Alanna Ketler of Collective Evolution: Before the Europeans came to America, it is estimated that anywhere from 1.2 million to 12 million Native Americans inhabited the land. The population of the Native Americans was reduced to 250,000, due to mass murder, genocide, imported diseases, slavery and suicide. There is no question about it, these people…
All over the media, doctor’s office and magazines we see that too much sun exposure is bad for you and you need sunscreen as protection. At the same time, over 2 million Americans find out they have skin cancer each year. Now, researchers are telling us that sunscreen is actually harming us. In 2014, the…
There is a group of fruit lovers in San Francisco that practice something known as “guerrilla grafting” – they graft fruit bearing branches onto fruitless, ornamental trees across the Bay Area city. Having access to free fruit sounds like a wonderful idea, considering the number of homeless people who can rarely afford a decent meal, but guerrilla grafting…
Carolanne Wright of Wake Up World writes: For Matt Killingsworth Ph.D., studying happiness is a full-time job. A Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, inventor of the Track Your Happiness app and doctorate in psychology from Harvard University, he’s driven by the idea of learning what’s behind being joyful. So much so that he embarked on a…
Every day there are more and more people asking questions about themselves in regards to what they have been through in life. This is the age of awakening, spiritual awakening, which refers to a person’s ability to clearly see that what they perceive, experience, think or feel, is after all not the same as what…
From an article featured on The Anti Media: The 2016 election has been a wild ride, with two insurgent grassroots campaigns literally giving the political establishment a run for its money. But as the events of this presidential primary season play out, it’s becoming clear the U.S. election — and even more so, the presidential…
Carolanne Wright of Wake Up World writes: In this day and age, we’d be hard-pressed to find a few moments without the cacophony of modern life swirling around us. With 24/7 access to television, streaming video, radio and all sorts of digital music, we might not give a second thought to the constant audio bombardment. Nor do…
Did you know that the level of indoor air pollutants can be 2 to 5 times higher than outdoor pollution levels? Add that to the statistic, the average American spends 90 percent of their time indoors, and you have a perfect scenario to wreak havoc on your health. One thing you can do to remedy…
There’s something about traveling. It gives us the chance to see the world, and ourselves, in a new light. And in my case, on my recent trip in Italy, it gave me the opportunity to pray in a new way. As I sat at the train station waiting, the railroad master emerged from her office…
Brandon Austin of David Wolfe writes: Confucius is known as one of the greatest philosophers that ever lived. He was born in 551 B.C., and throughout his life, his works – which have been preserved in the Analects – focused on ethics within the family, educational system and public. After his death in 479 B.C.,…