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THE ONLY DIFFERENCE be-tween a novice and a master is practice If you can practice

something consistently then in time with patient and focused effort you will definitely reach high levels at whatever it is you are practicing This is the power of commitment

For those who are just starting out in Tai Chi doing the movements feels foolish and pointless You awkwardly move through the foreign postures and you think to yourself ldquoWhat is the point of all this How is this going to help me in life and what will I gain from this practicerdquo This is what Tai Chi looks and feels like to someone just beginning

To a master on the other hand they feel the energy they deepen their meditation by connecting to the universe they heal their mind body and soul and as they practice these movements they feel the grace beauty and power of the universe flowing through them radiating from their movements and the postures they form with their body

When learning how to play an instru-ment in the beginning you fumble through songs relying on your mind and your eyes to guide you awkwardly to the next note But as you become more proficient with practice your fingers know where the notes are and you no longer need your eyes thus you allow your ears to take over instead

Your mind is no longer engaged only your attention and you learn how to play by feeling You listen to the tune playing within your head and within your heart that you are merely allowing to come through you as clearly as possible letting the universe speak through you with sound

This is the difference between an ama-teur and a master The amateur is only at the

surface of whatever it is that they are doing but the master has penetrated the essence of the practice and thus to the essence of the universe and themselves The power of com-mitment is the only thing that can raise you to this level of being and of mastery

It doesnrsquot matter what you are practicing or what you are training at Everything that we do and everything that we are inspired to do is a method for human beings to tap into them-selves the universe and their infinite creative potential and ability to express their inner truth

From one level any business can be viewed as nothing more than a way to earn money for material gain Yet from another level its primary focus can be tapping into onersquos innate intelligence to creatively and seamlessly express truth wisdom and insight Thus its material rewards are second-ary compared to its function as a tool for personal exploration and expression

This is true for all areas of human en-deavor We can choose to stay at the surface level of our actions just going through the motions Or we can choose to be truly com-mitted to what we are doing thus using it as a tool for personal mastery and evolution

The power of commitment is exercised by paying attention to what we are doing To be fully and completely committed to this moment here and now doing whatever it is we have chosen to do If we are not fully committed to our actions and our experience then we act as if we did not choose this mo-ment and thus we never take responsibility for our thoughts actions or lives This leads us to a reality that we did not choose which is in itself a depressing and hopeless cycle

Apply the power of commitment by actively participating in the flowering of your

life Become your actions and embody your desires and be conscious enough to know what your feelings are guiding you towards and what you are inspired to do

At first our actions seem clumsy chaotic and fruitless but as we gain proficiency at whatever it is we are doing we begin to hone ourselves We begin to see the magnificence in subtlety and the beauty in simplicity We learn to refine our strokes our movements our phrasing until it is eloquent and harmonious and powerful in its directness This refining extends into our lives as well and that is where the true benefit of our practices are realized

Whatever it is you are inspired to do yourself a favour and stay committed to it Donrsquot quit after a week or a month just because you donrsquot see the point and feel like yoursquore getting nowhere If you were inspired to do this thing and if somewhere within you have a true passion for it even though you may convince yourself otherwise develop the power of commitment you possess within you and stay with it a little longer

Jimi Hendrix said this about learning the guitar ldquoSometimes you want to give up the guitar yoursquoll hate the guitar But if you stick with it yoursquore gonna be rewardedrdquo

If you are genuinely inspired towards a path then donrsquot allow yourself to quit It is our limited self that is asking us to quit because that aspect of ourselves does not believe that we are great that we are talented and that we can realize our dreams and thus it is protecting us from getting hurt hellip in its own way It is that aspect of ourselves which is unwilling to let go because when it does we will be vulnerable Yet with that vulnerability our true nature is exposed and we become safe in our openness

Our egos were built up as a defense

mechanism to protect us from the world because we knew no other way to deal with our life circumstances Yet that came at a great price We sacrificed our true beauty in-dividuality creativity and power for the sake of a false sense of security found in the rigid definiteness and conformity of the ego

Our true worth is realized not in our mo-ments of ease when we are confident about ourselves and our ability It is realized when we are faced with difficulty and begin to question ourselves our dreams and the validity of what we are doing If we hold true to our dreams and to our passion in these circumstances continuing forwards even when our egos tell us to quit because we know that we are being guided along this path by spirit then growth is assured for it has already occurred

These situations are our life initiations Life is about growth and about learning When we bail on our dreams and passions we do so because we have always quit in similar situ-ations and thus we have never really trans-formed ourselves we have only reinvented the superficial appearance of ourselves and lives But when we decide to stay committed to our purpose in life and to those things we do which genuinely make us better people happier more productive and focused then we look in the face of our old self and say

ldquoNo I am not like you for I am not you any longer I usually quit because I am afraid but this time I would rather work hard while being afraid with no regrets than be comfort-able and safe yet filled with regretsrdquo

It is entirely up to you You can continue bouncing from practice to practice from dream to dream in life never really getting anywhere and never seeing any real results or you can choose to commit yourself to the most impor-tant thing right now and truly embody it

Only then will you see the results you were seeking and your true potential made manifest in your sense of mastery honed and developed through consistent practice That is the power of commitment the force that cultivates our conviction and turns our dreams into reality

The Power OfCommitmentBy Brandon West

wwwprojectglobalawakeningcom

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THE ATTITUDE THAT is con-ditioned into our psyche from a young age is that we have to learn

a skill and use that to get a job in order to earn money which in term feeds the growth of the economy One ques-tion I think of almost every day but find many other people donrsquot give it a second thought is why do we have to work

ldquoNormal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and

driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for ndash in

order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car

and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in itrdquo

― Ellen Goodman

Why do we have to work

At face value and viewing life through the brainwashed society we are all born into the answer may sound rather obvious we need to earn money to purchase mate-rial objects in order to survive For most that makes sense and needs no further questioning However one must ask in a world which fundamentally has enough natural resources to feed clothe and house every single person why there is such a work ethos

We are led to believe that we are running out of resources and the world is overpopulated when in fact the reality is completely the reverse If we were to gather every man woman and child and moved them to Australia the whole world popula-tion would fit comfortably within the coun-try Each family having their own house and garden and that would still only fill 34 of

the landmass

What is Scarcity How is it used

Scarcity is a tool used to create the feeling of not having enough This creates a survival response and an automatic panic in humans that causes us to be selfish and greedy We are very much led to believe we are living in times of scar-city by the mainstream media There is always something wersquore running low on land oil energy money food and water to name a few

We witness African and Ethiopian communities starving and dying of disease and we are led to believe this is because there just is not enough food to give them Not once do people in the west ever stop and think just how much food is wasted on a daily basis

In 2004 a USA study showed that in America alone forty to fifty percent of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten There is clearly no shortage of food The richest nations are choosing to let the third world people die while they continue to exploit their resources

What is wrong with our society

We live in a debt-based monetary system where money is created by banks in the act of just placing digits on a screen Our governments then take loan money from privately owned central banks that have secret (protected by legislation) shareholders that the public are not even allowed to know about

with absolutely no oversight The richest 1 owns nearly half of worldrsquos wealth (probably more ndash but only in their own minds so to speak Ed) and are also in positions of great power The 99 of the worldrsquos people are left to scrap over the remainder in order to survive I also per-sonally believe technology is been sup-pressed in the energy sector that could end the fossil fuel industry overnight

We spend most of our lives just blindly taking as fact what we are being told by our institutions ndash education government parents and media ndash with-out giving it a second thought In fact humans have become so docile that we spend most of our days unconscious engrossed in the latest gadget or celebrity gossip This is all by design to keep us distracted from anything real going on in the world We clearly live in a corrupt un-just society that rewards dishonesty and selfishness There is enough to go around and waste and pollution seems to be the byproduct of an unsustainable growth and greed based ideology

This YouTube video explains the story of your enslavement very well enjoy

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=Xbp6umQT58A

Ok So Why Do We Have To Work

The fact of the matter is we have to work because we are free-range slaves controlled by people of lsquowealthrsquo who use

the monetary system and energy sector to control and protect their own selfish

interests The monetary system is also manipulated by the same people using stock markets and banking practices This is also all by design in order to keep the wealth in the hands of a selected few mostly banking elite and royal blood-lines These same people also control all aspects of our lives from education health media and food With this much control over our lives is it any wonder the majority of people feel confused over world issues

The role of the media and institu-tionalization

Our media is in place to control the mass way of thinking to keep it in line with government policies Call it propa-ganda We are led to believe we have a free press but this is far from the truth and very obvious when big movements happen like March Against Monsanto and the Occupy Movement (plus so many many more we havenrsquot heard of Ed) and they receive little to no media attention Even if it does get some atten-tion it is always portrayed in a negative light Our newspapers front page head-lines are always filled with fear words like ldquoconspiracyrdquordquoterrorismrdquo ldquoISISrdquo ldquoextremismrdquo ldquoworkshyrdquo ldquoscroungersrdquo etc that are repeated over and over to really embed the words into the human consciousness If you repeat anything enough times people start believing it It is an obvious form of brainwashing and

Humans Why Do We Have To Workwwwlifeadvancercom

See ldquoWORKrdquo on page 25

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HELP YOURSELF VIDEOS 26

THE DEEP JOY OF DE-NORMALIZING 5

HEALTHHarmonic Arts - Winter Health Alignment

5 Biggest Influences on Your Health

Pot for Parkinsonrsquos11

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Hemp is Healthy10

Mother Discovers Effective Autistic Treatment 15

HELP YOURSELF HEADLINES 8 - 9

Ignorance is Not Free 19

Humans Why do We Have to Work3

The Psychopathy of Greed13

Why I chose to Un-School my Son16

Time to Unplug from the Matrix 21

What Makes Finlandrsquos Teachers Better24

NEW AGORA SPOTLIGHT 27

Us and Them 20

Plants that help Absorb Dangerous Airborne Chemicals 30

5 Signs Yoursquore Outgrowing Yourself 18

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By Neil Kramer

THE SEASONAL SHIFTING of energetic densities is underway naturally enfolding the customary

provinces of our temporal 3D experi-ence affecting us with increasing depth as each day passes The solar wind permeates every particle of our beinghellip cleansing destroying resurrecting The hidden and the untold have reached their terminus

We are now in a phase where ignorance of onersquos own inner knowing no longer provides exemption from engaging with dharma ndash onersquos authentic path There is no place for being unaware of what we know we should be doing Ignorance of this principle is no defence against contravening it Ignorantia juris non excusat

The organic light of knowing can almost be unremembered by adorning oneself with the culpable phospho-rescence of the construct that is its deliciously smooth images plastics and metals luxuriously bent into sensual curves that usurp the human form itself Proximity to media-saturated artifacts channels away the psychic core of the dupes the marks and all the spaghetti of biological human cabling until noth-ing remains but despiritualized zombie corpses And still the humans are loved from a distance though admittedly this now stretches into light years of disen-gagement where the source and the object cannot be spoken of in the same breath Deliverance is a delicate thing

Bearing The Psychic Cilice

It is from the loneliness that arises out of lost innocence when the human soul has drifted far from meaning that we first see the abandonment of the magickal

You can see it in peoplersquos faces They settle for that which they know to be deficient and unfulfilling The rationale is that some contact is better than no contact This is particularly prevalent in intimate relationships When humans are fundamentally disconnected from them-selves and each other they are vulner-able to the insidious gravitational pull of the mainstream cultural paradigm They get all normal

At the primary level those who choose not to be the architect of their own consciousness and therefore dis-claim their own daily existence are an-choring the density of the construct with every recycled meme that passes their lips and every electro-chemical notion that fires across their frontal lobe They are hungry lsquoPacmanrsquo ghosts roaming the sepulchral corridors of unreality forever repeating the same corrosive patterns unable to satiate themselves on any level The virus of renunciation consumes its own host

The only way to offset the muted but incessant background pain derived from this way of living is to embrace normality To watch TV and resonate along with its frequency of ordinariness and indifference To consume To buy fake products fake food fake music To wear cheap clothes and running shoes derived directly from the blood of economic slaves This is a karmic declara-tion And should the inner self spontane-ously break through and find its voice amid this toxicity then with the utmost urgency the mind must be plunged into the low-resonance high-density media swamp When the mind sucks in vulgarity regression and ignoble deeds the psychological pain momentarily subsides as the spirit retreats far from the centre of our being

For those who walk the path ndash normality is fake it does not exist For construct dwellers the roots of normalcy do not emerge from any particular socio-economic class It is spread equally across all demographic classifications of A B C1 C2 D and E social grades (this is the UK mapping) Normals as we might call them are in fact characterized large-ly by their negative aspect by what they do not do For example normals create little or nothing True innovation sponta-neity risk taking and courage are barely perceptible in the course of their lives They demonstrate the appalling trait of obviousness in most thoughts and deeds They tend not to question the au-thoritative hierarchies that control their lives They certainly prefer not to discuss matters of substance Contemplations on the mysterious nature of existence within the astonishing elegance of the universe is unthinkable Theyrsquore just not

into any of that stuff Itrsquos not perceived as a worthwhile or rewarding activity as it does not advantage them within the mainstream paradigm What is to be had from being contemplative or philosophi-cal There is no commercial value and such things bring only existential unrest So they avoid it Disown it Replace it Fear it Whatever Watch television

This Is The Happy House Wersquore Happy Here

People generally want to feel happi-ness in their day-to-day lives Yet what is this elusive state that arises and vanishes with such apparent capriciousness It is a simple thing Happiness is a frequency attached to dharmic function It arises when spirit is aligned ndash when there is authentic being gnosis true creative expression and expansion of awareness It is the spontaneous acknowledgement of conscious presence I am here and ev-erything is OK That is the open gladness that dissolves all illusory negativity in an instant It is free and is not dependent on anyone or anything It can come amid great solemnity pandemonium even misery and just as easily it may surface in the middle of philosophy creativity intimacy and play

Making happiness a destination in itself is a mark of deep unconsciousness a sign that life is off course Indeed those who pursue happiness as a hunter pur-sues his prey are running headlong into the yawning jaws of the Control System It loves those unfortunate souls who are obsessed with experiencing pleasure relief diversion recreation and release ndash fumbling about in the gloom for gratifi-cation self worth and warped expression of self This decadent impulse moves the divine soul further and further away from its spiritual destiny with every self-centred sensation that is conjured

The Control System is well aware of this and so it treats happiness as a narcotic sequestering it dealing it cutting it and distributing analogs of it for a small fee through the screen The televisionscreeninternetmedia-plex is offered as an antidote to the impossibly tiresome quest for real inner happiness Instead the suggestion is put forth that you can become contented by having

a beautiful car shiny hair whole-wheat cereal and pay-on-demand movies This is what will dispel your sadness

Television is anti-human Its mes-sage is clear ldquoDo not create for yourself Manifest only official constructsrdquo

Voluntary relinquishment of onersquos own holographic imaginal palette is an extraordinary disavowal of the divine human ability to create reality It is a deep necrotic sickness of the soul Incredibly many people sense this on a subtle level and yet they still go along with it because they lack the psychic or emotional knowhow to take matters into their own hands Itrsquos too hard to resist the pull of sensual engagement To act from genuine selfhood and sovereignty takes discipline

It is absurd for any sentient being to believe that they can be informed edu-cated or entertained by the screens and pages of the construct Is there anything of value there Crumbs fall from the table occasionally ndash but theyrsquore eclipsed by the constant torrent of normality that pours into the third eye

Societyrsquos role models ndash stars celebri-ties and media avatars ndash are so deeply infused with the synthetic accoutre-ments of compliance that they operate as strategic resonance amplifiers loyal Control System agents committed to dis-seminating the uncreative cultural Trojan horse The meme spreads unconscious consumption displaces the human im-pulse for creation

The screen of normality broadcasts the vulgar static of the old ways in an at-tempt to diminish the delicate harmon-ics of the unfolding shift It is irrelevant what is on the screen Whether it is a but-terfly alighting on a pure white petal or a skull being crushed underfoot it is the emanation of unthinking submission In this way the seemingly passive activity of watching television is a tacit agree-ment to swallow that which is counter-feit It propagates the myth that there is an external world separate from us that all the traditions monarchies constitu-tions histories and democracies are valu-able and somehow central to the collec-tive human narrative They are not These things have already withered away This

The New NowThe Deep Joy Of De-Normalizing

See ldquoDE-NORMALIZINGrdquo on page 30

YES YOU Not the en-vironment your motherrsquos genes or your junk food

diet Everything in your body that you see manifested as form and phenomena comes from the vibrations within your body that then give rise to either health or disease What we feel--our emotions coor-

dinate our biochemical cellular and com-plete physiological states our entire lives In other words the cause of all disease is not tangible at all Our outlook on life and how we feel about ourselves may be the most relevant health predictor of all

Many people are already familiar with the fact that emotional stress can lead to digestive issues irritable bowel syndrome tension and headaches but many may

not be aware that can also cause other physi-cal illnesses such as cancer cardiovas-

cular disease and even symptoms of severe chronic pain

More subtly one might de-velop psychosomatic symptoms or stress-related symptoms because of unresolved emotional issues These are not new discoveries researchers have studied the mindbody interrelationship for several decades because of the importance

of this linkResearchers around the world

are slowly integrating research on how our energetic and emotional states cause

health andor disease How we connect emo-

tionally to our overall wellness and wellbeing may indeed be more relevant than any supplement food exercise medical intervention or health treatment

