Connection Magazine July 2015 Issue

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Shared Adventures 23rd Annual

Day on the Beach - July 18

• UN Agenda 21 . . . Advancing Worldwide! - pgs 22 & 23 • KIDS Camps - pg 20 • Spotlight on . . . Scientific Hand Analysis - pg 6 KSCO’s Flight 1080 - pg 7 • Vaccines . . .really?? - pgs 8, 10 & 11 • Earthing - pg 28 • Reggae on the River - pgs 2 & 36 • Monsanto - pg 31 & 32 • Save Our Skies - pg 33 • MARRIAGE . . . the law of the land!! - pg 25 • Medicinal HEIRLOOM Herbs/Flowers - pg 35

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Feature Index

Arts & Entertainment ........................... 36 & 37 Astrology ........................................................ 40 Awareness .................................................26-30 The Billboard .................................................. 24 Thriving Business ........................................4-5 The News .......................................................... 8 Compassion Flower Resource Guide ...... 41-43 Dining Delights .............................................. 31 Essential Living Guide ............. 14,15,26,27,29 Fitness & Sports ............................................ 17 Green Business Directory ............................ 33

RAYMOND MOODY, PHD Raymond is the best-selling author of twelve books including Life After Life—which has sold over 13 million copies world wide—and Reunions, as well as numerous articles in academic and professional literature. Dr. Moody continues to capture enormous public interest and generate controversy with his ground-breaking research. He earned an M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia— his dual background in medicine and philosophy informs his work in death, grief, and the survival of consciousness. Learn more about Raymond Moody at www.lifeafterlife.com

NIKOLA RISTIC, PHD Nikola is a contemporary philosopher and a spiritual teacher. After getting his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Belgrade and his Ph.D in philosophy from the University of South Carolina, Ristic explored trans-rational and trans-egoic realms of existence. He uses traditional and contemporary means to awaken both our minds and our spirits, drawing from various philosophical systems and spiritual traditions. In addition to lecturing, Ristic offers talks, workshops, satsang and private sessions. Find out out more about Nikola Ristic at www.anandamali.com

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Healthy Appearance ....................................... 18 Healthy Planet ............................................ 32-35 Diversity .......................................................... 25 Martial Arts...................................................... 16 Massage / Bodywork ...................................... 14 Movies ............................................................. 37 Music .............................................................. 37 Parenting, Kids & Education ......................... 20 Pet / Animal Health .......................................... 21 Radiation Protection ........................Will Return Rave Reviews ................................................... 24 Agenda 21 Theme ...................................... 22-23 Spirit ..................................................................39 Travel & Fun .................................................... 19 Wonderful Women ............................Will Return Yoga .................................................................. 15 The Connection Magazine is for educational purposes only. We do not necessarily recommend the specific remedies, exercises, treatments or activities, etc. summarized. Please consult with your personal health care provider to find out what is appropriate for you.

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ties, might never have the opportunity to participate in ocean sports such as kayaking, outrigger canoeing, scuba diving, water floatation, and beach wheelchair rides. For the first time, Day on the Beach activities will also include an adaptive climbing wall from “Mobile Climb USA�. In order to enable those with mobility issues to travel over the sand to enjoy the beach, generous volunteers lay down over 200 pieces of plywood frames and create a unique 7,600+ square foot event. Live entertainment will perform at the beach throughout the day. This year Day on the Beach will feature the group “Magic Makers�, a Santa Clara band comprised Photo by Sienne Hayes of members with developmental challenges. Also peris a non-profit organization that is forming will be dance troupe “Aerial dedicated to improving the quality of Arts Santa Cruz� and “Jim Lewin & life of people living with disabilities Edge of the West�. through inclusive recreation. Foster Andersen, Founder and This event creates an opportuni- Executive Director of Shared Adventy for those who, due to their disabili- tures said, “It amazes me to see so

many people come together from all over the state to come to this event and share the beautiful ocean we here! And when experts in ocean sports can bring people with special needs out Kayaking, Outrigger Canoeing and SCUBA it really is heartwarming and lots of life changing experiences go along with it.�

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Community involvement is the key to this event’s success; hundreds of volunteers are needed and are requested to pre-register online at www.SharedAdventures.org/dayonthebeach. Volunteers are needed for all tasks in various time slots between 7am – 6pm, including setup, meeting and greeting participants, lunch service, assisting with ocean activities, registration, and breakdown.

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participants were great and very patient with the volunteers.” This event serves 300+ persons with disabilities, plus their caregivers, friends, and families to bringing together over 1,000 people for this spectacular beach party. Shared Adventures expects to provide over 60 kayak trips, 50 outrigger trips, 30 scuba diving dips, 20 floatation excursions and 20 beach wheelchair rides. All activities are free; Day on the Beach is fully funded by grants and generous donors.

Photo by Sienne Hayes • Fun, personal growth, development, and self-confidence • Cooperation and decision-making skills • Outdoor skills and environmental awareness Shared Adventures offers a year-round calendar of events which includes adventure

Lasting Impact:

The effects of this event are immense and its reputation and popularity have grown to enormous proportions throughout Northern California. When sitting in the front seat of a tandem kayak or floating in SCUBA equipment, what many able-bodied persons would consider a routine day on the water enables challenged participants to experience unique sight and sound sensations that they would otherwise never know.

The following quote is an excerpt from a letter written by a participant:

“I just want to say thank you for the wonderful time I had at the “Day on the Beach” in July. It was a very important day for me because of so many “firsts” occurring. It was the first

Photo by Steve Mandel sports such as kayaking, archery, horseback riding, and sailing, in addition to social events such as dance parties, movie screening, game nights, and picnics. In 2014, Shared Adventures accommodated over 2,500 participants with special needs with the help of over 400 volunteers.

Public is invited and volunteers are needed all day.

Photo by Steve Lawson time I had ever been in the ocean, the first time scuba diving and the first time surfing. From the faces around me, I guessed many others were having as remarkable a day. Thank you again, to you and to the outstanding volunteers for such an instructive, self-assuring and most importantly, joyful event.”

Shared Adventures History:

Established in 1994 on the belief that recreation, fun, challenge and access to the outdoors are an essential part of a fulfilling life, Shared Adventure’s goal is to offer opportunities for social and recreational interaction for disabled people, and thereby encourage:

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Elizabeth Martina Bishop Selected Poems 1987-2015 The most comprehensive overview of her metaphysically inspired work published to date

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The poems in this collection represent a distillation of Bishop's works and showcase her sense of humor, as well as her whimsical approach to the art of writing poetry. While the parameters of her wide ranging poetic style are influenced by ‘sound poetry’ and her affection for performance art, she stands in favor of the idea that poetry may return us to a spiritual place that invokes a ravishing journey of inner awareness, peace, and soulful contemplation. Read her article and learn more in the July 2015 issue of The Connection Magazine.

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Scientific Hand Analysis The 3 Components of your Soul Psychology are revealed through Scientific Hand Analysis What is Hand Analysis?

Hand Analysis is the modern, scientific based form of the ancient art of palmistry. Whereas, palmistry is defined as foretelling the future from the lines of your palm, hand analysis seeks to further self-understanding through the examination of the entirety of your hands. To have your hands read is to stare deep into the truth mirror, to stand revealed before your very eyes. A hand reading shows you who you are today and who you can be at your best. The hand analyst examines the overall shape of the palm and fingers to determine basic temperament, the thumb to see how you get things “under your thumb,” and the twelve zones of the fingers to see personality strengths and challenges. The lines of the palms are examined to determine basic wiring: the type of emotional system you have, what kind of computer you possess, which nervous system type you are, etc. Talents and hidden motivations are revealed. Both hand shape and lines change over time, but fingerprints remain unaltered from five months prior to birth. By comparing the original imprint revealed in your fingerprints with the dynamic map of your personality and character shown in the lines and hand topography, a hand reading gives perspective to your current circumstances in relation to the big picture of your life story.

What is Soul Psychology?

Soul Psychology is a model for understanding a person’s core nature and differs markedly from standard psychology. What would make you feel this has been a life well lived, that you are not wasting your time on this planet? What is your Life Purpose?

What are your Life Lessons? Good questions, Soul Psychology questions. Personality psychology can help improve behavior and outcomes, but it

3) School: the particular lens that you see all of the circumstances of your life through. Like the climate, it’s always there. It is a life-scale training program that can also be so vital to master that it may be your Life Purpose or your Life Lesson.

Why should this matter to you?

Tina Burgan is Soul psychology that engages the soul level, addressing the hunger for meaning, deep in the center of one’s being.

Your Soul Psychology consists of three components:

1) Life Purpose: that which brings satisfaction at the deepest possible level. More than a set of goals, beyond right livelihood, your Life Purpose is your Right Life, an ongoing connection to a personal directive. It is your highest potential expressing itself naturally and powerfully in all you do, always seeking expression. To know your Life Purpose is to understand the significance of past events and current circumstances unfolding. 2) Life Lesson: the biggest challenge, the part of you that needs the most practice and patience to master. It is your least evolved skill on a spiritual and practical level. It is the part of yourself you wish you didn’t have and that you try to avoid because there’s so much uncomfortable work to be done to become aware of it and learn to exalt it.

Your fingerprints are uniquely characteristic of the one-and-only you there will ever be. They are your soul’s physical impression; encoded, fully and unalterably formed 5 months prior to your birth. Your fingerprints contain your soul’s imprint. The structure of your fingerprints tell you who you are. They are your own personal map to meaning and fulfillment, your instruction manual for life. I can assist you in decoding your Soul Psychology. As your hand analyst, I look at your fingerprints as the acorn, the seed of what you can become, as well as the challenges that you will face in order to step into your highest potential. An acorn has to grow into an oak tree. Humans live in the realm of free will and can choose out of their potential. I invite you to use those amazing hands you have to dial (650) 7996950 or email tiburg@sbcglobal.net to set up a reading today. Tina Burgan’s first exposure to Life Purpose Hand Analysis was listening to Richard Unger speak several years ago. His message percolated for a while, she had a reading and fell head over hands in love with the art and science of scientific hand analysis. She reads hands, loves to travel, reads more hands, loves to cook and eat, reads more hands, dowses and is working towards her Masters Hand Analyst certification through the International Institute of Hand Analysis.

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Whether the story happened this way or not, life as we travelers know it was fated from the first to change. History has our lives turned around. The words of the traveling way of life has been split open while floating in the black and blue seed caskets that the wind has split open. We have been scattered all over the roads leading to the Holy Shrines of Ireland at Knock, at Loch Derg, etc. “That’s the why I see Himself and the Saints abroad in the sky asking is it true how the first traveler was born on the side of the road. It is who I am myself will tell the story through the eyeholes of time and it is who I am myself that reveals the voices of the other travelers. We need to learn how the welts of the words are pressed together in the sparks of an anvil, words, passed down that does be important to everybody walking the width of Widow Green’s Long Acre. Like myself who has settled down, half of them have gone out of

Elizabeth Martina Bishop it now. But the attitude of the traveler toward the traveling way of life and toward the livestock and the horses and such like will never change. No matter what spike, what halt, in a house, or on the roads, being on the road is as good today as it ever was since the Highland Clearances and the Potato Continues on Next Page

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Continued from Previous Page Famine. And the thoughts are there with you till you look the way for to pass on and the echo of the syllables of what your right name is never bell-chimed nor heard or repeated on the lips of any of your sweet relatives belonging to you. That’s part of it. That nothing ever changes even though it seems time is changing and an old way of life is dying out and gone to the blazes of

hellfire forever. Still that’s not the truth! That’s not the God’s truth! Elizabeth Martina Bishop writes prose poems, prose, essays and short stories and is currently undergoing the acquisition of a second doctorate in women and spirituality at CIIS/ San Francisco. She also blogs for Patheos.com, a religion and spirituality site.

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Did you know that your Life Purpose is encoded in your fingerprints 5 months prior to your birth? Do you feel fulfillment and meaning in your life, or do you often feel thwarted in your progress? What could you be and do if you really understood your Soul Psychology and purpose?

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Because of her immune suppression, once the disease developed, she did not experience the characteristic measles rash. Instead, she developed pneumonia. The actual cause of the woman’s illness was only revealed after she had been hospitalized at a second medical facility, died, and underwent an autopsy: the cause of death was pneumonia secondary to measles, not the measles encephalitis that kills patients in many developing countries. So, a patient who is fully vaccinated against measles is given drugs that suppress her immune system, is exposed to measles in a medical facility, contracts the measles virus because of her immune suppression but no one realizes it because she never develops a rash, and dies of a complication that is extremely rare in developed countries. And, now her death is being used as a cudgel to get more people to become vaccinated? How does that make any sense? Perhaps, they should consider developing a vaccine that will supposedly prevent the 128,000 deaths (or the 1.9 million hospitalizations) each year from FDA-approved drugs! http://tinyurl.com/q7l5ddc. Printed with permission.

