The Sacred Role of the Ayahuasca Shaman
Dylan Charles – Part scientist, part mystic, the role of the Ayahuasca shaman is to facilitate personal transformation and healing…
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8 Reasons Why I Have Hope For Our World & You Should Too
Mark DeNicola – We are all hard wired to not only survive and thrive here on planet Earth, but also to come together and recognize the interconnectedness that we all share…”
From Ancient Egypt to Modern Science: The Forgotten Link
Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince – The Hermetic books are clearly an Egyptian and Greek mix. Here is the link between ancient Egypt and modern science…
Waking Up The Goddess: Why Women Will Change The World
Manel Blanco – For too many centuries and up to the present moment, women have been like footnotes in history books that no one bothered to read…
Yonaguni Pyramid: Nature, Aliens or Lost Civilization?
Video – Footage of the massive Yonaguni pyramid off the coast of Japan, about 70 feet underwater.
What is the Difference Between Entheogens and Drugs?
James Oroc – The more a compound disrupts the Ego, the physically safer it is, while the more a ‘drug’ reinforces and inflates the sense of Ego, the more toxic it will be…
At the Polls, Momentum Gains to Legalize Cannabis and End Drug War
Voters across the country have accelerated the unprecedented momentum to legalize marijuana and end the wider drug war…
Mainstream Media – Patient Zero in the Fear Pandemic
Sigmund Fraud – “Life is anything but a meditation, and popular media has become the pulpit for psychological terror and for the dissemination of maximum anxiety and confusion…”
The Sacred Science of Ancient Japan
Avery Morrow – What sort of stories do the Japanese people know about Japan’s ancient history?
3 Simple Ways to Block the Damaging Effects of Mainstream Media
Bernie Suarez – “It’s been said that there are two kinds of people on earth and nothing more. Those who want to control you and those that want to be left alone…”
Ancient Sunken Cities – 3 Puzzling Enigmas
Terence Newton Hundreds of sunken cities are buried under the vast ocean waters of Earth, and what they are telling us could change our view of humanity’s history…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About the History of Marijuana
Keri Blakinger, Substance Waking Times This article was originally featured at Substance.com and reprinted here with permission. Fancy yourself a connoisseur of all things weed? Then see whether this trip from ancient China to modern Alaska takes you anywhere unexpected. What do Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Justin Bieber, Maya Angelou and well over 100 million …
Inducing Higher Intelligence and Heightened Senses with Gamma Brain Waves
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Brainwave entrainment is a way to train the brain to synchronize to a certain frequency, such as gamma, beta, delta, theta and alpha. Each frequency matches a certain state of consciousness. For example, delta is the brainwave dominant while in an unconscious state such as sleeping; while theta and …
Under The Iboga Tree A Therapeutic Revolution Begins
Bart Hawkins – “Native cultures have considered trees as the great philosophers of our planet… The iboga tree can offer re-connection, and a renewed sense of purpose…”
Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You – Are We Doing It Wrong?
Evidence continues to emerge, suggesting that the way we sleep may not actually be good for us…
Balu Wala, or the Kuna ‘Good Life’: How One Indigenous Tribe is Passing on its Traditions
Ruxandra Guidi, Mongabay Waking Times Balancing the old world and the new, the Kuna people keep their heritage intact Jesús Smith is sitting at his old wooden desk facing the entrance to his house. He’s hunched over, shirtless, and wearing his chunky reading glasses while writing copious notes by hand — a favorite pastime. When …
How Dreaming Can Lead to Amazing Creative Breakthroughs
Dr. Kelly Neff, The Mind Unleashed Waking Times Sometimes people spontaneously generate creative solutions to difficult problems through non-traditional methods, such as through epiphanies, intuitions or dreams. Psychologists use the term Eureka! Effect to describe the process in problem solving when a previously unsolvable puzzle becomes suddenly clear and obvious. While these types of Aha! moments do happen during …
Disney Corporation: Making Evil Look Good?
David Gardner, Guest Waking Times Disney Corporation: Making Evil Look Good? Disney is seen around the world as a source of wholesome entertainment for children, but is there a darker side to its productions hidden in plain sight? This article investigates occult references in Disney productions, how society’s values and perception of good and evil are …
7 Types of Non-Believers Who Don’t Need Religion
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 …
Consciousness: The Beginning and the End
Michael Grosso, New Dawn Waking Times Nothing is more certain than the fact that we are conscious. And yet there is something very puzzling, even uncanny, about being conscious; and the learned talk of the mystery of consciousness. The mystery centres around the origin of consciousness; the prevailing scientific view is that consciousness is a …