Pain is Both Physical and Emotional But Healing Emotionally Can Eliminate Physical Pain

Pain of course is always both a physical and an emotional experience There are direct neural connections via the brain stem and spinal cord The circulatory and lymphatic systems also carry neurotransmitters (hormones and immune cells) that find receptor sites in the brain which feedback and modulate the links between brain and body In this way every cell in the body every cell -- is linked into the nervous system and as such can be sensed and felt whether or not we allow ourselves to be aware of this psychobiological fact

With a physical pain there is an obvious link between the psychological experience of pain and an awareness of a physical location in the body The pain seems to come from an elbow or a toe or a hip Weirdly we can feel the physical pain in that location even though most but not all of the processing is going on in the brain The neural blood and immune pathways between brain and body are tagged with body location information beginning in the spinal cord and with successively more specific tagging up through the brain stem and thalamus each adding another layer of redundancy and complexity until the experience becomes conscious and further identified as ldquominerdquo in the insula parietal and mo-tor cortices The marvel of the nervous system is that even though body sense awareness is largely a creation of cortical complexity we feel in 3-D the pain is ldquoinrdquo my knee that object is ldquoout thererdquo in space etc

So with this kind of logic we can come back to the neural similarities between emotional and physical pain If the similarity is not just in the brain but also in the body itrsquos perfectly reasonable to ask Where does an emotional pain hurt If there really is an economy of pain networks that includes both physical and emotional pain and if physical pain has a body location then this simple syllo-gism leads to the conclusion that emotional pain must have a physical location in the body

Feelings of insecurity get the heart and the breath out of synch and activate the sympathetic nervous system as if we were dealing with a threat (elevated heart rate and blood pressure) and can create a sense of unease in the chest and even pain People who have been hurt by others often have retracted chests and downcast postures which are muscular ways of protecting the heart and closing off the self from fully engaging with others for fear of being hurt again And people in insecure relationships are more likely to have cardiovascular (and other health) problems than those who are more secure

Vibration is Energy

Every type of energy has a different vibrational frequency For example water has one and when it turns to ice it has a different vibration When it turns to vapour the vibration changes again Sound waves have their own frequency of vibration Of all these thought vibration is the strongest Most of our thoughts we turn into words -- spoken words -- and these words we put into action Action when repeated again and again form our habits is it not And our very nature our character is determined by our

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See ldquoDISEASErdquo on page 25

The Cause of Your Physical Pain And Disease Is YOU

By Michael Forresterwwwpreventdiseasecom

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W HEN IT COMES to health many people see winter as the tough-est time of the year Itrsquos not un-

common to feel challenged with immune issues stress depression or a lack of energy in the winter months Partly this is because itrsquos the natural completion of the life cycle and the world around us is retreating into sleep mode If our ac-tions and choices are not in alignment with this seasonal tone our health and wellness start to fall apart This lack of winter health alignment is an all too common state in western society at large We are surrounded with opportuni-ties to live a synthetic reality Life is eas-ily filled with sensory overload stress food options and environments that tell our bodies to respond in opposing ways to those presented by the natural world This equation creates a conflict or dis-connect within us commonly leading to imbalance before we know it we are sick depressed or burnt out

The life cycle completion that win-ter represents is an important and neces-sary step in both our health and evolu-tionary process This time of year offers an opportunity to look inside and become more introspective To reflect on life choices align deeper with your purpose vision your coming seasons efforts and most importantly slow down rest and reset This internal focus is an easy align-ment when the natural energies of sea-sonal awareness are utilized Throughout the year these energies are as follows Spring activation Summer manifestation Fall accumulation and Winter decline When we live in alignment with these we naturally become more proactive in reducing and managing imbalances and (dis)ease states of the body mind and soul Winter offers the perfect oppor-tunity to refocus our attention and set new intention for how we choose to show up in the world

Understanding the four-fold landscape of wholistic health

When looking at our overall well-ness it is important to acknowledge the entire spiral of who we are Understand-ing seasonal awareness is a valuable piece of our health path though so too is acknowledging the four-fold landscape of our physical mental emotional and spiritual nature Just because something feels good on one level of our being doesnrsquot necessarily make it good for us on all levels When our choices are rooted in an understanding of how they affect each aspect of ourselves we natu-rally gravitate to the right tools for gen-erating our deepest expression of health and well-being

This wholistic model should ideally be integrated into every action we take in life then overlapped with the season-al filter of how our choices fit into the natural cycles of life around us

For example should I eat a garden salad for dinner in January

On one side we know that salads are healthy full of vital energy good for our digestive system and beneficial to gut bacterial Salads may even make us feel happy and proud of our choices in diet In doing so they could be in alignment with a four-fold understanding but when we apply the seasonal filter we see that they are way out of alignment with the winter world around us A salad tells the body itrsquos spring or summer and presents us with energetics that are cool and cleansing rather than warm and protect-ing which are an important for winter health

Best winter practices for nourishing our wholistic health

v PHYSICAL Slowing down resting staying warm

and not pushing ourselves too hard are important during the winter months Itrsquos also essential to get some activity out-side and find opportunities to breathe the crisp fresh air Chopping wood walking skiing or just playing in the elements gives our body deeper wisdom in knowing how to best show up and pre-pare for the season

Diet wise natural winter foods are cooked seasonal options as well as those that have been preserved and stored from the summerfall abundance Foods such as fermented vegetables beans and seeds root vegetables like beets carrots and parsnips dark leafy greens like kale and collards healthy fats such as organic dairy fish coconut oil high quality animal protein and bone broths are all great winter choices It is not an ideal time for cooling foods like raw vegetables fresh fruit juices sugars or tropical foods

We can also start to integrate warm-ing tonic and immune herbs and me-dicinal mushrooms as teas broths and elixir drinks Herbs such as Astragalus Eleuthro Reishi Chaga Goji Berry Rose-hips Fo-ti Ginger Cinnamon and Chai spices are ideal in this season There are many other herbs that are supportive for proactive or specific health concerns this time of year A great source in Canada for quality organic plant based health op-tions is wwwharmonicartsca

v MENTALSlowing down and focusing our minds

on introspective thought can be a key practice in the winter months If we scat-ter our thoughts on too many projects or ideas it creates gaps in energy and in-creases the stress load in the body Less multi-tasking and more depth into specif-ic projects is ideal Also finding ways to avoid circular thinking on issues we can control is important Much good visioning can be accomplished with a focused mind and winter is the perfect time to do this work Plan projects fortify programs and hold space for regenerative health to

Slowing down and focusing our minds on introspective thought can be a key practice in the winter months

See ldquoWINTER HEALTHrdquo on page 25

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Help Yourself Headlines

Geo-Politics

Filmmaker T Patrick Murray interviewed

Kubrick three days before his death in March 1999 He was forced to sign an 88-page NDA to keep the contents of the interview a secret for 15 years Below is a transcript from the interview with Stanley Kubrick in which the 2001 Space Odyssey Director admits on camera that ldquothe moon landings ALL were faked and that I was the person who filmed itrdquo

httpwwwzengardnercomstanley-kubrick-confesses-to-faking-moon-landings

Finance

The War on Cash is accelerating In recent months 1) The SEC and other regulators have implemented

legislation allowing Money Market Funds to lock in your cash for up to 10 days during the next financial crisis (meaning you cannot get your money out)

httpwwwzengardnercomelites- want-end-physical-cash

How and Why the Elites Want to End Physical Cash

Who Is Helping The Geoengineers To Sell Geoengineering

The recent terrorist attacks (false flag) have not only given the

global power structure exactly the excuse they needed to further ramp up their intervention in Syria and other Middle Eastern counties it also handed to them the pretext to completely clamp

down on any form of protest at the Paris climate talks There is no rational denial of these facts

httpwwwgeoengineeringwatchorgthe-paris-climate-conference-whats-the-real-agenda

What is the primary STATED goal of

stratosopheric aerosol geoengineering and solar radiation management programs To cool the planet If our goal is to expose and halt climate engineering we need to recognize headlines that are manufactured to help the geoengineers sell their stock and trade httpwwwgeoengineeringwatchorgwho-is-helping-the-geoengineers-to-sell-geoengineering

The Use Of Secret Courts Confirms The End Of Democracy In Britain

The Paris Climate Conference Whatrsquos The Real Agenda

Stanley Kubrick Confesses to Faking Moon Landings

Canadian canned fresh air lsquoinstantly sells outrsquo in China amid pollution horror

Sales of a Canadian company that special-

izes in canned fresh air have gone through the roof in China as Beijing issued its first pollution red alert It is officially the worst the air has ever

been in Beijing with PM25 particles measuring over 900 micrograms per cubic meter The World Health Or-ganization considers 25 micrograms per cubic meter to be a safe level

httpswwwrtcomnews325992- canned-canada-air-china

The use of secret courts is where trials take place that

are not open to the public nor generally reported in the news and generally no official record of the case or the judgersquos verdict is made available Often there is no legal allegation The accused is usually not able to obtain the counsel of an lawyer or confront witnesses for the prosecution and the proceedings are characterised by a perceived miscarriage of justice to the benefit of the ruling powers of the society This is the stuff of cold war Russia and Nazi Germany ndash right Think again

httpwwwactivistpostcom201512the-use-of-secret-courts-confirms-the-end-of-democracy-in-britainhtml

Switzerland Follows Iceland in Declaring War Against the Banksters

Iceland has gained the admiration of populists

in recent years by doing that which no other na-tion in the world seems to be willing or capable of doing prosecuting criminal bankers for engineering financial col-lapse for profit Their effective revolt against the banking class who drove the tiny nation into economic crisis in 2008 is the brightest example yet that the world does not have to be indebted in perpetuity to an austere and criminal wealthy elite

httpwwwwakingtimescom20151230switzerland-follows-iceland-in-declaring-war-against-banksters

The person in this picture is Clarence Thomas a supreme court judge of the United States Prior

to holding this position he was an assistant to State Attorney General John Danforth When Danforth was elected into the US Senate Thomas became

an attorney for Monsanto This isnrsquot the first time Monsanto has been sued and it certainly wonrsquot be the last Last week dozens of environmental activist groups farmers and sustainable food organizations joined forces at the COP21 Paris to announce that Monsanto will face international tribunal over crimes against humanity and the environment

httpwwwcollective-evolutioncom20151207monsanto-sued-for-crimes-against-humanity-at-international-criminal-court

Monsanto To Be Sued For Crimes Against Humanity At International Criminal Court

Page 9

Health

The more radiation therapy you

receive the more likely it is yoursquoll develop a second cancer caused by that radiation according

to a document[PDF] released by the American Cancer Society which admits that certain organs such as the breast and thyroid are more prone to developing a second cancer

httpwwwnaturalnewscom052316_ recurring_cancers_conventional_cancer_treatments_

American_Societyhtml

American Cancer Society admits cancer treatment causes more cancer

Many of us in the effort to

save energy and money replaced our old standard light bulbs with environmentally-friendly with the

new generation energy saving light bulbs However the new generation of energy efficient light bulbs are so toxic that the US Environmental Protection Agency created an emergency protocol you need to follow in the event of a bulb breakage due to the poison gas that is released

httpnaturalmedicationorgthe-death-over-our-heads-energy-saving-light-bulbs-are-poisonous-to-the-

brain-nervous-system-liver-kidneys-and-heart

The Death over Our Heads Energy Saving Light Bulbs Are Poisonous To the Brain

Nervous System Liver Kidneys and Heart

The dairy industry has finally been given one big swift kick where they

need it most in the scientific credibility department where top officials have been falsely linking dairy and bone strength for decades The study published by the British Medical Journal found that people donrsquot get stronger bones by eating dairy products or taking calcium

supplements Dairy products specifically milk is one of the beverages still aggressively pushed on children as a health promoting food especially relating to strong boneshttpwwwwakingtimescom20151005research-disproves-

dairy-industrys-claim-milk-makes-bones-stronger

Research Disproves Dairy Industryrsquos Claim That Milk Makes Bones Stronger

Ginger naturally contains a compound that is up to 10000 times more effective than chemotherapy drugs at killing

the cancer stem cells that make malignant tumors so dangerous according to a study published in the journal PLoS

httpwwwnaturalnewscom052009_ginger_ chemotherapy_cancer_treatmenthtml

Natural ginger is up to 10000 times more effec-tive than chemotherapy drugs at treating cancer

Science Tech amp BeyondMan Solves Teslarsquos Secret To Amplifying

Power By Nearly 5000

Jim Murray has been electrifying

the world for over 50 years His lifetime of experience has produced dozens of patents inventions

and now a truly remarkable discovery that can fundamentally change the way that human beings use energy forever Over the next several years Jim allowed his intellectual curiosity to carry him into multiple fields

httpwwwactivistpostcom201511man-solves-teslas-secret-to-amplifying-power-by-nearly-5000html

Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down

Does your government

have an Internet kill-switch Read our guide to Guerrilla Networking and be prepared for when the lines get cutThese days no popular movement goes

without an Internet presence of some kind whether itrsquos organizing on Facebook or spreading the word through Twitter And as wersquove seen in Egypt that means that your Internet connection can be the first to go

httpwwwwakingtimescom20120425get-internet-access-when-your-government-shuts-it-downThe Orbo PowerCube ldquoFree Energyrdquo

Device Could Make Batteries Obsolete

Itrsquos hard to believe that we may soon be able to purchase a portable charging device that never has to be recharged and

doesnrsquot use batteries After all these are the types of devices we read about in science fiction novels and see on sci-fi television shows But it looks like it is truly about to happen Steorn the Irish technology and development company will soon begin selling the worldrsquos first free energy device which it refers to as the Orbo PowerCube

httpenergyfanaticscom20151125orbo-powercube-free-energy-device-make-batteries-obsolete

Scientist Teleports DNA from One Location to Another

The world of science is undoubtedly becoming more mysterious by the day This is exemplified by multiple discoveries within

the realms of quantum physics parapsychology and more mdash dis-coveries that have challenged (and continue to challenge) the cur-rent framework of accepted scientific knowledge

httpenergyfanaticscom20151123scientist-teleports-dna-one-location-to-another

Page 10

By Wes Annacwwwcultureofawarenesscom

W E HEAR A LOT these days about the medicinal benefits of mari-juana which were given hardly any

attention just a few decades agoWe used to treat marijuana as a danger-

ous drug that either makes its users lazy or encourages them to try harder drugs that are actually dangerous and addicting While that kind of propaganda is still alive and well the world is slowly realizing that marijuana can actually be good for the human body

It wouldrsquove been nearly impossible to get someone to acknowledge or accept this a short time ago but with the power of the Internet and alternative media knowledge of the health benefits of cannabis has spread to the most skeptical corners of society

Well-known doctors are coming out in favour of medical marijuana and people are realizing it was a mistake to ignore scientifi-cally proven facts and countless anecdotal accounts of how the plant has helped people

The world is changing its stance on marijuana but for this article Irsquod like to put the spotlight on its cousin hemp Hemp is not an intoxicant which means you canrsquot get high from it but itrsquos illegal in the US just like marijuana

You can buy hemp products that presum-ably come from other countries but you canrsquot grow it here if you donrsquot live in a state where itrsquos legal

Hemprsquos illegal status is just as unfortu-nate as marijuanarsquos and like its psychoactive counterpart it has myriad health benefits

Irsquod like to look at some of them here because the world needs to know that the can-nabis plant is not the scourge itrsquos been made out to be for the last century

It has a lot to give to humanity and here wersquoll learn about the benefits of hemp seeds and other hemp-based foods

Rose Haney at SF Gate tells us that hemp is becoming more popular than ever for its essential nutrients

ldquoHemprsquos reputation has flourished as its health benefits continue to be revealed Hemp which has been consumed for centu-ries contains several essential nutrients for the body One particular benefit of eating hemp is that it provides protein Consuming hemp protein also offers additional nutri-tional benefits and as a result hemp has become popular with people wanting to improve their healthrdquo (1)

Itrsquos a complete source of protein which makes it a great protein alternative for vegetarians and vegans

ldquoFoods can be classi-fied as complete partial or incomplete sources of proteins In order for a food to be classi-fied as complete it must contain all eight essential amino acids Hemp is considered a complete protein because it con-tains all eight essential amino acids in suffi-cient quantities to meet the bodyrsquos needs This also makes hemp a good alternative source of protein for vegetarians and vegansrdquo (2)

Hemp protein is easy to digest unlike soy protein

ldquoHemp protein is easy to digest It contains two types of proteins edestin and al-bumin which are known as globular proteins Globular proteins dissolve easily so they are

readily accessible for the body to use This is in contrast to soy protein for example which can be more difficult for the body to digest Soy contains inhibitors that block the action of trypsin and other enzymes that are needed to break down protein This can often result in unwanted bloating and gasrdquo (3)

Hemp gives us the protein we need ndash protein thatrsquos easier to digest than what we get from soy ndash without the saturated fats we

get from other popular protein sources like meat and dairy

ldquoDairy products and red meat are good sources of protein

However they can be high in saturated fat Hemp protein is low in saturated fat Further-more it contains the essen-

tial fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6 in an optimal three- to-

one ratioldquoAccording to The Office of

Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health eating these essential fatty acids in an optimal ratio reduces risks for heart attack cardiovascular problems athero-sclerosis and certain types of cancer

ldquoConsuming unsaturated fats is also associated with a reduced risk for dementia The lsquoJournal of Alzheimerrsquos Diseasersquo revealed in a 2010 article that elderly people with diets including greater amounts of unsaturated fats had a reduced risk for memory impairment and the later development of dementiardquo (4)

