If you thought DNA was stable inside mature cells, you were wrong. Apparently, neurons are constantly changing to adapt to their environment. Minor surgeries are conducted toggling activity levels every single day. In effect, neurons constantly rewrite their DNA as needed. This information was discovered by John Hopkins scientists and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on the 27^th day of April this year.

Hongjun Song, Ph.D. says, “DNA, in a cell, is not always stable. It is being altered all the time in order to function. Even molecular tags, which maintains the cell’s identity, are constantly being altered.”

If you start choosing a path of joy, you become much more willing to be fully present in your life. By being fully present, you harness the power of the Now moment and anchor more of the energy you want through your appreciation. This creates the fuel for more joyful tomorrows, and starts to transform your life into something that is far more in line with what you wish to experience and deserve.

It all starts with making the choice of the energy you prefer, and finding the evidence of it in your life already. You are great and powerful magnifiers, each and every one of you, and that ability is available to you every second of every day. Why not find the beauty in your Now for even more beautiful tomorrows? It is what will create the shift from unconsciously wishing your life away because it is filled with drudgery to consciously creating and savouring every moment. ~Archangel Gabriel

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By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness

Every new day is an opportunity to explore ourselves and our planet, but it’s hard to explore the world when we’re too busy rushing around every day to get out, open our eyes and let the earth teach us a thing or two.

It doesn’t matter how far along the spiritual path we feel like we are – getting out to nature and learning from its simplistic (yet impressively intricate) beauty seems like one of the best ways to elevate our consciousness and our understanding of what life truly is.

We can merge our understanding of our higher consciousness with our understanding of the natural world, and by exploring nature and absorbing the energies that permeate that landscape, we can not only learn about our higher consciousness, but our grounded, earthy consciousness too.

This is one reason I think the earth’s natural environment is important to our attempts to find enlightenment. True enlightenment, in my opinion, comes with the recognition that everything around and within us has an essential role to play in our physical and spiritual evolution.

If you always wait for the right time to move forward, you will be waiting forever. Do not think…..know! Take that first step into joy, compassion, life and love! ~ Creator

Source: www.alternet.org | Original Post Date: February 11, 2015 –

Some of humanity’s technological innovations are things we would have been better off without: the medieval rack, the atomic bomb and powdered lead potions come to mind. Religions tend to invent ideas or concepts rather than technologies, but like every other creative human enterprise, they produce some really bad ones along with the good.

I’ve previously highlighted some of humanity’s best moral and spiritual concepts, our shared moral core. Here, by way of contrast, are some of the worst. These twelve dubious concepts promote conflict, cruelty, suffering and death rather than love and peace. To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, they belong in the dustbin of history just as soon as we can get them there.

1. Chosen People –The term “Chosen People” typically refers to the Hebrew Bible and the ugly idea that God has given certain tribes a Promised Land...

Peter Gray, Ph.D., Guest
Waking Times

Forced education interferes with children’s abilities to educate themselves.

In my last post I took a step that, I must admit, made me feel uncomfortable. I said, several times: “School is prison.” I felt uncomfortable saying that because school is so much a part of my life and the lives of almost everyone I know. I, like most people I know, went through the full 12 years of public schooling. My mother taught in a public school for several years. My beloved half-sister is a public schoolteacher. I have many dear friends and cousins who are public schoolteachers. How can I say that these good people–who love children and have poured themselves passionately into the task of trying to help children–are involved in a system of imprisoning children? The comments on my last post showed that my references to school as prison made some other people feel uncomfortable also.

Whatever you are going through, no matter how difficult your life may be for you at this time, remind yourself that underlying everything is a field of peace. Within you, no matter what your circumstances, lies this peace. We can call it Vastness, Stillness, Love, Beauty, Truth, God, Allah, Jehovah, and more. There are many names I go by. By whatever name, individually or collectively, you call this field, it is the same field. This is Oneness. As I exist in your heart, so do you exist in Mine. We are of One Heart. Stay with Me.

When I say to see Me, I don’t mean literally to see, for I am formless. Your heart, however, can see. Whether you have acknowledged My Presence or not, I am here. I am here for you. I do not leave your heart no matter how far your heart may wander. You are made of My Heart, and I am incapable of leaving yours. I am God of the Universe. My love is indelible and, perhaps inscrutable to you.

If you do not presently feel love for Me, then, I ask you, feel the love in My Heart that beats for you. Don’t look for reasons not to feel My love. Don’t replicate non-love to all the human beings in the world. Don’t separate yourself from love on any pretext.