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I believe in living life with no regrets. When we make decisions from a place of authenticity, when we listen to our inner compass for guidance, check our fear, then we have done the best that we could have done. If it ends up being a mistake, then look at that as an opportunity, and own it. Move on. In fact, many times, our most tragic life events lead us somewhere expansively grand. This untethered existence is challenged by a simple fact, these days: the Pharmaceutical industry has co-opted our maternal inner compass. They, in partnership with media, have grabbed onto our natural tendency to worry about the welfare of our children, and they have tempted us with a shiny apple. Visiting again and again until we relent. And here we create fertile soil for regret. Every day, in my office, I have women expressing poignant remorse, shame, and rage because they trusted their Pharma-pushing doctor instead of trusting themselves, trusting in the inherent potential of the body to be well, to heal, to surmount seeming obstacles. No cohort of women are more lionized than those who have lost their

daughters to a vaccine promoted to save them from a disease they were never going to get. The HPV vaccine. This issue activates my primal feminism, my perception that I am here on this earth to help guard what is sacred about women and their children. But, we don’t have to recruit emotion to sound a blaring alarm about what is going on here.

Let’s just stick to the science, shall we? The Fear They’re Selling: Cervical Cancer

What is your likelihood of developing cervical cancer? And if you do develop it, is it a death sentence? In the marketing and licensure of the HPV vaccine, changes to cervical cells have been equated with death. This is called using a “surrogate marker” and in vaccine research, this is considered acceptable because we can’t otherwise prove a non-event is attributable to an intervention. There are leaps in logic and in science inherent in this practice, that render conclusions nothing more than false marketing. In fact, none of the HPV vaccines have ever been proven to prevent a single case of cervical cancer. Don’t take my word for it, listen to what Diane Harper, one of the lead researchers for the vaccine, and a whistleblower, has to say: “It is silly to mandate vaccination of 11to 12-year-old girls There also is not enough

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evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is not an issue. This vaccine has not been tested in little girls for efficacy. At 11, these girls don’t get cervical cancer – they won’t know for 25 years if they will get cervical cancer. ...To mandate now is simply to Merck’s benefit, and only to Merck’s benefit.” You can also consult her subsequent research that demonstrates no added protection above and beyond the Pap smear. Combined pap smear and HPV vaccination have not been demonstrated to improve outcomes above Pap screening alone, and a recent review states, “Pap screening will still be required in vaccinated women hence HPV vaccination programs are not cost-effective, and may do more harm than good, in countries where regular Pap screening and surgery has already reduced the burden of this disease.”

We already have something, with no side effects, that works.

The cervical cancer diagnosis rate in the United States is 7.9/100,000. Given that only 5% of HPV infections progress to neoplasia (CIN) and that 91% of early stage cases resolve spontaneously within 36 months, with 70% of CIN 1 and 54% of CIN 2 cases doing the same within 12 months, using these pathologies as surrogate markers for cancer incidence represents a scientific shortcoming. Built on this house of cards, and defying pre-existing FDA criteria for fast-tracked approval, Gardasil was brought to market in 6 months and is now one of our great human experiments. Several countries including Japan, France, and India have banned and/or filed criminal lawsuits about Gardasil, but, as Americans, not only are the “one less” commercials still running, but the latest and greatest version of Gardasil is now available.

Why A New & Improved Model?

When we mess with nature, it fights back. We all know that antibiotics are responsible for increasingly virulent and deadly strains of bacteria. Well, it’s a similar story when you force viruses to respond to vaccine-level perterbations. This is called serotype replacement or forced strain evolution. This means that when we trigger highly unnatural immune responses to specific strains, the other existing strains become stronger. This is why and how we went from 7 to 13 strains of Prevnar and from 4 to 9 strains of Gardasil. In a study just out, entitled, Comparison of HPV prevalence between HPV-vaccinated and non-vaccinated young adult women (20-26 years), the perils of vaccination are revealed. Is the vaccine-based effect a desirable long-term outcome? This study would argue otherwise, concluding: “...vaccinated women had a higher prevalence of nonvaccine high-risk types than unvaccinated women (61.5% vs 39.7%, prevalence ratio 1.55, 95% CI 1.22-1.98).” Here we have a vaccine creating the need for another vaccine, just as has happened with chicken pox and shingles vaccines. Employing the usual tactics of a vaccine “placebo” and distributing a small sample over many areas (600 participants per location), Gardasil 9 is brought to us with a whopping dose of viral antigen, and a mind-crushing dose of aluminum – 1,500mcg per 3 recommended doses. It is brought to us without even review by the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. Slipped onto the market.

Who Cares About Aluminum?

I do. And I’m not talking about what you’re wrapping your leftovers in. I am talking about bypassing intestinal barriers and securing 100% absorption through injection of this known

neurotoxin into your daughter’s body.

A recent report simply states: “Aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications and may thus have profound and widespread adverse health consequences.” Once thought to be efficiently cleared from the body, it has been known since 2001 that aluminum “biopersists”. Gherardi et al. state: “We previously showed that poorly biodegradable aluminum-coated particles injected into muscle are promptly phagocytosed in muscle and the draining lymph nodes, and can disseminate within phagocytic cells throughout the body and slowly accumulate in brain.” One of my intellectual heroes, Dr. Suzanne Humphries, explores Dr. Kawahara’s research positing all of the ways that aluminum is a “death factor” for humans in a compelling video lecture. The list is long and growing.

What Could Happen?

Well, you could be one less. And not in the way that Merck means it. You could die in the prime of your young life, as these women have. But, more likely you could develop a chronic and debilitating autoimmune condition, primary ovarian failure, or bizarre neurological impairments such as the now documented POTS syndrome. I personally have seen patients with new onset mania and psychosis, as well as debilitating and treatment resistant depression.

Even the package insert itself declares a rate of 2.5% serious adverse events, and that is only within the 15 day trial monitoring period. That’s 2,500 life-altering events per 100,000 women. Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD, poses this important question:

“Is it ethical to put young women at risk of death or a disabling autoimmune disease at a pre-adolescent age for a vaccine that has not yet prevented a single case of cervical cancer, a disease that may develop 20-30 years after exposure to HPV, when the same can be prevented with regular Pap screening which carries no risks.” Given this, it is all the more harrowing that we are living in a legislative climate that puts profits before our children’s health. In many states across the nation, bills are hitting the floor that seek to eliminate the ethical principle of informed consent by allowing children as young as 12 to receive the HPV vaccine without parental oversight.

Inform yourself, find your compass, so that you can be one less woman, wishing she had only known more.

Dr. Brogan is boarded in Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine/Reproductive Psychiatry and Integrative Holistic Medicine, and practices Functional Medicine, a root-cause approach to illness as a manifestation of multiple-interrelated systems. After studying Cognitive Neuroscience at M.I.T., and receiving her M.D. from Cornell University, she completed her residency and fellowship at Bellevue/NYU. She is one of the nation’s only physicians with perinatal psychiatric training who takes a holistic evidence-based approach in the care of patients with a focus on environmental medicine and nutrition. She is also a mom of two, and an active supporter of women’s birth experience. She is the Medical Director for Fearless Parent, and an advisory board member for GreenMedInfo.com. http://tinyurl.com/kdpmlub Printed with permission.

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The #1 WORST Food that HARMS Your Brain

Some foods you might be eating daily can actually DAMAGE your brain over time. In this article, we’ll explore foods that HARM your brain vs foods that PROTECT your brain.

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Also note that agave syrup (aka, agave nectar) which is marketed as a “healthy” sweetener as well, is one of the most concentrated forms of processed fructose in sweeteners as well. I personally stay away from agave sweeteners as much as possible unless the amounts are very small. All of these fructoseladen foods and drinks are easy to avoid though if you choose to eat consciously... for example, make homemade salad dressings from your favorite olive oil and vinegar with added spices, or choose to drink unsweetened iced tea with lemon instead of sweetened drinks or juices. If you use a lot of ketchup, try to reduce the quantity by mixing with mustard or hot sauce, which typically don’t contain HFCS sweetener in any significant quantities. Last thing to note about fructose... Yes, natural whole fruits do contain fructose, but generally contain MUCH smaller quantities of fructose than you would consume in a sweetened juice drink, soft drink or sweetened junk foods. Also, the phytonutrients, antioxidants, and fiber that’s contained in most whole fruits counteracts any negative effects of fructose. I personally try to keep fruit intake to no more than 1-2 pieces a day due to the sugar and fructose content of larger amounts of fruit. Here’s a trick: Did you know that limes and lemons contain virtually zero fructose, and only 3-4 grams of total carbs in a whole lemon or lime, whereas a typical orange contains 6 grams of fructose and 25 grams of total sugar per fruit. I squeeze lemons and limes daily into either water or teas for a healthy flavorful drink. Fresh lemon juice has even been shown to control blood sugar response from a meal...another bonus! Other Foods that HARM Your Brain: You probably already know some of the harmful health effects of these foods, but long term effects on your brain are yet another... Trans fats — strongly inflammatory in your entire body including damage to cell membranes throughout your body. Avoid hydrogenated oils in processed foods and deep fried foods. Mercury — studies show that mercury from pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source of mercury pollution to air and water) and from fish that are high on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative effects on your brain. Limit these types of fish to a couple times a month and focus more on fish such as salmon, trout, and many other types of smaller fish to reduce your mercury load. Wheat-based foods -- In the groundbreaking book, Wheat Belly, Dr William Davis makes a very convincing argument that wheat has Page 13

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by Mike Geary — Certified Nutrition Specialist irst, the BAD NEWS... Certain foods you eat can indeed harm your brain, both in impaired learning ability as well as impaired memory. Even worse, the wrong food and drink choices throughout your life can even lead to the terrible and deadly disease of Alzheimers. A friend of mine just told me that her dad died of Alzheimers recently and it was just a terrible disease where he didn’t even know who she was anymore towards the end. It’s time our society starts taking degenerative diseases like Alzheimers, cancer, and heart disease more seriously throughout our lives, and not just once it’s too late. Even in our 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, the choices we make with our daily food can PREVENT these terrible diseases. So let’s dig in with the topic today of foods that harm your brain, and what you can do about it... Food #1 that HARMS your brain: Fructose In a 2012 UCLA study published in the Journal of Physiology, researchers found that a diet high in fructose over time can damage your memory and learning ability. Beyond the harm to your brain, it’s well known in the research world that a high fructose diet can also cause insulin resistance in your body over time, and possibly lead to type-2 diabetes and extra body fat. If that’s not enough, a high fructose diet also detrimentally affects your triglyceride levels in your blood as well as small dense LDL particles that cause plaque in your arteries. So what we have here is high-fructose intake = impaired memory and learning in your brain, increased risk of diabetes, and increased risk of heart disease. Oh, and we forgot to mention extra belly fat too... Yum - who wants another can of soda pop or a large bowl of corn syrup sweetened ice cream! The average person eating a modern western diet of processed food consumes a LARGE quantity of fructose without even thinking about it from all of the soft drinks (high fructose corn syrup typically), sweetened juice drinks, orange juice, processed junk foods such as cakes and candies, as well as the HFCS that’s added to store-bought salad dressings, breads and cereals, and even condiments like ketchup. Note that many sports drinks, even though marketed as “healthy”, can have large amounts of corn syrup or even crystalline fructose as their main sweetener. These sports drinks can be equally as bad as a soda for your body and your brain. Don’t be fooled by the clever marketing showing pictures of pro athletes guzzling this stuff.

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1. Receiving a massage can alleviate chronic pain.

This may seem obvious, but there are many people out there who live with chronic back, shoulder and neck issues. Massages can reduce the causes of this pain, which can be a healthier and more holistic approach than reaching for synthetic drugs or other forms of pain relief.

2. Massages promote better sleep.

Many people struggle with falling asleep or staying asleep. When we get a massage, it not only reduces tension in the muscles, but it can also change our hormone levels in such a way that allows for more profound relaxation to arise. Massage therapy has been linked to increased delta waves in the brain, which are connected to deeper, more restful sleep.

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From technique we bridge to intent. The word ‘Yi,’ meaning intention, is a stacked character of three parts. On top we have “to stand,� picturing a man with a straddle stance. The middle figure is “heart/mind,� a single concept in Chinese. The third symbolizes a mouth. If the mind and speech are congruent and the man stands by this, his intent is clear. When the intent is focused, clear and refined then strategy arises. There is a common sense need for strategy. We live in a world of feints and fakes. The message of strategy is that we need not be victims; we can hope because we can assess and plan. Even having the courage to want to defend yourself is a daily act of resistance greater than a hundred kicks. What, finally, do we mean by martial arts? A joyful seriousness, like the furrowed brow of a young child at play. Joyful, because of its great benefits and expression; serious, because life—even at its best—rides close to conflict and requires our intention to keep the peace. Ted Mancuso has been teaching martial arts for more than 45 years. Information on his studio, the Academy of Martial & Internal Arts, can be found at www.reelingsilk.com/ academy, where you can also learn about the styles taught, classes, and occasional seminars.

