aorded heaps of time to look at compiling some stunning interviews that will help you on your own journey of transformation. In this issue I have included interviews from many visionary gures and change-makers, including Gregg Braden who speaks in depth about his fabulous new book Deep Truth which goes a long way to explain who we are, and why we are changing right now. I met the Reverend Peter Owen Jones, a man of the cloth with a message so beautiful and clear about what makes us who we are, and how by letting go of fear can make our journey one of pure joy. I know that these interviews will give each and every one of you something positive to take away with you, and will allow you to enter into the debate that is Choice Point...what is your choice point, and where will it take you?
Charlie Stuart Gay is the Executive Producer of the Choice Point movie and has been a regular contributor to this magazine since its inception last year, and he doesnt disappoint bringing us his take on purpose and where its leading you. Also in this issue we have a variety of other stories and articles to help inspire and inform, so I hope you enjoy all that you read. If there is a subject close to your heart please feel free to write to me at trina@choicepointmagazine.com and I will happily engage with you to see what we can do to accommodate your views and ideas. This is after all a community magazine, its YOUR magazine, so lets all be part of this movement and make a dierence. Before I forget...there are a couple of reader give aways in this issue go to the book review on pages 46 and 47 and you can enter from the page. It could be your lucky day! Until the next issue, be centred, be true and align with your purpose!
Consciousness, Choices, Purpose and the Greater Meaning of Life
CONSCIOUSNESS, CHOICES, PURPOSE AND THE GREATER MEANING OF LIFE 2012 IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Words: Trina Hart
Consciousness, Choices, Purpose and the Greater Meaning of Life
ince the beginning of time human beings have sought to nd a deeper meaning to the events that shape our world and have inquired as to how to express our innate sense that there is more to the material world than meets the eye, and that we need to nd our place in the world our purpose and know how we can contribute to what intuitively we all know to be good and true. Change is no stranger to mankind, its what we do and have done since time began, even so, it still unnerves us and throws up questions that need answers, because if things change it brings into play cause and eect, so whatever we cause we need to be mindful of the eect, and that can be on a small scale aecting an individual, or on a monumental scale that can aect the planet and all who are on it. (One could wax lyrical on the buttery eect, but we wont as it is always taken out of context and so has lost its essence, but you get the gist). One would have to be at best naive not to look at current world events and not notice that things have gone slightly awry, so much so that even the climate has changed, both physically and metaphorically. Its as though a crescendo is building, the likes of which we probably have not experienced in our lifetime, and if the history books are right, we probably wont experience again for many hundreds of years to follow. But its not all doom and gloom as the mass media would have us believe. Far from it; this stage we nd ourselves in is a tipping point, and as such is a great indicator of change and choice ahead of us, or perhaps its even right now, either way its imminent. So how appropriate then that lmmaker Harry Massey has chosen right now to make a dynamic new movie entitled Choice Point: Align Your Purpose, which takes a journey into the hearts and minds of some of the worlds leading visionaries and change-makers. Filming Choice Point has taken a fascinating route, going through many twists and turns, and arriving now at the point of absolute clarity to those who are keen to have a greater understanding of how we can be the change we want to see in the world. Because the visionaries interviewed have lived real changes that have allowed them to arrive at a level
of consciousness, thus enabling them to have a clear view as to what can be done on the planet to eect positive change, this lm holds up well for those looking to further their own personal journey of transformation and change. We can, after all, collectively be change-makers on so many levels. Choice Point, as a lm, book and the Movement, is an idea whose time has come. Massey has a vision of a future that is cleaner, more just and one that oers an environment for humans and other species to not merely exist, but ourish. He has a belief that with his vision, and the empowerment of millions of like-minded individuals of similar beliefs around the world, that a meaningful contribution to a brighter future for our planet is not only possible, but inevitable. He feels an obligation to carry out his vision, as not doing so would block the ow of the universal creativity that runs through him and everything else on planet Earth. For Massey, and anyone else who blocks their ow, it would mean a constant struggle in achieving positive change. Choice Point is as much a personal journey, as it is a planetary shift, because it is in complete harmony with the shift that is taking place in our world today. So in essence, a choice point is about the beginning and end of a cycle, but its maybe not as simple as that, because to know the beginning is to know the end, and more importantly to know there is a cycle. Usually the ending of a cycle can be indicated by a tremendous surge of energy and chaos, like a storm brewing alerting you that a rough journey is ahead. Its at this point, this tipping point, which is an indicator that a choice is there to be made do you fall into the centre of the eye of the storm and repeat the cycle all over again or do you take the lessons from the cycle and move onto a new cycle? This is the actual choice point. After the force of the storm there follows the calm and serenity of the sun breaking through the clouds symbolising that all is again well with the world, and so the new cycle begins, bringing with it the opportunity to explore fresh possibilities and realities.
After watching the movie Choice Point you will, without a doubt, be inspired to take action in your own life as you get a glimpse of what you can achieve with your true potential when you nd your purpose in the Universe, how reawakening the possibilities that have lain dormant in the depths of your consciousness are just waiting to be reignited, but it doesnt stop there. Things can no longer remain the same, once you feel that spark you will have little choice other than to look at who you are and what you can do to eect a positive change in yourself and ultimately those around you. To join the Choice Point Movement now visit: http://www. choicepointmovement.com/ or to join the Choice Point Community on Facebook visit: http://www.facebook.com/ choicepointbethechange The Choice Point movie premiere and Choice Point Day will be held late Spring in LA. Please check the website for updates and booking information.
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An interview with Gregg Braden
ITS CYCLIC, ITS CHANGING AND WE ARE PART OF IT

AN INTERVIEW WITH GREGG BRADEN Words: Trina Hart
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ecently I was fortunate enough to catch up with Gregg Braden, international author and speaker who is renowned for his pioneering work in bridging science and spirituality.
His new book Deep Truth ignites the memory of our origin, history, destiny and fate. Almost universally the best minds of our time are telling us that you and I are living a rare moment in the history of this planet and the history of civilisation. We are living in a pivotal window of time where we are faced with the greatest number of crises and each crises is at the greatest magnitude ever faced by a generation in 5,000 years of recorded history, never has something like this happened in the past. How immediate is the opportunity for change happening? Is this something that we need to act upon right now? GB: As I have had the opportunity to speak to the experts, to read the studies there is a sense that we must act and we must act quickly....the best minds of our time are telling us that we have maybe only 5 to 8 years to gure out how to respond to these crises, or nothing else is going to make much dierence. These are crises of the magnitude of global war for example; the shortages of food and water, how we adapt to climate change, how we respond to a global economical collapse. These are the kind of crises the experts are talking about now, and as I had the opportunity to sift through all of the studies and all of the data and listen to these brilliant people saying that we must act quickly, a single question has come to me again and again and again: how can we possibly make the choices of our survival, the greatest choices we have ever been asked to make, how can we ask ourselves to make these choices, how can we answer the greatest questions of our survival until we embrace the deepest truths of our existence? Who are we in this world and what is our true relationship to the world? The reason this is important is because to a large extent the way that we think of ourselves and our relationship to one another and our relationship to the earth, and the changes and the way we relate to these relationships, is based largely on assumptions made by science over the last 300 years.
Since we are talking about a humanitarian dilemma, how does science gure in all of this?
GB: Now science is a relatively new way of thinking about our world. Modern science we say began with the scientic method around 300 years ago, about the time of Isaac Newton, so whilst science I believe is good, I was trained as a scientist and I believe in the scientic method. The best scientist will also tell us honestly that science is incomplete there are huge gaps and glaring inconsistencies in our scientic description of the world on the one hand, and on the other hand we had 5,000 years of ancient, indigenous, spiritual traditions to help us understand who we are in our relationship to the world. Where this gets really interesting is science based discoveries in peer reviewed and technical journals that are now overturning 300 years of assumptions and principles that science has made about us and our relationship to the world, the very assumptions that our civilisation is based upon the very assumptions that have led to the greatest crises of our time. Science now is sharing with us the discoveries that give us new ways to think about ourselves and the world. The scientists who made the discoveries have published them in journals and this is where the glitch comes in. There is a reluctance in mainstream science to reect and report on these discoveries, and there is a reluctance in mainstream media to carry the stories in the very authoritative documentaries that are being shown on mainstream channels through the world, and in motion pictures...and there is a reluctance in mainstream education with the teachers and with the textbooks to share the new science that makes the existing assumptions obsolete. Why is that important right now? This is the context for everything we are doing with Choice Point. The greatest minds of our time telling us that we must choose now the new directions to adapt the crisis that we face, but if we are conned to the thinking that led to the crisis in the rst place, we know where that thinking is going to lead us. We must embrace these new truths, the deep truths of science.
Niels Bohr was a colleague of Albert Einstein in the mid 20th century, and it was during a conversation that he was having with Albert Einstein on the nature of truth, and for them it was the nature of scientic truth, that Niels Bohr made a statement: it is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth. I found this statement to be very deep because what he is saying is that the things we have accepted as truths in the past - in this case scientic truths - are the foundation of our belief systems and the way we lead our lives consciously or unconsciously, the way we build our communities the way we built our civilisations, our economic system that is collapsing is based on scientic principles - the truth that has been accepted for 300 years. Our ability to adapt to the changes in our world, climate change, and the growing shift in the way food is grown and shared, the growing shortages of fresh water, and how we are dealing with these problems are based on assumptions of science many of which are 300 years old. New discoveries are now telling us that those assumptions are false; new scientic discoveries that are not being incorporated into our world view today and our solutions, and what that means is that what is being taught in our classrooms and what you and I are being taught in mainstream media is no longer scientic. The denition of the scientic method states that when we
see a mystery in the world we develop a hypothesis to explain that mystery; we test dierent ideas to see if they support the hypothesis. If they do then we have a theory but if they do not then we must incorporate the new ideas into the existing scientic paragon and that is not happening today, that is the problem. Deep Truth is my way of sharing some of the most basic truths that have been discovered in pure science truths that help us see ourselves dierently in a more holistic way and redene our relationship to one another, to our world, to ourselves. These are relationships that must be incorporated in the solutions of our crisis today. So that is what the book is about.
How do you see things changing in both the corporate world and the environment? Will this Choice Point present itself in a way we can recognise? GB: For the corporate structures that work toward the bottom line of the dollar, or the euro, the pound, rather than whats good for people, is this idea of survival of the ttest that has been twisted and distorted and used to justify some of the most horric genocide of the 20th century. Adolph Hitler actually paraphrased Darwin to justify what happened and his ideas of the holocaust of the 20th century and he didnt even give

