CELEBRATING 25 YEARS IN PUBLICATION Enlighten Up! with The Aquarian

SUMMER 2017 Volume 25 • Issue 2 INSIDE FEATURES The Aging of Aquarius The New Age grows up...... 1 A Tarot reading for The Aquarian...... 3 Make your own bone broth...... 5

OPINION In defense of millennials...... 1 Suzuki: Shrink the work week.....6 Sharing close encounters...... 11 Master your money...... 15 Let go of stress...... 16

COLUMNS Cohen: Your passion is your prayer...... 4 Growing up trans: Beyond “boys’ and girls’ toys” ...... 7 Wheelwright: Be free like a gull....10 Lakser: Dating over forty...... 13 Cassiopeia: Life is a party, enlighten up!...... 18

BOOKS The Dorito Effect...... 14

Millennials are Aquarius the Solution, not the Problem By YVONNE THOMPSON hen you work in the field of leadership, you Wtake on a special fiduciary role where openness and exploration with clients is critical. I am always Has Dawned careful not to declare absolutes or ever believe I have the answers for another person. I have seen a lot over the past 30 years and rarely do I get worked up about Is the New Age past its prime? things anymore. Last week was a real exception. I found myself By SUSAN HURRELL years before the swinging sixties. Occultism, watching Simon Sinek’s viral YouTube interview Freemasonry, spiritualism, Theosophy, Mesmerism, about “Millennials in the Workplace” and it made t has been 50 years since we first sang “When the secret orders like the Hermetic Order of the Golden me crazy. I felt like he set us back 50 years in Imoon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientis and the breakaway leadership evolution. If he was simply seeking with Mars.” The dawning of the Age of Aquarius Christian “New Thought” churches of Universalism, publicity, he was successful. But if he is trying to be brought forward two counterculture movements to Unitarianism, and Religious Science were powerful credible in a complex world of significant leadership challenge the standards of Western society – the influences on spiritual thought from the mid-19th shift, that's another story. hippie era and century forward. When we take an entire generation, and categorize the New Age New religious them – label them and call them names – it is no movement. movements different than doing this with a race of people. It Hippie life was Our New Age is more middle-aged – like Wicca, simply sets us all back. infused with the Bahá’í Sinek references research. We must be careful rock music, a baby boom religion no longer Faith, Christian when we use research to ensure it is credible and peer casual drug use, Science and reviewed. I confess, I do not know which studies he sexual liberation relegated to the baby boom generation. S c i e n t o l o g y, refers to or their source. One reason for this is that I and women’s continue to do not spend time researching and exploiting things empowerment emerge, rise and like generational differences, preferring to spend – liberating people from the shackles of post-war fall, fascinating the academic community even as my time understanding the human experience as a propriety and restricted cultural thinking. What they satiate seekers of spiritual fulfillment. whole. flower power did for our bodies and minds, the New Back in the 60s, the Beatles went to Rishikesh, Simon states there are four factors impacting Age movement did for our souls and spirits. the Rolling Stones went to Marakesh and Hinduism, millennials in the workplace: parenting, technology, The New Age movement was the contemporary Buddhism and Sufism became a more present part patience and environment. Please note, I will not manifestation of philosophies that influenced spiritual thought and practice over one hundred See AGE OF AQUARIUS on page 8 See MILLENNIALS on page 12 2 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 3 A 25th Anniversary Tarot Reading for The Aquarian

In honour of The Aquarian's 25th anniversary, we Future – Page of Swords asked tarot card reader, astrologer and longtime Aquarian writer, Nancy Gill, to do a tarot In future, let The Aquarian’s natural card reading for The Aquarian. curiosity lead the way. Readers are getting so busy they rely on By NANCY you doing the research and o as a 25th letting them Sb i r t h d a y know what to treat The watch for. Your Aquarian back issues are requested a tarot like a library of card reading. I knowledge for folks used a basic three to access. Readers card spread first and are thankful they can then pulled cards to do so at their leisure. answer key questions. On your website, I see a “Questions from Readers” page being Basic Three quite busy as people Card Layout become more and more engaged. This page will Past – Tower also be used to help editors decide what topics will The Aquarian was a mover be of interest to a majority and a shaker when it first of readers. Be open to started. Bringing awareness feedback. Listen to what the of universal truths to people, readers are saying. An “Ask challenging the establishment Our Expert” page would also and established ways of seeing do well. Readers would be able things. Offering information to ask a card reader, astrologer, that might throw people out of their spirit. The Aquarian also enlightens people about relationship consultant, dietitian, comfort zone. The Aquarian also changed the way what’s going on behind the scenes in established aromatherapist, vegan cook, and people saw how a paper could be run. A free and industries as they relate to the environment and others for general answers or directions. successful paper? Who knew! healthy living. The Aquarian encourages readers to live more fulfilling lives by letting them know about A lot is changing right now in North America Present – Ten of Pentacles services and tools available. The newspaper reflects and the world. Here are a few questions for The the belief that, “With a good foundation you can build Aquarian answered through the tarot. The Aquarian is in a solid position, able to provide a strong house.” Nutrition, the planet, sustainability, information to assist so many readers in their maintaining a well-rounded approach to life – you’ve exploration of things related to body, mind and got it all. See TAROT READING on page 19

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[email protected] (204) 390-6609 or (204) 338-5505 4 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com From the Heart By ALAN COHEN Your Passion is Your Prayer he powerful movie Dangerous Beauty recounts At another time I sat through a fairly boring church shows most of the home as blue, indicating the area that Tthe story of Veronica Frankl, a 16th century Christmas service. As soon as the service was over and is well-insulated. Some of the areas, especially around Venetian courtesan (prostitute for noblemen) who people were milling out, some upbeat music came over doors and windows, are glowing red, indicating the wins the hearts of her clients. Veronica is beautiful, the loudspeaker. I looked up into the balcony and saw places where heat is leaking out. witty, and full of passion for life and her profession. two teenagers who came alive and started dancing to Over a long period of time we have been trained to Her clients feel her terrific life force, and they are this music. Suddenly my heart lifted. It was the first believe that life is about staying insulated, rather than lifted from the grayness of their lives. shred of aliveness I felt during the service. I think glowing with passion. God, however, is most present The Great Inquisition overtakes Venice, and Jesus would have appreciated it, too. and obvious where people are happy and alive. This Veronica is brought means that there to trial on charges is more genuine of witchcraft. The prayer happening judge sternly tells her at football games that if she confesses than most churches. to being a witch, her If churches could work up enthusiasm, life will be spared. In Photo by Lukas Budinsky a stirring courtroom presence of attention, soliloquy, Veronica and spirit as well declares, “I confess. as professional . .I confess that I football, religion find more ecstasy in our country in passion than in would really rock. prayer. Such passion But many people is prayer.” walk out of most For those of us who churches more dead have been taught that than alive. If next prayer or spirituality Sunday we made a requires denying our rule that only those passion, Veronica’s people who would statement may come really love to go to as a shock. But, church go, I wonder as Phillip Brooks what attendance noted, “Prayer is not would look like. the overcoming of But the good news God’s reluctance, but is that the energy the taking hold of in church would be God’s willingness.” spectacular. I would And what is God’s “When you love what you are doing, you are God in action.” rather teach to a small willingness, but the experience of joy and abundance Then there was the time I spoke at a small church in group who really want to be there, than to a large group in every area of life? the Midwest. That day the Sunday school teacher didn’t whose mind was on golf. To that group I would say, While giving a talk at a church in a conservative show up, so the church elders took the class, which “Please, go golf. Let the golf course be your church.” area of the country, I noticed that nearly everyone in consisted of a half- dozen boys about the age of 10, and Such passion is prayer. the church looked the same. The women had the same stuck them in the first row of the church, hoping this Wherever there is passion, there is church. Wherever hairdos, the men wore the same suits, and most of the would keep the kids in line. My talk was on making there is aliveness, there is God. True prayer is not conversations fell within the middle of the bell curve the most of wherever you are. You can imagine my mumbling a set of words, but energetically expressing of what is socially acceptable. If you saw the movie surprise when I looked over to see all of these boys what makes you feel most alive. When you love what Pleasantville, you get the picture. Congenial but not sitting there with quarters in their eye sockets! At first you are doing, you are God in action. exciting. I was jarred, then I had to hand it to them. They were Then a teenage fellow with orange hair walked into the only people in the church who put my lesson into Alan Cohen is the author of the bestselling A Course the church. Now I confess that I have had judgments practice immediately! in Miracles Made Easy: Mastering the Journey from about people who die their hair weird colours and have A fun way to evaluate your activities is by doing Fear to Love. Become a certified professional life metal objects inserted in various bodily orifices. But “energy scans’ on yourself and others in any given coach though Alan’s upcoming transformational Life that day I was really glad to see that guy. He was the situation. Have you ever seen a magazine or television Coach Training. For more information about this only person in that church, as far as I could tell, who advertisement for home insulation, where they show a program, his books and videos, online courses, and was making a statement for individual expression. thermograph of a home in the wintertime? The photo weekly radio show, visit alancohen.com. www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 5 Make Your Own Bone Broth Packaged versions of the perennial superfood don’t measure up; but it’s cheap and easy to make the real thing yourself.

