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In 1969, Life magazine gave photographer
Jerry Deiter a photo assignment that was des-
tined to change his life. For eight days in a
Montreal hotel room, Deiter photographed
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's symbolic bed-
in for peace. In a bizarre twist of fate, the fea-

ture, and Deiter's photos, were bumped by the
death of North Vietnam's Ho CM Minh, and
the photos remained unpublished for the next
35 years. This month, Common Ground is
honoured to feature Deiter's photo, The Way
of Life, which catches John and Yoko reading
Lao Tits during a quiet moment between
receiving guests, recording Give Peace a
Chance, and talking with the media.
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 Recording Give Peace a Chance
A rare, relaxed moment during the bed-in

All we are saying

is give peace a chance
Story and photos by Gerry Deiter
Thirty-five years ago, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hosted their eight-
day bed-in at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel. In the poignant
memoir that follows, photographer Gerry Deiter - assigned to photo-
graph the event for Life magazine - shares his recollections of the life-
altering event. In celebration of the 35th anniversary, 25 of Deiter's
historic photographs will be available for viewing and sale from May
26 to June 2 at the Elliott Louis Gallery, 1540 West 2nd Avenue.
Contact 604-736-3282 or www.elliottlouis.com.

December 1941: A bitterly cold day in
New York. A little boy, just five, was on a
Sunday drive with his mother, father and
baby brother in the family's black Ford
sedan. When they pulled into the gas sta-
tion near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
to fill the tank, the boy hopped out to
help; he loved the smell of gasoline.
Standing alongside his father in the crack-
ling cold, holding the gas cap in his mit-
tens, he noticed a car with its hood up and
a column of steam rising from the radia-
tor. He'd never seen this before and in the
cold it was spectacular. "What's that?" he
asked his father, pointing to the roiling
white plume.
The answer never came, f o r a t that
moment the station attendant ran to the
car, his face drained of colour even in the
cold.