Like the miracle plant it is hemp is even good for the environment

ldquoThe production of hemp protein on a large scale is earth friendly It grows tall and fast and its dense growth kills weeds Therefore the use of pesticides or herbicides is unnecessary when growing hemp Addition-ally Manitoba Harvest a hemp producer reports that hemp is a sustainable lsquogreenrsquo product even when produced on a large scale Compared to other crops growing hemp is more cost effective and less damaging to the environmentrdquo (5)

Sandeep Godiyal at Natural News ex-plains how hemp is good for the heart

ldquoHemp seeds contain essential fatty acids that can reduce blood cholesterol This keeps the heart healthy and also prevents plaque buildup in the arteries which can ultimately lead to heart attack and strokes Its fatty acids also reduce inflammation that can cause high blood pressure and poor blood circulation Therefore hemp can significantly reduce the workload on your heartrdquo (6)

Itrsquos not just good for the heart those es-sential fatty acids help the brain too

ldquoYour brain has lot of fatty acids found in hemp Therefore regular consumption of hemp can prevent diseases such as Parkin-sonrsquos and Alzheimerrsquos and can also improve your memory Hemp seeds can also alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression and can improve your moodrdquo (7)

Apparently itrsquos even good for your skinldquoHemp oil is mostly used in high-end

cosmetic products such as skin lotions soaps and lip balms This is mainly because this oil penetrates the inner layers of the skin and promotes vigorous cell growth for a smoother and softer skin Hemp is also good for clearing up skin disorders such as psoriasis eczema

Hemp is healthySurprising Health Benefits Of Hemp

See ldquoHEMPrdquo on page 23

Page 11

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COULD THE VERY plant that for de-cades was accused

of ldquofryingrdquo usersrsquo brains be far superior to pharmaceu-ticals in treating the ldquoincur-ablerdquo neurodegenerative condition known as Parkin-sonrsquos disease

Despite the political controversy surrounding medical marijuana use in the country research has begun to emerge showing that a component of this plant known as cannabidiol (CBD) and which does not have the controver-sial psychoactive properties associated with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) may have a wide range of therapeutic applica-tions including treating conditions that are refractory to conventional drug-based approaches

One such condition is Parkinsonrsquos disease to which there is at present no effective conventional treatment In fact the primary treatment involves dopamine increasing drugs that also increase a neurotoxic metabolite known as with 6-hydroxy-dopamine and which therefore can actually accelerate the progression of the disease This is why natural alternatives that are safe effec-tive and backed up by scientific evi-dence are so needed today Thankfully preclinical research on cannabidiol has already revealed some promising results

including two studies in animal models of Parkinsonrsquos disease (PD) assessing its neuroprotective properties

ldquoIn the first one Lastres-Becker et al (2005) showed that the admin-istration of CBD counteracted neuro-degeneration caused by the injection of 6-hydroxy-dopamine in the medial prosencephalic bundle an effect that could be related to the modulation of glial cells and to antioxidant effects (Lastres- Becker et al 2005) In the next year Garcia-Arencibia et al (2007) tested many cannabinoid compounds following the lesion of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra with 6-hydroxy-dopamine and found that the acute administration of CBD seemed to have a neuroprotective action nonethe-less the administration of CBD one week

after the lesion had no significant effects (Garcia-Arencibia et al 2007) This study also pointed to a possible anti-oxidant effect with the upregulation of mRNA of the enzyme Cu-Zn-superoxide dismutase following the administration of CBDrdquo [1]

In addition to these animal studies the following three human clinical trials have been conducted to evaluate can-nabidiolrsquos neuroprotective effects

A 2006 study published in Bio-logical Psychology titled ldquoDorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex N-AcetylaspartateTotal Creatine (NAAtCr) Loss in Male Recreational Cannabis Usersrdquo investi-gated the N-acetylaspartate to creatine ratios (NAACr) in the brain of regular cannabis users through magnetic reso-nance spectroscopy (H1-MRS) to assess the neurotoxic and neuroprotective ef-fects of cannabinoids present in the drug and found a strong positive correlation between CBD and NAACr in the globus pallidus and putamen[2] According to the study ldquothe globus pallidum is the region with the highest amount of CB1-receptors in the brain and the target of neurostimulation in patients with Parkinsonrsquos disease who developed a strong tremor Our MRSI results support a positive effect of CBD on the putamenglobus pallidum region in cannabis use

Therefore it may be promising to test a possible influence of the nonpsycho-tropic CBD in the onset of Parkinsonrsquos diseaserdquo

A 2009 study published in the Jour-nal of Psychopharmacology titled ldquoCan-nabidiol for the treatment of psychosis in Parkinsonrsquos diseaserdquo[3] assessed the therapeutic use and neuroprotec-tive effect of CBD in PD patients The open label study was conducted with six patients with PD-related psychosis They were administered CBD at doses ranging from 150 mg in the first week to 400 mg in the fourth and last week of treatment (doses were adjusted to optimize the clinical response) The study reported significant improvements in psychosis as well as in the total scores of a scale that measures general symptoms of PD (Unified Parkinsonrsquos disease rating scale ndash UPDRS)

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology titled ldquoEffects of cannabidiol in the treatment of patients with Parkinsonrsquos disease an exploratory double-blind trialrdquo evaluated the effects of cannabidiol in Parkinsonrsquos disease patients dividing 21 patients into 3 groups of 7 receiving either placebo

Pot for Parkinsonrsquos

See ldquoPARKINSONrsquoSrdquo on page 23

The Scientific Evidence Is Compelling

Page 12

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Freedom of the Press

by Zen Gardnerwwwzengardenercom

I ALWAYS FIND it interesting that people blame corporate greed for our overall condition Sure itrsquos a major factor at one

level but itrsquos just an obvious outcropping of something much much deeper and sadly not that many are willing to go there

That the entire world system is built on a capitalist system in one form or another is mind-boggling Defying our innate conscious awareness to the contrary the signal has been given and repeatedly endorsed as well as

crassly promoted that we need to gain off of each other in each and every transaction every exchange in

a no holds barred dog eat dog environmentOne look at the marketing world and you

get the picture where the supposed ldquofittestrdquo come out on top

This is how and why the populace acqui-esces to domination by the few ldquoTheyrsquore just good at what they do Theyrsquore smarter and more motivated than the rest of us so surely they deserve to be winners in the gamerdquo

Humanityrsquos being told how the game works and that this is your only option ldquoItrsquos just the way it is so get to work and earn your salary then invest in the game and try to get ahead and make a name and lots of money for yourselfrdquo At which point the sharks devour the unsuspecting guppy

Group absolved endemic greed doesnrsquot make it right however justified by any stretch of the imagination

The Corporate ldquoGrowthrdquo Model

Itrsquos fully accepted that corporations need

to grow for their good for our good or so wersquore told Itrsquos a fear based econo-survivalist psychological scam Who says they need to constantly make more for their investorsrsquo interests or otherwise Yet this is considered healthy in a capitalistic system under the guise of increased jobs and benefits and a prosperous economy

Do the employees really benefit Do the consumers who go increasingly into debt try-ing to catch the materialist carrot benefit Who really benefits

Yet this model is accepted carte blanche as a driving force for a healthy economy If you stand back to think about it outside of all this financial gibberish itrsquos completely destructive enslaving insanity for the good of the few And yet this model is mimicked as if itrsquos the paradigm of truth through every level of Pavlovian entrained economic and interpersonal commerce engagement

Getting to the Root of the Problem

The entire system is built on a background of assumed scarcity that therersquos not enough to go around so unless you push and shove your way into a place where you ldquoearnrdquo your keep and beat those around you yoursquoll be hung out to dry

Clever bastards All while they sit at the top of the food chain devouring their prey

Whatrsquos even more surreal is how those who ldquosucceedrdquo in making a lot of money are then considered authorities on any and every subject Just look at the Rockefeller family one such horror show among many screwing their way up the capitalist ladder who then set up think tanks foundations and whatnot to influence the course of humanity according to their whims

What or who made them the ldquowise onesrdquo to rule over us Guess what Endorsed greed abject avarice and the resultant intoxicating money and power in the hands of a few

Look at creeps like George Soros or Bill Gates and a plethora of other unelected pluto-crats inserted intellectuals and accepted moral and geopolitical authorities like the Pope lap dog Kissinger or voice pet Brzezinski and the panoram a of puppet heads of state Itrsquos insane Never mind the Rothchilds Carne-gies Morgans the so-called royal families of Europe such as the Windsors and House of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands the Vatican or whomever is hoarding the really big bucks

The message is the same in their minds we and our world are owned And they ainrsquot sharing nothing with the rest of us Why Apparently we donrsquot deserve it Do you like that fate and out-come ldquoEveryone else is accepting it so it must be OKrdquohellipreasons the stilted servant

Greed mdash A Name You Can Trust

Yoursquove all heard the outlandish sta-

tistics about how few have so much in this world Yet it is by and large accepted by quiet submission incredible as that may seem The problem is humanityrsquos acquies-cence to a rigged system While the wealth of some of these bloodline families bank-ing moguls and mega rich corporate thugs could feed the poor of the earth many times over they sit on their booty and only get more oppressive

This brings us to the psychopathy of greed amongst many other issues Greed is insatiable It is a vampiric dynamic It only sucks and is never satisfied Wealth soon takes a back seat to power and control their ultimate aphrodisiac This is what it all leads to And this reptilian archontic urge is never satisfied it always wants more at any cost to the hosts of these parasites

The issue is that psychopathy especially in positions of power is not just rampant but so readily accepted Thatrsquos where the problem exponentially compounds

This is the most heartbreaking aspect to all of this how humanity has bought into their program and replicates these unnatural urges at every level of society which of course their system is designed to do And while the masses abuse each other in this same lower vibrational parasitic frequency no one is conscious enough to realize their oppressive trendsetters are feeding off of all of humanity by the very meme theyrsquove put into place

If people woke up to that one fact wersquod have an overnight revolution of disengagement causing a massive resetting of how society should and could cooperate

Conclusion mdash The 5 Step Program

Parasitic forces build parasitic institutions

See ldquoZEN GARDENERrdquo on page 14

The Psychopathy of

Greed

Page 13

By Gary lsquoZrsquo McGeewwwwakingtimescom

ldquoMAKE NO MISTAKE about it ndash enlightenment is a destruc-tive process It has nothing to

do with becoming better or being happier En-lightenment is the crumbling away of untruth Itrsquos seeing through the facade of pretence Itrsquos the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be truerdquo ndashAdyashanti

The first thing to remember here at the outset is that enlightenment is not a destina-tion but a direction It is not a truth but a pro-cess It is both imaginary and real It is not an either-or but a both-and It is only achievable when it is understood that it is an unachiev-able thing Once we can let go of the need to achieve it then we free ourselves to allow the process to unfold and we become the achiev-ing It is the constantly expanding horizon of human flourishing But it can hurt like hell

Indeed enlightenment is no walk in the park The first teacher met on the path toward enlightenment tends to be Pain itself Enlighten-ment is both a reckoning and a wrecking both an expansion and an annihilation The follow-ing four steps are just the tip of a much deeper iceberg of trials and tribulations fraught with menacing thresholds and sinister Rubicons Thin-skinned faint-of-heart status-quo-junkies addicted to comfort need not apply And if you decide to apply leave your invulnerability be-hind Itrsquos an illusion anyway Here then are four of the scariest but secretly wonderful steps one can take on the path toward enlightenment

1 Vulnerability and Self-Honesty

ldquoTherersquos a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enoughrdquo ndashAlain de Botton

Vulnerability is downright scary But in order to gain the ability to learn from our mis-takes to have fun with our inherent hypocrisy and to have a good sense of humor in regards to our fallibility as an imperfect species we must first have the capacity to be vulnerable which requires brutal self-honesty and ruthless self-interrogation

Brutal self-honesty and ruthless self-inter-rogation forces us to face our own demons It pushes us to confront our most personal foibles fallibilities and unhealthy propensities and to question all authorities especially our own It forces our head over the abyss of the human condition searing our soul with the unavoidable blazing flame of truth impermanence It slaps

us across the face with its absolute mockery of our happiness ever being a thing that can be per-manent It insouciantly rattles off the almighty cosmic joke making damn certain we realize wersquore the butt-end of that joke

Which is why a particularly effective strat-egy at achieving a state of vulnerability and self-honesty is to use our sense of humour When we laugh at ourselves we loosen ourselves up The screws of our seriousness get unscrewed by the genius of our humorous sincerity We suddenly go from being the butt-end of the joke to laughing at the joke thus turning the tables on the jokersquos power over us and thus on power itself When we can laugh at ourselves we are allowing ourselves to be ldquoweirdrdquo to tackle the dilemma of the self from another angle to impose a state of existential vulnerability that transforms the soul into a prism where the light of truth can shine through and take the form of the rainbow of self-honesty

And Pain is the terribly-beautiful shiny-red thorny and jagged little pill that we learn to swallow again and again with a devil-may-care spiritually masochistic smile on our all-too-human faces Bottoms up

2 Swallowing the Jagged Red Pill of Truth

ldquoThe less people know the more stub-bornly they know itrdquo ndashOsho

Without the painful red pill of truth wersquore stuck with the all-too-comfortable blue pill of deception The blue pill gets stuck in our throat causing no end of blockages suppressions oppressions and depressions The blue pill is a beacon of deception lodged in our throat chakra jamming all frequencies and preventing us from speaking our truth and from being impeccable with our word The blue pill is a magnet for lies And lies are sexy scandalous scoundrels They float around in a foggy smoke seducing us with false kindness kissing us just the right way and lulling us into brain-washable complacency and a heightened state of malleability Under the blue pillrsquos seduction we are pawns wallowing in self-incurred immaturity Taking the red pill dislodges the blue pill thus clearing the passage and open-ing all frequencies to the truth

ldquoEnlightenment is manrsquos emergence from self-incurred immaturity Immaturity is the in-ability to use onersquos own understanding without the guidance of anotherrdquo ndashImmanuel Kant

But seeker of enlightenment beware particularly of the teacher who longs to jam even the red pill down your throat The choice must be yours and yours alone A good teacher

will guide you to the red pill but heshe should never force it down your throat Like Adyas-hanti said ldquoMy speaking is meant to shake you awake not to tell you how to dream betterrdquo You have to want to dream better first

ldquoThe function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled so much as to make settled things strangerdquo ndashG K Chester-ton

Swallowing the red pill is a frightening prospect It shatters world views and dissolves certainty It replaces answers with questions It upends all apple carts psychological physical and spiritual It reconditions preconditioning

It cleanses the doors of perception It shatters the glassy essence of cognitive dissonance the shards of which splinter off and sting like mad in the fleshy heart of truth It leaves your soul naked vulnerable and blank-slated in the an-gry eye of an apocalyptic existential-hurricane of uncertainty It reveals that you were always God in hiding And the heavy burden of that prospect alone can be a soul-crushing responsi-bility But like Seneca said ldquoA gem cannot be polished without friction nor a man perfected without trialsrdquo

3 Ego Annihilation

ldquoThere are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path Donrsquot allow yourself to become one of themrdquo mdash Ralph Marsten

The 4 Scariest (But Secretly Wonderful)Steps toward Enlightenment

See ldquoENLIGHTENMENTrdquo on page 24

and encourage the same in others while maintaining their domi-nance Be it corporatism capitalism communism and social-ism fractional banking or base line competition for resources and day to day needs this system is rigged to the core

Agreeing to help foment this dog-eat-dog mentality under the guise of survival or ldquorightful competitionrdquo only perpetuates the problem

To become free and help build the better world we know exists requires conscious disconnection with this systemic disease It begins in both small and big steps But the underlying propellant towards change is identifying the problem for what it is A parasitic disease promulgated by

those who stand to gain and realizing their mindset is a pathological direly destructive one that seeks to exert its twisted idea of oligarchical as well as personal control at any expense

Step Up

First do your part Realize what is transpiring before your eyes no matter how horrid it may first appear

Second disengage in any and every way possible Just take steps in that direction and the mounting freedom it engenders will empower you to take the next step

Third tell others ndash like a house afire Use wisdom but never hold back The hour is late as they are entering their last phases of implementable programs and are getting desperate to throttle humanityrsquos awakening

Fourth ndash stand strong in your convictions Feed those convictions strengthen them and encourage the same in others as the mainstream of society is a nasty polluted river we must avoid resist oppose and most of all penetrate and reverse with everything in us

Fifth ndash Stand fast in your convictions Live a life commit-ted to your newfound awakened understanding fearlessly The presence of awakened individuals does more than wersquoll ever know

See greed for what it is but most of all donrsquot comply with their fabricated hierarchical world of abuse Itrsquos fraudulent manipulative destructive and a de facto form of voluntary enslavement

See the world for what it has become But more impor-tantly see the world as it should be and operate within that paradigm Their fabricated world of lies will then crumble at our feet

Much love ZenZenGardnercom

Page 14

By Karen Fosterwwwwakingtimescom

MOST EDUCATIONAL AND government institutions around the world have a very poor track

record when it comes to influencing the practical habits that keep their popula-tions healthy They say we are destined for disease depending on our genetics and biology without ever addressing some of the most significant determinants that shape our health