By SANDRA SUKHAN extracted by simmering bones for several hours help bother to make my own stock (i.e., bone broth) or to fight inflammation and the cold and flu viruses. how I even find the time with a full-time job and ’ve been cooking and baking for as long as I can And, of course, bone broth is good for your bones. (at that time) doctoral studies. I put it down to the Iremember, and I can confidently say I developed I wondered why bone broth has suddenly become therapeutic benefit I derive from creating my own my passion by watching and helping my mother a superfood. Most people of my generation and tasty food. She thought it was a lot of work for a small create some delicious fare. In later years as a young, younger have become so busy that they hardly have reward. But to my mind, it takes very little effort. The stay-at-home beauty of making mother (albeit your own bone many years ago broth is it is when staying at very easy, the home was not in Photo by beats1 ingredient list is vogue), money short and devoid was scarce; but I of additives and wanted to ensure preservatives, my three daughters and you can had the best and make it as low- healthiest food or no-sodium. I could provide Add water to on a limited the concentrated budget. I grew my bone broth, and own vegetables, voila: you have canned my own a rich, flavoured tomatoes, made “ready-to-eat” my own crab- broth. apple jelly from Here is what my trees, baked I do: When I my own bread and cook chicken, I regularly made remove the skin gallons of chicken and sometimes broth. debone it. I save I started hearing these raw scraps about bone broth as in the freezer; a “new superfood” and when I have a few years ago, about five or but didn’t pay more pounds, much attention I defrost them, even as reputable put them into my organizations like 25-litre cauldron the Mayo Clinic (a relic from the and the Cleveland days when my Clinic jumped on children lived at the bandwagon. home), add my Finally last year, herbs and spices as I watched an (recipe below) Asian doctor extoll and simmer its benefits during for several a PBS fundraising hours. The drive, I thought resulting stock it was time to is incredibly rich find out what this and flavourful “new” health food and far superior was all about. time to cook from scratch. They buy prepared foods to anything store bought, even high end broth. With After some research, I realized I’ve been making and other basic things like broth (which is not the packaged products, most of bone broth’s nutritional bone broth for decades while simply calling it “broth.” same as the source of traditional bone broth, also value has been diluted away. Some DIY recipes call Did someone just discover this new superfood? No known as “stock”). At some point, they complain for scraps from cooked chicken, but the resulting and Yes. Grandmothers have known the secret for about the amount of sodium in the flavoured bone broth has little or no flavour, because most of centuries, which is why chicken soup is their go-to water – and manufacturers note another marketing it has already been cooked away. I always start with remedy when you have a cold. Scientists now are opportunity. They then offer low sodium options, raw chicken. catching up to what Gramma knew intuitively. but mostly with the same laundry list of additives. They are discovering that the collagen and minerals My sister asked me about ten years ago why I See BONE BROTH on page 16 6 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com

Science Matters By DAVID SUZUKI Long work hours don’t work for people or the planet n 1926, U.S. automaker Henry Ford reduced his years. We’re clearly not on track to achieve that. As we argues that a standard 21-hour workweek would Iemployees’ workweek from six eight-hour days to reach the combined tipping points of overpopulation, address a number of interconnected problems: five, with no pay cuts. It’s something workers and resource overexploitation, environmental degradation “overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, labour unions had been calling for and it followed and climate change, we may no longer have the luxury high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched previous reductions in work schedules that had been as of taking our time to make necessary changes. inequalities and the lack of time to live sustainably, to high as 84 to 100 hours over seven days a week. Rather than reducing work hours to spur care for each other and simply to enjoy life.” It points Ford wasn’t responding to worker demands; he consumerism, as Henry Ford did, we must reduce out that “the logic of industrial time is out of step was being a businessman. He expected with today’s conditions, where instant increased productivity and knew workers communications and mobile technologies with more time and money would buy bring new risks and pressures, as well as and use the products they were making. It opportunities.” was a way of spurring consumerism and Economist David Rosnick, author of productivity to increase profits — and it Photo by 578foot a 2013 Center for Economic and Policy succeeded. Ford, then one of America’s Research study on work hours and largest employers, was ahead of his time climate change, argues that reducing — most workers in North America and average annual hours by just 0.5 per cent elsewhere didn’t get a 40-hour workweek per year through shorter workweeks and until after the Second World War. increased vacation would “likely mitigate Since standardization of the 40-hour one-quarter to one-half, if not more, of workweek in the mid-20th century, any warming which is not yet locked-in.” everything has changed but the hours. Beyond helping break the cycle of If anything, many people are working constant consumption and allowing even longer hours, especially in North people to focus on things that matter — America. This has severe repercussions like friends, family and time in nature for human health and well-being, as well — a shorter workweek would also as the environment. reduce rush-hour traffic and gridlock, Until the Second World War, it was which contribute to pollution and climate common for one person in a household, change. It could help reduce stress and usually the oldest male, to do wage work the health problems that come from full time. Now women make up 42 per modern work practices, such as sitting cent of Canada’s full-time workforce. for long hours at computers. And it would Technology has made a lot of work give people more options for family care. redundant, with computers and robots (David Suzuki Foundation employees doing many tasks previously performed enjoy a four-day workweek.) by humans. People get money from bank A transition won’t necessarily be machines, scan groceries at automated easy, but it’s time we stopped applying checkouts and book travel online. Many 20th century concepts and methods to people now spend most or all of their 21st century life. Economic systems workdays in front of a computer. that require constant growth on Well into the 21st century, we a finite planet don’t make sense. continue to work the same long The fact that the world’s richest hours as 20th century labourers, Beyond helping break the cycle of constant consumption 62 people now have more wealth depleting ever more of Earth’s than the poorest half of the world’s resources to produce more goods and allowing people to focus on things that matter — like population is absurd and tragic. that we must keep working friends, family and time in nature — a shorter workweek It’s time for a paradigm shift in to buy, use and replace in a our economic thinking. seemingly endless cycle of toil and would also reduce rush-hour traffic and gridlock, which consumerism. It’s time to pause and consider contribute to pollution and climate change. David Suzuki is a scientist, better ways to live. broadcaster, author and co-founder Like shifting from fossil-fuelled of the David Suzuki Foundation. lifestyles, with which our consumer- Science Matters is written with based workweeks are connected, it would have been both. We have to get beyond outdated notions and contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior easier to change had we done so gradually. In 1930, habits like planned obsolescence, excessive packaging Editor Ian Hanington. David’s latest book is Just Cool renowned economist John Maynard Keynes predicted and production of too many unnecessary goods. It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do (Greystone people would be working 15-hour weeks within 100 The U.K. think tank New Economics Foundation Books), co-written with Ian Hanington.