6 • commonGo
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"Did you hear?" he panted breathlessly.
"The Japs are bombing Hawaii! It's on the
radio."
His father gasped in horror, but the boy
didn't quite grasp what it meant.
He knew what a bomb was; he thought it
might have something to do with the
steaming car. Maybe a bomb had caused
it.
His father, meanwhile, h a d walked
around the car and repeated the message
to his mother. She broke into gasping
tears he couldn't understand.
The boy didn't comprehend any of it, but
the emotional reactions o f the adults
around him became the acid that etched
the moment forever in his memory.
On a stormy, black night exactly 39 years
and one day later, the same boy, now
grown and graying, was about to crawl
into his bunk aboard his boat, moored at
a primitive dock in a tiny town on the
north coast of BC. The CBC evening con-
cert was on the radio.
Suddenly, just before the 11 p m news
break, came another o f those messages
that would remain with him the rest of
his life: John Lennon had been shot in
New York City and had just died in hospi-
tal. He sat down on the edge of the bunk,
stunned by the news.
Many people were sharing the shock and
grief he was feeling at that moment. Even
as later reports came in on the radio, peo-
ple were gathering, lighting candles and
bringing flowers t o that bloodstained
sidewalk on Central Park West.
John had become a symbol to millions of
people around the world o f peace, o f
hope, perhaps o f a new beginning that
could put an end to all the madness of the
time. And now a madman had senselessly
taken the life of this gentle musician.
Overwhelmed by emotion, the eyes o f
that now-grown-up boy sought the famil-
iar photograph he'd taken of John and
Yoko so long ago, now affixed to the bulk-
head near the bunk.
He looked up and went into a dream.
He was transported back in time more
than a decade and across 2,000 kilometres
to Montreal, to a suite high in the Queen
Elizabeth Hotel. From an adjoining room
he could hear the Hare Krishna mantra,
punctuated by drums and finger cymbals.
A hubbub of voices issued from another
room where reporters were babbling in
half a dozen languages into a bank of tele-
phones.
Excited, nervous giggles came from yet
another room where a crowd of kids wait-
ed hopefully for a glimpse of the stars of
this "happening:' as the media called it. A
huge buffet was set in the dining room,
with pitchers of orange juice and bottles
of champagne cooling in silver buckets.
In the master bedroom, one wall was cov- John, Yoko, and Kyoko, her six-year-old daughter
ered with posters drawn in a primitive, yet
childishly-charming style, combining
peace slogans with self-portraits of John of religions and peace groups; show-busi- and even a moment o f flaring anger,
and Yoko. Flowers bloomed in every cor- ness luminaries from Tommy Smothers directed at cartoonist Al Capp, creator of
ner of the crowded room where the cen- to legendary New York DJ Murray (The Li'l Abner.
tre of attention was a king-sized bed set K) Kaufman, who styled himself The John had welcomed Capp warmly. Yoko
against the window wall. A small bedside Fifth Beatle, and black comedian Dick eyed him with suspicion, and when the
table, also covered with flowers and bear- Gregory, who four years before declared cartoonist, known as a right-wing conser-
ing a small statue of the Buddha, looked himself a candidate for the presidency. vative, ridiculed their peace efforts, wav-
like a devotional shrine. ("First thing I'll do is paint the White ing the cover o f their new album Two
A man and a woman lay on the bed, clad House black.") Virgins, calling their nude photographs
entirely in white, their long, dark tresses In the preceding days there had been "filthy and disgusting," John had t o
contrasting with the snowy linens. John moments o f silent meditation and o f restrain his manager, Derek Taylor, who
Lennon Ono and Yoko Ono Lennon both prayer with members of the clergy. There kept repeating "Let me take him apart,
had flowing dark hair; he wore his trade- were touching moments, as when John John."
mark granny glasses and a full beard that received a group of young blind people Continued on page 9...
made him look like a holy man; her raven who presented him with a braille watch,
tresses fanned out around her head on the
pillow and her dark eyes flashed warmly A braille watch from a group of young, blind admirers
in greeting.
They had been there, in bed, for eight
days, receiving scores o f visitors. There
were politicians of every stripe, from local
MPs and MNAs to Quebec separatists.
There were young, long-haired fans, jour-
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and individuals representing a spectrum
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 The final straw came when Capp insist-
ed on referring to Yoko as the "Dragon
Lady" and "Madame Nhu" (referring to
the hated wife of the US-supported mil-
itary dictator of South Vietnam).
It was Dr Timothy Leary who finally
intervened, calming flaring tempers
with soft words and urging peace and
love between the antagonists.
Dr Tim had the last word, too, when he
asked if he and his wife Rosemary could
catch a ride back to New York aboard
Capp's chartered Learjet. Capp agreed,
grudgingly and ' arrogantly. Leary
smiled, put his arm around the shorter
man's shoulders, as Capp winced
noticeably, and said: "I'm really looking
forward to it, Al. I've been wanting to
get high with you ever since we met:'
Capp could only splutter indignantly,
while the room roared with laughter.
Early in the morning of the final day of
the bed-in, a Sunday, John called Taylor
to his bedside, and spoke quietly.
"Derek, you know that song I wanted to
record?"
"Yes, John."
"I think today's the day. Will you set it,
up?"
Taylor nodded and headed for the
phone. It was a tough assignment; there
wasn't a recording studio open any-
where, nor an engineer who could be
reached. He tried a well-known studio
in Toronto, but they couldn't help. He
finally contacted Andre Perry, who was
locally well-known and highly respect-
ed. He pulled his studio apart and
transported his equipment to the hotel
room with a couple of his technicians.
They unobtrusively laid cables, rigged
mikes and stands, did sound checks,
and at 7 pm, about eight hours after
John's whispered request, Taylor walked
to the bedside and said quietly: "Any
A beautiful photo of Yoko
time you're ready, John."
Lennon called everyone into the bed-
room: the journalists, filmmakers, gig-
gling teenagers, the celebrities and visit-
ing friends. The room was jammed with
more than 30 people. He explained he'd
just written a song about what had
taken place in that room over the past
five days, and pointed to a poster on the
wall on which he'd outlined the lyrics.
Tom Smothers took up a guitar and sat
on the bed to John's right, next to a
mike stand. Dr Leary and his wife sat at
the foot of the bed. Several other guitar
players surrounded them, everyone was
invited to join in on the chorus, and
John gave the downbeat for a first run-
through, which left everyone weak with
laughter at their lack of musicianship.
"Well then, that wasn't too great," John
said grinning, and suggested that per-
The Plastic Ono Band relaxes haps all it needed was a back-beat, so
the drums of the Hare Krishna group
were brought in for -rhythm, backed up
by several people pounding on the.top
of the mahogany dining table and oth-
ers kicking at a door frame.
John led with the lyrics, each stanza
beginning: "Ev'rybody's tallcin' about..."
followed by the names of people who
had visited the suite and things that had
gone on there and in the outside world
in the past eight days. The entire com-
pany joined in on the chorus: "All we are
sayirig is give peace a chance."
The little boy who remembered Pearl
Harbor was now singing along with
everyone in that room. It was emotion-
al, it was laughter, it was catharsis, it was
peace and it was love.
The next morning it was all over.
John and Yoko were on their way to
Ottawa to see Prime Minister Trudeau.
The hotel's housekeepers were vacuum-
ing; the celebrities, photographers,
journalists, groupies and techies were all
gone; the walls were bare where the
posters had been taped up; the flowers,
beginning to wilt, were being carried
out of the room; the bed sat empty with
linens crumpled, the rooms and phones
silent. But a statement had been made,
and had been heard around the world.
Being present at such a moment had
been a rare and profound experience,
one of the most memorable in the life of
that little boy, now middle-aged, in
whose mind all this was being replayed.
Now, sitting alone, so many years and so
many miles away, all the sights. sounds,
smells and emotions flooded over him,
ashe listened, stunned, to the reports of
the murder of his friend.
Next to him, secured to the cabin wall,
was the childish drawing on a poster
board in a .simple frame. It had looked
down on every bed in which he and his
partner, now also gone, had slept -in all
the years since John had given it to
them. It was a charming picture of a
long-haired man and woman seated on
a bed, he bearded, wearing only granny
glasses, she wreathed in black hair and
wearing nothing but a smile; the words
"Bed Peace" scrawled underneath the
bed.
He sat there on the edge of the bunk, his
legs dangling like a small child's, while
teardrops burned his cheeks and dis-
solved into the carpet beneath his feet.
As the boat rocked gently on a swell, he
became aware of the ocean of tears
being shed around the world by the
millions whose lives had been touched
by John Lennon.
continued on page 38
Photographer
and writer
Gerry Deiter
currently cruises
the waters of BC
in his classic
wooden boat
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Angela, an attractive, intelligent ing her second trimester, she was told told me, was knowing how much other post-enlightenment West of the past
woman in her late 30s, pokes at her there were no signs of life. She felt that people, especially family, loved and 300 years. The program of secular
dessert at a trendy Kitsilano bistro and God had answered her prayers, saving needed her. A person with a warm humanism and technocratic know-
explains to me again how her world fell her from what would have been the heart and a desire to help others, she how has been a huge success in many
apart. A practising clinical psychologist toughest decision of her life, to abort or could no longer see her own value. ways. By regarding, the body as a
from Edmonton, she had decided a continue with the Wracked with guilt, machine, and working with mechani-
year earlier, albeit with some ambiva- pregnancy in her this is the desired route for walk- Angela sought out cal metaphors for the brain (a tele-
lence, to have a child with her partner. compromised ing the spiritual path, when we medical he p, and phone exchange at the turn of the last
Angela found herself more frightened medical state. But was given a pre- century, a "meat computer" at the
and ambivalent when the pregnancy the mere fact that get to stop and smell the flowers scription for anti- beginning of this one), we've made
was confirmed. At the same time, she she had even con- along the way. The journey is d e p r e s s a n t s . great strides in understanding the
learned of the posting of a job she had sidered having an Although they may human place in the physical universe,
long desired, and this created friction abortion seemed to not so yellow-brick-road when not have addressed and extending lifespans far beyond the
with her partner. About six weeks into activate some deep the flying monkeys show up. the core issues of 40-year average of feudal Europe.
her pregnancy, he announced to her quasi-religious her crisis, i n her Yet there is that other cosmos that can-
that she "no longer inspired him:' guilt, which grew state of severe soul- not be measured, the inner world of
Their relationship was over. with each passing day, pulling Angela level pain, the psychologist found any dreams and visions and powerful
Angela thought "Oh well, I'll take it in deeper into the abyss. kind of respite, however hit-and-miss, archetypal energies. This is what the
stride, move on as a single mother. But Talking to Angela earlier on, in the a blessing. religious scholar Rudolph Otto called
nope, instead I went crazy." Now near- depths of her despair, I sensed she still The human soul is colourless, weight- the "numinous" - a spiritual reality so
ly three months pregnant, Angela rap- somehow felt responsible for the death less, and cannot be measured by any overwhelming it can shatter mundane
idly descended into a severe clinical of her unborn child, and that by having known scientific instrument. Hence, reality when encountered.Angela's eyes
depression. Bedridden for days at a her prayers answered she was meta- the great hole in medicine and psy- glisten with tears as she tells of finally
stretch, she was totally paralyzed, and physically complicit with God in an act chology over the past century, in which seeing a glimmer of dawn after her
her mother travelled from England to of murder. Returning to a relative's subjective states are just the spectral dark night of the soul. She pulls a dog-
take care of her. "Imagine having your home after the obstetric procedure, her byproducts o f a "ghost i n the eared paperback out of her purse, and
mother feed you in bed when you're in mind played out a tape loop of recrim- machine," a British behaviourist's gives it to me. "Thanks for the book,"
your late 30s, " she adds, shaking her ination and self-loathing. "I'd seea pic- famously derisive description of the shesaid. "There's a lot of underlining in
head. Now, seriously doubting her ture of a mother with a baby on the mind's relation to brain. it. I hope you don't mind:' Months ear-
decision to become a mother and her cover of amagazine, and I'd think, "Oh Yet almost every culture throughout lier, at the height of her crisis, I lent her
ability to raise a child, Angela prayed -there's a good person, unlike me." the world from prehistory to the pres- my copy of The Stormy Search for the
that the baby wouldn't come to term. She felt suicidal, and the only thing that ent has accepted the mind and the soul Self: A Guide to Personal Growth
When she went for an ultrasound dur- kept her from taking her own life, she asgivens. The only exception is the continued page 14

