Native American Day: Learning The Way of Earth
Neenah Payne – We have not been taught to consider how we are related to all of creation and dependent on everything.
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Unveils Bill to Open Indigenous Lands to Mining, Oil and Gas Exploration
Jan Rocha – Bolsonaro called his project a “dream” but it has already met with withering criticism from indigenous organizations who see it as a nightmare.
Suspicion Grows As Experts Suggest That Amazon Fires Were Intentional
John Vibes – Many are beginning to ask questions about who is responsible for such massive fires in the Amazon.
Ayahuasca and Animism – A Cure for Modern Materialism?
Patrick Smith – Our lack of connection to the natural world is killing us. So what can we do in the shadow of this immense and faceless evil?
Wake Up and Change the Dream of Reality – An Urgent Message from The Heart of the World
Patrick James Hennessey – Throughout this world hearts are awakening and deprogramed minds are listening.
Oil Company Pulls Out of Amazonian Land Inhabited by Uncontacted Tribes
Vic Bishop – A small victory in the fight against corporate genocide and ecocide.
Small Victory in Indonesia as Rainforests Returned to Indigenous Control
Vic Bishop – To save the forests, they must be returned to those who will care for them.
Ecuador’s Standing Rock is Happening Now – Can the World Save the Shuar?
Dylan Charles – Beyond Standing Rock, the world is in desperate need of environmental justice.
8 Secrets to Living Beyond 100 from the World’s Healthiest People
Christina Sarich – In a lost kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains, live a people with incredible secrets for longevity.
Celebrating Genocide – The Real Story of Thanksgiving
Irwin Ozborne – Thanksgiving: Celebrating all that we have, and the genocide it took to get it.
Mining the Heart of the Mother of God: Peru’s Gold Rush Claims More Forest
Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa – In the Peruvian Amazon, a global craving for gold has changed life for local communities.
Black Holes and the Journey of the Soul
Bibhu Dev Misra – Legends and ancient myths talk of a “Spirit Trail” or a “Road of Souls” in our galaxy, along which the souls of dead people travel to a mystical underworld.
The Global Drug War: Ten Critical Developments in 2014
Nick Alexandrov – As criticism of the world’s war on drugs grew louder, legalization and prevention made some strides—even as violence, poverty and other social ills afflicted countries from Mexico to Greece to Ukraine to China.
Balu Wala, or the Kuna ‘Good Life’: How One Indigenous Tribe is Passing on its Traditions
Ruxandra Guidi, Mongabay Waking Times Balancing the old world and the new, the Kuna people keep their heritage intact Jesús Smith is sitting at his old wooden desk facing the entrance to his house. He’s hunched over, shirtless, and wearing his chunky reading glasses while writing copious notes by hand — a favorite pastime. When …
The Hidden World of Faerie
Elva Thompson, Guest Waking Times “Come fairies! Take me out of this dull world,? For I would ride with you? Upon the wind and dance ? Upon the mountains like a flame.” – W.B. Yeats Time is speeding up, the sand in the hourglass of our lives is flowing, and our everyday existence is a challenge, …
Death and Dying from a Shamanic Perspective
Jan Engels-Smith, Guest Waking Times “Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.” -Michael Vance In shamanism, the belief that there is no death is a concept grounded in the belief of the soul existing in a never-ending process of regeneration. Our soul remembers our ancient past, engages with …
Native American Code of Ethics
Waking Times Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak. ~ Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance. ~ Search for yourself, by yourself. …
Recreating Our World With the Spirit of Life
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 …
The Visionary World Of Ayahuasca – Plant Spirit Shamanism In The Amazon
Howard G. Charing, Guest Writer Waking Times Ayahuasca – Plant Spirit Medicine of the Amazon “We are not talking about passive agents of transformation, we are talking about an intelligence, a consciousness, an alive and other mind, a spirit, which of course we have no place in our society. Nature is alive and is talking …
Brazil Court Orders Halt to Work on the Belo Monte Dam
Rodrigo Bravo, Staff Writer Waking Times The huge Belo Monte dam project along the Xingu River in Brazil’s Amazon has been fiercely resisted by indigenous populations and those who understand the significance of further industrializing the Amazon. In the fight against this massive project (the dam would be the world’s 3rd larges), it has seemed …