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COVER ART/PHOTO: New Age senior couple by CREATISTA with abstract design from the Orbits of Destiny series by agsandrew. www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 7 ADRA WEAKLEY, R.C.R.T. Certified Reflexologist Boys’ and Girls’ Indian Head Massage Toys Aren’t Us Reflexology is a natural By RIKKI DUBOIS healing art based on the s a child of the 1960s and 70s, I was given boys’ toys to play with because I was principle that there are reflexes Alabelled a boy. These consisted mostly of cars and guns. Cowboys and Indians in the feet, hands, and ears, (I know that’s not politically correct, but that was the name of the game at that time) was a favourite. If you didn’t have a gun, you used a branch or a hockey stick. which correspond to every At that time, toys were separated into boys’ and girls’ toys; it’s not that the toys had part, gland, and organ of the little penises or vaginas, but rather, they were designated for boys or girls. If boys were caught playing with girl toys, they were labelled sissies, and girls playing with body. Through application boy toys were told “it’s not ladylike.” There was a concept of boys are boys and girls are girls, and they should not be playing with the same toys. of pressure on these reflexes, Being a girl in a boy’s body is very confusing when one doesn’t realize they’re a girl. reflexology relieves tension, I had to play games that I did not find interesting and this added to my depression. I was trying to fit in with the other boys because I was supposed to be a boy and I did improves circulation and helps not want to be labelled a sissy. I was already a target of bullying by my brother and promote the natural function some neighbourhood boys, so I didn’t want to give them more ammunition. I liked to play with toy cars, but while the other boys would say their engine was of the related areas of the body. a 454 with four on the floor and dual exhaust, I would smile and say nothing. At the time, I didn’t know what any of this meant and I really didn’t care. I liked the pretty cars in the pretty colours. The boys would have races and smash up their cars. I just wanted to drive them and visit my friends because, to me, it was really like playing house. It was the same when we played cowboys and Indians. When others were Indian Head Massage playing shoot ’em up, I played dress-up. My favourite games were where we would is a form of relaxation make cowboy costumes and use chairs as horses. The best times I had when I was a child were when I played with the neighbourhood massage that focuses on the girls. We would play school, house or dress-up. I felt comfortable with them and I enjoyed the games. face, head, neck, shoulders, upper back and upper arms. When others were playing It is very relaxing and has a balancing effect on the shoot ’em up, I played dress-up. recipient as it helps them to release stress and tension When I started school, I found it hard because I was in an all boys school. I tried to fit in, but I spent a lot of time alone because I didn’t like the games they played. I creating a sense of calming didn’t like the play fighting or wrestling, and I wasn’t good at sports. It was a lonely time for me, but the next year things got better. The school amalgamated with a and well being. local girls school and both became co-ed. The girls’ school was now kindergarten to Grade 4 and my school was Grade 5 to 8. I was now going to school with girls and this is where I finally started to make friends. However, it caused other issues. I wanted to play with the girls, and a lot of times I did, but doing so too often would lead to me being labeled a sissy and again Benefits: General Relaxation • Improved blood becoming a target for bullies. The girls treated me well and we played hopscotch or skip rope. I enjoyed that and felt like I was one of them. But, in order to fit in at circulation increasing oxygen supply to the school, I would sometimes play sports with the boys. I wasn’t very good at sports, but brain • Calms, revitalizes and uplifts the spirit • I did what I could to protect myself. My family moved around a lot when I was a child. Because of this, I never made Can create a more balanced state of being, and any long lasting friends. So, as soon as I made friends with the girls at school, I would have to move to a new school and start over trying to fit in. When I was in Grade 6 or balancing of the Chakras • Relaxes tight and 7, to alleviate the loneliness, I played with my little sister. She is seven years younger uncomfortable muscles, eases stiffness, breaks than me, so that would make her about five years old at this time. We would play house with her dolls and tea set. I really enjoyed this and making her happy gave me down knots and nodules in muscle tissues • great joy. Stimulates blood circulation and drains away Since I spent a lot of time alone, I would pass most of my time by listening to music and drawing and writing. I was not a great artist, but I liked to sketch and my pictures accumulated toxins • Increased joint mobility were not too bad. My real passion ended up being writing. I have been writing since I was a child and have evolved to where I now write for The Aquarian, as well as other • Improved lymphatic drainage • Helps to periodicals and books. dissipate mental tiredness, stress, depression It is now 2017 and I hope that as a society we have done away with labelling toys as belonging to boys or girls. We should let children choose what they want to play with, resulting in greater mental alertness and encourage different styles of play and let them express themselves with whatever toy concentration and clearer thinking they want. A boy playing with dolls may turn out to be a childcare provider or, at the very least, a great dad. A girl playing with cars may turn out to be the next Danica Patrick or a car design engineer. And, more importantly, transgender children should have the right to play with the toys that they most identify with. I am now an adult and have stuffed animals and dolls on top of my bed. These toys Kim Arnett Massage Therapy make me feel like I am a girl (woman) in every sense of the word. 1117 Corydon Ave. Winnipeg, MB, R3M 0X4 Rikki Dubois is a transgendered Winnipeg writer. She has two sons in university and is living with her partner, Charlene, and their black Pomeranian named Tux. Her book Muffy was Fluffy helps children understand what it means to 204-990-2859 be transgendered. Rikki is available to help those who have questions about gender dysphoria and other gender-related issues. To get in touch – or to read more of her writing – visit [email protected] rikki152.wix.com/author-rikkidubois. 8 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com AGE OF AQUARIUS cont'd from page 1 • Local authors had traction: New Age spirituality is a buffet table of and hush-hush is now mainstream and o Winnipeg’s own Ben beliefs, practices and modalities with the has business cards, with some formerly of the cultural mix for Europeans and Willemsen’s Don’t Water the broadest guiding principles connecting alternative healing modalities now North Americans. Incense mixed with Stick made quite a stir in the local many divergent philosophies. While covered by employee insurance plans, the pot smoke, tarot cards were read metaphysical community and there are “New Age churches” like The and some employee wellness programs on tie-dyed tablecloths, we meditated beyond. Sanctuary in Winnipeg, they are quite incorporating meditation, yoga, transcendentally and attuned our bodies o Move over, Dan Brown. Have often light on both dogma and doctrine. aromatherapy and more into their mix of to our minds with yoga. Many diverse you read Manitoba’s own Frank The teachings of the New Age are not offerings. threads became woven together to form Albo’s Hermetic Code or his newest a “religion” in the typical sense and we How deep does the vein of our New Age the fabric of what we call the New Age. book – Astana: Architecture, Myth fill our spiritual plate with the items we faith run through us as a community, as Yoga, as discussed in previous issues and Destiny? like, reject the rest and keep all doors individuals? If we are still in the spiritual of The Aquarian, originated as a • We shopped at Genesis, Revelation, open, because “all paths are valid” and broom closet, what are we afraid of? I Hindu spiritual discipline. Tarot was the Philosopher’s Stone, Oracle “all the faces of God are God.” We can buy crystals at gas stations, yoga a centuries-old card game adopted by Grove, Shifting Sands (and others cross-pollinate our spiritual influences happens in public spaces, and Marianne 19th century occultists and imbued with of blessed memory) and still visit and develop a highly-personalized faith Williamson ran for a seat in the U.S. esoteric meanings. The use of crystals Radiance, Elemental and the practice. House of Representatives. – semi-precious gems – as sources of veteran Prairie Sky Books. I’ve attended both weddings and What’s next for our New Age spiritual energy and inspiration can be • Goddess spirituality pioneers funerals for friends who were devout movement? We’re seeing the integration found in many ancient religious texts, StarHawk, Z Budapest, Carol New Age believers that were held in a of technology into our alternative medical including the Old Testament. Spirit Christ, Diane Stein among many traditional religious setting (usually and spiritual practices – biofeedback guides have appeared in visions and others helped half of us see a face Christian) which felt completely machines, brainwave accelerators, dreams generations prior to Edgar Cayce of the divine that looked like us. incongruent with the spirituality of the negative ion-generating jewellery and taking his first nap. Intentional machines that can download a new communities existed long before program directly into your DNA Findhorn. And when it comes to – magic! Some may feel that this astrology, many cultures had their is a further disconnection as they own interpretation of the dance of reach for an earth-centric, green the stars in their night sky. composting, permaculture existence When I reflect on 50 years of or a purity of spiritual practice contemporary New Age thought, that shields them from technical and the 25 years of this publication, intrusion. Others embrace their tech I am reminded of so many trends – apps, programs, devices, social and themes that emerged, as well media platforms that help them as those that have faded in their move more freely, learn more easily, influence. How many of these do connect more broadly, or open you remember? How did these more fully on their spiritual growth concepts, places, thinkers and trajectory. It is not for me – or you – writers touch you? to say what is right for anyone other • Est, Esalen, Primal Scream than ourselves. Therapy and isolation tanks Everything old is new again and (which are back in vogue at those ancient roots may provide some local salons like Float.calm). New Age believers with validation • The Harmonic Convergence that what they believe is “real” or planetary alignment in 1987. “true” or “legitimate.” Those of us • Channelers like Jane Roberts who are seekers will continue to find (Seth), J.Z. Knight (Ramtha) whatever it is that we are looking and Neale Donald Walsch for. My question is: what do we call (Conversations with God), Lee it now that the New Age is blending Carrol (Kyron). into the mainstream? Does it need a • Winnipeg appearances by name? How do we encapsulate what Deepak Chopra, Anodea we believe when we meet those who Judith, Sylvia Brown, James appear to be likeminded others? Van Praagh, Starhawk, Neale Does it matter? Donald Walsch. Have we changed the world in • The Gurus – Neem Karoli accordance with the higher principles Baba, Sai Baba of Shirdi, shared by the higher beings, which

