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—Daniela Geracitano Vance
COMMUNITY
Science and spirituality - Geoff Olson
ENVIRONMENT
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Aboriginal cultures of mid-Pacific coast
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The lade Book: carving a message of peace
by Daniela Geracitano Vance
The idea for The Jade Book: A Stone of
Hope came in the late summer of 1999,
when my father visited the Galeria Da
Vinci i n Vancouver's Canada Place.
There he saw a large vase made out of
jade with rings linked to its handles.
These intrigued him and ultimately led
to his idea of creating a book with two
arches - also made of jade - for the spine.
These arches would
extend u p f r o m
and be a part o f
the fourth and last
page of the book,
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while remaining
bound togeth-
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the rudimen-
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of the imag-
ined b o o k
while s t i l l
working on the
jade bust o f my
mother. He initially thought of the book
as an album that would contain the
images, carved in low relief, of family
members, but the book's potential sub-
jects changed several times.
In the summer of 2001, once all the
pages were freed from the nephrite
matrix, my father chose the definitive
theme for his book. What he truly want-
ed to carve was something that conveyed
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SPIRITUALITY
6 Getting to know the Dalai Lama
- Interview with Victor Chan 16
7 The Now - Eckhart Tolle 18
Shifts in consciousness - Gwen Randall-Young
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St. Patrick's way - Reg Block 25
RESOURCE D I R E C TO RY 26
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D AT E B O O K
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FIT FOR L I V I N G
Sleep keeps your body in balance - Cat Smiley 37
15 Self interest for whom? - Ishi Dinim 38
the message that we are all equal and his philosophy of non-violent resistance,
united in our humanity. Since this was a otherwise known as Satyagraha or pur-
form so complex that it had never been suit of truth.
carved before, he now felt that it had to In 1948, the year that Gandhi was
address the most important of themes. assassinated, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu,
My father first thought of carving the who the world came to know as Mother
faces of people with varying ethnic back-
grounds to show that we are more alike
Teresa, stepped out onto the streets of
Calcutta, India to serve the poorest of the
than different. Then he refined his idea poor by living like them and among
to carving well- them. Prompted by the call of God she
k n o w n
humanitari-
had received in 1946, she founded the
Missionaries of Charity. Her order con-
ans: M o t h e r tinues to help hundreds of thousands of
Teresa, D r . people around the world each year
Martin Luther including the hungry, the homeless,
King, Jr. and abandoned a n d orphaned children,
Mahatma unwed mothers, lepers, AIDS patients,
Gandhi. and victims of natural disasters. Mother
These three Teresa was so loved in India that when
people repre- she died in 1997, her body was carried on
sented d i f - the same gun carriage used during the
ferent g e n - funeral procession for Mahatma Gandhi.
ders, ages, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the
nationalities champion of the Civil Rights Movement
and r e l i - in the United States. His actions led to
gions - the the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
types of dif- which helped put an end to segregation,
ferences that divided many people and and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which
had been used repeatedly throughout made voter registration possible for a
history as an excuse for war. greater number o f African-Americans
Despite t h e i r differences, t h e s e living in the South. He was profoundly
humanitarians w e r e fundamentally influenced by the teachings of Gandhi on
linked. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, non-cooperation, and non-violent social
whom t h e I n d i a n p e o p l e c a l l e d change, which he began studying while
Mahatma or Great Soul and Gandhiji, in Crozer Theological Seminary and
liberated India from British rule in 1947. after hearing Mordecai Johnson lecture
He freed 350 million Indians armed with continued on page 24...
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Science and spirituality
ccit.human being is part of the whole
called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time
and space. We experience ourselves, our
thoughts and feelings as something separate
from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and affections for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free our-
selves from the prison by widening our cir-
cle of compassion to embrace all living crea-
tures and the whole of nature in its beau-
ty" - Albert Einstein
"True happiness comes not from a limit-
ed concern for one's own well-being or that
of those one feels close to, but from develop-
ing love and compassion for all sentient
beings." - The Dalai Lama
The future was so bright J. Robert
Oppenheimer had to wear shades. On
July 16, 1945, the Manhattan Project
director clipped on a pair of sunglasses
and looked out over the New Mexico
desert, awaiting the world's first atomic
test. As the mushroom cloud boiled up
over t h e horizon, a l i n e f r o m T h e
Bhagavad-Gita popped into the lanky sci-
entist's head: "I am become Death, the
destroyer of worlds?'
This wasn't just the first memorable
line of the atomic age. It was the intellec-
tual preamble to the science and spiritual-
ity craze of later decades.
A passing reference to blue-skinned
deities in the context of nuclear destruc-
tion was pretty obscure in the postwar
environment o f Howdy Doody and
Edward R. Murrow. But the east-meets-
west zeitgeist eventually took hold. 1975
saw the publication of Fritoj Capra's The
Tao of Physics, followed by Gary Zukav's
The Dancing Wu Li Masters in 1979. These
two tomes initiated the pop-culture pro-
gram of bringing science and spirituality
together, with a subsequent avalanche of
texts for serious-minded seekers.
The results of this grand unification
have been mixed, more often resembling a
shotgun marriage than a marriage of con-
venience. Books w i t h titles like The
Quantum Self Quantum Reality, and
Quantum Healing popped up like toad-
stools in New Age bookstores. The Alice in
Wonderland quality of the nano-world
made for big box office, and anything
with "quantum" in the title ensured gold
at the end of the publishing rainbow.
Some scientists looked askance at the
more enthusiastic claims in these popular
accounts. Multiple dimensions and paral-
lel universes were no longer theoretical -
they were the bonafides for everything
from ghosts to psychic healing to past
lives. The science/spirituality bandwagon
has also given us some interesting charac-
ters, like New Age author Gregg Braden,
who cuts a dashing figure with his leonine
hair, powersuit and PowerPoint presenta-
tion. In his book The Isaiah Effect, Braden
sticks the shroud of Turin, quantum the-
ory, human DNA, chi energy, and the
Dead Sea scrolls into a metaphysical mix-
master, set to puree. Another messy cock-
tail of science and spirituality comes cour-
tesy ET contactee/prophet Rael (Claude
Vorihon), whose religious group pranked
the global media a year ago with claims of
cloning human beings.
A few accidents in the pop-
culture kitchen don't
necessarily prove
that science
and spiri-
tuality
are
bad
togeth-
er o n a
plate. T h e
past two decades
have also given us the
work o f British biologist
Rupert Sheldrake, physicist David Bohm,
psychologist Kenneth Ring and religious
scholar Huston Smith.
Which are the right tools to find the
truth? The cathedral or the computer?
The meditation retreat or the particle
accelerator? Whatever t h e t o o l s o f
enquiry, t h e postmodernist optimist
hopes that the science/spirit pairings
won't prove to be mutually exclusive.
"Even though the realms o f religion
and science are clearly marked off from
each other:' Einstein said, "nevertheless
there exists between the two strong recip-
rocal relationships and dependencies ...
the situation may be expressed by an
image: science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind:'
Compare Einstein's words with those of
the Yogi Sri Aurobindo: "True reconcilia-
tion proceeds by a mutual comprehension
by Geoff Olson
leading to some sort of intimate oneness.
It is therefore through the utmost possible
unification of Spirit and Matter that we
shall best arrive at their reconciling truth
and so at some strongest foundation for a
reconciling practice in the inner life of the
individual and his outer experiences:'
Although they may tend toward agnos-
ticism or even atheism, professional sci-
entists don't hew to any one ideological
line. Among Nobel-prize winning scien-
tists, t h e r e a r e H i n d u s , Muslims,
Buddhists, Christians and rep-
resentatives of all man-
ner of faiths. Like
anyone else, a
practising
scientist
can
"believe
in s i x
impossible
things b e f o r e
breakfast," as Lewis
Carroll's Red Queen said,
without fear of it interfering with his or
her professional life.
Werner Heisenberg, author o f The
Uncertainty Principle, expressed a belief
that the scientists' task is, or can be, a holy
pursuit: "Physics is a reflection on the
divine ideas of creation, therefore physics
is a divine service. We are in our time very
far from this theological foundation or
justification of physics; but we still follow
this method."