1) What Your Skin Absorbs

Our skinrsquos production of vitamin D dramatically influences our health It is influenced by age (people ages 65 and over generate only one-fourth as much as peo-ple in their 20s do) skin colour (African Americans have on average about half as much vitamin D in their blood as white Americans) and sunscreen use (slather on sunscreen in the summer and yoursquore guar-anteed to eliminate prime opportunities to soak in Vitamin D) Spraying toxic bug repellents creams and other cosmetics influence your immunity Children have a large body surface area and tender skin making them more prone to cross-skin ab-sorption People over 65 tend to have thin-ner skin and have had years of exposure to sun which also makes their skin absorb more of these chemicals The last thing you should be doing after 60 is applying cosmetics moisturizers (unless they are natural) makeup and using conventional shampoos and conditioners Researchers have discovered specific molecular signal-ing events by which vitamin D via skin production prevents inflammation In ex-periments many researchers have shown that low levels of Vitamin D comparable to levels found in millions of people failed

to inhibit the inflammatory cascadendasha series of rapid biochemical events which propagates and matures the inflammatory response within the immune system

2) What You Ingest

These days what you are not eating is far more important than what you are Artificial flavors colors preservatives emulsifiers sweeteners have saturated the food supply for more than four decades Avoiding these ingredients goes a long way in at least preventing toxic overloads Trying to consume organic produce and avoiding glyphosate driven GMOs may very well add many years to our lives Some nutrients such as wheat and soy are practically unavoidable when eating any kind of processed foods and each is pro-foundly inflammatory immunotoxic and neurotoxic When most people remove these from their diets they lose weight decrease inflammation and often increase the functionality of their immune system The nutritional quality of our foods influ-ences the nutritional status and immune system of the nation Eliminating vaccina-tions medications and other artificially manufactured substances only improves our health in the long-term Although diet plays an integral role in the functioning of our immune system it is only one of many elements that contribute to its full function

3) What You Breathe

The health effects linked to exposure of even short-term fine particle pollution are highly detrimental to human health They include nonfatal heart attacks increased hospital admissions emergency room (ER) visits and doctors visits for lung diseases increases hospital admissions

and ER visits for cardiovascular diseases increased respiratory symptoms such as coughing wheezing and shortness of breath and lung function changes What you breathe influences the full gamut of physiological and cellular processes that allow you to keep living The cleaner your air the more functional your immune system

4) How Much You Move

Regular physical activity fitness and exercise are critically important for the immune system of people of all ages Research has demonstrated that virtually all individuals can benefit from regular physical activity whether they partici-pate in vigorous exercise or some type of moderate health-enhancing physical activity Even among frail and very old adults mobility and functioning can be improved through physical activity It has been shown to reduce the morbidity and mortality from many chronic diseases and immune functioning is directly corre-lated to how much we move Studies have linked sedentary lifestyles to more than 25 percent of deaths from major chronic dis-eases where immunity was fully impaired Millions suffer from chronic illnesses that can be prevented or improved through regular physical activity which can be any-thing from walking to swimming riding a bike or engaging in team sports

5) What You Think

Perhaps the most significant factor in our state of health is what we think and feel about our lives and ourselves Epigenetics is the phenomena whereby ge-netically identical cells express their genes differently resulting in different physical traits Biologists have suspected for years

that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level The different kinds of cells in our bodies provide an example Skin cells and brain cells have different forms and functions despite hav-ing exactly the same DNA There must be mechanismsndashother than DNAndashthat make sure skin cells stay skin cells when they divide According to Dr Bruce Lipton gene activity can change on a daily basis If the perception in your mind is reflected in the chemistry of your body and if your nervous system reads and interprets the environment and then controls the bloodrsquos chemistry then you can literally change the fate of your cells by altering your thoughts Our genes are quite dynamic in their expression and the calmness of our mind can actually have a potential influ-ence on their expression

ldquoThe major problem is that people are aware of their conscious beliefs and behaviours but not of subconscious beliefs and behaviours Most people donrsquot even acknowledge that their subconscious mind is at play when the fact is that the subconscious mind is a million times more powerful than the conscious mind and that we operate 95 to 99 percent of our lives from subconscious programsrdquo says Lipton

The new science of epigenetics prom-ises that every person on the planet has the opportunity to become who they really are complete with unimaginable power and the ability to operate from and go for the highest possibilities including healing our bodies and our culture and living in peace

Sources wiscedu bmjcom nlmnihgov bruceliptoncom ts-siorg

Disclaimer This article is not intended to provide medical advice diag-nosis or treatment Views expressed here often reflect those of The New Agora and its staff Go figure

These 5 Things Will Influence Your Health More Than Anything Else In Your Life

Zen Gardenerfrom page 12

Page 15

By Alex Pietrowskiwwwpreventdiseasecom

NO ONE REALLY KNOWS the true cause of autism but the numbers are rising with approxi-

mately 1 in 50 school-aged children in the United States diagnosed with autism (2011) Taking into account that in 2007 this ratio was at 1 in 87 children by 2025 it is predicted that half of United States children will have autism

Effective treatment for autism is des-perately needed but the medical establish-ment has been largely unsuccessful This is why parents of autistic children such as Kerri Rivera often have no choice but to take matters into their own hands when learning to cope with raising an autistic child To share her amazing discoveries in treating autism with the world she wrote the book Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism which explains the treatment protocol she developed

Rivera developed the Chlorine Dioxide (CD) autism treatment protocol that ad-dresses the presence of pathogens such as fungi bacteria heavy metals parasites candida etc found in almost every child with autism She believes that CD treatment effectively kills off these pathogens that are causing inflammation and autoimmune re-sponse which in turn manifest themselves into a complex of symptoms which we call autism that produce near complete impair-ment of social interactions

Riverarsquos treatment has reportedly re-sulted in the recovery of over one hundred autistic children and many parents would even consider her protocol to a possible autism cure

In her book Rivera statesToday more than 115 children glob-

ally have lost their diagnosis of autism (meaning an ATEC score of under 10

points) Additionally thousands of children around the globe have dropped points on their ATEC and are moving towards recovery 27 children in less than 1 year in Venezuela alone lost their diagnosis of autism with a combination of diet CD and ocean water to the surprise of the doctors who diagnosed them in the first place Many of those same doctors are now looking at CD for other patients

Update More recently Rivera claimed 164 children were cured using her treatment via her Facebook page although the page is no longer active

Note ATEC stands for Autism Treat-ment Evaluation Checklist

Dr Lorna B Oritz President of Curando el Autismo a non-profit orga-nization dedicated to bringing informa-tion about successful autism treatments in Spanish to Hispanic families believes Rivera is one of the first courageous leaders who have dedicated their lives to understanding the mysterious connection between the immune system the brain and human behaviour

ldquoKerrirsquos protocols have been indis-pensable to the full recovery of many of the kids in our Cuarando de Autismo Foundation These protocols represent a readily available and effective solution to alleviate most of the pathogenic insults to the immune systemrdquo

Why are potential solutions such as Riverarsquos treatment for autism often ignored or ridiculed by the medical establishment

Currently there is no mainstream

support for research into why CD helps treat the symptoms known as autism The medical establishment is profit centered and acceptable treatments and cures must pass through an impossible maze of corpo-rate competition and government red tape Simple affordable solutions to complex problems are not elevated and promoted in this environment These types of solu-tions continue to also find it difficult to receive approval among medical journals which by the way are compromised and increasingly funded by drug companies

Herersquos Riverarsquos takeThe development of this protocol

has been a growing grass roots effort in sharp contrast to how modern medicine usually works The reason for this is clear Modern medicine has not really helped to heal autism and may very well be part of its cause While we donrsquot have any double blind studies to rest on we do have a slew of anecdotal evidence which may not mean much to those in the arena of modern medicine or modern science that doesnrsquot make it any less real

Grass roots movements such as the parents following Riverarsquos CD treatment for autism are becoming more common and are creating a paradigm shift in the way that the world views the role of mainstream medicine in treating autism Many in the medical profession scrutinize this type of behaviour and even regard it as dangerous Perhaps if medical research-ers were keener on evaluating all possible treatments not just those that are sure to

result in giant profits parents would have less need to find their own solutions to liv-ing with children with autism

Watch Kerri Rivera explaining her CD autism treatment protocol and why it works as presented at the 2015 Autis-mOne Conference

wwwyoutubecomwatchfeature= player_embeddedampv=LWrCEq_8CWY

About the Author

Alex Pietrowski is an artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom to enjoy a healthy lifestyle He is a staff writer for Waking-Timescom and Offgrid Outpost a pro-vider of storable food and emergency kits Alex is an avid student of Yoga and life

Sources

Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism by Kerri Rivera

Disclaimer This article is not intended to provide medical advice diagnosis or treat-ment Views expressed here do not necessar-ily reflect those of WakingTimes or its staff

This article (Mother of Autistic Boy Discovers Treatment That Cures Hun-dreds) was originally created and pub-lished by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Alex Pietrowski and WakingTimescom It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution author bio and this copyright statement

Mother of Autistic Boy Discovers Treatment That Cures Hundreds

Page 16

By Nikkie Grayhttpnexusilluminatiblogspotca

NOW MORE THAN ever before our society is seeing the need to take mat-ters into our own hands and not rely

on others to get the job done for us The topic of un-schooling has become quite popular and with good reason

According to Wikipedia ldquoUnschooling is an educational method and philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a pri-mary means for learning Unschooling students learn through their natural life experiences including play household responsibilities personal interests and curiosity internships and work experience travel books elective classes family mentors and social interac-tion Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves believing that the most personal learning is the more meaningful well understood and there-fore useful it is to the child While courses may occasionally be taken unschooling questions the usefulness of standard curricula conventional grading methods and other fea-tures of traditional schooling in the education of each unique childrdquo

I couldnrsquot agree more Itrsquos about taking the reigns in our childrenrsquos education to ensure that they are not just getting a good one but they have the opportunity to see the great joy of learning After six years of leaving it up to the system my son lost that great joy

All Children Love To Learn

All kids love to learn and my son was not excluded from that After a couple years of school I noticed that school didnrsquot feel like a place of learning for him Learning was something that naturally manifested into his life I taught him sign language before he ever said his first word He loved books songs art counting and all the stuff a child his age liked to learn about

As early as grade one he began show-ing signs that he would prefer not to go there Recently I saw an episode of The Simpsons titled lsquoLisarsquos Saxrsquo from Season 9 which shows a flashback to Bartrsquos first day of kin-dergarten Some of you may know the one In the episode Bart starts his first day saying ldquoSchool will be funrdquo Shortly after his initial enthusiasm is crushed by an uncaring and bit-ter teacher who says that he would be a failure at life and he draws a violent sketch of his feelings I feel thatrsquos what it was like for my son (and many other kids) when they entered school for the first time They go in with enthusiasm and excitement and end up with disdain and confusion

In grade four he began to ask me ques-tions regarding the structure of school He told me he didnrsquot like that the kids were constantly being told to be quiet and sit still He didnrsquot understand why he couldnrsquot eat when he was hungry He was confused why he couldnrsquot

learn about the things that he liked or was in-terested in He asked why the teachers stopped using games and songs and kept playtime to a scheduled time once a week Prompted by my sonrsquos inquires I was compelled to do research about public education and its origins which I will share my findings later in this article

When my son was in grade 5 I noticed that he didnrsquot understand basic math concepts Concerned I reached out to his teacher who told me that she hadnrsquot noticed She said she would look into it and I put my faith in her that she would get to the bottom of the problem She never did and before I could follow up with her as to why nothing had been done the teachers went on strike until the following school year My son entered grade 6 and more problems regarding school began to arise

The Move That Changed Our Lives

By February of this year school had created a horrible rift in our home life When I would try to help my son with his homework he would become extremely emotional and shut down This made it almost impossible to help him Eventually he had an emotional breakdown He began by telling me that he was not going back to school After asking him why he felt so strongly about this he listed nu-merous reasons over the course of two hours

The things he brought up were that he felt like school was militarized When asking why he felt like that he said because of the rules the loud sound of the bell and that they made them run outside in the winter rain and cold every-day even if they didnrsquot want to He felt like school was boring because he never had the opportunity to learn what he was interested in How many of you reading this ask your chil-dren what they learned about in school when they come home and they reply with ldquoNoth-ingrdquo or ldquoBoring stuffrdquo My son disagreed with how the kids were treated specifically that the teachers were above the students and that they were like masters and the kids were like slaves (his words) He didnrsquot feel like what he was learning about would benefit him in any way not now not ever He felt stupid and the

pressure of ldquocompetingrdquo with his peers was unbearable

This incident deeply saddened me From what I could see my baby was suffering and as his mother it was my duty to find a solution to this and I feel I have I had been toying with the idea of home education for years Every day after school I would tutor my son on things he would never learn while attending school which I think was the basis for him to be able to have an awareness that something just wasnrsquot right at that place I so badly wanted him to see the joy of learning and how beneficial it is to be educated but felt with the lack of funding and set curriculum that was not possible After laying out my options with home education and studying the philosophies and methods of un-schooling I pulled my son from the school

The Teachers Know That Public Education Is Horribly Flawed

I sent an email to his teacher explaining a bit about why I was taking my son out of public education which prompted the teacher to call me We had a very long enlightening conversation regarding the school system The teacher told me that he completely supported and agreed with my decision to educate my son at home He knew that the system was outdated at best and the kids are not benefiting from it in anyway He stated that most kids in his class were having meltdowns at home and in school regarding it He agreed with me that the system doesnrsquot teach the kids how to be critical thinkers and that can be very dangerous for a society as a whole

He told me that he would not be putting his kids in public education That statement alone was enough to tell me I was doing the right thing My son was in a split class and had two teachers Between the two teachers they shared 65 students That is unbelievable The teacher stated that he so badly wants to teach but itrsquos so conflicting because as a teacher his hands are tied He has to stick to a set curricu-lum and canrsquot really go outside of it He said that there literally is no funding Most teachers

pay for a lot of school supplies out of their own pockets This morning I read a Polk county public school teacherrsquos letter of resignation [httpwusfnewswusfusfedupostpolk-teach-ers-resignation-letter-hits-nervestream0) To me itrsquos more proof that the teachers know that the system is horribly flawed

How My Sonrsquos Life Has Changed

Since we started our journey of un-schooling he now understands basic math concepts His mood has also improved greatly When I first caught wind to him being behind I knew that it stemmed from his grade two year and he couldnrsquot get caught up because the teachers unfortunately donrsquot do one-on-one help He got behind in the first place because he was being bullied and his teacher at the time was also doing questionable things like not letting him go to the bathroom That was a bad year for him I know that experience had a part in his perception of school and him falling behind Regardless nothing was done on the teacherrsquos part to rectify the problem and how could they if they donrsquot have the time or re-sources to give one-on-one help The principal of my sonrsquos school said that they donrsquot offer one-on-one help at that school and most public schools

The change from my son while he was in public school to un-schooling is like night and day Now he has complete say in what he learns about and because I know his interests I can incorporate them into all subjects that hersquos doing for that week For example he is completely obsessed with Samurais So he completed math worksheets that had samurais on them we explored the science of making katana swords the geography of Japan the his-tory of the Edo period (time of the Samurais) writing assignments based on monks and Bud-dhism the culture of Japan throughout history

Un-School My Son

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and now and lots more I couldnrsquot believe how I could incorporate samurais into every single subject

Eventually he started having self-directed days where he is his own teacher He has the reigns and can decide what pace to go at and how much he wants to complete in one day Some people have asked me if he does anything on the days when wersquore not working together Through un-schooling he has learned the importance and magic of learning Itrsquos all centered on his interests passions and curiosi-ties so of course he does He has the aware-ness that learning can manifest in anything Whether itrsquos practicing his archery tending to the plants cooking travelling engaging in his passions and spending time with the ones he loves he knows anything he engages himself in can teach him When he was in school he never set goals Since wersquove been working together he sets goals and achieves them all the time We have no set curriculum he is in control with me as a guide

The greatest thing that Irsquove learned through this experience is that we must be engaged in our childrenrsquos learning Even if un-schooling doesnrsquot seem like an option We canrsquot expect that all their education needs will be met at school For example the things he has learned through un-schooling that he could not learn while attending public education in-clude cooking the Japanese language Nikola Tesla how to take notes the power of one philosophy philosophers astronomy Gandhi (and other greats like him) quantum physics Buddhism Jesus yoga meditation critical thinking archery how to grow food laws of attraction the power of gratitude wilderness survival various conscious documentaries like ldquoI Amrdquo in depth political history and how so-ciety was built natural healing and medicines knowledge of self and so so so much more

As a parent and an enthusiastic student of the universe I believe all these things and more should be taught through public education We must fill in the gaps whatever way we can in our current situations The system is broken and the children are suffering

More Evidence

Jeff Bliss ndash A Voice From The Front Lineswwwyoutubecomwatchv=iflIOklflrgHackschooling makes me happywwwyoutubecomwatchv=h11u3vtcpaYValedictorian Speaks Out Against Schoolingwwwyoutubecomwatchv=9M4tdMsg3tsFourth grade student sounds off on state testingwwwyoutubecomwatchv=ogBuz4dU5Ew

