Another great story from Daily Good.

After giving birth to premature twins, Kate Ogg was informed that one of them didn’t make it. Devastated, she held her limp 2-pound infant against her bare chest. For two hours, the mother and her husband said their goodbyes, cradling and hugging their son as if he were alive. Two hours later, the newborn began moving and gasping. Ogg instinctively fed her son a few drops of breast milk and soon his gasps turned into real breaths. “A short time later he opened his eyes. It was a miracle,” the mother recounts. Now five months later, the radiant parents are highlighting the virtues of skin-on-skin care for sick babies, a technique known as ‘Kangaroo Care’ for the way Kangaroos hold their young in the pouch. [ more ]

“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around… Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.”
- Larry Dossey

What if you learned that a biochemist and doctor in Texas has a patented non toxic cure for cancer and his amazing humanitarian effort has saved hundreds of lives. One might think such a doctor might receive a Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Instead, he was harassed by the FDA and State of Texas and his patents were stolen by the US government in concert with a pharmaceutical company.

Burzynski is the true story of a man who may one day be the only individual to patent a cancer drug beating out the pharmaceutical company and government that attempted to patent his work after he had already done so. If this seems bizarre and impossible, get the film.

Truth is definitely stranger than fiction in this well told tale of deception by government agencies that are supposed to be looking for and approving safe canter treatments. Unfortunately for Dr.Burzynski and the rest of humanity seeking a low cost non-toxic solution, these agencies are busy protecting the rights not of individuals, but of the pharmaceutical companies.

It seems a fitting reminder that we seem to have the best government money can buy.

In short, I cannot recommend this David vs Goliath film too highly. The doctor has completed Stage 2 tests after and all that is left is Stage 3. You’ll want to view this DVD, share it with friends and then track his progress because if his anteoplastins make it to the market, you will have seen a miracle in action and we need lots of miracles right about now. And you, your family and friends may one day be able to stop tumors in their tracks without chemo and radiation.

To learn lots more and order this extraordinary DVD, visit the film’s website.

by Kate McCallum

It wasn’t always the case that Hollywood, the media capital of the world, could be expected to embrace a day-long symposium on the power of arts and media to transform. When I broke into the industry in 1985, power was held by the major studios and four broadcast and cable outlets with a fifth emerging on the horizon. Most of the time, transformation only mattered in terms of ratings and dollars and cents.

But the industry has begun to show signs of shifting beyond its obsession with tinsel and stardom. Signs of that shift have become apparent – the upcoming launch of Oprah’s new network, for example, and the number of communities and groups that have been forming in Los Angeles and in cyberspace.

One of them is c3: Center for Conscious Creativity, which I co-founded several years ago and which gives me a vantage point from which to report on the many new initiatives that are changing the landscape of media and its life-affirming potential.

A brief history: While working at Universal Studios and pursuing a Masters in Consciousness Studies, I met and then teamed up with Philip Horvath, another student and Universal employee, and together we started c3. The mission was to create a space/community dedicated to research and education addressing consciousness, creativity, media and the arts. We set out to bring consciousness experts, futurists, and educators together with artists and media makers to inspire deeper meaning in the arts and media. That was the vision.

For five years the vision evolved as we hosted and produced numerous screenings, concerts, workshops and classes – and created an organizational culture of openness and understanding. In 2009 we launched a social networking platform and became an official partner of the LA Opera by participating in the first citywide arts festival – RING FEST LA 2010.

In November of 2009 c3 brought advisory board member and futurist Jerome Glenn from Washington, DC, to speak about the future of arts and media from a global perspective. Jerome is co-founder and president of The Millennium Project, a global think tank that accumulates research through collective intelligence that addresses 15 global challenges and solutions. Its findings are published annually in the State of the Future report. At the event he spoke about his desire to create a Global Arts and Media Node, a topic we had been discussing for some time. This Node would assist the Millennium Project by aggregating future trends in the arts and media, disseminating the information found in the State of the Future report, and brainstorm emerging global art forms, much like the work of the 16th Century Florentine Camerata Society that led to the invention of the art form called…opera! In January 2010 Jerome and the Millennium Project officially invited c3 to chair the Global Arts and Media Node, and this past June the c3: VisionLAB produced the first “State of the Arts” symposium. It was a tremendous success!

Over the past several years, a number of organizations have been sprung up in LA and elsewhere that are dedicated to inspiring consciousness and social activism through media and entertainment. Among them are:

* Architects of a New Dawn

* Creative Visions Foundations

* Elevate Films

* GATE: Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment

* The Hollywood Hill

* META: Media Entertainment Technology and Art

* PGA: Producers Guild of America’s Green Initiative

* United Nations Creative Community Outreach Initiative

* Images & Voices of Hope

There is a very encouraging trend in the land of tinsel and stardom. Let us hope that it portends a new era in media and entertainment at a local, national, and global level. Our collective mission is to utilize these incredibly powerful tools and collectives as “weapons of mass instruction.” Media and art have the potential to assist in the transformation and the evolution of both the individual and society, and we as creators are eager to join the ranks of the many others dedicated to that mission.

