Source – huffpost.com These Zen Buddhist Koans Will Open Your Mind “Out of nowhere the mind comes forth.” By Carol Kuruvilla A koan is a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths about the world and about themselves. Zen masters have been testing their students with these stories,…
Source – fractalenlightenment.com Shadow Work: What, Why and How to Do It “Everyone carries a shadow and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one may always have a chance to correct it. But if it is repressed and isolated from…
Source – veteranstoday.com An Extraterrestrial Cosmology of Consciousness Jack Heart By William C. Treurniet Summary. A comprehensive extraterrestrial cosmology grounded in consciousness accounts for well-known but inexplicable phenomena such as near-death and out-of-body experiences, telepathy, and remote viewing. It also accounts for the instantaneous materialization of matter and some puzzling behaviors of alleged extraterrestrial craft. Consciousness…
Source – lewrockwell.com Why The Demand For Fentanyl? By Capt. Randall Before fentanyl,…. heroin, opioid pills, .38 Specials, carbon monoxide and tall buildings took countless lives. I can only surmise that depression, diminished physical health and personally demoralizing conditions were and are responsible. Economic outlook is particularly bleak for many young men who see no…
Source – energeticsynthesis.com Five Principles to Practice Now – By Lisa Renee Transcript: As we come out of this dark cycle, it can feel like moving through the narrow part of an hourglass, where the micro and macro are being compressed together and squeezed through the bottleneck. We are processing the dark eon of these…
Source – resilience.org A Sexy Future – By Eliza Daley Share Tweet I was listening to Timothée Parrique talk with Nate Hagens on The Great Simplification. Parrique is entertaining and enthusiastic, not common qualities in an economist, much less one whose research focus is in the potentially doomy arena of degrowth. But he makes degrowth sound fun.…
Source – fractalenlightenment.com “…In his book, “Buddha Brain – The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom”, Rick Hanson, stated, “your brain has a built-in negative bias, it generates an unpleasant background of anxiety, which for some people can be quite intense; anxiety makes it harder to bring attention inward for self-awareness or contemplative practice,…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com “…Interests the world-famous psychologist had hitherto kept to himself now became common knowledge. Flying saucers, astrology, parapsychology, alchemy, even predictions of a coming “new Age of Aquarius”… – dubious at least from the viewpoint of modern science – flowed from his pen….The “sage of Küsnacht” and “Hexenmeister of Zürich,” as Jung was…
Source – fractalenlightenment.com “…When you reject curiosity for certainty and humor for hubris, you reject yourself as a conduit to cosmos. You cut off the fountainhead. Your compass suddenly becomes faulty, disorienting, and misaligned. And you find yourself back where you started, fumbling dumbly through a sick society with a broken compass” 3 Ways to…
Source – yogaesoteric.net “…According to Advaita Vedanta, there are no atheists or people to deny God, because even when some of them doubt the reality of God, they cannot doubt that they doubt; in order to do that they need cit (consciousness) as well. So, consciousness is exactly the reality that some people, paradoxically, come…
Source – naturalnews.com “…Homesteading skills are crucial because they will help you live off the land. By learning homesteading skills, you can be more self-sufficient and live a sustainable lifestyle. Here are 24 homesteading skills that will help you become more self-reliant before SHTF” 24 Important homesteading skills to learn before SHTF – By Zoey…
Source – thedailybell.com “…I came up with a five step plan to start small, and grow into a sovereign country….If we do it right, we will have all the replacements ready when the old institutions come crumbling down. Massive wealth and power will be decentralized, and transferred into the hands of those who saw what…
Source – newagora.ca “…Courage is foremost. Before any other virtue can be actualized, courage must be self-actualized. There must first come a courageous deviation or there is no “first.” Period. Maya Angelou said it best, “Without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” SM…”It is better to live one day as a Lion than…
Source – oftwominds.com “…As I’ve been saying for years: “A healthy homecooked family meal and a home garden are revolutionary acts.” If these don’t seem revolutionary yet, just wait a few years: their revolutionary nature will become self-evident…Gardening is the antidote to the toxic tsunami of despair and derangement sweeping the land and one expression…
Source – hareinthemoonastrology.co.uk “…Question: Are you wondering why so many of us are feeling all over the place – everything from disengaged to despairing to stuck to purposeless? Answer: It’s because we are hitting turbulence in the Chaos Nodes – the intersection of multiple rare and historic energy cycles all at once – akin to…
Source – freedomsphoenix.com “…And then we have the lion. Once asleep, woken up by how much the world around him has decayed. In his action, the woken lion determines the trajectory of history, as does the sleeping lion, in his inaction determine the trajectory of history….Your job, dear warrior, is to stand” SM:…For me the…
Source – zachbushmd.com “…Like an addict’s moment of clarity, the pandemic presents a singular occasion to break the chains of denial that imprison us. A moment to objectively examine that which no longer serves us. The behaviors that repeatedly lead us astray. An economic system that demands constant growth at the cost of the collective…
