By Paul Haider

“Cardamom is one of the best all-around herbs that everyone should be taking.”

Cardamom or “Elettaria cardamomum” grows in Asia, India, Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, Laos, Guatemala, Nepal, and other tropical places… and it has so many amazing healing qualities that make it very important for good health.

There are many different types–red, white, black, green, Java, brown, Siamese, Kravan, and Bengal. All of which have slightly different qualities. Green is probably the most common for use in cooking… and because it’s the least expensive and easies to find...

By Brendan D. Murphy

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Some 2,500 years ago the Buddhist Avatamsaka Sutra described the cosmos allegorically through the imagery of Indra’s net. In the heavenly abode of the deity Indra, there was cast an infinite net reaching in all directions, and at each node point in the net there was a jewel, each reflecting the light of all the others—infinitely. Should any jewel be touched, each of the infinite other jewels would instantly be affected, presaging physicist John Bell’s theorem that everything is interconnected in this interdependent universe. In particular, the Buddhist vision illustrates the concepts of dependent origination and interpenetration (all phenomena arise together and are intimately connected “in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect”). “For the Huayan school, Indra’s net symbolizes a universe where infinitely repeated mutual relations exist between all members of the universe.”...

By Zen Gardner

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Have you ever wondered about all these rousing freedom fighting movies and “outnumbered little guy gets back” scenarios? Don’t they seem counter-productive to the cause of the contained, control world we’re being shoe-horned into? In a world of manipulation and social engineering, why would heavily promoted dramas about rebellion against totalitarian control, and even specifically against a mechanistic, fascist future, be so prevalent?

Think about how you feel after one such moving media event. Spent...

Christina Sarich, Natural Society
Waking Times

There are millions of people in the United States who are still ‘asleep at the wheel’ when it comes to awareness about geo-engineering programs for weather control and chemtrails. While Americas celebrate one of the most important dates for ‘freedom,’ we allow our governments to continue to pollute the planet with chemtrail dumps and aerosol spraying. There is evidence around the world that proves this phenomenon is happening, even if the con-job of the military industrial corporatocracy continues to leave most of us hoodwinked...

Is this some kind of mythical, magical tree? Nah. All you need to understand this amazing 40-fruit tree is science! 

Sam Van Aken, an artist from New York, created what he calls the Tree of 40 Fruit not through anything nasty like genetic engineering, but an age-old orcharding practice of grafting. Grafting is a horticultural technique in which a section of stem from one tree is inserted into another. So basically you can have an apple tree, but if you want another kind of apple to grow on it, you simply need to graft branches from that kind of apple tree onto the original tree.

Pretty neat, huh?...

Things will appear or disappear from your life. You may not know or understand why, it just happens. Sometimes, it is best not to know.  Take it as a teaching in and learning of acceptance. ~ Creator

HJ: There is a big difference between self-improvement and self-criticism.  The former is constructive and the latter is limiting.  Criticizing yourself arises from negative, self deprecating limiting or conflicting beliefs you hold and is an automatic, self-limiting reflex.  Whereas a love of and commitment to self growth or self improvement is a loving acceptance of where you are at, acknowledgement of what you have accomplished and a desire to actualize into an even higher level of your full potential.

Many have commented that it is their inner critic that helps them grow.  Maybe, but from a place of feeling not good enough.  Why not trade it for growth from a place of love and joy?

Lissa Rankin shows you how…

- Truth

How to Deal with Your Inner Critic

By Lissa Rankin MD | Wake Up World | Lissa Rankin

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It is natural to think of others and on behalf of mankind altogether. World thoughts for survival have mis-distributed the idea of loving others as yourself.

“Kill or be killed” is not the theme of your life, nor is it the theme of most people’s lives, although this theme is carried along less dramatically in expressions such as: “Look out for yourself,” and “Get while the getting’s good” or “Take the biggest piece of pie” or: “Think of Number 1.”
These ideas may still be rife on Earth. For many years, life has been for survival, yet you are here for more than survival. “For the good of all” is something to remember. Unquestionably, you are here on Earth for more than yourself. You are here for Me.

Bear in mind it’s possible that a woman who spends a great deal of her time in spas and on beauty treatments, by her very beauty, may inspire others. Of course, it might be a sound idea for this woman to treat another woman to a day at a spa. Love is what We are speaking of here, after all.

Some people may spend their lifetimes seeking enlightenment yet seeking enlightenment for themselves alone, the way others might seek a fur coat or a new car. They are desperate to have enlightenment and may not be thinking of anyone else.

There is a big world, and good hearts are to encompass the world. Less self-centeredness is part of being enlightened. If all the money in the world could buy enlightenment and someone who has been a “me, me, me” person all his life becomes enlightened, could he continue to be self-centered?