Jed Shlackman – Have you ever considered the idea that you create your own personal reality? Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/17/the-ground-rules-of-life-existence/…
Tag: Philosophy
5 Simple Ways to Change Your Life With the Law of Attraction
Heather Mathews – Starting today, you can apply these five tips to create ripples of change in your life. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/16/5-simple-ways-to-change-your-life-with-the-law-of-attraction/…
The race to save the planet from plastic
Scientists are trying to accelerate evolution to make plastics rot. A tiny new organism is showing them how. Sometime between 2010 and 2015, a tiny organism with an unusual appetite made a home in an industrial site near a bottle-recycling plant in Sakai, Japan. The site, located by a bustling port in one of the… Continue reading The race to save the planet from plastic
The Global Sensorium – Life at High Velocity
Kingsley L. Dennis – The only solution now is to move constantly or flee definitively.
Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/11/the-global-sensorium-life-at-high-velocity/
Revisiting Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth
Richard Smoley, New Dawn Waking Times Perhaps myth first arose out of the answers parents give to their children’s questions. Many of these are unanswerable: Why is water wet? Why is fire hot? Where does everything come from? Who is God? Because people like to tell stories, it makes sense that parents would make up… Continue reading Revisiting Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth
The Path to Liberating Humanity is the Same as the Path to Liberating the Individual
Caitlin Johnstone, Contributor Waking Times The path to enlightenment is the process of becoming clearly aware of all the different aspects of the way you operate inside, which enables you to relate to life as it’s actually appearing instead of through the filters of old conditioned mental habits. The path to the liberation of our… Continue reading The Path to Liberating Humanity is the Same as the Path to Liberating the Individual
The Taoist View of the Universe as Explained by Alan Watts
Alan Watts, Guest Waking Times At the very roots of Chinese thinking and feeling there lies the principle of polarity, which is not to be confused with the ideas of opposition or conflict. In the metaphors of other cultures, light is at war with darkness, life with death, good with evil, and the positive with… Continue reading The Taoist View of the Universe as Explained by Alan Watts
The Stone: The End of Satire
The toxic disinformation of social media has rendered traditional forms of humor quaint and futile. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/opinion/the-end-of-satire.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The Stone: Athens in Pieces: What Is It Like to Be a Monk?
I spent three days in Greece’s revered ‘Holy Mountain’ monastery to find out. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/mount-athos-monks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The nature of knowledge, Fake News, and social media
Today, I’m enjoying listening to one of the latest courses promoted on “The Great Courses Plus” – specifically, Theories of Knowledge: How to Think about What You Know. It is a refreshing review of my philosophy courses in Epistemology. I am currently passively absorbing the lectures from this course as I research the topic. A… Continue reading The nature of knowledge, Fake News, and social media