What Is The Solution

Irsquom all about creating sustainable solu-tions that we can start implementing today I wanted to share my story about my son in hopes that it will help other parents who are watching their children suffer in the school system and to know that there are other op-tions I believe that our children are the future and as such it is our duty to make sure they have not just a good education but an inspiring and enlightening one so they donrsquot make the same mistakes my generation and generations before me have made

There has been a large increase on dis-cussions regarding public education and the effect itrsquos having on our children I personally believe that the whole system needs to be changed Itrsquos outdated and has sinister roots We have the power to change things and talk-ing about the solutions is a good start

Recently I read an article titled lsquoWhy every parent should consider un-schoolingrsquo In it it states that with programs like No Child Left Behind (millions of children have actually been left behind) and Common Core (otherwise known as Com-mon Conformity) in the United States parents are finding the educational climate so unac-ceptable that they are willing to take a radically different path Upon reading that I was reminded of another article I read regarding director James Cameron (Titantic Avatar) and his wife Suzy Cameron creat-ing an innovative school called Muse The concept behind MUSE

came about after Suzy a global environmental activist mother of 5 and proud wife grew tired of watching her older children struggle in the traditional education system and sought an alternative and more environmentally aware option

I definitely think creating new schools with the basis of the ldquoun-schoolingrdquo philoso-phy is what we need but for many parents that can seem like light years away especially when our children are suffering now Irsquove writ-ten many articles on how any parent can adopt the philosophies of un-schooling or home education even if they have to work during the day There is always a way It really depends on how much work you are willing to put in I will list the articles below as well as some other resources about un-schooling I hope they are helpful for those who are consider-ing like I was Above all I think if we work together we can create a better happier and more sustainable world for ourselves and gen-erations to come and I believe the key to this is conscious education rooted from passion and expansion with no child ever being excluded or left behind

Un-Schooling Resources

For Those Who Are Considering Home Educationhttpsinsightfulenlightenmentwordpresscom20150603for-those-who-are-considering-home-educa-tion-for-their-

childrenHome Education For The Conscious Parenthttpsinsightfulenlightenmentwordpresscom20150625home-education-for-the-conscious-parent

Dayna Martin is an activist educa-tor and author of Radical Unschooling A Revolution Has Begun She does Unschooling and Peaceful Parenting coaching You can learn more about Dayna at her website httpdaynamartincom

Peter Gray Ph D research professor at Boston College is author of Free to Learn (Basic Books 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers a college textbook now in its 7th edition) He has conducted and published research in comparative evolutionary devel-opmental and educational psychology He did his undergraduate study at Columbia Univer-sity and earned a PhD in biological sciences at Rockefeller University His current research and writing focus primarily on childrenrsquos natu-ral ways of learning and the life-long value of play You can learn more about Peter and his work at this website httpwwwfreetolearn-bookcom

For sources and linkshttpnexusilluminatiblogspot

ca201512why-i-chose-to-un-school-my-sonhtml

From Collective Evolution httpwwwcollective-evolutioncom20151105

why-i-chose-to-un-school-my-sonFor more information about edumacayshun see

httpnexusillumi-natiblogspot

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cation

I so badly wanted him to see the joy of learning and how beneficial it is to be educated but felt with the lack of funding and set curriculum that was not possible After laying out my options with home

education and studying the philosophies and methods of un-schooling I pulled my son from the school

Page 18

ldquoEvery step forward means tearing oneself lose from the maternal

womb of unconsciousness in which the mass of men dwellsrdquo

mdash Carl Jung The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man

By Dylan Charleswwwwakingtimescom

ON THE JOURNEY OF LIFE many of the blessings that steer you towards the right path and

keep you on that path often appear at first as personal crises A challenge to your well-being is precisely what it takes to catalyze lasting and meaningful personal transformation and you must awaken and overcome facing the worst of yourself in order to discover the better version of yourself in waiting

When I experienced this person-ally many years ago the crises in my life stacked up and became utterly impossible to ignore or cover up Life slowed down to a suffocating pace while I grasped for direction and meaning Happiness was a daydream My fantastic corporate job my good marriage my friends and all of my possessions were meaningless and at every turn the world looked dark and unforgiving Life suckedhellip to be more succinct

Irsquove come to recognize that this was my lsquodark night of the soulrsquo as many others have called similar trials and tribulations It was an almost unbearable turning point when I had to gather all the facts of my existence and overcome my learned help-lessness and dependence completely re-creating myself in order to survive Much as a caterpillar leaves behind the comfort of the cocoon in order to set wings I had to make the discovery that many of things

that were comfortable had become limita-tions to my progress and therefore had to be tossed overboard

Itrsquos not always easy to recognize when a great change is underway Even the greatest of earthquakes is the cumula-tive result of many tiny shifts in the earth and so too our lives can evolve in rapid sweeping upheavals that almost go un-noticed When you rise to the occasion and take an honest look within the universe conspires to come to your aid and any-thing becomes possible

Here are 5 signs or clues that you may be outgrowing yourself and that a more concentrated effort on your personal evolution is in order The reward is well worth at least double any effort you put toward cultivating balance and positive energy in your life and the world so desperately needs more awakened self-actualized people who cannot be bent to conformity

1 You Are Not Happy

Are you happy It seems that almost no one is these days but happiness is the birthright of all human beings and the prize of those who muster the courage for honest self-discovery We are trained to

view happiness in material terms with an image of lsquosuccessrsquo as the payoff for a lifetime of devotion to the consumercor-porate cultural paradigm

In the end however this paradigm only offers lifestyle tweaks not genuine inner peace If inner peace is unfamiliar to you then the actions in your life are not supportive of your inner drive to discover meaningful organic happiness of your own creation The self that yoursquove manu-factured for yourself is no longer serving well your true self and a re-construction of you is required

2 Yoursquove Become Self-Destructive

Personal annihilation is now popu-larized in mainstream culture and the prevailing remedies for crises of the spirit are medication and self-medication This comes in every possible form from pharmacist to fetishist and it is easier and more socially acceptable to suffocate and drown out any inner conflicts than it is to honour the drive for self-actualization

You already know if you are be-ing self-destructive or not but knowing this is not the same as knowing how to be self-constructive which is what your soul is demanding of you It wants you to re-connect and re-build from the ground up if necessary but your habits and your environment want to grind your inner am-bitions into dust because they donrsquot want to lose you You must choose

Rock bottom is called that for a reason and it is painfully familiar to many of the worldrsquos happiest people If you are sinking lower and lower into the abyss of self-destruction it may be a sign that yoursquore trying to leave the womb of unconsciousness that has so many of us trapped You can wait till you achieve rock

That YoursquoreOutgrowing Yourself

5 Signs

See ldquoGROWINGrdquo on page 23

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Page 19

By Angela Pritchardthemindunleashedorg

SOME HAVE CALLED ignorance bliss But if you actually look into it there is an incredible cost and consequence to

ignorance and there is no free ride for anyone There is also a huge range of things both physical emotional and metaphysical we can be ignorant of each with their corresponding consequences

On a Physical Level

On a physical level living a life of being ignorant of where our food comes from its nutritional value what is in vaccines buying endless goods as if they come out of thin air the existence of chemtrails etc means that not only do we cause suffering to animals the planet fellow human beings and future generations but also that we are subjected to poisoning carcinogens and chemicals even in our food water and air that causes us sickness suffering and premature death

Being ignorant of the hidden networks of shadow governments of the worldwide bank-ing system and how it works of the real causes of many wars etc means that we become its complicit supportersmdashperpetuating a sys-tem that enslaves us through debt where the individual is no longer the citizen of a country but the collateral of banks People work their whole lives to pay off vast bank mortgages and debts of one kind or another in an endless trap of wealth harvesting for those who pull the strings in the economic system

As mega corporations churn out a stream of mass produced throw-away goods from the precious resources of the earth using what is effectively slave labor in exploited coun-tries people work for hours and hours a day just to have the passing pleasure of the next toy or gadget that soon breaks and becomes redundant which they have become utterly

convinced they must have leaving vast piles of toxic rubbish in their wake This cycle of rap-ing and pillage is causing massive amounts of suffering whether we see it or not and is feed-ing into a system of insanity that is destroying our planet

On an Emotional Level

But ignorance is not just in relation to the things around us it continues in relation to ourselves too and itrsquos our inner life that creates the outer world we live in On an emotional level being ignorant of our own inner deficien-cies of our aggression prejudices bigotry lethargy apathy arrogance greed and perver-sions etc means that those around us suffer their consequences Our children partners friends and family for example suffer the untoward negative vibrations from our angry thoughts and hurtful words

These deficiencies are ultimately the root cause of much of the suffering in our lives and the world Imagine for a moment that we were all magically free of greedmdashwe would instead become a humanity that cares for the welfare of others rather than the next self-indulgent pleasure that comes at the expense of others

But not only do others suffer the conse-quences of our selfishness we too suffer from a lack of inner peace and love When we are angry where is inner peace When we are constantly thinking about ourselves where is the love The lack of these higher feelings is one cost but the path that greed and anger takes us on is yet another From anger for

example we can lose relationships our health our opportunities and live in a self-imposed inner poverty despite whatever material wealth may surround us (albeit for a passing time) If we are ignorant of them these negative inner states then determine the course our life takes beyond our knowledge affecting our decisions our actions and thus what we spend our life doing

On a Spiritual Level

And then there is the ignorance of wider realities beyond our physical senses For many it seems so inconsequential to laugh it off and say it doesnrsquot exist but for the thousands of survivors of near-death experiences (NDEs) realities beyond the material plane are no joke Itrsquos so easy for people to rubbish religious texts mystical experiences and spiritual knowledge and feel a sense of intellectual superiority since metaphysical things cannot easily be tested or demonstrated through physi-cal means It takes exploration of non-physical reality via metaphysical means to know about the non-physical and that has always required an individual discipline of inner practice and exploration

Itrsquos easy to spend vast amounts of onersquos life playing games and watching entertain-ments but what a waste to spend so much free time like that whilst giving no time to the exploration and understanding of the process and purpose of life whether non-physical di-mensions of life exist what we have come here to do and whether what is written about in

sacred texts is real or not If we take our life as something that exists beyond physical reality and death then the consequences of ignorance become far greater than we can even imagine

Being ignorant of something is to be a victim of it at the end of the day we are the ones who suffer Ultimately every effect in our life and the world has its cause and to be ignorant of the cause is to continuously suffer through what can sometimes be devastating effects without being able to break free of them One of the things knowledge does is to give the ability to make choices about our destiny based on a wider understanding of reality So itrsquos important to be informed about our physical world about ourselves and also about non-physical realities to be able to create the potentially wonderful consequences that action based on the knowledge of wider reali-ties brings

About the Author

Angela Pritchard is an author and re-searcher into the universal nature of spiritual-ity and consciousness She is the co-author of two books on ancient sacred mysteries Her primary focus is on experiencing spiritual-ity firsthand including through OBEs and she has been dedicated to this for the past 10 years She aims to uncover the hidden roots of whatrsquos really driving the agenda in society and the world in relation to the war on consciousness and awakening and writes alongside her husband on the website httpbelsebuubcom

Ignorance is not free

By Joe Martinowwwcollective-evolutioncom

WE HAVE ALL heard of antioxi-dants but has anyone heard of the mother of all antioxidants

One that is the secret to preventing cancer heart disease aging neurological issues and more This single antioxidant has been studied in great depth yet most of us know nothing about it and many doctors have no idea how to address the epidemic of its deficiency in humans

We are of course talking about gluta-thione (pronounced ldquogloota-thigh-ownrdquo) This is a powerful detoxifier and immunity booster and is crucial to a healthy life Although the body does make some of its own glutathione poor food quality pollu-tion toxic environments stress infections and radiation are all depleting it from our bodies

What is Glutathione

Glutathione is a simple molecule pro-duced naturally in the body at all times Itrsquos a combination of three building blocks of protein or amino acids mdash cysteine glycine and glutamine

The best part about glutathione is that is contains sulfur chemical groups that work to trap all the bad things in our body like free radicals and toxins such as mercury and heavy metals and then flush them out This is especially important in

our current world of heavy metal bombard-ment

Where Can You Get Glutathione

The body makes it but itrsquos often not enough in our strenuous environment Here are some food sources that either contains glutathione or its precursors to help the body produce more

n Broccolin Brussels sproutsn Cabbagen Cauliflowern Avocadosn Peachesn Watermelonn Cinnamonn Cardamomn Turmeric (Curcumin)n Tomatoesn Peasn Garlicn Onionsn Red peppers

Notice they are all healthy foods we often donrsquot get enough of This is another big issue with our diets We consume a lot of junk meat dairy and processed foods items that have been clinically proven to be the number one causes of heart disease and illness yet we consume them in huge quantities The key is to limit these and

The Mother Of All Antioxidants

See ldquoANTIOXIDANTrdquo on page 26

Page 20

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By Julian Rosewwwjulianroseinfo

IS IT POSSIBLE that a thread of unity ties together even the most disparate of forcesAre we actually that different from

those who we think are our mortal en-emies

Is it possible that all humanity shares one collective unconscious mind

These are important questions because the old weapon of lsquodivide and conquerrsquo is exercising an almost total paralysis over society at this time Nothing new you might say but the remorseless sowing of the seeds of division has once again become a key weapon in whipping up factions to accept lsquowarrsquo as the only and inevitable end point

But this war cry can only work if and when we fall prey to the corrosive indoc-trination that accompanies the rhetoric of lsquous and themrsquo Wars would not happen if the fuel for vindictive finger pointing was no longer so easily assimilated into our everyday lives

Now some might say that whatrsquos going on now is beyond such logic ndash that itrsquos a whole other dimension of insanity thatrsquos driving the apocalyptic state of affairs on this planet That can be a persuasive argu-ment However it would be most unwise to leave ourselves out of the picture as though we were mere observers and not players For all that happens lsquoout therersquo has its seed in something that happens lsquoin herersquo Events could and would be different if we could learn to recognize the symp-toms of division both within ourselves and in our interactions with others

So how do we best get a handle on this seemingly pervasive human weakness for lsquous and themrsquo which appears so open to exploitation by those who prosper from

inciting faction and discordThe first response that I try to turn

to when feeling irritably vulnerable to accusing someone of having wronged me is what the French call lsquomettre en placersquo ndash put yourself in the otherrsquos place If one can master this technique it gives the opportu-nity to have a look at what we are about to do or say as though we ourselves were at the receiving end of it

Now when one gets a dose of onersquos own accusatory medicine it can have a quite dramatic affect

ldquoOops better not launch into that one ndash itrsquos bound to provoke an equal or likely even stronger reactionrdquo A reaction likely to be based more on defensiveness or anger than on reasoned argument based upon true feelings

For a lsquoreasoned argument based on true feelingsrsquo should be the goal of all dialogue of all intercourse And if it were we wouldnrsquot have war because war starts with and in us Our war-state is unavoid-able so long as we remain divided against ourselves So long as the way we interact with others is clouded by egotistical and selfish concerns rather than illuminated by reasoned and considered responses

Now a lsquoreasonedrsquo response demands a pause

A reflective moment or two to take-in just exactly what it is thatrsquos going on And in the space created by that reflective pause we are able to reorder our emotion-

al self We are able to catch the moment and slow things down Take a look in the mirror Or stand in the shoes of the other party and consider just what we looksound like to them

Nine times out of ten neither the accuser nor the accused has reflected for even one moment on what is driving the emotional exchange So unless one of the participants (and ideally both) can step back and establish this reflective space ndash this non-partisan territory ndash then all too often things run quickly out of control A blood rush leads to an irrational tit for tat exchange which in turn creates further dis-harmony and a lingering sense of suspicion This suspicion in turn becomes a fecund breeding ground for differences to become hard wired and seemingly irreconcilable

Irreconcilable difference is a stones throw away from a war-state

We know our world is teetering on the brink of major conflict We feel disempow-ered by the sheer scale of the engineered divisions that stand behind this dire state of affairs It is not an easy predicament for any of us to cope with Yet the source of the insanity that is so readily on display on the global stage is not a far cry from that listless state of irritation and edginess that manifests within all of us when we feel cornered or unreasonably provoked

How can we respond to the threat of war when we have not yet come to grips with our own unconscious reactionary responses

within our day-to-day life concerns let alone when faced with the irascible volatility of a planet on the edge of global conflict

That lsquopausersquo which I recommended in order to set our house in order is the key Itrsquos a technique employed by the most sea-soned diplomats when faced with the need to diffuse and temper potentially danger-ous accusation and aggression But to deal with the world scale madness of today such defusing skill needs to be magnified deepened and made manifest as an expres-sion of profound intent Intent to uncover lies and falsity and to manifest truth what-ever the cost For this is the only genuine antidote to the slippery slide into war

Truth emerges out of inner peace But such lsquopeacersquo is by no means passive it is burning with conviction determination and a rock hard steadfastness of intent The will to bring this world through ndash however badly scarred ndash and bring it to life once again like the smile that lights up and transforms a babyrsquos once forlorn face

Why else are we here if not to achieve mission impossible

There is a collective unconscious It is (slowly and quickly) awakening and trans-forming into a collective consciousness It is happening mostly on unseen levels yet it can be felt Anyone can feel it but not ev-eryone will That is because it is a seriously inconvenient truth for those whose wills are obdurately directed elsewhere Towards the absolute denial of their reason to be and then towards the annihilation of that which attempts to remind them

Yet screaming murder at those trapped souls will do nothing to ameliorate their fate or ours For so long as we remain caught in a world of lsquous and themrsquo we are unable to achieve the breadth of vision

