Divide, Conquer; Unite, Heal
Charles Eisenstein – The mandates and coercion policies have another, even more sinister, effect: they divide the public and pit us against each other.
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The Christmas Baby Born in a Police State: Then and Now
John W. Whitehead – The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one, yet what if Jesus had been born 2,000 years later?
Florida Man Uses Stimulus Check to Start Thriving Home Garden to Feed His Community
Elias Marat – A man from East Tampa, Florida, decided to use his funds to invest in a much more long-term project, a food garden.
Gardening More Meaningful than Voting in a Rigged Political System
Alex Pietrowski – If you’re passionate enough to care about politics, you should be gardening already.
Amazon Working With Landlords To Put Alexa In Your Apartment Before You Move In
John Vibes – Amazon has also been working hard to ensure that there is an Alexa device is every single hotel room.
The Black Panther Party For Self Defense: The Original Police The Police
Johnny Liberty – Thirty years before the beating of Rodney King and the LA Riots. Fifty years before the killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson riots.
Re-Enchanting the World
Kingsley L. Dennis – There is an enchanted world out there, and it beckons to us through a communal mystery.
Sustainable Community Revolutionizes Housing for the Homeless
Anna Hunt This innovative project that address chronic homelessness in Austin could be a model for creating affordable, sustainable communities.
Seizing Control of Our Destinies
Julian Rose, Contributor Waking Times In 1381, at a time of great repression for the British agricultural work force, an extraordinary people’s revolutionary named Wat Tyler sprang to his feet and announced, “England should be a nation of self governing communities,” to which he added, “ No lord shall exercise lordship over the people, and, …
Body, Mind and Spirit: Understanding the Links Between Health and Consciousness
Tracy Kolenchuk, Guest Waking Times Body, mind, and spirit are often presented as the “wholeness” of health. However, body, mind, and spirit are poorly defined, poorly distinguished and poorly articulated in many health (sick care) practices. Philosophers have pondered – for centuries and more – the definitions and locations of mind, and spirit. We often …
The Way of the Tao
Paul Cavel, Contributor Waking Times Taoists Have Trained In Nature throughout the Ages Human beings, with all our complexity and potential, have diversified, populated and thrived around the globe. Since the breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution, we have spent 200 years becoming specialists in manipulating our environment and making radical changes to the way in …
The Suburbs: Is America Accidentally Self-Organizing Into Labor Camps?
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Growing up in Eastern Europe, my parents and grandparents, as well as teachers and church figures, made sure that all youth visited the sites of what remains of the concentration camps of World War II. We also saw the many graphic visual accounts of these camps presented in numerous …
Who We Are In Crisis
Laura Grace Weldon, Guest Writer Waking Times Versions of Survivor are watched all over the world. Forty-five countries have pitted contestants against the odds and shows are still filmed in Denmark, Croatia, Italy, Norway, Serbia, France, India, Israel, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the U.S. These series drop people in inhospitable places with minimal resources and ask them …
Eco-Moral Tribalism as a New-World Ethic
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 …