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Stress affects us from the inside as we frown, develop tension lines around our eyes and mouth, develop drooping skin from being over-tired or worried. It can even affect the amount of oxygen our skin is getting if we begin to take shorter breaths, become more sedentary and exercise less. In Conclusion: The most important thing to realize is that one sunburn, one week of showering with chlorinated water, one pack of cigarettes, stressful breakdown, or just one Chaé one bottle of a toxic shampoo, fragrance or face cream is NOT going to cause your skin to look 55 when you are 40. It is the cumulative effect of using stress-causing chemicals in creams and shampoos. It is the accumulation of years of sun worshipping and years of being nutritionally starved that cause your skin to look aged. The good news is—your skin is a miracle. It regenerates every 24-28 days. It can and does repair itself. It just needs conscious help from you. Learn to avoid what may sound good, but what scientific studies have warned may be harmful. Look for other articles and trends about life-styles, new techniques and astounding new products. About the Author: Linda Chaé is President and Chief Formulator for Chaé Organics, Inc., and a pioneer in ‘go natural’ skin care for consumers. Her commitment to clean, safe toxic free products requires organic ingredients backed by scientific research. years experience As a consumer advocate, protecting human beings from dangers in skin care products became personal when she became a cancer survivor herself —see www. lindachae.com. To order her products, visit www.chaeorganics.biz

ometimes our skin acts and looks younger than our age (we like that) and sometimes it behaves and looks older (we don’t like that at all). So, how can you tell the “true age” of your skin, the best way to care for it, and which regimes are the most appropriate? One would think your skin would biologically age at the same rate as Linda you celebrate your birthdays. Not so—your skin’s true age is directly related to the amount of damage and abuse it endures and how well you have cared for it. There two main factors which play havoc with your skin: 1. the environment affecting our skin from the outside of our body 2. and stress affecting our skin from the inside. The environmental factors include things like the amount of time spent in the sun and wind, exposure to pollution, sunburns, chlorinated water, cigarette smoke and even some of your skin care products.

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BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA & CITY

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by Pattie Mills Nelson Today oday, Nelson has earned a reputation as a cultural centre. The term hippie is sometimes used. The downtown area is packed with good restaurants, cafes, coffee houses, local shops, small art galleries, the restored Capitol Theatre and impromptu theatre venues. The primary industry is tourism, and the city is about fortyĂ€ YH PLQXWHV DZD\ IURP WKH VLWH RI WKH DQQXDO Shambhala Music Festival, an internationally known artistic music festival held in August at the Salmo River Ranch. It is also home to Whitewater Ski Resort and the Nelson Brewing Company, a regional microbrewery, and the restored Capitol Theatre, a regional hub for the performing arts. As with many communities in British Columbia, Nelson has experienced a real estate boom. Over the last few years, real estate prices have skyrocketed, putting ownership out of reach for LESS DIĂ XHQW UHVLGHQWV 7KH FLW\¡V HFRQRP\ LV growing, and some residents have expressed dissatisfaction with the resultant changes. NelVRQLWHV DUH SURXG RI WKHLU FRPPXQLW\¡V XQLTXH small town feel, which has remained relatively free of the chain stores, franchises and strip-mall developments that are common in other towns of similar size. Nelson is also a well-known alternative lifestyles hot spot. Hemp clothes and cannabis-related products are sold in local stores. Nelson is home to the studios of Kootenay Co-op Radio, a cooperative community radio station started by local volunteers. Nelson is proud of having the largest Food Co-op in Canada. Organics and non-GMOs are a conscious part of this community. When I asked about Smart Meters and Fluoride, I was informed that this city has taken a stand against Smart Meters and Fluoride with the operant concept being, “NO!â€? or “Noneâ€?—not allowed there. What a concept!! Activities in Nelson Cultural activities abound in Nelson. Set in the natural beauty of the Selkirks, many artists and writers make Nelson their home. Nelson is highlighted as the “Number One Small Town Arts Community in Canadaâ€? by the publisher of The 100 Best Small Arts Towns in America, and is home to a large and diverse artisan community. Artwalk features local talent. July, August and September mark three months of exhibitions throughout the downtown core in variety of galleries and local businesses. Each month has a separate grand RSHQLQJ XVXDOO\ WKH Ă€ UVW )ULGD\ HYHQLQJ RI WKH month, which includes refreshments, musicians and artwork for locals and visitors to enjoy as they stroll through downtown Nelson. Nelson also has UHJXODU )DUPHU¡V 0DUNHWV ZKHUH ORFDO DUWLVDQV FDQ EH IRXQG VHOOLQJ D XQLTXH DQG GLYHUVH YDULHW\ RI arts, crafts and imports. Two popular hiking trails are the Nelson-

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UN Agenda 21 Still Advancing Worldwide “We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order—a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful—and we will be—we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.’s founders.” - G.H.W. Bush Speaking at start of first Gulf War, 1991

What is Agenda 21? — Quoting from the UN website: “Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.”(sic) Many have said, ‘that is now outdated policy that’s fallen into neglect’. This is far from true. For example, among many other things, the slow-motion train wreck of our ongoing world economic collapse supports UN Agenda 21, and the UN conference on “Post-2015 Sustainability Agenda” coming this September is a clear reiteration. Apologists say that Agenda 21 is only “Soft Law,” a policy that has no teeth. But, they’re lying. In 20 years, through stealth implementation, this plan has become embedded in local policies all over the United States. It’s called Sustainable Development. Wherever you see it you’ll find, “The 3 E’s:” ecology, economy, equity. In the upcoming UN conference, where the Jesuit Pope Francis will be appearing to promote his recent encyclical, they’re being called “People, Planet and Prosperity.” Agenda 21 emerged full-blown from the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) aka The Rio Summit, in 1992. 16 to 17 thousand “delegates,” who were somehow given official status as officers of the UN, travelled from all over the world to take part in an 11 day party in Rio De Janeiro, where they were presented with Agenda 21, The United Nations Programme of Action from Rio, a more than 300 page document that they were asked to approve, though it seems unlikely that many of them could have had time to even read it. Unsurprisingly, they voted to accept it, and it was suddenly official United Nations policy for the world. I recently spoke with a delegate to Rio from Santa Cruz, who took exception to the way I’ve characterized the Rio Summit above. After more than 20 years, she entirely believes that the document was created by agreement at Rio, that its ideas and principles are unimpeachable, and that it has only been improved on since then. This is the genius behind the ways this program of worldwide social engineering has been rolled out, as well-meaning people are enrolled as supporters through poetic-sounding but fuzzy phrases, pledges of concern for the masses of humanity, and clever misdirection. In fact, the Agenda 21 document was largely a creation of Maurice Strong, a mysterious man with a double-tracked career as both a high

official at the UN, and as a billionaire financial insider extracting the Earth’s resources in the petroleum and mining industries. Strong first took the world stage prominently as “Secretary General,” a title the UN, for whatever reasons, adopted directly from communist and socialist organizations, of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. Strong’s very scant bio on Wikipedia says that he “met a leading UN official in 1947 (when Strong was just 18) who arranged for him...to serve as a junior security officer at the UN headquarters in Lake Success, New York” (before the new UN building was built on land donated by the Rockefellers in Manhattan). Just one year later, Strong became a trainee in a high-powered brokerage in Canada, “where he took an interest in the oil business,” and was transferred to an office in “the Alberta oil patch.” There he was quickly hired as an assistant to an oil-industry leader, Jack Gallagher — All while maintaining his connections at the UN. In 1971, before the conference in Stockholm, Strong commissioned a report on the state of the planet, entitled “Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet”. The report summarized the findings of 152 leading experts from 58 countries in preparation for that first UN meeting on the environment. This was the world’s first “state of the environment” report. Following the Conference, Strong became the Chairman of the new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), until 1975, and served as a member of the Brundtland Commission (below). The 1972 conference was followed by several other major conferences as well as sets of meetings all over the world laying out the shape of this emerging globalist agenda. Despite the elusive nature of this long process and the ways it’s remained under the radar of the mainstream media, it has somehow remained on track with constant reiterations. In 1976 there was the UN Conference on Human Settlements which produced a Declaration containing 26 principles concerning the environment and development, an Action Plan with 109 recommendations, and a Resolution. Here is an excerpt from the Conference Preamble: “Land... cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also the principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, and therefore, contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes...” This preamble is followed by 65 pages of very specific land use recommendations. Among the many recommendations are: A-1) Redistribute population in accord with resources, D-1) Government must control the use of land to achieve equitable distribution of resources, D-2) Control land use through zoning & landuse planning, D-3) Excessive profits from land use must be recaptured by government, D-4) Public ownership of land should be used to exercise urban and rural land reform, and D-5) Owner rights should be separated from development rights which should be held by a

public authority. Then, in the fall of 1983, the 38th Session of the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to create a commission “to propose long-term environmental strategies for achieving sustainable development to the year 2000 and beyond” (emphasis added). Gro Harlem Brundtland, former (and later) Prime Minister of Norway and Vice President of the Socialist International (sometimes called “the cradle of globalism”) was appointed to chair the commission. In her forward to Our Common Future, the 400 page report from what would become known as The Brundtland Commission, she wrote, “ ‘ A global agenda for change’ - this was what the World Commission on Environment and Development was asked to formulate. It was an urgent call by the General Assembly of the United Nations...” With this conference, the term “sustainable development” first appeared. It’s from this long-term plan which emerged 20 years before the 1992 Rio Summit, that the many seemingly friendly terms such as Sustainability, Smart Growth, Resilient and Walkable Communities, and High Density Urban MixedUse Development come. It seems like no one had never heard these phrases 10 years ago but that now they’re everywhere we look. Among other key terms are: Equity, Affordable Housing, Consensus, Social Justice, Human Settlements, Watershed, Facilitator, Best Management Practices, Outcome Based Education. Habitat Restoration, Quality of life, Benefit of All, Public/Private Partnerships, Common good, Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, Stakeholder, School to Work, Visioning, and the all-important Regional. If you see these terms, particularly in combinations, you can be sure you’re looking at language dedicated to implementing this agenda. In 1992, 172 governments attended the Rio Summit, with 116 sending heads of state. There were also 2,400 people from UNconnected NGO’s. Then, President George HW Bush was there on Prince Charles’ yacht, where he signed the Agenda 21 document with absolutely no legal standing to do so. In 1993, shortly after Bill Clinton took office, Nancy Pelosi helped, with 33 original cosponsors, to introduce legislation “to implement Agenda 21.” The bill passed the house, but was stopped in the Senate. But, with clearly international pressure to advance the program, in June 1993 Democrat Clinton created The President’s Council on Sustainable Development which has placed Sustainability Officers in every federal department and agency since then. This has resulted in administrative regula-

tions enforcing Agenda 21 policies as (possibly fraudulent) hard law, and in huge distortions in federal funding that have forced States to adhere to federal dictates. An international treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), was also presented at the Rio Summit for signing, and was eventually brought to the U.S. Senate for ratification in 1994. At first, it looked like it would pass, but at the last hour, text from a book Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA), which was not to be published for another year and a half, was leaked to staff of Senators, along with the now well-known Biodiversity Wildlands Map, which showed graphically the plan to move Americans off the land and into dense “human settlement zones.” The Convention wasn’t ratified, while the MSM reported that the GBA book did not exist. Congress has, so far, refused to implement Agenda 21 as policy for the United States of America. But, it has been advanced by Presidential edicts. The End of Natural Property Rights— UN policy on “land” has been clear since the 1976 Conference on Human Settlements. Its preamble on land quoted above continues:

“Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole. “Public control of land use is therefore indispensable to its protection as an asset and the achievement of the longterm objectives of human settlement policies and strategies.” This makes obvious the position of the UN policy makers that private property is now to

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be considered as a social asset to be controlled by “the public.” The exact nature of this public is, however, not clear. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution says, “No person shall... be deprived of... property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” But, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 17 Sec 2 says, “Property shall not be arbitrarily taken.” This is a crucial difference. Somehow “the public” can take private property from you, as long as it’s not done “arbitrarily.” Santa Cruz County seems to have been targeted for early implementation of Agenda 21. Two years before Agenda 21 was unveiled in 1992, the voters of the County passed Measure C, “The Decade of the Environment “ containing many of the key tenets of the UN Program, and which has been reaffirmed every ten years by the Board of Supervisors, and is reported on regularly by the Planning Department. The Supervisors also fell into step with the Agenda in 1993-94 when they “officially approved the process” of the “Sustainable Santa Cruz: Local Agenda 21” 100-page planning guide created by Action-Santa Cruz County and the Santa Cruz Chapter of the United Nations Association. This type of document was directly called for in Agenda 21 itself — In Chapter 28, “Local Authorities Initiatives,” the first objective listed is “(a) By 1996, most local authorities in each country should have undertaken a consultative process with their populations and achieved a consensus on ‘a local Agenda 2I’ for the community...” Of course, this directive was unknown in most of the rest of the U.S. In our society, the direct taking of peoples’ properties is, so far, unacceptable to most people. What has happened instead, certainly in Santa Cruz, is the use of permitting processes, zoning and taxation, including the infamous “Red Tags,” to gradually take away the productive use of their land from property owners without compensation. Though a relatively small county, Santa Cruz has, after LA County, the second-largest planning department in the State. There are currently thousands of red tags on record here, and, according to some counts, hundreds of owners have been forced off their properties, which have, in many cases, been transferred to insider “Private Partners” through practices many say are corrupt. Frequently, after the new owner appears, zoning is changed or permits are issued for new uses. It is getting increasingly hard to get permits for single family homes, while permitting is easier to get for “High Density, Mixed Use” (typically floors of small apartments above retail spaces of questionable utility AKA “Stack n’ Pack” housing). The Santa Cruz Supervisors are in the process of creating a new tax to fund this high-density “Low Income” housing through an “Affordable Housing Assessment” on all new construction, including additions, in the County. This will raise the cost of building a house by perhaps tens-of-thousands of dollars. International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives—or ICLEI (pronounced Ickly) is a UN NGO that had its founding meeting in 1990 in the General Assembly chamber at the UN building in Manhattan. ICLEI staff wrote one of the chapters of the Agenda 21 document, under the direction of Maurice Strong. Santa Cruz City and County have both been members of ICLEI since its inception, though this has been made as obscure as possible by local officials over time. ICLEI works to bring top-down policies from the UN globalist agenda to local communities under the guise of being guided by its membership. ICLEI was directly involved in the creation