Source – wakingtimes.com “…The forces of mass vibrational dissonance are exceptionally intense in these current times. It can be said that humanity has reached a particular state of general tension. Such ‘forces of hindrance’ would delight in creating divisions by dividing friendships and social alliances. Some divisions, however, are set to occur, for these are…
Source – resilience.org “…Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a poet and founder of the Icelandic Pirate Party, highlights the importance of enunciating a future populated by images and visions of hope: “When people are forced to choose between fear and hope, they usually choose hope. The future is not going to be a single vision, but a collage…
Source – fractalenlightenment.com “…Life is too short not to leave some things to chance. Fate is more of a factor than most people can imagine. And so you keep fate on a short leash, close to your chest. You practice the ability to embrace paradox and to hold the tension between opposites. You learn how…
Source – fractalenlightenment.com “…Most of us are so caught up with the day-to-day routine that we hardly make time for ourselves. One of the major flaws of being busy is that you don’t even have the time to sit and look back at how our hours are flying by and where we can readjust to…
Source – resilience.org “…This 50-minute film gives voice to dozens of people building a more beautiful world. From restoring topsoil, to sharing traditional knowledge, to opposing free trade treaties and innovating new ways of supporting local businesses, their actions are forging a new path forward for humanity” Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution This 50-minute film…
Source – wakeup-world.com “…The process of losing your authenticity and adapting to society’s expectations is known as domestication. Just like pets, we are domesticated with an emotional reward or punishment system. If our behavior is desirable, we are rewarded with attention and affection. If our behavior is not acceptable we are punished by the rejection of our parents or peers”…
Source – wakingtimes.com “…The Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff used to say that humankind lives under 48 laws, of which they are mostly unaware or ignorant of…Within the general scheme of things, most people are treated as ignorant instruments; they are moved around like puppets, suspecting nothing. They live predictable lives; that is, lives that can…
Source – theorganicprepper.com “…Firing a volley in this war doesn’t have to be bloody. Resistance can begin as easily a planting one seed in a pot. It’s time to go to battle and declare your independence with a spade in one hand and some seeds in the other. You may feel like your hands are…
Source – energeticsynthesis.com “…The Cosmic Mother principle returns energetic balance into the earth body, reclaiming the body elemental through her principles of anabolism and catabolism, forces of creation and destruction, which arise out from the core of the infinite Creatrix. Kabbalists refer to this as the Ein Soph, the Mother Principle as the conflagration of plasma, gases, and…
Source – thepulse.one “…Your life is what it is right now because of the collection of decisions you’ve made up to this point. So now is as good a time as any to start making ones that align with what you actually want. You just need to make sure you’re tough enough to handle the fears,…
Source – yesmagazine.org “…How do we need to transform ourselves to transform the world? How do we need to be? How do we need to grow ourselves in order to both spark and cultivate the kinds of species’ evolutions we want to see? What do we need to practice? This, to me, is the work…
Source – newagora.ca “…A lamb that can manage to question its fear-based lifestyle—a lifestyle built upon blind obedience, addiction to comfort, and reliance on wolves to keep them “safe”—is a lamb that has the potential to become a courageous lion…Lions take a stand. They draw a line in the sand. They bare their teeth. They…
Source – ronpaulinstitute.org “…No one ever asked an expectant mother, “how’s the fetus?” Instead, people ask about the baby. This implicitly acknowledges the unborn child’s humanity and thus the child’s right to live. The denial of this right has warped our constitutional system. More importantly it has contributed to the devaluing of human life that…
Source – self-inflictedphilosophy.com “…Mythmaking is world-building. When you are a world-builder, you are equal parts divining rod and lightning rod. You’re able to open-up to unexpected music, poetry, and art, following intuitive hunches and looking for primordial signs in all domains of thought. The third eye blasts open” Breaking Open the Third Eye By Gary…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com “…Thoughtforms are created from the soul’s mental and astral bodies through imagination, desire, willpower and intention. In many cases, once thoughtforms are created they exist as real things separate from their creator. Thoughtforms are created from energised thoughts, and from this perspective thoughts are real things. Once created, thoughts exist as separate…
Source – thepulse.one “…Watts was no angel. His wisdom is beautiful and profound, but he wasn’t a very good father and he wasn’t a very good husband, at least not to his first two wives (he had three and died while living with his third wife). We shouldn’t, however, expect perfection from our spiritual leaders,…
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