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Shawn Nevins, Guidelines for Choosing a Spiritual Teacher

My ratings of teachers cover a tiny portion of the people you will
encounter. What is needed are some guidelines for choosing a spiritual teacher to facilitate your own evaluations. Some people argue that you are in no position to judge someone with a superior perspective, or that in matters of the spirit, all turns out for the best. However, there are teachers and groups whose only lesson is seemingly sharpening your judgment.
Chance will be your introduction, and reason and intuition must be your guides.

Dr. Peter Russell, Enlightenment – A New Way of Seeing

Being able to experience reality as it is, undistorted by our hopes and fears, is often referred to as “enlightenment.” The reference “light” in this word is usually thought of in the sense of illumination. A mind that is enlightened is said to be an “illumined” mind. It is a mind that has “seen the light,” or sees things in a new light.

Paul Levy, A Surreal World Gone Viral Is Waking Us Up

Living in such an uncertain topsy-turvy world gone mad naturally creates extreme stress, anxiety and creative tension. And yet, there is an opportunity of a lifetime that now becomes available to us hidden within this very challenging internal process. Rather than distancing ourselves from what has been triggered within us—social distancing from ourselves—if we are able to bear, carry and utilize the uncomfortable, and sometimes excruciating tension in a conscious way, we can potentially ignite the creative spirit within us to be set aflame with the light of divinely-inspired inspiration.

Dr. Steve Taylor, Transcending Human Madness

To an impartial observer – say, an alien zoologist from another planet – there must be very compelling evidence that human beings suffer from a serious mental disorder, and are perhaps even insane. The last few thousand years have been an endless catalogue of insane behavior.

Rosanne Lindsay, ND, The Game of Life: How To Make The Right Choice

With a new consciousness on the horizon, meant to further subdivide humanity into haves and have-nots, a more egalitarian and just system is promised for those who cooperate. However, The New Order is a repeat of The Old Orders that do not deliver on their promises, but rather, create power struggles that resemble Totalitarianism on a global scale. The perceived changes happening now are not new at all.
Do you go right or go easy?

Megan Redshaw, ‘Freedom Convoy’ Vows to Stay in Ottawa Until COVID Vaccine Mandates Lifted

Hundreds of truckers and thousands of citizens protesting Canada’s vaccine mandates for truckers remain in Ottawa, vowing to stay until the mandates are lifted.

Dr. Steve Taylor, Why Do Psychopaths Crave Power?

People with psychopathic traits are “hyper-disconnected” with no emotional or empathic connection to others.
Hyper-disconnected people usually feel a strong desire for power and wealth, which is never satiated.
The need to accumulate is rooted in their profound disconnection from the world and other human beings.

Historic Moment: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds

The James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Friday, Dec. 25, 2021. The Webb mission, an international partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, will explore every phase of cosmic history – from within the solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, and everything in between. Webb will reveal new and unexpected discoveries and help humanity understand the origins of the universe and our place in it.

Dr. Peter Russell, Who’s Kidding Whom? Is Sustainable Development Compatible with Western Civilization?

Sustainable Development is one of those terms that seems to have leaped into our vocabulary from nowhere. Five years ago no one, apart from a few green philosophers, had ever heard of the term.

A Must See Documentary: The 1 Field – A Groundbreaking Extraordinary New Film, “New Standard of What Consciousness is” Lee Carroll

‘The 1 Field’, using the scientific tools of the 21st century, examines this assumption through interwoven storylines: The life stories and researches of groundbreaking figures in the study of consciousness, and scientific experiments supervised by research institutes and scientists worldwide.
Can spirit be measured?
Is there a field that connects everything?

Paul Levy, Homage to the Creative Spirit

Humanity does not possess creative powers, but rather, is possessed by them. Every transformative or creative process comprises stages of possession, surrendering to, being taken over, and being moved by something greater than our own ego. Transcendent to and greater than the momentary act of creation, these primordial creative forces existed before and after the act of creation, existing within the plenum of unmanifest potential itself.

