The Forbidden Secrets of the Church
Pao L. Chang – Religion is one of the most powerful tools to use for enslaving our minds and souls, because it manipulates us to think that we are weak and powerless, and need to rely on a savior to save us.
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The Religion With No Name
Brian C. Muraresku – Before the rise of Churchianity, in the long-forgotten cradle of Western Civilization, our ancestors were also drawn to a spiritually independent lifestyle – free from any doctrine or dogma.
The First Day and the Last Day
Zakaria Bziker – How Long is History According to Islam?
20 of the World’s Weirdest Religious Beliefs
Valerie Tarico – If we could see our own culture from an outside vantage point, as if we were travelers, the world might look a little different.
New World Order Spirituality: Blueprint for a Global Religious Authority
Matthew Butler – Lately there have been signs of a top-down push for the globalisation of religion as well, with calls for global political authority over the world’s spirituality.
9 Things You Think You Know About Jesus That Are Probably Wrong
Valerie Tarico – We have no record of anything that was written about Jesus by eyewitnesses or other contemporaries during the time he would have lived, or for decades thereafter.
12 Worst Ideas Religion Has Unleashed on the World
Valerie Tarico – In a world that is teeming with humanity, armed with pipe bombs and machine guns and nuclear weapons and drones, we don’t need defenders of religion’s status quo…
All The World’s A Cult
Zen Gardner – Religions don’t have a corner on the market. Perhaps all of us have been cult-ivated in some way.
You Are God: The True Teachings of Jesus
Brandon West – “Truly great spiritual teachers never practiced religion, they practiced love, and sought universal truth…”
7 Types of Non-Believers Who Don’t Need Religion
Valerie Tarico, AlterNet Waking Times Religious labels help shore up identity. So what are some of the things non-believers can call themselves? Catholic, born-again, Reformed, Jew, Muslim, Shiite, Sunni, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist…religions give people labels. The downside can be tribalism, an assumption that insiders are better than outsiders, that they merit more compassion, integrity and …
Is Religion Inherently Authoritarian?
Adam Lee, AlterNet Waking Times Compared to secular reasoning, the religious establishment has been slow to act when it comes to moral progress. Human history is a story of gradual moral enlightenment. Over the ages, we’ve become less violent, less xenophobic, more tolerant, more committed to the ideals of democracy and equality under the law. …
Satkona – Star of David or Star of Goloka?
Swami B.G. Narasingha, Sri Narasingha Caitanya Ashram Waking Times The Star of David [in Hebrew, the Magen David or Shield of David] is renowned as the sacred symbol of the Jewish faith. Indeed, the Star of David is the distinguishing feature on the Israeli flag and as an ornament of jewelry the Star of David …
The Seven Pillars of the Matrix
Robert Bonomo, Contributor Waking Times “No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Contemporary baptized, corporatized and sanitized man rarely has the occasion to question his identity, and when he does a typical response might be, “I am product manager for a large …
Is There An Organ In Your Brain Which Seats Your Soul? This May Be The Answer
Jeff Roberts, Collective-Evolution Waking Times “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light…” Matthew 6:22-23 A Gateway To Between The Physical And Metaphysical? Situated at the anatomical center of our brain lies a mysterious gland that may be the intermediary gate …
Why Is The Pope’s Mitre Shaped Like A Fish?
Gregg Prescott, In5D Guest Waking Times Did you ever wonder why the Pope’s mitre looks like the head of a fish? What are the origins of this ceremonial hat and what does it truly represent? What is the origin of the Pope’s hat? Dagon, the fish-god of the Philistines and Babylonians, wore a fish hat …
Psychopaths in Charge – Maybe They’re Not Human
Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Dear Humans, Today I would like to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that condones violence under certain circumstances. To this end, we find ourselves going along with the most egregious of things, not least of which is war. Here we find not only a consensus …
The Fool Card
Jennifer Reynolds, Contributor Waking Times The number is zero, a symbol for infinity, without beginning or end (alpha and omega). Significantly here, its symbol represents the concept of things being cyclic. Although normally interpreted as void and nothingness, a circle is pregnant with potential. At some point the 22 major cards of tarot came to …
The Psychedelic Secrets of Santa Claus
Dana Larsen, Cannabis Culture Waking Times Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, many of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe. The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white amanita muscaria mushroom, …
Evolution, Frequency and Vibration in the Bible
Marc Oromaner, Contributor Waking Times Ever since Darwin published his infamous On the Origin of the Species in 1859, science and theology have been at war over the theory of evolution. The irony is that evolution and all its aspects—natural selection, survival of the fittest, genetic mutations—all appear in the Bible as clear as day. In fact, even …
Becoming Enlightened – Entering the Kingdom of Heaven
James Need, Contributor Waking Times The ego, your personality, your sense of self surrenders… You become totally at one with the present moment… You start to feel as though you are at one with the breath… You become the breath… You can feel the sensation of the breath flowing in and out with every cell …