Darwin credit. Chairman Mao did give Darwin credit, he quoted Darwin directly and Chairman Mao because these are scientic principles that justied the treatment that he was giving in the genocides during his time, and others have happened since then - so all of these things are important because it is showing us the places where the false assumptions are now catching up with us. False assumptions of the last 100/150 years of economies and human relationships and our relationship to the earth, may have worked in the short term for a brief period of time, but they are not sustainable in the long term because they are based in false assumptions. So when we look at the world today, we see so many things that seem to be collapsing and for many people it seems as if the world is falling apart for no apparent reason. If we look closely however, what we will see is this, the only things collapsing, the only things falling apart are the ways of thinking and the ways of living that are no longer sustainable in the presence of a changing world. This opens the door to the cycles of the Choice Points that will allow us to choose again, but when we make those choices they must be based on the facts of our relationship to ourselves rst of all, and to other humans and to this world, because if we make the new policy, if we pass the new laws and apply the new technology following the parameters and the ways of thinking that led to the crisis that we are in right now, we are going to end up in precisely the same crisis again. This is why I am passionate about this project of Choice Point. Choice Points are cycles in places within the cycles of time, but we have the opportunity for change. Some cycles are cosmic and last thousands of years, some happen within our personal lives within a couple of hours, days or months. Some of the cycles deal with relationships, romance, passion or nance, or health. Others deal with traditions of competition and the way that we think about working together or competing with one another. Regardless of the nature of the cycle itself, all cycles follow general principles that are true across the board and these truths are simply this; any cycle begins with an event that sets into motion a pattern of energy that will continue and repeat on a rhythmic basis until something changes, that pattern of energy in every cycle ends with a period of time before the next cycle begins again. This is a period of time where neither exists - that is the Choice Point. Our indigenous ancestors talked to us about the moment between the inhale and the exhale, where there is no breath, they talked about the crack between the world, the time at the end of the day when the sun is set, so it is technically no longer daytime but its still light - the crack between the worlds in between the day and the night are when they said our prayers would be the most powerful. These are the Choice Points in our lives, and the examples of this indigenous wisdom of our choice points. If we can embrace the understanding that Choice Points exist then we can recognise that we are in a global Choice Point right now. The collapse of the systems has opened the doors to global Choice Points, so many are converging in a small window of time. I think it can be no accident that the economic crises of the world are pushing us to understand our relationship to economics and what is good for people, that the growing threat of global war is a tremendous energy pushing forward for a global war because there is a belief that war is good for commerce. We also know that peace is good for the economy; peace can be its own viable economy if we embrace the deepest truths of our existence.
You are appearing in the lm Choice Point next month, what do you hope people will take away with them from this lm? GB: The idea that civilisation is cyclic and repeats under the conditions similar to that which we are living right now. This is a very dierent way for the West to think of our relationship with the past, but we bring all of these together. Are the ideas of our past ancient? The answer is yes. Are they obsolete? The answer is no. There is a continuity that exists between our past and the present, and the Choice Points that come up again and again are now our opportunity. Its like a global reset, a reality check to embrace the things that worked in our lives and the things that havent worked - lets stop doing them because we know they dont work. Now is the time to embrace our relationships to the cycles and the great Choice Point that faces us all now. I personally would like to take this opportunity now to thank everyone who will be watching this lm, I want to thank you for your courage to live in this rare pivotal precious moment of our world and for the lives that you have lived, and for all that you are doing right now to help us to become better people and create a better world. I cannot help but believe that future generations will look back on this generation and I believe that they will say: you and I are the generation that embraced the Choice Points and the opportunity to tip the scales of life and peace in our favour, as this is the generation that forever walked away from war as a way to solve our problems, and a generation that began to think of the borders that divide us as nations in a very, very dierent way - doesnt mean they need to divide our hearts and the achievements that we have made as a civilisation. So for your role in supporting these things I give deep gratitude and thanks and thank you for supporting Choice Point. For more information on Greggs work please visit www. greggbraden.com.
Pachamama means Mother Earth and its an alliance between the indigenous Amazon people and conscious people from the modern world working together to preserve sustainability of life itself.
An interview with Lynne Twist
AN INTERVIEW WITH LYNNE TWIST, FOUNDER OF THE PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE

Words: Trina Hart
hen we look at the planet and see what bounty abounds for all, it seems madness that we are still seeing the exploitation of many tribal people, their land and resources around the globe. These indigenous tribes, who have lived in harmony with their surroundings for centuries, are now seeing the slow destruction of their environment, largely by the West, and always for prot. So whats to be done to help stop this rape and pillage? In 1995, a group of people, including John Perkins, Bill and Lynne Twist, travelled to the rainforest at the invitation of Achuar leaders, an indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest, to learn more. The Pachamama Alliance was formed shortly after with its sole purpose to help work with the indigenous people to change the dream of the modern world and transform the culture of overconsumption which is driving the destruction of the rainforest. Its an organisation that engages, participates and educates on all fronts. I had the great pleasure recently to meet Lynne Twist in San Francisco where I asked her about her journey with the Pachamama Alliance and what it has meant to her on a personal level.
(that I became in this vision). I was ying in slow motion over a vast forest of green. Disembodied faces of men started to oat up from the forest oor with face paint and feather crowns, and speaking in a strange tongue to the bird. I didnt understand what the voices were saying and then at a certain point I came out of the trance I didnt even know I was in a trance really. This was my rst Sharmanic experience. I was with a group of people, one of whom was John Perkins, now a close friend and colleague who actually accompanied me to Guatemala. He said I know these people, they are from the Achuar tribe in south eastern Ecuador, a very remote and indigenous group and they are calling for you to come to them and for me to come to them. I know they are ready for contact. Out of my relationship with John Perkins and his knowledge of Achuar people in Ecuador, he and I organised a group of twelve people, including my husband Bill, to visit the Achuar they werent un-contacted, but they had been isolated for thousands of years by design, and had decided to initiate contact with the modern world; something that they feared but realised that if they initialised under their own terms they would be ready when the danger came, which they knew would come. This was the foundation, the beginning, the seed of the Pachamama Alliance. The word Pachamama means Mother Earth and its an alliance between the indigenous Amazon people and conscious people from the modern world working together to preserve sustainability of life itself. After that encounter with the Achuar people deep in the Amazon rainforest I began to realise that the next chapter of my life had begun. And so out of the Pachamama Alliance, which is really our work with the Ashuar, the Shiwiar and other indigenous groups of people of the Amazon, it became obvious that the most important work we could do, besides standing with and before the indigenous people of the rainforest to protect their land and culture, was also to protect the future of life on earth.
Your name now is very much associated with the Pachamama Alliance, but what inspired you to go down this path? I imagine you had your own transformation in order for you to get involved to the degree that you are? Prior to the Pachamama Alliance, for twenty years I was involved as an executive with something called the Hunger Project. I worked in Africa, India and Bangladesh on the eradication of hunger and poverty, and that was really my lifes work. That was until I had a very profound, very spiritual experience outside of the norm, an experience with a Shaman in Guatemala. In a vision I saw faces of indigenous people with orange geometric face paint on their faces and yellow red and black feather crowns, oating up from the forest oor towards a giant bird
That the real pressure came from what the Achuar called the dream of the modern world, and a dream that is becoming a nightmare for us and all forms of lifea dream rooted in consumption, acquisition and greedand so they told us the most important thing we could do is to work to transform and change the dream of the modern world to one that is a dream or a vision of an environmentally stable, spiritually fullling and just human presence on this planet. So out of that mandate from the indigenous people we created the awakening, the dreamer to change the dream, change the programme, an educational programme that is in fty-eight countries as I sit here with you, and that work, which is very, very powerful all over the world now, gave birth to FOUR YEARS. GO.
the future of life on earth for each of us over the next one thousand years. To live in the responsibility of a thousand years by recognising the choices we make in the next four years will determine that future. So it is a very exciting campaign. It came originally from the rainforest, rst from the indigenous people who counselled us to change the dream of the modern world, and in working to change the dream, we realised it needs to move faster with more power, more will and we need to make a shift within this very precious time period. There are many ideas on global change, that bring a shift in history; some people say it is one percent of the population, some say fteen percent, no-one really knows. But the idea of FOUR YEARS. GO is to have that communication of positive urgency, of the will, the commitment, the consciousness of love within the family, to get that message to reach a billion people out of which two hundred million people may well take some sort of stand. That generates action and eighty percent of those people will actually generate projects and programmes and initiatives that will help to turn the tide. And so its really a kind of blast and with the internet now there is massive capacity to communicate, and we feel that over these four years we can touch in some way a billion people, that is one seventh of the population. The Shamans and the elders in the rainforest told us that a person who commits and takes a stand in this time of heightened consciousness impacts a minimum of one
Can you tell us about Four Years.Go and what that is achieving?
FOUR YEARS. GO. is a campaign to shift humanitys course toward a just, fullling and sustainable future by the end of 2014. People around the world will be invited to stand together and take courageous actions to bring about a future worth having. This is not a new organisation; this is a goal for every organisation, every man, woman, child, worker, student, profession, generation everyone. The FOUR YEARS. GO commitment campaign really communicates the next four years, the choices we make in the next four years could determine, and probably will determine,

thousand people in the rst year. So because of the heightened consciousness of the world, because of all the interconnectivity, all the technology, the cell phones, mobile devices etc. being really a reection or an expression of the expanded consciousness of the human family, it should be possible for us to reach billions of people. The Universe is reecting on itself and through the species we call human, reaching a billion people or touching a billion people or revealing actually that a billion people are already at this level of consciousness, is really what the FOUR YEARS. GO campaign is all about. we are taking more resources from the earth, we cannot do that any longer. So for me the economic crisis or the ecological debt that shows up in the economy will not be resolved until we live within our ecological means. When we nd our way there, which is not taking more resources than the earth can regenerate, which is being in balance with the ecology of the earth and the ecology of our own bodies and the ecology of the earth as a species, thats when the economic crisis will end and not before. No amount of money, no changes in the banking system, no amount of regulations, no amount of anything will ultimately carry the day, although all of those things are very, very important, but until we live within the ecological means of the planet the crisis wont end. So for me its a blessing as now we will have to face it, and when we face it we will be better for it and there will be a resurgence of ethics and integrity within the family, and with our relation to all life.
What would you say to a sceptic? Someone who thinks that all this talk of operating on a higher conscious level is not real, and that it cant change the world despite the very fabric of our society being in a state of near collapse, not least the monetary system? Well, rstly I think sceptics are a gift of our time because they provide a demand for grounded theories, cynics are not such a gift cynicism is very dierent from scepticism because scepticism is discernment, its really looking in to the validity of something, cynicism really has a negative spin to it where you are dealing with someone who is bringing toxic energy into the conversation. A sceptic really pushes us so I appreciate and welcome and embrace sceptics, they are a blessing put here, thats what I say to them. The nancial crisis has been a long time coming, and to me is an another blessing because it is a cleansing, a purication of a system of structures and systems that are built on old paradigms and old understandings of who we are, and our relationship with money. I have spent a lot of time and energy looking at these systems and is really the subject of my book The Soul of Money that I wrote addresses this. One of the things that I am so grateful for people asking me the question is that I have the opportunity to say that humanity as a species has gone into what is called a global overshoot. Global overshoot means that we are taking more resources from the earth, than she the earth can regenerate. We are taking more natural resources out of the earth; oil, coal, energy, food, watermore resources from the earths bounty than it can regenerate. That is the debt, that is the true debt, thats like living on your eco-logical credit card, but you cannot pay it back, ever. Now we are thirty to forty percent into overshoot. It will be sometime in the next twenty-ve years where we will have a huge nancial crisis, an economic crisis and that will be an accurate reection of the ecological overshoot. The economy, eco-economy is based on ecology; everything about the economy is based on taking more from the earth resources. Being in ecological debt ultimately will show up as economic debt. Now you can say its banking, or Wall Street creating all of those things which is absolutely true, but deeper than that
Maybe a big shake up of the systems in place now will help people look towards a more meaningful life, to align their purpose; otherwise it could just be a case of history repeating itself when well all just end up with more of the same. The way things are heading now should be an opportunity and a platform for possibilities, such as is happening with the Pachamama Alliance and other movements that are promoting a more thoughtful way forward. Well I totally hear you, and I also know that it probably will happen. We learn a lot more by failure than we do with success, as human beings that will continue to be the case, but if the context is clear even the mistakes will make a dierence and will ultimately align with the context, and I suggest or invite a context of hope rather than fear. I like to bring a context where people can see that greed and power-grabbing is part of the last throws of a set of structures that are groping for their nal control, and when we see it that way we can hospice their natural death and thank them for the services they rendered, and midwife the birth of the new structure that replaces them. I use that context not only to keep myself sane in the face of some of the things I see that are so disturbing, but also to create a space of respect so I dont fear the possibility, I think the possibility is distinct from hope, although hope is a very powerful word and distinguished distinction. I will invite the possibility, is something we can all generate, and generate it in a way that it becomes a compelling and irresistible eld in that whatever is happening can be hospice, so that it can be as natural as that which is coming through and being midwife-d naturally. so I am ever hopeful and excited about watching the structure and system dissolve.

