Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times When a small, but potent, percent of the population is ready to expand their range of possibilities and validate new information, putting aside the ego’s opinion in favor of exploration, then change for the many is possible. Change, when called for, is something we need not approach with trepidation… although …
Brandon West, Contributor Waking Times “Time is just a construct of the universe to keep everything from happening all at once.” – John Archibald Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler was one of the physics giants of the 20th century, and was a colleague of Einstein’s. But what if everything is happening all at once? Moreover, what if …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times I’ve been shining some light into the darkness lately, and these thoughts might seem like seriousness in a world plagued with too much of that. We need happiness and a bright vision of a world where every human is self-governing from a conscious perspective. That world is coming, as the …
Julian Websdale, Contributor Waking Times Clairvoyance is the art and science of being aware of facts, objects or situations by psychic means when they are not available to ‘ordinary’ awareness. The word is generally used to cover all such psychic awareness; but strictly speaking, clairvoyance means experiencing such awareness in the form of visual images, clairsentience means experiencing it …
Paul Lenda, Guest Waking Times There is one truth that nobody can debate, and that is that we physically die at some point within the near future, relative to the life spans of everything else in the universe. However, it seems that many forget this fact of life and dedicate great amounts of time and …
Jefferey Jaxen, Staff Writer Waking Times The most basic of the twenty-four principles or elements of the Universe found in the Indian holistic healing practice of Ayurveda is called “Prakruti” or creativity. As human beings, we are first and foremost creators. Our individual creativity is the essence of life on this planet. What we create …
Julian Websdale, Contributor Waking Times Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that developed in China during the 6th century as Chán. From China, Zen spread south to Vietnam, northeast to Korea and East to Japan. The word Zen is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 (dʑjen) (pinyin: Chán), which in turn is …
Personocratia, Contributor Waking Times Canadian citizens are guaranteed rights and privileges that the inhabitants of many other countries envy. Yet, with worsening working conditions, increasing taxation, crumbling public services, lowering food quality, and an ever-increasing national debt, my old rose-colored glasses cannot hide the truth anymore. Despite the six million laws regulating Canadians, I have never …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times Communication within the consciousness movement seems like the Tower of Babel sometimes, with all of us speaking different languages. That old Tower story is definitely a separation story, maybe even an ego/separation story. Since we’re into oneness, and that requires a whole lot of allowing, accepting, and affirming the divinity …
Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Writer Waking Times In Jung’s famous book The Red Book, he comes to a library inside a castle, looking for a place of sanctuary and reflection. When the librarian asks him to choose a book he names The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis. He debates with the librarian what it …
Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times “The history of Western culture in the last two thousand years could be seen as the “Empire of the Mind conquering the exterior world and extinguishing the interior one, with the result that we have atrophied our spiritual connection.” –Rak Razam The world is deeply out of balance in these …
Vidya Frazier, Guest Waking Times For thousands of years, humanity has inched its way toward greater spiritual maturity. Most human beings have been caught in the dense karmic energies of the earth plane, lifetime after lifetime, and have made very slow progress. Only a few lone individuals from time to time have reached what’s been …
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. …
Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, Contributor Waking Times “You yourself are under your own veil.” -Hafiz Q: I have been traveling the road to higher consciousness for many years and it has been a long hard journey. Fortunately there have been occasional Divine Breezes along the way, but I cannot say I feel any closer to God for …
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our …
Soren Dreier, Guest Waking Times Grief is a beautiful feeling. It is very deep and it is very transcending. It seems to open some very deep layers in the heart and strangely enough; Grief also embeds Joy. The joy of knowing, that we have this depth within us. The joy of knowing, that Grief is …
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times Is it true that nothing is going to change until the people change? Years ago I heard a smart old lady say, “People never change… they just become ‘more so’. I objected when I heard her words… that’s not true! But now, having been through more than a few decades, …
Robert James Burati, New Dawn Waking Times He who wishes to live in an oriental martial art, rather than to just practice it on a physical level, must so train his consciousness to attain a self-discipline that at last his conscious mind will merge into an identity with the very principle of life itself. – Maurice …
Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Waking Times “If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” –Shunryu Suzuki The beauty of cyclic learning is that it kicks expert-mind back into beginner-mind. It is …
Alen Mischael Vukelić, Contributor Waking Times How the mind works – Do you know what your mind is doing? Are thoughts produced by our mind? Do we create our own thoughts? Is the process of thinking voluntary? Do thoughts have emotions? Your mind is much more than just its physical outlet, which we call our …