This spiritual rap music video is based on Be The Change, a song on MC Yogi’s CD, Elephant Power that has been on the itunes top 20 world music selections for the past two years and includes the following additional tracks: Om Invocation, Elephant Power, Ganesh Is Fresh, Rock On Hanuman, Temple Prayer, Om Namah Shivaya, Chakra Beatbox, Son of Shiva, Krishna Love, Bhakti Boombox, Mahatma’s Message, Shanti and Krishna Dub. It seems very timely at a moment when intolerance is rising in the U.S.

Once upon a time not long ago/there was a boy who would grow & become a great soul he lived in India and his name was Gandhi/he believed in human rights & he felt so strongly/that he made a vow to train himself/because he realized first he’d have to change himself/he changed his clothes & decided to walk/some days he practiced silence and refused to talk/when he was young he studied to be a lawyer/and then he became a great spiritual warrior/he read from the scriptures of every religion/came to the realization that we’re all God’s children/because he understood that we’re all equal he became a spokesman for the people/a karma yogi devoted to service to spread truth & peace was his purpose

Be the change that you wanna see/in the world, just like Gandhi

Gandhi dedicated his life to the cause/even when it meant breaking unjust laws he often faced prison and incarceration/but that only strengthened his determination he said he would make every sacrifice/but that he would never kill or take a life he used his heart instead of his fist/and he taught non-violence as the way to resist a peaceful soldier who used his mind/to fight for the rights of human kind but not just people, animals too/and his basic teaching “God is Truth” he joined Muslims, Sikhs, & Hindus/Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Jews all the many paths that lead into/the light that shines bright inside of me and you

Be the change that you wanna see/in the world, just like Gandhi

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”/and it takes more strength and faith to be kind/with that in mind Gandhi took a stand/against the foreign occupation of his land/when things got violent Gandhi would fast/not eating for days until the riots would pass/but the biggest event that made the British halt/is when Gandhi-ji decided to harvest salt/the British empire installed a salt tax/and stealing salt was an unlawful act/so Gandhi and his peeps, took the streets/ten thousand deep they marched to the beach/but when they arrived they were beaten with clubs/but they didn’t fight back instead they chose love/the British military realized they were wrong /and eventually decided to go back home/you see, Gandhi-ji was a very great leader /but before all that he was shy & meager/as a young child he was just like you and me/before he became Mahatma Gandhi/the word “Mahatma” it means great soul/and its inside of us just waiting to unfold/if you follow your heart and act real bold/next time it’ll be your story that’s told!

Be the change that you wanna see/in the world, just like Gandhi

Here is MC Yogi’s list of Conscious Music labels and artists:

LABELS

White Swan Records

Six Degrees Records

Om Records

ESL Music

Yogi Tunes

ARTISTS

Michael Franti

Krishna Das

Jai Uttal

Bhagavan Das

Nickodemus

J Boogies Dubtronic Science

EarthRise Sound System

Cheb i Sabbah

Robin Livingston

DJ Drez

Perhaps no one better articulates the old paradigm of business economics better than John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and his latest Hoodwinked on the financial collapse.

Battle the Corporatocracy by Demanding Sustainability

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” (Thoreau)

Being a father has been one of the seminal events in my life and to have the joy of being a grandparent has just doubled the blessing. It has also made me even more aware of my responsibility to my grandson and his sisters and brothers around our precious planet.

All of us are anxiously waiting a fix to the devastating oil spill that BP created in one of our most environmentally fragile regions in North America. Let us also not forget the terrible destruction Chevron/Texaco caused in the Ecuadorian Amazon (as of this writing, more than 400 times the toxic wastes of the BP disaster), Shell in the Congo, Exxon in Alaska, and all the other tragedies that result from drilling, mining, cutting, and dredging. As I frequently discuss in media interviews and public speeches, it is our job to be in a true relationship with the environment. Just as a father guides his children toward maturation, we must do the same for the environment. If we want to save our lands, forests, air, and water, we must dream actively of this better world.

While we encourage organic farmers and many types of companies to turn toward green technology, we still are not doing nearly enough. Every one of us must alter our dream, must continually re-create ourselves and the societies we form. We must rescue our dreams of this sustainable and just world from the clutches of sociopathic CEOs, public relations con artists, greed-driven corporate policies, and the form of predatory capitalism all of these promote.

When politicians run for office, they talk about “growing” the economy. What they usually mean is manufacturing houses, cars, appliances, computers, and other material products from cement, metal, plastic and other raw materials that are mined from the Earth, Pachamama. Such production consumes vast amounts of energy and causes unquantifiable pollution. We see how these processes then create huge trash piles of waste that are incompatible and harmful to the land and the water surrounding them.

Our Founding Fathers would call on us to revolt and battle the corporatocracy that has grown so selfish and greedy and so entrenched that it threatens the security of our nation, the entire planet, and indeed the very survival of our species and many other life-forms.

Now is the time for all fathers and mothers to parent our children to not only dream for a more sustainable and positive world, but to also demand it of ourselves and for future generations.

We can — and must — achieve this. I know you and I will continue working very hard to complete our journey to success.