Melinda Meszaros and Mahalia Michael, Real Life Underwater Angels

Whales and dolphins fascinate us. They can be playful or majestic, but above all else, they are mysterious. We have a deep connection to them, and they have a unique connection to us. They are self-aware and they might have collective consciousness as well.
They treat us the way they treat each other, with love and care – just think about the many stories of dolphins protecting people from shark attacks or saving them from drowning.

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Erik Rittenberry, You’re Painfully Alive in a Drugged and Dying Culture

How did we arrive at a point in the United States where unbridled consumerism, endless war, vast surveillance, conformity, obesity, illiteracy, loneliness, victimhood, bitterness, infinite division, mindless entertainment, and an insatiable appetite for OUTRAGE came to be the defining characteristics of American civilization?

Jafree Ozwald and Margot Zaher, 10 Universal Relationship Truths

The following information will assist you in creating a heart-opening soul-based relationship in your life. By applying these Universal truths every day you’ll empower yourself to manifest a relationship that works for you, not against you.

Peter Shepherd, Ascension of the Consciousness of Mankind

Ascension, at this time in human history, means moving from a very material, survival-oriented struggle through life, to a new and expanded consciousness where the world will appear as different as night from day. In fact you could simply describe the process as moving from darkness to light – a New Awareness.

Gloria Excelsias, How to live a happy life in the midst of a challenging environment

Our biggest problem in life is that we don’t actively choose our thoughts, that our emotions have a life of their own, that desires apparently overcome us out of the blue and that life in general just seems to happen to us. Our eyes are open but we are asleep.

Wallace Huey, What is a Creative Genius?

There is a type of thinking, well known to the most creative minds, where the thinker becomes an observer of their mind at work. However, for nearly everyone who enters this state of mindfulness at times the thinker descends in consciousness and becomes identified with negative or limiting thought processes – I’m not good enough, I can never do this, this is too difficult.

Paul Levy, The Sacred Art of Alchemy

The alchemists, over the course of centuries, had generated a wide range of symbolic images which directly corresponded to the anatomy of the unconscious which Jung had been mapping through his painstaking work with thousands of patients. Jung, in illuminating the psychology of the unconscious, can himself be considered a modern-day alchemist. Jung continues that “the entire alchemical procedure….could just as well represent the individuation process of a single individual.”

Paul Levy, Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection – The Wetiko Mind-Virus

Like an entity with many tentacles, in addition to its physical and mental components, Covid-19 also has an interpersonal, behavioral vector of transmission. In other words, in affecting our minds (and thus, how we think and feel), Covid-19 impacts our behavior, which in turn influences how we interact with each other and the world around us. The virus deeply impacts the underlying social matrix that fashions human culture, practically leaving no stone unturned in its effects upon our world.

Transformational Documentary: THRIVE II: What On Earth Will It Take?

Released on 11/11/11, the film, “THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?” was an unconventional documentary that lifted the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream and uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives.“THRIVE II: This Is What It Takes” Released Globally on September 26, 2020

Paul Levy, Does the Coronavirus Inspire Optimism or Pessimism?

We can be of maximum benefit for both ourselves and the world at large when we are intimately connected with our intrinsic wholeness, whose natural perspective is not fixed in any particular dogmatic viewpoint or fixed narrative but sees things from as many points of view as we are able to imagine.

Navi Radjou, The Genius of Frugal Innovation

Unfortunately, more-for-more business model is becoming obsolete for three reasons. First, a big portion of customers can no longer afford expensive products, due to diminishing purchasing power. Second, we are running out of natural resources, namely water and oil. And third and most important, the growing income disparity between the wealthy and everyone else has led to a big disconnect between existing products and services and customers’ essential needs.

Steve Bhaerman, America Needs a Department of Heartland Security!

Heartland Security is the love-based counterpoint to the fear-based context of “Homeland Security.”Both ancient spiritual wisdom and modern “new edge” science point us toward humanity’s next evolutionary understanding that we are all cells in the body of humanity.

Maine Becomes the First State to Officially Register the People’s Party

According to the News Release, “The People’s Party will register in all 50 states and intends to win the presidency in 2024. It will run on a new social contract of desperately-needed progressive policies such as Medicare for all, free public college, abolishing mass incarceration, a basic income, and a Green New Deal — overwhelmingly popular policies that the establishment parties refuse to support”.