Meher Baba. Photo by snapgalleria are the foundation of so many • Hindu devotees who became aspects of New Age teachings? Have teachers – Ram Dass, Jai Uttai, we changed ourselves? Have we Krishna Das. (Does anyone broadly manifested the teachings of else remember the Hare love and light, peace and harmony Krishnas that used to chant and • Have you visited Mount Shasta, person I knew. A crystal-wearing, spirit- and the rainbow connection? Is the world dance their way through downtown Glastonbury, Sedona, HollyHock, guide channeling, Goddess-worshipping a better place? Have we risen above our Winnipeg?) Stonehenge, Macchu Pichu or Reiki master in life, but a plain vanilla human natures to teach the world to • Teachings about the Gaia Chichen Itza? What about our own non-denominational Christian in death sing in perfect harmony? Sadly, I don’t Hypothesis, Gnosticism, the petroglyphs? or at the altar? “It’s for the family” is think that we have. Does this invalidate Essenes, Atlantis, Lemuria, the • More recently, The Secret, The what is usually said – but the feeling New Age philosophy? No religious or Pleiades and extraterrestrials. Power of Now, and What the Bleep of disconnection remains for me and spiritual teaching seems to be able to • For the body – Diet for a Small Do We Know/Down the Rabbit conversations with others tell me I’m keep us free from poverty, war, violence, Planet, macrobiotic diets, fasting, Hole (the rise of quantum physics & not alone in this. The struggle to define hate and fear; we have been no more etc. – and Feng Shui for the home spirituality) challenged us to think ourselves is real – we worry about being successful than any other faith path in and office. differently yet again. perceived as “woo woo” or weird or saving humanity from itself. • New Age music featuring bird • How many of these have you read? freaks. We are “out” as “alternative faith The Age of Aquarius has long since songs, dolphin and whale sounds, o A Course in Miracles practitioners” among our likeminded passed dawn and the sun may be setting on this new religious movement as a world music instruments like o The Celestine Prophecy friends, but maybe not to our family, or Tibetan bells/bowls, didgeridoos, our coworkers, or the people with whom distinct or alternative belief system as o The Alchemist so many of its components have become and harmonic chanting enhanced o The Art of Happiness we share a pew on Sunday morning. Even though we seek congruence, there part of our common culture, infused into our meditation and movement, oThe Seven Spiritual Laws of which included circle dancing and may still be conflict within us about our everyday life. It is the dimming of Success drumming circles. broadcasting what we believe. the Age of Aquarius, even though we • Writings by Carlos Castenada, o The Road Less Traveled A question I have asked for years is are still waiting for peace to guide the Shakti Gawain, Louise Hay, Brooke o Jonathan Livingston Seagull “what’s so new about the New Age?” planets and love to steer the stars. Medicine Eagle, Zechariah Sitchin, o Eat, Pray, Love Given the historical roots and the o Tuesdays With Morrie Susan Hurrell sees the Michael Harner enlightened us. fact that this alternative movement Sacred in strange and Books about the Holy Blood and o The Four Agreements can qualify for a senior’s discount in Siddhartha wonderful places in popular the Holy Grail, the Knights Templar o some places, our New Age is more culture. Fascinated by new and Rosslyn Chapel challenged the o Love is in the Earth middle-aged – a baby boom religion spiritual movements, she is standard perceptions of Jesus of oWicca: A Guide for the Solitary no longer relegated to the baby boom a contributing editor to The Nazareth. Practitioner generation. What used to be alternative Aquarian. www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 9 card file 10 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com

Photo by Kristi Dorian Wild Wisdom: The Feisty Freedom of Gull

that take the gull I refuse to acknowledge anything we never fight over them. Whoever gets on his scouting negative. Problems? Not in my mind. there first is the one who gets it. No expeditions are If I face what others call a challenge, hard feelings here! Friendship binds wide. He uses I will just find a way around it, under us to one another. them to sail like a it, over it or through it. Watch me and So, when you feel the need for kite on the fingers learn. The way to eliminate negativity freedom, remember me. When you of the wind. When is to simply not give it any power. need to seize opportunity, follow my he does find food, I am a flyer of wondrous ability. I lead. When you need to sharpen your nothing will keep use the winds around me to glide high long vision, watch how I do it. When him from it. There and low. Do you see how practical I you have to act swiftly, let me show is much we can am. Why use precious personal energy you how, with grace, flow and total By CHRISTINA RAI learn from this when I can use the energy of the presence of being. WHEELWRIGHT scrappy little fellow. Listen as he sings limitless universe to support me? I am gull. I will teach you to survive his song and hear his words of wisdom: I am full of courage. I am an initiator. and take hold of freedom with both anitoba is the land of many You don’t have to ask me in. I am there hands! Mwaters. We have streams, rivers, I am a survivor. If I have to, I can go before you can say a word! lakes and even – at our northern border a long way on very little. I may look And I am carefree, relaxed and Christina Rai Wheelwright has – a mighty bay. Where there is water, inconsequential, even odd, but I have easygoing. Some have called me greedy, studied with shamans, both locally you will almost always find the gull. stamina, perseverance and – don’t kid but that isn’t true. I eat whenever I can and internationally. She is also an Not usually viewed as a beautiful yourself – I am a cunning little bird. because I don’t know when I will eat evolutionary astrologer, writer and bird, there is, nevertheless, a subtle Just watch me dive on the beach for again. But watch me sometimes. When energy worker trained in reflexology and charm in this feisty creature. The wings those scraps of food you leave behind! my sisters and I swoop down for scraps, craniosacral therapy. www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 11 Sharing Close Encounters Social taboos keep us dangerously silent The taboo against speaking With all the varieties of effects, openly about encounters with we all face the same taboo: that otherworldly beings prevents us of speaking openly of encounters from thinking intelligently about with otherworldly beings or them. As a result, we are holding gifts from other realms, such

