How Ayahuasca Affects the Artistic Functions of the Brain
Video – Emma Lucy explains how ayahuasca allows her to read the intelligence of nature and download it into art.
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Fastest Finger Painter Creates Landscapes in Under 3 Minutes
Video – This street artist creates amazing landscape pictures in just three minutes using nothing but his fingers.
A Message of Hope: If You Are in a Shell…
Video – This performance by Harry Shum, Jr. sends a powerful message of hope to those who struggle with feeling alienated.
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 …
Child Prodigies and the Assault on Creativity
Andy Dilks, Staff Writer Waking Times When you think of a child prodigy, you usually think of an exceptional young talent which has been recognised in a person’s early life and nurtured by those around them, who encourage their latent abilities to blossom and grow. Mozart, of course, springs immediately to mind – a rare …
A Brave New Reflection – 8 Examples of the Science of Nature’s Wisdom
Lewis Herridge, Contributor Waking Times In Aldous Huxley’s enduring master piece Brave New World, you find that world controllers have created an ‘ideal’ society. They cleverly use genetic engineering, brainwashing, recreational drugs and sex to keep all it members happy consumers. Many people draw comparisons as to where our society presently is and where it …
Activating the Power of the Higher Mind
Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times There’s much talk in spiritual circles about ‘setting our intention’; ‘envisioning the things we want’ or ‘manifesting our reality’. How easily such things slip into the psyche and collective vocabulary. What if though, we’re still being led astray by the ego, albeit a more subtle form of ego? What if …
Awakening to Divine Human Consciousness
Peter Borys Jr., Guest Writer Waking Times In our journey to become a higher expression of our true consciousness in Divine Being, we often use language that includes words such as “healing,” “transformation,” and “evolution” to describe a process of change. Because we are moving from one frequency of consciousness to another, we perceive this …
16 Ways To Spark Creativity
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Music – The Healing Language of the Soul
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Our senses allow us to experience the outside world more fully. They have evolved to keep us safe, allowing us to stay aware of dangers. In addition to conducting their basic functions, the senses also have a way of reaching deeply into the soul. As human beings, we desire a …
How to Start a Revolution Using Self-Inflicted Philosophy
Z, Contributing Writer Waking Times “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.” – Albert Einstein “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that …
The World of False Appearances
The dissolving world age has been so dysfunctional and violent because it has been based on an incomplete and erroneous view of the self and surrounding universe. In the Tarot, the Devil stands for the world of appearance and the distorted perception resulting from seeing the the world only at the surface level. This is the essential flaw of materialism, taking the world of the five senses as the only reality. Appearances are, necessarily, deceiving as the saying goes.
How Creativity Works
Creativity shouldn’t be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn’t be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other ‘creative types.’ The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code.