What Women Must Know – The Power of Plant Medicine for Healing and Transformation with Gerry Powell – 05.24.18

Gerard Powell is the personification of the American success story who realized, as do many people in his position, that money does not necessarily buy happiness. Instead, he opted to try anything available to hide from himself and his “perfect” life. Most of his existence he suffered from addiction and depression, incessantly trying to fill the hole deep within with …

LOA Daily – 12.12.17

Expansion is a key point in the teachings of Abraham, and it seems like it should be a simple concept. So why does it give Walt so much trouble? That was how we originally framed the show before it began. Then, just a few minutes into the show, Walt asked Wendy how her weekend was. The story she told in …

NDC Savings Club – Book of Life – 03.15.17

Today Show:  Book of Life Guest Speaker:  Alexander Dunlop   http://spiritualnutrition.org/ Alexander Dunlop talks about the real meaning of the playing cards. The 52 deck of playing cards is the ancient book of life, hidden in plain sight. Using this book of life we can read the real meaning of our lives, all from playing cards. Most people don’t know …

Tom Engelhardt – You Must Be Kidding! Adventures in an American World of Frustration

Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That Makes Me Mad!, which brought back memories. Written by Steve Kroll, a long-dead friend, it focused on the eternally frustrating everyday adventures of Nina, a little girl whose life regularly meets commonplace roadblocks, at which point she always says… well, you can guess from the title!  Vivid …

The Vinyl Experience – 08.19.16

VE 136  Late Summer Songs   Jefferson Airplane: Coming Back To Me Frank Black: The End Of Summer Flaming Lips: It’s Summertime Chad & Jeremy: A Summer Song Bob Dylan: Floater (To Much To Ask) David Bromberg: New Leigh Highway Blues The Decembersits: Summersong Beach Boys: All Summer Long Style Council: Long Hot Summer Sly & The Family Stone: Hot …

Slavoj Zizek – We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism

n her classic study On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the famous scheme of the five stages of how we react upon learning that we have a terminal illness: denial (one simply refuses to accept the fact: “This can’t be happening, not to me.”); anger (which explodes when we can no longer deny the fact: “How can this happen …

Interview with Elizabeth Henderson – Author, Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture – 08.20.15

Elizabeth Henderson farmed at Peacework Farm in Wayne County, New York, producing organically grown vegetables for the fresh market for over 30 years. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), co-chairs the Policy Committee, and represents the NOFA Interstate Council on the Board of the Agricultural Justice Project. For 20 years, from 1993 – 2013, she chaired the Agricultural Development Board in Wayne County and took an active role in creating the Farming and Farmland Protection Plan for the county. In 2001, the organic industry honored her with one of the first “Spirit of Organic awards, in 2007, Abundance Co-op honored her with the “Cooperating for Communities” award and in 2009 NOFA-NY honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award and then a Golden Carrot in 2013. In 2014 Eco-Farm presented her with their “Advocate of Social Justice Award, the Justie.” Her writings on organic agriculture appear in The Natural Farmer and other publications, and she is the lead author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture (Chelsea Green, 2007). She also wrote A Food Book for a Sustainable Harvest for the members of Peacework Organic Community Supported Agriculture (aka GVOCSA) in its twenty seventh year in 2015.