Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta by Jennifer Joe (abstract)
Living the Four Agreements
by Jill V. Mangino (abstract)Deepak Chopra & Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell
Team for Series on Jesus, An Exclusive Light Connection interview with Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell by Steve Hays (abstract)Countdown to the Meltdown
By Richard Martin (abstract)NO ON PROP 7: Despite Stirring Rhetoric, It’s Not Good by David S. Cohen (abstract)
Exploring The Work:an interview with Byron Katie
By David S. Cohen (abstract)_________________________________________________
Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta
Recipes from the World-Famous Spa & Preview
As Autumn gifts us with the bounty of the harvest, it also brings to the table a fusion of culinary talents who translate the renewing an d nurturing experience of Rancho La Puerta , the pioneering resort and premier “green” spa, into our home kitchens.
This isn't a “diet cookbook”, but what I'd call it is a “live it” book that celebrates life-giving and spirit satisfying food. From the philosophy that “eating simply and healthfully—with homemade meals that reflect the cycles of nature—is one of life's most profound pleasures,” the Ranch's founder, Deborah Szekely, co-author Deborah M. Schneider (both Local/San Diegans), and Jesus González, Creative Chef of La Cocina Que Canta share their passion, as they impart techniques, tips, and keys to “great cooking—using fresh, local, seasonal ingredients.”
Jesus Gonzales
The inspiration for the book comes from Rancho La Puerta's own organic farm, “Tres Estrellas” (Three Stars), which provides the spa with much of its fruits and vegetables.
In La Cocina Que Canta, a cooking school practically built amidst the rows and orchards beneath Mt. Kuchumaa , they wish visitors and students:
To Experience the connection of Earth to table, and cooking to health
To Cook with confidence and joy
To Use healthful cooking techniques
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Living the Four Agreements
The inspirational book The Four Agreements by international best-selling author don Miguel Ruiz has become a personal guide for millions and offers simple wisdom, based on ancient Toltec knowledge, for living a life of freedom, joy and love. Living the Four Agreements can be a powerful tool for creating your personal “heaven on earth”.
Don Miguel believes that we are all Toltec which translates into artist and as artists we are creating our personal “dream” or life story as we go. We are responsible for creating a beautiful dream or a nightmare. The choice is ours.
don Miguel Ruiz
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Deepak Chopra & Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell
Team for Series on Jesus
When best-selling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra teams up with leading Unity minister Wendy Craig-Purcell in the upcoming six-part video Web series on “Jesus and the Awakening to God-Consciousness,” based on Chopra's recent book The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore , interested viewers will get a chance to meet an esoteric Jesus often missing from the teachings of both mainstream and fundamentalist Christian sects. Set to begin Oct. 15 at www.unity.fm, each weekly half-hour segment of the series will be available free for one week, until the next segment is offered.
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ONE ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
Countdown to the Meltdown
Since the 1600s there have been only five major international financial crises: the 1637 Tulipomania bubble, the South Sea bubble of the 1710s-20s, the bankruptcy of the French monarchy in 1789, the Panic of 1857 in the United States and the 1929 Wall Street crash.
These are called generational crashes because they occur every 70-80 years. The people who lived through the preceding one die, leaving the inexperienced, younger generation to resume the same dangerous credit practices that led to the previous generational crash. After each of these crashes the survivors impose new rules or laws to ‘make sure that it never happens again'. As soon as those survivors are dead, the new generations ignore the rules, thinking that they don't apply to the current, smart, savvy and more enlightened generation. Thus begins the gestation for a new generational crash.
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Don’t Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for
Self with Compassion for Others
You better not shout, you better not cry,
You better be nice I'm telling you why...
You will not be rewarded, accepted, included, etc. You buy love by submitting to what others want, right?
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NO ON PROP 7
Despite Stirring Rhetoric, It’s Not Good
Proposition 7, the November ballot measure dubbed The Solar and Clean Energy Act of 2008, sounds good initially to environmentalists and hits all the right sound bites. It takes a strong stand against global warming and mandates high percentages of renewable energy sources for the state's electricity production 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025.
It promises huge solar installations in the desert that will meet the state's energy needs and shifts the regulation of energy production from the California Public Utilities Commission to the California Energy Commission, claiming that this will eliminate bureaucratic red tape.
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SUNCOOKERS
Film Reveals How Solar Cooking is Saving Trees & Lives in Africa
Where the sun shines down nearly 365 days a year in Northern Kenya, it seems only obvious to bring solar energy into the daily lives of Kenyans. Included in the newest release by Earth Cinema Circle is a film featuring Margaret Owina and her work to bring solar cooking to Kenyan villages and refugees. This documentary offers a profound, yet simple, solution to those in sun-rich areas who are struggling to balance what they need to survive, and what the environment offers.
The documentary focuses on one of Kenya's largest refugee camps, housing 80,000 people, that is placed upon a decimated Ocasia forest. A majority of the local forests and trees have been cut down by the local Decana people for use as firewood. This has left the environment in a fairly fragile condition where rains and winds carry away the delicate topsoil making it very difficult to support any type of replacement agriculture or vegetation.
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Exploring The Work:
an interview with Byron KatieOne might say that Byron Katie didn't choose her work; The Work chose her. One morning in 1986, she had an experience of realization that not only freed her from a paralyzing depression but brought with it a method to help others as well. In the decades since she has authored four books (with one on the way) including Loving What Is: Four Questions that can Change Your Life and A Thousand Names For Joy: Living in Harmony With What Is ( both written with her husband, the translator Stephen Mitchell) and traveled the world giving courses and free public events, visiting hospitals, prisons, and corporations in the service of bringing her own sense of freedom to the larger world.
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