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The Spiritual Crisis of Man – a Tribute to Dr. Paul Brunton

Linda George, Contributing Writer Waking Times Dr. Paul Brunton, in “The Spiritual Crisis of Man” – (published in 1952), wrote these words: “A million people will eagerly follow a glib leader who raises contentious clamour and leads them to ultimate destruction, when only a few people will follow an inspired spiritual leader who leads them

Top 5 Ways to Practice Non-Conformity in the Matrix

Sigmund Fraud – The new hero, is someone who combats the staleness of a decaying society by looking at the areas in our lives most in need of repair and then, deliberately, does not do what the conformist majority is doing.

Releasing Inner Attachments

Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times Are you too attached to the outcome? I believe that most, if not all of our problems in life come from being too attached – too in need of a desired outcome. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we tend to be attached to people, places, material possessions, careers or

Material vs. Cosmic Perspective

Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times Almost all of the world’s problems, let alone our personal snickers and complaints, can be boiled down to a difference in either a material or cosmic perspective of the world. Many of us do-do-do instead of be-be-be because we have been conditioned to accept the world on nihilistic, materialistic

The Wake-Up Call

Peter Russel, Spirit of Now Waking Times The ancient Chinese symbol for crisis, wei-chi, combines two elements: danger and opportunity. The danger is that if one continues to pursue approaches that are no longer working, then disaster is imminent. The opportunity is to let go of the old patterns and find new ways of being

The “Inherently Evil’ Question

Contributing Writer Waking Times I think one of the greatest things holding back regular people from standing up to their government and the corporations who own them is they believe that people are inherently evil and that is why we will never be able to change anything on a mass scale. I have heard it


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