I know that there is tremendous pain and suering think about within the automobile industry, a lot of people gave their lives to the industry. I was at a lecture at a truck factory not long ago and all these truckers are now moving to the electric and clean energy eld, some of them in their sixties and seventies and some with grandchildren. A man I interviewed said I have worked on the assembly line all my life and now I am in Kansas City building electric trucks and I have never felt more exhilarated in my life, I know that what I am doing is making a sustainable future for my grandchildren and forty years on the assembly line in Detroit doesnt even begin to match the three years I have been building electric trucks. I know we can all nd our way through this transition and really nd the way to make everybody win, even the people who are the power-grabbers, they dont want to be doing that either. If they had another way through, if we could create another way through another path for them or someway to unhook the way they are caught, I think they would be sitting here doing this interview with you and being thrilled and liberated from a system that makes them less than who they are. So I have great faith in the human family and I think everyone ultimately has the capacity to be of service to make a dierence with their life.
Absolutely and without a doubt there is a depth excitement and everywhere people are feeling inspired and motivated, and although they cannot always identify what is happening they can feel that something is happening. People who dont understand consciousness or people who dont work from this spiritual depth still know that something is in the air; you cant get away from it. So the change is coming and then choices will have to be made by everybody and you either let other people make the choices and then be part of it, or not. I think it is a very exciting time; the one thing that concerns me slightly is there are a lot of fragmented groups. If we had several hundred Lynne Twists then we would be home and dry, we could have all these operational satellites. I am assuming you have set up some other Lynne Twists in other guises with your Shift organisation and other organisations like it, the IONS organisation etc. all beating the same drum and wanting very much to share this globally, from sustainability to personal transformation, because its all one, to get the message to people in a more understanding way; a message that people can resonate with. I dont know if there is going to be anything like this? I would say that it is happening, here is a fact that someone gave me that I love it used to be that television was the form of communication that people used to use, its just not like that now. There are really billions of people who are under forty who never turn on their TV set because they do everything on the internet, with their cell phones and there are seven billion people on this earth and 1.7 billion have access to a computer, four billion have access to a smart phone. People in Nigeria, Senegal or Sri Lanka who dont speak English, who dont read and write are watching YouTube clips. It is just staggering. So the media is an open source anyone can play. At the Pachamama Alliance we have actually a positive video contest for people to submit lms one, two, three, four, ve minute lms about depicting the quantum vision, we have hundreds and hundreds of entries. We can all access the world now. To nd out more about the Pachamama Alliance please visit the website: http://www.pachamama.org And to see whats happening at FOUR YEARS.GO, please visit: http://www.fouryearsgo.org/
MIND BODY SPIRIT LONDON FESTIVAL 2012

RELOCATES TO EARLS COURT
Its all change for the Mind Body Spirit London Festival this year as the UKs most popular spiritual community relocates to Earls Court. The new, bigger venue promises an enhanced visitor experience with its increased number of marketplace stalls and specialized areas that foster an open, friendly environment. The ideal setting in which to engage with like-minded people and enjoy the magic of real life social networking, rather than the digital, Facebook variety. Each year thousands delight in discovering the latest in self-help techniques, natural products, psychic readings, complementary therapies and leading edge information from internationally acclaimed bestselling authors and experts. Additional free activities for 2012 include the new chill out Mantra Lounge for sound healings and guided meditations, as well as the Yoga Shala oering classes and taster session with some of Londons nest teachers. The Festival has always oered visitors access to high prole presenters and this year is no exception. Sally Morgan, David Wells, Diana Cooper, Gordon Smith, Karen Kingston, Barefoot Doctor, David Hamilton, Laura Day and more will all be in attendance. Equally important is the infusion of new speakers such as Michael James, Chrissie Astell, Andie Hudson, Sarah Rozenthuler, Jan Day, Martha Beck, Dominic OBrien, Anthony Peake etc, ensuring the line-up remains fresh and innovative at every show.
The 2012 programme includes over 50 workshops covering an eclectic mix of subjects ranging from animal Reiki to NLP love techniques, Kriya yoga to clutter clearing or ngerprint analysis, to the law of attraction- all at aordable prices. Expect to also see a new injection of talent at the ever-popular free Live Demo Stage, featuring musical concerts, a variety of dance and yoga performances, inspiring talks and more. 2012 is said to be the year of change and community spirit, two very good reasons to pay the Festival a visit and discover how embracing new experiences and relationships can revive your passion for life.
MIND BODY SPIRIT LONDON FESTIVAL

Earls Court, Brompton Hall, London SW5 9TA Wednesday 30th May Bank Holiday Monday 4th June 2012 11.00 18.00 Weekdays, 10.00 19.00 Weekend, 10.00 17.00 Bank Holiday Monday Ticket Price - 10.00 on the door, 8.00 advance, see website for workshop fees and concessions. For full programme details or advance ticket purchase call the Ticket hotline: 020 7371 9191 or visit www.mindbodyspirit.co.uk
An interview with Peter Owen Jones You are looking for what is looking.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE REV. PETER OWEN JONES ON HOW CONSCIOUSNESS AND HUMANITY ALIGN
Words: Trina Hart
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nglican priest Peter Owen Jones has led a varied life. He gave up his commercial life to follow a calling to the Anglican ministry by enrolling at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. In early 1996 he gained notoriety when he conducted a service for the Newbury bypass protestors. In 1998, he ran three parishes in Cambridgeshire before resigning from his post in 2005, to relocate to the benece of Glynde, West Firle and Beddingham (UK). He was recruited by the BBC to front a series of religious television programmes which would look at dierent aspects of Christian and other faiths where he has received critical acclaim from many quarters In a tiny little hamlet on the South Coast of the UK, I met with Anglican priest Rev. Peter Owen Jones to discuss his thoughts on consciousness, religion and society. What do you think could be a moment in your life that you felt changed everything and took you on a journey where you are now a priest? POJ: I think in each day we are invited to actually have life changing moments, its whether or not we choose to recognise them. That invitation to grow is always there, always in the background of all of our lives. Its just whether or not we are open enough, broken enough, and humble enough to accept what is coming through at that particular point. Id been in Corfu, on holiday and I was meant to be getting a ight back to Gatwick. I jumped on the bike that I had hired and sped o from a beautiful beach at 5am in the morning. I was last in the check-in queue, it had been overbooked and so the ight was full, they had made a mistake. To recompense me they put me on a coach, I was the only person on it, and drove me to a hotel, of which again I was the only person present, where they made me scrambled egg on toast while I had an eight-hour wait. The hotel was situated above the Aegean and just below I could see a little jetty which went out into the sea, and having eaten my scrambled egg I thought I would go and sit down on the beach. Im not sure how long I had been there for, and I was looking into the water and I could see all these beautiful sh - the water was completely clear - and then I dont really quite understand what happened, but I had a very strong experience that someone or something was trying, and had been trying all my life, to tell me that I was loved, truly loved and at that point I accepted that, I accepted that I was loved, and although there
have been many points of change, that I think for me was the beginning of the journey which I am now on. That was really where it started.
Were you just paying attention?
POJ: It is being still. Being in a place where I wasnt considering what I was doing next. It was being, as many of the Buddhists and Eckhart Tulle would say, open to the present moment, and once I learnt how to do that and once I found myself in that place, rather than being in this almost neutral zone, I found it was probably the most vivid place, and remains increasingly as I get older, the most vivid place I can go, right into the action of the present moment. I have found nothing more vivid ever in my life.
You spent a month in a cave in the Sinai Desert where you were devoid of any human contact, was that another moment of transformation? What do you feel about the experience now on reection? POJ: On reection when I look back, that was the time I had to come to terms with fear, the fear that grips all of us from time to time, the fear in relation to our own identity, how other people will see us, fear in relation to our mortality that this is so beautifully impermanent, and I can lose that within the next second or minute, not at a time of my choosing. So it was those two issues that I was grappling with in the cave, and I cant say that I came to a conclusive conclusion. But just the process of facing those fears that we all have about how we are being perceived, and also I think the bigger one about how all our lives are just sojourns for a brief amount of time in the grand scheme of things here, and I think since I have been back I have been able to work through that. I think that was the seed that was placed there for me to look at and to learn and to deal with at that time, but I think thats a critical seed for all of us. I think so many of us spend so much of our lives almost trying to displace that notion that we are impermanent and that we face death at any given time. I dont think we can be fully human and fully relaxed and fully joyful and fully merciful until we have accepted our own gorgeous impermanence - and celebrated that. I can look back now at human beings in history and say werent they incredible that they did that in their little span, they said that, they found that, they saw that, they heard that. I can only see that now because I have hopefully accepted my own limited span.
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Its very much in the Western world that we have that limitation, because if you look at other cultures death is embraced as much as life is embraced. POJ: Yes, we are very fearful of our own mortality and I think that is unhealthy because it is a reality. Its a reality of our existence and if we are denying it, if we cant bear to look at that, then we are missing out on the present. Restricting isnt it?
each one of us. Im not happy in any way to support this notion that we should spend our lives as human beings acquiring more just for the sake of it. We are past that.
POJ: Yes. We are missing out on the present, restricting ourselves, we are also being held in a place of continual fear and thats not dandy for any of us. I wasnt going to touch on this, but since I saw the YouTube clip of you outside St. Pauls Cathedral and subsequently read your article in the Independent about The Occupy London Stock Exchange movement, I smiled because I followed that from the beginning when they were stopped by the authorities at St. Pauls, which is of course where they ended up setting up their tents, and I did wonder that had I been a believer in Christianity that I may be forgiven for thinking it was some kind of divine intervention. (By the way, I loved the irony of St. Paul being a tent maker; I didnt know this fact until I read your article). POJ: Im not sure the Church of England think that its divine intervention that they have 400 protestors basking around outside ... it was just an accident and thats where they ended up. I think its whats emerged. Wherever they would have settled would have raised real questions for the locality of where they were, it just happened to be St. Pauls Cathedral and it raised real questions for the Church of England about what its message is and where it stands, but those questions have been delicately unanswered for a couple of generations, we now have to face them which is great.
Absolutely, take the recent London riots for example. If you dont think beyond the aspiration that is being fed to you through the media, aspirations such as Gucci, the Nike trainers...if you havent these things then you havent arrived! Thats your preconception because thats what aspiration is being fed to you. Its very dicult for the have nots to not want what they perceive are things they need to feel complete. Im not condoning the rioting, however as a society we are all actually responsible for what happened; these are almost forgotten people and will be until such time as there is a dierent regime where the economy is concerned where these people can feel less disenfranchised than where they perhaps are now. POJ: I would simply ask them - what are they disenfranchised from. That they cant go and get a Gucci bag? Thats partly how successful the illusion is, that those things are actually valuable. The creation of that illusion has been immensely powerful and has been done with a great deal of pernicious skill but Christ was always talking about those people, the people without, and I think we stand a much better chance of actually being able to see that illusion. What concerned me was by breaking into stores which had branded goods, they had obviously become compromised by that illusion and that they werent necessarily looking at an alternative view and seeing themselves as beautiful human beings. The fact that they needed this, that and the other to be beautiful - thats because we all bought into that.
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And still do, even though we know better, the temptation can be great.
You have a very interesting relationship with money with regard to your living simply ethos, which I would love to embrace - Im not as disciplined as you, but I like the idea of going 10 days without spending any money. POJ: Im not disciplined Im just broke! I can be fearfully undisciplined. What I have found is that part of the reason why we are unwell is because we are in a constant state of agitation, constantly trying to acquire more. If you can step back from that and say I dont need more, what I have is more than enough and wean yourself o this idea of ....Ill start in a bedsit, then Ill go to a one-bed at, then Ill go to a semi...and then Ill end up in a castle. Thats the poison, thats the illusion because it means we are not facing individually or as a society what is enough for
POJ: Its very dicult for those people who dont have whatever it is, but those people that are part of the creation of that illusion who can go out and buy those things, I think they are in a far worse situation frankly than those that are smashing the windows. In your BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Faiths you explored the many routes of religions. Do you ultimately think that religions come back to loving the self, love of humanity, love of the environment, and respect of the environment? POJ: I think all religions are humanities striving for meaning and purpose. I look in amazement at the men and women who have taken journeys into the furthest reaches of themselves, and the desert hermits are a classic example of that, they have gone out into the furthest psychological reaches of what it is
to be human, and they have come back with these incredible stories, incredible revelations. Are we to dismiss all of them and just say he was starving he wasnt thinking correctly, they were compromised by that environment, this is nothing remarkable or are we to look at what they have discovered, what they have found through history - and this journey is still going on within our own generation - are we to look at that and say, well actually I can relate to that experience, or are we to say they are a bunch of madmen? I think we need to ask ourselves who the madmen really are.
A lot of people are talking now, globally, about a shift that is happening in consciousness. Whats your view on this idea? POJ: I think we bring about our own change, and what I nd very interesting about 2012 is that if everyone, or a large signicant proportion of the population, is saying at this point a new consciousness is going to emerge then essentially perhaps that belief will bring it about. Many of my friends within those movements will talk about manifesting what they need and what they want, this is a belief in simply thinking positively about something that will bring it into being, so if there are 3 million people believing in the UK, and 16 million in the USA all thinking 2012 is going to bring about this huge
change in consciousness, then certainly it will and that is what I nd exciting. Do we need it? Yes. Do we need to be open to the learning that is inherent within it? Yes we do. Do the old established religions need challenging? Yes they do. Do the politics which essentially govern all of us and the things we take for granted, do they need challenging? Yes more than anything. So whichever way you look at it something is happening, something is approaching where there has to be change. We simply cannot carry on being the human race that we have been; the questions we are being asked, the manner in which we might believe in the future, all of this is changing. I think within the groups that are talking about this there is a great deal of excitement about the potential of what a human being can be we have lived in the same manner for the last 10,000 years and if we are going to continue in that manner then there is really no future, no hope, and I believe that completely, and that requires all of us to think very dierently about what being human is...and that I nd tremendously exciting.
Well I guess Ghandis famous words be the change you want to see in the world, are applicable. What do you feel can help us in our endeavours to become agents of change? POJ: The greatest change we need to make is in our relationships, the greatest change that we need to make is to understand that we are not isolated pieces of biology wandering around the planet, that rst of all we are each connected one to another by the very issue of being human, regardless of the faith we happen to hold and what views we happen to hold, regardless....we are all human beings. Secondly the most profound change we need to make is to our relationship to the planet. Are we to be despoilers, eradicators, executioners or are we to be nurturers and guardians? We have never consciously been nurturers and guardians and that can only happen with raising the level of our consciousness to understand how connected we are with all the other life on this planet, and how individual and remarkable all of that other life is, but we have never lived knowing that, we have never lived honouring that. If we were to do that, which I believe we will, what that will bring about as to how we see our own human identity will be profoundly dierent from the manner it is and the manner it has been. That is the great star of the future, whether we can take hold of it or not. I think over the next 50 to 100 years we will nd out, but that to me is so exciting that
we may become beings of peace, love for all creation. We have never done that before and we are being invited to do that now and I think that is at the core of the change of consciousness which people may talk about. Its like electrons, we dont know where it is going but I get the greatest sense that if there is to be a change in consciousness its basically a change in our understanding of human identity and what it is to be human, and that is tremendously exciting. Whether that is being informed by Christianity, Judaism, or Islam, or by Buddhism - lets wait and see what they have to say about this, because they havent said a great deal about it thus far.
Do you think we know intuitively and have just forgotten?
POJ: We do know it intuitively, and it is within that space where we are open and vulnerable which St. Francis talks about eloquently and beautifully, these riches, to use words that Christ uses become apparent. But they are a very dierent type of riches, not riches that we have all been striving for. I would regard that striving as a very subtle process of enslavement and people are awakening up to the fact that actually they dont want to be enslaved by only just existing anymore, their humanity is worth so much more.
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Does Manifesting Work?
DOES MANIFESTING WORK?

