Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times A sage is someone who can put into words the aspects of our mysterious nature that most of us can only feel. At times in my life I have been overwhelmed by the world and confused about the purpose of it all. I spent much time in anguish, behaving in …
Chris Bourne, Contributing Writer Waking Times The Power of Non-efforting What if we don’t need to effort and struggle in life at all? What if just by letting go we could summon the whole power of the universe right through our beingness? And what if we could do that simply by confronting and then abandoning …
Waking Times A Brief Overview Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is …
Gregg Prescott, M.S., In5d Waking Times Did you ever say the exact same thing as someone else at the same exact time? Did you ever get a bad vibe from someone for no particular reason at all? If all thoughts are energy, then how powerful is the human mind and what are we truly capable of accomplishing? …
Waking Times – Should animals be off the plate?
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 …
Trinity Bourne, Contributor Waking Times Walking an authentic path in life Walking an authentic path in life can often be confusing. We might at times find ourselves torn whilst swirling in the torrent of life’s choices. How do we navigate the path and unleash our true beingness? The following story, originally by Chuang Tzu, offers …
Lawrence Messerman, Sacred Fire Contributor Waking Times The “End of the World” is certain—whether by cataclysm or common cause. Why build a bunker? Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds –J. Robert Oppenheimer (Quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion.) I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather… Not screaming …
Mukasa Afrika Ma’at Waking Times If you care about young people, if you know a young person who might have some challenges struggling through their teens years, if you are a parent having difficulty connecting with your child, if you are a teacher with students from the inner-city, if you are a young person angry …
Purpose Fairy “Greatness arises not from what you do externally, but from what you dare internally.” You hear people all the time saying that they want to change the world, that they want to have a big impact in the world and of course, I think it’s amazing and all of us should think this …
Prevent Disease There are some things in life not worth keeping. Letting go of negative qualities which dominate your ego will only lead to a greater sense of self and happiness. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering — and instead of letting them …
Chris Bourne, Contributing Writer Waking Times It’s all because of the economy. For quite some time now the powers-that-be in the USA have been angling for an expansion of their invasionist tactics in the Middle East. Some say it’s about securing dwindling oil reserves, but it actually goes much deeper than that. It’s all about …
Z, Contributing Writer Waking Times There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. –Machiavelli History will have to record that the greatest tragedy in this period of social transition was …
Ken Butigan, Contributor Waking Times “I was in Iraq in ’03, and what I saw there crushed me,” former U.S. Army sergeant Ash Woolson told thousands of people last Sunday afternoon from a makeshift stage at the edge of the security perimeter around Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center, where the NATO summit was being held. …
Unknown Waking Times “The train clanked and rattled through the suburbs of Tokyo on a drowsy spring afternoon. Our car was comparatively empty – a few housewives with their kids in tow, some old folks going shopping. I gazed absently at the drab houses and dusty hedgerows. At one station the doors opened, and suddenly …
Zen Gardner What’s with this world? It doesn’t matter what new technology surfaces, “How can we weaponize it?” It’s insane to the max. Whether it’s viruses and bacteria, flying things, vaccines, food, sound and electromagnetic technology, anything with a camera, x-rays and radiation, forays into space, psychological advances, mosquitoes, vehicles of any sort including unmanned …
J.G. Vibes Waking Times Throughout the course of history people have fought against tyranny and authority of various forms only to be thrown back into subjugation when someone else came along to claim what we call “power”. There have been countless battles to overthrow these established powers, but none of them resulting in freedom for …
While mental health experts warn about depression as a global epidemic, other researchers are discovering ways we trigger our natural production of happy chemicals that keep depression at bay, with surprising results. All you need to do is get your fingers dirty and harvest your own food.
It’s easy to see how someone might think that sitting in meditation would be a terribly boring thing to do, just sitting there doing nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Trying to think of not thinking. Of course, that particular thought (like a lot of them) couldn’t be further from the truth.
In our current culture, parents are praised when their children are obedient – it’s a mark of good parenting. The quieter and the more obedient the child, the better. In truth, parents are doing a disservice to their children and to society when they demand that their children do exactly as they are told, no questions asked. In other words, expecting children to dutifully comply with their parents commands, right away, is not such a great idea in the long run.
