Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times On behalf of the staff here at Waking Times, we would like to to express our sincerest gratitude to our audience, our contributing writers, and our growing network of like-minded, inspired activists and outspoken members of the alternative media. The fact that so many wonderful and caring people are so …
Joscelyn Godwin, New Dawn Waking Times The widespread belief that an age is ending and a new one dawning is part of a cyclical concept of time common to most philosophical cultures. The best known versions are the Four Ages of Greek mythology and the Hindu myth of the Four Yugas. The purpose of this …
Nam Hari Kaur, 3HO Waking Times Blink twice and it’s gone. This is how swiftly things will be moving in the calendar year of 2014. The Gift number of this year is a 5 (1+4=5), and number 5 creates a flow and force of powerful changes and upheaval. There will mostcertainly be new opportunities amidst …
Suzanne York, EcoWatch Waking Times A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that climate change is likely to put 40 percent more people worldwide at risk of absolute water scarcity, due to changes in rainfall and evaporation. Unsurprisingly, the study noted that “Expected future population changes will, in …
Waking Times Ever consider that your grandparents didn’t have food allergies…or at least it wasn’t common as it is in our children. Was there a reason why they did not have food allergies? Food allergies are becoming a household concern and are on the rise. In addition to making life difficult for those who suffer …
April M. Short, AlterNet Waking Times Veteran Perry Parks is fighting to bring pot to vets like himself who are crushed by PTSD. Perry Parks, a Vietnam combat veteran and highly decorated retired military officer of 28 years, says killing is an unnatural act. If you take the average person off the street, he said, …
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times Mainstream medicine has been claiming for decades that aspirin lowers our risk of heart attack, stroke and even reduces the risk of cancer. All of these assumptions, which were never conclusively proven in any study have been subjected to the scrutiny and criticism of hundreds of health experts. Now, the …
Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times A new paradigm of being is opening up. It is here all around us. But sometimes it’s extremely hard to balance the connection to this ‘new world’ with living day-to-day in society, especially because not everyone is yet reading from this divine ‘script’. It can sometimes feel like it’s …
Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, Contributor Waking Times While we are living in unsettled times, it seems that many periods in human history have been that way. Consider this famous quote from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, authored in 1859. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was …
Waking Times Young man, be aware of these four good-hearted friends: the helper, the friend who endures in good times and bad, the mentor, and the compassionate friend. The helper can be identified by four things: by protecting you when you are vulnerable, and likewise your wealth, being a refuge when you are afraid, and …
Julian Rose, Contributor Waking Times “We can, if we so desire, refuse to cooperate with the blind forces that are propelling us.” –Aldous Huxley So here we are, moving into 2014. And no doubt with that sense of expectancy and promise which comes with all ‘New Years’. But maybe also with that nagging sense which …
Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times We will never be left alone. We are always embraced by Universe. The prime example is Gaia, our living earth. Even she will never let us go. Something to think about. Not only are we never alone, we are amongst an energetic Universe of continually renewing, all embracing life. While …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times This is the time of year when we can wind down, go to the starry night within, and get a feeling of our human experience: contemplating this holographic, mathematical universe of which we are one tiny fraction, and yet the entire whole. Have humans ever had this awareness before… of …
Jeremy Hance, Mongabay Waking Times Neonicotinoid pesticides, which have been increasingly blamed for the collapse of bee populations, may also impact human’s developing nervous system, according to a review of research by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The EFSA says that current safety guidelines for two pesticides—acetamiprid and imidacloprid—may be too lax to protect …
Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times Below is an ignored method of treating and preventing most diseases. It is so potent that it threatens the medical establishment’s tyrannical monopoly. All bacterial pathogens, viruses, and parasites are anaerobic and thrive in the absence of oxygen. In fact, they are poisoned by oxygen. Even cancer cells perish with abundant …
V. Susan Ferguson, Contributor Waking Times Jaron Lanier in his book “Who Owns the Future” coined the term ‘Siren Servers’ to describe “an elite computer, or coordinated collection of computers, on a network. It is characterized by narcissism, hyperamplified risk aversion, and extreme information asymmetry. It is the winner of an all-or-nothing contest, and it inflicts …
Angela Pritchard, Guest Waking Times Many feel that there is a multidimensional cause behind the sinister agendas afflicting the world (such as the New World Order). But it is possible not just to sense, but to actually know and uncover its root through firsthand experience. And, unless the root is uncovered, its octopus like tentacles …
Bob Makransky, Shamanic Journey Waking Times Most people rely upon the dictates of their society to know what to do – what they’ve been taught by their parents, teachers, pastors, bosses, advertisers, and the media. Magicians, by contrast, rely upon the counsel of spirits, at least until they’ve got their own intuition and intent operating. …
Adam Lanka, Contributor Waking Times I AM . . . life. In life, every single instant and interaction exists for the growth of the self and the universe into the highest harmony of All That Is. Toaists like to refer to this as the Tai Chi, or the Supreme Ultimate, which can also be described …
OSHO Waking Times Love is risky. To love is to move into danger-because you cannot control it, it is not safe. It is not within your hands. It is unpredictable. Somehow, from the very childhood, we are being crippled. Our roots with the heart are cut. We are forced towards the head and we are …
