Sep 28, 2008

NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina Vancouver’s healthy food festival, Taste of Health, has become a welcome September tradition. It’s a fun, inexpensive way for families to spend a day or weekend. It’s also a great way for vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike to sample healthy foods and discover how small, dietary changes will impact climate...

Sep 28, 2008

ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot Since the dawn of agriculture, edible plants that thrive in the bioregion in which they grow have been domesticated through plant breeding. Traditionally, local farmers were the stewards of these seeds, passing them on from harvest to harvest. Knowledge garnered over 10,000 years meant farmers were well qualified to select...

Sep 28, 2008

THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle When you are fully present and people around you manifest unconscious behavior, you won’t feel the need to react to it, so you don’t give it any reality. Your peace is so vast and deep that anything that is not peace disappears into it as if it had never existed. This breaks the karmic cycle of action and...

Sep 28, 2008

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young Love begins at home and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action. – Mother Teresa Love is a very pure form of energy but when filtered through the prism of ego, it can become distorted and even contaminated. While great harm has been done in the name of love, it had nothing to do with...

Sep 28, 2008

documentary screenings at the Vancouver Internationlal Film Festival FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead Among the 100 or so documentaries at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival (September 25-October 10) is the first-rate Secrecy. The film looks at how, under the auspices of national security, US state secrecy has expanded to the point...