Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Escape from the Future by Lisa Vasil True Hope and a Future. Finding God and learning from Him in the events of everyday life. ARTPRIZE ESCAPE. Of course, our favorite stop was to visit our newest grandson Karl, who made his grand entrance on Saturday morning. That makes 5 grandchildren for us, ages 3 and under! And for those of your familiar with Grand Rapids, yes, we walked there, uphill (both ways!) 2 Responses so far. oh i LOVE that autumn painting! beautiful. and the horse sculpture made out of shoe leather! amazing. Happy Anniversary to you and your hubby! The artists and artwork are amazing. But nothing compares to the last work artist and work of art. Karl. Congratulations! Escape from the Future by Lisa VASIL ISBN 13: 9781869500283. Try adding this search to your want list. Millions of books are added to our site everyday and when we find one that matches your search, we'll send you an e-mail. Best of all, it's free. 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Nancy's dead grandfather keeps materialising in all manner of strange ways with the purpose of trying to get a job in hell as an apprentice devil. A large paperback, nr fine. 8vo, 198pp. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 02H211. Escape from the Future. Lisa Vasil. Published by Tui 1991 Paperback (1991) From: Book Haven (Wellington, WLG, New Zealand) About this Item: Condition: Fair. Ex lib. Seller Inventory # 1176241. Escape from the future. Vasil,Lisa. Published by Collins/Tui, New Zealand (1991) From: Hindsight Books (Hamilton, New Zealand) About this Item: Soft cover. Condition: Good. owners stamp on title page -some corner wear to card covers. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 50849. Escape from the Future. VASIL, Lisa. Published by Collins, New Zealand (1991) From: Mad Hatter Books (Auckland, New Zealand) About this Item: Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Linden Redwood and her grand-daughter (both 15) change places with unexpected results. A time slip story written by an 18 year old who has cerebral palsy. This is her 3rd book. A paperback, corners slightly bumped, vg+. 8vo, 142pp. Seller Inventory # 06K210. Dark Secret. VASIL, LISA. Published by Collins 1989 (1989) About this Item: Paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs. Seller Inventory # xxsnh132101. The Apprentice Devil. Vasil, Lisa. Published by HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Limited, Auckland (1993) Avoidance, Sobriety and Reality: The Psychology of Addiction. The antidote to addiction is learning to tolerate reality. Posted February 28, 2010. THE BASICS. What Is Addiction? Find a therapist to overcome addiction. Despite their limitations, preconceptions, and borderline exploitation, recent reality television shows about addiction do shine a bright and dramatic light on two dark, secretive, debilitating, and very destructive mental disorders: substance abuse and substance dependence. Like many, but especially as a clinical and forensic psychologist with almost 35 years of dealing with such tragic tales, I still find it simultaneously fascinating and painful to watch shows like Intervention and Celebrity Rehab with "Dr. Drew" Pinsky. I suspect I am not unlike other ambivalent viewers, who stop channel surfing long enough to gawk at the emotional equivalent of a human car wreck. Despite being disturbed, horrified, and racked with voyeuristic guilt, we just can't quit watching. Still, part of what makes such programming so compelling is our compassion for the suffering souls we see literally struggling for their lives. And our conscious or unconscious identification with their struggle. In some ways, addiction is an extreme example of an existential challenge that we all wrestle with every day: accepting reality as it is. One obvious dynamic of addictive behavior (be it alcohol, licit or illicit drugs, sex, food, internet, or television) that I hope viewers are made more aware of by such so-called reality programs is the powerful connection between addiction and the compulsive desire to alter, avoid, deny, and escape reality. In this sense, these "reality" shows are, at their best, indeed about learning to confront, rather than retreat from, reality. For those who haven't seen or heard of these shows, Intervention dramatically depicts what happens to addicts prior to entering treatment and demonstrates what it takes to get them there. Denial and other chronic behaviors designed to avoid or escape reality are starkly revealed in the addicts' predictable and powerful resistance to entering treatment. Celebrity Rehab documents the goings-on in an in-patient addiction treatment program catering to so-called celebrities, including the likes of Mackenzie Philips (daughter of musician John Philips), basketball star