ourselves back from collectively Photo by lassedesignen as premonitions and visions. A integrating these beings into our taboo against speaking openly culture and our stories. of such matters keeps many of us silent or cloaked in anonymity. By KAREN CAVALLI Fearful of ridicule, we hold our devices close but keep the ontact with other worlds and Spirit World inhabitants at arm’s Ctheir inhabitants can result length. We tuck our encounters in a spectrum of effects: on one with them away, relegating them end, gut feelings and hunches; to a secret lifestream. in the middle, premonitions, I did until I was 54. When loss dreams that come true, spirit stripped me of my outer-world voices and visits; and on the far persona, I felt there was little to end, the shattering of self and lose and published an account of world view. Effects on the far end my encounters. When I began of the spectrum are more likely speaking publicly about my to occur when the experience encounters in 2014, I discovered involves either direct interaction many, many people shared some with otherworldly beings or version of otherworld encounters. abduction by beings deeply They approached me with their unfamiliar or alien to us. For the form of spirit-world inhabitants. image or hearing words describing hidden stories, feeling safe to some of us in contemporary Western Some of us may not encounter beings an event which then occurs in real speak openly. The people I spoke to culture, these beings take the form of at all; the face of Spirit may manifest time, or perhaps an odd feeling that extraterrestrials; for others, they take as random glimmerings, seeing an something is up. See TABOO on page 18 12 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com MILLENNIALS cont'd from page 1 upbringing and possible evolution, are desperately seeking approval repeat his message as I so strongly from within themselves? Is seeking disagree with him. However, I will and finding personal alignment at the present another way to look at some of Photo by one photo core of their quest? Conformity to the his strongly worded statements in each old energy organizations – which are of the four categories. focused solely on dollars and numbers – is harder for them, and they are simply not interested. Failed Parenting Is it possible that this generation understands the value of seeking Were parents of millennials so personal alignment and truth for discouraged, tired and, frankly, fed up themselves? Are they desperately with the old mechanistic command- trying to hang onto any individuality and-control corporate culture that they and creativity they have, while trying made a conscious effort to instill in to make a living in an archaic corporate their children what they truly wanted environment? Research is clear that for themselves: freedom, creativity and having impact and purpose is part of an ability to contribute to something being human and has nothing to do meaningful? with age or demographics. In his talk, Sinek states, “Everyone gets a participation medal, even if you Patience come in last.” connection to clearly understand the numbing are complicated, but at the Perhaps the parents of millennials intense shifts our education systems core, these epidemics include feeling were so tired of a school system This is my favourite one. What it really and corporations need to make to overwhelmed, stressed and under- means is that if you want to get along, that did not meet the needs of many be truly successful in engaging the fulfilled, and having low self-esteem. children that they challenged the you need to be like those that came human being. But, trust me, this is not unique to the before you. As one old energy leader system in the only way they knew younger generation. how. They challenged administration said, “Fit in or fuck off.” Accept that Technology and its numbing effects you will not have impact until you have and teachers to shift in the direction Technology and Dopamine are having great impacts on everyone of inclusivity and compassion instead paid your dues, worked hard, followed in the workplace, certainly not just every rule – even if it makes no sense of competition. Is it possible parents Comparing alcohol and technology millennials. We all know people were (and still are) desperately trying is very interesting and, yes, both do – and don’t even try to be creative. over 40 who are addicted to their Creativity is for a small few at the top. to influence the school system to teach impact the amount of dopamine created smartphones, Facebook and Twitter. to the individual needs of the child in the body. However, alcohol addiction I do a lot of public speaking and Technology providing distractions am often approached by mid-level and not to a predetermined curriculum is more complicated than the simple in meetings is not exclusive to designed for the average? analogy Sinek provides. The numbing leaders afterwards who say, “But millennials. In fact, we see a similar I don't understand it. These young As happiness researcher Shawn of the human species has been going number of older people and millennials Achor says, “If we continue to teach on since the Industrial Revolution; people think they should have it all having a complete inability to detach immediately. I had to work hard for to the average, we will simply remain it is nothing new. People have been from social media. average.” Anyone in the field of numbing themselves with food, years, for more than a decade, before I Sinek’s statement that as we get older was even noticed. I had to do my time leadership today should have thorough television, alcohol, drugs, gambling and we need approval from our peers, not knowledge of Positive Psychology, shopping since long before millennials just family, is interesting. Is it possible neuroscience and the heart/brain arrived on the planet. The reasons for that millennials, because of their See MILLENNIALS on page 17 www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 13 Dating While Over Forty Sure it’s scary, but the rewards are worth the stress By ADINA LAKSER

n my mid-20s – in the early days of what II thought would be my life partnership, just after we bought a house and I became pregnant – I was part of a team tasked with developing a safer sex pamphlet for women 40 and up. Full of smug young love and excitement about my new life stages, it was hard for me to imagine what it would be like to be dating in my 40s. And whaddaya know? Here I am, a single woman in her 40s. Although I often get asked about my relationship status, I am rarely, if ever, asked about my dating process. We ask younger people if they are dating or seeing anyone, but I am usually asked if I am in a partnership or not, end of conversation. Granted, that is absolutely what I want, but it’s not as if you can go from singledom to partnership without the necessary and fascinating world of dating. We are stuck with a picture of dating as something teens or university students engage in. There doesn’t seem to be permission for us over 40s to fully embrace, participate in and reimagine dating for ourselves. Well, my midlife and beyond friends, we may not have a roadmap, but we can still start the journey. I’m not going to pretend