Heisenberg's humility was undoubtedly
influenced by the utterly bizarre nature of
the quantum world, which makes the
Bardo realm of Tibetan Buddhism seem
like a trip across town. "Those who are
not shocked when they first come across
quantum theory cannot possibly have
understood it," said his colleague Niels
Bohr.
This weirdness extends from the micro-
cosm to the macrocosm. Many cosmolo-
gists theorize that the universe emerged
out of a vacuum state; a void paradoxical-
ly containing energy, similar t o the
"plenum" of mystics. "Is it not shocking to
know," wrote the Zen Buddhist teacher
D.T. Suzuki, "all the heavens including all
the luminaries whose lights are measured
to reach this Earth after millions of years
are said to be mere bubbles in the ocean
of eternal emptiness?"
In 1456, the Christian mystic Nicholas
of Cusa described a universe "where the
circumference is nowhere and the centre
is everywhere," anticipating the cosmo-
logical model o f a finite but boundless
universe by centuries.
Behind today's spirituality/science
movement is the hope of decoding God -
or some transcendent force or purpose -
using reason. Yet, prominent scientists
occasionally jump on the spirituality/sci-
ence bandwagon even when i t doesn't
accord with their beliefs. In the film A
Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking's
computer-generated voice told of his sci-
entific mission "to know the mind o f
God." This much-quoted line actually
came from the mouth of a hard-nosed
atheist: Hawking was simply using a liter-
ary/philosophical conceit for effect.
Whether it originates from a genuine
expression of spiritual longing, or a pub-
lisher's nudge over lunch, this God angle
has been enjoying a. decade-long vogue
among science authors. Paul Davies, an
Oxford mathematician, gave us The Mind
of God in 1992, after authoring God and
the New Physics. Another scientist, James
Trefil penned Reading the Mind of God.
Leon Lederman, director of Fermilab in
Illinois, went for broke with The God
Particle.
In some scientific quarters, an ultimate
explanation for life, the universe and
everything is now seen as attainable - per-
haps within our lifetimes. Lederman says
he hoped one day to see a simple list of
equations explaining the universe that
will "fit on a t-shire
Other scientists are more cautious in
their estimates, and don't expect an ulti-
mate explanation anytime soon. Some
believe nature will curmudgeonly conceal
the final truth, and the scientific quest go
on forever, with The Answer recursively
retreating inward, like a nesting o f
Russian dolls. There are many scientists
who believe metaphysical talk about a
supreme being is simply outside the
boundaries of what science can reason-
ably talk about. Others think it significant
that organized religion has ceded signifi-
cant ground to science, and that this
process will continue until all superstition
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Continued from page 7...
- God included - is scientifically dis-
missed.
Used to doing without a supreme being
for so long, some scientists may now feel
He may be explained away completely. Is
some preemptory loss being felt in the
halls of academe? For some materialists,
losing God for good could leave them
feeling like the administration of George
Bush senior after the Berlin Wall fell; vic-
torious, but already wondering who will
fill the enemy's shoes.
In the past 400 years, science has been
extraordinarily successful in demoting the
supreme being, or so it seems. Lyell and
Hutton took geology out of His jurisdic-
tion, and Darwin followed suit with biol-
ogy. Already pushed back to the sphere of
fixed stars by Galileo, and then sent scur-
rying into the intergalactic void by Edwin
Hubble, God now finds a do-nothing
posting in "quantum cosmology" Said by
some to be inactive since the Big Bang, He
may be worried that further discoveries
will have Him moved further down the
hall, or escorted off the premises after
being made to hand over the keys to cre-
ation.
Stephen Hawking himself has said that
the cosmos has no beginning or end, he
can find no useful role for God in the uni-
verse: "what place then for a Creator?" It's
been a long, strange trip, from prime
mover to cosmic deadwood.
In this viewpoint, God and spirituality
are all in the head, and nowhere else. The
new field of "neurotheology" attempts to
isolate the brain receptors that allow us to Creator will figure prominently in the nessed the Godlike power of 20th centu-
access altered states of consciousness, and Ultimate Explanation in some fashion ry physics in the New Mexico desert, his
with them the imps of the imagination we involving consciousness, which hasa truly scientific training simply wasn't up to
fashion into gods and devils. weird involvement with the quantum the task of describing the immensity of
Yet, any skepticism felt for organized world. The words of British geneticist the moment. This is why he thought of
religion should be balanced with an J.B.S. Haldane come to mind: "My suspi- the words of Krishna, who shows Arjuna
understanding of the limits of knowledge. cion is that the universe is not only queer- a visual manifestation of all his incarna-
The provisional nature of science should er than we suppose, but queerer than we tions and manifestations, including
make scientists themselves wary of any can suppose" Death. For moments that shatter our
anticipated gnosis. Science, for all its One o f the principle differences sense of mundane reality, we require
advances, is an ever-finer approximation between spirituality, religion and science poetry, art and the mythic tales of cre-
of a certain culture- is the concept of the ation and destruction.
bound cross-section Like anyone else, a miraculous. Science Yet, the mathematical description of
of reality. practising scientist can will accept uncaused nature has its own narrative quality, in
At the same time, it causes (as in subatom- its own way as strange as anything from
would be difficult to "believe in six impossible ic particles that appear the Australian Aborigines' dreamtime,
deny modern science things before breakfast," and disappear into the or Rael's ET visions.
has given us a more void, as long as they In 1932, Sir James Jeans gave us a
accurate picture o f as Lewis Carroll's Red do s o w i t h i n much-quoted assessment that still
the world than that Queen said, w i t h o u t fear Heisenberg's t i m e - holds: "Today there is a wide measure of
offered by medieval energy constraints), agreement, which on the physical side of
scholastics. We're in a o f it i n t e r f e r i n g w i t h his but it has trouble with science approaches almost to unanimity,
better position today or her professional life. ultimate origins. The that the stream of knowledge is heading
to ask pertinent ques- late T e r r e n c e towards a non-mechanical reality; the
tions - certainly better than the individual McKenna, speaking of the Big Bang theo- universe begins to look more like a great
who supposedly asked St. Augustine what ry, imagined cosmologists saying, "just thought than like a great machine."
God was doing before He created Heaven. give us one miracle, and we can explain Jeans' line about the universe being a
"Creating Hell for those who ask such everything else!" Elsewhere, McKenna "great thought" is not simply another
questions," was the cleric's recorded noted that tensor equations say little to us empty rhetorical device, like Stephen
response. about the meaning of the universe we Hawking's "reading the mind of God" It
Physics and astronomy finds no direct inhabit, certainly less than an aboriginal expresses a mystery that has been deeply
evidence for a supreme being in its inves- tale of some trickster-god who got drunk puzzling to scientists, who refer to it as
tigations - of course, that may have more and "pissed the universe into existence:' "the unreasonable effectiveness o f
to do with the nature of science than it Science does the how, but spirituality mathematics in the natural sciences."
has to do with any absence of God. There and religion do the why (opinions differ Why should this universe we live in be
is of course, the other possibility: that the on how well they do it). Unlike science, so in accord with equations scientists
physicist's popularized talk of God is they trade in narrative, and this is a cru- perceive as beautiful? Why should the
more accurate than they know. Perhaps a cial difference. When Oppenheimer wit- universe slavishly follow numbers

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tracked in the heads of human beings?
A debate persists among pure mathe-
maticians whether their objects o f
enquiry are just mental artifacts, or some-
how "out there," in a Platonic realm of
pure form. We all would all admit four
apples on a table are more than an
abstraction - there are four very real
apples on one very real table. But what of
entities like the square roots. of negative
numbers, or other mathematical will o'
the whisps that are necessary for the
physicist's description of the world, but
have no correspondence with anything
"real?" Is it significant that the further we
plunge into our analysis of nature, the
more "mind-like" it appears under our
questioning?