Dennis Rodman, former Guns 'n Roses drummer Steven Adler, actor Tom Sizemore, and other lesser-known or infamous individuals, like ex-madam Heidi Fleiss, Rodney King, former teen beauty queen Kari Ann Peniche, and porno performer Mary Carey. The program is supervised by television personality and now celebrity physician "Dr. Drew" Pinsky, M.D., a board-certified internist specializing in "addiction medicine" — a medical specialty (not unlike AA) tending to conceptualize and treat addictive behavior as a "disease." Dr. Pinsky is a physician, but, to my knowledge, not a psychiatrist, psychologist, or trained psychotherapist. And it shows. Still, Dr. Pinsky's heart is clearly in the right place. He is a caring and compassionate physician committed to helping his patients heal. But his lack of psychological sophistication leads to making sometimes cringe-worthy, laughable, dubious, and even dangerous decisions in his treatment of his difficult and demanding celebrity clientele. Unfortunately, Dr. Drew's compassion and caring often overcome his ability to be paternally firm and consistent when setting limits for his patients, some of whom act like (and, indeed, emotionally are) spoiled, petulant children who won't be told no. Or angry adolescents rebelling against external discipline and authority. Frequently, Dr. Drew and his staff make excuses for the residents' bad behavior, blaming it on withdrawal, medication, or, more generally, their "disease." This is a serious mistake. It tends to permissively collude in the patient's chronic denial of reality and responsibility. Personal responsibility, a fundamental part of accepting reality and adulthood, is habitually avoided by addicts. And this bad habit must be broken if recovery and sobriety is to succeed. Of course, chronic intoxication and withdrawal from drugs influence one's feelings, perceptions, judgment, and actions. But does that make the person not responsible or accountable for his or her conduct? Under California law, for example, the courts specifically exclude intoxication and addiction in and of itself from the legal criteria for a plea of "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity," which would stipulate that the defendant was not legally responsible for his or her actions due to their state of mind at the time the crime (or crimes) were committed. There is considerable wisdom in this statute. Existentially speaking, there are always choices available to someone, even in the throes of addiction, whether it be alcohol, drug, or sex addiction. And it is crucial to his or her psychotherapeutic treatment that full responsibility be taken for those typically self-destructive choices. Such choices start with the self-defeating decision to either continue to feed the addiction or, more constructively, to seek assistance of the sort offered by 12-step groups or Dr. Pinsky's Pasadena Recovery Center, and so many others like it. The addict may not have the power to say "no" to the substance or behavior yet. But they do have the power to say "yes" to getting help, a point made quite clear by Intervention . The fact is that addiction, by definition, is a psychiatric, psychological, or mental disorder first, and a biological or physiological illness second. The recovery movement and Dr. Drew's own dogmatic conceptualization of addiction as a primarily biologically based disease is a significant part of the problem that he and others have in effectively treating such patients. Addiction, be it to alcohol, cannabis, sex, or porn, is not a biological disease like diabetes or leukemia. Patients may, in some cases, inherit a genetic, temperamental predisposition to the tendencies that make one susceptible to addiction. But that is not what makes them an addict. More than anything else, addiction is about denial of reality. It is, like depression, nonetheless a debilitating and potentially deadly psychiatric syndrome. People do suffer and die from addiction. And that these patients are severely ill, especially in the advanced stages of addiction and during withdrawal, cannot be denied. But that does not make addiction a biological "disease" per se. For, as AA has long rightly recognized, thanks to psychiatrist Carl Jung's influence on its founder, alcoholism and other addictions are at least as much sicknesses of the soul, psyche, or spirit as of the physical body and brain. Psychologically speaking, addiction is all about escapism. Avoidance. Denial. Addicts run from reality, and in some cases have been running all their lives. The addict cannot tolerate reality and its vicissitudes. Neither internal reality nor external reality. They find reality repugnant, uncomfortable, and overwhelming, and prefer, like the psychotic, withdrawal into fantasy, bliss, or oblivion over reality. They seek constantly to alter subjective and