Waking Up From The Biggest Illusion In The World
Frank M. Wanderer – Part of our human experience is deceiving. Can we stop feeding the illusion?
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Institutional Thinking – The Matrix, 1984 and The Allegory of The Cave
Ethan ‘Indigo’ Smith – The prisoner eventually learns to distinguish between reality and shadows.
Perception and Illusion – How the Brain Maps Space
April McCarthy – Two wrongs can make a right, at least in the world of visual perception and motor functioning, according to two University of Oregon brain scientists.
Transcending the Illusion of Disconnection
Phil Watt – Spirituality is a very personal affair regardless of the various pathways that one may take or disciplines that one may adhere to.
The Physical Universe is an Information System
K.J. MacLean – For 5,000 years we have been taught that our physical reality is massive and really hard to change.
Hidden in ‘Plain Sight’
Julian Wash – The “eyes” don’t really see at all, but it’s the “brain” that does the busy work of assembling an image.
A Powerful Mindfulness Meditation for a Spiritually Positive New Year
David James Lees – As we usher in the New Year I’d like to share with you a powerful spiritual coaching method and mindfulness meditation that will rebalance, harmonise and empower you for the year ahead.
There’s a Beauty Here We Cannot Deny
Soren Dreier & Chautauqua, Guests Waking Times The common consensus among many metaphysically inclined people is that what we consider ‘real’ waking life is but an illusion; and that in the dreamtime we are experiencing a much more ‘real’ dimension. Understanding this seldom makes for a smoother spiritual experience, as it always opens the door …
Deathbed Visions, DMT & Consciousness – Reflections on Life and the Beyond
Andy Dilks, Staff Writer Waking Times In recent years in the West there have been a number of studies in which people on their deathbeds are asked what it is they most regret about their lives. An Australian palliative nurse, Bronnie Ware, conducted one such study of patients in her care – she spent several …
Illumination and the Artificial Womb
Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Dear Humans, Today I wish to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that yields to imaginary lines and abstractions. In a world otherwise composed of natural beauty and harmony, there’s an artificial grid, a template of conformity that grips the planet. And within its broad, sweeping …
What is Real Beyond What is ‘Real’
Iam Saums, Contributor Waking Times “Wake from reality, wake from your dream…” Reality. It certainly is a subjective, seemingly flexible and very elusive element of human existence. With all the structures, formats, programs, conditions, laws, rules and boundaries our society aggressively imposes to implement, arrest (pun intended) and almost religiously uphold and proliferate “order,” it is amazing to me how we have …
Serving the System – How Free Are You, Really?
Alen Mischael Vukelić, Contributor Waking Times The system teaches us that we are dumb creatures who just don’t get it. Somehow we are always too late, too slow, too uneducated to fulfill the guidelines that are put there in front of us. It teaches us that we are incapable of observing the world in which …
Universal Consciousness – True Preparedness for Uncertain Times
Rene Descartes, Contributor Waking Times If you “sense” that big changes are coming, you’re right. And consider this: You can physically prepare until you think you are nearly invincible, but you can lose it all in an instant. Social, political, or natural forces could disrupt or wipe out your preparations. Even the most powerful governments …
It’s About To Blow
Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times People aren’t going to take it much longer. There are too many good, honest and awakening people who are being forced to take a stand. Their backs are against the wall in so many areas of their lives they cannot in good conscience let things go on much longer. When …
The Sweet Sweet Pull of Unwanted Gravity…
Soren Dreier, Guest Waking Times Feeling a bit aerie fairy lately? Feeling a bit like: Shiiit, I went real cosmic there, say for almost 4 weeks and now 3D reality kicked in…. What happened? Had my karma, dharma, downloading new software, high frequency charged master cleansing going on, so nothing should predictably go wrong here…Was …
The Timelessness of Aging and the Self
Linda George, Contributor Waking Times Time, in our corner of the universe, seems to be running the show. Our lives are controlled by the clock. Everything we do is dictated by the time – of the day, the week, month, year. We look in the mirror and see the physical effects of time on our …
How We Create Reality
Al Smith, Contributing Writer Waking Times Do you wonder why life is a chaotic roller coaster of both positive and negative events? Have you, like most, earnestly tried positive thinking, meditation or prayer without any tangible beneficial results? Do you stress over your quietly desperate realization that you have little control over your own life? …
From Immaculate Conception to Genetic Deception
Julian Rose, Contributing Writer Waking Times The Christ consciousness with which humanity is endowed, and which took physical form in Jesus Christ some 2,000 years ago, is a revolutionary gift. It has the power to transform, to heal and to penetrate the darkness with light. However, it is a gift which still remains largely sealed …
Quantum Reality: The Limitless Potential Within Everything
John Assaraf Waking Times Nobel Prize winning physicists have proven beyond doubt that the physical world is one large sea of energy that flashes into and out of being in milliseconds, over and over again. Nothing is solid. This is the world of Quantum Physics. They have proven that thoughts are what put together and …
The Role of the Catalyst
Chris Bourne, Contributing Writer Waking Times Inspiring change Some souls have incarnated here to hold an energetic harmony which provides empathic support for evolving people. Others however have come with the specific ‘mission’ to break down illusions and inspire change by the very energy they hold. Such people may be called ‘catalysts’. They’ll frequently find …