James Jeans again: "Mind no longer
appears as an accidental intruder into the
realm of matter; we are beginning to sus-
pect that we ought rather to hail it as the
creator and governor of the realm of mat-
ter - not of course our individual minds,
but the mind in which the atoms out of
which our individual minds have grown
exist as thoughts:'
"This new knowledge compels us to
revise our hasty first impression that we
had stumbled into a universe which either
did not concern itself with life or was
actively hostile to lifer
Cue the angelic choir. It's important to
note that on the basis of scientific evi-
dence, Jeans' estimate - where substance
of the great thought that is the universe is
consciousness itself - is no more heretical
than the materialist's dour view of a cos-
mos accidentally spat out of 'a space-time else atrophy in favour of one organ of to impossible to stop what meditators call
singularity, and stumbling purposelessly rational analysis," said Heisenberg. "It is a "monkey-mind." Our limited hominid
toward an entropic death. matter, rather, of seizing upon reality with brains demand neat, tidy answers. Is there
"It is difficult for the matter-of-fact all the organs that are given to us, and aGod? And what is God - immanent,
physicist to accept the view that the sub- trusting that this reality will then also transcendent, or even conceivable? Where
stratum of everything is of mental char- reflect the essence of things, the "one, the is God, or whatever you want to call Him,
acter," said the British physicist Sir Arthur good and the true:' Her or It (Mind at Large, the Divine
Eddington, who prided himself as a Buddha said much the same thing: Imagination, The Indefinable Whatever)?
Quaker mystic. "But no one can deny that "Transcendental intelligence rises when Is God in the infernos of distant stars, or
mind is the first and most direct link to the intellectual mind reaches its limit and among physicists' infinitely small whorls
our experience, and all else is remote if things are to be realized in their true of 10-dimensional "string?" Everywhere
inference:' and essential nature, its processes o f and nowhere at once? And what kind of
Eddington's words are echoed by thinking must be transcended by an lunatic creator would allow such pain and
Buddha: "The exter- appeal to some higher suffering to go on on our bizarro planet to
nal world is only a "The most beautiful emo- faculty of cognition." begin with?
manifestation of the This higher faculty What if embodied consciousness is the
activities of the mind
tion we can experience is might be called the divine imagination playing hide and seek
itself, and... the mind the mystical," Einstein direct apprehension from itself, maintaining the illusion of
grasps it as an exter- once said. "It is the power of Mind itself, and a separate selves to keep itself company?
nal world simply sense of cosmic unity. And what if the principal hiding place is
because of its habit of of all true art and science." "The most beautiful the slyest one conceivable, in the hearts of
discrimination and emotion we can expe- all sentient beings?
false reasoning. The disciple must get into rience is the mystical," Einstein once said. Perhaps the union o f science and
the habit of looking at things truthfully." "It is the power of all true art and science. spirituality is not meant to birth any one
We don't want to slip into solipsism, or "He to whom this emotion is a stranger, ultimate answer, but rather a whole new
confuse the map with the territory; the who can no longer wonder and stand rapt family of questions.
physicists' equations are not the same as in awe, is as good as dead. To know that Do not look for God,
the cosmos itself. But it's still worth asking what is impenetrable to us really exists, Look for the one
- Hawking notwithstanding - are we read- manifesting itself as the highest wisdom Looking for God.
ing the mind of God in our scientific pur- and the most radiant beauty, which our But why look at all?
suits, or just seeing our own reflections in dull faculties can comprehend only in He is not lost.
the cosmic mirror? Or even more incred- their most primitive forms - this knowl- He is right here,
ibly, funhouse distortions of one and the edge, this feeling, is at the centre of true Closer than your own breath.
same, the central source who dreamed the religiousness. In this sense, and in this - Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)
whole circus up to begin with? sense only, I belong to the rank of devout-
Reason may take us only so far in these ly religious men:' Geoff Olson is a Vancouver writer and
journeys, before it swallows its own tail This mystical sense stands above and political cartoonist. He can be reached at
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phones so we can be reached instantly. We
use email so we can transmit text and
photos in the blink of an eye. We eat at
fast food chains so we can get our food
immediately. We drive everywhere to get
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we want results - now.
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planet doesn't work that way. Things take
time. Processes evolve over hundreds,
thousands or millions of years.
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messing things u p quickly, b u t little
patience when it comes to fixing them.
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protective layer of ozone gas high in the
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was growing and began to cause increased confused when stories about the ozone but today traces of these compounds can
skin cancer in humans and a host of hole continue t o appear every year. be found in the bodies of every person
unknown environmental problems. "Didn't we fix that?" is a common refrain. on Earth.
Over the next few years, scientists In fact, the Montreal Protocol is work- As humanity's influence on the envi-
determined the cause of the problem - a ing. CFC production has dropped to near ronment and natural systems continues
group o f chemical compounds called zero levels and the ozone layer seems to to grow, we have to remember that it can
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that were be gradually repairing itself. But CFCs take far longer to solve our problems
used in solvents, aerosols and as coolants can persist in the atmosphere for 50 to than it does to create them. We cannot
in refrigeration units and air condition- 100 years. So some of the CFCs manufac- just switch a problem off like a remote-
ers. When CFCs find their way up into the tured 40 years ago are still destroying control television. Global warming, for
stratosphere and react with ultraviolet ozone today. It will take decades before example, will not be solved instantly.
light, they create free the protective layer The carbon dioxide we are pumping into
radical chlorine com- Our planet cannot be fully heals. U n t i l the atmosphere today will stay in our air
pounds, w h i c h a r e then, the size of the for several hundred years. Even i f we
potent scavengers o f
commandei to fix itself. hole w i l l fluctuate stopped producing heat-trapping gases
ozone. In an unprece- Mother Na,ture does not from year to year. today, the Earth will continue to warm,
dented move, nations have a cell phone. She Another class o f and we will continue to have more
around t h e w o r l d chemicals that w i l l extreme weather events and other cli-
quickly agreed t o doesn't use email and she's continue to haunt us mate-related problems for generations.
phase out CFCs and not too kee n on instant for decades, e v e n That's why it's so important to get
the Montreal Protocol though a number of started now. Our planet cannot be com-
was born. messaging either. them were banned in manded to fix itself. Mother Nature does
It is a well-known 2001, are persistent not have a cell phone. She doesn't use
and unqualified success. A s o n e organic pollutants. These toxic chemical email and she's not too keen on instant
researcher points out in a recent edition compounds, which include PCBs and messaging either. She takes her time and
of the journal Nature - even schoolchild- DDT, are easily transported by air and we'd better get used to it because like it
ren today are familiar with the story. ocean currents, and have found their way or not, we're on her schedule.
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B r i t climber Joe Simpson's best-selling The plan was to climb it Alpine style,
account of how he survived catastrophe which meant roped together w i t h
on a remote Andean mountain range has enough supplies in their rucksacks to do
become the stuff of mountaineering lore. a quick ascent and descent. If anything
One of those books that you can't put went wrong, they were on their own.
down. "Christ it was big," recalls one with
Oscar - w i n n i n g director K e v i n characteristic English understatement
Macdonald's "drama documentary" is as on seeing it for the first time. Worse was
compelling, capturing the taut excite- the type of snow: mountains of frosted
ment and moments of utter terror of this powder which created "meringues and
high altitude true-life drama. mushrooms and cornices all over the
The original three place" and made i t
members of the expe- Credit to Macdonald difficult to find solid JoeSimpson on location of Kevin MacDonald's Touching the Void P h o t o : Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

dition - Joe Simpson, for doing the unorthodox purchase for their ice
his climbing b u d d y axes and crampons. were making good progress. Then Joe, to wrapped up that they are unidentifiable
Simon Yates, a n d a in combining docudrama They got to the top, his horror, found himself being lowered and close-up their bearded faces are so
trekker t h e y m e t , and documentary. I t can but as Joe says, most over a cliff edge. He shouted to Simon to weathered by the hostile conditions they
Richard Hawking, who accidents happen on stop, but it was in vain. Simon let out all resemble slabs o f raw, bristly meat.
waited at the foot of the be a turn-off, but here descents. the rope and waited for Joe to shift his Simpson and Yates, who came along to
mountain, talk directly it works. Disaster s t r u c k weight so he could start lowering with advise on the shoot, appear in some of
to the camera about when Joe fell badly, the second rope. Joe dangled helplessly. the long shots as themselves 20 years ago.