objective reality to their own liking. For one thing, reality — the existential facts of life — can be both painful and anxiety- provoking. Like all of us, addicts don't like confronting pain or feeling anxiety. That's human nature and comports with Freud's "pleasure principle": We all tend, whenever possible, to avoid pain and seek pleasure. Addicts prefer the pleasure of intoxication, the bliss of oblivion, to the suffering, banality, ordinariness, and difficulty of mundane day-to-day reality. Of course. Reality inevitably includes suffering, pain, loss. Reality entails consciously acknowledging, not just intellectually but emotionally, both what was hurtfully done to us in the past (by parents, peers, or others) and what we have hurtfully done to others. Who wants to experience (or re-experience) that? But the problem is that to avoid this reality, the addict has to keep getting high, because these "demons" never go away. They're always there, lurking, waiting to bite them in the ass as soon as they start coming down. And what goes up must always come down. So this is the psychological problem of addiction. And when it (consciousness) comes crashing back to Earth, reality and withdrawal from fantasy painfully set in. The psychological and emotional demons and demands of reality return with a vengeance. Reality cannot be run from indefinitely. A major part of addiction treatment entails acknowledging, confronting, and experiencing reality. In most cases, the addiction has permitted the patient to keep outer reality and his or her inner demons at bay. Sobriety forces the addict to face reality, motivating the addict to want to find some way to avoid or alter it again. Breaking this vicious, sometimes fatal, cycle of avoidance of inner and outer reality is the key to treatment. This holds true not only for the addicted patient, but, to some extent, for all psychotherapy patients. So many addicts (likely including some of Dr. Pinsky's patients) suffer from undiagnosed major mental disorders and serious personality disorders. Their chronic substance abuse and addictive behavior is symptomatic of these masked mental health issues — while at the same time obviously contributing to and exacerbating them. The majority of such patients belong in and could probably benefit from what is called a "dual diagnosis" program, which is specially designed to address both their serious mental health issues and the co-occurring substance abuse or dependence simultaneously. To his credit, Dr. Pinsky seems to acknowledge this fact, often focusing in his televised sessions with patients on any history of trauma, especially physical, emotional, and sexual abuse during childhood. And he occasionally brings in psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals to work with his patients. While it is clinically true in general that, in most cases, the severe substance abuse itself must first be addressed, detoxification completed, and sobriety established before meaningful psychotherapy for such childhood or other trauma can proceed in earnest, the reality is that without the proper therapeutic structure and support, this simply won't happen. As soon as the patient starts feeling stressed, sad, lonely, angry, or anxious, they will simply return to the only way they know to cope and comfort themselves: by doing drugs or engaging in compulsive, self-destructive "acting-out" behavior designed to avoid becoming more conscious of reality. Unconsciousness is the primary culprit in addiction. This is why intensive, ongoing, real psychotherapy needs to be an integral part of any effective treatment process for addiction. The antidote to addiction is learning to tolerate reality. Little by little. That is what sobriety really is. This is what the recovering addict needs the most assistance with: soberly dealing with inner and outer reality. And part of existential reality involves personal responsibility. We are responsible for consciously facing and dealing with our inner demons as constructively as possible. And we are responsible for dealing maturely with the outer world. It is clear that, especially for so-called celebrities sheltered from reality by fame and money, sobriety (be it from alcohol or other substance abuse or compulsive sexual behavior) demands accepting the same reality we all deal with every day: being responsible for ourselves; making choices that are in our own best interest; and tolerating tedium, frustration, anxiety, and life's inevitable physical and emotional suffering. Addiction is the habitual avoidance of reality. What the addict needs to discover is that reality is bigger than we are. A devastating blow to one's narcissistic grandiosity, to be sure. But the beginning of healing wisdom and a willingness to accept and embrace reality — including both its negative and positive aspects — on