Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times What is Certain? “I don’t know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They’re forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse …
Waking Times Are we all entitled to be happy? If you are not, is a pill the answer? Social anxiety disorder, depression, bi-polar disorder. It seems that these diseases now plague the American populous. The statistics behind psychiatric diseases and use of psychotropic drugs are staggering. Adult use of antidepressants almost tripled in the US …
PMH Atwater Waking Times My research has shown me that the near-death experience is not some kind of anomaly, but is, rather, part of the larger genre of transformations of consciousness. The clue most researchers miss is stress; specifically, the intensity which comes from that stress (known in shamanism as “high stress”). The entire pattern …
Anthony Gucciardi Waking Times Cheap organic foods? In the face of global economic struggle, the issue of personal finance is at the heart of the average consumer. But do you really have to shed an exorbitant amount of your money to purchase organic foods over conventional? The answer is no, and there is a surprisingly large …
Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times Other than a depressed immune system with a side serving of carcinogenic, immunotoxic, neurotoxic, and sterility agents, this year’s flu shot has nothing to offer you but the usual poisons based on previous formulations. Moreover, their effectiveness in preventing the flu is less than a placebo. Although the FDA gave …
The human body is hard-wired in such a way that we have the innate capability to experience deep spiritual events.
Rod Morin, Contributing Writer Waking Times In the first part to this essay, my point has been to plant the seed of the idea that the worldly reality we play in is not as solid (physically or conceptually) as we believe it to be and that, in fact, it is only due to our senses that we …
Becca Wolford, Contributing Writer Waking Times I read a very disturbing news article today: Prescription drug deaths now outnumber other deaths in the U.S., this includes accidental traffic deaths. Prescription medications have become the leading cause of illness, disability, and death. Have you looked at the information sheets that come with the prescriptions? There are …
Waking Times Russell Means announced in August 2011 that he had developed inoperable throat cancer and decided against mainstream medical treatments in favor of traditional American Indian remedies. He died early Monday, Oct. 22, at his ranch in in Porcupine, S.D., according Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Salomon. He was 72. (Adapted from Bio at RussellMeans.com) …
Rod Morin, Contributing Writer Waking Times Editors Note: Rod Morin’s insightful essay on the process of self mastery is being published in two parts. Visit WakingTimes.com tomorrow for part two. Superficial Mind The superficial mind is a program working within the hardware of the brain. This program is an operating system that has an architecture that …
Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times We’re living in an illusion. But it’s a very real illusion, a very noisy one. Our lives are full of busyness and external distraction like no other time in the history of mankind. It’s as if everything created has been purposefully designed to pull us into the external drama, …
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times Vegans and vegetarians have been promoting the lifestyle for decades and now research firmly supports a huge cancer prevention benefit to those who add fruits, vegetables, herbs and tea to their diets. A study by Susan Steck of the Arnold School of Public Health finds that a high intake …
Elizabeth Renter Waking Times It seems as if for every study on marijuana uses, there is another revelation that it does, in fact, have worthwhile medical applications. Another such study was recently published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, where scientists found that a cannabis extract has positive effects on the treatment of multiple sclerosis …
Pao L. Chang, Guest Writer Waking Times Words of caution: The videos at the end of this page contain visual evidence that will change how you view the reality that you live in and help free your mind. If you are happy with how the world works and like to think that everything that you …
Sayer Ji Waking Times A report from the August 17 edition of the American Association for the Advance of Science’s journal Science titled, “Negative Report on GM Crops Shakes Government’s Food Agenda,” revealed that an Indian high-profile parliamentary panel, only a week before, recommended that GM crop “field trails under any garb should be discontinued forthwith,” and …
Staff Writer Waking Times There are many unanswered questions about consciousness facing scientists and mathematicians of today, questions that have troubled great thinkers over many centuries. Does the brain produce consciousness? Or does the brain allow us to access a certain part of the universal consciousness? What happens to consciousness after death? Physicists are employing …
Marianne Wells, Guest Writer Waking Times Much of our irritations and anger arise not so much from interruptive events that happen, but the scenarios we imagine to bring about these events. The simple truth is that there will always be things that arise in our lives that are unpleasant and disruptive. Yoga teaches us that …
Dan and Sheila Gendron, Guest Writers Waking Times If we were to pinpoint the one pervasive emotion in society today, it would be fear. People all around you are fearful of almost everything. They fear the police. They fear the IRS, ATF, TSA and all the other “alphabet police”. They fear losing their job. They …
Elizabeth Renter Waking Times As if most consumers weren’t confused enough already about making the “right” food choices, the pseudo-scientific Stanford study released early last month had many of those on the fence thinking it was okay to once-again blindly trust what they found on their supermarket shelves. But, let’s lay this argument to rest …
Z, Contributing Writer Waking Times Step one: Look in the mirror. As long as you’re not a zombie, a slave, a sucker, or a sadomasochist, you’re an environmentalist. Step two: Ask yourself if you like breathing clean air. If the answer is yes, you’re an environmentalist. If the answer is no, you’re either a zombie …
