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Charting a New Course on Illegal Drugs

Charting a New Course on Illegal Drugs

Jess Hunter-Bowman, Guest
Waking Times

After 40 years of failing to stem the drug trade, there’s a global conversation about new approaches.

As Manuel, a Colombian farmer, showed me his peppercorn crops ravaged by the defoliant sprayed in a futile effort to kill his neighbor’s drug crops, he explained why … More

June 19, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Top 10 Reasons to Bring your Kids to the Farmers Market

Top 10 Reasons to Bring your Kids to the Farmers Market

Rick D., Eat Local Grown
Waking Times

The Farmers Market is a great place to bring your kids for so many reasons! The Farmers Market allows you to provide your family with wholesome, healthy food while supporting your local community at the same time.

Here’s the reality- Family farmers need … More

June 8, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Inventor of Rotavirus Vaccine Wants To End Parental Exemptions For School Vaccinations

Inventor of Rotavirus Vaccine Wants To End Parental Exemptions For School Vaccinations

Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

Public health officials are routinely failing to inform the public of their right to refuse vaccines in both school and work settings. Greater powers are at work to make mandatory vaccination policies which will allow officials to conduct childhood vaccinations without any parental consent … More

June 3, 2013 | By | 15 Replies More
6 Ways to Stop Worrying and Find Work You Love

6 Ways to Stop Worrying and Find Work You Love

Roman Krznaric, Greater Good
Waking Times

Job satisfaction is at record lows. What does it take to overcome the fear of change, especially in tough economic times?

This essay is adapted from How to Find Fulfilling Work (Picador).

The idea of fulfilling work—a job that reflects our passions, talents, … More

June 1, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
The Missing Dimension of the Education Debate

The Missing Dimension of the Education Debate

Patricia Jennings, Guest
Waking Times

The national debate on how to improve our education system is very vibrant and visible these days. It focuses on salient issues like testing, teacher pay and job security in a difficult economy, and other mounting stresses on teachers and students. Half of new teachers … More

May 29, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Indigo Children and the 3 Stages of Life in a Capitalistic Industrial Society

Indigo Children and the 3 Stages of Life in a Capitalistic Industrial Society

Kees Deckers, Contributor
Waking Times

So-called new-age and spiritualistic believers think that new generations of children are more intelligent than past generations of children. Although it is important to finally start recognising that children are human and no less stupid than their so-called elders, I doubt very much that this … More

May 22, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Esoteric Knowledge Throughout Time

Esoteric Knowledge Throughout Time

Belsebuub, Guest Writer
Waking Times

Go far enough back in time and you’ll reach to a point where entire societies were based around the universal knowledge of the journey of consciousness in its awakening – in Central and South America, Easter Island, Egypt, Cambodia, India and in many other places … More

May 6, 2013 | By | 20 Replies More
Consciousness and the Direction of Structure

Consciousness and the Direction of Structure

Tony Wright, Guest Writer
Waking Times

Solving the mystery of human evolution using Darwin’s basic theory required no more than a simple reinterpretation of existing data and the application of basic biological principles. The same approach simultaneously resolves several other major enigmas in disciplines rarely considered within the same context. … More

May 6, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Developing Extra Perceptive Children for a Changing World

Developing Extra Perceptive Children for a Changing World

Ida Lawrence, Contributor
Waking Times

Now, more than ever, it’s wise to encourage our children’s faculties of perception, some of which are called extra-sensory. They’re not really extra, as we know… they’re natural. Just in the course of accomplishing daily activities, we can create situations and games that affirm … More

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Minesweeper – How Activism Works

Minesweeper – How Activism Works

Zen Gardner
Waking Times

“Being the change we want to see in the world” is first and foremost. Our lifestyles, disengagement from the matrix and raising of consciousness being paramount.