their incredible experience. Intercut with causing his lower leg t o shoot u p After an h o u r and a half o f being You aren't able to tell.
their first-person accounts are dramatic through his knee. Worse than the imme- dragged toward the edge, Simon made It also undoubtedly helped t h a t
recreations of the events. diate physical agony was the knowledge the decision to cut the rope, causing Joe Macdonald and a small cast and crew
Joe was 25 when he and Simon Yates that they would be lucky to get off the to plummet into a gaping crevasse. suffered broken lips, bleeding nails and
set o f f in 1985 t o do what no other mountain alive. It is fascinating to hear the almost freezing conditions, to shoot some vivid
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W o r l d history in 2003 was marked by what now appears to be an imminent placards carry the names o f countries
the US-led invasion of Iraq, and the anti- attack on Iraq. invaded or bombed by US forces over the
war protests against i t , which were March 1 9 - George W . B u s h past six decades since the nuclear bomb-
unprecedented i n size and worldwide announces the opening o f the "shock ing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945,
coordination. The US, U K and other and awe" bombing of Iraq. Great Britain September 28 - A Vancouver rally
occupation forces remain, and the Iraqi and Spain join the US-led "coalition of demands the end of the occupation of
resistance continues - the war is not over. the willing." At 8 pm, minutes after the Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan.
The next major international anti-war bombing o f Iraq had begun, 1,500 October 25 - International Day o f
protests are set for March 20 including Vancouverites hold a spirited and angry Action sees the largest demonstrations in
what is expected to be a huge one-year march to the US consulate. the US since before the war started. In
anniversary march and rally in Vancouver. March 20 - Students make up the Vancouver, protestors march t o t h e
(See Page 4 for more details or www.stop- majority o f an a l l -day walkout and Canadian armory demanding an end to
war.ca) protest against the war. Langara, UBC, Canadian support for the occupations
A brief summary of war and peace in SFU and Emily Carr students organize and no to participation in Bush's missile
2003 includes the fol- contingents a n d j o i n defence program known as Star Wars 2.
lowing: Prime Minister Paul marchers s n a k i n g December 13 - Photo-op for US prop-
January 18 - An inter- Martin's new defense throughout downtown aganda: a disheveled Saddam Hussein is
national day o f action all a f t e r n o o n a n d captured outside of Tikrit. Despite tri-
minister David Pratt evening.
against the war on Iraq. umphalist predictions, the Iraqi resist-
Over 10,000 come out to had opposed April 9 - The fall o f ance continues and even intensifies in the
the A r t G a l l e r y i n Baghdad is highlighted following days.
Vancouver, while in the
Chretien's decision
by a great photo-op for December 15 - Bush calls to congrat-
United States the largest not to send Canadian US invaders, as a statue of ulate newly sworn-in Prime Minister
anti-war rallies since the troops to Iraq. Saddam is toppled with Paul Martin, who in turn congratulates
Vietnam war take place, the help of US forces. Bush on Hussein's capture. Martin looks
with as many as half a million marching April 12 - Another international day of to "mend fences" with the US, naming
in Washington, DC. protest against the war. In Vancouver, the David Pratt defence minister. Pratt
February 15 - The largest coordinated demand of "stop the war" becomes "end
day of protest in the history of the world. the occupation."
opposed Chretien's decision not to send
Canadian troops to Iraq. Later in the
Anywhere from 15 to 30 million take to May 1 - Bush, speaking aboard a US week, Martin states in an interview that
the streets globally against the war on aircraft carrier, announces "the end of Canadian troops won't be withdrawn
Iraq. London is the site of Britain's largest major hostilities in Iraq." Hundreds of from Afghanistan anytime soon.
rally ever at 2 million, i n Vancouver US and coalition soldiers have since been
30,000 plus make for the largest anti-war killed as resistance continues, not t o
March 20, 2004 - Global Day of Action
on the one-year anniversary of US / UK
rally here in over a decade. mention the continuing death of thou- invasion of Iraq, join millions around the
March 14 - The Vancouver peace camp sands of Iraqis. world to say no to war (see page 4 for
established across from the US consulate August 9 - Nagasaki Day is commem- details).
downtown, with 24-hour anti-war vigil. orated i n Vancouver w i t h a funeral Derrick O'Keefe is a member o f the
March 15 - In Vancouver, 15,000 protest march to the US consulate. Coffins and Stop War. ca coalition www.stopwar.ca

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Book review by Ralph Maud by the teacher not an accumulation of '
points for work explained fully i n
advance?
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seems benign when you listen to its pro- universities?' The military/business com- being hoodwinked by the forces that
ponents, is from David Noble's perspec- plex would take over, but without our wanted universities to offer a product
tive the gravest danger this century to the knowing. For instance, a little law like the rather than an experience. Student
real work of the university. 1980 reform of patents allowed universi- appeals, so politically correct, were the
I happened once to be at an editing ties to patent research done under gov- first secret step toward weakening the
studio where they were working on a ernment grants. A "favour?' of course, but professor and sapping the professor's
training film for Keg and Cleaver, as- it from then on knowledge became a mar- strength to resist further inroads into
was called in its early expansive phase. ketable commodity without anyone real- academic vitality.
The film showed how the receptionist izing something momentous had hap- David Noble is one whose strength
should greet customers, pened. For one thing, shows no signs o f diminishing. An
how the waiter should The universities had taxes were thereby accomplished historian by anyone's stan-
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the bill should be present- to be left to the importantly, a culture the Strand Hall barricades. It takes its
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agers o f new locations it began to usurp tra- tuted so easily in the 1980s. You'd think veyed the historical Luddite program and
would show the film to staff as they hired ditional open scientific research. the administration would resist the both- its successes, and showed how people
them. The impressive founder of the Keg The latest phase of commodification er of students challenging grades all the have always claimed the right to manage
chain was there that evening and he of higher education is the on-line pack- time, but they didn't. And I don't think it their workplace and introduce technolo-
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the film over and over and it was really ture as a unique moment in the lives of guise of fairness to students was the first peculiarly ours to understand and act
for them. A sense of the desired rhythm the teacher and listeners both. Now they wholesale entry of administrations into upon.
and atmosphere of aKeg would be there- want us to design a course so that we do course content and conduct of classes. Historian David Noble, co-founder of
by drilled into them without their being it just once in front of a camera and we How, it was asked, could review commit- the National Coalition for Universities in
aware of the intention. are not needed again. They want a quan- tees see if fair play had occurred unless the Public Interest, teaches a t York
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Nothing But The Rabbits rabbit's might-equals-right world con-

trasts sharply with the rich, fertile, ani-
mal-filled landscape of the beginning. Is
Miracles Book review by Catherine Chapman
there hope for the future in such a world?
Marsden's sparse text,
combined with Shaun
T h e Rabbits is a stark
Book review by Catherine Chapman Tan's exquisitely rich
allegory of colonization
and human impact on illustrations, makes for
Susan Roth's collages beautifully the environment. The an emotionally charged
illustrate this picture book, whose sim- rabbits move in and take look at colonization and
ple text is excerpted from Whitman's over a land that is lived how the environment
Leaves of Grass. Roth has put a child- on and loved by the has suffered from indus-
friendly face on the poem by intro- native creatures. They trialization a n d
ducing a family of cats that do the come by boat, speak a unchecked population
things that families do together: eating, different language, bring growth. This is a great
talking, sleeping, going to the beach, lov- different animals and book to introduce these
ing each other. Throughout the book, the for non-traditional families. T h e topics to children and as
colourful paper collages have a passion eat different food. Their
cats stop to realize the miracles that are population multiplies a discussion starter
everywhere in their daily lives, from the and vivacity that echoes Whitman's about human rights,
inspirational words. This book helps us quickly and they strip
"wonderfulness of the sundown?" or the politics and environ-
all, n o matter how o l d we are. the land of its resources,
city streets, or to simply be able to talk to mental issues. This book is a must for
the people they love. In choosing to use Remember that when you celebrate without thought to the balance of the
even the simplest of things, there is joy! environment. The creatures that have every school, library and socially-con-
animals instead of human figures, Roth
has left the family identity open, so chil- By Walt Whitman, illustrated by lived there for generations are made sick, scious home.
dren can see their own family diversity Susan L. Roth. National Geographic, oppressed and have their children stolen By John Marsden and Shaun Tan.
represented, making this an ideal book 2003, ages 3 to 6. from them. The barren landscape of the Simply Red, 2003, ages 6 plus.