of California bills AB 32 and SB 375, mandating severe ongoing restrictions on our “greenhouse gas emissions” in the name of the heavily-pushed and yet highly questionable theory of “global warming” caused by CO2. ICLEI was then hired by hundreds of cities and counties in California to help them draft the “Climate Action Plans” mandated to help reach the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals set in AB 32. This is a serious conflict of interest violation by this formal arm of the UN. Regionalism—Regional “governance” is a concept that has been advancing in the U.S. since World War II. Regionalism has been extended across America primarily through executive presidential action, including Nixon’s creation of multi-state Federal Regions, and through confusing provisions of Congressional “Acts” which require the action of Regional Planning Agencies or Councils of Government (COG’s) in order to secure the more and more essential federal funding needed for major public works. Regional Agencies are composed of appointed officials from all levels of local government, and are not subject to direct input by voters. Our local COG is the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG), founded in 1968, two years after the U.S. Model Cities Act set up the framework for AMBAG to be a funding conduit. The COG for the nine Bay Area Counties is ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments. ABAG, is working with ICLEI to create the “One Bay Area” program. One Bay Area is a major initiative to promote the top-down plan to implement Agenda 21 around the San Francisco Bay. This plan for a region containing 7.5 million people, is designed to entirely remake the region in the image of Smart Growth, highdensity housing and government transportation planning. Over the next 20 years 630,000 new residential units are projected by ABAG. ALL residential construction specified by the plan is be multi-family housing. 80% of this housing must be within ½ mile of the plan’s designated “transit corridors” (permits will not be granted outside these zones). One corridor, the El Camino Real, running from San Jose to San Francisco, will be transformed into a series of government controlled Stack ‘n Pack smart growth developments. The plan is that all private vehicles will be banned from what is to then be called “The Grand Boulevard.” Through the ABAG COG, the federal government has committed more than 300 billion, mostly highway tax dollars to this “Plan Bay Area.” Locally, something similar but more modest is being proposed under the newly rechristened “Sustainable Santa Cruz County” Regional Transportation Plan, where the eventual centerpiece will be a widened “Soquel Drive Corridor” from Dominican Hospital to Aptos, where hundreds of units of Stack n’ Pack housing will be built, close to planned public transit to include the much ballyhooed “Rail Trail” and possible train service. As part of enrolling us into this planned “sustainable” development, public “consensus” meetings have been held regularly by the Planning Department and Sustainable Santa Cruz County for the last few years. Recent Advances in the Globalist Programs for Sustainable Development — In 2015, we are seeing two major events to promote and re-energize global population control, and a very curious confluence of globalist social engineering and the Roman Papacy. From Sept. 25 to 27 the UN will be holding its “Post-2015 Sustainability Agenda” conference at its New York headquarters, accompanied by an appearance of Pope Francis doing a formal presentation of his monumental ecologist encyclical

a clear extension of the Millennium Summit in 2000. Instead of the 8 “Millennium Development Goals” set there to be realized by 2015 (none have been), we are being given 17 this time, to be done by 2030. I will only share Goal 17 - “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.” Suffice it to say that The Agenda for the 21st Century slogs on. Then, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 in Paris, France, will come the massive propaganda onslaught of COP21, billed as “The UN Climate Conference.” Actually, COP stands for Conference of the Parties of the Kyoto Accords, so it’s interesting to see the event subsumed under the UN. While even the 2014 IPCC report, in its section on the real climate science, admitted that there has been no significant warming of the planet for the last 15 years or so (despite the desperate pleas of upcoming disaster contained in the report’s “summary for decision makers”), we are now being lobbied relentlessly about “climate change” by the corporate media (and NPR) to prepare us for a draconian “carbon suppression regime” they hope to create at this conference. Any “carbon” taxes arising

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at this 12-day event are rumored to be, for the first time, going directly to the UN (“a credible

United Nations”). I’ll briefly touch upon the apparent synchronicity of Pope Francis’ encyclical with the huge world effort to push the United Nations. While it’s easy to see why many people find some of the ideas expressed in it to be moving, even poetic, to me they seem rather diffuse and confusing. More than that, the Pope’s focus on pushing the need to respond immediately to a posited “climate crisis” and to problems eerily like those driving UN sustainable development, is quite striking. Some in the “climate reality” community are elated that the spiritual force of the Pope’s message may put their quest for a serious solution to carbon “pollution” over the top. If so, it will have been very convenient. Bruce Tanner is a researcher, writer and videographer on deep politics, deep history and the structural nature of the (non-existent) ego. He and his wife Cynthia live in Santa Cruz, where they organized the local THRIVE Solu-

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people. As the LGBTQ community celebrates a huge step forward, it is important to pause and acknowledge those unable to celebrate with us. As we raise our voices in celebration of this Supreme Court decision, we do so knowing that no one decision will itself bring full equality, justice and liberation to our nation. As I write this in celebration, I also mourn that a young white man assassinated six black women and three black men at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The attack on any one person in our collective struggle -- because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or immigration status -- is an attack on each of us who work to live freely and equally in our country. No one should have to fear for their lives when stepping out of their homes, walking down the street, or attending a prayer service. Until that is the reality for each of us, we must stand together and fight for all of us. While we celebrate this big win and enjoy our honeymoon, we must also recommit ourselves to be more than marriage. Love will truly win when there is equality and justice for ALL. Sharon Esther Papo is Executive Director of The Diversity Center. The Diversity Center enhances lives and promotes fairness for LGBTQ people in Santa Cruz County. For more information about The Diversity Center, you can go to www.diversitycenter.org or call (831) 425-5422. Mark your calendar for major upcoming LGBTQ community events: Watsonville Pride: Aug. 23, 60Plus Senior Luncheon: Sept. 12, Diversity Center Gala: Oct. 17.

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Earthing – What Science Really Tells Us About It

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by Lloyd Burrell arthing, grounding, going barefoot. Some love it, others hate it. The companies selling the earthing kits and materials speak of it as some kind of ‘panacea.’ But what do we really know about earthing? What does the science tell us? A few days ago, I came across a superb video presentation on the subject by Laura Koniver, M.D. Superb because in just a few minutes (7 minutes to be precise), with minimum mumbo-jumbo and maximum clarity, it does just that. It summarizes, clarifies, updates on what the science tells us about earthing. Dr. Koniver, M.D says, “one of the most frequently asked questions I get is, ‘how much earthing do I have to do each day to make a difference?’ My answer is always, anything makes a difference. There’s no amount of earthing that is too quick or too small to make a noticeable impact on you and your body’s physiology…. instantaneous is long enough. Of course the benefits continue to extend the longer you do it. I want to go over the scientific literature to tell you exactly what you’re doing when you’re just connecting for a second and exactly what you’re doing when you’re connecting for years.” Below I’ve summarized what Dr. Koniver says in her video about what science says about earthing. (video can be found @ http://www.electricsense. com/9616/earthing-grounding-science/) Instantaneous effects: “Muscle, skin, brain changes and also levels of pain are instantly shifted: • Muscle tension immediately drops, measurable on an electromyogram; • the ambient voltage of your entire body shifts; • your EEG brain waves change; • your skin conductance changes. Sustain it for a few minutes: Medical studies have shown it impacts: • your organ function, • your vasculature, so blood viscosity changes. Sustain it for 20 to 30 minutes: Studies that have gone on for 20-30 minutes have found that within minutes you have an immediate change in the metabolic function of your entire body. You’ve: • affected your circulatory system, • affected all of the end organs that are targeted by your circulatory system, • increased blood viscosity, • increased your respiratory rate, • increased oxygenation, • stabilized your blood glucose. Studies that have gone into hours: Sleeping grounded for one night is all it takes to: • change your indicators of osteoporosis; • affect your bones, deep into the bone; • affect and change your metabolic panel – your electrolytes, your minerals, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron levels change; • affect and change your thyroid function. With thyroid changes, we’re talking about how [your organs] interrelate with each other, about structural support with your bones, about the hormonal support with your thyroid. Higher cortisol levels can be affected by just one night of sleeping grounded. Your thyroid function panel changes and shifts dramatically so that thyroid function is actually boosted in just one night. Studies that talk about several days: If you are connected to the earth for several

days straight, you are more resilient and more adaptable to life’s stress and demands on the physical body. In one study, men were given a heavy load to lift, a very stressful amount of weight. Then they were grounded, just one time, and they were grounded for one, two and three days afterwards. Grounded participants were not only able to meet that one challenge with less inflammation in the body and less stress on the body but they were able to recover more easily, meaning their body had less inflammatory markers afterwards. They recovered more quickly and had less pain and less physiological damage after the stress. Earthing for several days decreases inflammation markers, decreases cortisol and stress on the body, decreases pain and increases our recovery. Studies over years: Over years I anticipate: • anti-aging benefits and • anti-cancer benefits. Because most of the diseases that we are confronted with as a society are from chronic inflammation, lot’s of cancers and other chronic diseases that we used to think were just a result of aging are actually the result of repetitive injury or repetitive inflammation and stress. Arthritic changes, dementia changes, stroke, heart attack, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cancers that were thought to just increase with age are actually just increasing with inflammation. When we increase inflammation through poor diet, EMFs, and other physical stresses, we’re accelerating all those conditions. When we decrease inflammation and stress on the body, we are relieving the incidence of these kinds of illnesses. We understand now that there is an immediate effect, an immediate benefit to you when you earth/ground for a split second. No time is too short. I believe an entire lifetime is not too long to live connected to the earth and in our best most optimized state of well being.” Further comments from Lloyd Burrell: As you can tell, Dr. Koniver is a big proponent of earthing. I take a more balanced view. I don’t believe that earthing is good for everyone in all cases. One of the biggest pitfalls is earthing in a ‘high EMF environment.’ Another issue is stray electricity in the ground (those of you who are subscribed to my newsletter will be familiar with this). In truth, the only way to know if earthing works is to ‘suck it and see.’ Start by taking your shoes off and seeing how it feels. If this works for you. More elaborate ways to earth are earthing mats and earthing sheets. Above all, listen to your body! Lloyd Burrell operates the website www. electricsense.com which resulted from his research in response to his own serious health issues related to EMF radiation exposure. This site is devoted to info about EMF dangers, ways to protect yourself from EMF exposure, and even ways to help heal yourself if you have become EMF-sensitive.

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HAPPINESS IN MIND

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by Christopher Love ave you ever found that a particular subject comes into your consciousness and then for a day, week or perhaps even months it pervades, appearing in conversations, on the radio, in ads and other random places? I have been having such an experience with the subject of happiness lately. Many great souls have taught on the subject of how to achieve long lasting happiness and inner peace. The techniques for achieving this goal vary from one geographic location to another, and DV ZH PRYH DFURVV WKH JOREH ZH ÀQG PHWKRGLFDO differences from one spiritual tradition, lineage and culture to another. However, in my search for the ultimate practice, I have found that there

are some fundamental similarities between practitioners everywhere. What if we already know what makes us truly happy? What if we have always known? What if happiness is our true nature and we cannot actually be separated from it? What if seeking happiness and inner peace is only a game we play with ourselves? Let us suppose for a moment that happiness is our true nature, that we are all inherently happy at our core. What would this mean? What if we have only created the illusion of forgetting our happiness so that we can seek what we already have? If true, I believe we have set ourselves up for a win! What if our patron Saints and those we call “Enlightenedâ€? are normal people like you and I who have merely remembered their true nature and the nature of reality and thus stopped playing the game? The mind is a powerful force. What if we are not our mind and it’s true purpose is merely to be a tool to be used by us, no different than any other part of the body. Perhaps our saints have simply stopped being distracted by the stories DQG LOOXVLRQV RI WKH PLQG DQG WKXV UHPDLQ Ă€[HG in the present moment. For those still searching these beings become clear lights in the darkness, sign posts who point the way back to one’s true self. What if who you are is not who you think yourself to be? If we take the premise that inner peace and happiness is our true nature, then we must inquire as to why this is not our moment-to-moment reality. This inquiry, which can take the form of introspection, is a crucial step on the path to discovering ones true self. The commonality of all the contemplative traditions I have studied is this: to understand the nature of self and reality we must stop looking outward for answers and turn our gaze inward. This sounds so simple, yet many of us have avoided such a practice our entire lives. 3HUKDSV ZH DUH DIUDLG RI ZKDW ZH PD\ Ă€QG RU possibly it just never occurred to us. Many of us have lived personal realities that have been manufactured by our thoughts and the stories we