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ronmental stewards, Canada is actually one reprieve in the budget under the guise of es would severely disrupt our global cli-
of the least efficient, most polluting coun- being "clean coal." Of course, there's no such mate, leading t o more droughts and •
tries in the developed world. Our rankings thing. Coal is dirty, period. You can reduce a storms, rising sea levels and radically altered
compared to the other member nations of couple of the pollutants coming out of the weather patterns. We have set this course
SCIENCE the Organization f o r E c o n o m i c smoke stacks, but it's still the most inefficient for ourselves. It's not too late to change, but
MATTERS Cooperation and Development read like a and dirtiest of all fossil fuels. The heat-trap- we need to see some real leadership from
shopping list o f failure. A i r pollution? ping emissions alone from coal should have government and businesses to chart a new
by David Suzuki us keeping it in the ground instead of burn-
Second worst. Water consumption? Ditto. path.
Energy efficiency? Again, 28 out o f 29. ing i t l i k e there's n o tomorrow. We need to overhaul our economy to
" Climate change has stuck its head above At some point the federal government is Speaking o f emissions, Martin actually reward clean, non-polluting behaviours
the parapet. It's not an issue politicians can going to have to wake up to the fact that our released his budget the day after the US and discourage actions that damage the air
hide from much longer," climate expert Dr economy is fully one-third less efficient than National Oceanic a n d Atmospheric we breathe and the water we drink. We
David Wier told New Scientist magazine the that of the US. Every free-market pundit in Administration reported that levels of heat- need to encourage innovation that spurs
day before the release of Canada's federal the country should be up in arms about that trapping gases in the atmosphere have hit a new jobs. We need to recognize that doing
budget number. How can a country possibly com- record high. The US team started recording things differently can mean doing things
Well, someone dearly forgot to tell Prime pete when it is so wasteful? Wasting water atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the better. A dean economy actually means a
Minister Paul Martin. Or maybe he's just and energy is just plain stupid. It's bad for main greenhouse gas, in the 1950s. Back healthier economy and a better quality of
hoping to hide out until after the election, business and bad for the environment. then, levels were around 315 parts per mil- life for Canadians. Martin dearly had other
because there was certainly nothing in the Unfortunately, Martin has given us a budget lion. Today, they are at 376 ppm in the air concerns in this budget, but he cannot hide
budget that promises to take Canada out of only a l u d d i t e w o u l d l o v e . and rising. If we continue to burn fossil fuels from this issue much longer. When and
the e n v i r o n m e n t a l d a r k a g e s . Innovation? Not here. Vision? Sorry. What like oil, coal and gas at present quantities, the how he addresses it will be a true test of his
Yes, Canada adopted the Kyoto Protocol a we got was more of the same. More sweet amount of carbon dioxide in the atmophere leadership.
couple years back, but we have done virtual- deals for the fossil fuel industry, more is expected to more than double by the turn Take the Nature Challengeand learn more at
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W i l l oil rigs soon eclipse the breathtak-
ing scenery of Canada's West Coast? I f
the provincial government has its way,
they could. The province is pushing hard
to lift provincial and federal moratoria
on offshore oil and gas drilling that have
protected this area for 32 years, even
though First Nations, residents, and the
general public have demonstrated seri-
ous concern that drilling will lead t o
environmental degradation, including
the possibility of an oil spill. Even the oil
and gas industry itself, which has the
most t o gain from development, has
real, near-term opportunities and put-
ting sustainable industries like fishing
and forestry at risk — industries that
could actually benefit our communities
for generations. A recent address entitled
BC Uncharted Waters by Senator Pat
Carney was perhaps the most eloquent.
She noted that in their haste, the provin-
cial government was creating such unre-
alistic expectations that they were more
likely to run the ship aground than bring
it safely into port. She added, "I suggest
we spill a little wind out of our sails, slow
down and review our sail plan. The time
frame suggested b y (BC Energy and
Mines) Minister Neufeld is likely to cre-
"Provided an adequate regulatory is put
in place, there are no science gaps that
need to be filled before lifting the mora-
toria on oil and gas development.' The
plain language translation: 'There are
science gaps, but we think regulation
can take care of it."
"So, the government is asking the public
to trust what the scientists say about the
lifting the moratoria, yet the scientists
are telling the public that we should
trust the government," Campbell con-
•
cluded. For the public, this type of situ-
ation creates only distrust and confu-
sion, and rightfully so. What is known is
that seismic testing to determine the size
and location of oil deposits will damage
the ecosystem before d r i l l i n g ever
begins. This form of testing shoots high-
pressure air at the seabed - pressure that
is known to damage marine life, includ-
ing fish, their eggs and larvae, and
whales. I t is also a fact that the West
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Through Transformational Crisis, by In the 1960s, Grof practised LSD psy- the contents of the psyche. However, rium. Traditional medicine, particularly
Christina and Stanislav Grof. chotherapy in Czechoslovakia. Moving spiritual emergence is much easier to with its market-driven taste for pharma-
Stan Grof's work had long fascinated to the US, he took a position as assis- assimilate than its counterpart, which cological silver bullets, seessuch states as
me, particularly for the reams of anec- tant professor of psychiatry at Johns is often precipitated by a life crisis of the output of a broken brain, to be
dotal and laboratory evidence he had Hopkins University, and later became some sort, anything from a car acci- erased with the officially approved regi-
gathered that the human mind is just chief of psychiatric research at the dent to a death in the family. When I men of mind-altering substances. (This
the tip of a giant ontological iceberg. Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, had first passed the book to Angela, I isn't to say that those who suffer from
Grof has over 50 years of experience in in Baltimore. In The Stormy Search for opened it to a page highlighting the severe depression should feel obliged to
consciousness research, and according the Self the Grofs make a distinction differences between the two categories. allow their experience to play out with-
to this leader in the field of transper- between what they call "spiritual emer- In emergence, "our experiences are out the pharmaceutical option. At its
sonal psychology, we are much vaster gence" and "spiritual emergency" Both fluid, mild, easy to integrate?' In emer- worst, severe clinical depression can
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up and down her spine. I asked her to critics say, is the marketing of mood-
go down the list for emergence and altering drugs to children, or anyone suf-
emergency. "Do you have any o f fering from mild depression.)
these?" I asked her. She took a moment, Ironically, as a clinical psychologist,
and went down each list. "None of Angela had been treating patents with
these," she said, indicating the column clinical depression for 15 years. When
for emergence. "All o f these," she she voluntarily entereda psychiatric hos-
added, pointing t o emergency. pital months after her first breakdown
"Sometimes the process of spiritual and became a patient herself, this was
awakening is so subtle and gradual that where her turnaround began. She at last
it is almost imperceptible,' the Grofs surrendered her ego to circumstance,
write. "After a period of months or and greatly improved in the first week.
years, a person looks back and notices With the world seen through anew.set of
that there has been a profound shift in eyes,even the hospital looked good. "It's
his or her understanding of the world, like a hotel here," Angela told me on the
values, ethical standards and life strate- phone, "I get a day pass, and head down
gies." Of course, this is the desired route to the beach when I want." With a pink
for walking the spiritual path, when we rain of cherry blossoms decorating the
get to stop and smell the flowers along ground before her, Angela says she felt
the way. The journey is not so yellow- like "getting down on her knees and kiss-
show up. Angela recognizes her neuro- improvement.
chemistry was fundamentally altered Angela has never been particularly reli-
and which was the effect the neuro- lar dogma or denomination. But I have
chemistry or the crisis? seen one obvious change in her over the
Angela found the Grofs' work was the past year. The life of the spirit, and the
first book she had read that seemed to idea of a supreme being, are no longer
really make sense of her mental and distant abstractions. Stan Grof wouldn't
emotional chaos. She had underlined be surprised by such a change. Today,
many sections of the book and high- Angela is holding it together. She is out
lighted one sentence on spiritual emer- of the hospital, and taking medication
gency multiple times: "Completely at that contains the darker aspects of her
the mercy of a dynamic in a world existential crisis. At last, she has allowed
filled with vivid drama and gripping herself to believe she is worthy of help.
emotions, they (sufferers of spiritual Although modern psychiatry has greatly
emergency) cannot function in an helped her get through her dark night of
objective, rational mode. They feel as the soul, she notes, "Spiritual guidance
though this is the final destruction of from many different sources has also
any shred of sanity, and they're fearful been invaluable?' In a culture that values

