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What's New:  [September to December 2000]

Future.Con - A Novel of Alternate Reality
  now available in paperback!
ebook download    read free sample chapters

Alternative Literature Forum
Discuss your favorite readings, writings, genres and writing sites.

Alternative Literature Contest Winners:
Paul William Gagnon: Untold Genesis
Philip Loyd - Mr. Dearborn's Big Vacation
E.L. Wolfe - Dark Moment

Three new writings by Nowick Gray:
nonfiction:  Deep Summer - a true tale of sun and moon, 3 bears and a man, paradise and the fall
fiction: Guerilla Bears - the other side of the story

Feminism, Poetic Myth, and Alternative Culture - An Homage to The White Goddess

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Alternative Culture Magazine

a review of natural alternatives for a creative living culture.

featured topics:

Nature, Nutrition, Alternative Income, Book Reviews, Drumming, Hypertext Literature, Spirituality

Last Updated: 1 September, 2000

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From the editor’s desk…

The Millennial Mirror Mystery

We look in the millennial mirror. A new age sparkles with promise -- and finds us, caught in the old four dimensions, with too many of the same old problems:

• disappearing nature
• declining health
• failing businesses
• information overload
• shallow entertainment
• predictable literature
• empty spiritual life

What’s wrong with the picture in the mirror? Too many choices, problems and promises? Not enough common sense natural solutions? Too many petrified institutions, beside-the-point contributions?
It’s time to get back to the roots, old roots and new.

Alternative Culture online magazine offers you the tools to cut through the chaos and help you get balanced and real. We offer a custom selection of information and entertainment--advice and insights, resources and reviews--to help you find effective down-to-earth approaches to creative living and a healthy lifestyle.

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A Healthy Slice of Alternative Culture

"The information and anecdotes presented [here] are fascinating, and they obviously come from somebody who knows what he's talking about."

--"Broken Pencil," The Guide to Alternative Culture in Canada

Any popular culture journal online, or web search directory, or even "alternative culture" vertical portal will list the general version of the topics covered here. This Alternative Culture magazine doesn’t try to be all things to all people. Let's first turn off the mass media and recycle the icons of pop culture. Then we'll slice across the grain, for a view of the best of the rest.

Nature: too tame or too wild? Alternative: wilderness and simple living.

Health: too much intervention, too late? Alternative: safe, natural health and nutrition.

Business: too big or too small? Alternative: reliable home income alternatives.

Books: too many choices, or too few? Alternative: the best in books, music and video.

Music: too much schmaltz, or too much edge? Alternative: roots music, drum and dance.

Literature: too predictable or too weird? Alternative: natural poetry, fiction and essays.

Spirituality: too tight or too loose? Alternative: practical spiritual philosophy.

If healthy balance is a bias, you’ll find an upfront bias here: toward natural and healthy lifestyle, creative living, self-help and the healing arts. "Alternative Culture" in this incarnation is not the same as "popular culture," definitely not mainstream; yet it’s more moderate than counterculture, more sunny than underground and more grounded than new age. This Canadian cougar strays from convention, yet camps independent also of the radical fringe.

A living alternative culture asks,

"How do we survive, as individuals and together, day-to-day and in the long term?"

"How do we celebrate, and choose what is worth celebrating?"

"How do we find more balance in our lives?"

Let’s begin the journey to find out.

--Nowick Gray

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Feminism, Poetic Myth, and Alternative Culture - An Homage to The White Goddess

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