dating or finding love and companionship Photo by Rawpixel.com will always be easy, but here are some tips to getting going. necessarily bungee jumping or skydiving kind of There are no rules Know what you want scary – is still an essential part of living a curious and engaged life. Lots of folks have told me (and If you Google “Dating Rules,” you will get about Are you looking for a steamy hookup, a companion themselves) they don't want to bother with dating. for events or a longterm partnership? These, and 76,800,000 results. Clearly, I have an unpopular They don’t need it or are happy on their own. While opinion, but I believe there are no global or many others, are legitimate reasons and outcomes I certainly believe we can be satisfied with single of dating, but it’s important to know what you want. even permanent personal rules regarding dating. life, sometimes these proclamations are really a Throughout my dating life, I have tried to make You don’t necessarily need to put it all out there in way to cover up the fear of getting out there. your profile or on the first date, but knowing what you some clear rules like if it starts off too quickly, it want will ultimately help you to find the right match. won’t work out. If it’s too slow, it won’t work out. It’s fun If his name has only one syllable, it won’t work out (that’s how desperate I got for a feeling of control). Go online Yes, dating is scary, but it also has its rewards. Even if If he has kids, it will work out. If he has kids, it you don’t immediately get the relationship or partner won’t work out. While dating provides an excellent Our generation has hangups about online dating you want, it’s fun to meet new people, go on dates and opportunity to learn more about your own personal that the younger crowd just don’t seem to have. have romantic energy in life. If you haven’t been on the values, that’s not the same thing as rules. Rules Online dating may feel too foreign, desperate, dating scene for a while, you may have forgotten how are an attempt to control, and dating is all about exposing or overwhelming to folks in our stage of energizing it can be, how much you can learn about opening yourself up to possibility. We need full life. Online dating is certainly not the only show yourself, others and the world, and how important it is permission to trust ourselves as we go along, try in town or a panacea for all dating woes, but its a to walk into the great mystery! things out and embrace the process. great resource, especially in our time-starved lives. No matter what kind of dating you are looking for – casual or commitment-focused – online dating • • • can be of service. If you would like help crafting a It’s a number games sexy and authentic profile, please contact me! This has not been my best dating year. I oscillated I’d love to hear from you. Contact me at adinacoach@ between the Sahara desert and a series of bleh gmail.com with comments, questions or if you’d like It’s scary dates. What started to creep in was the mantra I to find out how working with me can help you get use to protect myself from dating disappointments: back out there. Dating and remaining in our comfort zones rarely “I should just give up. It’s never going to work out. coexist. Dating, even if you are fully comfortable Why bother?” Although it’s understandable to start Adina Lakser is a with the idea, asks us to expand ourselves and be feeling defeat, dry spells and bad dates don’t mean Winnipeg-based sex coach, vulnerable. One thing I am definitely noticing it’s never going to happen or it’s time to give up. Of writer and mother. Visit her about midlife is my decreasing energy levels and course, when it’s time take a break or a rest, I need to at coachingwithadina.com increasing comfort with myself in my own space. I honour that, but I also remind myself to keep at it, try and check out her Aquarian don’t feel the same restlessness I did in my younger to enjoy the process and remember that since there column, Pillow Talk, at days, which is both a relief and a drag. I need are more single people in Canada than coupled, there aquarianonline.com under to remind myself that doing scary things – not are lots of eligible possibilities out there. the Columns tab. 14 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com perfected flavour solutions that enhanced junk food, Chicken, which used to be a healthy meat option, is making it irresistible and addictive. now fatter with a radical imbalance between omega The Dorito Effect “is what happens when food 3s and 6s. Livestock are no longer eating a balanced gets blander and flavor technology gets better.” As diet. They grow faster but they are less delicious and flavour disappeared, nutritional density decreased. nutritious. The food industry responded by adding flavour A mere 33 percent of the population are not able to be solutions to everything from blueberries to broccoli. manipulated by the food industry. Evidently, I’m not Cooks added herbs and spices. Real food was being one of those people. Dealing with the stress of getting dressed-up more and more. Like a Dorito, it tasted this review written, I’m eating tortilla chips. At least I good but didn’t pack the know why I’m doing it. They nutritious punch it once did. calm me and make me feel The Dorito Effect: Animals have innate good. For folks like me, there nutritional wisdom. They is a skinny little chapter at the The Surprising New Truth instinctively know what back of the book that explains is good for them. Once what to do to combat the About Food and Flavor they are full, they stop Dorito Effect. A preference eating. Food producers for junk food begins in the By Mark Schatzker started adding palatants to womb and I can’t do anything their food. These specific about what my mother ate Simon & Schuster, 2016 flavours made the animals before I entered the world, feel so good they ate more. but I can work towards eating 272 pages, hardcover, $26.99 This facilitated faster like a Utah goat. And I will growth resulting in bigger be reading labels more and Reviewed by NANCY animals going to market. cross-checking ingredients When added to human against Schatzker’s list of food, palatants have the chemical tricksters hidden in n The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth same effect. processed food. IAbout Food and Flavor, Mark Schatzker shares the The psychology of why Asthma, cancer, heart disturbing truths he discovered while investigating we eat is closely linked to disease and diabetes are what has happened to our food. the biology and chemistry. some of the side effects of We’ve been fed the idea that we need to diet to lose We are actually wired to being overweight. Yet, even weight. We know calories consumed should not exceed eat what we enjoy. We with a trillion dollar weight calories expended. However, the explanation for our crave flavours we associate loss industry, 69 percent of population’s growing weight is much more complex with nutrition but we also Americans are overweight, than this simple equation. Willpower dissolves when crave what makes us feel obese or extremely obese. eliminating some foods and exercising control puts good. Eating can be a mood Obesity is second only to us in competition with our body’s needs. Schatzker is booster. Even the thought or smoking as the leading cause a passionate foodie and a funny guy who makes the sight of food that has caused us pleasure can trigger of preventable deaths. science of nutrition interesting. a strong craving. The joy we get from eating can With natural food, the human body’s chemistry Have you ever wondered why you can’t stop eating be so addictive that if we cut a craved food out of determines when to stop eating. With processed food, even when you know you’re full? Or why you walk our diet, we will suffer withdrawal symptoms. “By the proper cues are missing. Nutrients have been away from a meal feeling bloated, exhausted and in manipulating our richest and most direct source of highjacked and replaced with fake flavour. a mental fog? This negative post-ingestive feedback pleasure, we have warped our relationship with the If you think the food you eat is making you gain is the result of eating too many empty calories. Our fuel our bodies require, food.” Contrary to what weight, you’re right. If you find food irresistible, body’s nutritional wisdom associates strong flavour would be expected from giving ourselves more you’re right. “The food problem is a flavor problem. with higher nutritional value. With the introduction of what we crave, research has shown that “food- For half a century, we’ve been making the stuff of flavour solutions, the food industry found a way addicted brains are not happy brains.” people should eat – fruits, vegetables, whole grains, to trick the brain into believing processed food is We like calories because we need them to unprocessed meats – incrementally less delicious. delivering what we need to survive. survive. We prefer strong flavours because the more Meanwhile, we’ve been making the food people The food industry employs experts in advanced flavourful the food is, the more nutritious and full of shouldn’t eat – chips, fast food, soft drinks, crackers organic, analytic and synthetic chemistry, engineering plant secondary compounds (even meat) our brains – taste ever more exciting.” Unfortunately, there neuroscience, psychology, psychophysics, perceive it to be. With flavour solutions, a chemical are extreme consequences to this. The consumer is ethnography, demography, molecular biology, botany will fool the tongue and the nose, but it can’t fool the paying the price. and physiology, all with the task of finding out how to body. The body signals the brain that it is starved for make things taste really good. They have perfected nutrients. A craving occurs for food with the flavour the art of triggering consumption with the promise of associated with that nutrient. Thanks to the Dorito Nancy, Night Sky Woman, has been doing nutrition. Our bodies are not our allies when pitted Effect, we may not be making healthy choices. psychic card readings professionally for over 20 against industrial science. I loved the information on toxicity and the years. She is also an astrologer and has studied Schatzker talked to food industry insiders, food explanation of how, in nature, the plants we eat a variety of spiritualities producers, scientists and chefs, and read extensive decide when we will stop eating. Lettuce emits a and philosophies. She has research reports. He explored the history of the food chemical scream when picked and the flavour of been writing Taroscopes industry and the impact of economics and politics. that scream delights the eater. At some point, that for over five years and What he discovered is that two things have been abuse gets excessive. The body gets a signal to stop teaches the tarot through happening. While they were increasing the yield in eating. In comparison, a fast food meal doesn’t kick lifelong learning. To book the field, producers were creating a product with up a chemical fuss. an appointment or for fewer nutrients. Animals were being bred and fed Schatzker explains why the Mediterranean diet information about classes, to grow faster and bigger, with blandness being the works and why artificial sweeteners and diet foods you can reach Nancy at result. To the body, intense flavour correlates with don’t. Sadly, vegetables won’t save you. There’s more 204-775-8368 or by email at good nutrition. Simultaneously, the food industry water and carbohydrates in our vegetables now. [email protected]. www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 15 Master Your Money by Letting it Flow

