Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times Will Colombia’s farmers defeat the economic hitmen of the agricultural industry? Early in September, 2013, the Colombian government was forced to partially concede to the demands of a nationwide general strike instigated by farmers of the largely agrarian nation. The three week long protests and blockades that shut down much …
V. Susan Ferguson, Contributor Waking Times Did you ever wish you were one of the mega-rich? You know, those narcissistic vampire-squid sociopaths who are eviscerating western economies and cannibalizing our planet. Do you dream of becoming one of the billionaires, that infamous 1% that now owns everything, with their sprawling 40,000 sq. ft. houses hidden …
Lewis Herridge, Contributor Waking Times Recently, I returned from Uganda after leading a 2 week trip with a group of teenagers. They were a great bunch and we got a chance to really integrate ourselves into the Ugandan culture, our highlight being a 4 day home-stay in a rural, remote Ugandan Village. At the end …
Sarah Couture Pope, GreenMedInfo Waking Times The vast majority of babies are given Tylenol (acetaminophen) within the first six months of life. It is the go to medicine for modern parents whenever discomfort or fever strikes even very young children and its use is frequently encouraged by many pediatricians. Now, a major study of over 20,000 children …
Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times Although the FDA gave a two year deadline to remove thimerosal from vaccines after the deadly neurotoxin was banned in 1999, they continue to appear in vaccine formulations to this day. The FDA now supports thimerosal in up to 60 percent of flu vaccines, many which are approved for …
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times Pseudoscience is defined as a belief or idea, accepted as true, that has not been proven by the scientific method. While science has been invaluable in helping to promote our ever-expanding knowledge of the Universe, it cannot be held as a hard-and-fast rule to determining Truth. In many instances …
Mike Adams, Divinity Now Waking Times Much of modern science remains stuck in an endless inward spiral of false paradigms. That’s why “scientific” medicine, for example, offers no real answers to the really big diseases: cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and so on. More importantly, modern medicine will never solve these problems unless it abandons its false …
Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times As one of the few nations in the world with a GMO-free platform, Russia does not allow any cultivation of GMOs for commercial purposes. Their regulatory agencies recently suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. …
Sarita Coren, GreenMedInfo Waking Times “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche To vaccinate or not to vaccinate that is the heated debate. Regardless of what position you hold, the vaccination topic carries weighted emotions like anger, …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times One of our finest challenges is to experience life consciously, with ears open to the truth, eyes open to what is, mind open to ask why, and heart open to love. And here’s the big one: if it’s in your heart, ask permission to serve the highest good. I can …
Ben Naga, Contributor Waking Times I invite you to perform a small experiment with me. Take a moment to become as aware as you can of yourself, your body, the words in front of you, your immediate surroundings. Now imagine that, instead of perceiving in the normal way a number of discrete objects – hands, …
Paul Cavel, Contributor Waking Times Taoists Have Trained In Nature throughout the Ages Human beings, with all our complexity and potential, have diversified, populated and thrived around the globe. Since the breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution, we have spent 200 years becoming specialists in manipulating our environment and making radical changes to the way in …
Rebecca Gladding, M.D., Guest Waking Times I realized today that in all my posts regarding the brain and how to sculpt it with mindfulness, I’ve never actually explained how and why meditation works. Specifically, the science behind how your brain changes the longer you meditate. I think this is important for many reasons, but one of the most salient is that this …
Gregg Prescott, M.S., In5D Guest Waking Times Why do introverts tend to be highly spiritual? Society dictates that we follow specific images projected by the main stream media, so why do introverts tend to rebel from these stereotypes? Introverts tend to look within for answers versus having the need for societal approval. Often, extroverts will …
Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, Contributor Waking Times Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. -Kahlil Gibran Looking Back As I sit around watching my grey hair turn whiter, I keep seeing the same social and political problems occurring …
Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times What makes you happy? Happiness is rather elusive for many people, if not for most people in our society. This is a remarkable statement about the world we’ve created, which offers unprecedented access to food, shelter, health, entertainment, convenience, mobility, wealth, safety, security, and so on. With all this going for …
Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay Waking Times Video of illegal gold mining operations that have turned a portion of the Amazon rainforest into a moonscape went viral on Youtube after a popular radio and TV journalist in Peru highlighted the story. Last week Peruvian journalist and politician Güido Lombardi directed his audience to video shot from …
Karen Foster, Prevent Disease Waking Times Trillions of bacteria are hostile and can cause disease, while many others are friendly and have established a symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship with us over the millennia. These friendly bacteria have also been referred to as “probiotics” and are being used increasingly by mainstream clinicians for both preventive and …
Mike Molyneaux, Contributor Waking Times A key to the great prosperity, technological advantage and military supremacy of the United States is the system of global commerce and finance that places absolute trust in the value of the US dollar and the credit-worthiness the Federal Reserve Bank. Essentially the system relies on the willingness of workers …
Brad Waters, Guest Writer Waking Times Ten years ago this month, Hara Estroff Marano, Editor-at-Large for Psychology Today, wrote in her article “The Art of Resilience”: “At the heart of resilience is a belief in oneself—yet also a belief in something larger than oneself. Resilient people do not let adversity define them. They find resilience by moving towards a goal …
