Matthew Butler – Lately there have been signs of a top-down push for the globalisation of religion as well, with calls for global political authority over the world’s spirituality.
Valerie Tarico – We have no record of anything that was written about Jesus by eyewitnesses or other contemporaries during the time he would have lived, or for decades thereafter.
Julian Rose – Those in pursuit of power are seldom satisfied. They always want more. In a seemingly never ending act of compulsive consumption, they seek to dominate or destroy all that stands in the way of their thirst for power.
David Gardner – The depiction of dark forces is almost omnipresent in today’s most well-known music industry acts. Why are these ominous messages promoted?
Valerie Tarico – In a world that is teeming with humanity, armed with pipe bombs and machine guns and nuclear weapons and drones, we don’t need defenders of religion’s status quo…
Zen Gardner – Religions don’t have a corner on the market. Perhaps all of us have been cult-ivated in some way.
Video – “What or who is God?” Do we need religion and religious leaders to find the answer, or is having your own spiritual experience enough?
Video – In this video, Manly Hall, a Canadian-born author and mystic, discusses how astrology has influenced religions.
Brandon West – “Truly great spiritual teachers never practiced religion, they practiced love, and sought universal truth…”
Video – An interesting short film about three sovereign, corporate city states that control the world.
Valerie Tarico, AlterNet Waking Times Religious labels help shore up identity. So what are some of the things non-believers can call themselves? Catholic, born-again, Reformed, Jew, Muslim, Shiite, Sunni, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist…religions give people labels. The downside can be tribalism, an assumption that insiders are better than outsiders, that they merit more compassion, integrity and …
Adam Lee, AlterNet Waking Times Compared to secular reasoning, the religious establishment has been slow to act when it comes to moral progress. Human history is a story of gradual moral enlightenment. Over the ages, we’ve become less violent, less xenophobic, more tolerant, more committed to the ideals of democracy and equality under the law. …
Swami B.G. Narasingha, Sri Narasingha Caitanya Ashram Waking Times The Star of David [in Hebrew, the Magen David or Shield of David] is renowned as the sacred symbol of the Jewish faith. Indeed, the Star of David is the distinguishing feature on the Israeli flag and as an ornament of jewelry the Star of David …
Robert Bonomo, Contributor Waking Times “No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Contemporary baptized, corporatized and sanitized man rarely has the occasion to question his identity, and when he does a typical response might be, “I am product manager for a large …
Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Dear Humans, Today I would like to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that adheres to certain religious beliefs and practices. It has long been understood by the architects of social order that a belief system predicated on fear and consequence was essential for maintaining control …
Gregg Prescott, In5D Guest Waking Times Did you ever wonder why the Pope’s mitre looks like the head of a fish? What are the origins of this ceremonial hat and what does it truly represent? What is the origin of the Pope’s hat? Dagon, the fish-god of the Philistines and Babylonians, wore a fish hat …
Gregg Prescott, M.S., In5D Guest Waking Times From birth, virtually all of us have been brainwashed through various outlets that encourage materialism, ego, subservience, control and conformity. But where do the origins of mind control begin and what can we do about it? 1. Religion As children, the brainwashing begins in the church when we …
Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Dear Humans, Today I wish to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that exists just outside normal body temperature. It’s a boundary where ordinary perceptions are transformed through the errant expression of fever. And in this quasi state of consciousness, there is both challenge and opportunity. …
Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Writer Waking Times “We stumble on; the Übermensch plants a foot where there is no certain hold; and in the struggle that follows, the whole of us get dragged up.” –William James Friedrich Nietzsche is a fascinating philosopher that must be taken with a grain of salt, and possibly the entire salt …
Soren Dreier, Guest Waking Times ‘Hope’ and ‘Belief’ can be very tricky concepts to frame right. They can be very low frequency or they can be very high frequency. It all comes down to the consciousness that inhabits them. If they are low frequency they are an extension of the Matrix or the control system. …
