Source: www.wakingtimes.com | Original Post Date:July 24, 2013 –

Greed, fraud, and corruption within Big Pharma and the FDA are the constructs of deception, with the mantle of authority leading to over 100,000 American deaths each year from correctly prescribed FDA approved pharmaceutical drugs.

That’s an earlier conservative figure based on Dr. Barbara Starfield’s study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association July 26, 2000, “Is US health really the best in the world?”

And that doesn’t include those who are sickened, needing more medications from side effects, hospitalization, or years of rehab for crippling adverse “side effects.” Nor does it include the effects from over-the-counter (OTC) drugs that lead to an almost equivalent number of casualties as their prescribed counterparts.

By David Gelfand

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

As you lay on your mat, introducing yourself to the first breaths of the evening’s yoga session, you’ll often overhear the instructor guiding your breaths. During this introductory portion of the class, the focus is on stabilizing your mind and your thoughts, focusing on your breaths and your energies. With the gentle voice guiding you, you’re able to enter a centered state, prepared to begin your yoga session.

The instructor will often say something to the effect of, “Breathe in slowly from your mouth, following your breath as it makes its way through your body, down to your feet. Feel your breath and your body in synchrony, growing a root to the mat and the earth beneath you.”

By Dane Wigington

Guest Contributor for Wake Up World

Planet Earth is under an all out weather warfare assault. Our collective reality has reached a crossroads of unimaginable proportion, the world which we have all known is changing by the day. Many still aggressively deny the rapidly unfolding changes, and the same deniers often condemn those who are willing to acknowledge and speak out about what is unfolding. The life support systems of our planet are being systematically ripped apart. Though there are many sources of damage to the biosphere, climate engineering is by far the greatest single assault on all life.

By James Corbett

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

As 2015 begins, high-profile cases involving accusations of pedophilia in the highest ranks of political power are making headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.

MPs Caught in Pedophile Network

The first case involves the exposure of five VIP pedophile rings operating in Britain in the 1970s and 80s that have been researched in a dossier compiled by John Mann, an MP for Bassetlaw in the Midlands, which was then submitted to the London Metropolitan Police for further investigation. These five rings all included at least one current or former member of parliament, with a total of 24 politicians having been identified in Mann’s dossier. Six of those 24 are currently serving members of the UK government, including three MPs and three members of the House of Lords.

“A genuine spiritual path does not avoid difficulties or mistakes but leads us to the art of making mistakes wakefully, bringing them to the transformative power of our heart.” –Jack Kornfield

Your ego is an instrument, a tool, the primitive leveraging mechanism of the self. Some would even say it is the self. It is there to balance (master) or dissociate (disaster) our unique energy with the primordial energy of the cosmos. It is forever in the throes of connection and disconnection, of attachment and detachment, torn between finitude and infinity. When the ego is being used to dissociate, its energy is codependent and it is torn between bemoaning the past and being anxious about the future.

“In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.” -Oprah Winfrey

How much are you worth? If you could put a value on yourself, what would that value be?

I am guilty of selling myself short, of looking at others and seeing their strengths and accomplishments yet seeing my own as less than.

Take this last year for instance. I have accomplished a lot on a personal level yet I could not acknowledge this “lot” until I pretty much forced myself to.

I am a writer.

A year ago I would never have claimed such a claim even though I have been writing since a very young age.

I would never have considered myself a writer because no one else considered me one.

The question is why didn’t anyone consider me one?

The answer is simple. I didn’t stake my claim. I can only be what I myself acknowledge...