Words: Arielle Essex
hy dont you always get what you want? When goals dont get achieved, when your most positive outcomes dont happen, when the happy ending eludes you, what has gone wrong? Some people might conclude that manifesting doesnt work. So they give up, feel inadequate or undeserving. Even worse, a feeling of being powerless replaces the original optimism. What most people dont know is that goal setting, vision boards, and other popular ways to manifest positive outcomes will fail unless three essential factors are fully satised. Every living organism moves towards what it wants. The simple desire for food and safety drives the process of evolution. Babies arrive in the world full of needs and wants. Gradually those desires become more complex. Of course, before you can achieve anything, you need to know what you want. You are probably familiar with all the research studies that have proved how eective goal setting leads to success. However, an inherent problem lurks behind setting any kind of outcome. The moment you set any goal, you simultaneously move towards its happy achievement. Theres a sense that youll be happy when youve achieved that goal. Consequently, you become less happy with where you are now. In an instant your happiness has become attached to achieving that goal in the future. In that same instant, you step o your centre of inner peace. The more you desire that goal, the further you step out of alignment.
If you achieve the goal, you may get the happiness and satisfaction you want. Not achieving it may lead to disappointment, disillusionment and confusion. Either result seems to beat the mercy of unpredictable outside factors. What most people dont realize is that when the desired outcome doesnt happen, it usually means that some other goal is being served. So when a goal has not worked out as desired, some good questions to ask are: Whats happening instead? Why might that be more important in the greater scheme of things? If the concept Thoughts Create Things holds true, then shouldnt everyone have what they want? They do. They just dont consciously have awareness of all the complex needs and all the dierent goals they have. Its like several dierent personalities: each with dierent agendas. The normal ego mind self knows what it wants and sets goals according to what it believes will make you happy. However, there may also be a miserable self that holds doubt and feels skeptical about whether you can ever achieve those goals, or whether happiness can ever be reached, or whether it is deserved. Hence it sets dierent goals moving in the opposite direction. An even deeper self might house your soul purpose, which wants you to evolve, learn and develop higher qualities of being, even if you suer in the process. So at any given time, there may be dierent goals being set by each dierent personality that contradict, oppose and cancel each other out. When you understand the driving needs that people feel compelled to satisfy, then it becomes obvious that everyone receives exactly what they ask for. No matter how much people like to perceive themselves as kind, loving, intelligent, and spiritually evolved, most people will violate their highest values to meet these essential driving needs. There are four basic needs that cause problems. The rst need is for Certainty. This need is based on survival, the need to satisfy the essential requirements of life (food, water, warmth etc.), as well as avoid pain. However, this comfort zone becomes more
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

to do with whats familiar, predictable, and in line with what you believe about yourself, about life and what you deserve. The precise type of Certainty you require originates from past experiences, usually from childhood. Whether you meet this need in constructive, destructive, or neutral ways is a choice. A good example of this need for certainty is a woman who felt stuck and powerless because of a dicult relationship with her husband. She nevertheless remained determined to stay married to him, because she feared change, needed economic security and didnt want to break up the family. Despite describing life with him as intolerable and abusive, and despite the lack of love, intimacy, companionship or support, she reasoned the situation was tolerable because he was away from home so much. Her need for certainty originated from a traumatic childhood, so choosing the devil she knew made sense. But the resulting stress she suered felt so pervasive that it dominated her whole life and had also led to illness which further hampered any possibility of change. Once a person has enough certainty, safety and security, life starts to seem boring, repetitive and predictable. So the need for uncertainty is born. This desire fuels the drive for variety, excitement, challenge, surprise, adventure, anything new and dierent that avoids boredom. Again, whether you meet this need in constructive, destructive, or neutral ways is a choice. Ironically, because this same woman never knew what her husband was going to do next, or what kind of challenge shed have to deal with, or when the next ght would start, her relationship destructively met the need of uncertainty. Living on the edge like this not only matched her childhood experience, but further increased her stress. The third basic need is for signicance: to feel unique, dierent, needed, important, respected, appreciated, acknowledged, in order to have a sense of purpose, power and control. Teenagers clearly demonstrate this need as they seek to forge their own identity. Once again, whether you meet this need for signicance in constructive, destructive, or neutral ways is a choice. Your behaviours and strategies reveal the truth of whats going on. This particular woman told herself stories about how much her husband needed her, how she must hold the family together, and how no one could function without her. Her role as the mother gave her a sense of importance. Her illness also awarded her with special signicance that had to be considered and catered for by everyone else. Her situation not only reected the role model she got from her own mothers life, but also destructively met her need for signicance. The fourth basic need is for love & connection. Just as a baby will die without love, care and aection, adults need to genuinely feel accepted, included, approved of, cared for, loved and connected to others in order to feel whole and complete. As a mother, this woman did feel love for her children. But getting sympathy for her illness provided a better strategy for getting attention. She used her condition to get others to comply with her demands, get her needs met and be in control (satisfying her need for signicance). Despite fullling the expectations and duties of her role as a mother, this didnt allow her to receive the love that came her way. So, inside she felt hollow, unloved, isolated and alone. When you get caught in a web of meeting needs in destructive ways, they drive your behaviour and decisions. Because your choices will be determined by those needs, you are not free. Choices that satisfy two of these basic needs will shape the direction of your life. When your choices meet three or more basic needs, you become addicted to those behaviours. You will feel compelled to keep doing what you are doing. Consequently, you cannot access your true inner power, live in the moment or manifest what you truly want.
You can only lose what you cling to.

Buddha
To make the situation even more complicated, some people develop an outwardly positive public personality that cleverly fools everyone into believing a lie. On the outside, youll see a smiling face, a positive enthusiasm, and lots of energy expressed in positive speak about positive sounding goals. This cleverly hides the underlying strategies for getting those other needs met. When questioned about ulterior motives or meeting dierent needs, the clever personality will keep insisting but I want my goal I really want it! If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the greedy little child demanding to get its needs met. For example, this womans positive goal was to heal. Supercially, healing seems like a positive goal. Except what she really meant was that she wanted to get rid of her symptoms and go back to living life exactly as before. She winged, other people have healed, so why cant I! If you have a goal that sounds positive, but you suspect it really moves away from what you dont want, just ask yourself: what am I really trying to get? Demanding things from others or from the Universe rarely works. Before you can successfully manifest change, you need full motivation. It takes lots of persistence and determination to change old habitual strategies. The hardest strategies to change are successful strategies. If the current strategies satisfy more

than two of the basic needs, a person is less likely to change until the pain of continuing outweighs the benets. Some questions to loosen the hold of these needs might be worth consideration: What will happen if things continue down this road? What will the rest of your life look like? What other opportunities will be missed out? Who may never grow, contribute or fulll their purpose? How does this hold you or others back? What sort of legacy will you leave behind? Who receives poor role models by watching this example? Is behaving like this the embodiment of love or fear? Is this really who you came to be?
THE THREE FACTORS

Since life is always in a state of ux, its not easy to keep all the basic needs in balance all the time. Why not tip the seesaw in your favour by constructively meeting as many of your needs as possible. This will automatically lead to satisfying the three factors necessary for manifesting your outcomes. Successful manifesting happens naturally whenever you have inner alignment. Another word for inner alignment is congruence. When your beliefs, strategies and physiology all support the same outcome and attitude, you have congruence. First, check that your beliefs, thoughts and emotions are not in conict. Second, make sure that whatever you are doing follows and supports your stated objective. Are you willing to do whatever it takes? Third, how are you taking care of your body through diet, rest, exercise and how you breathe and move? Notice the arrows in the diagramme continue in a circle. This represents the ongoing process that is necessary to keep following with persistence and determination.
When theres willingness to look within and honestly assess which needs are driving the behaviour, strategies and goals, a major shift becomes possible. Do your best to answer the questions: why did you want it to be this way? or what are you trying to get in this situation? Then true insights will lead the way to more evolved choices. When this particular woman realized that she was teaching her children fear, powerlessness and sacrice instead of love and courage, she was appalled. She decided to change by following the example of her beloved grandfather. By resolving to live up to his courage and stand up for what was true for her, she began to remember who she really was. Then it became easy to get clear about what she truly wanted and to change the way she met the basic needs. How could someone meet the basic needs with totally constructive strategies? To start with, the need for certainty could come from deeply held faith, trust and a sense of purpose, meaning and mission. When you know who you are and what you are here to give, its easy to feel secure in any situation. When you notice that things have always worked out before, you can trust in guidance, adapt to change and gain wisdom from each experience. The need for uncertainty could be satised by: taking on new challenges, risking deeper levels of intimacy, learning something new, or being more adventurous. The need for signicance could happily result from achievements, getting new degrees, contributing your time, eort or money, raising children, or developing friendships, talents and skills. Love and connection needs to come from within, so remember to love yourself as much as you extend your love, acceptance and connection to others. Be at one with nature, with animals, plants and feel your own particular spiritual connection to all that is.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
At the same time, the most important aspect rests in the middle: Trust and Letting Go. The acid test for whether or not youve let go of an objective is easy: when it doesnt matter whether or not you get the outcome or not, youve let go. As long as you are investing your energy in having it your way, you are attached. That merely means you are making one of the basic needs more important than your stated outcome. Make a better choice of how to meet that need. Return to being more fully who you are, living in the present moment and focusing your energy with love. Arielle Essex Arielle works as a specialist healer, coach and trainer combining practical psychology, naturopathy, NLP, hypnosis, non-verbal intelligence, & emotional intelligence into her own unique Practical Miracles coaching approach, as well as being a certied NES practitioner. Please contact:arielle@practicalmiracles.com or visit www.practicalmiracles.com
Zenos Frudakis with bronze sculpture Freedom.
ZENOS FRUDAKISS BID FOR FREEDOM!