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have fabricated about others, this life and ourselves. The practice RI LQWURVSHFWLRQ LV WKH Ă€UVW WRRO to dismantle the illusion we have FUHDWHG LQ HIIRUW WR Ă€QG ZKDW LV UHDO 2QO\ ZKDW is real can offer us true peace and happiness. Quite possibly, beneath the surface of the illusion, there awaits a heap of stuff that we have not wanted to deal with; feelings we have denied, withheld communications and the pain we have not wanted to feel. This may also be a reason why we have not sought out truth and have been somewhat content with mediocrity. “Push me into shallow water before I get too deep.â€? Touts the radio. Entertainment is a perfect way to avoid the path of self-realization. Entertainment is easily accessible everywhere. What is peculiar and interesting is that people bother to come to a planet that is spinning in space at 900 or so miles per hour and then spend their time engaged in activities that actually do nothing to better themselves, their families or their world. It is a curious thing; our fascination with being entertained. How much of our interest in entertainment comes from a lack of motivation or fear to truly live our lives to the fullest extent? How’s about framing our dive into ourselves this way: an amazing adventure into the unknown regions of the self, for entertainment purposes only of course. It may be the last frontier, the only corner of the world yet undiscovered. What are you waiting for? Let’s go already! My understanding is that the more we turn in and discover who we really are the less we are entranced by the stories we have made up about ourselves, others and the world we live in. As we discover our own true nature that which is not real begins to fall away. This can be disconcerting at Ă€UVW :LWK WLPH DQG SDWLHQFH DQG WDNLQJ WKLV SDWK slowly, it is totally possible to navigate, keep a job, a relationship and have a life. As a matter of fact, life begins to get a lot more interesting. A person does not have to shave their head and set off to live in a monastery to do this work. It can be integrated easily into one’s life as long as the desire is there to do so. The contemplative traditions I have studied tell us that if we want long lasting peace and happiness we must stop everything and turn inside. To have control in one’s life it is important to gain control of one’s mind. To do so requires patience, discipline, dedication and perseverance. What if the saints and sages were correct? What if you can gain control of our your very life, know who you are and have a direct connection with life and creation. What if such a knowing is cause for long lasting peace and happiness? Would it be worth the work of introspection, FRQWHPSODWLRQ DQG PHGLWDWLRQ WR Ă€QG RXW" Mr. Love is a mentor, educator & meditation instructor who enjoys teaching through experiential learning environments. Love@ DevotionalLiving.org

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nlike the safety evaluations that new drugs have to go through, the safety of genetically engineered food is unclear. The issue of GMO food safety was first addressed at a meeting between the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization in 1990. The adoption of the substantial equivalence concept in 1996 allowed permission to sell new foods without any safety or toxicology tests, as long as the chemical ingredients were not substantially different from foods already on the market. (1) Ninety percent of Americans support mandatory GMO labeling! Current studies show that more than 90 percent of Americans support mandatory GMO labeling. Without such labeling, we are unable to make informed decisions about the foods that we eat. The Just Label It campaign was created to raise awareness and to advocate for GMO food labeling. (2) On June 25, 2015, the head of leading consumer group, Consumer Reports, reported that labeling GMOs is a “good idea.” Marta Tellado, CEO of magazine Consumer Reports stated, “everyone deserves to know what’s in their food so they can make informed decisions about what to feed themselves and their families.” (3) Consumer rights advocates argue that it is in the best interest of consumers to allow them to make more informed choices. Those who oppose the decision report that the scientific community

agrees that GMO products are safe for consumption and that the cost of labeling the products would be excessive. (3) CEO of Consumer Reports magazine advocates that “everyone deserves to know what is in their

food!” In May 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture rolled out a government certified label for foods without GMOs, although this is not mandatory for all products. In order to meet certification standards, no more than 1 percent of a product’s ingredients can be genetically modified. (3) “Labeling is a simple and common sense solution to protect consumer choice. Companies that grow and sell genetically modified foods haven’t yet come up with a convincing excuse to explain why their customers should not have this information. When those companies spend untold millions to keep their customers in the dark by battling efforts to properly label their products, we ask why,” Tellado wrote, calling for mandatory labeling of all GMO products. (3) “Agreeing to label GMO foods will let companies demonstrate they are listening to the overwhelming majority of their customers. That’s good business,” she added. (3) Sources for this article include: www.labelgmos.org (2) www.justlabelit. org (3) www.ibtimes.com http://tinyurl.com/pahayhe Printed with permission.

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You won’t find it in their marketing materials (in so many words). But, they’ve just made an outrageous offer to their evil twin that proves their ability to kill. Individually, they can be evil, but together, there’s practically no limit to the damage they can inflict. Can we stop this???

Monsanto Bids to Take Over Syngenta—A Move to Assure a Pesticide-Saturated Future!? by Dr. Mercola “It is imperative that the USDA with biotech is to wean farmers off Monsanto recently made a bid agrichemicals.” maintains scientific integrity and does to take over European agrichemical It’s quite clear Monsanto has no not allow for harassment, censorship, giant Syngenta, the world’s largest desire or plans to help farmers reduce or suppression of findings that counpesticide producer. The $45 billion the use of crop chemicals. On the ter the interests of industry,” the letter bid was rejected, but there’s still a contrary, it has and continues to push states. chance for a merger between these for the increased use of its flagship In March, the Public Employtwo chemical technology giants. ees for Environmental Responsibilproduct, Roundup. Monsanto is reportedly considRoundup Also Being Used to ity (PEER) filed a citizen petition ering raising the offer, and as noted Harvest Non-GMO Crops requesting that the US Department by Mother Jones,1 “combined, the Not only has Monsanto created of Agriculture adopt new policies two companies would form a singu- a line of GE Roundup-ready seeds, that would further job protection for lar agribusiness behemoth, a com- it also promotes the use of Roundup government scientists who question pany that controls a third of both the on conventional crops, pre-harvest, as the health and safety of agricultural globe’s seed and pesticides markets.” described in its Pre-Harvest Staging chemicals. As reported by Bloomberg,2 the Guide.3 The petition urges for the agency possibility of Monsanto taking over Applying herbicide directly be- to adopt policies that would specifiSyngenta raises a number of con- fore harvesting helps dry the crop, cally prevent the ‘political supprescerns; a top one being loss of crop boosts the release of seed, and is said sion or alteration of studies and lay diversity. to promote long-term control of cer- out clear procedures for investigating “...[A] larger company would tain weeds. allegations and of scientific misconeventually mean fewer varieties of The practice is known as desic- duct.’ seeds available to farmers, say oppo- cation, and according to researchers PEER has found that more than nents such as [science policy analyst Samsel and Seneff,4 the desiccation 10 USDA scientists have faced conseat the Center for Food Safety, Bill] of conventionally grown wheat ap- quences or investigations when their Freese. pears to be linked to the rapid and work called into question the health Another is that the combined concurrent rise in celiac disease. and safety of agricultural chemicals. company could spur increased use of These scientists documented Applying glyphosate, which herbicides by combining Syngenta’s was recently classified as a Class 2A clear actions that violated their scistable of weed killers with Monsan- probable human carcinogen, on crops entific integrity, including USDA ofto’s marketing heft and crop develop- directly before harvest is one of the ficials retracting studies, watering ment expertise. dumbest things we could do to our down findings, removing scientists’ ‘Two really big seed companies foods, yet Monsanto wholeheartedly names from authorship, and delaying becoming one big seed company supports and promotes it. approvals for publication of research means even less choice for farmers,’ Speaking of reputation, Synge- papers.” said Patty Lovera, assistant director nta is hardly a poster child for susMany Elementary School of Food and Water Watch, a policy tainability and right action either. Children at Risk of Elevated Pestigroup in Washington. Not only is it the main supplier of the cide Exposure ‘From a public health and envi- “gender-bending” herbicide atrazine Monsanto’s marketing materironmental perspective this is a com- in the US, it also makes neonicoti- als still proclaim its GE crops reduce plete disaster,’ said Bill Freese... ‘The noids—a class of insecticide linked the need for pesticides, but usage has more I look at this, the more it wor- to the mass die-offs of bees and other steadily and significantly risen since ries me and the more it needs to be pollinators the advent of GE seeds. The rapid opposed.’” Both of these chemicals have emergence of resistant superweeds What’s in a Name? come under increasing scrutiny as have led the industry to invent crop According to one analyst, the researchers have learned more about seeds resistant to even more toxic hertakeover might boost Monsanto’s their environmental and human bicides, such as 2,4-D and dicamba. reputation, as Syngenta has been health impacts, and both are banned According to Dr. Medardo Ávi“less publicly enthusiastic” about ge- in Europe while still widely in use in la-Vázquez,7 a pediatrician and neonetically engineered (GE) crops. natologist at the Faculty of Medical the US. Personally, I don’t foresee MonSuppressing Science for the Sciences at the National University of santo ever being able to shed its toxic Chemical Industry? Córdoba, glyphosate use in connecreputation, no matter how it tries to As scrutiny into the effects of tion to GMO seeds is having a notably rebrand itself. It recently tried to do chemicals has intensified, so has deleterious effect on the health of the just that by declaring itself “sustain- strong-arm tactics by the industry, local people, particularly children. able agriculture company.” In light of the approval of these which has successfully infiltrated But actions speak louder than the very agencies charged with their next-generation pesticides, it would mere words, and there’s nothing sus- oversight. behoove us to take notice to such tainable about Monsanto’s business. An open letter5 signed by more warnings, because our kids are also Taking on the Syngenta name would than 25 farmworker, environmental, becoming increasingly exposed. As do nothing to change the obnoxious and food safety organizations was reported by Global Research,8 childichotomy between Monsanto’s sent to the US Department of Agri- dren attending hundreds of elementawords and deeds. culture (USDA) on May 5, demand- ry schools across the US are in harm’s In fact, Mother Jones astutely ing the agency investigate reports way as toxic weed killers are doused notes that by trying to acquire Synge- of retaliation and suppression of re- on nearby GE fields in ever greater nta, Monsanto contradicts “years of search relating to the dangers of neo- amounts: rhetoric about how its ultimate goal nicotinoids and glyphosate.6 Continues on Page 33

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Heirloom Plants and Your Health by Gina Locatelli and Allen Morgan

