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Issue # 4 Summer (July)  2009 !

Editorial: Your next connection will be...

Well, actually, I'm not so sure yet what my flight connection will be tomorrow....our child, Space of Love Magazine, needed some extra care. Dirty diapers and the measles, in our business, are called computer crashes, website problems, down-load difficulties. And so, instead of leaving promptly for a Global Ecovillage Network gathering, sponsored by the flourishing German Ecovillage Sieben Linden, held at the Finish Ecovillage Keuruu 300 km from Helsinki, I am still here, hoping to leave tomorrow and will report back to you about their fabulous activities.

Have you noticed how the world is speeding right along, few things are what they seem to be and changing as we speak? Unless we relax, surrender and let go, as I did describe in our very first issue in "Paradise found... at an overcrowded airport," we will not feel very good. Wish me good luck for tomorrow!

But, the Universal Law and promise which pertain here always provide a magical gift for each apparent "loss"...something else always turns up instead of what you expected, as good or frequently even better. Have you noticed? But only if we relax and trust. I call it "faithing". If we tighten up and get upset, the currency of support and love cannot reach us, it does not conduct on that lower level of energy. That's why we say Gratitude creates such great miracles...the currency of Gratitude opens wide the doors for Divine Mind to enter into our matters at hand.

So it was also with our current issue: I was looking forward to writing about that strange topic of our planet earth, so round and solid...as we've been told. But I remember the moment many years ago when I first opened a book, with my scientific ears suspiciously perked, on the Hollow Earth Theory. Excuse me? But, as you know me, I am ever curious...hard to ignore some of those data...so, meanwhile, those of you interested in wayward theories might know much more about this than I do. Maybe next time - unless spirit takes charge again and fills your magazine with those things most important at that time. Yuri and I just...faith it.

We have been tracking some fabulous Bards, but they will have to sing without us until we find some space to report about their wonderful adventures world-wide...We will have to wait with our discussion of what people call cancer...just as well. (Here too, as do many tribal languages, I prefer to use the flexible language version of a verb: cancering....it's meant to be temporary.) But until then, do remember for now that it is NOT what it is "made out to be", as we say. Most garden-variety tumors are survival efforts by the system, a touching last-ditch attempt at righting something which is way out of balance. After 40 years in the health professions and many experiences of "miracles" - I have no doubt about that and neither do many other medical professionals.

And - Oooh! My favorite thing: building homes from $50.00 to $50.000.00. You know, my fingernails are still filled with mud from kneading around that primal matter, mixing it with sand and straw and doing what people all over the world have done for millennia: surround themselves with mother Earth - practically for free. (The $50.00 house-plan idea comes from my book on underground houses, which are the cheapest of them all because three walls, top and bottom, are provided for free. They are not at all dark and dank, as one might expect.) So exciting!

Other than that...I have to pack now and so you must look through your Space of Love here to find out what we were guided to pick for you in this very special issue. Aren't we lucky?

Blessings to you, from very lucky Yuri and Regina

Statement of Purpose

 We recognize the present time as a transitional period for humanity, with massive transformations on their way to a new era of more refined dimensions. With this in mind we consider this a final call - of Nature and of Divine Mind - to carefully collect and spread the information about Space of Love so as to assist people with this transition gracefully and joyfully into a new era of Love and Harmony. We are all co-creators of some or other Space of Love, and of our planet , and with the help of Nature, we truly learn and contribute from our heart.

Publications

The magazine is published 4 times a year. Each Issue will consist of 48+ pages with black and white photos and pictures and colored cover. See content of Issue # 4 below.
    

Content of the Issue #4 :

* Space of Love Living Diary
       Yuri and Irina, on the quest for their Kin’s Domain (Ecovillage Ljuboistok)
    * O.U.R. Ecovillage
       Exploring a Model Community or... a Community Model
    * You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring
       The Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland
    * Personal Discipline and Healthful Living
       A Presentation by David Wolfe
    * American Indians and their Relationship with Plants
    * Water Storage and Ferrocement Applications.
    * Organizational Challenges for RINGING CEDARS Ecovillages
       Turning Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones
    * The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies
    * The Triumph of Triviality
       Is Consumer society too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet?
    * How to Train Goats to Pull a Cart
       or: Never Mind, Honey! - I am Taking the Car
    * There is a price and a prize in heeding the message of the Soul
    * Is Our Planet Really Dying and What Do We Do?
    * How Yarrow Ecovillage Got “Ecovillage Zoning”
    * “Y”our Valley as a Model Community?
    * Wild Foods Foraging in the City
       SOL learns from "Wild Girl" Becky Lerner
    * A Brighter Future for Greywater?
       A fundamental solution to many ecological problems
    * Let Your Embrace be Music and a Living Poem
       A New Sexuality
    * Intuition, Chinese Secrets and Why we Bicker...

Please read some of the articles here.  

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With Love and Light!
Yuri Smirnov,
The Publisher and Co-editor of Space of Love Magazine.
http://www.spaceoflove.com