Shifts in your world are inevitable. Some things remain static, others grow and still others fall away. Do not take it personally…….it is the way things are meant to be. You would not be considered human on this Earth-plane without them. ~ Creator
Source: www.naturalsociety.com | Original Post Date: May 4, 2014 –
Among the many benefits of marijuana, such as its ability to inhibit cancer growth and halt seizures, the treatment of glaucoma has been long-standing and widely accepted. Well, a new study indicates the herb could also work to prevent blindness from another eye disease—retinitis pigmentosa.
Retinitis pigmentosa is a condition that destroys the light sensors of the eye. This degenerative condition acts on the millions of microscopic photoreceptors and can lead to blindness. Currently, there is no known solution. But in this most recent study, researchers made headway in establishing cannabis as a potential treatment.
“The old gods are dead or dying and people everywhere are searching, asking: What is the new mythology to be, the mythology of this unified earth as of one harmonious being?” –Joseph Campbell
All of life is a meditation, whether we are aware of it or not. Put even more succinctly, life is a meditative mythology. We are, each of us, walking, talking myth-machines going through the motions of our mythological projections. In any given culture, we are the hardware, and mythology is the software.
We are naturally creatures of myth. It’s a human need to be told stories, and to tell them. Joseph Campbell described mythology as having four basic functions: the Mystical Function: experiencing the awe of the universe; the Cosmological Function: explaining the shape and image of the universe; the Sociological Function: supporting and validating a certain social order; and the Psychological (pedagogical) Function: how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances.
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
The woman in front of you in the grocery store line just lost her mother after a nine year battle with cancer.
Your boss just found out his wife is having an affair.
The other mother you ran into in the schoolyard just found out her daughter has a brain tumor.
The Starbucks barista who has been schlepping espresso to fund her dream just found out the book she spent five years writing got rejected by yet another publisher.
By Nanice Ellis
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
Life is going great. You are on top of the world. Things couldn’t be better! Then BOOM! You get sick, have an accident or some unexpected crisis comes to the forefront, bringing the “good times” come to a screeching halt. It makes no sense – you were doing everything right.
These events can leave us feeling insecure and doubting our ability to maintain a happy and healthy life. You might even start wondering if every great high has a corresponding low. Trying to make sense of things in this way often takes us on a negative downward spiral that gets us more of what we don’t want.
So, let’s rise above the negative and turn it all around.
DECREASE FEAR, INCREASE LOVE In order to conquer your fears, you must face them. Just as a bully often backs off when his target steps up to him, your fears will dwindle and back off when you boldly confront them. Changing the behaviors that kept the fears intact also requires effort and courage, for this is your public statement that you are changing something inside yourself that no longer serves you. You may be encouraged by some and ridiculed by others, but stand fast to your truth and press forward.
Your love will exponentially increase with each fear you release, for you cannot hold on to both at the same time. If you are having an issue with a loved one and harboring anger, hate or frustration, you will block the flow of love. Although some love may filter through, when your time together is going well, the flow is still constricted due to the lower frequencies still targeted towards that person.
Others around you will be operating on their own fear-based foundations. Thus, when you react to something that is triggered within you, they in turn will react to something you said or did that triggered an unresolved issue in their life. Thus, wars are waged in the schoolyard, the bedroom and boardroom. When each of you individually faces your fears and feelings of inferiority and overcomes them, you will begin to have functioning relationships.
Details have their place, yet, in life as a whole, details are not the most important focus. In fact, details mostly irk you because you gather around them. Someone didn’t make the bed right. Someone didn’t put the lid back on the peanut butter, or didn’t put it back on tightly enough. Someone left the light on, didn’t close the door, ate with his mouth open. It is too often the little annoyances that annoy you the most. Minor matters like to take over the stage. Most of your frustration comes from small matters that you let take over your time and heart. Much too much energy goes into details that ultimately don’t matter. These tiny annoyances add up. They surround you. They surmount you. You make much of them, as if life depends on the perfection of details. Meticulousness has its place, but not in most of life and not to the extent you allow.
When you have a matter of real concern, what I am saying to you now comes close to home. The details of life aren’t worth the energy they consume. Sometimes details make you picky beyond reason.
Sure, you may be right in what you are saying. Of course, you are right that i’s must be dotted and t’s crossed. That is not the issue. The issue is what are you spending your life and time on?
Source: www.massreport.com | Original Post Date: January 8, 2015 –
How could one of the most outspoken supporters of organic foods suddenly take money from one of the most hated food companies in the communities which most support organic foods? We really thought Oprah Winfrey was with us and against them. According to recent findings, we were wrong.
It evidently all comes down to the all-powerful dollar. Oprah is not stupid when it comes to financial choices. She is very powerful financially. And frankly, she has a stake in the whole organic movement, as owner of an organic farm in Maui. She has trademarked “Oprah’s Organics.” Now she stands accused of accepting money from Monsanto, the oft-voted “Most Evil Company in the World.”
The Institute for Responsible Technology has posted on their Facebook page that Winfrey will be running an ad form Monsanto in 2015...
As human beings in a high-tech 21st century society, we’re used to things being organized and structured in a very orderly way. Childhood, then high school, then college, then the “real world” of employment, tax paying, house buying, having a family, and buying lots of toys and gadgets.
But is this really our purpose for being here? Is this really YOUR purpose for being here?
Pushing limits often becomes a matter of financial practicality and reason, and our higher goals and motivations get shelved in favor of the socially-conditioned charade in which we’re all embedded.
Many will default to this conditioned path, because at first, it appears much safer and more secure than “going at it alone” via our own passion-driven endeavors.
<p>Welcome to the Galactic Free Press blogs section! This is a place where anybody with <a href="/galacticfreepress/user/register">a free GFP account</a> can post information.</p>
