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The Native American Sweatlodge – A Spiritual Tradition

The Native American Sweatlodge – A Spiritual Tradition

Barefoot Windwalker, Guest
Waking Times

The Sweat Lodge Ceremony, now central to most Native American cultures and spiritual life, is an adaptation of the sweat bath common to many ethnic cultures found in North and South America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, and Africa. It was prompted by the … More

May 25, 2013 | By | Reply More
High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Causing Addiction Similar To Cocaine

High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Causing Addiction Similar To Cocaine

April McCarthy, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

Results presented at the 2013 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting shows that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) can cause behavioural reactions similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine

These results, presented by addiction expert Francesco Leri, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive … More

May 25, 2013 | By | Reply More
Turmeric’s Cardiovascular Benefits Found To Be As Powerful As Exercise

Turmeric’s Cardiovascular Benefits Found To Be As Powerful As Exercise

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Nothing can replace exercise, but turmeric extract does a pretty good job of producing some of the same cardiovascular health benefits, most notably in women undergoing age-associated adverse changes in arterial health.

Despite the general lack of interest by conventional medical practitioners in … More

May 25, 2013 | By | Reply More
The Power of Nonsense – How Laughter Makes Life Better

The Power of Nonsense – How Laughter Makes Life Better

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
Waking Times

“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see More

May 24, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Is Your Doctor A True Healer?

Is Your Doctor A True Healer?

Raluca Schachter, Guest
Waking Times

How do you determine if your doctor or any other health practitioner you are seeing is a true healer? How do you know if he/she has your own well being at his/ her highest interest?

Stories say that in ancient China healers were directly responsible … More

May 24, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
In Defense of (Raw) Milk

In Defense of (Raw) Milk

Eleni Roumeliotou, Green Med Info
Waking Times

There is plenty of clinical and nutritional evidence that milk, this hailed “natural” drink, is the source of numerous immunological, gastrointestinal and perhaps neurological disorders. While it is important to acknowledge these facts, it is equally necessary to remember that the milk we More

May 24, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
An Introduction to Spiritual Change

An Introduction to Spiritual Change

Belsebuub, Guest
Waking Times

If you want spiritual change, you need to see and understand yourself.

While the conscious spiritual ‘you’ may wish to awaken, there are also subconscious parts of the psyche that are contrary to spirituality and work against your awakening.

Their roots are unknown to most, yet … More

May 23, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
4 Examples of Alternative Cancer Therapies

4 Examples of Alternative Cancer Therapies

Joanna van Bijsterveld, The Underground
Waking Times

Cancer is one of the scariest health concerns of our times, with numbers climbing over the years and once rare or new aggressive forms of cancer appearing every day.

Over the past century, many people have discovered and attempted alternative (natural) ways to … More

May 23, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
More Power To The People As Fluoridation Is Slowly Being Defeated

More Power To The People As Fluoridation Is Slowly Being Defeated

April McCarthy, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

A broad coalition of Portlanders have resoundingly rejected adding fluoridation chemicals to the city’s water supply. By a 61% to 39% margin, Portland voters agreed with the position of most western nations that there are safer, more effective, and less intrusive ways to promote … More

May 23, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
What is Energy Medicine?

What is Energy Medicine?

Ingrid P. Dickenson BRCP EMR, Guest
Waking Times

By now most of us are aware of the fact that the human body has a bio-electric field. The strength of this energy field varies with age and state of health in every individual. The mind plays an important part in the … More

May 22, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Ayahuasca – A Plant That Teaches

Ayahuasca – A Plant That Teaches

Ida Lawrence, Contributor
Waking Times

Before he left for Ecuador, I asked my godson, Steve, if he would check in with me now and then. He said he would if he could. He was traveling there to participate in an Ayahuasca retreat.

The first time he messaged I asked him,

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May 22, 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
No Historical Benefit in Vaccines: Polish Study

No Historical Benefit in Vaccines: Polish Study

Heidi Stevenson, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Yesterday’s article, Vaccines Do Irreparable Harm: Study from Poland, documents the revealing information brought out by Polish scientists’ review of the scientific literature on vaccination’s adverse effects and immune system effects. Today, the rest of the study covering neurological symptoms following vaccination More

May 22, 2013 | By | Reply More
10 Signs of A Fake Guru: Weeding Out the Psychopaths from the True Teachers

10 Signs of A Fake Guru: Weeding Out the Psychopaths from the True Teachers

Christina Sarich, Staff
Waking Times

Kumare, the documentary, makes fun of our eagerness to give someone else sovereignty over our highest selves. Let’s face it – sometimes spiritual work is hard. Why should we do the true work required of a developing soul? We have to look at some … More

May 21, 2013 | By | 21 Replies More
Consciousness: The Bridge Between Science and Religion

Consciousness: The Bridge Between Science and Religion

Peter Russell, Spirit of Now
Waking Times

Science and religion often seem poles apart–and in many ways they are. But I believe the two can, and will eventually, be united, and their meeting point will be human consciousness.

That we are conscious beings is the most obvious fact of … More

May 21, 2013 | By | 8 Replies More
Sacred White Sage: A Way to Clear Negativity

Sacred White Sage: A Way to Clear Negativity

Eileen Nauman, Guest
Waking Times

Every Nation has its sage for ceremonial purposes. I was shown specific white, ‘female’ patches of sage a long time ago by my medicine man teacher, who was western Cherokee.

Sage is used for clearing negativity inside and outside ourselves, from our dwellings, a room, … More

May 21, 2013 | By | Reply More
Still Eat Conventional Meat or Poultry? Preservatives, Antimicrobials, Antifungals, and Viral Sprays Saturate Factory Farmed Sources

Still Eat Conventional Meat or Poultry? Preservatives, Antimicrobials, Antifungals, and Viral Sprays Saturate Factory Farmed Sources

Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

70 percent of all beef and chicken sold in the United States, Canada, UK and Australia and many other countries contain a growing number of preservatives, meat glues, and antibacterial/antifungal/antiviral sprays. They also are commonly treated with carbon monoxide gas injections to make meat … More

May 21, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
How Garlic Can Save Your Life

How Garlic Can Save Your Life

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Research on garlic indicates that it may provide an ideal low-cost and safe alternative to drugs and vaccines in reducing the three most common causes of death in the world.

In a world mesmerized by the false promises of pharmaceutical industry marketing copy, … More

May 21, 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
The Vagus Nerve and the Healing Promise of The Sudarshan Kriya

The Vagus Nerve and the Healing Promise of The Sudarshan Kriya

Frank Huguenard, Staff Writer
Waking Times

At the center of our bodies resides a long, sinewy nerve that extends all the way from our medullas down through our chests to beyond our stomachs. This nerve, known as the Vagus Nerve, happens to be at a most fascinating intersection, not … More

May 20, 2013 | By | 14 Replies More
Are You Really Free?

Are You Really Free?

Colin Bondi, Contributor
Waking Times

Freedom is a powerful word for most of us. Here in America people are always talking about freedom, living in a free country, defending freedom and maintaining our freedom. Some like to say – freedom isn’t free. In the course of daily life, most people … More

May 20, 2013 | By | 6 Replies More
Monsanto Planting New GM Soybeans in 20 Locations Despite Recent Activism

Monsanto Planting New GM Soybeans in 20 Locations Despite Recent Activism

Alex Pietrowski, Staff
Waking Times

The imperative nature of marching this Saturday, May 25th, in the March Against Monsanto couldn’t ever be more stressed than now, with recent news that Monsanto keeps forging ahead with its repugnant plans to poison us all by planting more altered seeds – … More

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