EXI
that they are headed toward total, irre- individual autonomy and self-direction,
versible. madness?' G r o f himself this is the bravest act for any urban pro-
believes that the medical gab bag of fessional in crisis: to surrender. As
psychosis, into which health profes- Angela puts it, "Surrender to outside
sionals throw the most anomalous psy- help and to an unseen higher power?'
J I chological states, should be picked (Names and locations have been altered
through to differentiate spiritual emer- at the request of the subject.)
gency from organic pathology. But in Have you had experiences with medica-
the end, we're talking semantics. The tion for a breakdown or depression? Were
DaleJFerrel Removal Service Grofs' description of some of the dark- the drugs a boon or a bust? Did they help
er shades of spiritual emergency sound or hinder your recovery/spiritual journey?
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ical depression with anxiety. The main come your input. Email Geoff Olson
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supperinSuperSizeMe?Photo:Odeon Films

the best-made plans cango awry, in this light

and feel-good story.
TheSaddestMusic in the World
Most filmmakers today try to get the best-
looking picture that their moneycan buy.
Like a mad scientist, Winnipeg director Guy
Maddengoes off in the other direction
degrading and ageing footageso that it looks
like it hasbeen languishing for decades in
some dark vault. This demented melodrama
revolves around a contest to seewho can cre-
ate the saddest music in the world, with
Isabella Rossellini playing a depression era
beer baron with glasslegs full of beer and

Amonth of McDonald's for Kids in the Hall's Mark McKinney the oily
impresario who is trying to seduceher. The
film's flidrery, grainy footage, think early

filmmaker and regain their health.

black-and-white films, does not make for the
easiest of viewing experiences, but it is the
Although Spurlock tried to get an interview perfect palliative for too much Hollywood
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead with McDonald's, the company declined to fare.TheSaddestMusic in the World is show-
comment. Still, there is no doubt that this ing now in Vancouver.
film has kicked the debate about the health The24 Hour Film Contest
Super Size Me taglines you find on the fast-food themed risks of fast food into the mainstream. In the Last month, I took part in the 24 Hour Film
Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size website www.supersizeme.com light of SuperSizeMe,McDonald's recent Contest for an article for iofilm.com. The
Me, opening May7,hasbeen garnering huge The filmmaker, who ignored medical advice decision to scrap super-size portions of fries largest event to date with a total of 35 teams
amounts of interest for a small film ever against doing the month-long stunt, put on and soft drinks by the end of the year makes and235 local filmmakers weregiven a day to
since it debuted at the Sundance Film 25pounds, although hehas since lost most perfect sense. write, shoot, edit and deliver on videotape a
Festival in January. For the Michael Moore- of it, his cholesterol skyrocketed, his libido Valentin film under five minutes.Each film had to
ish (it evensounds like Moores book wilted and heended up with a liver so pun- The Valentin of this sweet coming-of-age incorporate various elements including,
Downsize This) investigation into the US ished that it resembled an alcoholic's. comedy, out May 14, is a precocious eight- among other things, abale of hayand a
obsession with fast-food Spurlock ate McDonald'scomes off badly.At one point, year-old, who lives in 1960sBuenos Aires soundtrack by a local band.Although many
McDonald's, accepting super sizes if offered, Spurlock is seenheaving his McMeal out of with his curmudgeonly grandmother. The of the27 films that made it across the finish
for awhole month to seewhat it would do to the car window, but the film is interested in cute, bespectacled Valentin (Rodrigo Noya) line in time were understandablya little
him. He could only eat or drink what was the wider legal, financial and physical costs dreams of two things: becoming an astro- rough around theedges, it was impressive
available over the counter, water included, of theUShunger for fast food in general, not naut and having a mother. Unhappy with his how much creativity filmmakers squeezed
and he had to eat every item on the menu at just McDonald's.Along the way Spurlock broken family life, hedevisesa plan to bring into the tight deadline.You can soon view the
least once. looks at the failures of school lunch pro- his divorced and philandering father, played films online at the 24 Hour Film
"SuperSizeMe:a film of epic portions" and grams, declining health and physical educa- by director Alejandro Agresti, together with a Contest site http://the24hourfdmcontestcom
"Morgan Spurlock took the fast track to tion classes, food addictions and the beautiful young woman Leticia (Julieta Releasedatesare correct at time of writing.
becoming anobeseAmerican." are two of the extrememeasurespeople take to lose weight Cardinali). However,hediscovers that even RobertAlstead runs ezine www.iofilm.ca

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TWENTY SOMETHING
by Ishi Dinim
L o v e is coming to a community near
you. If it isn't there already, don't worry,
it's on the way. Not the aid-package-
with-a-bomb kind of love but the peo-
ple-smiling-blossoms-in-the-tree kind.
It doesn't happen every day that you
have the best day of your life, but it hap-
pened to me a couple weeks ago: pou-
tine for breakfast, Noam Chomsky giv-
ing a history lesson in the park, dim sum
for lunch, sushi for dinner and then
scrumptious love with friends at night.
It left me with a feeling that things are
only getting better. Even though I ' m
pleasantly unemployed again, there's a
wealth o f superb food, sweet weather
and astounding people.
One surprising character in our collec-
Sprung
tive consciousness these days is the late
Dr Robert Atkins. T h i s d i e t g u r u
changed the way millions o f people
think about food. I found myself inter-
ested in who this guy was and how he
managed to alter gastronomic history.
He purported weight-loss, better health
and a revolutionary new way to do it:
low carbs and high protein. On April 8,
2003 at age 72 he slipped and fell outside
his New York office, lapsed into a coma
and later succumbed t o unsuccessful
surgery intended to relieve the pressure
on his brain from a blood clot.
Now this man died obese and with a his-
tory o f heart disease. Neither o f these
factors, say his supporters, were a result
of diet or a cause of his untimely death.
Hmmm? All of this information could
make an interesting beginning for a
biography, however I'm more interested
in how the Atkins diet functions on a
larger, wider and more robust level. It
could be a conspiracy theory, but I pos-
tulate that Dr Atkins's ideas have been
aggressively sold, post-mortem, by the
meat lobby as a way to invigorate their
struggling industry.
With a host of plagues in the gristle of
today, people need a greater incentive to
chow down larger quantities o f indi-
THOUGHTS
We all want to be happy, and we're all
gestible proteins. Note for the future going to die. You might say those are the
that it is generally not a good idea to only two unchallengeably true facts that
take diet advice from an obese, dead guy apply to every human being on this plan-
with a history of heart attacks. et. - William Boyd
Something else I can't stomach are non- There are things that we know. And then
war wars. Where are the people in the there are known unknowns. That is to say,
streets protesting? Oh wait they're too there are things that we now know that we
busy f i g h t i n g amongst themselves don't know. But there are also unknown
maybe. There is a lot of self-scrutiny and unknowns. There are things we do not
in-fighting amongst t h e l e f t about know we don't know...That is, t h e
strategies in dealing with today's issues. absence o f evidence is not evidence o f
We have to be strong enough not to can- absence...Simply because you do not have
nibalize our own in the process of ques- evidence that something exists does not
tioning everything. mean that you have evidence that it does-
People are up in arms about democracy, n't exist. - Donald Rumsfeld
Nader, Adbusters, the UN and the US. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing
The left is not working the way people I ever wanted was to be alive when the
want it to. Let whoever needs to know in three most powerful people on the whole
a constructive way that you don't like planet would be named Bush, Dick and
how things are going, and if they don't Colon. - Kurt Vonnegut
change, do i t better yourself. But say Ishi Dinim graduated from Emily Carr
something and t h i n k about i t long Institute of Art and Design in 2001, with
enough so that it comes out properly, a BFA major in photography. He enjoys
Mr Lasn, and then take some proactive experiencing art, especially writing and
steps. w w w. a d b u s t e r s . o r g / m a g a - film. Madagascar calls him to meet the
zine/52/articles/currentresponses.html lemurs and baobab trees. Currently he
(People are letting the zine know) lives in Vancouver cooking up some good
Sometimes I just want to move to the lovin', collecting cacti and trying to dis-
woods and raise goats. Get i t together cover the meaning of life.
people and b y that I a m talking t o contactishi@yahoo.ca waiting t o hear
myself, huh? echoes back...