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A medley of heirloom medicinal herbs and flowers from a local garden. Photo by Allen Morgan What should you expect in this 3 Part Series? In this article, we will examine what an herb is; present you with resources for learning more about them and their healthful benefits; and then, we will give eight examples of herbs and flowers that you can grow. Part 2 will talk about those herbs and flowers and their healing capabilities for internal organs. Part 3 will discuss those that have skeletal, muscle and skin healing abilities. (By the time Part 3 is in print, Allen Morgan will have a booth at the Santa Cruz County Fair featuring these eight herbs and flowers so you can come in and see them first hand, and buy some seeds!) and bruises. The aerial parts are what Arnica What is the definition of should be utilized. This herb is for external use an Herb? Oregano According to The Herb Society only, as taking it internally can prove Also known as wild marjoram, of America’s New Encyclopedia of to be toxic (unless homeopathically oregano’s active agent is called rosprepared). It is mainly used for bruises Herbs and Their Uses by Deni Bown: marinic acid and has one of the highest “The term “herb” also has more than and strains and can relieve rheumatic antioxidant ratings – 42 times that of one definition. Botanists describe an pain and the pain and inflammation of apples. Oregano has two phytochemiherb as a small, seed bearing plant phlebitis. It can be used wherever there cals, which are powerful antimicrobiis pain or inflammation on the skin with fleshy, rather than woody, parts als, carvacol and thymol. Research (from which we get the term “her- so long as there is no open wound or indicates that its essential oils may baceous”)…the term refers to a far sore. Arnica lotion is available at most kill MSRA (Methicillin-resistant wider range of plants. In addition to health stores and has been proven efStaphylococcus aureus), which is a FREE B12 with purchase fective by many. The part used is the herbaceous perennials, herbs include bacterium that causes infections in of trees, shrubs, annuals, vines, and more flower head. different parts of the body – and is a Marigold primitive plants, such as ferns, mosses, Meyers $99.00 very toughCocktail bacteria to -treat. Oregano This flower may be helpful with algae, lichens, and fungi. They [herbs] contains beta-caryphyllin, a substance are valued for their flavor, fragrance, inflammation of the skin – from infecthat inhibits inflammation. It has pomedicinal and healthful qualities, eco- tion or physical damage. It can also be tential anti-viral effects and a spray nomic and industrial uses, pesticidal used for external bleeding or wounds containing aromatic essential oils has properties, and coloring materials and helps with bruising and strains. been found to be helpful in relieving Used as a lotion, it is very effective (dyes).” symptoms in those with upper respiA great part of the informa- for first-aid treatment of minor burns ratory infections. Further, oregano tion contained in this article is from a and scalds. It is used internally for extract has been shown to impede the wonderful book, The Complete Illus- gall-bladder problems and indigestion, growth and lead to cell death in colon trated HERBAL – A Safe and Practical as well as for the treatment of gastric cancer cells. The aerial parts are the Guide to Making and Using Herbal and duodenal ulcers. The parts of the effective component. Remedies by David Hoffman, and it flower used in its therapeutic role are can be obtained on Amazon Books at: its petals. http://www.amazon.com/books-usedParsley books-textbooks/b?node=283155. The world’s most popular herb, We encourage you to purchase your parsley is rich in many vital vitamins, heirloom herb and flower seeds from including Vitamin C, B-12, K and A. Seed Saver Exchange, http://www. This means it keeps your immune seedsavers.org/. system strong, tones your bones and It is recommended that you heals the nervous system. It helps the Cilantro is one of the most valuable consult a nutritionist or herbalist be- body flush out excess fluid, however herbs for the human body fore preparing herbal remedies based the herb contains oxalates, which can Cilantro on this article. cause problems for those with kidney This herb does many things. It and gall-bladder problems. Regular use has been known to reduce anxiety; it What to grow and why of parsley can help control blood pres- can potentially remove mercury and Nasturtium Believe it or not, the nasturtium sure, and its folic acid is like a tonic other heavy metals from the body; it is a powerful anti-microbial, especially for your heart. Parsley’s essential oil, is good for the small intestines and when used to treat a bacterial infection. when massaged into the scalp, can re- helps with elimination and urinary The aerial part is what should be used; duce hair loss. It has anti-inflammatory tract infection; it is known to help with not the roots. Internally it is especially properties for joints, and when made as red eye and macular degeneration; designated for respiratory infections a tea, it relaxes stiff muscles and helps it contains Vitamin K, which helps like bronchitis. It has also been found with digestion. Finally, it may have a maintain healthy bone structure; it to be helpful in infections of the female role in constraining cancerous tumors. is also known to help people with reproductive system, and is proven Any aerial part is useful. Alzheimer’s disease; it is an excellent St. John’s Wort beneficial for influenza and the comblood builder and it helps to prevent There is some scientific evi- anemia; the leaves and stem tips are mon cold. Externally, the nasturtium can be effective (when fresh) to be dence that this herb is effective for also rich in flavonoids - which are anmild to moderate depression. It is tioxidants; when juiced and consumed used as a compress. used to treat anxiety, loss of appetite, on a regular basis, cilantro can help Pansy There are three main uses tiredness and trouble sleeping. Other reduce the amount of damaged fats in for the pansy: the lungs, the skin reasons for its use include heart pal- the cell membranes; it prevents kidney and the urinary system. As an anti- pitations, moodiness and symptoms stones; and finally, this herb acts as a inflammatory expectorant, it can be associated with menopause, as well natural diuretic. used in acute bronchitis and whooping as attention deficit-hyperactivity Where to Purchase Seeds: Allen Morgan: cough. It heals and soothes the body. disorder and obsessive-compulsive SantaCruzHeirloomSeed@outlook. com It can be used on the skin particularly disorder. Other reasons for its intake Seed Savers Exchange: for eczema. It aids in cystitis and is are for exhaustion, to stop smoking, www.SeedSavers.org/ Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: www. used to treat indications of painful or migraines, chronic fatigue, muscle and RareSeeds.com/store/vegetables/ persistent urination. The parts that can nerve pain, irritable bowel syndrome, Request a free catalog to Seed Saver cancer and hepatitis C. 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oming up on the weekend of July 30th-August 2nd, the 31st anniversary of Reggae On The River will grace the shores of the majestic Eel River at French’s Camp in Humboldt County, CA. The longest running reggae festival in the U.S.—and the only one known simply as “Reggae”—the event is presented by and for the non-profit Mateel Community Center. It is also an important fund-raiser for numerous other local groups and global causes- and this larger purpose is at the heart of what makes Reggae On The River much more than just a music festival. Started in 1984 to rebuild the community center after an arsonist’s fire burned the original building— from these humble beginnings, the event has blossomed into one of the most iconic Emmanuel Jal festival gatherings, offering an experience that is simultaneously world-class and grass roots. Transforming a raw and rural piece of land—French’s Camp—into a public ready concert venue is no small feat, but this sacred location, the beauty of its natural environment, the blending of global cultures with the unique Humboldt community, and the positive message embodied in Reggae music that is truly at the core of Reggae On The River’s staying power! A celebration deserving of an annual pilgrimage, the 2015 edition will continue this legacy, inviting artists and attendees from around the globe to share once again in the collective ROTR experience. Representing the evolution of reggae music from the far corners of the Earth will be… Stephen “Ragga” Marley, Cham, Alborosie & The Shengen Clan, Tarrus Riley & Blak Soil, Protoje & The Indiggnation, Ce’Cile, Collie Buddz, Nahko and Medicine For The People, Ghetto Youths International featuring Jo Mersa, Christopher Ellis, Black-

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Am-I, & Wayne Marshall; Emmanuel Jal, King Jammys, The Congos, Katchafire, Stick Figure, Exco Levi, Alerta Kamarada, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Fortunate Youth, Mr. WilAlborosie liamz, Aaradhna, HIRIE, Empress Unification, Lior Ben-Hur, and more- plus top DJs and Sound Systems, over 60 vending/ non-profit booths, the ever-lively KidLandia, and the camping, community, and irie vibes that made Reggae On The River famous! 3 and 4-day tickets are still available. Or better yet, go big with the new Ambassador Pass to enjoy unprecedented perks and access, while also supporting two Jamaican non-profits—the Alpha Boys School and Lil Raggamuffins Summer Camp. And having fun while helping others is one of the mantras of ROTR, so whether you are coming as an Ambassador or with the regular 3 or 4-day ticket, don’t forget to bring a tool to donate to the Tools For Change program—an outreach project conducted in partnership with communities in rural Burkina Faso, West Africa- and just one of the many ways you can tap-in deeper by coming to ROTR. To discover more about these programs, buy tickets, or to check out all goings-on at Reggae On The River 2015- visit the festival website at www.reggaeontheriver.com. It’s happening July 30th-August 2nd at French’s Camp, in Garberville, CA- heart of the Emerald Triangle- and your portal to a higher vibration!

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by Janet Leonard REE Wednesday night Twilight Concerts at the Esplanade Park Bandstand in Capitola. Shows are from 6-8pm. • Jul. 15th, Broken English, Latin • Jul. 22nd, Joint Chiefs, R&B/soul • Jul. 29th, Extra Large, funky fun • Aug. 5th, Black Sunday Roadshow, Americana big band • Aug. 12th, Tsunami Band, classic rock • Aug. 19th, Lyin’i’s, Eagles Tribute Band • Aug. 26th, Digbeats, rock Be prepared it can get chilly. For all the dos and don’ts go to http://www. cityofcapitola.org/acc/page/twilightconcerts-esplanade-park. Sunday Art & Music at the Beach at the Esplanade Park & Bandstand in Capitola. Artwork for sale from 11am-5pm and enjoy FREE live music from 2-4pm. • Jul. 19th, Harpin & Clark, acoustic guitar & harmonica • Aug. 2nd, Samba Cruz, Brazilian • Aug. 16th, 7th Wave, acousticlight rock FREE Thursday night Beach BBQ Party at Crow’s Nest from 5:30-8:30pm. Keep in mind there is limited parking. Jul. 16th, The Billy Martini Show, high-energy rockers playing fun 70’s

music and upstairs at 8:30pm, Touch’d Too Much, an AC/ DC tribute band with a $5 cover. Jul. 23rd, Santa Cruz Reggae All-Stars, reggaerock and upstairs at 8:30pm, Pawn Shop Soul, vintage soul, funk and Latin dance with a $5 cover. Jul. 30th, Decades, Chuck Berry to Katy Perry rock and upstairs at 8:30pm, Live Again, classic rock with a $5 cover. Aug. 6th, Sambada, Brazilian dance music and upstairs at 8:30pm, Out of the Blue, Top 40’s from yesterday and today with a $5 cover. Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is Aug. 2nd through Aug. 16th this year. Nearly one hundred talented musicians will come together to hone their art form with an enthusiastic unbridled sense of discovery and adventure. For concert schedules, tickets, venues and all the information go to http://cabrillomusic.org/2015-season/ .Some events are FREE! Don Quixote’s: Sun. Jul. 19th, 7pm, EmiSunshine, unreal 10-yearold prodigy from East Tennessee with a deep rooted sound and impressive range who has captured the nation’s attention as a singer, songwriter and multiinstrumentalist. Sat. Jul. 25th, Locomotive Breath, a tribute to the era from 1967 to 1976 focusing on seven iconic bands of that period; Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, The Who, Cream, The Rolling Stones, and The Doors. Concerts in Retro: Here are my reviews of some

Habib says the movie generally does a good job with dinosaur anatomy, but dinosaurs could not use their hands and feet the way they are depicted. And, disappointingly, one of the most exciting recent dinosaur discoveries is left out: many of these ancient creatures actually had feathers! That said, this is still an entertaining spectacle to behold, and might fan interest in the sciences for some (2 hrs 4 min).

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With Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Claire Selby Entertainment: 3.5 Message: 4 he intrigue and potential threats of artificial intelligence are well illustrated in this highly intelligent and sophisticated sci-fi film. While the themes are familiar, from Frankenstein to Her, the thoughtfulness, cleverness and elegance of this artful piece relies on brilliant concepts, subtleness and smart inquiry, laced with understated eroticism rather than boastful visual effects. Catch it if you can; will also work well on DVD (1 hr 50 min).

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Voices of Lewis Black, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith Entertainment: 4 Message: 4.5 rowing up is hard. Some don’t actually make it. Though seemingly a children’s tale, this masterpiece is truly a breakthrough achievement in what an animated feature can do—a playful, colorful and imaginative “tour de force” of our inner world, fertile ground for depth psychology and understanding the workings of mind and emotions. First Pixar film since Steve Jobs left this world, but he’d be proud of this young girl, Riley, who instead of inventing the iPod, merely “leaves everything behind” and moves to California with her family. Arguably a more difficult task when you are little and not in charge. The changes we all go through are mirrored here with the stakes seemingly just as high, along with reminders of what truly matters in life. The stars of the show are Riley’s emotions, each personified by

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recent shows. Remember this is only my opinion. At The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium: The Santa Cruz Symphony superbly performed orchestral works from many John Williams’ highly popular movie scores, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harry Potter, E.T., Jurassic Park, and four of the most dynamic pieces from Star Wars, during which, a black caped Darth Vader complete with lightsaber, white armor clad Imperial storm troopers and guards showed up. Very authentic costumes! Also at the intermission’s live auction to raise money for the symphony a metal T-Rex sculpture approximately 7’ tall and 13’ long went for $1750. The music was captivating and the musicians so wonderful to hear and observe. At the Santa Cruz Boardwalk Bandstand: I saw Eddie Money’s first show and The Edgar Winter Band’s second show. I don’t normally write bad reviews but neither one was very good. I’ve seen both perform there before and they were way better and played all their hits. I have high hopes for the July 10th Macy Gray show infusing some new life into this absolutely breathtaking music venue. Please don’t misunderstand this IS summer in paradise! Are you a local band that would like your CD reviewed in this publication? Send your CD to Music Connection, c/o Janet Leonard, PO Box 3916, Santa Cruz, CA 95063. Call (831) 325-4605 or email janetfaplanet@ gmail.com to tell me about gigs for live reviews. Put “Music Connection” and your band’s name in the subject line.

a lively character, like a chaotic board of directors. What results is a brilliant illustration, capturing the tug of war between often conflicting feelings and thoughts in a concrete yet humorous way. There are so many layers here that adults will get more out of it than mere entertainment. Much of the inner working are based on actual neuroscience, making it a powerful piece for discussing and accepting emotions and experiences for what they are, our teachers (1 hr 35 min).

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With Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Ty Simpkins, Note: extremely frightening scenes & peril Entertainment: 3 Message: 2.5 een one GMO dinosaur you’ve seen them all? While more intelligent and interesting than some of the previous installments, as well as visually spectacular, this is still mainly plain popcorn entertainment with the objective of frightening everyone into leaving their wallets. The occasional moments of meaningful messages, around profit and greed (genetically modified creatures – just what we need) without respect for nature and public safety, could have been presented with more of an ethical backbone, but that may have endangered the film’s own profits. This terrestrial scifi fantasy leaves much to be desired in terms of scientific accuracy, according to University of Southern California paleontologist Dr. Michael Habib. Dr.

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1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ • 831-429-4135 Thursday, July 9 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

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Mon. • July 13 • 8:30pm • $15

Matt Flinner, Sam Bevan, Scott Nygard • Acoustic Jazz/ Bluegrass/Psychograss

Tue. • July 14 • 7:30pn • $18adv/$20dr

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Music from French Quebec Wed. • July 15 • 7:30pm • $22adv/$25dr

The Rough Riders w/ Henry Kopono, John Cruz, Brother Noland Hawaiian Superstars

Sun. • July 19 • 7pm • $10

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Friday, July 10 • Ages 16+

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$15 Adv./ $18 Drs. • Drs. 7:30 p.m./ Show 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 10 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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plus Vokab Kompany $12 Adv./ $14 Drs. • Doors open 8 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Sat., July 11 Ages 16+

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Audio Push $16 Adv./ $19 Drs. • 8 p.m./ 9 p.m. Saturday, July 11 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

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Sunday, July 12 • Ages 16+

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$20 Adv./ $25 Drs. • Drs. 7 p.m./ Show 8 p.m. Monday, July 13 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

SYNRGY • IRIE FUSE

plus Dickless Juli also Nomalakadoja $8 Adv./ $10 Drs. • Drs. 8 p.m./ Show 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, July 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

CHROME

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plus Dusted Angel $12 Adv./ $15 Drs. • Doors 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Wed. • July 29 • 7:30pm • $10 • Dance

Wednesday, July 15 • Ages 16+

KyMajor -Mani Marley Myjah Pure Roots

Tuba Skinny

Musical Heritage of New Orleans Thu. • Aug. 6 • 7:30pm • $15

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$10/ $12 • 8:30 p.m./ 9 p.m.