By CHRISTINA RAI WHEELWRIGHT it around in the pursuit of things and projects that are Giving that comes from a whole heart is like taking not. As you walk lightly on the surface of this earth, a dip in the fast-flowing waters of a river. Keep money oney. You hate it, but you love it. You want it, you are less likely to cause chaos in your wake. moving in your life. The question then is: How can I Mbut you don’t have it. It dogs you and it haunts The question, then, when considering this, is: you. What can you do about it? give more, take less and still retain a balance in my What do I want the canvass of my life to look like? resources? First, you have to be clear about your relationship Something beautiful and meaningful or just a bunch to money. Is it your master or is it your servant? Do of random strokes of the brush? Examine your wants you permit it to flow in your life or do you hang onto and reduce them to a manageable amount so you live Is money a tool or every penny? Is it a tool or a burden? How you answer lightly and easily as you journey through your life. these questions can give you a clue as to how you a burden for you? interact with money and how it affects you moment to moment. When you understand that money is something that Do you permit money to must be used and not something that is a load on your flow in your life? back, you will begin to change the nature of your Is it your master or your servant? relationship with it. A tool is an item that must be Here is an image to consider when thinking about implemented to be of any value. You can amass all The basis for most exchange in the current social money and flow. Picture a fast-flowing river on its sorts of tools, but if you never use them, what good order is money. If you want to have something, you way to the sea. The waters of the river are clear and are they? When you can view money as merely a tool, will probably need to gather a certain amount of cash crisp and full of life. Now imagine a deep, dark, a means to an end, you will be truly setting yourself or credit to procure it. It is common to work for the stagnant pool hidden away in some deep wood. Yes, free. Do not lug your tool-kit around attached to your paycheque so that once it arrives, you can run off to it contains a large quantity of water, but it stinks and back. Get those tools out, keep them honed and oiled, the market and buy your stuff. This cycle of want/get nothing alive can be found in it. Would you rather and use them. can lead to a master/slave relationship. You are the take a dip in the fresh, clean river or the stinky There is a saying that asserts that “To make slave who is constantly toiling to amass the master: stagnant pool? Money is like that. The more that it money, you need money.” This is just another way money. The illusion is that the want part of the cycle is allowed to flow easily, the more opportunity and of expressing that money must be used, not stored. may somehow be eliminated if a sufficient amount of life will surround you. But sitting on a large amount When money is used in this way, natural flow is money is made and used to fill that want. The reality of money that is not being used is like taking a dip in initiated. Flow and movement is the key to a vital is that the want is a bucket with a hole in it and no that stagnant pool. and refreshing existence. Once you understand this amount of fill will ever result in capacity. Once you And yet, allowing money to flow is not simple or principle of implementation, the burden of money understand that, you can begin to evaluate the wants easy in today’s society. You must, to a certain extent, lessens. Rather than carrying your money, you are and determine if they are worth the fill. live according to the guidelines that have been being carried by your money. Staggering under a Today, there are a variety of life philosophies established by creating a so-called savings account load is hard. Standing on top of a large mountain is that emphasize the concept of minimalism as a and plan for the future. However, you can implement exhilarating. sane approach to being alive. The idea of travelling the idea of flow or constant movement of resources Use your resources to advance your core values. light is gaining popularity, but in no way is it a new in a variety of ways. One such way could be around Money in the service of right principle is a powerful concept. Many of the world’s great spiritual traditions the idea of gratuity. Do not think of the tip you leave force for good. Once you are clear about your values, incorporate the ideals of a light step and a light hand as something you are losing, Rather, think of it as decisions for spending become easy. Choices about into their moral codes. On an individual level, you can something that is perpetuating a wheel of return. Your how and where to direct your money are simple. ask yourself how light your touch is when it comes to tip goes to someone who will in turn give their tip to As Liza Minnelli sings in the Broadway musical accumulation. This will go a long way to determining someone who in turn will give their tip to someone, Cabaret, “Money makes the world go around.” The whether money is the master in your life. and so on. The money that is left is a symbol of a reality is, however, that it is not money that makes On the highest of levels, this is all about refining promise that a cycle of return is being created. the world go around but, rather, what it represents your values so they reflect a spiritual approach to On a metaphysical level, giving yields the promise in our lives: value. That is what makes the world go being, rather than a material one. Money then shifts of receiving. Even the Christ said, at Luke 6: 38 around. Set your values and then make your money into the position of the servant and you are able to (NIV), “Give and it will be given to you.” The key, work for them in an active and dynamic way. direct it with authority into things and projects that of course, is that the giving must be genuine, so don’t Money is a necessary and useful thing. We need it are worth your effort, rather than constantly chasing leave tips thinking you are banking your generosity. and it’s not bad to want it if we are clear about what Rather, cultivate a true spirit of giving knowing you we are going to do with it once we get it. Making are both a benefactor and a recipient all at the same your desire work for you in a positive way is the time. Be unattached to the outcome in all things. The goal. Maintain an open and flowing relationship more you initiate flow, the more you will see money with your money. Use it, don’t hoard it. If it starts returning to you unbidden. getting too heavy, find useful items or projects you Many spiritual traditions have incorporated the can sink it into. The bottom line is that money is act of tithing into their creeds. Tithing is, simply merely representative of energy, your energy. Refine said, a formalized process of tipping. The reality is, your energy body, ensure it is aligned to the highest however, that you do not have to make a rule out of good and watch that thing called money multiply in it. Consider the concept. Examine the nature of your your life. own real life. Is it something you can incorporate? Only you can answer that question, and you are the one who can set the parameters for yourself. Tithe in Christina Rai Wheelwright principle, not in rote. A simple and easy method to has studied with incorporate the principle of tithing into your life is to shamans, both locally and choose one thing that is meaningful to you and then internationally. She is also to give to that thing, either with money and resources an evolutionary astrologer, or with energy and time. Either method will suffice, writer and energy worker and the cycle of return will be initiated. This really trained in reflexology and

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My 23-cubic foot freezer is never without some variety of bone broth. I’ve mentioned chicken, but I Homemade Let go have also made stock from fish and shrimp – mostly the heads, which have all the flavour. Shrimp shells and fish bones alone make for a weak tasting bone Chicken Broth broth if the heads are not included, but would at least Yield: 12 cups be as flavourful as store bought broth. I can thank of Stress my friend Eddy who is an avid fisherman for the Ingredients By ROBIN SMYTH copious amounts of fresh fish he brings home after his fishing trips in the summer. Nothing like a fresh • 1–3 lb. chicken cut into large pieces ometimes, we wake up in a bad mood from too pike, pickerel or bass for my stock pot. I wish I was • 16 c. water Slittle sleep or from being overextended with near the ocean so I could indulge in fresh shrimp. responsibilities. Feeling grateful for another day But alas, I must shop at the Asian supermarkets for • 1 large onion cut into quarters or breathing on these such mornings can take what shrimp with heads still attached. • 2 tbsp. dried parsley feels like superhuman effort. We use phrases like Bone broth can be made with beef or pork bones, • 10 black peppercorns, cracked “getting through the day” instead of bursting with but the simmering time should be doubled, because • 2 bay leaves the joy we should be feeling. Every single moment the bones are much larger and it will take more of the day is a wonder of simply being here, present time to extract the minerals. A four- to six-hour • 1 tbsp. dried Guyanese thyme (available at and alive. Unfortunately, a negative start in the West Indian supermarkets) morning can take that all away. simmering time is good. If all of this seems like a I hear sayings like “live in the moment“ and lot of work, it is not and it’s well worth the modest • leaves from the inner part of a celery head “practise gratitude“ and wonder if I am taking this effort once every few months. If you own a pressure (or two stalks cut into 3” pieces) cooker (a staple in any good cook’s kitchen), a “look within yourself for all the answers“ theory • 1 medium carrot, halved and cut into 3” seriously enough. Being mindful has never really three-hour simmer using a regular pot would be been one of my strong suits, but lately it’s hard not reduced to one hour. pieces to be mindful of epic levels of fear being felt around Homemade bone broth can be used in place of • 1 tbsp. kosher sea salt the world. Everywhere we look, monstrous acts of water for many dishes. It’s great for adding to rice • 1 tbsp. no-salt seasoning blend (e.g., Costco inhumanity are happening and being broadcast as (instead of water) with a handful of dried vegetable they unfold. flakes for a very simple, no fuss, rice pilaf. Adding Organic No-Salt Blend) There are some incredibly scary things going water to bone broth in a ratio of two parts broth to on out there; but most of us, as Canadians, have it pretty good and probably have zero sense of what living through a grand, sweeping tragedy feels like. In spite of living where we do instead of Syria, our attitude comes off like life owes us more. But does it? Are we taking something as precious

