Culture

Are Corporations Masquerading as Government in Australia & World Wide?

November 30, 2012

Andy Whiteley, Wake Up World Waking Times Would you be surprised to find a company with the same name as your country registered with theSecurity and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington DC? Well, guess what?! Among those listed as corporate entities by the United States SEC are: Israel, Turkey, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Finland,Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, The Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Jamaica, South Africa, Canada,Australia… and my personal favourite (and I …

Finding Purpose in Life

November 28, 2012

Mike Molyneaux, Contributing Writer Waking Times Many anarchists today advocate the rejection of authority, rules, hierarchy and social order. But more than ever before the world needs wise and encouraging mentors, exceptional, spiritually enlightened, well-informed leaders who will inspire us to cooperate and reach intellectual, emotional and spiritual maturity. We are social beings and we need social relationships, hierarchy and …

Transcending Our Brain Created Reality: A New Call to Lift Nature’s Veil

November 28, 2012

Bernardo Kastrup, Ph.D., New Dawn Waking Times The study of non-ordinary states of consciousness is quickly becoming an established area of scientific and philosophical inquiry. Yet, all the enthusiasm about finding out what these non-ordinary states are somehow obfuscates much bigger, important, and urgent questions: What as-of-yet unknown aspects of reality do they give us access to? …

Endtime Madness: A Condition To Be ‘Reckoned’ With

November 27, 2012

The Health Coach, Conributing Writer Waking Times Who among us does not know someone who has gone over the edge these days? How many in our own families have gone very close to the edge? Certainly there are co-workers, neighbors or friends who flirt with this emerging condition of the mind, as much as it is …

Value the Means, Not Just the End

November 24, 2012

Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D., Guest Writer Waking Times If you’re like most of us, you’re driven to accomplish certain goals—goals personally meaningful and valuable to you. It doesn’t much matter whether the end of your pursuits is completing a manuscript or a marathon. And your “payoff,” your “high,” revolves around your final achievement. It’s unlikely that …

Shamanism and Spirituality

November 23, 2012

Konstantin Eriksen, Guest Writer Waking Times Man is a spiritual creature, always searching for meaning. But for many people in the so-called “western world,” there is a feeling of disenchantment with the world as it is: Wake up, do your job, get a mortgage, buy a house, pay your taxes and eagerly await the weekend. Perhaps you’re …

Spiritual Archetypes – A Doorway to Your Soul

November 22, 2012

Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times  When we step onto the internal super highway of spiritual evolution, we begin to unravel the differences between personality influenced desires and authentic inner yearnings of the soul. Every moment presents an opportunity to shed behaviours which no longer serve and instead allow divine beingness to shine forth. This continual …

Opting Out and Paying the Price of Being Awake

November 21, 2012

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times At the very core of a revolution lies the radical transformation of the individual, which is ear-marked by the dissolution of fear of the consequences for speaking and acting in accordance with good conscience. More people are starting to awaken to the realities of our world – the good: …

Tips for an Organic, Least-Toxic Thanksgiving

November 21, 2012

Beyond Pesticides Waking Times Thanksgiving offers an opportunity for family and friends to eat, drink and be thankful for the bounty of the organic harvest. Unfortunately, there are a host of pesticides, genetically engineered materials, and others in conventional Thanksgiving foods that not only impact human health, but threaten the environment. Read below for some …

Have We Stripped Our Food Of Its Story?

November 20, 2012

Sayer Ji & Tania Melkonian, GreenMedInfo Waking Times  Food has lost its story. Stripped of context, meaning, and reduced to its molecular composition, ancient recipes for health and joy long to be recovered. Recipes are ancient prescriptions for health, loved and labored into being by our ancestors.  Responding to necessity and a primordial desire to …

Reincarnation, the ‘Interlife’, Universal Consciousness & the Holographic Soul

November 16, 2012

Ian Lawton, New Dawn Waking Times Modern studies repeatedly suggest that a significant proportion of people in the Western world now believe in reincarnation. Although this phenomenon can be traced back to various esoteric movements that flourished from the second half of the 19th century, it gained significant ground with the explosion of popular interest …

Recreating Our World With the Spirit of Life

November 15, 2012

Barbara-Lynn Freed, Contributing Writer Waking Times  From the dawn of history to the advent of the Roman Catholic Church, the veil between the worlds was much thinner than it is today.  This meant that the people enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the natural spirits of the heavens, and land, making their lives interdependent with the Law …

True Prosperity: Becoming an Employee of the Universe

November 14, 2012

Colin Bondi, Contributing Writer Waking Times I love the word prosperity. Prosperity represents a fulfilling life encompassing not only material wealth but happiness and genuine fulfillment. I think of it as a state where abundance is free to flow uninhibited through all areas of one’s life. I think you could say most people long to …

In Honor of Armistice Day – Throwing Veteran’s Day Over Our Shoulders

November 11, 2012

Waking Times The following excerpt is from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Breakfast of Champions: I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which …

Taoism and Lucid Dreaming

November 9, 2012

You-Sheng Li, Guest Writer Waking Times When I was a child, my father was a family physician. Occasionally he talked about dreams with his patients or neighbouring peasants. Having overheard their chat, I joined in one day, saying, “I dreamed of walking on the street but I was aware that I was dreaming. So I was …

A Global Shamanic Perspective

November 9, 2012

Peter Clark, Guest Writer Waking Times So what is the current state of the world and how can shamanism relate to it? We are on a wild ride perhaps, with many twists and turns. On the one hand, we see our human created structures: financial, religious, political, health care, business, shaking and at times crumbling …


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