NEW ON THE WEBSITE Web exclusives Read our feature article, Migrating Stones by Alyson Hallett, plus an extended selection of book reviews. Music from Bengal Read the article Waves of Joy and listen to three tracks of ‘Baul’ music online: www.resurgence.org/magazine/extras/ CARBON CALCULATOR Reduce your carbon footprint using the updated online carbon calculator. www.resurgence.org/carboncalculators/

ILLUSTRATORS Tudor Humpries is a watercolour painter. Truda Lane is an ar tist living in North Devon. Axel Scheffler is a children’s book illustrator.

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“I strongly reaffirm America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons” President Obama, Cairo University, June 2009 To hear President Obama’s inspiring speech given at Cairo University in June 2009, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/newbeginning/

38 POETRY

Thomas Bailey Mary Oliver's poetry celebrates the beauty of the ordinary world.

UNDERCURRENTS 40 BUSINESS FOR A BETTER

WORLD Chris Nichols & Chris Seeley

Recognising our ultimate interdependence with the natural world is key to creating successful businesses.

REGULARS 3 WELCOME Satish Kumar 42 SHORT STORY Shakti Maira 44 TRANSITION TALES Mark Boyle 45 WILD FOOD Jane Le Besque 46 LETTER FROM AMERICA Laird Townsend 48 A SENSE OF PLACE James Everett Kibler

50 IN SEASON Brigitte Norland 52 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Your views and comments.

REVIEWS 54 COSMIC MEMORY

Ervin László introduces his new book The Akashic Experience. 56 A SPUR TO ACTION Herbert Girardet introduces

A Renewable World. 58 A JOURNEY OF

AWAKENING Duane Elgin introduces his

new book The Living Universe. 59 GOODNESS OF THE EARTH Adam Thorpe reviews Essential

Agrarian and Environmental Writings. 60 A PERSONAL PAINTING

LANGUAGE Philip Vann reviews Ivon Hitchens. 61 THE ART OF ART Suzi Gablik reviews Seven Days in the

Art World and Art and Upheaval. 62 THE ANANDA

EXPERIENCE Shakti Maira reviews Beauty.

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63 GOD CONSCIOUSNESS Christopher McCoy reviews The Third Jesus. 64 DIGNIFIED

INDEPENDENCE Alwyn Marriage reviews Weeds and

Wild Flowers. 65 A VISTA OF SPIRITUAL

CONSCIOUSNESS Chellis Glendinning reviews Imagining Place. 66 GETTING A GRIP Paul Allen reviews The Transition Timeline. 67 NATURE AS TEACHER Caroline Walker reviews Sense and Sustainability. 68 AGAINST CIVILISATION Dan Grace reviews Time's Up! 69 UNRAVELLING THE GREAT WORK Peter Marshall reviews Mercurius.

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