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 for the Dalai Lama the understanding is
visceral as well as intellectual. His medita-
tion and practices are all based on the
foundation of the interdependence of all
things and that if you look at the people
and things around you and really go deep
down, you find what he calls emptiness.
Things are empty of inherent existence.
That existence really springs from interde-
pendence.
When the Dalai Lama looks at a single
tree he sees it dissolve into a web of intri-
cate relations, because the existence of the
tree changes from moment to moment. It's
buffeted by the wind. Rain is coming
down. The existence of the tree depends
on a myriad of things. It depends on the
soil, the seed and so forth. So, there's a
whole web of relations out there.
So, if you look closely at a tree you'll see
ultimately that there is no such thing as a
tree. If you break it down it becomes mol-
ecules and quarks and eventually nothing.
For example, he will go and give a lec-
ture andsee this crowd in front of him and
he'll tell me that now that his practice has
deepened to such an extent he sees them
not as distinct entities. Their outline has
become blurred. He can actually see that
they merge with things around them, so
the idea of interdependence is not an
abstract concept. He cansee and feel it.
It's the same thing that some scientists
have now discovered. There's a team who
have worked with meditators. When the

Getting to know the Dalai Lama
Joseph Roberts interviews Victor Chan about coming to Vancouver to talk about
the education of the heart so we can bring
The man who invited the Dalai Lama to up the next generation in a more sensitive
Vancouver tells us how they first met and way.
what it's like to help organize the upcoming Hewas quite interested in doing that, so
Balancing Educating the Mind With the next step was finding people he could
Educating the Heart dialogues. The other have a dialogue with. As I'm co-author of
five prominent leaders taking part in the the book with him I travelled with him a
April forums are: Archbishop Desmond fair amount. I also spent time with him in
Tutu, Prof. Shirin Ebadi, as well as former India where I got to know people like
Czech president Vaclav Havel, Rabbi Vaclav Havel, from the Czech Republic, as
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Prof. well as Desmond Tutu, who are in partic-
Jo-ann Archibald. ular, really close friends of the Dalai Lama.
Q: When and why did you begin work- As a matter of fact, Havel told me when
ing on this event? he became president of Czechoslovakia in
A: I guess when I was thinking about the 1990 he had three wishes. They were to
fact that UBC doesn't have a Tibetan stud- meet the Dalai Lama and the pope as soon
ies program. So, I started talking to Pitman as he could, and then to establish diplo-
Potter, director of the Institute of Asian matic relations with Israel. I think within
Research. He's one of the foremost author- the first half year of his term the Dalai
ities on China, so he got quite interested in Lama went to meet with him and they
the idea of doing something about Tibet. became very good friends. The Dalai Lama
Two and a half years ago I was in often goes to Prague to meet with Havel
Dharamsala asking about the idea of him and they have these meditation sessions
coming to Vancouver for a visit in order to together.
inaugurate the Tibetan studies program. Desmond Tutu met him a number of
He said that he would come for two days. times and they have a tremendous chem-
I know the Dalai Lama speaks of the istry together. I've seen him with many
education of the heart, seeing that in the people and I've never seen this type of
West people are very much focused on chemistry. Tutu is now in his 70s, the Dalai
career and that there's intense competition Lama is 69 and it's amazing to see these
to go to university. two elderly men playing around like kids.
He believes what is needed is for people Another person the Dalai Lama had a
to have a good heart, so I talked to him rapport with was Reb Zalman-Schacter
person reaches the state of transcendental
meditation he lets the experimenter know
and they inject dye into his brain and take
a picture of it. They've found a certain area
Shalomi. A book actually came of that in the brain that's like a combination of a
meeting called The Jew in the Lotus. gyroscope and a measuring device, so
I thought it would be great to get all every time you move around in your space
these people together, so that's what myself this area automatically calculates distance
and Prof. Potter have been working and angles and so on. So, if you move to a
towards. chair this super-computer in your brain
Then t o make a sixth i s Jo-ann allows you to home in to the chair and sit
Archibald of the First Nations communi- down without falling off.
ty. So we have an amazing array of people But, when you're in the intense state of
from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe meditation, for example, the super-com-
and First Nations Canadians. It's quite a puter doesn't get the data i t needs.
coming together. Somehow there's something blocking the
Q: How close are you with the Dalai data. Your physical limits, your skin for
Lama? What have you been doing over the example, dissolve and you become merged
last few years? with things around you, which is exactly
A: I met him in '72 during the Holy what the yogis and other practitioners
Festival in Dharamsala. I travelled through have been saying for centuries. When
India and took a bus to Dharamsala. My you're at a certain stage of your practice
friend and I were splashed by these bal- you're at one with everything around you,
loons of coloured water when we got off and are actually interdependent and
the bus, so I remember it very well. From deeply, physically connected to the things
`99 on I've been co-authoring a book with around you.
him likely to be The Resplendent Heart in So, the interdependence of all beings is
Intimate Journeys and Conversations. akey thing the Dalai Lama talks about. It's
Q: The theme for our April edition is not an obvious concept. Even if people
what's healthy for the planet and you said have an intellectual understanding of it, it
that would be one of the themes to be dis- takes years of practice to acquire real
cussed. insight about this.
A: Yes. One of the principle philosophies Q: What would be the impression of a
of the Dalai Lama is that of interdepend- new baby? It looks as if the whole universe
ence. This is not unique to him. It's a is flowing through them?
theme most Buddhists would subscribe to. A: They haven't yet developed all the
It's also a theme most people can intuitive- defence mechanisms that make them
ly understand in relation to ecology. But, aware of being individual entities.

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 Then there's the interdependence of the
mind and the body, which the Dalai Lama
has been talking about for decades now.
He says peace of mind will affect your
whole body. He often points out that doc-
tors have done tests on his heart and they
say it's like a 20 year old heart. I ask him
why he has such amazing vitality and he
says, "Well, Victor, you know I'm very lazy
when it comes to doing exercise?' So he
came to the conclusion that it's due to his
tremendous peace of mind. Medical scien-
tists are finally discovering that low stress
improves the immune system.
Q: That's become a huge topic in psy-
cho-immunology. Is there an appreciation
for science and the need to interact with
science in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition?
A: Since 1987 he has been spearheading
adialogue with scientists. For example, I
was with him a year or two ago in
Dharamsala and a team of eminent scien-
tists went to Dharamsala to talk to him. So,
the Dalai Lama has this dialogue every year
with • scientists called Mind and Life
(www.mindandlife.org). He's vitally inter-
ested himself in cosmology and quantum
physics and relativity. He sees a lot of "par-
allels in the most advanced quantum theo-
ries in superstring theory, for example with
some of the ideas proposed in Buddhism.
He's very interested in examining the com-
monality between the two.
He's also interested if physicists find
things that would disprove something in
Buddhism. He thinks that given new infor-
mation and data, Buddhist theory should
also change. He's very interested in psy-
chology as well.
Q: Are there any books on these?
A: The latest book that came out of these
dialogues is by Prof. Daniel Goleman,
called Destructive Emotions. You'll find his
conversation with Prof. Richard Davidson,
Prof. Paul Eckman and Prof. Mark
Greenberg on education. That's a very
interesting book. (Goleman also wrote the
best-selling book Emotional Intelligence)
Also, if you go to the website www.min-
dandlife.org you would find all the past
information on the dialogues.
Another reason the Dalai Lama wants to
talk to the scientists is because he wants to
stimulate the Tibetan monks' interest in
science,as in the past they've devoted their
studies to inner science, the inner mind
and how to control their emotions, how to
be a better person. Now the Dalai Lama
thinks it's time they learn about the exter-
nal world because it's important for young
monks to know something about science
so they can make a contribution to the
understanding of the mind through the
scientific method.
