Osho Health is not only a physical phenomenon. That is only one of its dimensions, and one of the most superficial dimensions because basically the body is going to die — healthy or unhealthy, it is momentary. Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no …
Cosmic Convergence, Contributing Writer Waking Times Perhaps the greatest unknown fact about life on Planet Earth concerns the MEDIA, and in particular, the Mainstream Media (MSM). The etymology of Media takes us back to the time of the ancient Persian Empire to a people known as the Medes. According to Herodotus, there were six primary Mede …
Sayer Ji Waking Times According to the FDA’s legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease.” The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless millennia of human experience to mitigate, …
Cynthia Boaz, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times One of the consequences of the Occupy movement’s emergence onto the scene over the last nine months is the escalating disagreement about the role of various strands of nonviolence and nonviolent action in the struggle. In the process, misconceptions about nonviolent strategy are being unfortunately perpetuated by earnest …
Tania Melkonian Waking Times When Vancouver couple Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon began their experiment – to eat only foods grown and produced within 100 miles of their home – they reported dubiety. This doubt was reflected in the first chapter of their book, The 100 Mile Diet (now among the locavore’s principal reference manuals) when Smith …
Marcia Malory Prevent Disease A recent study in the journal Appetite suggests that an animal’s perceived intelligence is the main factor in determining whether or not we will be disgusted by the thought of eating it. Remember when cans of tuna used to say they were dolphin friendly? Some wise guy would always say, “They’re not friendly to tuna, …
Z, Contributing Writer Waking Times “If the world is saved it will be saved because the people living in it have a new vision.” –Daniel Quinn “You never change things by fighting the existing model. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” –Buckminster Fuller Holistic-Moderation (or Middle-way Tactic): Everybody …
Buck Rogers, Staff Writer Waking Times When NASA scientist Tom Campbell talks about his big TOE, he is really describing his fascinating theories that unify modern science and human consciousness. In this must see talk, his effort to create a unified theory of Quantum Physics and the nature of reality is an inspiring and refreshing …
Zen Gardner Many people ask about this or something similar so here’s some thoughts on the subject. I don’t mean to tell anyone what to do, as that’s completely contrary to consciousness and conscious development, but I will share my understandings at this point and my passion for Truth and you can do what you …
Tania Melkonian Waking Times When Vancouver couple Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon began their experiment – to eat only foods grown and produced within 100 miles of their home – they reported dubiety. This doubt was reflected in the first chapter of their book, The 100 Mile Diet (now among the locavore’s principal reference manuals) when Smith …
Anthony Gucciardi Waking Times While expensive cancer drugs linked to premature death and mega-tumors are pushed by many mainstream doctors as the only option outside of chemotherapy, a growing number of informed individuals are consistently opting to instead utilize natural methods that are known to conquer cancer cells and effectively negate the disease — without harsh side …
Prevent Disease New to meditation and already thinking about quitting? You may have simply chosen the wrong method. A new study published online July 7 in Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing highlights the importance of ensuring that new meditators select methods with which they are most comfortable, rather than those that are most popular. If …
Sharon Brown, Sacred Fire Contributor Waking Times Can we prepare ourselves so that the transformation of 2012 is a time of celebration instead of lamentation? An interview with OmeAkaEhekatl (Erick Gonzalez) Erick Gonzalez was born in Guatemala in 1959. At two, paralyzed by polio, he was taken to traditional Mayan healers by his grandmother. He recovered and, as …
Cosmic Convergence, Contributor Waking Times 9/11 ~ 2011 Earthquake & Hurricane Duo ~ 2012 Derecho over DC For anyone who fails to see that a Higher Power is speaking to the USA, perhaps now is the time to take a close look at some “OMENs in America” which have occurred since the beginning of the …
Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog Waking Times The rush to drill for unconventional gas, enabled by a process popularly known as “fracking,” or hydraulic fracturing, has brought with it much collateral damage. Close observers know about contaminated water, earthquakes, and climate change impacts of the shale gas boom, but few look at the entire life cycle of fracking from cradle to grave. Until recently, one …
Cathy L, ZenGardner Waking Times The “Feel Good” Ordinance? You Bet It Is! Food Freedom, Free Choice, Private Contract, Food Sovereignty, Local Foods – call it what you will but something big is growing in Maine! In 2011 five Maine towns passed the Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance and two more passed Local Food …
What is the difference between suffering and love? FTF Films brings us an important and beautiful production featuring the timeless wisdom of J. Krishnamurti.
Buck Rogers, Staff Writer Waking Times For many people plagued with chronic illness, access to medicinal Cannabis means the difference between suffering through the day or simply getting through the day. For relieving pain, increasing appetite, assisting with sleep and calming the mind, Cannabis is undoubtedly a very powerful natural medicine that is helping people …
Prevent Disease The Brazilian government has introduced legislation to protect and improve its traditional food system, standing in contrast to the governments of many industrialized countries that have partly surrendered their prime duty to protect public health to transnational food companies, argue nutrition and public health experts writing in this week’s PLoS Medicine. Carlos Monteiro and …
Patrick Gallagher Waking Times Government funded research halts the war on cannabis…for now. The war on drugs will continue to rage onward despite an overwhelming number of people voting for cannabis legalization, or for the drug to become decriminalized at the very least. The study in question is fully backed by the US government and published …
