Rene’ Descartes, Contributor Waking Times Universal Consciousness is attained when a person has a lasting experience in which they see through their illusion of separateness, and lose their separate self consciousness. Their consciousness then ‘merges’ with the Universe – thus they experience being One with the Universe. This is often the result of going through …
James C. Wilhelm, Contributor Waking Times In the course of facilitating classes and workshops for thousands of people throughout Asia, Europe and the United States, I have been asked one question more than any other: How does the oneness of creation – the singular nature of being – directly impact my life? This is my response …
Colin Bondi, Contributor Waking Times Freedom is a powerful word for most of us. Here in America people are always talking about freedom, living in a free country, defending freedom and maintaining our freedom. Some like to say – freedom isn’t free. In the course of daily life, most people like to think of themselves …
Linda George, Contributor Waking Times “Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?” – Marcus Aurelius If you look back on the life you have lived until now, you will see that everything you have experienced, every choice, every turn, every chance encounter and …
Linda George, Contributing Writer Waking Times “I have known good and evil, Sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized That I am in everything And everything is in me.” (Hazrat Inayat …
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 …
Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times The path of a yogi includes the practice of Santosha, a Niyama, or observation outlined in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. It is one of the fastest ways to raise your thought-vibration to a higher level. Instead of focusing on what is lacking in your life, or a perceived absence of …
Keen Awareness For the sake of our own collective survival let us all give our full attention to the following questions: Is it possible to thrive in this survivalist society, where one most become ambitions and competitive, where one is trying to out do the next person all to secure what they fear they cannot do without? Or can …
This article is a follow-up to Irrefutable Evidence That We Are All One Christina Sarich, Contributing Writer Waking Times We Didn’t Come From the Big Bang, We Came From the Big Blend In an effort to be inclusive rather than exclusive and to “relate harmoniously with each person as a conscious individual,” (Mothman777) I offer first …
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 …
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 …