Over the past two decades, he has created monumental works in public and private collections throughout the US and abroad. Although Zenos creates personal, expressive works of art, he is a commissioned artist with wide-ranging versatility capable of sculpting subjects from the human form to animals. His sculpture entitled Freedom is an inspiration, and he comments on this triumph as follows: I wanted to create a sculpture that almost anyone, regardless of their background, could look at and instantly recognise that it is about the idea of struggling to break free. This sculpture is about the struggle for achievement of freedom through the creative process. Although for me, this feeling sprang from a particular personal situation, I was conscious that it was a universal desire with almost everyone; that need to escape from some situation be it an internal struggle or an adversarial circumstance, and to be free from it. I began this work in a very traditional sculptural manner by creating a small model in clay called a macquette. The purpose of beginning in this manner is to capture the large action and major proportions of the gure within the overall design without any details to detract from the big idea. Another reason for not having details and for working on a small model only a few inches in height is that the small armature within it, holding the clay, is more easily manipulated, allowing for much greater exibility in developing a concept. For example, an arm, a leg or a head can be pushed around without any concern for obliterating details, such as a nose or a nger. The macquette is the original mass of clay where a concept is born and from which it grows and develops. This was important later when I enlarged the sculpture from several inches long to 20 feet long, and I retained in the larger work a sense that all the conceptual material, its forms, focus and development sprang from this rough idea. The work metamorphosised, in the way that we do. Although there are four gures represented, the work is really one gure moving from left to right. The composition develops from left to right beginning with a kind of mummy/death like captive gure locked into its background. In the second frame, the gure, reminiscent of Michaelangelos Rebellious Slave, begins to stir and struggle to escape. The gure in the third frame has torn himself from the wall that held him captive and is stepping out, reaching for freedom. In the fourth frame, the gure is entirely free, victorious, arms outstretched, completely away from the wall and from the grave space he left behind. He evokes an escape from his own mortality.
s a child in Gary, Indiana, Zenos began to sculpt under the familys kitchen table with a piece of dough given to him by his mother as she was preparing to bake bread. Zenoss father, born in Greece, went to the U.S. as a boy. The oldest of ve children growing up in Greek culture, Zenos admired, respected, and was drawn to Greek sculpture. Greek art inuenced his aesthetic vision; additional inspiration came from sculptors Michaelangelo, Bernini, Carpeaux and Rodin. The poetry of Eliot, Frost, Roethke and Graves, is important to Zenos, as is post-modern, deconstructionist philosophy.
Sculptor Zenos Frudakis stands within a womb-like recess of Freedom, a public sculpture in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Zenos encourages people to interact and explore his sculpture.
In working on the large scale sculpture, I was satised that those who drove by getting a quick look at it would see the big picture: that it was about escape. I was also concerned that those who worked in the building and who passed the sculpture frequently would have something more to see. There was a lot of empty space between the gures on the wall, which I saw as an opportunity to develop further ideas. It was important to me that the sculptures have more than one theme going on at once. One of the other major ideas incorporated in the work is that the very process of creating the sculpture is clearly revealed in the work itself. The maquette is cast into the sculpture in the lower left hand corner. In the lower right corner is the cast of the sculptors hand holding the sculpture tool with two rolls of clay also cast in bronze. Throughout the background of the Wall, I have rolled out the clay and pressed it with my ngers so that my ngerprints are all over the sculpture. I have not hidden how I have made the piece. In fact, the whole idea of the macquette is enlarged so that all the gures in the background look like a giant macquette. And at the same time, as the gures move from left to right, I have shown how gures are developed when you are sculpting from the rough to the more nished product. Elements of the sculpture trade beside the tools that are cast into the sculpture are callipers both for their use in measuring and their reference to Protagoras words Man is the measure of all things. Also cast into the sculpture is an anatomical man, traditionally used as a reference by sculptors. Many of the heads and gures on the wall, some in the round and some in relief, are shown partially sculpted, revealing the process of creation. Something else I have done with the sculpture is that I have created a one man show of my work. I have always admired
Rodins Gates of Hell. I similarly thought I would incorporate many sculptures into the wall where it was suitable. Like T.S. Eliot and other artists, I have put many personal elements in my work. My friend Philip, a sculptor who died of AIDS, created a work that I included in Freedom because he often expressed his wish to have it in a public space. He did not live long enough to accomplish this himself. My cat, who lived with me for 20 years, my mother, father, and my self portrait are in the work. It is obvious which face is mine because there is a ballooned phrase coming from my mouth with the word freedom, written backwards, making it clear that the face was sculpted in a mirror. I see the whole Wall sculpture as a kind of illusion akin to AlicesThrough the Looking Glass. The sculpture contains an original Duane Hanson -- a bronze cast of my own hands that Duane cast for me as a gift. Much of what I did with this sculpture has to do with taking traditional forms and combining them in non-traditional ways, forming a postmodern sensibility. For example, I dropped a wax cast of my fathers bust from two or three feet in height so that it broke into large pieces. I cast those into the wall in a fractured manner over another face, an old work I found in a vat of clay purchased from a sculptor who had long ago died. I have hidden many things in the background for people who see the sculpture more than once to discover, such as a cast of coins a nickel and two pennies, another nickel and two pennies, and two quarters and a penny. These represent not only the relationship between money and art, but the numerals 7-7-51, my birth date. It is important to me that the public interact with the sculpture, not just intellectually and emotionally but physically. I have created a space in which I have writtenstand here so that
A face within the wall is a self portrait, and includes the ballooned phrase freedom written backwards.
people can place themselves inside the sculpture and become part of the composition. In the end, this sculpture is a statement about the artists attempt to free himself from the constraints of mortality through a long lasting creative form. Zenos Frudakis Freedom Sculpture, Photo Captions / Credits Sculpture Location: GSK World Headquarters, 16th and Vine Streets, Philadelphia, PA. Website: http://zenosfrudakis.com
A closer view of Freedom reveals gures in relief and in the round, illustrating the process of creation.
Zenos Frudakis: A professional sculptor for over three decades, Zenos is widely known and respected for his accurate, compelling portrait and public sculptures. Sited nationally and internationally, his works are included in the Museum of the National Academy of Design, NYC; Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Japan; Brookgreen Gardens Museum, South Carolina; and the State Museum, Harrisburg, PA. Zenos attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by scholarship and obtained his BFA and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Early stage of construction of the Freedom sculpture.

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SASSYology: The Art o SASS
SASSYOLOGY: THE ART O SASS

Words: Lisa Clark
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Enough.
adies, its time. Time to start a revolution. For too long now, girls and women have been made to feel that their worth is measured by the numbers on a set of scales, that life would some how be better if we taller, thinner, smarter.
cosmic ju-ju, your very own super-girl super-power. When you own it, your mood will elevate, youll change the way you see yourself, youll stop making excuses, and most importantly, youll crack the whip on your life, improving every aspect from health to relationships and nances to self-condence. You want in on the SASSY revolution? Each issue, Lisa Clark, your coach of SASS, will invite you to her school of Sassy Arts where you will study SASSYology - Spiritual, Authentic, Sensual & Sensational You! -and provide you with an arsenal of go-for-it girl tools and techniques that will give you everything you need in order to take the reigns of your life, and nally become mistress of your own amazing destiny. First o, if youre serious about studying at the School of SASSY Arts, you must: Start seeing life as a magnicent adventure if you see it as anything less than this, it will be less than this, and thats just too bad. Make a mark we wont all be famous, but when you decide to make your mark, whatever that might be, you embark on the road to fullling your unique destiny.
ITS TIME TO GET SASSY.

SASSY is the Spiritual, Authentic, Sensual & Sensational You. When all ve elements combine, it unleashes the innate awesomeness and amazing energy of the most kick-ass members of girl-kind who came before us Boudicia, Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Anita Roddick ladies who rocked. Hard. Channel it, learn about it, try it out, and really get to grips with it, then totally step into your very own SASSY power and use it for good. Dont worry if you struggle at rst, or you feel a bit silly, or youre worried youre not doing it right, I bet Wonder Woman was rubbish with a lasso when she rst started out. SASSY is your magical chutzpah, your go-for-it girl juice, your
Live in the biggest possible world Travel. Get to know people from many dierent places. Read the literature and history of other cultures; the bigger your world, the richer your life. Listen to your instincts Thats why you have them. Appreciate everything Its one thing to be grateful for the good stu, but for an exceptional life however, youll need to be grateful for everything: the hard lessons, the grey days, the detours that looked like they were going nowhere but ended up taking you exactly where you needed to be.
YOU, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL YOU

The next time youre tempted to act like someone youre not to tone down your amboyance or edge up your demureness dont. Whatever your age and vital statistics, you have a purpose thats uniquely yours. You cannot take on this most essential endeavour while playing a character. Things are designed that way for your own protection: to make sure no one else muscles in on your destiny. So be yourself. Theres no one like you. Not sure how? Thats okay, simply put on your dancing shoes and do the cosmic two-step.
Now, theres a really ecient two-step process for bringing what you want into being. Used properly, this will hasten the transformation of dreams into reality, provided of course, that those dreams are for your highest good. 1. Ask the universe for what you want. 2. Let it go. When we ask for what we want, we bring it into focus. Its no longer an airy-fairy It might be nice if... kind of daydreaming; this is now something to which youve staked a claim. Thats why when you ask, you have to ask as if you already have it. Scarlett O Hara in Gone With The Wind, half-starved and unable to feed those in her care, screams at heaven. As God is my witness, I will never go hungry again! Now thats rst-rate asking. Salivate the way you do when youre craving your favourite meal or a piece of chocolate cake. When you savour a desire like that, and give it time to really come to life in your mind and imagination, things will start to happen. Letting go is harder. While were responsible for taking action doing the groundwork, following through on the task in hand you have to let go of the rest. Otherwise you run the risk of over-thinking. Is this the right thing after all? Do I deserve it? Will people still like me after I get this? Just let it go, its as simple as that. Youll either get it (thats great), or you wont (because this is not the time or theres something better in store) or youll get it in a dierent form from which youd thought. If the outcome isnt what you asked for, no matter how skillfully you asked, know that nothing is lost, the energy and passion of you asking is still at work to bring you closer to your destiny, despite the detour. Theres so much juicy goodness to devour in your study of SASSYology, but for now, lets concentrate on the basics, yes? Know thy fabulousity Before you step outside the house each morning, take a look in the mirror, stand tall, smile at your reection and tell yourself Im fabulous at least three times. It
might feel silly at rst, but keep doing it and as soon as you start believing it, your condence will grow and others will start to notice your fabulousness too. Go on, I dare you! Be willing to do whatever it takes to feel good about YOU - Delight in the pleasures of being alive ne food and drink, romance, friendship, laughter, travel - pleasure is good for you, When you channel your SASSY, youre well aware of what you like. You dont need anyones permission to meet your needs and experience whatever physical, mental, or spiritual deliciousness appeals to you. You dont have to check out your choices with someone who knows more. Who could possibly know more about what makes you happy than you? Find ways to deal with stress that wont distress you later Do deep breathing, sip green tea or read something that makes you laugh. Take a walk or a power nap. Call a friend. Do anything except revert to a self-sabotaging default of beating yourself with a big stick or reaching for the biscuit tin. Set your standards high - If theres something that you truly want, get passionate about it, let the universe know what it is you want, be specic, then work hard to get it. Dont be afraid to ask for help and dont let the fact that you dont have the right education, background or connections stop you from going for it either. Put yourself rst make sure that you take care of yourself inside and out, open your own doors, grab your own opportunities, take time out to do the things that are important to you and most importantly, every day in every way, treat yourself like the goddess that you absolutely, positively are! To nd out more about SASSYology, to take a course or workshop at the School o SASSY Arts, or to book a 1-to-1 coaching session with Lisa, visit: www.sassyology.com
The Making of a Global Ambassador
THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL AMBASSADOR