Us and ThemAs Inside ndash So Outside

See ldquoUS amp THEMrdquo on page 22

Page 21

By Daniel Taylorwwwwakingtimescom

WITHIN 20 YEARS according to top Artificial Intelligence (AI) re-searchers nearly half of all jobs cur-

rently occupied by humans will be automated by computers or robots What purpose will these formerly employed individuals fulfill

The elite of society have been discussing this epic moment for decades

In April of 2000 Bill Joy co-founder of Sun Microsystems wrote an article for Wired magazine called ldquoWhy the future doesnrsquot need usrdquo The premise of the article revolves around the potential for humans to become obsolete Joyrsquos work begins by describing his experience of reading a portion of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynskirsquos manifesto

Kaczynski targeted and injured computer scientist David Gelernter one of Bill Joyrsquos friends To his dismay Joy had to agree with Kaczynski in his outlook

Kaczynskirsquos manifesto describes a dys-topic future in which a ruthless elite eradicates useless humans in the wake of the technologi-cal revolution In an alternate scenario the elite are ldquogood shepherdsrdquo that make sure ldquohellipevery-onersquos physical needs are satisfied that all chil-dren are raised under psychologically hygienic conditions that everyone has a wholesome hobby to keep him busyhellip These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society but they will most certainly not be free They will have been reduced to the status of domes-tic animalsrdquo writes Kaczynski

In the interim between the robotic take-over and our potential extinction our lives as human beings will be greatly impacted The in-dustrial revolution triggered similar apprehen-sion with the threat of mechanical automation This new revolution is altering the very genetic code of humanity re-wiring our brains and creating new forms of life unknown to history Technology has enabled our world to be digi-

tally connected 247 Tele-medicine will allow doctors to remotely monitor patientsrsquo health at home using a system of sensors including your toilet Yet what of the human element We are in an age of seeming connection but are we actually entering an age of disconnection

Recent news headlines seem to suggest this may be the case Our social interac-tions are changing dramatically due to the prevalence of technology Our brains are being literally re-wired Human instincts are being twisted Our drive to connect with others still exists but it is directed into artificial settings Technology is augmenting ndash and may eventu-ally replace ndash parts of our humanity that have helped us to survive and thrive for ages Will we be fully domesticated by our technology One thing is certain The idea of being human is about to change dramatically in the digital hybrid age we are entering

Social Media Not So Social

Social media is a great way to stay connected with your friends online But how do our digital lives impact our real ones Researchers at the University of Benedictine at Mesa Arizona found that Facebook users exhibited signs of anxiety in face-to-face meet-ings with people they ldquometrdquo online The Daily Mail reported recently

ldquoThe current tendency for people to use Facebook to lsquolurkrsquo or lsquocreeprsquo on other peoplersquos profiles raised the question of what such activi-ties do to change later face-to-face interactions particularly among the socially anxiousrdquo explained the researchers

To test this theory researchers from the University of Benedictine at Mesa led by Shannon Rauch fitted 26 female students with electrodes that measure galvanic skin response (GSR) These electrodes are used to measure changes in physiological arousal

Individuals who ldquolurkedrdquo on the person they later physically met recorded a higher amount of anxiety

How else are we being impacted upon by ldquosocialrdquo media We usually associate 16th birthdays with driverrsquos licenses and sneaking off for a drive For newer generations this is no longer the case In the United States the number of teens with driverrsquos licenses is drop-ping dramatically In 1983 69 of 17 year olds had a license In 2010 only 46 of 17 year olds had one [WT Editorrsquos Note A simi-lar statistic in Australiarsquos largest state NSW in 1991 79 of young people aged 20-24 held a license by 2008 the figure had dropped to 51]

A 19 year old told the Washington Post that ldquoIf I couldnrsquot get a ride to see my friend who lives a town overhellip I could talk on IM or

SkyperdquoNew York public radio reported on the

dropping number of teen drivers in 2012 Young listeners responded to the question of why they are not driving or driving less Poor economic conditions were cited Some said they are simply ldquogoing greenrdquo in response to global warming One said ldquoI drive less because I have become a couch potato The Internet takes me anywhere I want to go And services like Netflix provide entertainment at the touch of a button Itrsquos also a lot more affordablerdquo

Krystine Batcho a professor of psy-chology at Lemoyne College told CBS news recently that social media is causing a ldquodistancing phenomenonrdquo among users ldquoThe greater the social media use over time the life satisfaction decreasesrdquo Batcho said

Batcho also pointed out that young people are not developing the language of face-to-face communication

Outside of the impact on their personal lives Facebook users are in fact helping to create artificial intelligence systems when they share their information online These self-learning systems are expanding more every day as more information is posted The CEO of Digital Sky Technologies a Russian venture capital company invested heavily in Facebook in 2010 saying that it would be ldquohellipone of the early platforms for artificial intelligence some-time in the next 10 yearsrdquo

Your life and vitality are literally being used up to create a real life matrix As James Bamford reported for NOVA in 2009 the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been developing ndash and are likely now actively using ndash what whistleblowers have called ldquoHALrdquo It is an artificial intelligence that taps into phone calls cell phone geolocation emails and you guessed it Facebook A former researcher for

Itrsquos Time to Unplugfrom

the Matrix Before Our Brains are Totally Rewired

See ldquoMATRIXrdquo on page 22

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the project says ldquoThink of 2001 A Space Od-yssey and the most memorable character HAL 9000 We are building HALrdquo

The ldquoDigital Nowrdquo

ldquoThe self as we once knew it has ceased to exist An abstract digital universe is now a part of our identityrdquo ndash Abha Dawesar

As the world around us crumbles will we be trapped in a state of complacency so long as we are still ldquoconnectedrdquo The perception of contentment and the feeling that ldquoeverything is OKrdquo is more and more tied to the ability to log on to the web browse our Facebook feeds and keep up to date on a never ending stream of data

Digital technology and social media have altered our identities and our perception of the world Indian novelist Abha Dawesar discussed this issue in a 2013 TED Talk The digital now ldquohellipisnrsquot the now of a shooting pain in your foot or the second you bite into a pastry or the three hours you lose yourself in a great book This now bears very little physical or psychological reference to our own staterdquo said Dawesar

The Internet has expanded our aware-ness of global issues and allowed millions of like-minded people to communicate This is undoubtedly a positive consequence of technology This same technology can also be profoundly disconnecting

The digital world has created another lay-er on top of our existing reality It has mapped our streets profiled our tastes and wired ev-eryday objects into the Internet cloud Google Glass and augmented reality technology allow individuals to interface with this digital reality layered on top of the physical world Eventu-ally an artificial lens will allow us to view this augmented reality right before our eyes

Are we fully present when we are ab-sorbed in our smart phones Many of us have seen people walking obliviously while texting on their phones How many moments of poten-tial connection with other people are we miss-ing More and more people are investing more time in creating and managing online identities while real-world ones are neglected There are numerous companies that offer ldquoonline identity managementrdquo services For those who want to remain anonymous other services offer to erase you from the web

In this age of disconnection the ldquodigital nowrdquo is disconnected from our present lives It is a distraction but an especially enticing one It calls us back even when part of us resists As we are finding out the devices that deliver digital content may be altering our brains

Digital Dementia Outsourcing Human Memory

Our smart devices capture the moment for us Researchers are finding that due to the dependence on electronic gadgets we are no longer remembering things themselves Instead we remember where to find them We use Google to find the answer Our phone has the information we need Human memory is in fact being outsourced Will our brains adapt to this new technology in a way that we no longer need to remember people places and things like we used to

This phenomenon has become a recog-nized issue by scientists in South Korea who have named it ldquodigital dementiardquo South Kore-ans are heavy technology users who are quick to pick up new gadgets This makes the popu-lation a ldquocanary in the coal-minerdquo for detecting hazards to humanity posed by technology

In 2011 scientists from Columbia Uni-versity Harvard and Wisconsin University conducted a study on how human memory is impacted by Internet use Two groups were

given information to type into a computer One was told that the information would be saved into the computer The other group believed the information would be erased As the New York Times reports ldquoThe subjects were signifi-cantly more likely to remember information if they thought they would not be able to find it later lsquoParticipants did not make the effort to remember when they thought they could later look up the trivia statement they had readrsquo the authors writerdquo

Wearable technology like Google Glass will record our lives in every detail Sleep patterns eating habits social connections and more will be recorded Will our entire lives be outsourced Our lsquofriendsrsquo are floating in the Internet cloud What happens when the grid goes down and the technology we have become dependent on to manage our lives is no longer there Will we still know who we are Our internal lives are intimately connected with vivid memories Increasingly our online identities are taking precedence over our real-world ones

According to Ray Kurzweil Googlersquos top technology engineer this problem could eventually be ldquosolvedrdquo by connecting our brains to the Internet cloud This could be accomplished using devices ldquohellipthe size of blood cellshellip wersquoll be able to send them inside our brain through the capillaries and basically connect up our brain to the cloudrdquo Kurzweil says

Unplug From The Matrix

Just as power vacuums develop when super-powers collapse there is a power vacuum that forms when you leave the helm of your mind body and spirit You will be filled by other peoplersquos agendas and fall victim to circumstance In this state you will function as an unknowing unconscious biological android living out someone elsersquos scripts Unplug from the matrix and take back your consciousness

In an ae of rising tyranny we need to be alert discerning and clear-eyed The techno-logical grid that is infiltrating our lives has the potential to cut us off from ourselves and the wider world while at the same time giving the illusion of connection Paradoxically technol-ogy is assisting in the process of becoming aware of this situation

The Washington Post published a startling article in 2008 titled ldquoWashingtonrsquos Future a Historyrdquo The article looked into the future of America with a focus on Washington DC Multiple experts in the fields of economics technology and politics contributed to the piece It described a high tech society in which ldquosmall scalerdquo terror attacks and angry rioters plague the streets while implantable ID chips allow government workers to pass through checkpoints

As the outside world crumbles ldquoGoogle Life Servicesrdquo replace big box stores and malls long abandoned They provide people with pre-packaged experiences of outdoor activities and life experiences

The Post article speculates that ultimately there will be a revolution against these trends They foresee a ldquopaper nostalgia movementrdquo that encourages people to write letters and neighbourhood newsletters after the postal service is disbanded The fictional characters in the piece reflect on the old days of ldquohellipsimple pleasures of lingering over meals or discover-ing some new path through the woodsrdquo The individuals engaging in this revolution of true connection are seen as ldquopolitical or religious extremistsrdquo because of their desire to unplug

In 2010 the United Kingdomrsquos Ministry of Defense released a document titled Global Strategic Trends ndash Out to 2040 By 2040 ndash and likely before then ndash many futurists and scientists are projecting that technology will have advanced exponentially bringing the much anticipated lsquosingularityrsquo closer to real-ity The Ministry of Defense hints at some of these possible developments including the

emergence of an ldquoInternet of thingsrdquo radical life extension technology and surveillance of personnel via wireless mood-sensing devices Ultimately due to pervasive tech-nology in the environment it may become difficult to ldquoturn the outside world offrdquo The document states ldquohellip Even amongst those who make an explicit lifestyle choice to remain detached [from the technology grid] choosing to be disconnected may be consid-ered suspicious behaviourrdquo

We need a revolution of true connection before we get to the point of no return

About the Author

Daniel Taylor is an independent re-searcher author activist and webmaster

of oldthinkernewscom His articles have been published on most major alterna-tive news websites As part of the Open Source revolution he has made a dedicat-ed effort for the past decade to study the information that very few of us were (or likely ever will be) taught in the public education system

bdquoHe is the author of The Age Of Disconnection ndash We Are More Wired Than Ever But Are We Truly Connected His book explores the new social phenomena associated with our addiction to technol-ogy and is available from Amazoncom BarnesandNoblecom Lulucom and in E-book form

The above article appeared in New Dawn 146 (Sept-Oct 2014)

Page 22

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Matrixfrom page 21

which enables us to see beyond our bit-part roles as lsquoantagonist or victimrsquo on this fretted stage of man made conflict

In the end we all play our part in has-tening the madness of war unless or until we can dissolve the imaginary deeply toxic dividing lines that set man against man country against country belief against belief

The division lines are actually an illu-sion An illusion made to feel real by the fear and falsity that builds-up brittle walls of concrete instead of dissolving into flow-ing rivers of empathy

It is division and conflict that provides fuel for the false gods and divisive demons that prey on the war-fear of ordinary mortals They would starve and fade away should that which feeds them finally be

vanquished and consigned to the annals of history

At this time of unmitigated warmon-gering and provocation itrsquos vital that we redouble our efforts to come together both internally and externally so as to expose that which feeds on the cancer of lsquodivide and conquerrsquo ndash on the falsity of lsquous and themrsquo Those crazed forces that are willing to terminate life on Earth just for the sake of an insatiable ego

Letrsquos remember that we are not actually hermetically sealed from that which appears to be alien to our own emotional condition

For in the end there is no us and them There is only us

About the Author

Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming international activist and author Contact Julian at wwwjulianroseinfo to find out more

Us amp Themfrom page 20

bottom or you can you can turn it off now in recognition of the new direction your soul has in mind for you

Yoursquore life is at stake but you are free at any moment to let go of your self-de-structiveness and be kind to yourself

3 Your Relationships are Chang-ing and Not Necessarily for the Better

When we first meet a person we establish a subconscious relationship with them that will furthermore determine our role in each otherrsquos lives When you meet a teacher you understand immediately your position as their student and behave accordingly When you meet a lover for the first time you know instinctively what this personrsquos role is to be in your life

lsquoRole locksrsquo as they are called are broken when you outgrow yourself and change beyond the expectations of others and the people in your life will notice this in a nearly imperceptible energetic way if not outright You might see that relationships with friends are unusually uncomfortable you might feel like you are outgrowing an old mentor or you might find yourself acting dangerously over-confident around your boss Change typi-cally makes people uncomfortable and if your relationships seem to be strained or uneasy it is a clue that some shifts within you are being felt by those in your life

Subtle communication does not lie

4 What Use to Amuse No Longer Satisfies

Entertainment is a distraction from reality an escape and your familiar escapes no longer satiate More attention is needed for yourself and the cultural ritual of always being entertained is now useless to your personal progress It becomes obvious that many people intentionally distract themselves from life and you feel like yoursquore missing out on something important when doing many of the things yoursquove always done before

It no longer matters who has the most toys and the silly things that people do for

kicks look like childrsquos play in comparison to the challenge of properly attending to your personal growth In this process the truest things in your life will emerge from the clutter of your life and be seen for what and who they really are Good friends will endure but that and those who cannot support and empower your progress will fade into the background

5 You Begin to See and Under-stand How Fabricated Consensus Reality Is

Your perception of the world is deep-ening and the reality machine is no longer capable of fooling you Pop culture is so obviously more contrived and spiritually debilitating than ever The so-called lsquonewslsquo is recognized as the theatre of the absurd that it is Conformity is easy to spot especially in those who are trying hardest not to conform The lies of the government and the war machine are easily decoded and the opinion leaders and sell-outs that dominate the media are quickly recog-nized as charlatans who only work to manufacture consent for the oligarchy

Many lsquonormalrsquo aspects of modern life are revealed to you as elaborate traps designed to drain you Just grand illusions that occupy your attention and energy almost comical in their overtures at you None of this impresses any longer but the ridiculousness of it all serves a high purpose to drive you inward towards the discovery of the real presence of spirit in

your life This is a clue that it is time to grow in an inward direction

In Conclusion

Our culture celebrates death and destruction over evolution and adapta-tion and so it is our revolutionary task to overcome this and evolve beyond the low expectations of a culture in decline

In the end your life is yours and no one elsersquos It is entirely up to you to achieve peace and happiness during your short tenure on this pearly blue gem of a planet I know that many people are finding this world to be an unbearable place these days but your per-spective can and will change if you muster the courage and attention necessary to take part in your own transformation

About the Author

Dylan Charles is a student and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu Tai Chi and Qi Gong a practitioner of Yoga and Taoist esoteric arts and an activist and idealist passionately engaged in the struggle for a more sustain-able and just world for future generations He is the editor of WakingTimescom the proprietor of OffgridOutpostcom a grate-ful father and a man who seeks to enlighten others with the power of inspiring informa-tion and action His remarkable journey of self-transformation is a testament to the power of the will and the persistence of the human spirit He may be contacted at wakingtimesgmailcom

cannabidiol (CBD) 75 mgday or CBD 300 mgday Increases in well-being and quality of life were observed in the 300 mgday groups versus the placebo groups The re-searchers hypothesized that these improve-ments may have been due to cannabidiolrsquos ldquoanxiolyticrdquo ldquoantidepressantrdquo ldquoanti-psy-choticrdquo and ldquosedativerdquo properties

These results taken together with the results from the animal models of PD indicate that CBD may provide a drug alternative in PD patients Additionally a new study published in Toxicology In Vitro titledrdquoThe neuroprotection of cannabidiol against MPP+-induced toxicity in PC12 cells involves trkA receptors upregulation of axonal and synaptic proteins neurito-genesis and might be relevant to Parkin-sonrsquos diseaserdquo makes the case for using cannabidiol in PD even more compelling by helping to illuminate some of the mo-lecular mechanisms beneath its benefits