its own terms. Surging Indigenous renewable projects lead shift to clean energy future. Mounting an Indigenous-led clean energy project in Canada’s remote communities takes a special kind of resilience, as best intentions meet the harsh reality of permitting delays, construction deadlines and difficult negotiations with governments and local utilities. At a recent Gathering of Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE), Nihtat Energy Ltd. president Grant Sullivan gave a master class on the challenges and rewards of installing solar panels in off-grid Nihtat Gwich’in communities in the Northwest Territories. In two separate projects, Nihtat Energy – a Nihtat Gwich’in development corporation – installed solar panels to provide electricity to the Mackenzie Hotel and the Northmart grocery store in Inuvik. Now, Sullivan is working on two projects that will feed solar power into local diesel- fired grids owned by NWT Power Corp. that serve Aklavik and Inuvik. In his presentation to the Gathering, Sullivan stressed the need for project developers to plan for delays that can quickly drain resources and upend business cases. The ICE Gathering in January drew more than 700 registrants from Indigenous communities and organizations, as well as utilities, governments and the private sector. Remote communities across the country are pursuing opportunities in renewables that can reduce reliance on dirty, expensive, often-unreliable diesel. They’re developing capacity in energy efficiency, sustainable transport and bioenergy – projects that provide healthy communities, create wealth and jobs, and empower Indigenous people to govern. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has stepped up with significant funding for remote communities. Its Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities (CERRC) program has invested $220 million in 88 projects to help communities move away from using diesel by developing cleaner community-led energy projects. In December, the Liberal government provided another $300 million to the effort. In March, NRCan announced more than $40 million for the Clarke Lake Geothermal Development Project in northeastern British Columbia, which is jointly owned by the Fort Nelson First Nation and Saulteau First Nation. Fort Nelson FN chief Sharleen Gale said in a release that her community’s persistence in pursuing the geothermal facility “demonstrates what Indigenous leadership towards net-zero project development looks like.” Update: Monday’s federal budget announced an additional $36 million for clean energy projects in First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. ICE has called for Ottawa to allocate $500 million to a fund that can be used to catalyze Indigenous-led clean energy projects. Such efforts offer not only environmental benefits such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions, but also opportunity for real economic and social benefits that set the stage for reconciliation by partnering with Indigenous communities to develop clean energy assets that are in line with Indigenous values and affirm Indigenous Peoples as the owners and caretakers of the lands. Indigenous communities have been significantly involved in some 197 clean energy projects in Canada that generate more than 1 megawatt of power, as well as in smaller-scale efforts. Indigenous communities are the largest clean energy asset owners, apart from Crown and private utilities, and are a powerful force for change in the country’s transition to a clean energy future. The projects run the gamut from Nihtat Energy’s 99-kilowatt solar system for Inuvik’s Mackenzie Hotel to a $1.9-billion Wataynikaneyap transmission project that will connect 24 Northern Ontario First Nations communities to the grid. The Watay project is jointly owned by the coalition of First Nations, Fortis Inc. and other private investors. Indigenous communities have been significantly involved in 197 clean energy projects in Canada . They are the largest clean energy asset owners, apart from the Crown and private utilities. Originally from the Beaufort Delta region and now living in Whitehorse, Sullivan is an alumnus of ICE’s 20/20 Catalysts program. Each year, a group of Indigenous leaders get a crash course in clean energy project management and connect with like-minded people from communities across the country. The program “was my starting point of my education how to work with utilities and the language they want to hear,” Sullivan says in a phone interview. For the ICE Gathering, Sullivan spoke from his living room to an online audience that reached from coast to coast to coast. He spoke on a day when Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan announced that Sullivan had been awarded $800,000, under the Indigenous Off-Diesel Initiative, to carry on the next phase of his