Q: Is that recent?
A: That's very recent. He's gotten his
own monks to attend these conferences
only in the last two or three years. One of
his key lamas spearheads this curriculum
so more and more Tibetan monks in the
monasteries in India will take up science as
part o f their studies. I n the book
Destructive Emotions you'll see how the
whole process is laid out. If you want to
go deeper into the process of how it
actually works then read the book...and
there's a documentary film.
Q: What would you like our readers to
know about the Dalai Lama?
A: Well, it's a bit of a cliché but after
knowing him for so long - he's really dif-
ferent from you and I. Ever since he was
atoddler he was put into this system of
exploring his inner mind. His whole
education was focused on the emotions
and transforming the mind, to get rid of
afflicted emotions like anger and jeal-
ousy and to enhance emotions like com-
passion, empathy and kindness.
So, for over six decades his whole life
hasbeen geared to that. They have a sys-
tematic knowledge that takes them step-
by-step towards this goal. If you look at
an Olympic athlete, for example, they
also work very intensively towards win-
ning a gold medal and the span of train-
ing time is measurable in a couple of
decades. He has immersed himself in
this Olympic type of quest for over six
decades and the end result is that all his
life's work, everything he does and says,
is geared to how he can be of service. He's
not coming to Vancouver so he can get a
whole bunch of money to help his people
in India. No, this is a policy. A lot of
Buddhists would like to come to his talk
and offer him money. This is the usual
practice and he always says he won't take
the money. So he travels all this way to give
this talk and doesn't take back a single
penny.
The main reason he comes is because
we've invited him and he thinks that by
coming here people would like to hear
what he has to say. The only reason he is
coming here is to be of help. Altruism is
such an amazing thing for him. Now, after
all these decades of practice, his whole
being has the belief that other people are
more important than him. We can pay lip
service to it, but to take it to such a high
degree is to me very exceptional.
Another big part of his work is to pro-
mote religious harmony. That's why he's
very happy to be coming to Vancouver
because it will be his first chance to get to
know Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim
woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This
is a chance for him to do his part to pro-
mote religious harmony.
Q: As there probably isn't a venue large
enough to accommodate the number of
people who'd like to see him, what about
scheduling some real time on the internet
so anyone in the world could participate.
A: My meeting before you was exactly
about webcasting. We are trying to estab-
lish some relationship with MSN to go on
their homepage. When hewas in New York
and Boston in September the webcaster
hosted via the internet. So it was right on
the front page of the internet and you
could click on the whole thing.
Q: Sometimes when you're in the pres-
ence of a saint or a holy person it reminds
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more important: the doing or the result that moment with the Now. The Now is deeper
system is bowel related you want to achieve through the doing? than any content that arises in it.
This moment or some future moment?
Do you treat this moment as if it were an When you step into the Now, you step
obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you out of the content of your mind. The inces-
Immunity Is The Key To Good Health have a future moment to get to that is more sant stream o f thinking slows down.
important? Thoughts don't absorb all your attention
Staying healthy i s ventativemedicine plays a vital role. Almost everyone lives like this most of anymore, don't draw you in totally. Gaps
the time. Since the future never arrives, arise in between thoughts - spaciousness,
about immunity. When Inthe pastdecadescientistshavebegun to except as the present, it is a dysfunctional stillness. You begin to realize how much
your immune system betterunderstand the role of immunity and way to live. It generates a constant under- vaster and deeper you are than your
is compromised you how it works.Muchresearchhasbeen done current of unease, tension, and discontent. thoughts.
becomeprone to illness. aroundprobioticsandimmune modulators. A It does not honour life, which is Now and
never not Now. Thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions,
Theimmune system is properlymodulatedimmunesystem will help and whatever you experience make up the
not a singular organ or stave of most bacterial and viral assaults on Feel the aliveness within your body. That content of your life. "My life" is what you
action but rather a com- thebody, including food poisoning, allergies, anchors you in the Now. derive your sense of self from, and "my life"
plicated infrastructure cold, flu, parasites and cancer causing anti- is content, or so you believe.
Ultimately you are not taking responsi- You continuously overlook the most
thatdependsupon proper nutrition, healthy gens.Probiotics re-cultivate good bacteria in bility for life until you take responsibility obvious fact: your innermost sense of I Am
skin, tissue and bowels. 80 percent of the thestomachandintestines, ensuring that bad for this moment - Now. This is because has nothing to do with what happens in
body'simmunesystem is around the diges- bacteria has no place to colonize. Also, by Now is the only place where life can be your life, nothing to do with content. That
tive tract and 20 percent is part of the skin, cultivating friendly bacteria, the bowel is able found. sense of I Am is one with the Now. It always
Taking responsibility for this moment remains the same. In childhood and old
bonesorgansandother tissue.The question to more efficiently assimilate nutrients into means not to oppose internally the "such- age, in health or sickness, in success or fail-
you must ask yourself is, why do some theblood stream, affecting immune function ness" of Now, not to argue with what is. It ure, the I Am - the space of Now - remains
people get sick while others, exposed to the in other parts of the body.Thiscanbe further means to be in alignment with life. unchanged at its deepest level. It usually
The Now is as it is because it cannot be gets confused with content, and so you
samebacteria or virus remain healthy and enhancedthrough use of nutrient-rich im-
otherwise. What Buddhists have always experience I Am or the Now only faintly
unaffected. The key is immune response. munesystem boosters and modulators that known, physicists now confirm: there are and indirectly, through the content of your
Immunedefense is largely dependent on containenzymes,sterolsand antioxidants. no isolated things or events. Underneath life. In other words: your sense of Being
thebowel and skin, both of which serve as Adaily regimen of probiotics and immune the surface appearance, all things are inter- becomes obscured by circumstances, your
connected, are part of the totality of the stream of thinking, and the many things of
abarrier to invading antigens, bacteria and systemmodulators is a must for everyone, cosmos that has brought about the form
this world. The Now becomes obscured by
viruses. While pharmaceutical drugs are especialy for children with developing bow- that this moment takes. time.
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of illness, they often do not directly address moredigestive trouble because of bowel become aligned with the power and intelli- Being, your divine reality, and lose yourself
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what the stage or grade of life, the Call rings Some respond by trying to alter the real-
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a loved one dies, a job comes to an end, a backs to the ocean, we need to keep our
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St. Patrick's way itive and less political, adopting a more joy- conversion of Ireland and subsequently the
ful and celebratory attitude. Patrick was a monasteries that sprang up helped to pre-

from slave to saint

man well ahead of his time. serve literacy during Europe's Dark Ages.
While the papacy had not yet determined The Irish regarded St. Patrick as a saint
that slavery and subjugation of women and hero long before the Roman church
were immoral, Patrick was busily convert- canonized him. His contribution to Ireland
CHRISTIAN ing a nation to the Christian model Jesus was felt far and wide during his life and well
had taught. after. At the time of St. Patrick's death or
C O M M E N T S b y Reg Block It is often said that Patrick used the shortly thereafter, the face of warring had
shamrock to illustrate the doctrine of the changed, becoming more restricted and
March 17 is St. Patrick's Day. For busi- er vision instructing him to return t o Trinity, a leaf of one substance yet possess- human sacrifice was no longer tolerated in
nesses it's a marketing opportunity while Ireland and preach the gospel. Which is ing three parts while all the time remaining Ireland.
for others it's a day to wear a shamrock or exactly what he did. one leaf. It is also said that he chased all the March is the month to remember St.
something green. But who was St. Patrick? In the winter of 432, Patrick and 24 of his snakes out of Ireland, a claim that is not Patrick and why his legacy has endured. It is
What did he do? Where did he come from? followers arrived in Ireland to share the true, as there never were snakes in Ireland. also a time to reflect on International
And why is he so well known? good news with the druids. Although The story more likely Women's Day on March 8, a
I think it is important to point out that Patrick's formal Latin education was some- demonstrates the end of I would like to thank date that St. Patrick would
St. Patrick was not Irish, what lacking, his ability to paganism in the land. the many readers who most certainly honour, if he
but he was born some- It is often said that speak Celtic served him As Patrick believed it were here.