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 continued from page 13
Coast is home to some of the most high-
ly sensitive coastal habitat in the world.
For example, over two million seabirds
live and breed on the Scott Islands, off
the northern tip of Vancouver Island.
Three species, including the tufted puf-
fin, have globally significant popula-
tions in this small, protected area. An oil
spill, or even the daily ongoing release of
pollution into the ocean that is a by-
product o f drilling, would put these
creatures at risk.
The assertion that BC "would use cur-
rent best practices from other areas of
the world" is also hard to justify. Canada
is a laggard rather than a leader when it
comes t o addressing environmental
issues. A recent study conducted by the
Organization for Economic Co-opera-
tion and Development ranked Canada
as 28th out of 29 industrialized nations
on environmental performance and
policies. These findings are also sup-
ported by studies from the Conference
Board o f Canada and the World
Economic Forum.
Here in BC, we are in a period of dereg-
ulation, and the government track
record for protection is far from good.
In this past year alone, a government
audit of the oil and gas industry in
northeastern BC found that of 160 sites,
35 had major environmental violations
(mainly related to fish-bearing streams),
that the Geological Survey of Canada only creates false hope for coastal com- PUBLIC HEARINGS ABOUT THE BC
has "systematically overestimated" BC's munities and distracts them from more MORATORIUM ON OFFSHORE OIL
off-shore reserves and have acknowl- promising opportunities for long-term AND GAS ACTIVITIES
edged "that there is a high level of risk jobs and benefits without jeopardizing This is your chance to voice your °pin-.
that little or no gas may be found?' One existing economies and one of Canada's ion on this issue and protect the coast
thing for certain is that any jobs or ben- natural treasures. for future generations. Attend the public
efits are far off, if they ever materialize at Jim Fulton is executive director of the hearings in your local community and
all. BC's coastal communities need jobs David Suzuki Foundation, voice your opinion:
now, and the prospect ec proposed developments w w w . davidsuzu-
of future jobs does lit- " P r o F s i m i l a r ki.org Bella Coola, Lobelco Hall
tle to solve their prob- to those being discussed for BC will The future of our May 5, 7—9 pm
lems. r e s u l t in 483 oil spills over the nextcoastisaboutto be May 6, 9 am—noon 2 —5 pm
The federal moratori- d e c i d e d . R i g h t Alert Bay Community Hal
urn is currently the several decades and a c n e -in-five now, federal and May 7, 2 —5pm 7 —9 pm
only effective mecha- chance of a major oil spill..." p r o v i n c i a l govern-
nism that guarantees m e n t s are consid- Port Hardy, Civic Centre
protection of BC's coastal environment, ering lifting a moratorium that has pro- May 10, 9 am—noon, 2—5 pm, 7—9 pm
existing economies such as fishing and tected BC's coastline from oil drilling May 11, 9 am—noon
tourism, and Canada's natural heritage. for three decades. It's a decision that Vancouver, Sheraton Wall Centre,
The province should be asking the big could change the face of the province May 11, 7 —9 pm
May 12, 9 am—noon, 2—5 pm, 7—9 pm
questions about whether oil and gas forever.
development should happen at all. Is it The Geological Survey of Canada esti- May 13, 9 am—noon
economic? What are the environmental mates that the amount of oil and gas Victoria, Coast Harbourside Hotel
consequences? Is it a prudent use of nat- along the coast of BC would supply the May 13, 7 —9.pm
ural resources? Is it in the public's best North American market with two May 14, 9 am—noon, 2—5 pm, 7—9 pm
interest? The BC provincial government months of oil and a half a year of natu- May 15, 9 am—noon
has set a date for near-shore oil and gas ral gas. Why threaten this highly sensi-
production for 2010 - claiming that the tive coastal habitat upon which our cur- Vancouver, Sutton Place Hotel
torch of the 2010 Olympics will be lit rent livelihoods and industries already May 17 & 18, 9 am—9 pm
with gas from the BC coast. This claim is depend, for such meager resources? Also, submit your views in writing
grossly unrealistic. Many industry A recent US government environmental before May 15, 2004 to:
experts suggest 10 to12 years, and the report on offshore oil and gas develop- Scott J. Gedak—project manager, Public
Royal Society of Canada science panel ment in Alaska's Cook Inlet concluded Review of the BC Offshore Oil & Gas
states, "It is likely to take about 15 years that proposed developments similar to Moratorium, Suite 580, 800 Burrard St.
to move through the stages of activity those being discussed for BC will result Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2V8
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sell a dream to buy political points. This major oil spill.
continued on page 37

Uplifting consciousness
UNIVERSE
WITHIN
by Gwen
Randall-Young
Your mind is a sacred enclosure into
which nothing harmful can enter except
by your permission. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Emotional turmoil occurs when we put
a negative interpretation on whatever is
happening in our lives. Often the strug-
gle is with attachment. Wanting things
to be a certain way or people to act in
accordance with our wishes, or it is with
a reluctance to• accept change. I t is
almost as though individuals feel under
attack; or that the universe is conscious-
ly sabotaging our plans or wishes.
Sometimes the source of angst is corn- -
ments from others, or knowledge that
someone is not pleased with us. I have
witnessed clients agonize for days or
years over negative judgments others
hold of them. They vacillate between
defending themselves and launching
their own attacks, i f only i n their
thoughts, against their critics.
Disappointment in others, or in the way
things are, creates toxicity .in our
mind/body system. This is not to say
that we should never be disappointed,
only that we should not remain in this
state, dwelling upon the awfulness of it
all. We either decide there is nothing we
can do and let it go, or we determine an
appropriate course of action, moving
forward to implement it. Then we let it
go.
Of course many things will happen in
life that go against our preferences. We
can develop the grace that comes from
our essential humility: we are not, after
all, in charge of very much. We do have
control over how we interpret events,
and how we react. Witness two scenes
from the movie, Titanic. First, consider
the orchestra members who continued
to make music as the ship slowly sank.
They knew the end was near, but boldly
chose to do what they loved right to the
end, in spite of their fear. Then there
was the elderly couple who also knew it
was the end, and chose to lay in each
other's arms, rather than to participate
in a panic-filled escape attempt which
would surely have separated them.
Thankfully, our challenges generally are
not of this magnitude. If we begin to
think of our minds as sacred enclo-
sures, we can be very selective as to what
we allow to circulate in them. As with a
garden, we can weed it regularly, getting sides of an imaginary conversation with
rid of anything that detracts from what an adversary. The physical body does
we wish to cultivate. As we choose to not differentiate between the stresses
avoid toxic chemicals, so we can avoid generated by real conversations o r
toxic thoughts. imaginary ones. When we play real or
Toxic thoughts include those that are imaginary conversations over and over
judgmental, critical, o r polarizing, in our minds, we continue to re-con-
either in relation to others or to our- taminate ourselves.
selves. Such thoughts may originate in Toxic thoughts a r e l i k e viruses.
our own minds, or may come from Developing wisdom and peace of mind
what others say. Tempting as it can be to requires t h a t w e strengthen t h e
gossip, doing so fills our consciousness "immune system" of our consciousness.
with toxicity. When we listen to such We do this by choosing healthy patterns
talk, we are giving another permission in our dealings with others, in our rela-
to contaminate our sacred enclosure. tionship with ourselves. It also requires
When we say such things, we contami- setting- clear boundaries with ourselves
nate the consciousness of others. and others, making a conscious deci-
Self-talk can be just as damaging. Self- sion t o n o longer entertain toxic
criticism undermines our sense o f thoughts or conversations.
worth and creates inner agitation. It can Regardless of what is happening in our
be such an integral part of our daily lives, we can keep ourselves from being
thinking process that we may be scarce- harmed in the same way that healthcare
ly aware we are doing it. It may have workers can avoid contracting the ill-
nothing at all to do with others, but nesses they treat. If we develop a healthy
rather forms a regular negative self- immunity to psychological toxicity by
evaluation related to appearance or per- adopting strong values and clear
formance. Some individuals contami- boundaries, and practise good mental
nate their own minds in the complete hygiene, our minds will become not
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Making the mind an ally
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by Mark Schneider

