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    Winter Vibes 2009

    “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” Pietro Aretino WINTER SOLSTICE FIRE CEREMONY & PEACE VIGIL From this day on, the nights become shorter and days become longer. This is the…

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    Spirituality and the City – Autumn 2009

    “What gets you out of bed in the morning?” Keshet Zur Photographer Curiosity.  The desire to see what is out there. Experiencing the day and all it holds. My love of people, friends, strangers and…

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    Positive Personality – Margaret Brazil

    Interviewed by Patrick Bridgeman Margaret Brazil had her first psychic experience, “seeing a room full of spirits” late in life. Now 62 years old, spirits utilise her in every way to convince the people who…

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    The Good Life 2.0 – Autumn 2009

    By Davie Philip If you managed to get to any of the big music festivals this summer, you might have got a whiff of ‘Green’. It seems like every music festival these days is flaunting…

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    Positively Newsworthy – Autumn 2009

    By Patrick Bridgeman Life just keeps getting better and better, and even though the challenges in some areas of my life seem to be getting tougher, the good times far outweigh the bad, and the…

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    Autumn Vibes – 2009

    “The life-force of nature pulses within your being, rooting you to the earth and reaching toward the heavens.  When you feel your oneness with our natural world, you are feeling your own divinity.  All living…

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    Autumn Recipes – 2009

    Pumpkin and Butterbean soup with Coconut This is a lovely, warming, antioxidant-rich soup, perfect for chilly autumn days. The addition of butterbeans provides protein and a creamy texture and the coconut milk adds a pleasant…

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    Summer Vives – 2009

    “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”  ~ Celia Thaxter Tripmi.ie Would you rather drive alone, or with a bunch of people?  Tripmi.ie – the carpooling website aims to make driving alone a…

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    Positively Newsworthy – Summer 2009

    By Patrick Bridgeman Now is the perfect time to see if we are a glass half-full or a glass half-empty nation?  Can we see the silver lining through the rain clouds?  Certainly in the circles…

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    Spirituality and the City – Summer 2009

    Christopher McGann Student I feel that my appreciation for the city grows with each day.  City life for me is like a sort of divine dance: the days are like gentle cycles; each one characterized…

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    Understanding the gods in the skies in the build-up to 2012 – Part 3

    By Margaret Gray “What is unconscious will either be repressed or projected.” James Hollis – The Eden Project Last, but by no means least, in this series on the transits of 2012, is a discussion…

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    The Good Life 2.0 – Summer 2009

    THE RE-BUILDING OF LOCAL RESILIENCE In the last issue I introduced the notion of a Good Life 2.0, an aspiration for self reliance for the 21st century based on community systems. Ten years ago I…

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    Summer Recipes – 2009

    Liz Nolan works as a Nutritional Therapist in Health and Herbs, Sea Rd, Galway City and also runs classes in wholefood vegetarian cookery from her home in Moycullen, 8 miles west of Galway City.  Here…

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    Positive Personality – Clare Mulvany

    For eleven months, Clare Mulvany travelled the globe meeting people who have stepped off the beaten path to make a greater difference.  Starting out in Ireland, Clare travelled through Africa, India, Asia, the Pacific and…

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    Understanding the gods in the skies in the build-up to 2012 – Part 2

    “Heaven above, heaven below, stars above, stars below, all that is above also is below, grasp this and rejoice” Carl Jung CW para 384 You may have noticed over the past few months a larger…

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    Spring Recipes – 2009

    Spring is in the air, a new beginning, a time to shrug off the excesses of winter and get ready for Summer. There is a natural urge to lighten our diet, get up early with…

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    Positively Newsworthy – Spring 2009

    A Delicious Deal of a Meal by Patrick Bridgeman The team here at Positive Life magazine recently went for a belated Christmas dinner in Oliver‘s Eatery at Vaughans Eagle House, Terenure.  While organising the night…

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    The Good Life 2.0

    by Davie Philip. Web 2.0 is the term that has come to signify the new upgraded internet, which is community based, interactive and user-driven. What I want to explore in this article is a ‘Good…

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    The Behaviour of Change

    On the campaign trail last February, Barack Obama spoke on the issue of change: ‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been…

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    Positive Personality: Sara Mackenzie

    You can’t learn enough about health.  I qualified out of The French Culinary Institute in New York in 2000.  I was on my feet 16 hours a day and I was under a lot of…