But with that comes activity. We cannot be consciously aware of what’s truly going around us without being prompted and … More

March 26, 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
The Tao of Men’s Emotional Health and Childhood Education

The Tao of Men’s Emotional Health and Childhood Education

David James Lees, Guest Writer
Waking Times

A recent report commissioned by UK charities Relate and Men’s Health Forum highlighted how men are often ‘in the dark’ when it comes to emotional and relationship difficulties in their life, the factors which cause them, and how to effectively deal with them.

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March 23, 2013 | By | Reply More
DMT, Ayahuasca, The Pineal Gland – A Professor Talks Neurotheology

DMT, Ayahuasca, The Pineal Gland – A Professor Talks Neurotheology

Clayton Crockett, Legacy
Waking Times 

Reach Out and Touch Faith

Professor and chemist Steven Barker sits at his desk, surrounded by curious objects — a mortar and pestle, a DNA model, the cylinder of a spectrometer.

Professor Steven Barker is a curious, if strange, man. And he does little to … More

March 20, 2013 | By | 11 Replies More
Green Schools – Rethinking Our Approach to Schooling

Green Schools – Rethinking Our Approach to Schooling

Anna Hunt, Staff Writer
Waking Times

Image if your child came home from school excited as could be because they had been learning how to plant trees. Or what if your kindergartner started asking you to buy more organic tomatoes and kale at the store, instead of Goldfish, because … More

March 15, 2013 | By | 13 Replies More
Florida Students Take on Private Prison Industry

Florida Students Take on Private Prison Industry

Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence Contributor
Waking Times

Let’s imagine it’s 2063. Florida Atlantic University’s board of trustees has established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to disentangle the school’s historical support for the for-profit prison system — including its decision a half-century earlier to award its football stadium naming rights to … More

March 12, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Top 5 Ways to Practice Non-Conformity in the Matrix

Top 5 Ways to Practice Non-Conformity in the Matrix

Sigmund Fraud, Staff Writer
Waking Times

The human mind is easily programmed, and human behavior is largely autonomous once the sub-conscious has a suggestion of what to do. By default, people seem inclined to conform to the ideas, environment and behaviors around them, at least as a means of … More

March 11, 2013 | By | 25 Replies More
9 Concepts Kids Should Learn About Health That They’ll Never Learn In School

9 Concepts Kids Should Learn About Health That They’ll Never Learn In School

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

When it comes to health, children today are guided by an illusion of reality. Teachers in the educational system have only the best of intentions, but unfortunately even they are led by a curriculum so distorted from our natural world, that it is nearly … More

February 4, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Learned Social Classism, Is Working Even Ethical?

Learned Social Classism, Is Working Even Ethical?

Aaron Jackson, Guest Writer
Waking Times

As explained in the article Learning Careerism As A Moral Reward System; our society, specifically our education system, teaches and prepared us for a careerist lifestyle. Or simply put, working for money is considered success in our societies.

But not only does it … More

January 29, 2013 | By | 6 Replies More
Changing the Cycle of Fear for Our Children

Changing the Cycle of Fear for Our Children

Bohemian Mom
Waking Times

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

My children enjoy a great deal of freedom. When I was child, we also had freedom. It was OK to take a bus alone, walk slowly to a … More

January 23, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Learning Careerism As A Moral Reward System

Learning Careerism As A Moral Reward System

Aaron Jackson, Guest Writer
Waking Times

The concepts of consumerism and careerism are predominant in first world countries, and are increasing in countries with less “advanced” economies too, but why?

The definition of careerism or a careerist is “the characteristics associated with one who advances his career even at … More

January 10, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Those Who Refuse To Unlearn, Deschool and Deprogram Will Be This Generation’s Illiterate

Those Who Refuse To Unlearn, Deschool and Deprogram Will Be This Generation’s Illiterate

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

The general definitions and terminology for illiteracy vary depending on their orientation to specific subject areas. Most people assume illiteracy pertains solely to those with the inability to read or write simple sentences in any language. However, those suffering from learning, cultural and scientific … More

January 7, 2013 | By | 11 Replies More