Rinpoche, a 41-year-old Tibetan medi-

Tibetan spiritual leader Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, author of Turning the Mind into an Ally
and son of Chogyam trungpa Rinpoche, speaks at the Chan May 7 on mastering the mind
Leigh Brasington, a cerebral computer
programmer f r o m San Francisco, i s
bouncing around with me on a bumpy
road, en route t o a B C meditation
retreat. I f there were ever an Olympic
sport for meditating, Leigh would have
to be considered a gold medal con-
tender. All he has to do is sit quietly for
a couple of minutes, focus his mind in a
particular way, and some kind of inner
door opens up. From body-wracking
rapture to absolute emptiness, he's fig-
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discovered how to get i n ' there, I was
hooked;' he says with a soft, southern
twang and a twinkle in his eye. "For 18
months, I was in effect, a junkie, getting
high with meditation?'
Brasington regularly travels t o t h e
University o f Washington w h e r e
researchers have tried to discover what's
going on inside his head.1 They have
attached electrodes to his skull, and then
pondered the strange scratches that
emerge from the EEG. Something is
going on, but what? He now only allows
himself to experience that sort of pro-
found joy for a few seconds, before mov-
ing on to the classical Buddhist practice
of mindfulness. "Wisdom is where it's
at," he says. Brasington now spends con-
siderable time away from his high tech
job, on the road, teaching meditation.
In the remarkable 2001 book, Why God
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Pennsylvania researchers A n d r e w
Newberg and Eugene D' Aquili wired
up experienced Buddhist meditators to
the latest brain imaging technology.
They reported finding "solid evidence
that the mystical experiences of our sub-
jects...were not the result of emotional
mistakes or simple wishful thinking, but
were associated instead with a series of
observable neurological events..."
This exploration o f inner space, the
mystical experience, they wrote, is "bio-
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real?' And all that's required to step into
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book review by Ralph Maud
A n y b o d y who knows anything
about Oliver Wells - a n d t h a t
includes Allan Fotheringham, who
wrote the foreword to this book -
knows he was a good man. No dis-
pute at all.
I never had a chance to meet him
before he was killed in a tragic auto-
mobile accident, but I have listened
to tapes, many, many hours of tapes,
tapes about what he love to do, what
he believed in, and how to bring
value to his community, which was
Chilliwack, BC. T h e tapes were
interviews, made after his retirement
from farming, with his old friends
and acquaintances among the Stoics
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Edenbank: The History of a
Canadian Pioneer Farm
people. With Marie Weeden,
Oliver Wells's daughter, and
the linguist Brent Galloway, I
put the best parts o f these
taped conversations into a
book c a l l e d T h e
Chilliwacks a n d T h e i r
Neighbors the title o f the
book W e l l s h i m s e l f
meant to write from the
tapes.
This book, published by
Talonbooks i n 1 9 8 7
and now in its second
printing, cannot b e
beaten as local ethnol-
ogy (which I swear is
the best kind). With
great zest Oliver went
where his curiosity led, and his
informants were infected by his pur-
suit of knowledge.
What was obvious from the tapes
was his amazing rapport with the
Chilliwack Native people. I took it as
a given and left t o one side any
inquiry i n t o i t s causes a n d
antecedents.
Now, w i t h t h e publication b y
Harbour Publishing of the history of
Edenbank Farm, much i s made
clear. There is no separate chapter
on the Native people; they just grad-
ually and naturally enter the picture.
A.C. Wells and his son Edwin were
very fair-minded employers and
active i n Christian charity. Oliver
and Sarah Wells inherited these
qualities. For instance, they both
were f u l l y involved i n restoring
Salish weaving to the Chilliwack val-
I f
ley. The same f o r Native canoe-
building. And Oliver gave new spirit
to many elders just i n asking for
their stories and songs on tape.
Those immensely pleasant hours of
listening to the Oliver Wells tapes
took place weekly for 10 years in the
Edenbank dining room on the large
oak table, with the Luckakuck Creek
running below. I was among those
sorrowfully affected b y witnessing
the struggle o f Marie to maintain
her father's property intact after it
became n o longer a farm, D i c k
Weeden being a doctor in town and
there being no miraculous source of
income from the land.
The personally most interesting part
Edenbank f o r m e w a s M a r i e
Weeden's epilogue, which is instruc-
tive as to the way government oper-
ates silent patronage to its support-
ers. I t was the Social Credit years,
and t h e provincial government
couldn't see its way to designating
Edenbank a heritage farm and hav-
ing i t s history available t o t h e
Canadian public; the government
couldn't see it as a new home for the
Fraser Valley College, which would
have been ideal; the cabinet wouldn't
let the land out of the agricultural
land reserve until, as a last resort, the
farm was sold to a friendly develop-
er who had been waiting i n the
wings and then 46 acres was sudden-
ly available for high-end housing.
I was able to see our current form of
"lobby democracy" up close on this
one. Edenbank is now a strata-title
gated community, w i t h t h e o l d
111011
building as the recreational centre
for residents.
It is tragically ironic that Edenbank
Farm, which always stood for effi-
cient land use and the ideal of serv-
ice to the community, is now fenced
for exclusive and non-productive
activities. Thus, this volume from
Harbour Publishing, as well as being
a beautiful artifact, is an eloquent
symbol o f a general trend toward
enclosure and of the old values that
could reverse the trend if we heeded
them.
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Brad Thomas interviews recording artist
and playwright Clayton Carrigan
Q: Dancing in the Light is a fascinating
production. It seems to cross many
ethnic boundaries and principals o f
thought; is that what you intended?
A: The title Dancing in the Light is
more symbolic opposed to literal. It's a
supernatural story o f a soul's long
jAurney to the divine light. The story
crosses the boundaries of love. It's
termed the ultimate love story because
of the soul's quest to find divinity and
find its soul mate. The actors capture
the story beautifully, but it's the ballet
and the live world music concert that
bring the story alive. There is also the
universal collectivity of the soul. In the
story, the closer the boy gets to his
enlightenment the more he under-
stands his connection. So Dancing in
the Light has a mystical theme, but is
also an easy listening, feel good kind of
story. It's like experiencing and watch-
ing a real journey of reincarnation that
evolves through the ages.
Q: Where do you feel your journey has
taken you?
A: Seeking is a never-ending cycle. My
journey over the years has taken me to
living and travelling i n India, Asia,
Europe as well as Cuba and Central
America. Studying and performing
different forms o f music, especially
Indian classical, was one of the high-
lights. I was able to share the stage with
some great Indian musicians while
performing in India. I was also study-
ing different styles of meditation yoga
and taught meditation for close to 16
years. Dancing in the Light is an accu-
mulation o f life experience, spiritual
thought, and the fantasy of what we
may envision as the divine's true mes-
sage of life. It all rides the belief that
our soul has reincarnated so many
times on its journey to the light of
Nirvana.
Q: It sounds like a Buddhist theme.
A: No, the story is not really about any
one religion, instead it's about the jour-
ney of the soul and the soul's universal
nature. Uniting the various beliefs, it is
more about how the soul has learned a
lesson with each rebirth. The soul
could be Christian i n one life and
Buddhist i n another depending on