as life and boiling it down to whining about boring Photo by Nickolastock jobs and out of fashion electronics? I'm guilty of being disgruntled with my North American privilege, sometimes. And then I catch myself and think, it really could be worse, so why do I feel this way? During a particularly dark, contemplative moment, 56 pounds of mixed breed mutt bounded into my bubble to remind me which key factor I am missing out on. The moment. On long blonde legs, with eyes of endless mocha brown, my dog, bursting with joy, shared a look so soulful I felt pulled right into her heart. Something sparked in me. My dog is so sweet and loving and full of life. Always happy to see people and always ready to burst at the seams with pure excitement. She is doing something right, something most of us are probably missing. Instead of living with anxiety about the state of the world, are we able to dial down concerns about terrorism and a tomorrow that hasn't happened yet? What if instead we focused on right now – the moment we are actually in – and live each moment as fully as possible? That would mean giving up habits like moaning about work and getting angry in traffic. We can one part water makes for a simple, savoury drink Directions choose instead to exude neverending calm and which is so good, you can heat it and drink it by develop an insurmountable poise. We can choose itself. Sometimes, I blend two cups of it with roasted In a large stock pot, brown chicken, skin side to truly face life with the gratitude it deserves and vegetables I have stored in the freezer: instant soup! down, for a few minutes on medium high heat conduct ourselves accordingly. If people are rediscovering bone broth as a “new” (no need to use oil, as fat will be rendered When times are tough, anxiety and stress shorten from the browning of the chicken skin). our fuses, impacting our interactions and energy superfood, I think that’s a good thing. It gives me levels. These are moments in life when we have to comfort to know that what was old is new again. stay centred and weigh whether heavy workloads And now that I am a Nani (grandmother in Hindi), Add all the other ingredients, bring to a boil, and the price of gas are worth feeling in any way I am proud to know that my homemade chicken- cover and let simmer for 2–3 hours. agitated. It truly is in our best interest to stay calm barley soup is one of my grandchildren’s favourite and carry on; it’s not just a catchy slogan after all. dishes. It tastes good and, as a bonus, it’s also good Cool and strain so that only broth is left. There are so many techniques to reduce stress, for them. too many to mention, but interrupting negative I am expecting to see some crafty entrepreneur Skim off any liquid fat that has risen to the top thoughts is one of the fastest and easiest things we add the word “artisanal” – and bone broth will (don’t worry about getting all of it out). can do to keep level. When negative thoughts creep become a high end health food with a healthy price in, shut them down, hard. Instead, find something tag to match. Meanwhile, you can make it yourself Store in freezer containers. to be grateful for, even if it’s the simple fact of for pennies a cup if you’re a frugal gourmet like me. waking up to explore another unpredictable day in When ready to use, remove frozen fat which the game of life. will have settled on top and you’ll be left with Winnipeg writer Sandra a rich, flavourful, low salt, fat-free bone broth. Writer Robin Smyth is an avid animal Sukhan was born and raised in activist and supporter of human Recipe from Comfort Food from Sandra’s rights. She credits her beloved dog Guyana. She recently published a cookbook of some of her Kitchen, by Sandra Sukhan. To buy a copy, Lacie as her inspiration for making call or email Sandra at (204) 488-2628 or favourite recipes, including pivotal life changes, including [email protected]. adopting a vegan lifestyle. traditional Guyanese food. www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 17 MILLENNIALS continued from page 12 – wants the same things. They want freedom to be themselves and they want to work for an organization and take on extra projects to get the role I have now. that notices they are human beings, not just employees. Why should it be different for them?” They want to be creative in their own unique way and As I quietly watch the energy of the person describing they want to know their employer is doing something their hardships, I feel and see that their emotions are meaningful with cause and purpose. Yes, there is a anything but positive. They often describe a real small percentage of people who say, “Nope, I don’t struggle. My question is always the same. “It sounds need any of these things. I simply need power and like you worked really hard to get where you are. money,” but they are truly the minority. Does that mean that everyone – including all future Is it possible that the parents of millennials were generations – should have to do the same to get work simply trying hard to give their children what they that they love, where they can have an impact? How didn’t have – a sense of self, a sense of belonging, did it feel for you to have to make all of the sacrifices? a sense that it is okay to be your quirky, unique and Should everyone who comes after you have to make creative self and that seeking your dreams at all costs the same sacrifices?” is acceptable? Is it possible that our corporate world These encounters remind me of the old story about is slow to adapt to the changing and evolving human how far grandpa had to walk through the snow and being and that its expectation is still “Fit in or go rain to get to school each day, and how we all need to somewhere else?” Many corporations want employees suffer to mature and be credible. to be open to change and be flexible all the time. Why should we have to wait, pay our dues and have However, corporations themselves struggle to do this patience to have an impact on our communities, clients same thing to meet the needs of the evolving human and end products? Why shouldn’t all contributors being. have that opportunity? Impact is often directly linked The evolving corporation is a New Energy to corporate purpose. Organizations that have a truly Organization that understands and welcomes compelling purpose can create impact for even their these changes. It knows that having a meaningful, newest employees to connect to. compelling purpose which employees can align to is Herein lies a real problem. Organizations say they critical, not just something nice to add to its website. understand the importance of having a compelling Creating space and time for employees to be involved purpose that employees can align with and feel great and have an impact on the organization’s purpose is about. Unfortunately, most don’t have a meaningful how these organizations engage the amazing talents and compelling purpose. This is because they don’t of these young people. New Energy Organizations really value purpose and don’t see the connection to understand and are keenly interested in the heart/ engagement, impact and performance. In some cases, brain connection and neuroscience. They use these they simply don’t know how to get there. Usually the new sciences to truly understand millennials and the focus is still on profits and numbers, not on people. evolving human. Through these efforts, they create The organizations that get it are making a huge great places to work and contribute while being very difference in the lives of their employees, clients and profitable with long-term sustainability. stakeholders while having a positive impact on the For the past 100 years, every generation has been environment and community, both locally and globally. talked about, written about, dissected, evaluated They create a space for millennials’ fabulous talent for and judged. Maybe it is time we simply accept that creating impact. Yes, impact, at the ripe old age of as a species, we are evolving and every generation 27. My 32-year-old niece has had only one employer assists in this process. We should welcome the since leaving university and she openly states on her change and the inevitable push for change. Maybe Facebook page regularly how she loves them. She we should say, “Thank you, millennials, for pushing posts interviews of her CEO and regularly comments for change and inspiring our corporations to on the positive impact they are having internally and become New Energy Organizations with purpose globally. and meaning, where opportunities to contribute and Environment have impact – yes, impact – are plentiful.” Yvonne Thompson (yvonnethompson.ca) is President Environment is a problem; but let me be clear: it is a of Change Innovators Inc®. The problem for all employees, including the 40-, 50- and author of two books, she has 60-year olds. Anyone who thinks millennials are the worked with organizations across only ones who want to contribute, have impact, belong, Canada, building alignment that fit in and work for a company that cares (bean bags and has life-changing results for the free food) is asleep at the wheel. Every leader, frontline individual leader, their team and their employee and contributor we meet – regardless of age organization. 18 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com TABOO continued from page 11

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