work in Inuvik. One of the biggest challenges for his grid-connected projects was negotiating a power-purchase agreement with NWT Power, which runs the diesel-fuelled microgrids in the towns. NWT Power has been supportive but also has to ensure the reliability of its own system – and that the addition of an independent power source doesn’t undermine its own business case. Negotiating an agreement with a utility can take as long as the construction phase, Sullivan said. “The key lesson learned is that the best-laid plans face so many delays in the project that you just don’t expect to happen,” he told listeners. “And the real impact of the delays is a loss of revenue and a loss of savings.” The key to success, he said, is building in cushions that can account for contingencies and maintaining open and honest communications with partners. Last November, three Indigenous communities of Fort Chipewyan commissioned the Three Nations Energy (3NE) solar farm, a $7.7-million, 2.2- megawatt project that they describe as the largest solar installation in a remote community in Canada. The 6,000 photovoltaic panels – plus another 1,500 panels owned by local grid operator ATCO Group – will displace 800,000 litres of diesel, or about 25% of the community’s needs. 3NE is owned by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Fort Chipewyan Métis Association. The project grew out of the communities’ realization that their growing populations required additional energy infrastructure and their determination to ensure they participated fully in solutions, 3NE president Jason Schulz said in an interview. Schulz also serves as executive director of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s strategic advisory services. “Fort Chip” is a community of roughly 900 people, 225 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. It is reachable only by air or small boat in summer and over temporary ice roads in winter. The diesel it needs must be trucked in during the weeks when the ice roads are operational, a period that is, on average, getting shorter because of climate change. Across the country, the Nunatsiavut Inuit government is partnering with Natural Forces, an independent power producer based in Nova Scotia, on a 2.3-megawatt wind and battery project that would displace up to a third of the diesel used for power in Nain, the northernmost community in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Nain project is in early stages of engineering, and with its negotiations with Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro. The capital cost of renewable energy projects in remote communities is typically far higher than in the south. Where wind can run $2 million per megawatt of installed capacity in southern Canada, the Nain development will run at least $5 million per installed megawatt, says Nick Mercer, Nunatsiavut Government’s regional energy coordinator. Still, the wind project should pay for itself over its lifetime, with the benefit of keeping some of the revenue in the community. A key challenge: negotiating with Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, which has a mandate from government to reduce subsidies for remote communities. Another 20/20 Catalysts alumnus, AJ Esquega, has led an effort to add a solar-based system to the existing diesel-fuelled grid at Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek (KZA), also known as Gull Bay First Nation, in northwestern Ontario. Their Giizis Energy solar storage project is a game-changer. It’s 100% First Nations–owned, by the KZA, in partnership with Ontario Power Generation, the developer. KZA is the first remote community in Canada to produce renewable solar energy and store it in batteries, which connect directly with the diesel system to reduce the amount of diesel fuel used. Billed as the country’s largest fully integrated remote renewable-energy storage microgrid, the system was commissioned in the summer of 2019 and has been running since. The full asset transfer to Gull Bay is scheduled to be signed off in early March. Esquega says that participating in 20/20 Catalysts helped prepare him for the realities of project management in a remote community. These capacity-building initiatives ensure Indigenous people continue to lead Canada’s transition to a more equitable, zero-carbon economy. With Ottawa’s support, we can catalyze more investment in planet-powered projects for a genuinely sustainable clean energy future. Shawn McCarthy is an Ottawa-based writer who focuses on climate change and the low-carbon energy economy. Terri Lynn Morrison is director of strategic partnerships and communications at Indigenous Clean Energy and a Mi’gmaq from Listuguj, Quebec. A version of this article appears in the Spring Issue of Corporate Knights Magazine as part of our Indigenous Economy Rising cover series.