Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times In a recent post on multinaturalism on integrallife.com an Oregon bumper sticker was summoned as a representation of the factitious pluralism of modern society where tree, flower and the grand outdoors are concerned. It stated simply, “Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living.” In my estimation, there is no better …
Anthony Gucciardi Waking Times McDonald’s restaurants are the very epitome of poor health, with their McNuggets most notably containing chemicals used in breast implants and silly putty, so why have the Olympic games officials adopted the restaurant chain as their official restaurant of the Olympics? Considering the Olympic games represent some of the most conditioned athletes …
Ramiel Nagel Waking Times Children’s cavities are on the rise, and children today who have cavities are requiring more expensive and extensive dental surgery to hide the problems of dental decay. “The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported there was an increase five years ago in the number of preschool children with cavities, for …
Marco Torres Waking Times Although fluoride has been proven to cause neurotoxicity in animal models, very little published research has elaborated on acute fluoride poisoning and neurotoxicity in adults and children. A report in a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of …
Jonathan Merritt, Sacred Fire Contributor Waking Times Why you can never find a Sufi, the power of the Dances of Universal Peace and the true meaning of jihad An interview with Shaykha Tasnim by Jonathan Merritt If you drive through the streets of a city or look in the phone book, you never see or find …
Arun Goel Waking Times Meditation can be described as a continued, unbroken awareness of the mind in its raw state. It involves the overcoming of distractions and dissipated energies into a blissful awareness. Let us look at it this way – at any point of time we are consumed with countless thoughts and emotional baggage …
The Health Coach, Contributing Writer Waking Times Metabolic Syndrome represents all that ails Western Civilization. There is no other disease process which reflects the weaknesses of our lifestyle so poignantly. Because Metabolic Syndrome is so pervasive, it behooves each of us to take a close look at our eating habits, workstyle, exercise routines, sleep patterns and much more. …
Chris Bourne, Contributing Writer Waking Times Recently power outages in India have stranded 670 million people as the grid collapsed. Similar has happened in the USA which is also struggling with record high temperatures and droughts which have decimated corn crops. In Pakistan prolonged and widespread power outages in most of its cities during scorching …
Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times Editor’s Note: After reading this, please visit the follow up to this article here. If a system does not interact with its environment in any way. . . it does not exist in nature. I will start this article with the definition of an isolated system: implies a system that …
Sayer Ji Waking Times Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the developed world, and yet we are still in the dark ages when it comes to treating and understanding it. The colossal failure of conventional cancer treatments reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what cancer – the “enemy” – actually is. For one, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are both intrinsicallycarcinogenic treatments. …
Drew Waking Times In random random order. 1) Albert Einstein – Albert Einstein is a name that comes to mind first when thinking of geniuses. Einstein’s brain was found to be deficient in certain parts, but extraordinarily powerful in others. Another trait of Albert’s brain was the fact that he had a much larger corpus callosum …
Elizabeth Renter Waking Times Trees and nature don’t only provide us with oxygen to breathe, they provide us with peace. According to a review of studies, the number of trees in your neighborhood, along with your proximity to a park, plays a significant role in your mental and physical wellbeing. So it may be time …
Michael Love, Contributing Writer Waking Times You are 5000 times stronger than the Corporations and Bankers. When Are You Going To Use Your Power? Perhaps you are aware of plans for total fascist control over the world. If not, it is easy to catch up. This film covers those nasty things but makes clear humanity has the power …
Colette Barry, Contributing Writer Waking Times If you are of the opinion that yoga is about poses alone, think again! Yoga is about connecting with your inner self; it’s about exploration of endless possibilities that exist within us and experiencing them. It is more about living active, inspired, and healthy while connecting with those around …
Michael Auryn Waking Times Tai Chi was developed nearly one thousand years ago as a way to enhance the flow of vital energy in the body, with the health benefits of tai chi being one of the main reasons people still practice the technique today. In its earliest days, it was a secret teaching, passed …
Lisa Garber Waking Times An Ecuadorian court recently demanded Chevron to pay $19 billion in environmental damages. This includes $900 million for the Amazon Defense Front—a coalition of plaintiffs in this decade-long legal battle—and an additional $8.6 billion because Chevron refused to apologize. Ouch! The Amazon’s Chernobyl Instead of paying up, Chevron is putting up …
Anne Gordon, RN Waking Times Nanotechnology is measured in billionths of a meter, encompassing all aspects of life from food to medicine, clothing, to space. Imagine hundreds of microcomputers on the width of a strand of hair programmed for specific tasks….in your body. Sound good? Engineering at a molecular level may be a future corporations’ …
Prevent Disease Waking Times Identifying the areas of the brain that help us to perceive our world in a self-reflective manner is difficult to measure. During wakefulness, we are always conscious of ourselves. In sleep, however, we are not. But there are people, known as lucid dreamers, who can become aware of dreaming during sleep. …
Peter Rugh, Contributor Waking Times The war came home this weekend, as thousands of people whose land has been under siege by the U.S. government and corporate interests gathered in Washington, D.C. No, they weren’t victims of drone attacks or 10-plus years of fighting in Afghanistan. They were ordinary Americans, whose neighborhoods, townships and states …
Mike Barrett Waking Times Research highlighting turmeric’s powerful health-boosting properties just seems to never cease, with some recent research showing yet again that the super spice can help to prevent diabetes risk thanks to the spice’s active compound curcumin. What’s more, the compound helps to prevent diabetes among those with prediabetes – indicated that extremely …