what lesson was needed. In Dancing in
the Light, the soul reincarnates in four
different lifetimes. A disciple of a wise
sage in ancient India, a solder at the
tomb of Christ, an aboriginal boy in
the 1800s and then as a hippy in the
late '60s. It is a funny story in many
ways, but is also beautiful in the fact
that it shows in a sweet way that we are
all divine flowers on the one tree of life.
Q: You have mentioned that Dancing
in the Light is not your average stage
production. What do you mean?
A: We have taken a different approach
whereby the acting and theatre aspect
of the show tells the story, and the bal-
let dancers and musicians also play a
part in the script. It's like getting a the-
atre production, a contemporary bal-
let, and a world music concert all in
one show. US director Laura Lee ( Utah
and Les Follies Bergere) and choreogra-
pher Sandra Botnan (Cirque du Soleil)
will be incorporating actors, yoga,
modern ballet, and Indian classical
dance and fusing some very fine First
Nations dancers into the story as well.
John Ottman, formerly of Ballet BC
and the National Ballet, is the ballet
consultant. Then you add a great 12-
piece band that features great concert
and solo musicians, add East Indian
classical musicians to the journey and
the show now takes on its own very
original form.
Q: What would you say is the main
musical theme?
A: It is definitely a world beat theme.
As the story evolves so does the style of
music and the dance forms. From
Indian classical dance and music that
represent the time period of ancient
India in the first scenes to modern
dance, Latin and ja77 sounds in the '70s
segment.
Q: There seems to be a new spiritual
awareness blossoming. Flow do you
see that Dancing in the Light fits in?
A: There is a strong flow towards a new
spiritual understanding. We could see
this with the Dalai Lama's recent visit
to Vancouver where they had to go
from a 600-seat venue to the 13,000-
seat venue because of the demand. It
seems so many people are seeking
more from their life and more from
their spiritual understanding o f the
divine aspect. I believe what we are see-
ing is the dawning of the new age of
awareness. This thirst for knowledge is
just the first step in establishing the
1,000-year peace. W e must have
knowledge before we have the under-
standing of where we are and where we
are going. We are all seeking the same
answers. It is the process of our indi-
vidual evolution that creates the tests
for the journey we are on individually
and collectively. Dancing in the Light is
part of this evolution. It's enlightened
theatre coming into the mainstream.
Where the audience will see a reflec-
tion of themselves in the story. Twenty
years ago there would not have been
the infrastructure for supporting this
kind of show on this level. Dancing in
the Light crosses a new boundary of
musical theatre, where the past and the
future meet. I feel blessed to be a part
of this new awareness.
In June, Canadian playwright and
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by Cat Smiley, ISSA Often, women who enlist i n my boot
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exams, to working around the clock or pushups you can perform before you
skiing every day while the snow is good. need to stop and rest, and recruits must
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block o f New Age theories and come utes (14 for women) to pass the test. All
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simple exercise regimes, led by a hellish weight balanced on your hands and feet,
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physical comfort zone. Kind of like high ders. Half pushups on your knees are out,
school gym class, except that you're here even if you happen to be female. It's all
voluntarily. the way baby. (For strength training, you
80% of your immune
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approach to fitness have taken the yuppie to.)
system is bowel related
nation by storm? Boot camps are huge in Abdominal strength can be monitored
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catch on in Canada. Sure, gym facilities with toes tucked under some support. To Immunity Is The KeyToGood Health
organize boot camps in an aerobics class pass the APFT you must punch out 45
Staying healthy i s ventative medicine plays a vital role.
format on sprung, car- sit-ups in less than two
about immunity. When In the past decade scientists have begun to
peted floors with dance Boot camps are regiment- minutes, 38 for women.
your immune system better understand the role of immunity and
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tion levels up. But actual how unfit, you are func-
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tory attendance, a pun- in today's fitness training the g i v e n exercises The immune system is properly modulated immune system will help
ishment system a n d systems. unless you have a physi- not a singular organ or stave of most bacterial and viral assaults on
individual monitoring of cal c o n d i t i o n t h a t action but rather a com- the body, including food poisoning, allergies,
fitness progress? Pretty hard to find. requires medical attention, forcing a
plicated infrastructure cold, flu, parasites and cancer causing anti-
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important as strength conditioning. You skin, tissue and bowels. 80 percent of the the stomach and intestines, ensuring that bad
weather conditions. Sounds hardcore,
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ups and chin-ups in the cold, jump logs, the APFT grade. In fact, each day will bones organs and other tissue. The question to more efficiently assimilate nutrients into
lift weights and do rigorous abdominal work you aerobically and you'll notice a you must ask yourself is, why do some the blood stream, affecting immune function
training. One of the most popular boot marked improvement even i f you don't people get sick while others, exposed to the in other parts of the body. This can be further
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works and the corporate army loves it. ing systems. If you are late, expect to drop viruses. While pharmaceutical drugs are especially for children with developing bow-
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week at 60 percent to 90 percent of their up, all your teammates will be punished of illness, they often do not directly address more digestive trouble because of bowel
maximum heart rate, 20 to 30 minutes with an extra set of everything. Answer
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lulopes@telus.net "It's belief that gets us there:'

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 P S Y C H O L O G Y, T H E R A P Y & C O U N S E L L I N G

Are im "All o f your symptoms - depressions,
u on fears, cancers, relationship patterns,
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Michael Talbot-Kelly, MH, MA
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Registered Clinical Counselor
Learning to befriend these symptoms helps
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The Psychologists Regulation under the ing the word "psychology", "psychological" or Individuals receiving services from a regulat-
PSYCHOLOGISTS OF Health ProfessionsAct states: No person other "psychologist", or other terms implying train- edprofessional, suchasa registered psycholo-
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If all the US citizens in BC who are opposed to the policies of George Bush voted
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all, there are about 200,000 Americans here. Those who came during the Vietnam
War and have dual citizenship can still vote. Their children can vote too, even if they
have never lived in the States. They can regiSter by postcard.
•
If you are an American, you can get information about all of this by going to the website
at http://ca.democratsabroad.org <http://ca.democratsabroad.org/: or sending an email
to bcdemocrats@hotmail.com. I f you are not an American, you can give this information
it, all the Americans you know. Remember, this election affects the world.

