Common Ground Magazine

Sumner Love issue has Our Last Conversation w Ram Dass-- an old friend at the end of his mortal coil--the subject of a great new film premiering in Sept, Becoming Nobody by Jamie Catto. A big Burning Man (Metamorphoses) art preview plus What Burning Man Teaches Us About Community by Caveat Magister Find a big Woodstock pictorial and a captivating blow by blow by Elliot Cahn who performed there as part of Sha Na Na. Sean Gregory Ahearn wrote about 50 years of Magic at the Oreg...on Country Fair. Dicks or Doormats: Men in Relationship by Christian R Pedersen. God and Sex: Now We Get Both by Mark Whitwell Nora Atkinson. Dad Deprivation and The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell John Gray. Mystery of Trees, A Love Story by Diane Beresford Kroeger. The Relationship Escalator by Amy Grahan. Puerto Rican Portraits of Strength by Rebeca Garcia Gonzalez. SF Pride by Raymond Holbert and much more. Thanks for liking sharing. See CommonGroundmag.com. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

CREATIVITY issue includes a long interview with Michael Pollan. So much I could say about that but just check it out!! The art of Carl Jung figures a lot in this issue.. as in a pictorial (we dub him the First Psychedelic Artist.. albeit unknowingly) and an article bout liminal dreaming by Jennifer Dumpert. Meredith Heller kills it wth "Why I Teach Poetry Writing to Teenage Girls" (youngin' poems included) Merlyn J. Travis organized a thoughtful overview about the research on Cannabis & Creativity. Check out the interview with badass Danielle Madeira from Another Planet Entertainment. Nina Fry Kizler on the Science of Creativity. West Coast Festival Round up by Meia Mats.. Am really pleased with the way everything came out. Share , love, like, hate. See CommonGroundmag.com. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Common Ground Food issue has been out and getting a sweet response. Commemorates 50 years of Good Earth w Mark Squire interview and 60 years of Chuck and Sue Kesey being married and pioneering probiotics w Nancy's Yogurt.. Plenty of good stories--as Mark escaped the East Coast at 16 to come to Cali in 1969 and has built Good Earth into a fantastic community hub in Marin County.. I wish everyone could visit Good Earth--my happy place! The Kesey's...well suffice it to say he wa...s on the original Further bus w brother Ken Kesey in 1964 and it goes from there. Deadheads can hear a firsthand account of the legendary 1972 Veneta show that saved the company.. and the 1982 follow up that sealed the land ownership for the Oregon Country Fair..Beautiful romance w Sue.. Who said hippie marriages don't last? There's a critique of the Impossible Burger.. is it safe? Well, it's verrry GMO, though they cleverly hide that. Call me old fashioned but I am squishy about ingesting synthetic food fermented by lab scientists.. still kinda prefer natural food (preferably organic) out of the ground.. a farm. Hence the pictorial Farm, Food, Gratitude. And the cover! Saeeda Hafiz explains her trek as a disadvantaged black girl seeking upward mobility and her inadvertent discovery of the yin-yang of food. Shelley Karpaty, a fan of Anthony Bourdain makes the case that he was a yogi, despite himself. Nick Nutu wrote nicely about local foraging. Michelle Perro weaves us through the health challenges of feeding kids in this brave new world of modified foods. All local writers! Thanks! We got a nice reception at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim.. like share blah blah and gracias!! If you appreciate Common Ground, patronize its advertisers--the best. CommonGroundMag.com xo Rob Sidon

Common Ground Magazine Healthy Wealthy and Wise issue! Wonderful interview w do-good hippie doctor Larry Brilliant who cofounded Seva Foundation and witnessed end of smallpox. Neem Karoli Baba devotee who tells awesome stories! 2 Beautiful pictorials - wisdom and portraits Running on Faith and Pearls of Consciousness, Cannabis,- a sacred healing psychedelic? 5G Health Concerns -> Local Activism, Baba Hari Dass (1924-2018), Exposing Ableism (Misha Montoya), Paradox of Student Teacher Relationships, Lessons from 1918 Flu Pandemic, Navigating Change-Art of the Soft Pivot Om Rising, SAND, lots of good stuff and more. Like and love and share. THANKS THANKS THANKS. Love Rob CommonGroundMag.com

