Higher Perspective

Sleeping problems are on the rise in the United States. I know I for one don’t get enough. But did you know that there are 6 superfoods that can help improve your nights sleep? I’m going to have to try some of these!

Almonds

This is one of those foods I eat anyway! Awesome. Almonds help relax your muscles and contain magnesium and tryptophan.

Warm milk

Warm milk contains the amino acid tryptophan, which has a calming effect.

Chamomile Tea

Chamomile has a relaxing effect and helps with any kind of digestive cramp too. It helps calm agitated nerves and can get rid of insomnia.

Honey

Honey helps with anxiety, which can help you sleep if that’s what’s been keeping you up. Sugar helps keep you awake, but honey glucose has the opposite effect...

It feels like Terrence McKenna is becoming more popular with the internet age than he was while he was alive! In this audio, McKenna talks about the ego, a mass cultural and social hallucination, and how psychedelics dissolve the boundaries that our egos set up.

Here’s the full transcript if you don’t want to watch the video:

Transcript:

The ego is a late arriving, very tenuous, highly uncertain of itself, social structure, that has taken root in the human psyche like a tumor, like a growth of some sort. It is the leftover of this primate dominance complex and the way it manifests itself is by the establishment of boundaries.First of all, this is my body, do not touch it. Second of all, these are my weapons and agricultural tools, do not touch them, this is my woman, these are my children, I hunt there, so forth and so on. It’s this division of the world which allows the illusion of the ego to come into existence. Now, what do psychedelics do and why are they such social dynamite?

The answer is,...

Good news if you’re a shark! Or if you’re someone who cares about sharks at all. WildAid, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the demand for wildlife products says that the shark fin market in China has been steadily declining for the last two decades.

Shark fin soup, which sounds pretty disgusting honestly, is a delicacy in China, costing as much as $100 a bowl. The practice of harvesting a shark’s fin has led more than one species of shark in the direction of extinction, and some 73 million sharks are killed for their fins every year. The most disgusting part is they’re only harvest for their fins...

The writing is on the wall for humanity it seems. Unchecked growth, population expansion, unsustainable practices and complete abuse of our environment could be what does us in; or at least according to a new study by researchers from the University of Maryland and University of Minnesota.

It’s happened to countless civilizations before us. The Roman empire, the Han, Gupta, and Mauryan empires too. Researchers warn of the potential for utter destruction of our global economy if we continue working with the same systems ...