The study found that cannabidiol protects against the neurotoxin known as MPP(+) which is widely believed to be re-sponsible for the damage to the dopamine-

producing cells in the substania nigra of Parkisonrsquos patients by preventing neuro-nal cell death and inducing neuritogenesis (a neuro-regenerative process for repair-ing damaged neurons) This mechanism was found to be independent of the neural growth factor (NGF) pathway even though it involves NGF receptors Cannabidiol was also found to increase the expression of axonal and synaptic proteins The study concluded that CBDrsquos neuroprotective properties might be of benefit to Parkin-sonrsquos disease patients

For additional research on how can-nabis can contribute to mitigating neurode-generative diseases read our article ldquoMari-juana Compound Found Superior To Drugs For Alzheimerrsquosrdquo and peruse the cannabis research database on GreenMedInfocom Also for an extensive set of data on natural interventions for Parkinsonrsquos disease view our database on the topic Parkinsonrsquos dis-ease research Finally peruse an extensive list of foods spices and natural substances that have neuritogenic properties here

References

[1] Chagas MH et al J Psychophar-macol 2014 Nov28(11)1088-98 doi

1011770269881114550355 Epub 2014 Sep 18 Effects of cannabidiol in the treatment of patients with Parkinsonrsquos disease an exploratory double-blind trial

[2] Hermann D Sartorius A Welzel H et al (2007) Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex N-acetylaspartatetotal creatine (NAAtCr) loss in male recreational can-nabis users Biol Psychiatry 61 1281ndash1289

[3] Zuardi AW Crippa JA Hallak JE et al (2009) Cannabidiol for the treat-ment of psychosis in Parkinsonrsquos disease J Psychopharmacol 23979ndash983

Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfocom on the Board of Governors for the National Health Federation and Fearless Parent Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC) a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medi-cine

Disclaimer This article is not in-tended to provide medical advice diagno-sis or treatment Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMed-Info or its staff

Page 23

Hempfrom page 10

and dry skinrdquo (8)It can also reduce the risk of certain

types of cancer and some people swear by cancer-curing cannabis oil

ldquoHemp contains lots of plant sterols and antioxidants that can help reduce risk of colon breast and prostate cancersrdquo (9)

Diabetics would benefit from eating hemp seeds because they help control sugar levels

ldquoHemp seeds are also helpful if you are at risk of diabetes or are diabetic as they can control your sugar levels This is mainly due to its healthy fats that help in the quick absorption of glucose from the bloodstream and its conversion into energy Therefore your sweet cravings will decrease and energy levels will increase

Lastly you can also add hemp seeds to your smoothies sprinkle them in salads and cereals or substitute them for nuts in your baking They are also best for sprout-ing for making refreshing hemp seed milk or to be ground into a mealrdquo (10)

Hemprsquos numerous health benefits might have you wondering why itrsquos illegal and more people than ever are questioning why the government forbids its cultiva-tion

A little bit of research makes it clear that cannabis and hemp are illegal for cor-rupt and dishonest reasons

Now that wersquore collectively realizing this and our governments are at least somewhat willing to change the laws we can finally admit the hypocrisy behind them and take cannabis and hemp seri-ously (Strange how that works Ed)

Most people donrsquot know that wealthy businessmen with investments in resourc-es like cotton and timber were responsible for making cannabis and hemp illegal They realized early on that hemp with all of its industrial benefits would put them out of business

They didnrsquot want any competition because their businesses were already well established thanks to the resources hemp would blow out of the water

Thus draconian laws were enacted so the rich could get richer while the average person is thrown in jail for growing or using a plant thatrsquos clearly meant to help mankind

Fortunately the laws are slowly changing as people look past the propagan-da and discover the benefits of cannabis and hemp and I think the cannabis plant will become much more important to our society in the next decade

Wersquore already realizing how silly it is to demonize cannabis when its positive uses are obvious and this plant is finally being given its day in the sun

So before you reject it consider that it isnrsquot the devilish weed wersquove been taught to fear Itrsquos more of a savior but we wonrsquot know what it can do for us until we open up to it

Hopefully more people will open up as cannabis legalization picks up pace and farmers start to succeed in demanding the right to grow industrial hemp without prosecution

Everyone should be able to utilize this plant because it has everything detailed above (and more) to offer a society thatrsquos on the brink of destruction and transfor-mation

Cannabis and hemp can help us mend the damage wersquove done to the planet but only if we let them

For Footnotes httpcultureo-fawarenesscom20151129hemp-is-healthy-surprising-health-benefits-of-hemp

Parkinsonrsquosfrom page 11

Growingfrom page 18

This one is arguably the most painful The death of the ego is no walk in the park It is more like a walk through a dark night of the soul surrounded by an angry abyss thatrsquos really just the small-minded version of you not wanting to lose what it feels is the essence of you your ego But the ego is not the essence of you and it never was The real you is an interdependent cosmic force an interconnected frequency a unified cosmic agent going through the motions of being a mind-body-soul

ldquoBut the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests Lonely one you are going the way to yourself And your way goes past yourself and past your seven devils You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame how could you become new if you had not first become ashesrdquo ndashFriedrich Nietzsche

Ego annihilation leads to the ashes from which the phoenix of the soul rises But first there must be descent There must be a tearing part a burning down a sacred disintegration But the task of severance is repentance It speaks the language of vicissitude It howls inside you like old night It moves through you like fresh smoke It is the blood of a full moonrsquos howl It is a cruel wheel spinning its cycle of animal angst of species-crimson It is in this moment Here at the crux of the cross at the knot on the wood where the crooked trees mock your martyrdom and all your ancestors can smell the scent of your heartrsquos full blossom blinking in and out of the ether screaming at you ldquoIt is time There

may not be another life to loverdquoAnd so you descend And so you cross

the Rubicon of the self bridging the gap be-tween Man and Over-man above the Exis-tential Black Hole And so you lose yourself in the blue smoke in the loose shadows You scream out like Yin Your fists clinch like Yang The fish feed on their tails The snakes do the same Itrsquos like heaven and hell in your body People can smell the animal in you the wild-self coming to life Death hums a eulogy in the trees and you die a small death the exulting death of your ego And then yoursquore quiet as a doll vulner-able astonished and cataleptic from the fall But now yoursquore a force of nature first a person second And the Earth has finally discovered its salvation the awakened hu-man soul

4 Fearless Forgiveness

ldquoIn conclusion there is no conclusion Things will go on as they always have getting weirder all the timerdquo ndashRobert Anton Wilson

Fearless forgiveness is scary because it is uncomfortable on an ontological level Itrsquos both a tearing down of the walls that protect us from the world and an unlocking of the prison door of our expectations When we tear down the walls fear is paramount and must be faced and that can be dreadfully uncom-fortable But like Farrah Gray said ldquoComfort is the enemy of achievementrdquo So it behooves us to get uncomfortable Not unlike Neo waking up from the Matrix for the first time when we unlock the door to our prison the way the world truly is despite us and in spite of our expectations and worldview becomes the harsh Desert of the Real which only we can face and resolve for ourselves But at least now we have the double-edged sword of fearless forgiveness to cut through all the red tape

Forgiveness hurts because it is the ultimate letting go Itrsquos a deep visceral ac-ceptance of the way things are regardless of our need for things to be a certain way Itrsquos a decisive shedding of the burden of what we cannot control Tantamount to Buddhist

non-attachment fearless forgiveness is a reckoning of existential proportions that turns the tables on the concept of control itself It gives us permission to authentically and sincerely go with the flow With fearless forgiveness it suddenly becomes okay that the game of life is ldquoriggedrdquo because our fearlessness is a willingness to transform whatever negative counterproductive un-healthy shit gets thrown at us into something positive progressive and healthy And our forgiveness is a giant sigh saying ldquoItrsquos okayrdquo It gives us the insurmountable cour-age to transform demons into diamonds fear into courage anger into strength and disdain into compassion

Fearless forgiveness is allowing ourselves to be intimate with the cosmos as it truly exists Like Dōgen said ldquoEn-lightenment is intimacy with all thingsrdquo And intimacy with all things is just as likely to hurt as it is to feel good But that is perfectly okay It gives us permission to take the good with the bad the unhealthy with the healthy and the immoral with the moral And then it gives us the courage to transform it all into our own amazing thing art adventure love

In the end enlightenment is scary and painful but it is so amazingly rewarding that it doesnrsquot even matter As Camus said ldquoLife should be lived to the point of tearsrdquo We must ride the fine-line between ecstasy and misery in order to enjoy the great mystery Question thyself overcome thyself forgive thyself then rebirth thyself ad infinitum and the path toward enlightenment shall not elude you

Gary lsquoZrsquo McGee a former Navy Intelli-gence Specialist turned philosopher is the au-thor of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world

Page 24

What Makes Finlandrsquos Teachers So Much Better Than Everyone Elsersquos

Enlightenmentfrom page 13

By Vic Bishopwwwwakingtimescom

FINLANDrsquoS SCHOOL SYSTEM is swiftly becoming the envy of the world primarily because of their

willingness to experiment with alternatives to formal education to discover if different methods and approaches work better than the strict government controlled academic model Teaching is a highly valued profes-sion in this Northern European nation and all over the world teachers come to Finland to tour Finnish schools in order to improve their work at home

The fact of the matter is that teaching is such a prized job in Finland that students excel because many of them are striving to become teachers

ldquoFor a small agrarian and relatively poor nation educating all of its youth equally well was seen as the best way to catch up with other industrialized coun-tries according to Pasi Sahlberg a Finnish educationist at Harvard who has done much to popularize Finlandrsquos methods abroadrdquo [Source]

Finlandrsquos emphasis on the importance of educators is nothing that has happened overnight As early as the 70rsquos and 80rsquos their public education system was highly regulated and controlled by government much like what we presently see in the US stifling education and creating an atmo-sphere not conducive to learning However

in the 90rsquos a new era of education emerged in Finland representing a return to tradition-al Finnish values of placing high importance on educating the youth

ldquohellipfrom the early 90s consciously set out to create a new culture of education characterized by trust between educational authorities and schools local control pro-fessionalism and autonomy Schools became responsible for their own curriculum plan-ning and student assessment while state inspections were abandoned This required teachers to have high academic credentials and be treated like professionalsrdquo

A new academy for training teach-ers has opened up The Normal Lyceum in Helsinki and the program may be one of the most unique models in the world using a didactic approach and giving student teachers more time to understand the depths of teaching Research-based education training is really the key to what makes Finnish teachers so good they are taught to take teaching very seriously The new academy is sought after by so many budding professionals that only 7 of ap-plicants are accepted

ldquoTeachers in Finland are autonomous professionals respected for making a dif-ference to young peoplersquos livesrdquo ndash Pasi Sahlberg a Finnish educationist at Harvard who has done a great deal to popularize Finnish methods abroad

Simply put Finlandrsquos teachers are better than everyone elsersquos because the gov-

ernment and the people of the nation have developed a strong revere for this most im-portant of professions and consider teacher training to be of utmost importance

Can you imagine a world where teachers and educators are more influential and important to society than investment bankers and politicians

Source httpwwwtheguardiancomeducation2015jun17highly-trained-respected-and-free-why-finlands-teachers-are-different

About the Author

Vic Bishop is a writer for Waking TimesThis article (What Makes Finlandrsquos Teach-

ers So Much Better Than Everyone Elsersquos) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Vic Bishop and WakingTimescom It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution author bio and this copyright statement Please contact Waking-Timesgmailcom for more info

Maria Hyvaumlri a student teacher runs a workshop at the Normal Lyceum in Helsinki lsquoThere are all these new teaching tools and ideas and here we can try new thingsrsquo she says

David Crouch for the Guardian

occur To support nerve and brain func-tion we can look to herbs like Skullcap Passionflower Ginkgo Gotu Kola Lemon Verbena Holy basil Mucuna and Lionrsquos Maine

v EMOTIONAL Often people battle the blues and

other tough emotions during the win-ter months See this as an opportunity to look at your commitment to self-nourishment At this time feelings of emptiness loneliness and isolation are easy to fall into and understandably as the elements outside are much less hospitable than other seasons In Tra-ditional Chinese Medicine philosophy winter holds the emotion of fear This is the base state behind many of our hard-est to deal with feelings When we start

to harness the energy of fear we begin to recognize our own cobweb of patterns and habits that no longer serve us The inner sanctuary of winter offers the op-portunity to deepen our commitment to self and loved ones through simplifying and slowing down In this space we can more easily cultivate new rituals instead of repeating habits and get clear on how we are choosing to show up in the world The worst thing we can do for emotional growth in the winter is to distract our-selves by overloading our senses with media social obligations excessive al-cohol and drug use or a heavy workload Instead look to create time for hobbies personal connection and (S)elf nourish-ment

Similar to emotional health our spiritual health can often feel hungry for nourishment in the winter months This is a time to deeply root our dreams and as-pirations A time to align our choices for

the year or years to come and get clear on how we are creating purpose and val-ue in our lives Practices like meditation and reflective writing can help stimulate our winter spiritual cleansing muscles It is our deepest spiritual work that is ripe for engagement through this slow sea-son Winter reminds us to look internally rather the externally for the answers to our big questions in life

Once we start to unravel the codes of characteristics and natural flow in ourselves and our surroundings we see that good health choices can become easy common sense practices even if they are not all that common these days There are no hard and fast rules to live a healthy life by just a basic flow that governs the natural cycles life unfolds in It is in our highest alignment to accept and work with these cycles if we are to achieve lasting vitality and harmony in our lives and on our planet

habits Every tomorrow that we wake up is then determined by our nature and character

The human genome is packed with at least four million gene switches that reside in bits of DNA that once were dismissed as ldquojunkrdquo but it turns out that so-called junk DNA plays critical roles in controlling how cells organs and other tissues behave The discovery considered a major medical and scientific breakthrough has enormous im-plications for human health and conscious-ness because many complex diseases appear to be caused by tiny changes in hundreds of gene switches

As scientists delved into the ldquojunkrdquo mdash parts of the DNA that are not actual genes containing instructions for proteinsmdash they discovered a complex system that controls genes At least 80 percent of this DNA is active and needed Another 15-17 percent has higher functions scientists are still decoding

The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA The bottom line was ldquoLiving chromosomes function just like solitonicholographic computers using the endog-enous DNA laser radiationrdquo This means that they managed for example to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) is of the same structure no DNA decoding is necessary

This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations autogenous training hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language While western research-ers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequen-cies and thus repair genetic defects

Physical Pain Is A Warning Sign of Emotional Trauma

Often physical pain functions to warn a person that there is still emotional work to be done and it can also be a sign of unresolved trauma in the nervous system Even if one has grieved and processed the emotional impact of a trauma the nervous

system might still unwittingly be in survival mode

Maggie Phillips author of Revers-ing Chronic Pain writes ldquoWhether or not trauma was connected to the event or condition that originated their pain having a chronic pain condition is traumatizing in and of itselfrdquo

Each body area has a language as to what the organs do the muscles the nerves etc When a condition occurs in the body in a localized area itrsquos to help us discover what we might need to change in order to keep ldquohomeostasisrdquo in our emotions mental reasoning and spiritual living

Depending on whether we are happy sad or angry we have physiological sensa-tions that are located in different areas of the body We overlook this reality from one day to the next (the famous ldquolump in the breastrdquo generated by anxiety the feel-ing of warmth that pervades our face and our cheeks particularly when we feel the shame) and do not consciously realize how much the location of these body areas activated by our emotions and how they vary considerably depending on the nature of the emotion

In a work published in the journal Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences under the title ldquoBodily maps of emotionsrdquo Finnish scientists for the first time mapped areas of the body activated according to each emotion (happiness sad-ness anger etc) The researchers proposed that emotions represented in the somato-sensory system are culturally universal categorical somatotopic maps Perception of these emotion-triggered bodily changes may play a key role in generating consciously felt emotions

We Believe We Must Be First Diseased Suffer and Then Treated To Live

The power structure that controls the disease industry understands these concepts very well That is why from the time we are born until the time we die they want to control this emotional energy matrix From the very first vaccine to the very last dosage of medication on our deathbeds (and everything in between) we have been con-ditioned to accept that external factors and disease treatments are what can help control our pain and suffering

This is true to a certain extent as we are led down a path to believe that we must suffer and must experience pain to live so we must then engage in pain coping mecha-nisms in the form of medications to keep living Itrsquos just one of the reasons that a

greater life expectancy has come at an enor-mous cost in the quality of life of our elders for they are suffering with more pain and greater disability than ever before in last 15 years of life What controls pain is thought and our perception of what it is we feel

Because we are not taught the impor-tance and power of thought we have never consciously been in control of them with the result that when unpleasant things enter our life we do not realize the connection between the thought-vibration and the effect it has on us Uplifting thoughts allow us to elevate our consciousness and aware-ness non-inspiring thoughts tend to drag us down

It should come as no surprise to anyone that every part of our physical body vibrates at a precise frequency Thoughts that are not in harmony or in ldquosyncrdquo with our body cause impedance to our health All organs all tissues membranes glands cells vibrate in precise frequencies in a healthy body All positive inspiring loving and kind thoughts are in harmony with those physical vibra-tions and help to continue to keep the body in perfect health with the circulation of the blood going to all the necessary parts of the body with the digestion working perfectly and the body able to correctly and easily eliminate toxins and waste matter also al-lowing proper refreshing sleep to the body

Unify and Harmony Within

For every effect there is a cause so when there is enough human intent and energy towards health love and respect to-wards our planet and ourselves we will only create a better world and a better life for all people on Earth

