VISION - My editor, Patrick, once said to me, “You don’t need eyes to have vision.” A visionary is a being who holds the IMAGE of where he or she wants to go, no matter what. At present, a collective vision is emerging from consciousness as to where we are heading. LIFE flows and we observe, and HARMONY arises when we choose to flow with it. Accept everything that comes your way. Complain not at all. Simply keep your vision. We are blessed in this, our Spring issue, to have two visionaries featured, GREGG BRADEN and JACQUE FRESCO. They share their vision with humanity. The beauty is, we can all have separate visions, and we all do, yet within the whole, a common vision emerges. The expression “Think outside the box” is no longer relevant. There is no BOX anymore. We are ready to use our individual power to step into a new REALITY, a new version of how we would like things to be. CHOOSE not to describe it. Simply feel it. It’s coming. PAUL CONGDON, Publisher

A unique opportunity to imagine, design and create your unique vision for Twenty Ten! 28th February Park House, Park Road, Waterford. Contact: Karla Kelly Email kelkarla@yahoo.com Website http://www.enerqi.ie

By Dhara Kelly ‘Detoxing’ is not as bad as it sounds. The implication can be that we are somehow toxic, and that as a result there is an urgency called for. I have traditionally used the term ‘cleansing’ which more accurately suggests that there is a rightful accumulation of wastes in the body which can, with gentle stimulation, be passed out easily and unhurriedly. Starting a detox requires a little forethought. After a diet of heavy winter food it is typical for people to feel the need for an internal spring clean so as to move forward into the warmth of Spring and Summer with freshness and energy, hence the popularity of various detox programs around this time. Yet we must learn to treat the body with gentleness and respect and it is actually better for the body not to rush into a detox immediately after overindulgence, such as what happens around Christmas time. Allow some time to pass, where the body can slowly, at a more congenial pace, settle back into a more normal state, and then prepare for the detox with some sensible and manageable adjustments for ...

By Patrick Bridgeman Imagine a world where war is outdated, there is no shortage of resources, and every human being enjoys a high standard of living. Jacque Fresco has. He is considered by many to be a modern-day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian - a student of many inter-related fields. He is a prolific inventor, having spent his entire life conceiving of and devising inventions on various scales, using innovative technology to provide win-win solutions for the planet and its inhabitants. ... ... It reminds me of a very good question I came across many years ago. "If money were no object, what would you do with your time?" Would you still be working at the same job? Would you work at all? How would you like to spend your free time? Would you play games like when we were children? Where would you like to go and who would you bring with you? What would you like to create? If everybody's basic needs were met all over the world, what would be left to do? Whatever ...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Gregg Braden by Patrick Bridgeman ... “I think it is important to begin with facts,” he says, “and it is a fact that we are living the end of a rare and mysterious cycle of time that began 5,125 years ago in the year 3114 B.C. and completes with a rare astronomical event that occurs on December 21, 2012 A.D. This 5,125 year cycle has occurred in the past a number of times. Ancient and indigenous traditions, specifically Mesoamerican traditions, identify at least four of these cycles leading up to the cycle that we’re experiencing now. Each time cycles were completed and new cycles began, they were accompanied by conditions of change that were catastrophic for the people living during that time. Changes in climate, in temperature, and in seasons impacted their ability to do simple life-sustaining things like growing food. So, they started to fight each other for the vestiges of these disappearing resources, and in their fighting, everyone lost - no one won - and the civilizations collapsed and disappeared. We are a rare generation living at an equally rare period of time where ...