Friday, July 17 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

TREVOR HALL

plus Leilani Wolfgramm $17 Adv./ $20 Drs. • Doors 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Saturday, July 18 • Ages 16+

SHWAYZE Sam Johnson 2 The League of DEUX

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With Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Jude Law N o t e : violence, language, nudity Entertainment: 4 Message: 3 ne of summer’s best, this feminist spoof on spy-genre films must has been written to showcase Melissa McCarthy’s remarkable talent. She has outdone herself, and is a joy to behold in all her glorious, fast-talking, crass, clever, sassiness. Her performance delivers a feast of fun and hilarious gags (some violent and disturbing), in this edge-of-the-seat entertainment, directed by Robert Feig (Bridesmaids). It is a spicy concoction of crack-up humor and suspense, while busting stereotypes left and right (2 hrs 2 min).

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$15 Adv./ $18 Drs. • Drs. 8 p.m./ Show 9 p.m. Saturday, July 18 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+ MELISSA BROOKS & THE AQUADOLLS

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Tuesday, July 21 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

BREATHE CALIFORNIA

SPIROS EXARAS – ELIO VILLAFRANCA PROJECT

Wednesday, July 22 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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RAY OBIEDO GROUP DONNY MCCASLIN’S FAST FUTURE Monday, July 20

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FREDDY COLE QUARTET Friday, July 24

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JONATHA BROOKE Monday, July 27

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JEFF HAMILTON TRIO Thursday, July 30

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ALIVE! REUNION CONCERT – 40 YEARS Friday, July 31

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DIZZY BURNETT “TRIBUTE TO BILLIE HOLIDAY” Monday, August 3

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LETIERES LEITE & ORKESTRA RUMPILEZZ 1/2 Price Night for Students

Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz. org and Logos Books & Records and. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages.

320-2 Cedar St x Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

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$15 Adv./ $20 Drs. • Drs. 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

THE COLOURIST Thursday, July 23 • Ages 16+

BETWEEN the BURIED & ME

Animals As Leaders also The Contortionist

$20 Adv./ $25 Drs. • Drs. 6:30 p.m./ Show 7:30 p.m. July 23 Wye Oak/ Lake Atrium (Ages 16+) July 24 I The Mighty Atrium (Ages 16+) July 25 Kehlani (Ages 16+) July 25 Spank Rock Atrium (Ages 18+) July 26 from Australia Sticky Fingers Atrium (Ages 16+) July 29 Lil Debbie Atrium (Ages 16+) July 30 Jeff Turner Atrium (Ages 16+) July 31 E-40 (Ages 16+) July 31 Father Atrium (Ages 16+) Aug 1 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+) Aug 1 Boogie Atrium (Ages 16+) Aug 2 Kool John/ P-Lo (Ages 16+) Aug 3 Every Time I Die (Ages 16+) Aug 8 Emily’s D+Evolution (Ages 16+) Aug 10 Echo & The Bunnymen (Ages 21+) Aug 15 Leon Russell (Ages 21+) Aug 21 Waka Flocka Flame (Ages 16+) Aug 22 Point Break Live (Ages 21+) Aug 27 MSTRKRFT (Ages 18+) Aug 28 Watsky/ A-1 (Ages 16+) Sep 5 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Sep 12 Blackalicious (Ages 16+) Sep 14 SuicideGirls Blackheart Burlesque (Ages 18+) Sep 23 O.A.R. (Ages 16+) Sep 25 John Hiatt & The Combo (Ages 21+) Sep 26 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Oct 1 Cash Cash/ Tritonal (Ages 16+) Oct 3 Beth Hart (Ages 16+) Oct 9 Xavier Rudd & The United Nations (Ages 16+) Oct 30 The Brothers Comatose (Ages 16+) Nov 3 of Montreal (Ages 16+) Nov 16 Misfits/ She Demons (Ages 16+)

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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together We Create

I A Goddess Journal by Melanie Gendron and Annie Elizabeth

This journal is a form of prayer that we may, all of us, be graced by Goddess with happiness and personal fulfillment. For orders and inquiries, go to: http://www.riversanctuarypublishing.com/a-goddess-journal call Melanie @ (831) 335-9064 email: gentarot@comcast.net

ate the perceived illusion by Candace Stuart-Findlay of separateness in the 3 rd s it time for a reset? Have you been movdimension. ing along on the same Doubt, mistrust, and old frequency highself-rejection, and all other way lately without a fear-based energies, are a Candace pause to observe the direction continual undercurrent flowStuart-Findlay in which you are headed? ing through everything in Here on the physical plane, it is 3rd dimensional consciousness. This easy to unconsciously co-create a fear is universal Blocking Matrix prodominant energetic rut, only realizing gramming, which permeates all that we have done so when we begin feel- we experience through our physical ing overwhelmed, as if the “walls are awareness, and is fundamentally inclosing in” on us. tegral to the human/3rd dimensional We know that our true essence is context, so much so it is accepted as Source, quantum science backs this up, normal... reality…truth. yet why is it so challenging to remain This holds true for our physical consistently energetically aligned with experience until the reawakening the Source Joy/Love frequency? experience begins. As soon as we I believe it is because frequen- embrace the belief that we are Source cies such as doubt, mistrust, and merely having a human experience, self-rejection are all key programming the Blocking Matrix programming components of what I refer to as the begins to reformulate. In other words, Blocking Matrix, the fear-based ener- less static interference exists between getic barrier between the 3rd/physical our true Source essence self-awareness dimension and Source consciousness. and our physical consciousness. That doesn’t mean the doubt, The Blocking Matrix serves multiple vital purposes, just one being to cre- mistrust, and self-rejection instantly

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disappear; however it does mean more space is created for experiencing the expansive Joy/Love energy that we truly are. With that comes the opportunity to recognize we actually have a choice between focusing on the Blocking Matrix barrier’s fear-based frequencies or upon Joy/Love. So, back to my opening question, is it time for a reset? How about a walk on the beach, or a stroll in the redwoods? Here’s your open invitation to pause and realign with Source Joy/Love energy… your true identity! How powerful we collectively are when we individually shift our focus from fear to Love…from anger to Joy! Together WE create the Shift! If you wish to share your experiences with our readers, please reach out to me through my web site. Contact Candace, Author, Speaker, New Thought Educator, Transformation Facilitator, through her website: www.empoweredwholebeing.com.

IntuItIve InsIghts: What Would Oprah Do? by

of t he g endron t arot could block her? its life. The Creator nurtures creation Who gets to in the ever changing currents of living. win the lottery is Certainly life is a mystery—all a huge mystery. happenstance, even that there is occurThousands can rence. How? Why? For what purpose? buy a ticket, each And why do some get rich and some with the same in- don’t? These primordial questions Melanie Gendron tensity of desire, surface naturally as we crawl out of yet only one wins the fortune. If life darkness into the light of enlightenwere really a crap shoot, would we still ment. And so we question as we crawl. want to gamble? Blessings, We are like clouds in the pure Melanie sky of consciousness. Imbued with a Melanie modicum of free will, we modify our Gendron is availworldly experience as we make choices able for intuitive presented by the powerful wind that tarot readings, ignites life and initiates movement. offering also art, I know life lived on the level of unique gifts, tarduality can only be bipolar, in continual change as opposites vie for dominance. ot services and Change is as constant as is absolute products, (831) pure consciousness. The ocean has 335-9064, email currents, waves, continual motion; gentarot@comcast.net, visit www. yet the ocean in its totality supports melaniegendron.com. The personified tarot cards in This Fool’s Journey talk about themselves, making the archetypes accessible to the reader. The line drawings of the Gendron Tarot major arcana make this book a visual as well as consciously expansive treat. —John Gray, Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

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ur thoughts create reality, and our perceptions shape our world. I take responsibility for the patterns, reactions and decisions that led to my present circumstance. I would like to afford the best painting surfaces, better computer equipment, the best product to bring forth the best creative expression. Who put the thought out that artists don’t make money? How did I buy into limitation? Did Oprah ever think poverty thoughts that

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by Susan Springfield call myself spiritual, but I don’t feel a need to defend God. What God would I be defending? Andrew Newberg and Mark Waldman write about spirituality from the perspective of neuroscience and they describe five versions of God: authoritarian, critical, distant, benevolent and mystical. They suggest that these versions relate to the evolution of the human brain. The earliest religions had the most authoritarian gods; Zeus was an arrogant bully and the Aztec god required human sacrifice. Waldman and Newberg suggest that these early versions of gods are associated with the oldest, most primitive structures of our brains and that something happened in the brains of our ancestors that gave us the power to tame these authoritarian gods. No one knows exactly when or how it happened, but the neural structures that evolved, enhanced our ability to cooperate with others. As societies and religions developed, kinder versions of deities emerged. With the separation of church and state, greater spiritual variety emerged. In the mid-1800’s small groups of people became interested in various

spiritualistic, esoteric and Susan Springfield transcendental philosophies imported from Europe and Asia. A mystical point of view emerged. In this version of spirituality, God, oneself and the universe were

Angel of the Presence ©2000 by Melanie Gendron interconnected. God had fallen from the heavens and expanded into the mystery of consciousness itself. There is a big difference between an authoritarian God and the possibility of an interconnected universe that includes us. Atheists have an easy target when they criticize the angry, punitive version of God. They can point to science as the better story

and I would heartily agree. It seems a limited point of view to divide the world into two camps: the atheists and supplicants. There are versions of spirituality and versions of science. Each can be framed in limited ways. At the heart of the difference is methodology. I respect the scientific method. I am in constant benefit of this version of the world with its evidence and proof. At the same time, I hold a space for that which can not be counted or measured. The investigation of my life is not about proof,it is about value. My experiences are the experiments conducted and the results revealed. My evaluations are based on a feeling sense I would be hard pressed to explain. I do not imagine that what I learn is definitive or that it applies to everyone. In the end, we are all choosing some limited version of reality that rests between the known and yet-tobe-known. We have decisions to make. With all the fragments of proof and all the remaining questions, we craft own version of a life well-lived. Susan Springfield is a practitioner at the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Cruz, 1818 Felt Street. The Sunday celebration service begins at 10:30 with an earlier meditation at 10:00. Susan speaks on the 2nd Sunday of each month. Learn more about our line-up of classes at cslsantacruz.org. or call (831) 462-9383.

We Pay Tribute to Marfa Levine’s Son, Zach Watson—July 12, 1985 – August 16, 2014

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ventor, artist, gamer, film aficionado. Listener, supporter, a man with a big smile and a big heart and a solid hug, creating extended family. Son, brother, nephew, grandson, uncle, cousin, sweetheart, and above all else, friend. What a friend! We p a y tribute to Marf a L e v i n e ’s son, Zach Watson of San

Francisco, who was killed in an accident while walking his bicycle across the street after a swing dance last summer. He worked as a data visualizer and designer at The Exploratorium. His passion for life is remembered and treasured and he continues to inspire us. Donations can be made to the Zach Watson Memorial Education Fund at Gray Area: http://grayarea. org/initiative/zachary-watsonmemorial-education-fund/

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The Music of the Spheres:

Astrological Insights by Susan Heinz

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atery Cancer arrives in summer when the light is strong and families gather. Bonds of belonging blossom with enjoyment of friends. But the days’ length is waning and the Moon’s influence begins to grow. Sensitive Cancer is a sign easily underestimated. Those born under the sign of the crab, (moon

sign, or rising also), must connect with their deep inner feeling source, and learn to navigate those emotional waters. That source than becomes their foundation of strength, from which arises their authentic voice and unique creativity. They naturally tune in to nurture others. This they must learn to do for themselves. This month Jupiter and Mars

