Paul Lenda, Guest Waking Times While a few hundred years ago there were a handful of luminaries shining their light on the waters of human conscious awareness, today there are thousands upon thousands. I remember 7 years ago I had to practically go on a wild goose chase to “find the others” and now I see …
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Guest Waking Times Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Chapter 9 – Are Psychic Phenomena Illusory?, of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake’s book Science Set Free. Reproduced here with permission. Please visit Sheldrake.org for more of Rupert’s inspiring work. How an open-minded scientist opened my mind Telepathy literally means “distant feeling”, from the Greek tele, distant, …
Dylan Charles – The shift is nothing short of total personal revolution, and signals the re-organization of the mind and psyche for the benefit of the individual and the collective.
Gregg Prescott, M.S., In5D Guest Waking Times Have you ever seen some energy out of the corner of your eye and when you looked, nothing was there? More and more people are talking about seeing shadow people and are wondering who they are and what their purpose is. Shadow people are commonly reported as being …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times Rumor has it that women are amazingly strong. Do we always have to be strong? When looking at alternative ways to be, it seems like strong is the only choice. But I wonder about that. Eventually we realize that strong in conscious awareness seems a lot more natural than the …
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times Dr. Ramesh Manocha, a medical doctor and researcher of the meditative sciences has recently pointed out in a skin-temperature test, that there is a physiological difference between ‘thoughtless awareness’ and just simple relaxation. While calming the mind and body are essential to reducing stress and the ailments that can …
David James Lees, Guest Waking Times Note: This is the second of a series of 3 articles. Please read Part I here, and Part III here. This is the second in a series of blog posts on my Taoist spiritual and professional interpretation of the Ego. In my last blog post I proposed that you could view your mind …
Paul Lenda, Guest Waking Times We grow up thinking and believing that the world and reality in which we exist in is something tangible and physical and is just as is perceived. However, not only does this thought-process become disillusioned with various difficult-to-explain phenomena, but perceptions becomes realized as completely subjective that do not reflect …
Jay Michaelson, Reality Sandwich Waking Times It’s a not-so-dirty little secret that most of today’s leading meditation teachers were interested in drugs. By “drugs,” of course, I don’t mean alcohol or Oxycontin, but rather that subset of chemicals which our society has deemed unfit for human consumption, including cannabis, psilocybin, MDMA, and others. Many of today’s …
Scott Thill, AlterNet Waking Times We still lack a complete understanding of the pineal gland — but that doesn’t stop us from speculating. Located in nearly the direct center of the brain, the tiny pinecone-shaped pineal gland, which habitually secretes the wondrous neurohormone melatonin while we sleep at night, was once thought to be a vestigial leftover from …
Dean Radin, New Dawn Waking Times Imagine you’re watching a basketball game. Your favourite team is wearing white and the other team is in black. In the midst of the action, someone in a dark gorilla suit calmly walks to the centre of the court, waves to the crowd, then walks off the court. Do …
Paul Lenda, Guest Waking Times Everything within this dense configuration of Reality that we call the Universe is inter-connected. Through this inter-connectedness, everything affects everything else. From the dawn of human spiritual experiences to present-day scientific discoveries, the reality of oneness and inter-connectedness has continued to permeate as a recurring aspect of existence within the vastness of what we …
Linda George, Contributor Waking Times In my last post I looked at how the ego is an aspect of our totality that defines and distinguishes us as separate individuals. The ego, in astrology, is symbolized in the Sun. We say the Sun is our ‘individuality’, our ‘essence’ – the fuel that drives us. We must …
Angela Pritchard, Guest Waking Times What is life for? So many things seem important; there are so many things to do. All of them are vying for our attention, and our interests drive our lives via the many seemingly small and insignificant choices we make each day. But what is it that is ultimately important? …
Richard Heinberg, New Dawn Waking Times [Humankind] approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. – Aldous Huxley, “Wordsworth in the Tropics” A state of thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance of knowledge. – James Clerk Maxwell Culture consists, in large measure, of commonly shared sets of assumptions and expectations about reality. …
Peter Borys, Jr., Guest Waking Times When we are communicating through language, we are participating within the limits of a specific sensory frequency range, which is then decoded by the thinking mind to determine meaning at a certain level of the conscious mind. This applies to both verbal and written frequencies. Language is limiting because it …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times The increasing restriction of this world has the effect of increasing the forces of liberation: we are awakening to a new way of being. It’s organic and evolutionary. As we prepare for the changes to come, our intent is clear: disengage, transition through, and renew life within a unified spirit …
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu On our paths we often encounter friends, lovers, even enemies that we want to offer affection or tenderness, but is it true love we really give them? Is it true compassion, acceptance of …
Michael Wiese, Guest Waking Times It was my search for a cure for Parkinson’s that led me to the Amazon and Ayahuasca. I got a whole lot more than I had bargained for! In searching the Internet I found that Banisteriopsis caapi was used in the 1920’s as a cure for Parkinson’s Disease but never …
Gregg Prescott – Society has undergone a mass brainwashing, and it is time for us to deprogram ourselves in order to be completely immersed in the evolution of consciousness.