Common Ground's Women Issue.. interviews w Alice Walker (a national treasure) and Tae Yun Kim (a rare female great grandmaster martial artist) ART: Visionary Women Artists wonderfully created the cover and inside pictorial plus Lone Mørch's Embody: Intimate Photographic Encounters w Women, Rebecca Traister's blistering essay about the fury of women..very timely. Liz Bliss' Too Much Too Little?, Jacqueline Iglehart's Heart of the Goddess, Danielle Dulsky's Holy Wild.. Breast Cancer mindfulness and much more.. Share and like and blah blah. THANK YOU!! xo Rob CommonGroundMag.com

Yoga issue!! Verry local. Fun interview w MC Yogi and Amanda Giacomini (10,000 Buddhas); Yoga for Wee Ones (0-5); Getting Old Together in Recovery (and on the Yoga Mat); Hindu Goddess Pujas; Psoas (I was saying), How Yoga Saved My Life, Fab pictorial - The Yogi Within; Deepak's Spiritual Memoir (Making God Necessary); Wanderlust roundup; Chris Tompkins Significance of AUM..speaking of which-->let's see you at OM Rising Festival Oct 5-8..Like, love, share, dis if you must!..Jasper Johal cover w McKenzie and baby.THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CommonGroundMag.com

Summer issue w cool Burning Man preview and fascinating interview w Esalen founder Michael Murphy.. great guy..check it out. Plus Ode to Summer quotes, Neo Hippies The Embodied Teen, Good advice on summer Skincare and Hydration, Lair of the Bear in 60's and 70's, Mindfulness and Recovery. "I Hear the Earth Breathing".. Love, like, share.. online at CommonGroundMag.com Happy Summer w Luv

Our CREATIVITY issue w commemorative interview with Burning Man founder Larry Harvey who sadly died recently. John Perry Barlow also died so we unearthed an obscure essay called "Cassidy: In Memoriam" Check it out...and our pictorial about Our Creative Soul (Life is the Dancer, You are the Dance). Good essay: Deep Souls (Thinkers We Need but Rarely Understand). Pinball Wizardry - yay! A rare 15-year old (NOT on social media) makes her case. There's a fun argument for intoxication and creativity .. and of course our popular and practical West Coast Festival roundup and mucho mas... YAY to CREATIVITY!! Thanks for liking and sharing and for your love. Back at ya! COMMONGROUNDMAG.COM

Green issue. Great stuff you're gonna like. Paul Hawken interview and lot of global warming info re Project Drawdown. I learned a lot. Coyote on the cover and coyote consciousness inside.. interesting. Safety concerns about 5G wireless technology..(not that you'll hear about those from telecoms or FCC).. Plastics.. always a concern.. Green burials, The Paradox of Radicalism, OSC2 regenerative companies. Community Choice Energy.. Plenty of great stuff. Like, love, share, hate. CommonGroundMag.com

March Food issue! Hippy Food.. how the 60-70s counterculture laid the groundwork for the healthier way we eat. Learn about GMOs 2.0 (sneaky), Why We Get the Munchies..will Relaxed Pot Laws Lead to Relaxed Pot Bellies? Keto diets, A Black writer's perspective on health consciousness in underserved neighborhoods. And "Cookbooks Across Time".. a cool pictorial. Like Love Share Thanks.. And Luv to you. CommonGroundMag.com

Happy Valentine's Day Feb Love issue has kid focus. Fatherly Love pictorial..nice Roger McNamee (successful Silicon Valley insider turned whistleblower on tech).. was M. Zuckerberg's early mentor.. also cool musician (MoonAlice) check interview.. "For The Love of Our Kids". Fascinating! Verrry cool dude. Other articles-Positive Kink, Arranged Marriage, Diving Deep in an Age of Customizable Love, Secret Language of Hugs, Transgender Mama story and Warren Farrell interview on Boy Crisis.. and much more.. Share and like and Love Love Love Thank you!!! CommonGroundMag.com