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Holis- Exhibitors include'Natalie's ^ti^^ej^h^yfejiriiafe., New Vi- organization, which is a clear- •'•> sionsi a regional hqlistic guide, ing house for information on the Capital District Spiritualist organic foods and health prod- Center aji&$be;< AlbanyTimes ucts, as well as a cooperative Union, will fill the center with holistic enterprises, and pre- sent^ speakers on hoi 1S tic Eileen Rizzuto of Altamont contceived the event last year as a fund raiser for the Capital District Spiritualist Center, where she took,-and now tegcheSj classes in psychic de- outlet, for the products itself. They also include,; the Psychic Studies Institute, Super Blue- Green Algae-Cell Tech, Essen- tially Yours Aromatherapy, and Vermont rEarmgirl Inc., a company thai makes: four natu- ral mixes.- for bread machines and five for quick, breads. ^e word Holistic is to the 90s what gjroovy was to the 60's,'' Rizzuto writes in her broehure. -v^e«are -4aNsof-'era of trem^n- dou» change and igrowth in our society. Western medicine is not enough to ensure a healthy culturewMany- people area searching for alternative ways to be totally well functioning human beings.\ -•> 'vr\^e^;|^aB i ;%r^g^th»ir-v search to Albany Saturday between 10 a-my and Sip.m^Saturday, and from JO a.m*ito 5tp.m. Sunday. The seven speakers will ad- dress topics ranging from The is a connection,\ says Joan; Spencer, RN, PhD. Spencer will speak on \Healing Connections: Perspectives on Healing from Indigenous Cul- tures.'' \These indigenous cultures teach us about connec- tion,\ Spencer said, \to self, others, the. community and the unverse-^ to that which is greater than self., Any time these connections are broken, you have an unhealthy state, whe^er in the individual or so- ciety./Spencer has studied the culture of Native Americans (some of whom are among her ancestors) and other. indige- r, LOUNGE Road * Plhddtdwn, NY. 12009 (518)355-8001 SU-l.'.'ig.'B 1 Saturday, April 13 -5 Karat Gold ^^^n$out0eclalfy itijgjt v >-••• K&-W f ••»!fc3y4: >J~- ~4\ nous peoples. She has studied tjbe work of;the late r Jqseph Campbell and studied•;, wi$i him. .\..< , ,-... ','-; .\ Tm not romanticizing^ she saidj ,\^e ( t us be disicrini^atory abqut what we ar«! taMng into the pressure off the mother of ydun^ children. \The molher could '. call a gi'ahdmo^er,\ she says. *Ther6 is aot^hat .connection no^iy; we feel all alone.'' Some of the people who come tb her, she 'I use mother nature a lot. I teach people how to sit by a tree and listen to rocks talking. this culture.\ But traditional people knew where they were in iijeir ctilture, and knew, the world around them. \A tot .of these medicines are from these cultures. Lefs look at what can benefit us.\ Like most of the healers who will be in Albany this weekend, Spencer would richer look to the \patients Wef tMan to some ]kind of eiternalj intervention. \Tbere is no magic from outside,\ she said. \They can , give you medicine, but the prob- lem will return unless you change. iCyour job is bothering ypu, you have to ask, 'How can I change my work? Can I get out walking?' \I use mother nature a.lot,\ she continues. \I teach .people how to sit by a tree and listen to jkhe rocks talking,\ The tree you want to listen to, ^« said, will attract your atten- tion. \Sit w^th as much\ pf you^ spine touching as possible, with yqurfeet o# thfs ground, and the paicos of your hands on the hark or on the ground. The tree h^s energy. You h^ye energy, Feel it, and listeh and watch what's happening. Just be with the tree, all your attention on the tree and your energy, and how they are working together. That will allow lyoul to experience the connection to mother earth a lot of us seem to have gotten away from.\ Among the disconnections in modern society are some very mundane ones. Extended fami- lies broke up; children took to the roads in automobiles went off^by themselves. \We moved out,\ she says, \and a lot of the wise ones held us together.\ This wasn't just tribal elders, but someone as ordinary as a family member who could take Which FREE I I Toppings will I § You Choose... | ' Chili -Cheese 8 • Meat • Bacon Bits • * Saisa • Sour Cream I •Broccoli'Batter I, I AH VMII> CDCC* I I I said, don't have anyone like that. So Spencer doesn't only look for healthy connections in the smoke-stained habitats of dis- appearing traditottal '--cultures. She finds it, ttinong Other places, on the street in Guilder- land where she lives. \I happen tff'livfc in ^fantastic neighbor- hood,\ she 5 says. \We talk across the back fence. We are all connected; the.' children knby/tiaisUoo;\ * She sees a sign of cultural health also in the inner city, in places where people have acted to take their neighborhood back. \They feel empowerment,\ she says..\We have to notice that; we have to. see these spots; maybe sometime they will come together?! ,. She calls for. more coopera- tion. \pOfhousjpRg is;, coming bacfe^\ she, says. \Letfs pppl our resource^. All houses have,a vacuum cleaner, buihow many times do you actually use it? We have to start sharing and pool- ing; learning the differences between our actual needs and ,ourwanJs Making f. short leap from lis- tening to ^ tree to sharing a vacuum cleaner is not out of place among the speakers planned for the expo. The dic- tionary defines holism as \the the theory that whole entities, as fundamental and determining components of reality, have an existance other than as the mere sum of their parts.* Holistic healing, therefore,- 'fbcuses on health ai? a person's totalc^nditibiil ahdthe person a person, relating to the universe. \Very simply,\ says Spencer, \you can']i; consider a person a whole person without consider- ing the inclusion of the spiri- tual ^arts dftiieir life.\ Phillip Show Gang will speak oh \Holistic Education and its Relationship to Human Transformation.\ \Tied very closely to the holistic approach,\ Gang says, \is an implicit as- sumption that if we are going to change schools, the primary people have to change them- selves, which is the teachers. Undergirding this approach is the opportunity for teachers to look at their own growth pro- cess.\ Human transformation, he said; is \looking at expanded awareness; what it means to be human. Why are we here? How have events shaped our lives? t)o we want to change? We are really looking at conditioning, and changing the condition- ing. It is a pretty dead end road We are on.\ Asked if this wasn't similar to classical psychotherapy, Gang said, \Psychotherapy is a very personal experience. It is psychological. What we are talking about is how does our live experience interface with the .needs of the planet? If we talk about an ecological per- spective, and talk to students about the need for it, do we live it ourselves?^llow many people who are science teachers in high school, and talk about re- cycling, recycle?\ In the eight years since he left his job as head of an indepen- dent school in Georgia, and started teaching teachers, Gang has travelled over a million nrih?s, studying and lecturing. a |is ^ad^as^coildlBbns are in America,'' he says, \they are light years away from other parjts of the world. 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