Words: Trevor C. Krueger
hen you are born to an East German father who remained in the UK as a Prisoner of War after capture in North Africa in World War II, you soon learn about racism born out of ignorance. As a teenager at school I was obviously a Nazi, because my father was of German origin. Even though he was to be naturalised as British by choice, and not by accident, as my tormentors were. Needless to say he was not a Nazi any more than the rest of the regular German nation, but our shared guilt by association opened my eyes early on to bigotry. Then, as I dated a girl of Burmese/Chinese origins it became my duty to protect her from racial torment and bullying which on one occasion actually put her in hospital. We eventually married, had two lovely mixed race children who thankfully were born into more tolerant times. Eventually we divorced and I married again to another foreign national, this time Malaysian and, to make things even more complicated, Muslim. Again we have two children from our union and all of us get along together wonderfully. Times have changed at least here in the UK. People are more open and accepting than they were in my youth. However, there is still much ignorance to encounter, as I often experience when I return from our trips to my wifes family who have relocated to property they own in the Philippines. I am constantly asked if I ever eat dog while there and you can just sense the mail order bride looks that sometimes still burn into the back of my neck when we are out together. So, I guess I had good motivation to want to do something to help educate the world to a broader attitude about foreigners. My life is now dedicated in the main to that objective and it is proving to be an exciting if demanding journey. After experimenting with a magazine entitled Taste of Asia I was invited to progress towards something bigger, something that would give Asian nations a real voice. Encouraged by the
Association of South East Asian Nations and the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute, both based in Malaysia, I considered how best to do this. The result has been our newly developing portal site Global Ambassador. Reaching beyond its original objective to promote Asian nations, it now seeks to oer a home to every nation through which they can sell themselves to the World in their own terms. Free of political, religious or editorial spin. As you can imagine, setting up an all encompassing facility that can adequately handle everything up to 262 nations want to talk about is no small task. Add to that an intended social networking facility that will invite everyone to post news, views and videos about their home so the world can learn about itself from the very grass roots upwards... and then a facility for social enterprises and charities to promote themselves you end up with a mighty site that seeks to assist communication on all levels for the benet of the masses and the individual. It is quite a task. Our slogan is breaking down old barriers to build new bridges as that best sums up what we are doing at every level. I say we but as I type this, it is still mainly me as I am still searching for the right people to join the venture and build a formidable and capable team that truly have the betterment of international relations at their core. Global Ambassador seeks to be the rst and best national proling site on the net and it is determined to make progresses on behalf of the global population, speaking out for all positive and progressive issues and developments. We shall carry news from Reuters, data from ocial national oces, features on industry, tourism even the weather. And regardless of whether your need for information about a country is for pure idle entertainment, study, research or investment you should be able to nd the information you need from our site, a mixture of News Channel, You tube, Facebook and global supermarket. It is all very exciting!
Amongst our main aims is to create a site that supports itself from the revenue of commercial activity, that is, the space sold for national proling and commercial advertising. That activity will support both our social networking and social enterprise objectives. We plan to help facilitate access to youth banking for street children in poorer countries; help fund orphanages such as our rst adopted project in Gujarat India, Akaash Ganga, (see www.saltchildren.com) provide solar lighting equipment to assist late night studying, fresh water from air equipment, bio fuel production plants, sheltered housing, especially for those victims of child abuse who have been enslaved into child prostitution in countries such as Cambodia and many other third world countries. Some of what I have learned, about what they endure, is enough to turn anyones hair white. There is much to achieve and I am in no doubt that the world needs Global Ambassador as a central platform through which all other organisations and individuals can reach a global audience. Currently we are seeking to establish Global Ambassador Envoys in every nation to advise us on national proling. A voice of the people, so to speak, who will comment and advise on the peoples view. Helping us to understand each national culture and custom sympathetically and without fear of oending, and where possible, explaining the origins of customs and attitudes and why they dier to our own. The Envoys are essential to our eorts to maintain eective and respectful representation of each nation. We are always pleased to hear from anyone wishing to assist us in this way. We are also seeking to establish the Global Ambassador International Community Association Clubs, www.gaica.org right around the world, as a physical embodiment of what we aim to achieve through the site; encouraging all nations to come together, share cultures and learn about each other through monthly meetings and also, raising money through charitable events to fund our adopted causes. We hope to establish a group in every major town and city throughout the world and to share cultural exchanges, tours and staged events. G.A.I.C.A. will become a formidable force in its own right and will no doubt achieve a great deal for charities that will help save and change many lives. So, Global Ambassador has much to achieve and we cannot do it
alone. It requires the coming together of people all around the world, people who share the belief that, while protecting our identities and cultures, we will all be better served if we share a common identity, that of citizen of the world, bound by the simple fact of our shared humanity. Of course, the world is experiencing hard times at the moment with many economies in free fall, and this surely is a time when Global Ambassador is needed even more to bring everyone together for mutual benet, trade and cooperation. What I nd most exciting is that we will soon have an opportunity to return full circle to our humble origins as a special interest magazine. We intend to re-launch Taste of Asia Magazine and others as a franchise opportunity which will be produced all around the world and marketed, with localised content added, sold through street vendors. Much as the Big Issue is sold here in the UK. Once again, combining our commercial eorts with the direct support of those at the lowest end of society, who simply need a way to support themselves. True social enterprise at work right where it matters. The future of the global community is, to my mind, central to the survival of the human race as the most intelligent life form on the planet. We simply cannot continue as a consumer society focused on the pursuit of luxury, self indulgence and greed. We have to recognise that our luxury lifestyles cost more than money, they cost lives. For regardless of the way we are enjoying the spoils of a decadent lifestyle, someone in another country is paying for it with low cost labour or even their lives. Our focus has to change from what we can do for ourselves to what we can do for others. I want to do my bit through Global Ambassador. Id love to hear from you with news of what you are doing or how you might like to help us? For more information please visit: http://www.gaica.org/ You can reach Trevor Krueger at: trevor@global-ambassador.org
Ditch Your Inner Critic
DITCH YOUR INNER CRITIC FIVE PRACTICAL WAYS TO STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP SO YOUR INNER SUPERSTAR IS FREE TO SHINE
Words: Amy Ahlers, Certied Life Coach & Author
TRY THE FIVE TIPS BELOW TO DITCH YOUR INNER CRITIC:

Tip One: Identify Your Inner Critics Top 10 List of places, situations, and environments where she/he likes to show up and criticize. Is it at work? Social events? In bed? Whenever you look in the mirror? Once you know what circumstances are likely to trigger Your Inner Critic, you can be better prepared to deal with that voice. Tip Two: Draw, doodle or sketch a picture of Your Inner Critic. Is he pudgy with big glasses? Perfectly pressed in pink? A slob with a cigarette in one hand and a martini in the other? Dont worry if you think you cant draw. No one will ever see this but you, so go for it! Having a mental image of the voice that tortures you particularly a funny image can instantly take away some of Your Inner Critics power. Tip Three: Get to know Your Inner Critic on a deeper level. Notice what makes him louder, and notice what diminishes her power. What happens if you just yell Shut up!? What if you just look her calmly in the eye and reassure her that everything is going to be all right? Maybe he needs a compliment every now and then? After all, Inner Critics need love too. Tip Four: What are Your Inner Critics favourite Big Fat Lies about you? What does he/she say to you over and over? Is it, Youre a Failure, Youre Unlovable, or Youre Not Enough? Your Inner Critic will collect evidence to make the case that youre not good enough, even twisting things around when necessary. Your Inner Critic will do everything possible to back up those favourite punishing, disappointing, sad stories
about you and your worth, so its up to you to remember the good stu about you, no matter how convincing she/he seems. Tip Five: Do this powerfully simple three step process to see through Your Inner Critics Big Fat Lies: Step One: Ask yourself, What is my Inner Mean Girl/ Inner Critic saying? Give voice to the Big Fat Lies you are believing. Speak them get them out of the darkness and into the light so they can be healed. Dont hold back here . . . rant! Let it out! Step Two: Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and ask yourself, What does my Inner Wisdom know? Sink into the land of your Inner Wisdoms Truth. This is the place that feels grounded. It feels like home. Really let the Truth wash all over you and disintegrate the Big Fat Lies. Ahhh . . . that feels better! Step Three: Lock in your Inner Wisdoms Truth by repeating it (aloud if possible) accompanied by a physical gesture that reinforces the message. My Inner Wisdom has me lightly touch my heart; I have one client who waves his hand as though he were testifying in church and another who touches her belly. This gesture becomes your touchstone, reminding you to step into Truth and feel better. Shifting your focus to your Inner Wisdom will always bring you in line with your Truth and Compassion, and you will always feel better. As you practice this process more and more, youll nd your Inner Superstar coming to life.
If only I were thin enough, rich enough, better-looking...THEN I could stop being so hard on myself. Have you ever had that thought? If only your circumstances were dierent you could then magically shift your internal dialogue into an empowering, nurturing, loving one, right? After more than a decade of coaching people from every walk of life, I nally got it: we are hard on ourselves despite our external circumstances. We beat ourselves up for both the big things and for the tiniest imperfections. And all this punishment isnt helping us become more successful or to feel more fullled or even to get more done.
And who can blame us for being so hard on ourselves? Women have a lot on their plates: careers, romance, kids, health . . . the list goes on and on. Were supposed to bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, have incredible sex with our partners (never letting him forget hes a man that is, assuming he is a man), get the laundry and housework done, have healthy, accomplished kids, and a tight butt and perky boobs to boot. And its no easier for men. The demands of modern life make us feel like were supposed to enjoy being pulled in a million directions at the same time. And that were supposed to be as exible as Gumby on muscle relaxers. But were only human.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE GAVE OURSELVES A BREAK?

First, it is vital that you identify the critical, catty, judgmental voice in your head as your very own Inner Critic. And Ive got news for you: Your Inner Critic is a Big Fat Liar! She/he tells you Big Fat Lies to try to maintain the status quo and keep you in your comfort zones - even if your comfort zones arent all that comfortable. If you want to take control of your happiness, its time to take Your Inner Critic out of the drivers seat.
Get The TRUE STORY About How To Quit Being Hard On Yourself & Start Being Happy! 21 World-Class Experts Disclose Their Secrets And Share Like Youve Never Heard Them Before...Really! http://tinyurl.com/BigFatLiesSummit AMY AHLERS, the Wake-Up Call coach and cofounder of the Inner Mean Girl Reform School, is the author of Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar. Visit her online at http://www. wakeupcallcoaching.com/ Based on the book Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar 2011 by Amy Ahlers. Printed with permission of New World Library, Novato, CA. www.newworldlibrary.com or 800-972-6657 ext. 52.
HERES THE TRUTH: YOU ARE A SUPERSTAR.

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Resonance Nine Practices for Harmonious Health and Vitality

ByJoyce Hawkes In Resonance, internationally respected cell biologist and healing facilitator Joyce Hawkes, PhD, oers the best of science, spirit and storytelling. Richly detailed with Joyces experiences studying shamanic healing in Southeast Asia and stories of the people she has assisted back to health, this book will allow you to explore your own ability to heal at every level. You will discover current research and fascinating ndings about the language of your cells and how these tiny constituents of your body communicate, connect and touch. Alongside this biological backdrop, youll nd fresh mind-body imagery, insights and empowering healing techniques that will take you on a deep inner journey. Throughout the book, Hawkes also describes the profound, numinous experiences she shared with shamans, priests and healers. Each chapter is presented as a couplet - two words, two related ideas that together provide a simple, grounded starting place for your personal practice of health and vitality. Resonance gives you valuable tools to enhance your health at the cell level, your spirit at the soul level and your consciousness at the mystery level.
ISBN: 1848503717
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A Short History Of Myth - ISBN-10: 1841956449
Karen Armstrong Human beings have always been mythmakers. What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other. Myths help us make sense of the universe. Armstrong takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the Great Western Transformation of the last 500 years and the discrediting of myth by science. Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstroings characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thoughtprovoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense and why we dismiss it at our peril. A heavyweight subject in a surprisingly easy formula brilliantly written and no home should be without a copy.
Grow Small, Think Beautiful: Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College
Edited by Stephan Harding Schumacher College, based near Totnes in Devon, England, opened its doors in the early 1990s and is now an internationally-renowned centre for transformative learning on all aspects of sustainable living. James Lovelock led the rst course on Gaia theory. A host of visionary thinkers has followed, including mathematician and biologist Brian Goodwin, who died in 2009. This book is a realisation of his vision for Schumacher College to publish a collection of essays on sustainable solutions to the current global crisis. Themes include the importance of education, science, Transition thinking, economics, energy sources, business and design, in the context of philosophy, spirituality and mythology. The contributors include Satish Kumar, Jules Cashford, Fritjof Capra, Rupert Sheldrake, James Lovelock, Peter Reason, Gideon Kosso, Craig Holdrege, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Colin Tudge, Nigel Topping and many others. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of our society and the environment.
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THIS CLAY JUG

by Kabir
Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains, and the maker of canyons and pine mountains! All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars. The acid that tests gold is there, and the one who judges jewels. And the music from the strings no one touches, and the source of all water. If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.
What is the Meaning of Purpose?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF PURPOSE AND ARE YOU ALIGNED WITH YOURS?
Words: Charlie Stuart Gay
ast year Bill Clinton was interviewed on CNN by the great questioner, Larry King, who asked Do you think the Clinton Global Initiative will be your greatest legacy? Clinton pondered and gently replied, I did a lot of things I am proud of as President, but yes I believe it will be, if I live long enough. I am most proud now to be a citizen of our world. I was fortunate to be in a room with this former president in Toronto in 2008 when he was asked another direct question, Do you think Rwanda will be your greatest regret of your Presidency? Clinton replied Yes one of two greatest regrets that we did not choose to do something. The reality is that 800,000 people died in only ten weeks and we did not believe it was important enough to convene one single meeting at the White House on the subject of Rwanda. If we had maybe we would have saved a few hundred thousands of lives. I was distracted trying to convince tenuous allies to get behind our similar interventions in Eastern Europe and it just didnt happen. It is a great personal regret.

