Soren Dreier, Contributing Writer Waking Times It seems to be increasingly obvious on a daily basis that the western society is getting divided into: Those who have and those who don’t. The West is rolling time back to its feudalistic roots, and the gap between the rich and poor is widening disproportionately, something we are …
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times There are a number of grave ecological crises nagging at the status quo of modern life. Though the mainstream media prefers not to cover the enduring impact of events like Fukushima, the Deepwater Horizon or Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, the truth remains that these issues are vastly more important …
Johanne Markus, Prevent Disease Waking Times As you rise every morning, one aspect of your self reassembles: the first-person observer of reality, inhabiting a human body. As you move on throughout your day, so does your sense of having a past, a personality and motivations. Your self is complete, as both witness of the world …
Margie King, GreenMedInfo Waking Times Since the early 1980’s the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans have urged trusting Americans to eat a low-fat high-carbohydrate diet for their health and weight control. Since then, there has been an alarming increase in chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes. In addition, obesity rates have shot up to 30%, and …
Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times There are so many questions about the human diet. Does humanity really come from a hunter gatherer heritage as traditional anthropology would have us believe? Are we meant to eat animal protein? And what about the B12 question: if on the other hand we evolved to be vegan, which …
Buck Rogers, Staff Writer Waking Times “The Science of Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.” –Rupert Sheldrake The default scientific worldview of physical materialism is a paradigm that is being challenged in these paradoxical times. Technology continues to support …
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times A low fever can actually benefit a sick child, and researchers have attributed parental tendencies to over-treat by “fever phobia”–a fear that fever is harmful–which they say originated after the introduction of anti-fever drugs like Tylenol. In addressing this important concern of parents, it’s vital to understand that a …
Jason Jeffrey, New Dawn Waking Times I believe the idea of Shambhala has not yet come to full flower, but that when it does it will have enormous power to reshape civilisation. It is the sign of the future. The search for a new unifying principle that our civilisation must now undertake will, I am convinced, …
Ginger Garner, Guest Writer Waking Times A report published last month by the Institute of Medicine entitled, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, was released on January 9, 2013. CNN originally covered the Institute’s release of the report, and now the nutrition industry is chiming in, “The first obvious issue that arises from this report …
Waking Times Flowers’ methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to a new study, published today in Science Express by researchers from the University of Bristol. However, for any advert to be successful, it has to reach, and be perceived by, its target audience. The research shows for …
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times With urban farming becoming more popular and more common, people are starting to consider their front and back yards as a potential space for growing healthy, organic produce. Yet, front yards may actually be off limits if you’re thinking of starting a food garden. Various city ordinances and, in some …
Heidi Stevenson, Green Med Info Waking Times The FDA has taken a freely-available herbal product, sap of the dragon’s blood tree, defined it as the drug Fulyzac, & handed it to Big Pharma. Nature’s gift is being polluted. What you get after Big Pharma and & the FDA get their hands on it has lost …
Will Potter, Guest Writer Waking Times States are adopting laws meant to keep consumers in the dark about where their food comes from. Do you have a right to know where that steak on your plate came from? Should it be legal to photograph chicken farms and dairy cows? Big Agriculture says you don’t and …
Sigmund Fraud, Staff Writer Waking Times “Attention is the universal currency in the quantum economy; we really do get what we pay for.” –Craig Pinegar The term New World Order (NWO) is ubiquitous in our society nowadays, and is repeated by world leaders, pop-stars, graffiti artists, and scholars. What does it mean? Something different to each of …
Belsebuub, Guest Writer Waking Times Lots of people search for something spiritual in one way or another, but the term “spiritual” is broad and encompasses a wide range of activities, and can sometimes be elusive. Spirituality often remains as an interest or a belief, but to reach further means practicing spiritual exercises seriously. If you …
Kris Gunnars, Guest Writer Waking Times There is a lot of misinformation circling around in mainstream nutrition. I have listed the worst examples in this article, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg. Here are the top 11 biggest lies, myths and misconceptions of mainstream nutrition. 1. Eggs Are Unhealthy There’s one …
Tara Gould, Wake Up World Waking Times Not everyone likes gold, some find it trashy and over stated, while others simply can’t get enough of the stuff. Gold is a massive billion dollar industry, and millions of people globally are dependent on small-scale gold mining to survive. But the majority work in harsh conditions with no …
Our culture and industry have created a world where it is illegal to build and live in tiny homes. Is consumerism being forced on us?
Z, Contributing Writer Waking Times “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” –Abraham Lincoln “Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, …
Konstantin Eriksen, Guest Writer Waking Times Today I’d like to talk about a subject that I’ve been thinking about for many years and to share my current thinking on the topic: What is freedom? The reality is that no matter how much I thought about the meaning of freedom and how much I read about it, …