where i n Britain. His well. was his God-given mis- took the time to corre- Reg Block is an apologist
parents, Calphumius Patrick used the It is known that Ireland sion t o preach t h e spond with me for t h e historic Christian
and Conchessa were shamrock to illustrate at the time was a land of gospel t h r o u g h o u t faith. Yo u r questions a n d
high ranking Romans paganism and for the past Ireland, he travelled all over the country at comments are welcome at editor@common-
from either Gaul o r
the doctrine of the 400 years few if any had great personal risk. In The. Confessions of ground.ca. Note: As this is my last column in
Britain. Trinity been there t o share the St. Patrick, translated by Ludwig Bieler, Common Ground for a while, I would like to
At t h e age o f 16, gospel. The inhabitants Patrick shares his many trials and tribula- thank the many readers who took the time to
Patrick was captured in an Irish raid and constantly warred with each other, prac- tions. In one instance he says, "Daily I correspond with me. Although not always in
sold into slavery. For six years he tended his tised human sacrifice and engaged in the expect murder, fraud, or captivity, or what- agreement, most of the letters and emails I
master's livestock near what is now the slave trade. ever it may be; but I fear none of these received were considerate and fair minded. In
town of Balleymena. At 22, Patrick had a Patrick condemned slavery a n d things because of the promises of heaven:' appreciation of free speech and open dialogue
dream in which an angel told him to flee empathized with the suffering of others, Today St. Patrick's example is no less rel- I would like to also thank the publisher for the
captivity. Escaping from his cruel master, he having himself been a slave. He is counted evant than it was 1,500 years ago. He is opportunity t o share aspects o f historic
made his way to the coast some 200 miles among the few Christian leaders, who at the regarded by many as a champion of the Christianity that, prior to my column, had
away and boarded a ship headed for Britain. time, spoke up for the rights of women. As downtrodden, a man who understood and not been represented in Common Ground. I f
Once there, Patrick became a monk, ded- Ireland at that time was essentially free felt other people's suffering and someone you would like to correspondence with me
icating his life to God and the ministry. As from Greco-Roman influences, t h e with the courage to speak up against injus- directly please feel free t o email m e a t
the story goes, 20 years later he had anoth- Christianity that developed was more prim- tice. Also, it is probable that St. Patrick's rjblock@telus.net

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Who do your food dollars support?
BC THE
ORGANIC
WAY
by Marya
Skrypiczajko
Even though mid-winter isn't the time
to be driving down country lanes to buy
fresh strawberries from a local farmer, it
is possible to keep your food dollars in
the local economy year-round.
I think it is important to periodically
remind ourselves of this as we are con-
tinually bombarded with the enticing
images o f mangoes, asparagus and
European jams at grocery stores in mid-
February, as well as a plethora of name-
brand prepared organic foods in down-
to-earth packaging. This all can seem
very exotic and appealing on yet anoth-
er chilly grey winter's day, but it all
comes at a greater price than the one we
see on the tag.
First, there's the fact that our money
isn't supporting local farmers and food
producers. Local farmers often struggle
to survive while we import our food or
support those large corporations that
have been catching onto the organic
trend. Organic food is the fastest grow-
ing sector of the agricultural industry in
On Track Zodiak
6)
. ARIES (March 21 - Apri119)
Write down your premonitions
and predictions. You will see
how uncanny your intuition is. Once
you reflect on the accuracy o f your
instincts, you will come to know a more
empowered you that denied itself. Give
way to a great healing time.
V , TAURUS (April 20 - May 21)
Deep-seated fears now surface
and you may need to seek soli-
tude and support from others. These
tests that come will take you to places
you haven't visited in many moons. Take
courage as you fly high and sink deeply,
all the while becoming more acutely
aware. Challenges bring revelations.
Make it worth the conflict and you shall
rise above them.
0 GEMINI (May 22 - June 20)
There simply are no potions or
remedies to take away the feel- What better time than now to indulge in
ings of loss. The overriding senses will
cascade down like a waterfall. I f you will come alive in you when you take you alone. The opportunity to travel is things will change and a light will go off
don't try to block what fills you, all will time out. The deeper you go into your high and new social circles now move in your head, guiding you toward new
be cleansed. Logic and reason won't be senses the stronger your entire system into.your experience. Finances improve, directions. Your strength has been tested
having a picnic together. Try to watch will come around. Dive into health and as will those of your business associates. and only you know the marvel and
yourself from a higher vantage point all that is passionate to come back to Hark, do we hear applause for all your courage that you have. Puppies will bow
and fly with the eagles.
34 • CorpTc46rovng• M4RCH,2pp4
North America and the CEOs of the your dinner table. The wealth of the sauces, jams and fruit spreads, pickled
companies dominating the "convention- large and powerful companies in Canada vegetables, exotic chutneys, tofu and
al" food industry have been quick to take depends on moving food around North dried fruits and herbs, all produced in
note of this trend. Huge brand name America, often for no reason other than BC. Year-round, dairy products, eggs
food companies, the multi-billion dollar creating profit for another subsidiary. and meats from local farmers are on the
transnationals, have been buying organ- Supporting those local farmers and market. So are locally ground coffees
ic farms and processing companies, then businesses operating with environmen- and locally mixed teas, even though the
shipping the organic food long distances tal integrity shows them that you believe ingredients are imported.
to market, while creat- in what they are When you are at the grocery store get
ing vast amounts of Supporting those local d o i n g and enables into the habit of looking carefully at the
pollution en route. farmers and businesses t h e m to continue to labels of what you are buying and choose
Also, these companies exist within your the item produced nearest to home. It
don't necessarily
operating with community. A s doesn't have to take a lot of time. Learn
embody the organic environmental integrity more and more peo- more about one new item each time you
values o f treading shows them that you ple move into the shop and soon you'll have a good grip on
lightly on the land organic industry, the what's being produced in your sur-
and running a diverse believe in what they are offerings become rounding area and other nearby regions.
and sustainable farm. doing and enables them to more diverse and I think when we give ourselves a few
For most, profit is the now we can buy minutes to think about where we want
bottom line. continue to exist within such delicious foods our food to come from and our money
Disappointing, isn't your community. as fresh fava beans, to go, we all have opinions about these
it? For more informa- garlic chili chutney matters. I am not advocating giving up
tion on this, check out: www.certifiedor- and seaweed tofu grown and produced imported foods entirely, yikes, that
ganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/services/marketing.ht here in BC. would mean no coffee, chocolate or
ml and you'll find a chart created by Phil Even in mid-winter you can show bananas. But I am encouraging you to
Howard of the University of California at your support f o r local farmers. think about who you want to support
Santa Cruz that reveals which conven- Depending on where you live, there may with your food dollars and hopefully, to
tional corporations own which organic not be much fresh produce available at try to shift the focus of your diet more
food processing companies. your favourite organic food store or toward what is produced in your local
There's also the transportation pollu- there may be various types of salad agricultural region.
tion to consider. Trucks, trains, boats and greens, apples and root crops from the Marya Skrypiczajko is the author of BC
the worst - refrigerated airplanes trans- fall harvest plus frozen berries and soft the Organic Way - Where t o Find
port food on average over 2,000 kilome- fruits. On the shelves you can find local- Organic Food in British Columbia avail-
tres from the farm where it's grown, to ly grown and produced organic tomato able at bookstores and organic food stores.
Ilona Hedi Granik is a clairvoyant consultant and
March 2004
by Ilona Hedi Granik
author with 29 years of experience in astrology,
multi-media art and healing. Ilona23@shaw.ca
f i l l C A N C E R (June 21 - July 22)
New beginnings and a streak
LIBRA (September 2 3 -
October 22) Even i f you hear
a C A P R I C O R N (December 22 -
January 19) I t seems that you
of benevolence cross your other people's thoughts, you are on a lucky streak. It's a
path. You are whistling a tune that is new would do well to practise patience and good time to be around others to high-
and unfamiliar. Like a bird that has been hold your tongue. With co-workers you light their efforts too. Those around you
uncaged, you take to the wilds. You are will have to step back and let others seem to feed off your charms and its OK
in step with the dance. You have made speak and know your place. Your place is with you. You have lots to give and more
choices that serve you well. So be it. in dignity and freedom. to come so dip your ladle into the well.