Today Bill Clinton is clearly driven by the urgent power of now. He knows the injustice and the issues of our world. Now is not the time to ask why we have the crisis of hunger, or disease, of slavery, of economic disparity and turmoil. Nor anymore is it time to ask what we shall do about it. Smart people created meaningful Millennium Goals, but have not been held accountable in their countries to carrying them out. For Clinton there is but one pulse to his teams work. How do we do this? He asks day after day. He practices urgent patience as he, and we all, struggle for the answer every day of our lives. This is indeed my own choice point. How do I do this? How do I serve my world? My human spirit that is propelled by knowing what is possible through my human endeavour - and yours, and the people you know. President Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State, Hillary of course know many people often maligned by so many for the things he was not proud of. He works across party lines to eradicate malaria, HIV and poverty in poor countries and helping serve his country when natural disasters hit its shores. You may like Bill Clinton, you may dislike him. Yet what is unquestionable is that any one, man or woman, who rises to a position of such prominence, has done many, many things greatly. In the case of Bill Clinton, he has used his position wisely in society since the creation of the Clinton Foundation in Harlem in 2001. Four years later he asked others to join in his vision and created the Clinton Global Initiative, gathering thousands of pledges made by leading businessmen, contributing over sixty-three billion dollars in humanitarian eorts. A few years later his work has educated 50 million and stimulated over 10 million women in enterprise, whilst the commitment to elevate human suering and disease is realised he recognises his belief and cannot be ignorant to it. As for the people of Rwanda? Rwanda does not wish to forgive him as there is nothing for them to forgive him for. He has caused the building of hospitals schools and infrastructure and in a few short years the countries income per capita has risen from four hundred dollars per year to over one thousand two hundred dollars. All operate in the power of now to growing eect. On October 15th 2011, as Hilary and Chelsea celebrated the ten year work of the man who is husband and father to them, they were joined by Bono, Edge, Lady Gaga, Usher Stevie Wonder, world artists, a crowd of 10,000 in the Hollywood Bowl and over 1 million viewers on Yahoo. This is an invitation to join in and be part of the next decade of dierence.
WATCH THE DECADE OF DIFFERENCE CONCERT

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-dierence/rewatch-decadedierence-concert-081706702.html One person looking to hold on to past judgments, or fear the future, but all with common heart for common purpose. A purpose propelled by How do we do this now? Now in collaboration and connectivity with a growing number of the worlds business and humanitarian leaders and millions of people purposeful in their common reawakening states, there is a new sound we move to. Today, we serve an emerging world through humanitarian campaigns to change the history of nations forever. What has been sensed and held dear for years by some as their highest intention, has now found its time within the conviction and belief of the masses. Actions are clear and throughout our world we now experience this change. It is a time when we know we cannot choose to hold back by any limiting belief. We know it is possible, because we know the power of personal Choice. Not need or a want. With hope that takes but one second to rekindle us, and with trust and belief, we do know that we can hear once again. We hear in the silence of our hearts. We hear as we release past judgments from our mind. We hear as we cease fearing the future of our souls. We hear best in the now. The Purpose of Now joins forces with a Power of Love. What is this now second and why is vital for us to be conscious of it? The purpose of now, the I AM THAT I AM. It is woven as the backbone of every teaching found in the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas. The Now is taught to athletes today, in business schools and every counselling session. It is not holding the past or fearing the future. It is present. The ancient Hebrew translation, Ehyeh asher ehyeh, I am what I am can also be translated as I shall be what I shall be. Even this future shall be is phrased as a present moment of clarity, being at another time in the future. The reading of this last paragraph, or any moment when you seek or take counsel, may not be producing the desired results for you. The reason? As you move through the experience, you are not fully present to it. Your mind is either holding on desperately to other past moments of your life, or you fear a moment yet to come. The Purpose of Now needs but one factor. A personal choice by you to be living for, and in the now. This is your choice point to be the greatest dierence in your own life, and by so being, being a decade of dierence in the life of others. This is now my purpose.

PURPOSE
The purpose for me now in life is love, Love unconditional is enough,...... is enough. The gift of receiving by hearing, And sharing with you now is gift enough. Walking Spirits chartered course, His never ending sustenance provided by accurate hearing, An instinctive freedom Resoundingly voiced by prayer lled intuition. Hearing the voice inside provides reective integrity, Giving clear eyes to Gods condence. Signed by my souls breath so deep with faithful fullness One choice of faithful fullness This moment a boundless, open cargo of Spirit So sure along that ragged coastline called past judgments, And the safe harbour of this utter open vulnerability Provides the greatest gift to me. It is Gods will that I do today. Listening gives me my chance to receive And then to know in the next second of my life. And in the dawn of this re-awakening My reactions to my Self are all that concern me, An instant that disintegrates the block of blame, Always resulting in Gods simple provision of forgiveness. And through these portals of forgiveness Shapes a heart of compassion. Compassion is the act of giving gracefully And giving gracefully is being of service And service is being as Jesus. And Christ being is my inner Light. My Light that can shine more bright with every breath of my soul. And in this light I rediscover what it is to receive love, Which is enough, ..................this is enough. Today I am more able to choose the Way And I Am.
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A very personal portrait. Choice Point: Align your Purpose

Harry Massey, acclaimed documentary maker, rst brought us The Living Matrix, and now here is a taste of more to come in this remarkable movie due to premier in March 2012. Watch this space as we will be following progress very closely. Filmmaker, musician and writer Nic Askew has produced a portfolio of astonishingly beautiful and unique short lms. This is Tim Freke talking about The Absurd Notion of One...not to be missed.
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FOUR YEARS. GO. is a campaign to change the course of history.

The next four years will determine the quality of life on this planet for the next 1,000 years. There is still time to act, but no time to waste. For more information go to http://www.fouryearsgo.org
The girl who silenced the world in 5 minutes. (Restored version with good sound quality).
This is an incredible video of a Canadian girl who spoke to the United Nations in 1992 and left them completely silent and speechless for six minutes. Her name is Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and her speech was given at a U.N. assembly in Brazil when she was twelve years old. She had raised all the money to travel to the delegation, ve thousand miles from her home, herself.
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Whats Wrong With Our Food System? THRIVE the movie, now out!
THRIVE lifts the veil on whats REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream -- uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE oers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future. An Internationally recognised speaker and youth advocate for sustainable food and agriculture, Birke Baehr has visited and worked at farms around the United States and recently returned from a stint on an organic farm in Italy. He has attended seminars with renowned farmer and author, Joel Salatin who has mentored Birke in his pursuit of new thinking about food and agriculture. Birke continues his education in this genre and expects to be a sustainable organic agriculturist in the future.
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We are all connected...

This is a great reminder for us to check in with our sole purpose and nd a direction.
2012 Maya Prophecy.

A sneak preview into the documentary lm Unication of Wisdom which journeys into the heart of Maya with Tzutujil Mayan elder Tata Pedro Cruz. Journey through the life of Tzutujil Maya elder Tata Pedro Cruz and follow him as he takes us through his life of tragedy, war, and cultural injustices, to where he is today which is that of sharing the ancient teachings of his culture with the youth of surrounding communities as well as taking the bold step to share and preserve his cultural teachings of the Mayan calendar and ceremony to the world, working to dispel the misinterpretations surrounding the Mayan culture.
EARTHDAYBRASIL LAUNCHES IN CHAPADA DOS GUIMARES WITH THE SPIRAL FOR PEACE SEPTEMBER 6,7,8, - 2012
hapada dos Guimares: EARTHDAYBRASIL, a threeday festival of music, dance, video, and environmental education, launches an inaugural festival this year in Chapada dos Guimares, Mato Grosso Brasil with 15,000 20,000 attendees per day. To kick o this spectacular event, festival organisers will open with the Lighting of the Spiral, using 5,000 7,500 people to simultaneously sing and raise laser sticks to the sky, creating a mammoth spiral of light and sound in the sand. A sound healing extravaganza, this ceremony is designed to create such strong vibrations from the chanting and drumming of carefully chosen notes that spiral leaders claim they will literally shake the earth and sand beneath the toes of participants and attendees. The vibrations of these notes, festival leaders say, will help heal the earth and bring peace to all beings living on it. Following the opening spiral ceremony, an array of musical talent, dancers, aboriginal singers and educational videos and lectures will be oered to attendees over a three day period. On the roster of talent for this event includes Ivete Sangalo, Rita Lee, Roberta Sa, Kid Abelha, and Gilberto Gil among others. (Please note that all the artists mentioned here are under consideration, conformation of each to be announced March
1st, 2012), Headliners, independent artists, and little known aboriginal groups will all come together from seven dierent continents and fteen (15) dierent countries. Traditional Brasilian dance and throat singing will be performed to support the performances. The full schedule of events includes a total of Twenty one (21) to Twenty Seven (27) performances including rst time showings of large screen documentaries from three environmental lmmakers and a special appearance by Jacque Cousteaus Granddaughter, Alexandra Cousteau, currently with National Geographic, and Marina Silva of Brasil, speaker on the environment.
Does Global Scaling inuence transformation...
DOES GLOBAL SCALING INFLUENCE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES IN OUR LIVES?

