Don’t Forget Why Marijuana Legalization Is Winning
Maia Szalavitz – “The magnitude of the change is hard to understand without knowing a bit of recent history—and if we are going to continue to move toward rational drug policy…”
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Why Today’s Young People are Going Crazy
Ron Taffel, PhD – The force that fuels connection and change comes from the kind of vital human presence that creates three-dimensional relationships…
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…
10 Reasons To Stop Drinking Soft Drinks Now
April McCarthy – Soft drinks are in many ways as bad for you as smoking cigarettes, and here’s 10 reasons to quit drinking them, now.
Have You Heard About the Euphoric Healing Plant That is Still Legal in the US?
April M. Short – Why are people across the U.S. chewing on the small, glossy leaves of the Southeast Asian Kratom tree?
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…”
Artificial Sweeteners Raise Your Risk of Diabetes by Altering Your Gut Microbiome
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Both artificial sweeteners and certain gut microbes have previously been linked to obesity, and according to the latest research, artificial sweeteners may raise your risk of diabetes by disrupting your intestinal microflora. According to the authors of the widely publicized study:1 “[W]e demonstrate that consumption of commonly used non-caloric artificial sweeteners …
Genetics Research—A Largely Failed Science Now Used for Social Control?
Dr. Mercola Waking Times I’ve previously written about how your environment and lifestyle, particularly your diet, has a direct influence on your genetic expression. For example, research using identical twins have shown that diet trumps genes in terms of the level of health you achieve. The science of epigenetics also challenges the conventional view of genetics, proving that the …
How Should Our Society Deal With People Who Use Drugs?
Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance Waking Times The war on drugs is a cruel joke. The U.S. spends more than $50 billion a year on the “war on drugs” with the goal of creating a “drug-free society” – yet there has never been a “drug-free society” in the history of civilization. Virtually all of us …
The Enlightenment Test
Marc Oromaner, Contributor Waking Times Enlightenment. The moment we consciously connect to eternal truth. It’s when we see through the veil of this illusionary world, rising above ego, time, materialism, and our own emotions to see the bigger picture—that we are all one. It’s what all gurus, spiritualists, yogis, Buddhists, monks, meditators, shamans, artists, writers, …
Drop Out and Simplify Your Life
Zen Gardner, Guest Waking Times I was thinking about this very subject and sat down to put some notes together when I stopped to moderate comments on the site. And here was this synchronistic and very wise comment from Soliel: Despite all the fear-mongering out there, many have remained steadfast in their truth. The juggernaut …
How Underground Therapists and Scientists Keep Psychedelic Medicine Alive Despite the Gov’t Ban
Tom Shroder, AlterNet Waking Times In the past decade, after thirty years in the deep freeze, research into the medicinal use of psychedelic drugs, ranging from psilocybin to Ketamine, and from MDMA to LSD, has begun to accelerate. FDA-approved pilot studies and clinical trials using the drugs under controlled conditions and in combination with talk …
5 Ways to Increase Your Spiritual Awareness
Pao L. Chang, Guest Waking Times Many of us seem to think that being spiritual means we have to be religious. Just because you aren’t directly affiliated with a specific religion doesn’t mean you shouldn’t strive to be more spiritual. The whole concept of spiritual awareness isn’t all about connecting with a higher divine power, …
This One Lifestyle Change Reversed Diabetes for 6 Test Subjects
Joe Martino, Collective-Evolution Waking Times Diabetes is one of the most rampant diseases of our time. According to the American Diabetes Association, in 2012, 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3% of the population, had diabetes. In fact, diabetes is growing at a fairly fast rate. A study completed by the CDC & Research Triangle Institute concluded …
3 Common Mental Health Issues Treatable with Psychedelics
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Despite the complicated social perspective regarding psychedelics, more research and attention is being given to the use of psychedelic substances such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin mushrooms, and plants such as ayahuasca to treat mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, alcoholism and drug addiction. Psychedelics interact with serotonin receptors …
12 Little-Known Ways That Television Stifles Spiritual Awakening
David Gardner, Guest Waking Times Television is a staple of almost every household in the developed world. Many kids spend more time watching TV than going to school, and the average time spent in front of the tube is 4.5 hours a day and rising. What effect does spending so much time absorbed in watching television …
Opiates, Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction
Dylan Charles & Jeff Cook Waking Times “Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to – alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person – you are using something or somebody …
Does DMT Play a Role in the Expansion of Consciousness and Open a Doorway to the Afterlife?
Jeff Roberts, Collective-Evolution Waking Times Forget about every other psychedelic for just one minute, because it’s time we have a serious talk about DMT. It’s time we discuss the absolute profundity of an experience that changes people’s lives forever. In a matter of seconds, everything you know about the world in front of you is …
Why Cannnabis Is the Future of Medicine
Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Waking Times The future of medicine rests on the the fundamental right we all have to use things that spring from the Earth naturally as healing agents. Why should cannabis, used for at least 10000 years by humankind to alleviate suffering, be excluded from this inexorable mandate? The politics of cannabis are …
Are You Suffering From These Ascension Symptoms?
Deidre Madsen, Contributor Waking Times Are You Suffering From R.A.M (Rapid Ascension Movement)? Are you feeling sad, confused, experiencing unexplained body aches and pains, disorientation, loss of time, loss of memory, sudden career or relationship changes, more alienated than ever from the world, excessively lethargic, lost, heightened sensitivities to foods, medicines, or supplements, surges of …