Higher Perspective

If you’ve been to the Indonesian island of Java recently, you’ve likely been treated to a stunning view: electric blue rivers streaming out from underneath the Kawah Ijen volcano. It looks like lava, but it’s actually molten sulfur.

“I’ve never seen this much sulfur flowing at a volcano,” U.S. Geological Survey research geologist Cynthia Werner said.

Although seeing this much sulfur is a bit rare, it is common to see blue flames around volcanoes. Sulfur has a pretty low melting point at 239 degrees Fahrenheit. Kawah Ijen has the largest blue flame area, though.

Our souls are little, near-constantly chattering things. But we don’t often listen to them. We get caught up in our lives and simply don’t hear our souls and the messages they have to offer from previous lives. If anything, these are four big things your soul wishes you knew.

1. You’re fine.

Seriously. Your soul watches you lurch through life always wondering, always doubting yourself, and feeling so insecure so often. But your soul knows that in the long run, societal pressures and insecurities don’t matter much. You’re fine. You can always look to develop yourself, and your soul would be delighted by that! But you do it on your terms.

2. You’re meant to feel deeply.

Your soul wants you to know that there’s nothing good that will come out of brushing aside your experiences and ignoring your feelings. You were meant to feel deeply – and that means everything. So feel all your feelings.

When the urge to develop your psychic abilities arises, it’s probably ignited by some combination of a deep desire to help others…and a recent encounter with some perplexing and gooseflesh-inducing phenomena.

Maybe you dreamed of a loved one who passed away. Perhaps you knew your friend was pregnant before she told you, or it could be that you’ve begun seeing, hearing, smelling or feeling things quite out of the ordinary.

There is, however, often an unspoken element to our desire to develop our psychic abilities, which is that when we have one of our deliciously freaky experiences, it causes us to feel something.

Connection. Love. Inspiration. Intimacy. Gratitude. Amazement. Awe.

These feelings rush in when you begin to explore what your mind and spirit are capable of.

So if you’re experiencing sadness, loneliness, depression, disconnection… or just the all too familiar feeling of mild frustrated disgruntlement, developing your psychic abilities might be just the novel medicine you need to lift your spirits… so to speak.

“It’s very unusual,” says Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen, 56, of the strange friendship between a female grey wolf and a male brown bear. The photographer spotted them together every day for 10 days straight and shot these amazing images of the two.

“No-one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends,” Lassi told the Daily Mail. “I think that perhaps they were both alone and they were young and a bit unsure of how to survive alone…It is nice to share rare events in the wild that you would never expect to see.”

Enjoy.

Born in 1971, artist Miha Brinovec has spent years traveling through the parks of Slovenia creating beautiful sculptures out of natural materials that embody the spirits of nature’s magical embodiments.

“As a child I always wanted to see mythical creatures from fairy tales. Of course I couldn’t see them.

Now I am older but that child inside me is still curious, so one day I came up with the idea how to see them. I went into the forest, picked up a magical place and surrendered myself with the process. I picked up available nature materials, asked the spirit to reveal himself (herself) to me and started to work. This is how some pretty amazing faces were brought to life.” – Miha Brinovec

If you look at the sales for drugs like Zoloft, Lexapro, and Prozac, you start to see a significant rise in the number of people using antidepressant drugs over the years.

A new study shows that about 69% of people who use antidepressants don’t meet the criteria for clinical depression, but are likely simply experiencing sadness from various hardships.

Additionally, about 38% of people using antidepressant or antipsychotic drugs didn’t meet the criteria for any psychiatric disorders, including panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia, anxiety, and other disorders.

Researchers in Mexico have discovered an immense pyramid, even larger that Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun. It’s 75 meters in height and was explored by specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History. It is located in the acropolis of Tonina, Chiapas and is likely around 1,700 years old.

The director of the archaeological zone, Emiliano Gallaga, says that the work, done over the course of two years, verified that the northeastern portion of the site was, indeed, the largest pyramid in Mexico. It is comparable to pyramids found in Tikal and El Mirador of the Mayan civilization.

One unique feature is the seven platforms that serve as palaces, temples, housing, and what were essentially administrating offices. This unique structure functioned within social, religious, and political cultural structure.

Avatar: The Last Airbender was easily one of the most spiritually direct and conscious TV shows to date. It’s geared toward younger kids but is a fun watch for all ages. It brings mysticism, storytelling, and excellent characters together to create an incredibly symbolic program about a myriad of issues that our world faces today.

This show has hundreds of memorable quotes, but these are our 11 favorite. Enjoy!

Media can communicate many different messages to us. It can be messages of subservience or messages of liberation. This time, it’s the latter. The first clip is from Charlie Chaplin’s film, The Great Dictator. His monologue stated:

“I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

1. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Basically, your greatest limitation is your mind. We worry about our self image and what others will think of us if we’re tall, if we’re fat, if we wear that outfit; but none of that really matters. All that matters is what you think.

2. “Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing. Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.”

In other words, lighten up. You can turn pretty much any situation into something funny, no matter how negative it is.

3. “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

Anger is pointless. Holding on to anger is even worse. If you’re angry at someone, recognize that you’re really just hurting yourself.