Words: Dr. Rainer Viehweger
In the Oxford English Dictionary we would read that transformation is a marked change in form, nature, or appearance of something.
volution on our planet, and the whole cosmos, is following a rule called Global Scaling. Sometimes changes like transformations of our thinking and behaviour are necessary to be in alignment with the cosmic laws. Every day energetic and informational impulses push us away from our life plan and we have to nd a way back to it. Sometimes we are travelling along a one way street where later we nd we have to change direction in a dramatic way in order to stay on course. Likewise, there are times when a shift in our behaviour is called for, but is it easy to recognise this and then make the shift? How can global scaling help with these changes? In the Oxford English Dictionary we would read that transformation is a marked change in form, nature, or appearance of something. On a theatrical stage, or even on the stage of life, transformation is a sudden, dramatic change of the scene, which is being played out. We can see that transformation is more or less a turbulent process in which a process in our life changes its direction, quality and it can even be that new properties appear as being more or less, very suddenly. Transformation in our life is a process, which is also closely related to our consciousness, insights or even dramatic events. When they happen to us they are able to guide our thoughts into another direction. Then we will become aware of new possibilities or interconnections between dierent things that we nd around us and that we are part of. Let us see how Global Scaling will inuence or help transformation processes in our life. Global Scaling is the most important informational rule in the universe: the arrangement of all matter, energy and information follows this rule with the running of time. There is only ONE vibration that exists in the universe and which is responsible for the Global Scaling phenomenon. It is the natural oscillation of a subatomic particle the well known proton (ancient Greek the rst). The life time of a proton is at least 1032 years this is simply for ever.
To create a universe like ours, such a super-stable internal clock is necessary. The natural oscillation is a frequency, which is event per time. The proton is the internal clock of the visible universe. We nd it in every atom of our body and all other things in the cosmos, which belong to the three dimensional world of space and the fourth dimension of time. The proton vibration therefore creates the local space with the where it vibrates. It also creates the local time with the how often and how long it vibrates. This is what we call reality. This is where we nd the interconnection between the timeless nonlocal and the local timed universe. This internal clock creates a timeless standing wave system throughout the universe with lots of so called oscillation nodes. But where transformation is concerned these oscillation nodes are of great interest. Look at the following graphic:
Here you can see the harmonic picture of our universe as we nd it in the timeless world. This gure is created by the natural harmonic vibration of our internal clock the proton. This gure is created by matter itself because matter consists of protons. If you are familiar with fractals, you will easily recognise that our universe is a self similar, fractal structure, because we can zoom into every part of the gure and will always nd the same structure, the same relations in dierent dimensions.
It is very important to know that this harmonic arrangement of all matter is only possible at the lowest energy level of their vibrations. The lowest energy level of a vibration of matter gives the identity to the things, to their self. Every other energy state of vibration we call excited. We know this from our daily life. If there is too much energy , for example stress in our body and mind, we have to cool down or calm down. Or we could say that there is one out of himself, which means that he has become energetically excited or stressed. Meditation, for example, helps also to get into the state of being on your own. This is a state of being in order. This order in our body is dependent on the proton vibrations, which our body consists of.
tendencies. At those places the evolution of a process changes because another attractional main node is starting to inuence the process or the attractional area of the previous node, which is left by the process. What do we call a process? For the moment we want to keep our focus on the running of time in our lives. Time is closely related to our internal clock, the proton. Its frequency is event per time. There is therefore a specic time period which is related to all processes where matter is included. When we are born the most important process in our life is starting at that time. Here we start our personal journey through the universe. There are lots of processes in the world. When a company is founded, it starts its process. When we look at the idea of founding a company we have another process. We marry and have a new family, another new process in our life. We can see that important events in our life will create new processes which are running with us through our life time. And time is always running from the start to the future, as you can see in the gure below (to take the other direction it would cost a lot of energy, so normally we walk the way into the future). On that way every process starts in a node and then passes through the spectrum where it meets other nodes, sub nodes, gaps and the edges of gaps. All these areas in the spectrum are related to specic times in the running of the process which we are able to know through the knowledge of Global Scaling.
To understand how we can use Global Scaling for transformation processes in our daily life it is important to know something about those vibrational nodes which are highlighted by the red arrows in the gure above. These nodes are created by the vibrations of matter itself. We talk about main nodes and sub nodes. They are attraction points. They are transforming, tendency change points. They help the following situations: physically they are phase shift points. Here we can see that a change in all properties of a process is easily possible, because we have a phase shift of 180. This means simply the opposite property of what was before. Turbulences will happen around this shift. The probability of uctuations and the density of events are high. This makes changes or transformations to be easier. Other areas in the spectrum of the proton resonances we call gaps. But the edges of the biggest gaps are of much more interest as they are where processes can also change their
Let us see the gure below and reect on the times which were highlighted in the graph.
You see the red numbers of 8, 37, 167 years of age of a process. Another one is 2 years which cannot be seen on this gure. Lets start with the main node of two years. We talk about a rhythm. If a process is about two years old, it starts to become turbulent and seems to like to change somehow. In life we experience those rhythms often. Very often we make contracts for two years when we feel that there will be a change in the future, and we feel that a good time to stay in one situation is two years. Good examples are job contracts. In the media we very often hear that a football coach has made a contract for two years. On the other side let us look at warranty periods. Earlier we had warranties of 6 months, which is also a main node in global scaling. The evolution of our product qualities went on and the warranty periods rose up to one year, then later to two years. Most household products fall into this period. The warranty period depends on the expected lifetime of the product. What we use here is the experience that a product will work ne in the rst two years, so it is logical to give a warranty for this time span. After two years the situation changes. We know that after this time a product can fail every time, but mostly it would work for up to 5 years. Then it leaves the attraction of the two year main node. Other processes change later. We look at the main node of 8 years. In industries good products are often produced for 8 years before they change dramatically. Then we often talk about a new generation of things. We have a big step or jump in evolution. Today our cars get better and better and their life span increases. The rst car producing companies start with warranties of up to 7 years, this will go for the next few years until most companies then have an 8 year warranty. We can nd other 8 years rhythms. Another interesting process is our life. We change after periods of time. When we talk about the inuence of Global Scaling it is important to note that we talk about a spectrum, which means, that most participants will follow this rule, but not everybody and we will not know before, which one. Up to the age of 8 we are small children. We can play a lot and our main issue is to grow. This is the compression part of this node. Look at a child around the 8th birthday. The child is doing a lot of things, but it is hard to inuence from outside, because in the little body big changes happen. It is like a waterfall; if you drop a small stone into it you will not see a big reaction. Once we go beyond the age of 8, things change. We move into the spreading part of the node. At school we have learn how we will behave as adults. The teens are coming. We start to decide
which profession we will choose for our life. At the age of 22 the attraction of the 8 years node ends. Then another point for change is reached - we have the big gap. Here from the age of 22 to 25 we are able to learn a lot. After 25 most people have nished their school years and start to work in the attraction of the 37 years main node. In this age we start our carriers, have found a family, and help our children to grow. At the age of 37 there is often another change, as our children become more independent and so demand less of our time, our interests start to change. We want to live our life more consciously. The time of intense learning is over; we begin to move into higher more responsible positions in our companies, and this the way life goes on. At the age of 61 there is another interesting point, when people are retired but dont have any time! We could say much more here. It should be an illustration of short periods of lifetime of any kind of processes where the possibility of change is bigger than in other periods. The conscious knowledge of these periods can help the understanding of what is happening with us, and around us, and gives us the opportunity to make transformations consciously, in an easy way, with the lowest energy requirement. At the end we just want to highlight that there are lots of rhythms in the universe, but these proton resonance rhythms are very important. I know that the understanding of Global Scaling is very complex and it can take years to grasp what it is all about, but it is very interesting and helpful for the mastering of the future. For further reading on this subject please visit: http://www. manavibes.com/ Dr. Rainer Viehwegers new book Understanding the Universe through Global Scaling will be available very soon! To order your copy of Understanding the Universe Through Global Scaling by seeing the world with new eyes ISBN: 978-0-9570579-1-3, which is just about to be released, please register your interest to orderseu@neshealth.com with Understanding the Universe as the subject heading.
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Serves 4 INGREDIENTS
100g Brussels sprouts 25g cream cheese (*use vegan cream cheese) 12 small clove garlic, crushed 1 scant tsp horseradish (from a jar) (*use vegan horseradish) To taste salt and pepper
SPRING RECIPES TO NURTURE YOUR SOUL
pring is in the air and with it comes the delicate avours of young fresh vegetables and salads. The Vegetarian Society has kindly compiled a host of ideas to tempt your taste buds! For more information and a full index of recipes please visit https://www.vegsoc.org/
BRUSSELS SPROUTS AND HORSERADISH PAT

METHOD
1. Trim sprouts and steam until soft. Remove from heat and allow to cool. 2. In a food processor, blend Brussels sprouts with garlic. Add remaining ingredients and blend again until smooth. 3. Place in fridge for 30-45 minutes before serving. 4. Shape either into 1 dessertspoon oval per person or three teaspoon size ovals per person. Plate individually with a little dressed salad and 3 toast triangles per plate topped with a small amount of grated radish or sprinkles of red paprika. *Can be vegan
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TO SERVE:
3 toast triangles per person A little dressed leaf salad (include some red leaf for colour) A little grated radish or a sprinkle of red paprika
Serves 4
TANGY LEEK AND GINGER SOUP
Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes
METHOD:
1. Remove any tough outer leaves from the leeks and top and tail. Leave as much dark green as possible. Cut horizontally into thin slices, rinse well. 2. Melt the margarine and gently saut the leeks for 5 minutes until soft, then add the garlic and saut for a further 30 seconds. Add the potato and stock. Bring to the boil then simmer for about 10 minutes. 3. Remove from the heat and add 4 tbsp ginger wine and the soya cream. Liquidize until smooth, adding more ginger wine and seasoning if needed at the end. 4. Return to the saucepan and gently heat without boiling, stirring all the time. Serve garnished with a sprinkling of paprika.
INGREDIENTS:
450g leeks (about 2 medium) 25g soya margarine 2 small cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 100g potato, peeled and diced 600ml light coloured vegetable stock 5 7 tbsp ginger wine, according to taste 6 tbsp soya cream salt and pepper to taste, paprika to garnish
The Vegetarian Society, recipe created by Marise Maddison. Visit www.vegsoc.org for more recipes.
Recipes
FOR THE FILLING:
1 garlic, whole and unpeeled 100g bunch asparagus, chopped into 2 pieces 4 baby sweetcorn, chopped into 2 pieces 25g soya margarine 25g unbleached our 180g soya milk 45ml vegetarian white wine 50g ground pine nuts, roasted 1 tsp mustard 1 handful fresh, at leaf parsley, chopped. (reserve a few parsley leaves for garnish)
METHOD
1. To make the watercress sauce: Heat the margarine, fry the spring onions until soft. Add stock and bring to the boil, simmer for 5 minutes. 2. Add watercress, boil for 15 seconds, then remove from heat. Season. Cool, then blend. 3. To assemble pithiviers: Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 4/180C/350F. Place the ready rolled pastry, folded on a lightly oured board and cut out 4 rounds with a 13cm/ 5inch plain cutter. Place the pastry rounds on a greased baking sheet, brush with soya milk and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
ASPARAGUS PITHIVIERS
Serves 4 INGREDIENTS FOR THE PITHIVIERS:
225g pkt ready rolled pu pastry sheet 1 tbsp soya milk (for the glaze) 25g sesame seeds Watercress Sauce 25g soya margarine 3 spring onions 300ml vegetable stock 2 bunches watercress Salt and freshly ground pepper
4. Place in the oven for 15 minutes until well-risen and golden brown. Set aside and keep warm. Filling: Roast the garlic in the oven for about 10 minutes, then remove them from their skins. Set aside. Steam the asparagus and the sweetcorn. Set aside. 5. In a saucepan heat the margarine, sprinkle with the our and cook the roux for 2 minutes stirring continually. Remove from the heat and add the soya milk. Continue stirring. Place back on the heat and continue to stir until the sauce thickens. 6. Stir in the wine, cook for 2 minutes, then remove from the heat. Mix together the pine nuts, mustard and roasted garlic and add to the sauce, beating constantly. Add the parsley and the vegetables. 7. Cut the pastry cases horizontally in half and remove the pastry inside. Spoon the vegetable mixture into the pastry base and top with the pastry lids. Serve the pithivier on an individual serving plate with the heated watercress sauce.
Copyright The Vegetarian Society 2000.
VEGGIE SAUSAGE CASSEROLE

Serves 4 INGREDIENTS
112lb/675g potatoes, peeled and cubed 2tbsp vegetable oil 1 medium onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 bay leaf 2tsp/30ml thyme 1 cooking apple, cubed 1lb/450g carrots, sliced 1 packet veggie sausages 10oz/275g chopped tinned tomatoes 1 vegetable stock cube, dissolved in 12pt boiling water 1tbsp/15ml tomato pure salt and pepper
METHOD
1. Put potatoes in a pan full of water and boil for 5 minutes. (They need to be still quite rm). Keep on one side. 2. Heat the oil in a large pan and fry onions for 2 minutes. Add garlic, bay leaf and thyme and fry for a further 2 minutes. 3. Add carrots, apple and sausages and fry gently. 4. Add tomatoes, stock and tomato pure. Bring to the boil and then simmer for 15 minutes. 5. Add potatoes and simmer gently for a further 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. This can be served on its own with some nice crusty bread The Vegetarian Society (recipe created by the Cordon Vert cookery school) www.vegsoc.org.
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CURLY KALE AND POTATO CAKE

Serves 4
Prep Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 45 mins mashing or putting through a potato ricer. 2. Saute the leek and kale in half the butter until soft. Add the spices and cook for a further 2 minutes. 3. Mix together the potato, vegetables, mustard, egg yolk and crme fraiche in a large bowl, and then form into 4 large cakes (or 8 small ones). 4. Heat the remaining butter in a large non-stick frying pan and gently cook the potato cakes on both sides until dark golden and crispy. 5. Top the cakes with the cheese and place under a hot grill until melting. Serve with a shredded white cabbage and carrot salad (or as a side dish with veggie sausages). This recipe is one of twelve mouth-watering, monthly recipes, included in Season to Taste a collection of recipes using seasonal and locally sourced produce and is available free of charge by calling 0161 925 2000.
The Vegetarian Society (recipe created by the Cordon Vert cookery school) www.vegsoc.org.
INGREDIENTS
500g baking potatoes, peeled, cut into large pieces 200g trimmed leek(s) nely chopped 75g curly kale, nely shredded 50g butter 2 tsp caraway seeds 1 tsp paprika 3 tsp wholegrain mustard 2 medium free range egg yolks 2 tbsp crme fraiche 100g vegetarian Applewood smoked cheddar, thinly sliced
METHOD
1. Bring the potatoes to boil in a medium sized saucepan and then simmer slowly for 30 minutes until cooked. Drain and dry slightly in the pan before
Recipes
FAST FRUITY CRUMBLE

Serves 4
Getting ready: Cooking time: 5 minutes 25 minutes
INGREDIENTS
1 packet frozen fruit (e.g. summer fruits or raspberries) 2 tablespoons sugar 1 handful porridge oats 1 tablespoon desiccated coconut 1 tablespoon golden syrup 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180C / Gas mark 5. Grease an ovenproof dish with a little of the oil. 2. Put the frozen fruit into the dish. Sprinkle a tablespoon of sugar over and stir it into the fruit. 3. Mix together the oats, leftover sugar and coconut in a bowl. Put the oil and golden syrup into a saucepan and gently melt. Then mix with the oat mixture and sprinkle over the fruit. 4. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes until the fruit is starting to ooze through the oats. Remove from the oven and serve straight away or leave until cool. The topping will be crunchy if served hot.
YOU COULD ALSO TRY...

- A dollop of thick cream or ice cream on the side. - Using chopped hazelnuts or walnuts instead of coconut.
The Vegetarian Society www.vegsoc.org.

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