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detaching from outcome after the 25th. Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): Energy and effort around work begins to lessen. You feel its positive results. Lessons in partnership intensify as Mars enters Scorpio. Clear definition of your expectations and needs clarify what actions to take. Give yourself some time at home to be creative and follow it for several days. This brings confidence. Celebrate and begin to change the energy of your home. Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): This month begins with more harmony. Relationships go smoothly and are enjoyable. It is an excellent time to express yourself. Writing and teaching are very favored this month. Relation with a sibling or neighbor brings benefits to you. Seed an intention on the New Moon, 26th of how you want to bring more fulfillment into your life. Cancer (Jun 21–Jul 21): Trust yourself this month. Let no other voices interfere with your realization of what is needed or what direction to follow. Practice keeping your balance, moving with as much ease as possible, as busyness flutters around you. Venus enters Cancer on the 18th and brings sweetness into your life, especially if you are aware of subtleties. It transforms relationships. This is a time to bring forth your talents. Leo (Jul 22-Aug 22): Have friends over for dinner on the 12th for maximum enjoyment. Invite those friends who stimulate your mind and engage you in interesting conversation! The 16th brings Jupiter into Leo, for its year long sojourn there. This begins a time for you to expand your world. Try something you always wanted to do, or something radically different. Set your intention to a year long goal. Your confidence will grow, if you don’t spread yourself too thin. Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): Have you expressed yourself publicly lately? Mercury has been encouraging a more public expression of yourself. Now is a time that bodes well for the arts and working with others in general. Your poetic voice, your insightful nature, seems to flow more smoothly, especially in the first part of the month. The second part of the month highlights tackling a larger project. Be careful not to take on too much, so you can complete that which you are intending. Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): You are moving into a time when your artistic expression is much more public. Know what you want and continue to pursue it, but keep focused on a few things, not 10. The new moon of the 26th brings out your love of sharing with friends of

like mind, something creative is being revealed. Be flexible in relationships as something is being let go of, or changed. Don’t hold on. Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): This is a great time for learning and generally expanding your point of view to larger time frames. As Saturn goes direct, you feel that something is coming to a head. A new understanding is evolving, and patience is required to integrate what has been revealed. After the 25th you have more energy to take clear action. Motivation increases, and physical activity is beneficial. Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): During the first part of the month, define and sum up situations with others and/ or working partners. Clarify anything that needs to be clarified because you are coming to a time of more rapid expansion in whatever it is you are doing or wanting to do. Travel becomes highlighted, but be aware of your needs for retreat. A balance between the two is essential. Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19): Others can be of help to you as you formulate your goals. Though you often choose to go it alone, be open to suggestions and opportunities that others might provide. Perseverance is important as a new sense of self is being created. Though there can be a sweetness in relationship, ways of relating are changing. Take a risk and challenge yourself by doing something very different and new. Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): July is a time for love! Steady progress helps you to move toward your goals. Suddenly situations open up in unexpected ways. You are helped and supported by another and opportunities come your way. On the 25th to the 29th, don’t overextend yourself as there can be emotional challenge around that time. Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): Soon you are entering a time of leadership. Be confident. Trust your instincts and gut responses. Your natural leadership proceeds humbly but your clarity now is like the North Star, directing, anchoring, generous, inspiring, and very creative. Take care the week of the 25th, for differences of opinion, and perhaps even some vying for power, can take place. Susan Heinz is a professional astrologer in Santa Cruz for 32 years, bringing together traditional & esoteric astrology, Tarot and Qabalah. For info on her Friday monthly astrology groups, her Qabalah, astrology and or, painting classes and for personal consultations, call (831) 479-3751, or go to www.susanheinz.com.

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by Dr. Mercola he use of marijuana for medical purposes is now legal in 23 states and, as of this writing, 9 states have pending legislation or ballot measures to legalize medical marijuana.1 Estimates are that between 85 and 95 percent of Americans are in favor of medical cannabis, and nearly 60 percent support complete legalization of marijuana. And doctors agree. In 2014, a survey found that the majority of physicians—56 percent—favor nationwide legalization of medical cannabis, with support being highest among oncologists and hematologists.2 However, many families are still unable, legally or otherwise, to obtain this herbal treatment. Families with a sick child are being forced to split up, just so that one parent can live in a place where medical cannabis can be legally obtained in order to help their child. A major part of the problem lies at the federal level, where marijuana is classified as a Schedule 13 controlled substance—a category reserved for the most dangerous of drugs, including heroin, LSD, and ecstasy. According to the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, Schedule 1 drugs are defined as those having a “high potential for abuse” and “no accepted medical use.” Research to date shows that marijuana meets neither of these criteria. The featured documentary covers some of the most recent research on the medical applications of marijuana. In light of recent science, it’s clear that marijuana does not meet Schedule 1 criteria and it’s high time to revise this classification. Prominent Physicians Shifting Their Stance on Medical Marijuana A number of prominent physicians are reversing their opinions about marijuana’s medicinal utility. A recent example is US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who in a recent CBS interview, acknowledged that marijuana may be useful for certain medical conditions. CNN’s chief medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta also made a highly publicized reversal on his marijuana stance after the production of his two-part series “Weed.”4 (This is a Flash-based video and may not be viewable on mobile devices.) The US seems to want it both ways. The federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug. But in October 2003, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) obtained a patent for marijuana as a “neural protectant,” claiming it can protect your brain against stroke and trauma.5 How can HHS own a patent for the medical use of cannabis, while the federal government still classifies it as an unsafe drug with no medical value? The US Has Much to Learn from Israel The US is far behind many other countries in harnessing the healing power of marijuana. Israel is the marijuana research capital of the world, thanks to Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, who was the first to investigate the medicinal properties of marijuana way back in the 1960s and the first to isolate THC and CBD. Israel is now using marijuana to treat cancer, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Tourette’s syndrome, and many other conditions. As shown in the film, even residents of Israeli nursing homes are being treated with marijuana. But in the US, the fact that marijuana remains classified as a dangerous Schedule 1 drug has all but halted scientific progress. American scientists

have to jump through a frustrating array of hoops, which are expensive and time consuming and ultimately discourage the majority of researchers from conducting marijuana studies. Marijuana’s Miracle Molecules: Cannabinoids Cannabinoids are the general category of active chemical compounds found in marijuana, or cannabis. Cannabinoids can be separated into several subclasses—two of which are THC (tetrahydrocannabinols) and CBD (cannabidiols).6 CBD is the most abundant cannabinoid, contributing up to 40 percent of cannabis resin. Cannabinoids produce biological effects because, just like opiates interacting with your opiate receptors, cannabinoids interact with specific receptors located in your cell membranes. The therapeutic and psychoactive properties of marijuana occur when particular cannabinoids activate their associated receptors, and the effects depend on the areas of your body and brain in which they interact. Some cannabinoids are psychoactive, whereas others are not. THC is the most psychoactive, the one that produces the “high”—which is why marijuana plants have been bred over time to produce ever-increasing amounts of this compound. However, selectively breeding pot for high THC has diminished its medicinal value and increased its likelihood of producing adverse effects. Although research is still in its infancy, the cannabinoids appear to work in tandem with each other, balancing one another out. According to the University of Washington:7 “CBD may actually have anti-anxiety effects and lessen the psychoactive effects of THC. This means that a plant with a greater percentage of CBD may reduce the intensity of the effects of the THC, which in effect lowers the potency of the plant. Use of a cannabis plant with less CBD has been shown to have an increased psychological impact and result in unwanted effects such as anxiety.” So, by breeding out the CBD, pot growers have created more intense psychoactive effects that lack any modulation, which is why some people experience adverse reactions such as anxiety and even psychosis. Mother Nature created a delicately balanced chemical system in this plant, which humans have upset with their tampering and manipulation. Like It or Not, You Are Wired to Respond to Marijuana The fact that there’s a plant that acts on your body’s own cannabinoid receptors is a phenomenon Dr. Mechoulam calls a “quirk of nature.” He’s referring to the fact that we didn’t develop these receptors in order to smoke pot—we have them because we have our own endogenous cannabinoid system. Your body makes its own cannabinoids, similar to those found in marijuana but present in much smaller amounts. These endocannabinoids appear to perform signaling operations similar to your body’s neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin. Cannabinoid receptors can be found on cell membranes throughout your body—in fact, scientists now believe they may represent the most widespread receptor system.8 Two receptor types have been identified: CB1: Cannabinoid receptors that are extremely prolific in your brain (excluding your brain stem), but also present in your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and other parts of your body CB2: Cannabinoid receptors pri-

marily found in your immune system. Your endocannabinoid system is thought to help regulate nearly every physiological process and plays an important role in maintaining homeostasis—and yet, it’s not taught in medical school! We’ve shared this important system with all vertebrate species and even sea squirts for more than 600 million years. Science to date suggests that your endocannabinoid system is integral to the following biological processes, and chances are we’ve barely scratched the surface.9 The Growing List of Illnesses Cannabis Can Treat: Mental disorders, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Tourette’s syndrome, Multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune issues, Pain and Insomnia, Parkinson’s Disease, Degenerative neurological disorders, dystonia and tremor, Cancer, numerous types The fact that your body is replete with cannabinoid receptors, key to so many biological functions, is why there’s such enormous medical potential for cannabis. If it can help restore homeostasis, it will prove itself as a very powerful therapy. CBD may be the most potent and beneficial of the cannabinoids, particularly for tamping down an overactive immune system, as is the case with autoimmune disease. CBD also has antipsychotic properties but does not get you high or stoned. The response of cancer patients to cannabis treatment is very encouraging. Not only does cannabis help with the unpleasant side effects of traditional chemotherapy (including pain, nausea, and insomnia), but the cannabis itself appears to be a natural chemotherapy agent. Over the past several years, dozens of studies point to marijuana’s effectiveness against many different types of cancer, including brain cancer, breast and prostate, lung, thyroid, colon, pituitary, melanoma, and leukemia. It fights cancer by at least two mechanisms, making it difficult for a cancer to grow and spread: Cannabis is pro-apoptotic, meaning it triggers apoptosis (cellular suicide) of cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells untouched Cannabis is anti-angiogenic, meaning it cuts off a tumor’s blood supply. This may explain why chronic pot smokers have such surprisingly low rates of lung and other cancers, especially when compared to cancer rates among tobacco smokers. 10,11 In addition to cancer, cannabis has been found effective against an ever-growing list of illnesses. Research has been limited, but we may be turning the corner. It’s likely we’ll soon be expanding this list as the evolving political climate becomes more favorable to cannabis research. Science Shows Marijuana MUCH Safer Than Prescription Drugs Many prescription drugs are known to be dangerous. Pharmaceuticals in general are among the leading causes of death in the US, and some drugs have killed tens of thousands of individuals. The painkiller Vioxx is one classic example that killed over 60,000 before being pulled off the market. According to Dr. Margaret Gedde, MD, PhD, owner and founder of Gedde Whole Health and the Clinicians’ Institute of Cannabis Medicine, you don’t have to look far to find research confirming that cannabis is safer and less toxic than many prescription drugs. This includes liver and kidney toxicity, gastrointestinal damage, nerve damage, and of course death. More-

over, cannabinoids often work when pharmaceutical drugs fail, so not only is cannabis safer but it’s typically more effective. One of the strongest areas of research regarding marijuana’s health benefits is pain control. In 2010, the Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR) released a report12 on 14 clinical studies about the use of marijuana for pain, most of which were FDA-approved, doubleblind, and placebo-controlled. The report revealed that marijuana not only controls pain, but in many cases it does so better than pharmaceutical alternatives. If you compare prescription painkillers (opiates) to marijuana, marijuana is much safer. Opioid painkillers can lead to slowed respiration and death if an excess is taken—and the risks are compounded if you add alcohol to the equation. By contrast, cannabis overdose cannot kill you because there are no cannabinoid receptors in your brain stem, the region of your brain that controls your heartbeat and respiration. The statistics speak for themselves. In 2010, prescription painkillers were responsible for 16,600 deaths, and painkiller overdoses claimed more women’s lives than cocaine and heroine combined. In the CDC’s Public Health Reports study,13 prescription drugs were involved in fatal car crashes at three times the rate of marijuana. In states where medical marijuana is legal, overdose deaths from opioids like morphine, oxycodone, and heroin decreased by an average of 20 percent after one year, 25 percent after two years and up to 33 percent by years five and six. As noted by Dr. Gedde: “There’s an ongoing death rate from use of pain medications as prescribed. So, even as prescribed, they’re highly dangerous and they are open to abuse. As far as medications used in the pediatric population to control seizures, there are also severe toxicities to organs. Many of them are very sedating. The children become unable to function or really to interact because of the sedating effects. Other medications have a side effect of rage and behavioral problems. Unprovoked rage is actually a known side effect of some of the antiseizure medications. Cannabis and in particular cannabidiol has none of these issues. No toxicities. The main

side effect of cannabidiol is sleepiness. As a child gets accustomed to it, that does wear off and the child can be very alert and functional on the cannabis oil once they have worked into the dosing. Once you put them against each other, there really is no comparison in terms of safety.” Education Is Key Because of the issues already discussed, it can sometimes be challenging finding accurate, sciencebased information about cannabis. Dr. Gedde offers the following suggestions for obtaining reliable information: “The reason why it’s difficult is that the preponderance of research funds have been to show harm related to cannabis, as a drug of abuse... Look for the real research that’s there on the endocannabinoid system and the ways that marijuana cannabis has been helping people for centuries. And look into the history of medical practice; that’s where the information starts to come out.” She also recommends looking to current clinical practice, which is possible in states where cannabis is now safely and legally accessible. This is where you can learn more about optimal dosing and protocols found effective for various conditions. Other resources that may be helpful include the following: Cancer.gov, 14 the US government’s cancer website, contains research relating to the use of cannabis PubMed15 is a searchable public resource containing a vast amount of medical literature, including studies involving cannabis. The Journal of Pain16 is a publication by the American Pain Society with a long list of studies on the pain-relieving effects of cannabis. National Institute on Drug Abuse17 is an excellent resource, including information about preclinical and clinical trials are underway to test marijuana and various extracts for the treatment of a number of diseases, including autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease, inflammation, pain, and mental disorders. I also recommend listening to my previous interview with Dr. Frankel, in which he discusses many of the medical benefits of cannabis. www.drmercola.com Printed with permission.

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