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 …
Christina Sarich, Staff Waking Times As part of it’s heritage, India is fortunate to have produced one of the world’s greatest literary and spiritual works, the Bhagavad Gita. It is one of the gems of the world, an Upanishad, with spiritual teachings that can speak to the heart and soul of anyone whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu …
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. …
Sigmund Fraud, Staff Writer Waking Times Having recently celebrated their nation’s independence on July 4th, Americans were invited to recall the spirit of protest, rebellion, and revolution that marks the popular myth of the birth of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence still stands as an important example of how the tolerance …
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 …
Richard Smoley, New Dawn Waking Times Currently the fear – or hope – of the closing of the age pervades the air like a thick vapour. Sometimes this end is envisaged as an environmental calamity, sometimes as the second coming of Christ, sometimes as the return of the space brothers to claim their own. Figures …
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.
Jeffrey Scott, Guest Waking Times People. Law. Government. These three elements have been at the center of the human story since recorded history and the subject of dreamers and despots alike. How shall people live in a society? Who decides “rights” and whether they are granted or a natural birthright? Are governments created to serve …
David James Lees, Guest Waking Times Note: This is the first of a series of 3 articles. Please read Part II here, and Part III here. The ‘Ego’ is a term first used in the West by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and has now entered mainstream personal-development parlance. Many new clients say to me things like, “I …
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times Covering more than .5 square miles in the deepest waters of the Gulf of Mexico, divers have uncovered an enormous Cypress forest. It will probably be destroyed in just a few years by wood-burrowing marine life now that it has been exhumed from numerous layers of sediment, but experts believe …
Allan Danelek, New Dawn Waking Times What happens to us when we die? It’s a question everyone eventually asks themselves at some point in their life. It transcends racial, social, political, economic and gender lines, making it the one question common to all human beings whether we like it or not. Yet ever since the first …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times This time period offers perhaps the greatest lessons one could ever hope to learn… the power of truth versus the power of illusion, or otherwise said, taking personal responsibility for knowing versus submitting to the control of a deceptive outside force. Why do humans have to do this battle with deception? …
Isabelle Gravenstein, Guest Waking Times Human beings have got the most amazing capacity to fool themselves, whilst appearing to exercise great intelligence and achievements. It is none more obvious then when we call ourselves civilised. Firstly, what benchmark do we use to know that we are civilised and that that bunch of people over there is not? …
Barbara Alice Mann, Reality Sandwich Waking Times Anyone who ever had The Scarlet Letter inflicted on her in high school is well aware of the lynchpin of Puritan violence: the omnipresent eye, watching, watching, watching to censor all inner thoughts, vague transgressions, or other fleeting expressions, even before they formulate consciously. The worst part of being Hester …
Heather Callaghan, Guest Waking Times If we’re not laughing, we’re crying, right? It’s hard to find humor when depressing reports constantly assault our psyches by depicting the blatant trampling of our rights. But being a “rebel” today means different types of battles and fronts than in the days of our founding fathers – although the …
Michael Forrester, Prevent Disease Waking Times People often think that something must have a mind to be part of a moral interaction. However, the present research suggests that minds do not create morality but that morality creates minds, which fires further debate on the illusion of self. Commonsense morality in our society is more tolerant of …
Rene Descartes, Contributor Waking Times We have been told, long enough, that you cannot change Human Nature, but I say to you, Human Nature can be changed, and, what’s more, Human Nature must be changed if we are to reach our full potential. Which I, for one, am determined to reach. Please understand that your …
Azim Nobeebaccus, Guest Waking Times Do not fear that which speaks to us with unconditional love. It is that fear which restricts our true vision and truth. Respect that of which approach’s with true compassion. Expect nothing to receive the guidance our heart truly calls for. As it is our expectations which displays our ingratitude …
Richard Smoley, New Dawn Waking Times “The world,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “is the totality of facts, not of things.” So it is, but facts take many forms. The hard-edged events of ordinary reality are only one form, and not always the most important. This insight can be hard to accept in the positivist …