I t o L E O (July 23 - August 22) c p S C O R P I O (October 2 3 - AQUARIUS (January 2 0 -
Turn off the electrical world for November 21) Free up your A F0":
e b r u a r y 19) Get those legs
at least a couple of days when body, your personal affairs 1 moving and take o u t the
you can. Try to get back to a raw and and the way in which you think. The garbage. Do errands that seem banal. If
organic lifestyle when it comes to living interaction you have with your mind you can't shake the sluggish body feel-
day to day. Seems the plain and simple and body has come to a place of needing ing, then you may need to look closely at
ways have been lost on you. Sit quietly repair and recovery. It's time to replace any addictions you may have. Give up so
away from over-the-top comforts and broken-down habits and release what you can give in and breathe a whole lot
consumer driven days. Your circuits you can live without. Restoration is easier. Get silly and plunge into life from
need clearing. Tune out to tune in. highlighted. Come out shining brighter a new angle.
than your belief said you might.
d V I R G O (August 23 - September PISCES (February 20-March
22) Might be difficult to bal- F I J I SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - 20) You feel supported by an
ance your hectic schedule. December 21) Solutions are invisible aura o f kindness.
becoming clear, and the rivals Still with an aura of aloneness, you carry
yourself? All things scented and luscious who dogged your footsteps now leave on with a gracious heart. Soon enough
your senses. efforts? at your feet as you walk with humility.
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field and release negative core
belief patterns. Discover how to
communicate with your Angels
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Wednesdays
March 10th
March 24th
Everyone's Welcome.
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MAR 13 & 27
Shamanic Drumming Circle.
7pm. Newcomers welcome. Bring
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MAR 13-15
Silent Spiritual Retreat with
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MARCH 13-21
Biodanza D a n c e s o f
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Introductory evenings March 15
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on March 13, 14, 20 and 21. Call
604 782-9197.
MAR 15
Meditation Class: Learn t o
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7:00pm. CDM Psychic Institute,
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Info: 604.730.8788
MAR 15-19, M AY 3-14
Sacred Journey t o Sedona.
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MAR 16-21
Ve n e r a b l e W a n g c h e n
Rinpoche Vancouver visit.
Dharma Teachings 16th&17th 7 -
9pm; Empowerment 18th&19th
7-9pm; O n e D a y Retreats
20th&21st 9am-4pm. 4941 Sidley
St., Burnaby. Free. 604.418.6054.
MAR 17
Healing Class: L e a r n tech-
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self and others. Eight - week
class. 7:00pm. C D M Psychic
Institute, 111 4 W. Broadway,
Vancouver. Call 604.730.8788.
MAR 17
Free Introduction to Sacred
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Spring Equinox Ceremony.
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MAR 19
Free Evening Introduction to
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MAR 20
Wolfsong S p r i n g Equinox
Celebration. Everyone w e l -
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Chair Massage Training - First
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MAR 21
Spiritual Cleanse. A day to
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MAR 23-APR 3
The S i l v a M e t h o d -
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MAR 27
Rosicrucian O r d e r P u b l i c
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MAR 27
The Power of Feng Shui. One
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Alive & Well With Herbs &
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MAR 29
Healing i n a C i r c l e o f
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MAR 30
Open Ta l k & D i s c u s s i o n
"Developing t h e P s y c h i c
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MAR 31
"Founders of Faith", six-week
course, s t a r t s 7:00-9:30pm
Burnaby C e n t r a l Secondary
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Sacred M o m e n t s . Spiritual
reflection and interfaith prayer on
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Leora Cashe Jazz Trio. A n
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Natural Childbirth Preparation
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APR 9 - 12
Easter Celebration Retreat.
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Pure Meditation. F i n d your
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M AY 22 - 23 & 28 - 29
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SUNDAYS
Garden o f Miracles spiritual
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 Self-interest for whom?
myself referring to it as the great oracle.
Days blow by like dust. Laundry creeps
around with a life of its own. Memories
of exercise float around as a vague con-
cept, like remembering an old friend you
used to spend time with. I sit in front of
the mirror with murky self-loathing and
pernicious contempt for my place in the
world scheme, something has got to give.
An end to voyeurism, I want to be a par-
ticipant. The sun is shining in through
the window, and like a giant arctic ice
TWENTY SOMETHING shelf I will break away from my self-con-
by Ishi Dinim strained captivity. However, I think I
need two things first; the tuning fork of
discipline and then the blowtorch o f
Feels like my brain is going to implode love.
most days. Vacillating between lethargic Discipline is an improvement of self,
and frantic activity. I am so absorbed in not our culture's fixation with self-bet-
the news media; gorging on radio, televi- terment, progress, or being all that you
sion, print, and internet sources trying to can be. I need mental and physical disci-
glean the stories. US elections, hunger, pline to hone myself into a utensil to
bioneering, gay marriage, wars, people manifest my dreams. There are so many
eating glass, exotic diseases, break ideal examples of motivated people to
dancers for the pope, British parking take as role models: artists, marathoners,
heroes? I feel compelled to be an observ- doctors, activists, children, teachers, ath-
er. Hoping that I might "know" what is letes, comedians, saints, really whoever
happening on the planet and in the cos- gets you stoked. There is a rationale or
mos. World-wide lamentations, a torrent drive behind every action they perform.
of stiffing bad news. I wonder if my brain Some are inspired by altruistic desire,
really needs any of this, my room is clut- some by personal gain, or a combination
tered enough. of the two.
The computer is vying for more and I want health, wealth and to be a posi-
more of my attention. Like a siren it calls tive contributor in humanity. Above all
me to languish upon its shores, I find of this I need love. I revoke my perfec-
tionist self-depreciating doppelganger's PONDER THIS:
place in indecision/decision making. It is Our lives begin to end the day we become
OK to turn off the critic once in awhile, silent about things that matter.
as one friend told me recently. I am sur- - Martin Luther King Jr.
rounded by love from friends and fami- Weshould therefore claim, in the name of tol-
ly, but I've got to do it for myself first to
erance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
be able to really let it in. The ice is begin-- Karl Popper The Open Society and Its
ning to crack... Enemies (ch. 7)
On another note, it was brought up in I don't know the key to success, but the key to
an email conversation that we should be failure is trying to please everybody.
able t o create an educational system - Bill Cosby
based o n n o t u i t i o n l i k e various I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
European nations. I am interested in Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a
hearing what kind of strategies people way of looking at life through the wrong end of
have around manifesting this invaluable a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables
goal. Also, I finally saw The Corporation you to laugh at life's realities.
and walked out stunned, my after stirring - Dr. Seuss
of thoughts was like a hearty vegetable Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it
chili, so much to chew on. I think I could is very important that you do it.
use an after-dinner mint. - Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith i n humanity.
LINKITUDE: Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the
www.soros.org ocean are dirty, the oceandoes not become dirty.
http://homepage.mac.com/webmas- - Mahatma Gandhi
terkai/kaicurry/gwbush/dishonestdubya.html
www.dublab.com Ishi Dinim graduated from Emily Carr
www.femalepersuasion.net Institute of Art and Design in 2001, with a
www.reuters.feedroom.com BFA major in photography. He is interested
http://ww11.e-tractions.com/truemajori- in various forms of art production, film
ty/run/oreo?ep-=BWLIZtTMzMjE30jAFgjts being his greatest. Madagascar calls him to
wwwcspan.org meet the lemurs and baobab trees. Currently
www.justconcerts.com/concerts/concert.cfhe lives in Vancouver, collecting cacti and
m?Concert_Id=152 (Listen to this concert, trying to discover the meaning of life.
great music and an important message from contactishi@yahoo.ca waiting to hear
Antibalas) echoes back...

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