Turkey’s central region of Cappadocia is internationally renowned for its deep valleys and soaring rock formations dotted with homes, chapels, tombs, temples and entire subterranean cities harmoniously carved into the natural landforms. Yep, underground metropolises are under the inconspicuously picturesque hills. The Turkey’s Housing Development Administration had sunk 90 million liras into new housing development when the construction teams were about to get started. They had stumbled the world’s largest underground city.

In the hills of Cappadocia there are more than 200 underground villages and tunnel towns complete with hidden passages, secret rooms and ancient temples and a remarkably storied history of each new civilization building on the work of the last...

Call them the products of fear. Advertisers, like politicians, know it works. If you scare people enough, they are easily sold a bill of goods. Define a problem, even if it really isn’t a problem, then bombard the masses with the solution to the (non) problem.

In the introduction to AlterNet’s new series on the politics of fear, Don Hazen wrote, “Americans are endlessly bombarded with media messages that are fearful and deceitful. Almost daily, we are urged to fear exaggerated or fake threats… this media onslaught literally shapes how our brains work and what people believe.” These threats can be huge, like terrorism lurking around the corner, or they can be minor, like the need to protect your baby’s knees from the hazards of crawling. The common denominator is that these aren’t really such huge problems and you are being subjected to the hard sell. Selling fear makes lots of money, and America is nothing if not a place to make money.

In the near future, it may become possible to extract sensitive information from the brain with the help of invasive software or spyware.

It is not really important if you want to share this information with anyone or not because this software will force you to do it against your will.

Your thoughts will no longer be only yours.

At USENIX Security conference, scientists showed that it is really possible to “program” your mind through software to force you to reveal information that all people would prefer not to share with the world.

The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) becomes more and more cheap and widely used. As stated in the research paper on the feasibility of side-channel attacks with brain-computer interfaces, this system analyzes brain activity and thus makes communication between a user and an external device possible. In recent decades, the BCI has been applied mainly in the medical field and was aimed at increasing the quality of life for patients suffering from severe neuromuscular disorders.

By Carmen Allgood

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Natural Selection

The most widely sought after experience in the world is happiness. Some call it love, joy, source, contentment, completion, God, the cure, peace, healing, or nirvana.

Because there will never be a definition expansive enough to describe the power that holds the universe together, or fully explain what set the cosmic mass in motion, the words we choose to express the only thing we really want are irrelevant. Words are symbols of symbols and are indications of our heartfelt desires.

Let’s take a look at the trigger points and what it takes to remember what is already at our core. Happiness must be inherent in who and what we are or the goal would be forever unattainable and always out of reach. Simply put, this means we have blocks that need to be removed to get to the foundation and reality of our essence.

David James Lees, Guest
Waking Times

In this teaching I’ll introduce you to the Taoist understanding of the Inner-Guide and why it’s so important to connect to the profound spiritual knowledge and wisdom within you.

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Never doubt that you have a powerful, creative, supremely wise and resourceful Inner-Guide within.

Once you connect to and start a dialogue with this authentic spiritual force, life’s possibilities and potential become limitless.

So, why not get to know your Inner-Guide more intimately? 

An Inner-Guide is not the exclusive territory of a psychic, intuitive, devoutly spiritual or special person…

Flow is navigating your life from a place of surrender, alignment, supported movement and ease. We find it interesting that the very thing that can get you where you want to go, is the one thing so many of you resist so mightily. Let go and let flow sweep you to your highest potential, which is always where your soul wishes to be. ~Archangel Gabriel

OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES   Before you incarnate, you are given possible exit points that are determined by your Higher Self and your Review Board. The exit points are times when you may choose to leave the Earth. These exit points come at times when it is likely you will have attained the experiences or reasons you came to Earth.

Because of the state of amnesia when you enter this Realm, many take longer than anticipated to get in touch with their Higher Selves and thus wander off their chosen Path. Others may have finished what they came to do, yet choose to stay longer in order to experience other things or to continue with their chosen work.

Sometimes your Higher Self sets up scenarios in which you nearly die as a way to wake you up to get you back on track. This is why some people dedicate their lives to spiritual endeavors after having a near death experience. While they were clinically dead, they met with their Guides or Higher Selves and were shown what they needed to do to get back on their Path.

They were told they must return to Earth to complete their chosen mission. Usually, they return with fervor, consciously remembering the reason they came to Earth, having the directions and connection to keep them on track. It is imperative to get past the blocks that keep you from having direct communication with your Guides and Higher Self. Once you do, your life will amaze you.

You have been swept up in the world. You see the world as your meat and potatoes. It is your soap opera. You are watching it, and yet you are invested in all the parts. What would a soap opera be without a villain? You relate with the hero who may often be a victim, for a time anyway, and then later rise in shining colors only to become a victim later on once again. How you relate.
 
Soap operas are real life on Earth when you get caught up in them. Everyone on the screen except the villains may suffer, yet, sooner or later, often later, villains also get their comeuppance. The villains are even dear to you in their villainy. They have a certain daring and courage of their convictions that you wish you had.
 
When you are not caught up in the soap opera, the villain is as ridiculous as anyone else up there on the screen.
 
Even when you turn off the soap-opera, you still think about what went on and the absurdity of it. In that sense, soap operas are just as good or as bad as the life you seem to live in and out of your house.