Going through a spiritual awakening is one of the most confusing, lonely, alienating, but also supremely beautiful experiences in life.
Put simply, spiritual awakenings mark the beginning of your initiation on the spiritual path. Without experiencing a spiritual awakening, we go throughout life pursuing the emptiness of money, fame, power, and respect in an attempt to find “happiness.”
If you have experienced a spiritual awakening, you have come to see through the lies and illusions of this world. Deep in your soul, you realize that...
You know the feeling that washes over you as you listen to the chorus of crickets or the sound of water babbling down a stream? According to a study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, the calming feeling has something to do with how natureaffects our modern instinct to live in “fight or flight” mode.
The idea that listening to or being around nature producing feelings of relaxation is nothing new. However, recent research is the first to use heart-rate monitors, brain scans, and behavioral...
According to ‘Implicit Theories of Interest: Find Your Passion or Developing It?’ a paper published in Psychological Science by three Stanford University researchers, popular mantras like “follow your passion” create the belief that pursuing a passion is easy. However, interests do not arrive fully formed, ready for you to coast the rest of the way. Instead, they require constant work, you must actively take the steps necessary to develop the skills and attributes that will allow you to pursue your goals. In essence, if you...
Many of us think of happiness as an elusive and unreachable place. Yet the map to both happiness and unhappiness is the same. This article shares why we are unhappy and the simple way you can resolve it.
When we wake up the decisions we make from that moment are the cause that creates the preceding effect, which makes up the rest of our day. This is the way it works on a smaller scale, however as time goes by these consistent causes become hardwired and the effect...
I was speaking in Barcelona a few months ago about online censorship. I think the talk went ok, I didn’t have a lot of time to prepare it as I just found out about it a few days earlier. Most people are still unaware of this situation, but many alternative media sites, as well as bloggers and Youtubers who are involved in activism, are currently being censored by giants like Facebook and Google.
Several Youtube channels have been removed in recent months, they closed down many accounts without giving any...
Based on the work of Helena Blavatsky, the theory says we are in the 5th of 7 root races, from which all being are derived.
The theory of root races is definitely a very different perspective to that of the agreed upon narrative of mainstream thought, and is brought to us from the occult classic “The Secret Doctrine” written by Helena Blavatsky. In The Secret Doctrine Blavatsky shares that there are seven Root-Races which could also be referenced as evolutionary cycles, which humanity...
Are all these distractions doing anyone any good?4 Minute Poem Will Make You Rethink Your Social Media UseAre all these distractions doing anyone any good?
Never in history have we had so many distractions, we have advertising, social media and media in general all grabbing for a piece of our attention. The result of this is a population of scattered minds, wandering from one thing to the next without any focus or direction. How often are people finding themselves losing days due to feel good chemicals like dopamine being released...
Authorities in the US may be cracking down on the illegal use of marijuana, but officials in New Wales are encouraging the habit. Recently, Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones shared his viewpoint on the matter — and it will probably surprise you.
As The Daily Post reports, Jones called for steps to be taken to control the sale of illegal substances, including marijuana: “I want to see drugs controlled and sold by responsible retailers similar to off-licences that sell alcohol. I don’t see a difference between the use of...
What is the cure for humanity’s ails? According to new research from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London, psilocybin — the active components in “magic mushrooms” — may be the answer.
The new study, published in the journalPsychopharmacology, suggests psilocybin can help people feel more connected to nature and less likely to endorse authoritarian views. The study is the first to provide experimental evidence that treatment with the fungi could result in lasting changes in these attitudes.
Wrote study authors Taylor Lyons and Robin L. Carhart-Harris: ...
If we want to accelerate the world’s renewable energy transition, we’ll have to modernize the electric grid and we’ll need much better batteries. Just look at Germany, which generates so much clean energy on particularly windy and sunny days that electricity prices are often negative.
Sure this is good news for a German person’s wallet, but as the New York Times noted, “Germany’s power grid, like most others around the world, has not yet adapted to the increasing amounts of renewable energy...
Thanks to a team of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), it is now possible to harness renewable energy from waves while simultaneously protecting the coastline from erosion.
Normally, tetrapods (star-shaped structures made from concrete) are used to protect coastlines from eroding. With the aid of Wave Energy Converter (WEC) turbines, however, the coastlines can be protected while renewable energy is harvested.
New Atlas reports that the wave turbine’s pairing with a sturdy, anchored structure could “take advantage” of pre-existing infrastructure in Japan. Said Professor Tsumoru Shintake,...
The decision was made while he was sedated, to send him back to God.
I was an emotional wreck, even though I knew his role on this earth was to give love, and for him to learn the odd lesson in life. Like ducking for cover when the magpie birds swooped down to peck him. I will miss those little things about him. Like at 5.57 every night he would come up to me whilst I was engrossed in sorting out the daily emails, and put his paw on...
A way in which we can conceptualise the banking system is by imagining 100 people all being given $100 and as a result of this they are expected to pay back $110 at the end of the month. The only way in which you can earn extra money is by earning it from someone else in this group of 100.