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Omega-3 the fat everyone needs omega-6s already are more than
ample.
6 family, when we produce too parts omega-6 fatty acids to one part EGG REPLACER
much, our risk of chronic disease omega-3 fatty acids. This egg substitute works well to
increases. THE BOTTOM LINE replace an egg or two in pancakes,
One of the HUFAs in the omega-3 My co-authors and I cover these muffins and most cakes and cookies.
NUTRISPEAK family i s docosahexaenoic acid complex issues of dietary fats in our Instead of saturated fat and choles-
(DHA). It is an important part of the books: Becoming Vegetarian, terol, you'll increase your intake of
by Vesanto Melina gray matter of the brain, the retina of Becoming Vegan a n d Raising omega-3s. This won't replace eggs in
MS, RD the eye and some cell membranes. Vegetarian Children. Here are a few an omelet, quiche or soufflé though.
Low levels of DHA have been associ- simple guidelines that can restore Flaxseed oil should never be heated,
H i g h fat? Low fat? No fat? What do ated with conditions such as depres- your balance. however the omega-3 fatty acids
we really need to know? For many of sion, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's dis- 1. Limit your use of polyunsaturated present in ground flaxseed survive
us, the message can be reduced to ease and attention deficit hyperactiv- oils rich in omega-6 fatty acids and the baking of a muffin or pancake.
this simple sentence. There is just ity disorder (ADHD). We must get high-fat processed foods that are As an easy way to prepare your own
one type of fat that we need to add to enough DHA either by making it high in these oils. Oils that are high egg replacer, blend 1/2 cup o f
our diets: the omega-3 fatty acids. from the parent omega-3 fatty acid in omega-6 fatty acids are sunflower, flaxseed for about 1 minute until all
There are two distinct families of or by getting it directly from foods. safflower, corn, soybean and cotton- seeds are turned into a coarse pow-
polyunsaturated fats, omega-6 and One direct source of DHA is fish; seed; also check labels on processed der. I f you prefer a finer powder,
omega-3. Both are vital to health. however we can also get DHA now foods for these oils. blend until the desired consistency is
Within each family, there is one from microalgae, which is actually 2. Include good sources of omega-3 reached. Ground seeds can be stored,
essential fatty acid that must be pres- the origin of the DHA present in fatty acid i n your diet. Rely on in a jar, in your refrigerator or freez-
ent in our diet; from this "parent" fish. I find that some of my clients flaxseeds, flaxseed oil, hempseeds, er for several months; they will retain
fatty acid, other family members can benefit from direct sources of DHA hempseed oil, canola oil, walnuts and their omega-3s either way. In your
be produced in our bodies, including and recommend taking it in veggie green leafy vegetables. Flaxseeds and favourite recipe for pancakes o r
longer molecules called highly unsat- caps as an optimal way to get this flaxseed oil are by far the richest baked items, use the proportion
urated fatty acids (HUFAs). HUFA. sources; one teaspoon of flaxseed oil below as replacement for each egg.
The two families perform functions A MATTER OF BALANCE or one and a half tablespoons of 1tbsp ground flaYseed
that are necessary and that counter- Our diets provide a multitude o f ground flaxseed can give your day's 3 tbsp water
balance each other. Compounds sources of omega-6 fatty acids: all supply; doubling this amount may Place ground flaxseed and water in a
called eicosanoids made f r o m sorts of grains, seeds and seed oils, give you a valuable safety margin. bowl. Stir and add to wet ingredients
HUFAs i n the omega-6 family nuts, soyfoods and animal products. Other sources are walnuts, tofu and in recipe.
increase blood pressure, inflamma- Omega-3 fatty acids are present in soybeans, leafy greens. Vesanto Melina is a registered dieti-
tion and cell proliferation or divi- far fewer foods. Usually our diets Although balance-type-oils provide tian, speaker and consultant based
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the omega-3 family protect against the omega-6s as o f omega-3s. they were our only source of dietary www.nutrispeakcom. She will be con-
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inner journey - starts with listening to
one's mind-chatter. "You can be sitting
on the bus, worrying about something
and have no idea life doesn't have to be
this way," the ruggedly handsome
Rinpoche told me. "Your mind is run-
ning you. It's like a wild horse. All it's
trying to do is to be happy. It's trying to
ease its own pain, but it can't do that
because," and here he takes in a big
lungful of breath, "it lacks wisdom."
And there it is, the "wisdom thing." The
Sakyong, along with Buddhist teachers
for the last 2,500 years, have all pro-
claimed the same message: I f we're
embarking on this journey we'd better
have a clear idea of what is real, and not
just rely on the contents o f our
thought-filled minds. Unfortunately
that's easier said than done.
According to the Sakyong, the mind is
continually seeking to avoid pain and
plotting strategies for happiness. But
what we soon discover through medi-
tation, once we clue into the mind-
chatter, is a fundamental paradox we
somehow have overlooked. "On the
one hand, we find doubt and cyni-
cism," he explained. "But there is also
materialism" - the hopeful, non-cynical
belief that external things are the solu-
tion - "and we also find pride and inse-
34 • commonGround • APRIL 2004
unity. So we are in a deeply confused with a deeper, more spiritual part of this moment of truth. "This yearning is
state because all this is happening simul- ourselves...an absolute, universal reality becoming more apparent?' he says. "The
taneously?' His image of the wild horse that connects us to &that is." purpose of life is not just to survive the
begins to make a lot of sense. Cynicism For Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, the day, but for life to have meaning. This is
living cheek-to-jowl with hope. Pride purpose of meditation is not about try- what people want?' And yet we live in a
and insecurity in a marriage of incon- ing to get into some kind of higher level culture t h a t actively promotes
venience. In love with the notion that or higher state of mind. The goal is to Darwinian survivalism. A l l o f us
the grass is greener elsewhere, our mind discover our essential nature, which he trapped in our own scheming minds,
gallops madly off, calls basic, or natu- worried sick about o u r individual
convinced we don't "It seems that we all agree ral goodness. futures; and yet he believes that our cul-
really deserve t o
find any. that training t h e body There's a growing
sense that we have
ture is naturally gravitating toward an
exploration of inner space out of a sense
In his view, when we through exercise is a good come to the point of necessity. "We are entering a period
meditate we become where we realize where people are beginning to fed like they
involved directly in idea, but why don't we think that materialism have to do this. We all seewhere aggression is
the causal chain of about training the mind?" has taken us about leading us.So this is an essential time..."
our being. It is more as far as i t can. And this is where an exploration of inner
than just sitting on - Sakyon Mipham RinpocheSociologists c a l l spaceleads us. Learning to be kind to our
the cushion. Like this "hedonic slip- own wildness, to be kind to others. There
the law of gravity or Einstein's theory of page": the fruits of affluence become less can be no greater adventure. "It's becoming
relativity, karma gives shape to absolute satisfying the more we have. A recent more apparent that mindfulness is the final
reality. "When we meditate, it affects our UK study showed that in terms of "life frontier," Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
mind which is creating our karma, satisfaction?' the people of Ghana were claims. "But the fact is it's been there the
which in turn is effecting how we per- about as happy as those i n North whole time. It's like discovering your own
ceive the physical world, and of course, America, despite wild differences in back yard and realizing it's not a bad place
that affects our health?' he says. "Karma income.
connects the absolute to the relative?' he But truth be told, it must be acknowl- Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche gives a public
points out, with the assurance of a natu- edged that materialism has taken us on a talk on Turning the Mind Into an Ally,
ral-born philosopher. "That's the law." wild, interesting karmic ride. I t has Friday, May 7, Chan Centre for the
Ah yes. Just what the University o f made us hungry for happiness, and now Performing Arts. Tickets available a t
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neurological process...that connects us ishment. Materialism has taken us to www.shambhala.org
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