Start by loving yourself who you are and why you are here experiencing this life Itrsquos not a coincidence You designed it So take responsibility for your wonderful creation If you want to change your experi-ence send out the message and the universe will respond

To the trained eye of a gardener the symptom of withering leaves is not a dread-ful disease He recognizes that the dehy-drated state of these leaves is but a direct consequence of withdrawn nourishment that they need in order to sustain themselves and the rest of the plant We must recognize the symptoms of imbalance and dysfunction within ourselves before they even have a chance to produce disease

Disease is the absence of healthdark-ness is the absence of light Health is not the absence of disease Light is not the absence of darkness

Page 25

Workfrom page 3

is used widely by politicians and the media

Media Brainwashing mdash News simply repeats the same taglines amp phrases OVER and OVER httpswwwyou-tubecomwatchv=jH8dejYGa5A

The same tactics are used in any subject they deem does not fit into the governmentrsquos agenda Divide and conquer tactics have been used by empires for thousands of years The media does this brilliantly by making people divided and suspicious of each other We are forced inwards to the point of not even knowing our neighboursrsquo names This is why our communities are failing One big keyword used is ldquoimmigrationrdquo Everything is immigrantsrsquo fault - this is yet another tactic called misdirection where they focus on one area Divide opinion While our attention is focused there the game pieces are being moved elsewhere This is only scratching the surface The same patterns can be seen in all areas they control

Why should we not be forced to work

I believe every human being on this planet is equal and is entitled to a life Every human should have a right to life and this means everything they need to survive Everyone should have a basic wage (not a benefit) but a living wage that is given to everyone at birth This basic wage should cover all the costs of life including food water housing and clothing No one should be forced to work and any work should be on a volunteer basis If the wealth were divided up equally around the world this would be easy to achieve

How would anything get done Humans are lazy right

With the media monetary and central control removed from focus we would naturally move to a community-based structure We would need to converse with our fellow neigh-bours to survive and naturally trust would grow and a family environment would blos-som Health would improve crime would fall as everyonersquos needs would be met With time to live life and care for others we would have time to volunteer skills to the community

Bartering could come into effect I will fix your taps if you fix my garden fence etc For those who do not have any skills or may be dis-abled people would still volunteer to help them in a caring community Humans are very kind loving and helpful by nature If we see someone fall in the street our natural reaction is to go and help When I have a few weeks off work I always look forward to returning to something to do To much time off is boring and I believe we would all do our best if we were rewarded in the community for our efforts even if it is just benefiting from the knowing that we have contributed to the whole Local growing proj-ects and a sense of pride will come back into the community Cooperation and creativity are given room to flourish Within this environ-ment new ideas could flow

We need to change our way of thinking in order to change our world dramatically

ldquoYou cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that

created it You must learn to see the world anewrdquo

ndash Albert Einstein

Watch this great Raw Footage inter-view with Michael Tellinger on the origins of humans httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=yHu1x0k8T-0

This is how life was supposed to be Is it an impossible dream Could it work What problems do you think this could bring

Diseasefrom page 6

Winter Healthfrom page 7

eat a lot of fresh lively foods that provide nutrients and donrsquot ask the body to perform a mega job to digest

Glutathione production also increases when you exercise so increasing your activ-ity level will help as well ndash and is something worth striving for anyway Breathing and sweating are also great ways to get rid of toxins in the body

Glutathione Protects Against Chronic Illness

What makes glutathione so important and powerful is that it recycles antioxidants When your body is dealing with free radicals it is essentially passing them from one mol-ecule to another They might go from vitamin C to vitamin E to lipoic acid and then to gluta-thione where they are cooled off Antioxidants are recycled at this point and the body can then regenerate another glutathione molecule to go back at it again

Glutathione is crucial for helping your im-mune system fight chronic illness as it acts as the carrier of toxins out of your body Like a flytrap toxins stick to glutathione and they are carried to the bile into the stools and out of the body Glu-tathione is also powerful enough that it has been shown to help in the treatment of AIDS greatly The body is going to get in touch with oxidants and toxins and the more we can deal with them the better our body will be at staying strong ndash this is why glutathione is so important

9 Final Tips

Dr Mark Hyman has given 9 tips to increase your glutathione levels Check them out

1 Consume sulfur-rich foods The main

ones in the diet are garlic onions and the cruciferous vegetables (broccoli kale collards cabbage cauliflower watercress etc)

2 Try bioactive whey protein This is great source of cysteine and the amino acid building blocks for glutathione synthesis As you know I am not a big fan of dairy but this is an exception ndash with a few warnings The whey protein MUST be bioactive and made from non-denatured proteins (ldquodenaturingrdquo refers to the breakdown of the normal protein structure) Choose non-pasteurized and non-industrially produced milk that contains no pesticides hormones or antibiotics Immuno-cal is a prescription bioactive non-denatured whey protein that is even listed in the Physi-cianrsquos Desk Reference

3 Exercise boosts your glutathione levels and thereby helps boost your immune system improve detoxification and enhance your bodyrsquos own antioxidant defenses Start slow and build up to 30 minutes a day of vig-orous aerobic exercise like walking or jogging or play various sports Strength training for 20 minutes 3 times a week is also helpful

One would think it would be easy just to take glutathione as a pill but the body digests protein ndash so you wouldnrsquot get the benefits if you did it this way However the production and recycling of glutathione in the body re-quires many different nutrients and you CAN take these Here are the main supplements that need to be taken consistently to boost glutathione Besides taking a multivitamin and fish oil supporting my glutathione levels with these supplements is the most important thing I do every day for my personal health

4 N-acetyl-cysteine This has been used for years to help treat asthma and lung disease and to treat people with life-threatening liver failure from Tylenol overdose In fact I first learned about it in medical school while work-ing in the emergency room It is even given to prevent kidney damage from dyes used during x-ray studies

5 Alpha lipoic acid This is a close second to glutathione in importance in our cells and is involved in energy production blood sugar control brain health and detoxification The body usually makes it but given all the stresses we are under we often become depleted

6 Methylation nutrients (folate and vita-mins B6 and B12) These are perhaps the most critical to keep the body producing glutathione Methylation and the production and recycling of glutathione are the two most important biochemical functions in your body Take folate (especially in the active form of 5 methyltetra-hydrofolate) B6 (in the active form of P5P) and B12 (in the active form of methylcobalamin)

7 Selenium This important mineral helps the body recycle and produce more glutathione

8 A family of antioxidants including vi-tamins C and E (in the form of mixed tocoph-erols) work together to recycle glutathione

9 Milk thistle (silymarin) has long been

used in treating liver disease and helps boost glutathione levels

Sources

httpdrhymancomblog20100512what-is-glutathione-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it

httparticlesmercolacomsitesar-ticlesarchive20100410can-you-use-food-to-increase-glutathione-instead-of-supple-mentsaspx

httpglutathioneprocomwhat-is-l-glutathione

httpwwwwebmdcomvitamins-sup-plementsingredientmono-717-GLUTATHI-ONEaspxactiveIngredientId=717ampactiveIngredientName=GLUTATHIONE

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=0hufj2AIPxQ

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Service ReviewBy Glennis Taylor

WE OFTEN HEAR the phrase that the eyes are the gateway to the soul It implies a mystical depth to a

gaze and what lies beyond the gaze Likewise we are familiar with reference to blood as the River of Life Both the eyes and blood have held lsquopowersrsquo in civilizations throughout time Myths and legends in so many cultures have some tie to the once unexplored vistas of the eyes and the blood We have coined many phrases that are still used today based on these two parts of our anatomy Cold bloodedhot bloodeditrsquos in his bloodyou can see it in her eyes

As our ability to understand so much more about how the body works grows with incredible leaps forward in technology we can now explain to a larger degree the complicated and intricate nature of vision and the chemical processes that take place within the blood and the eyes We can define abnormalities and nutritional deficiencies that compromise the functions of these organs

We perform delicate surgeries and corrective procedures Science and medicine have made inroads in giving us answers to many of the mysteries that intrigued our forefathers for so long

Outside of the mainstream medical arena there has developed an alternate medical approach to viewing the health of the body through the eyes and blood For many years iridology has been used to map the eyes and give us information on how well the body is functioning Edgar Cayce regularly used iridology to help him understand his patientrsquos health issues When something is imbalanced in the body the problem is reflected in the eyes and a trained iridologist can pinpoint problems that often escape the scrutiny of mainstream medicine

To study the blood live blood analysis and darkfield microscopy has come a long way in being able to give another view of the health of an individual The blood tells a story We can see microbial activity and how well the immune system is functioning Telltale signs of malabsorbtion and fatty acid issues in the blood help to paint a picture of general health and where some weaknesses

may lie These are all very helpful diagnostic tools but as I have recently discovered there is much more to tell

I had the opportunity for an engaging conversation with John and Diane Blackburn of Qwest 4 Health At their health clinic of the same name John and Diane are kept busy in their passion to help people discover and address health issues that may have plagued them for some time They bring to the pa-tientrsquos attention some until then undiscovered imbalances and put the puzzle pieces together to give a comprehensive health picture Using the state of the art tools of iridology live blood analysis and biofeedback the Blackburnrsquos have a wealth of knowledge and understanding to delve into complex cases and connect the dots They make recommen-dations regarding lifestyle and nutrition based on their findings

But what intrigued me the most was the in depth study they are applying to both iridol-ogy and hematology What they are discover-ing goes far beyond the mechanical aspects of the science It is the quantum realm that pres-ents some amazing and useful insights Termed quantum hematology and quantum iridology these give a new and very valuable dimension to their work offering them a way to glimpse into and understand the subconscious aspects

of the individual ldquoBlood is the mirror of consciousnessrdquo

Diane explains As the blood circulates and bathes every cell in the body it carries with it energetic information that the cells throughout the body ldquohearrdquo and respond to Every thought we think or belief we hold has an energetic pat-tern that is carried in the blood The blood is the messenger

The emotional state of the person which is related to the ldquoIrdquo or ego self is re-flected in the way the blood organizes itself and shows up in patterns discernible in the blood They may perhaps be from ancestral energies passed down or have been created in this lifetime through traumas or experi-ences perhaps consciously forgotten but the energetic imprints remain and continue to alert the cells and organs in every drop of blood that circulates These patterns can be interpreted to reveal hidden problems not visible or even measurable by conventional methods

Blood is a mystical fluid that has the power to change the dynamics of the whole being It is the link to the brain body connec-tion As an example when thinking negative or fearful thoughts you can see the way the blood

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EVERYONE KNOWS THAT growing plants inside your home can bring beauty vitality and life into any living

space Did you know that growing certain plants in your home could also have wonderful health benefits Everyday household objects can release harmful gases into the air that we breath These pollutants can have a serious effect on our health Plants are able to breathe in bad air and turn dangerous toxins into harmless substances

Poor air quality from pollution odours moulds and chemicals can impact your breathing which can have a variety of negative effects on your health These five plants have purifying benefits that help promote relaxation which can lead to healthier sleeping patterns and all around better days

A healthy home has approximately 1 houseplant per 100 square feet It is a good idea to have more plants per square feet if you live with multiple people or pets

1 Aloe Vera

Aloe Vera is well known for soothing inflammation scars and burned skin It is also among the most powerful air purifiers in the world While Aloe Vera helps clear chemicals like formaldehyde and benzene from the air it also lowers carbon dioxide levels at night This

rare ability to absorb CO2 levels in the dark makes Aloe a wonderful bedroom companion that can help you get a more refreshing sleep

Aloe Vera is very easy to care for needing minimum water and attention The Egyptians called it the lsquoplant of immortalityrsquo because it is so resilient It is important to keep it in direct sunlight

2 Snake Plant (Mother-in-Lawrsquos Tongue)

NASA conducted a study about houseplants and air purification The study shows that the snake plant can reduce respiratory symptoms eye irritation and headaches while also reducing the need for ventilation

During the study NASA sealed a snake plant in a chamber with various noxious gases for 24 hours and found that it reduced the amount of Benzene in the air by 53 and the amount of Trichloroethylene in the air by 134

Snake plant is also a great bedroom companion because it can provide a significant amount of oxygen to indoor environments at night

Snake plant can be neglected for periods of time because it is a sturdy plant It will thrive in the sun or shade but should not be kept in an environment below 50 degrees Fahrenheit

3 Areca Palm

The Areca palm is a very popular office and household dweller Its popularity grew

when it scored very high in all categories when NASA tested 50 plants for their ability to filter the air around us ease of care and for the ability to add moisture to the surrounding atmosphere It can purify benzene formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from the air It is also a very effective air humidifier

Areca palms prefer bright sunlight but too much light can scorch the leaves It is important to not overwater these plants and they do best in moderate temperatures

4 English Ivy

A NASA study concluded that English Ivy is the number one best air purifying houseplant because it is the most efficient plant to absorb formaldehyde Its leaves can improve symptoms of allergies and asthma The American College of Allergy Asthma amp Immunology reported that in a 2005 experiment English Ivy removed 94 of airborne faeces and 78 of airborne mould in as little as 12 hours

English Ivy is easy to grow and survives in moderate temperatures with medium sun exposure The vine looks great in a hanging basket or on a ledge where the leaves can trail down

This plant can be toxic is ingested by kids or pets so make sure to keep it out of their reach

5 Chrysanthemum

This colourful plant can brighten any room or office Its blossoms can also filter out benzene which is commonly found in glue paint plastics and detergent

The name ldquoChrysanthemumrdquo is derived from the Greek words ldquogoldrdquo and ldquoflowerrdquo The flower also has many medicinal benefits It can be used to treat chest pain high blood pressure type 2 diabetes fever cold headache dizziness and swelling When combined with other herbs it can also be used to treat prostate cancer Chrysanthemum tea is a very popular summertime beverage in areas of southern China

Chrysanthemums need bright sunlight to flourish indoors It is important to find an area that gets sun even in the winter Water the plant often keeping the soil damp at all times

Ariana Marisol is a contributing staff writer for REALfarmacycom where this article first appeared She is an avid nature enthusiast gardener photographer writer hiker dreamer and lover of all things sustainable wild and free

Ariana strives to bring people closer to their true source Mother Nature She is currently finishing her last year at The Evergreen State College getting her undergraduate degree in Sustainable Design and Environmental Science Follow her adventures on Instagram

is the new vibration The uni-verse is subjective Only subjective Only experiential Matter data knowledge even the words themselves are becom-ing less dense Necessarily emptier Itrsquos not the words that are spoken itrsquos how they are delivered Intent tonality reso-nance emotion focus

Defiantly Elegant amp Impetuously Creative

Human culture is asymmetrical Mainstream culture is symmetrical This is how we can tell the difference between what is real and what is unreal What is manifested through unique evo-lutionary loving intent and what is not What is magick and what is not

Symmetry is necessary for mass production and prefabrication It can also be utilized as a framework for sepa-ration for holding negative resonance as in Control System street geometry and Masonic architecture The absence of right angles in nature encompasses a wider teaching that questions the wisdom of manrsquos insistent propagation of boxes squares and rectangles in the 3D earth realm

The angular distortions of restrictive geometry can be formulated to confine a specific movement of energy At ex-tremes it can contract energy to such a degree that it becomes stuck and forms a negative singularity a subtle energetic

black hole that begins to compromise the evolutionary trajectory of the whole system This is what all illnesses derive from lsquostucknessrsquo and contraction of energy To release stuck energy patterns one needs to open the shape re-wire the circuit so the system remains open Energy can flow inward and outward

This is the pattern of nature In the unhindered natural expression of earth there is only curve Even the hardest sharpest angles are all vector points along a smooth curve There is only curve Only flow Even in the deepest stillness when motionless beside a tranquil lake there is a deep harmonic throb The graceful pulse of supremely elegant planet Earth

The conscious solar wind blows through us There is no hiding no possi-bility of concealment Clinging to the old leads to falling Acknowledging the new leads to ascension All perfectly natural All is as it should be The evolution of the galaxy proceeds no matter what The trick is to know that we are not simply galactic inhabitants ndash we are the unfold-ment itself We are it There is no separa-tion We switch from being objects to being the thing in itself We join a myriad other intelligences and conscious vibra-tions to create what we choose Zooming out we perceive that indeed we are the transdimensional object of all existence

It is only the needless magnification of self that brings the polarity of being zoomed-in the perpetually regressive pickle of seeing only that which lies under onersquos own nose

The ego fears loss of self because it believes self is essential for survival Not

so There is absolutely no loss of con-sciousness in dissolving the boundaries of self Identity can if one so wishes remain perfectly intact pristine and whole That is if one would wish to carry that energetic weight any further along the journey rather than depositing it respectfully in the galactic record for future public reference

It is a peculiarly human trait to imag-ine that dissolution means loss that giving away means losing Quite the reverse By removing the boundary markers by open-ing the energetic portals the sublime unity of consciousness can be allowed to flow inwards and outwards We become what we were what we really are Ironi-cally it is in connecting with the totality that we regain our real distinctiveness We begin to conceive of the fact that we do not require a self to anchor experience We do not need to exist only in one place at one time When the temporality of the 3D is cast aside having beautifully served its purpose as a phenomenal teaching device (in every sense of the word) then a beauti-ful wholeness of being can finally unfold no longer polarized no longer pulled away from the perfect centre For it is here at this point of pure equilibrium that we divinely dwell

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