Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

Some of us consider it our mission to raise the collective vibration by doing what we can to raise our own, and however often I’ve said what I’m about to say, I think the best way to avoid distraction or depression is to consistently embrace our creative and spiritual practices.

I’ve had trouble staying centered lately. It happens every now and then, but it seems to have gotten worse and I’ve watched myself get distracted and frustrated when I could be writing, playing music, meditating or doing anything else that helps me stay centered and fills me with the spirit.

I’m learning that our emotions might dip if we don’t stay dedicated to our passions. Emotion is a powerful tool that can be used positively or negatively, and those of us who are sensitive to the world’s harshness might suffer if we don’t keep our spiritual links strong. Not only could we suffer – our negativity could make the people around us suffer too.

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Video - A teacher of lucid dreaming Charlie Morley discusses facing personal and collective cultural nightmares through lucid awareness and how this process can take you on a path of personal healing. Lucid dreaming, being aware that you are dreaming when you are dreaming, is scientifically identified as a hybrid state of consciousness. It has been practiced as a mind training method by Tibetan Buddhists for thousands of years. Morley believes that dreaming more lucidly can bring more awareness, clarity and joy into life. He is the co-creator of a new holistic approach to conscious sleeping and lucid dreaming called “Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep”.

Without an ego, there is only sharing, giving, intimacy and truth.  An ocean of love waits for the vulnerable.

Mind and ego need each other to exist.  They are outside our feelings, so they hide what we feel.  Since they are outside the understanding of self and the experience of love, they are counterfeits to the truth within us.

When we silence the mind and ego, we open the door to what is real within us.  Only then can we share the nature of our reality within from our beingness.

Namaste.
CJ and Robert

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Brandon West, Contributor
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What is the true nature of mind, and what is the real function of our brains?

The purpose of this article is to provide evidence that strongly indicates that you are not your brain, or your body for that matter, and that the nature of mind, of memory, and of our brains may actually be vastly different than we have been lead to believe.

Since time immemorial, man has been fascinated by the mind, leading great thinkers from Hippocrates to Descartes to ponder the nature of mind with wonder. Fast forward to modern times and observe how the mind is still revered and is dominating our culture. We have a lot of firm beliefs about the nature of mind, and I believe the ego – our limited perception of ourselves – and thus human ignorance, is intricately tied in with these beliefs.

Prior to the arrival of Europeans in America, there were estimated to be 1.2 to 12 million Native Americans living in the Americas. That population was quickly dwindled to 250,000 via disease, suicide, genocide, slavery, and mass murder. This was an incredibly great tragedy and may be one of the most terrible things to ever happen to any group of people in the history of our planet. However, almost 0 attention is given to this tragedy. One has to ask, why?