Author Archive: David Rainoshek
Webmaster and creator of http://www.JuiceFeasting.com (the 92-Day Juice Feasting Program). MA in Vegan/Live Food Nutrition.
Integral philosopher and mystic. Life Coach.
The Story of Bottled Water (VIDEO)
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. The film explores the bottled water industrys [...]
Category: Consumer Culture, Ecology, Health, Short Films, Uncategorized, Water
Exercise and the Brain
Stronger, Faster, Smarter Exercise does more than build muscles and help prevent heart disease. New science shows that it also boosts brainpower—and may offer hope in the battle against Alzheimer’s. by Mary Carmichael Newsweek Magazine, http://www.newsweek.com/2007/03/25/stronger-faster-smarter.html, March 26, 2007 The stereotype of the “dumb jock” has never sounded right to Charles Hillman. A jock himself, [...]
The Story of Stuff (VIDEO)
With over 12 million on-line views, The Story of Stuff is one of the most widely viewed environmental-themed short films of all time. Since its release in December 2007, The Story of Stuff has been shown in thousands of schools, houses of worship, community events and businesses around the world. See www.storyofstuff.org for DVDs, books, [...]
Category: Consumer Culture, Ecology, Short Films
Dirt: The Movie!
“Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.” DIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. [...]
Category: Agriculture, Films, Health, Soil
The Message of the Mystics: Ken Wilber
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation. You yourself try it, and compare your test results with others who have also performed the experiment. Out of [...]
Category: Integral, Ken Wilber, Mysticism, Spirituality
The Kosmos Will Be My Witness
Leaves of Grass by American poet Walt Whitman is in my experience one of the finest expressions in the kosmos, and I have been reading Whitman – and enjoying the freedom and fullness of his mysticism – since I was on the road during a sabbatical from college at the age of 20. Whitman is [...]
Category: Art, Mysticism, Poetry, Spirituality, Walt Whitman
