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Can The Slow Food Movement Cure The Fast Food Nation?

Tania Melkonian Waking Times Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair… I was young, exceedingly light on Euros and on my first trip to Italy.   Despite my financial challenges, I had friends in high places.  When you’re traveling  ‘low end’ that  means  friends who are locals.   In that regard,  I was abundant.  As the boat …

“The World As I See It” by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, 1931 Waking Times  Einstein at his home in Princeton, New Jersey “How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists …

All Spiritual Traditions Arise From the Land

Jonathan Merritt, Sacred Fire Contributor Waking Times For weeks, this line plagues me. Final­ly, I go outside on an unseasonably warm February day. I sit beside a small fire and I ask the land, “What does this mean?” I hear the birds—crows, robins, wrens, chickadees, sparrows, Stellar’s jays—each singing in its own language. I hear …

Redefining Relationships

Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times The consciousness shift is causing untold pressure.  Our consciousness shift is hotting up. People are unwinding, unfolding and breaking free from eons of constraint. It’s a truly wonderful movement to behold. I feel blessed to be here during these times of profound change. But it’s a double edged sword …

Is GMO Farming Poisoning The World’s Drinking Water?

Sayer Ji Waking Times Monsanto’s Herbicide Linked To Groundwater Contamination In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry last year, evidence surfaced that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto’s patented herbicide Roundup, is flowing freely into the groundwater in areas where it is being applied.1 The researchers found that 41% of the 140 groundwater …

Energy Workshop: Part 1 – Foundation and the Chakras

Adam Lanka, Contributing Writer Waking Times As the world’s awakening accelerates toward critical mass, many people are experiencing a new elevation of awareness and energy. While many have been travelling down this road for some time, many more are just now being initiated into these mysteries, realizing and relearning that an inner quest has guided …

Pharmaceutical Drug Interactions: Creating A National Mental Health Crisis

The Health Coach, Contributing Writer Waking Times Pharmaceutical drug interactions have not been studied closely by the Medical-Pharmaceutical Complex for two reasons. First, there are simply so many pharmaceutical medications on the market that the cost to do so would be prohibitive. Prohibitive to their profit-taking, certainly not prohibitive relative to the enormous revenues that …

Are Stars Celestial Water Springs?

Zen Gardner We already know we can trust about a modicum of mainstream science. And still with a wary eye. While many discoveries are seemingly bonafide, the context in which they’re presented is always suspect. And that’s what it’s all about. Context. Framework. That is why a discovery like this can be so liberating to …

How Turmeric and Curcumin are Excellent at Preventing Chronic Disease

Lisa Garber Waking Times Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer—that’s quite a lot to expect of a humble root of the ginger family. Like ginger, turmeric and curcumin (the powdered and supplement form, respectively, of the Curcuma longa plant) play center stage in millenia-old Asian medicine and cuisine. It wasn’t until 1949, however, that the West studied its …

Hemp – The Answer To The Global Food Crisis?

Becca Wolford, Contributing Writer Waking Times  There are indications (and there have been for a while) that we are entering a stage where food will be in short supply in some regions of our world, and in other areas it will be in abundance, but just too expensive to buy. Right now our grocery stores …

MSG Hidden in Variety of Foods and Contributing To Illness

Grocery Geek Waking Times  Despite common perception, the toxic food additive MSG is everywhere – not just in Chinese food! This taste enhancer is actually hidden under dozens of ingredient names in all sorts of processed foods, restaurant foods, beverages, chewing gums, vitamins and supplements. It is added to foods in higher dosages than ever before, and more and more people are experiencing …

Can Science Harness The Force of Life? The Suppressed Works of Dr. Wilhelm Reich

Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times Dr. Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) In the 1940’s the scientific works of Dr. Wilhelm Reich were presented to a world, marveled upon and then radically suppressed by industry and democratic government.  A psychologist, scientist, mystic and refugee from Nazi persecution, Dr. Reich discovered ‘Orgone Energy’, …

Pineal Gland – Our Third Eye: The Biggest Cover-Up in Human History

Mystic Banana Waking Times The pineal gland (also called the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or the “third eye”) is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. It produces the serotonin derivative melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and seasonal functions. Its shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its …

Medication or Meditation?

Ed and Deb Shapiro Waking Times “For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” — Lily Tomlin, actress and comedienne We tend to take our bodies very much for granted, and our health even more so. As a result, when something goes wrong, it can be alarming, even frightening, as if we had been walking around inside a …

Foods that Contain the Highest Amount of Pesticides

Jordan & Kyla Miller Waking Times Much of the produce that is sold today in supermarkets is supplied from farmers who practice conventional farming methods. In other words, the produce has been grown using chemical fertilizers as well as pesticides and herbicides. Many scientific studies suggest that the effects of synthetic pesticides can be detrimental to our …

How Meditation Can Change the Brain

Waking Times Scientists say that meditators may be benefiting from changes in their brains. The researchers report that those who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray-matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. The findings will appear in the Jan. …

Lunar Nano Soil – More Evidence of Alien Engineering?

Zen Gardner This should add some more fuel to the artificial moon argument. Could this curious find be more proof our moon is not natural, but manufactured? Let this broaden your horizons. Any way you look it, this has some remarkable information about our amazing Universe that’s unfolding before us. Nanoparticles found in moon glass …

The Generous You: Do You Belong to Generation G?

Giving is All We Have Waking Times The Generation of Generousity. They’re taking up one of what I consider to be the coolest challenge in the world: raising the vibration of our planet to a next level of consciousness. Do you belong to generation G?  Raising vibratory levels? What? We all know by know that …

Prevent Sunburn Naturally by Consuming these Foods

Elizabeth Renter Waking Times Many of us welcome the summer with sun overexposure or a wicked sunburn. The sun is a beautiful thing, responsible for giving us Vitamin D and generally improving our moods. But for many of us, too much of this good thing can be bad. Sunburns aren’t only painful, they can lead …


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