HJ: Many personal growth proponents advocate ‘doing whatever it takes’ to make your dreams a reality.  But there is a better way.  A more effortless way that keeps you in the flow instead of putting you at odds with it through the sheer force of will.  Spiritual teacher Brandon West makes some important, subtle distinctions that make all the difference for practicing the art of letting go while still being productive and successful.

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Whatever It Takes

By Brandon West | Project Global Awakening

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Perhaps in life and during the process of manifestation our job isn’t to egoically force our dreams into existence by thinking that we should be somewhere where we are not and aborting the path we are o...

A study out last year from the Imperial College of London shows that our brains display a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind expanding drug trip. This study found that while dosed with psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in mushrooms, activity in the more primitive brain network linked to emotional thinking became considerably more pronounced.

Drugs (if you can even call them that) that have psychedelic reactions when taken can profoundly experience the way we see the world. This new research, published in Human Brain Mapping, has examined the brain effects of psilocybin, using data from the brain scans of volunteers injected with the compound.

“What we have done in this research is begin to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs"...

Life can be terrifying. You are so identified with your body. Here you go out into the world every day, and you have no armor. Anything could happen. You go out to face danger every day. Even your home isn’t a safe place when you put your mind to it. No place is safe. The sky can be falling. A germ could get you. What a long list of possibilities, no matter how remote, you carry as worry beads. What’s the point to worrying then?

Life is unpredictable. If you can’t predict your life to the minute, then you might as well relax. Worrying isn’t a preventive. Worry isn’t a chant that protects you. It makes your skin dry and gives you wrinkles. There are other possibilities to have your mind on.

So many possibilities are before you. Why limit yourself to the fearful possibilities? Why would you do that?

Have your good fortune in mind. It would indeed be good fortune if you would let go of worry. You may say it’s impossible for you to give up worry because of the realities of life on Earth. Doom in one form or another is what you see as the reality of life. Perhaps you see good fortune as an accident.

Blessings are also part of the realities of life. You don’t know what good fortune is waiting for you around the corner.

You could save a child’s life. You could receive unlimited money.

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Neptune’s influence continues in the transits this week. Saturn and Uranus form an unusual alliance of sorts, attempting to compete with the powerful Neptune’s influence. The strong stellium of planets in Pisces, including Neptune in his home sign and Venus in exaltation, give a watery, dreamy feel to the transits that contrasts with Uranus’ quest for knowledge and innovation. Perhaps the grace and empathy of Venus, in Pisces, can help amalgamate the competing energies into productive manifestations. A fascinating example of one of the more personal planets – Venus – using her qualities in an attempt to harmonize the influences of several planets beyond Jupiter.

There is a growing belief that, among the physical layers of the human being there are also non-visible layers, such as the aura, sometimes called the biofield. This biofield is made up of electromagnetic fields and energy structures that contain information for helping the systems of the human body and work properly. This biofield is thought to interact with the human body, and appears as a hologram that harnesses the power of frequency, vibration, electricity, and magnetism so that we can experience life in the material realm.

Deep, huh?

Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch
Waking Times

There’s no debating that humans have greatly scarred the Earth. And, there’s no better way to see the extent of that damage than via aerial images. Below are six NASA satellite images that show massive deforestation in many parts of the world.

According to NASA, the state of Rondônia in western Brazil—once home to 208,000 square kilometers of forest (about 51.4 million acres), an area slightly smaller than the state of Kansas—has become one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. In the past three decades, clearing and degradation of the state’s forests have been rapid: 4,200 square kilometers cleared by 1978; 30,000 by 1988; and 53,300 by 1998. By 2003, an estimated 67,764 square kilometers of rainforest—an area larger than the state of West Virginia—had been cleared.

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Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

This world is as beautiful and heavenly as we let it be, but it’s worth noting that there are higher dimensions beyond our surface perception that, if we raise our vibration high enough, we’ll find are even more blissful.

There are realms beyond the physical earth that boast spiritually advanced entities who want to help us refine our consciousness and ascend, and like we’ve learned, life is a constant progression back into the Source of existence; our creator, who we separated from when we decided to explore these lower realms.

Most conscious people strive to tap into these realms from earth, thereby making the world a better, more heavenly place. Our goal is to use our spirituality and creativity to turn this world into the utopia it’s always been meant to be, and this is why you see so much spiritual material these days – articles, books, music, seminars – the list goes on.