So there is $10000 in circulation, but $11000 needs to be paid back. In the best of situations this would mean 10 people would end up with nothing and go bankrupt, and...
A recently discovered essay written by Winston Churchill has revealed that he was open to the possibility of alien life on other planets. The popular science article was found to be written around 1939 when World War Two broke out, and within the article contained Churchill’s thoughts and opinions on the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life, according to recent reports. The draft was 11 pages long, and potentially intended for a newspaper. The paper was further updated in the 1950s, although it was never published.
Police have discovered a stash of more than four million methamphetamine pills hidden within the Shwe Baho monastery in one of the most Buddhist nations in the world.
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, currently has around 48 million practicing citizens, but on the flip side, is also one of Southeast Asia’s biggest narcotics producers. As well as Buddhism, the nation is known for exporting large quantities of opium, cannabis, and methamphetamine to surrounding countries.
Humans are interdependent creatures. Our behavior affects the environment we all share. Even in prison, solitary confinement is the most severe form of punishment.
Too much isolation leads to bad decision-making and bad citizenship. If you cut off your connection with others, it hurts everyone.
You need to emerge from your shell. The good news is that you can do it at your own comfortable pace. If you’re playing piano, you have to learn scales before you play jazz. If you want...
Synchronicity is a term which was famously coined by psychologist and mystic Carl Jung- the definition is when 2 or more seemingly unrelated incidents occur which at first glance may seem coincidental, but upon further inspection have some kind of relation to each other.
Deja Vu
Number codes are quite frequent – possibly the most frequently reported is that of seeing 11:11, but it also goes a lot further than just numbers. Synchronicity can be a feeling too, and depending on your beliefs in reincarnation could very well continue from...
A 12-year-old gypsy traveller has achieved a perfect IQ score which rivals that of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
The daughter of migrant Roma workers, Nicole Barr, who lives with a travelling community in Essex, achieved a score of 162 on the IQ test, placing her in the top 1% of the population.
The young girl proudly told the Western Daily, “when I found out I got such a high score, it was so unexpected. I was so shocked.”
The average IQ score for adults is 100, according to...
We are moving into a new year and to my understanding a new era. 2016 or 2+0+1+6=9 which is an ending due to it being the last full digit of the cycle.
2017 or 2+0+1+7 makes 10 which added makes 1, this represents the start of a new era, but I also believe there to be another meaning to 10. Firstly I would just like to say that numbers as a language are very similar to words, meaning if you know how to interpret...
A software company, which was founded just last year, has allowed employees to use cannabis whilst they are at work.
The company, named Denver’s Flowhub, does not allow smoking within the building, but does allow employees to eat food, fizzy drinks and juices that are infused with cannabis.
The company’s co-founders Kyle Sherman and Chase Wiseman claim that they are more focused on their employees getting their assigned work done, and if the use of marijuana helps them to get their work done then they “don’t care if they consume at...
Bill Murray has had his fair share of controversy in the past, but in this video he shows his wisdom when asked what he wants from life. Listen as he responds with an incredibly deep and thoughtful answer.
What do you think about what Bill said? Do we need more presence of mind and connection to what we are doing? Let me know what you think by leaving a comment, and if you have found this useful please feel...
Spirituality is the foundations for good health. When you spiritually connect to that which is important to you magical and amazing things start to happen.
But while a lot of people seem to be getting into spirituality for personal gain and development, it is actually what you lose as a result of spiritual connection that has the most impact.
I have to say that you will never completely lose the things I speak about in this article, and while they are quite negative, they are...
It can be easy to get so caught up in what is missing, that we miss what is right in front of us! Today we explore 46 things that you can show gratitude for and why gratitude is so important for your health!
Each and every one of us is blessed in one way or another, we may not always have exactly what it is that we want in this very moment, but we can always find something to be grateful for.
Delve into the mystical world of psychedelics! Can they lead to a deeper understanding of human consciousness? Or are they just a quick fix?
Psychedelics are not to be taken lightly, I say this meaning that they should not be abused as a recreational substance, but they should also not be taken thoughtlessly to achieve an easy road to enlightenment.
If you ever decide that psychedelics are right for you then great, but just know that they can change your perspective of the world and...
There are very few certainties in life and there are no guarantees that the life we are living today will be the same for us tomorrow.
But one thing that will remain consistent through your life is, you will continually have challenges and problems to overcome and while these challenges will differ from person to person, the solution for any problems can be broken down into 7 key areas for development.
In a sacred text called the Sabbāsava Sutta the Buddha outlines these 7 areas and my...
I like to think of the raising of consciousness like a pursuit in life that one will never totally reach, a bit like happiness, you can find fulfilment in your life through your general attitude, but you will never fully arrive at that place where all the problems disappear. This is also true for consciousness, you can become more conscious, present and aware. But you will never fully arrive at the place where your mind is totally in the moment all the time. Related Article: 5 Powerful...
There are very few certainties in life & there are no guarantees that the life we are living today will be the same for us tomorrow.
But one thing that will remain consistent through your life is, you will continually have challenges & problems to overcome & while these challenges will differ from person to person, the solution for any problems can be broken down into 7 key areas for development.
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