Apparently Snoop Dogg isn’t the only person to have smoked marijuana in the White House. According to John F. Kennedy: A Biography, President Kennedy relieved the symptoms of severe back pain and Addison’s disease, which is a rare endocrine disorder, by using medicinal marijuana. From the book:

On the evening of July 16, 1962, according to [Washington Post executive] Jim Truitt, Kennedy and Mary Meyer smoked marijuana together…The president smoked three of the six joints Mary brought to him. At first he felt no effects. Then he closed his eyes and refused a fourth joint. ‘Suppose the Russians did something now,’ he said.

Addison’s disease causes the adrenal glands to produce insufficient steroid hormones and its symptoms include low blood pressure, weakness, coma and severe abdominal pain.

HJ: Big shifts and change can be scary and difficult as everything that gave you comfort and even a sense of identity begins to fall away.  It can feel like you are floating in the middle of the ocean on a life raft at times.  But having solid wisdom and perspective on what you are going through can make the transition much easier, smoother and even enlightening.  Ashley Arcel shares her story of what it was like her for her to make a major shift in her life and the 5 pieces of wisdom she took from it that we can all learn from.

- Truth

Moving On Isn’t Failure: 5 Lessons On Changing Paths

By Ashley Arcel | Tiny Buddha | The Girl in Long Shorts

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“Letting go isn’t the end of the...

By John Holland

Do you know how much of a miracle you truly are? Many people come to my events in the hopes of connecting to a soul on the Other-Side, but I always try to leave them with this reminder: To not forget you are also a soul in the here and now. The source that makes all living things in the universe is also the same source that’s inside of you. This Divine Source interacts and is connected with the whole of you, which means your body, mind, and soul.

To honor your divinity, to live a spiritual and physical life of happiness, serenity, abundant health, and to experience a loving and successful relationship, it’s important to understand and to get to know your true essence – your soul. You must begin to reach inwards to meet your soul, to move through all the layers of what’s been built up inside and around you over the years.

Once you discover and meet your soul-self, you’ll radiate pure light, confidence, courage, strength, and unconditional love...

Your life is not rocket science. You choose to make it that way because it is fun, it is exciting and it means something to you to make things more complicated than they really are. Release the expectations to the flow and all will be well. ~ Creator

Fear is fed through resistance, denial, and unconsciousness. Acceptance and acknowledgement lead to release of fear!

By Caroline Diana Bobart

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Have you ever had the feeling that the relationship, job or community you were in was simply the wrong fit? Did it seemed no one could see you and you may as well have been, for all intents and purposes, invisible? Did you ache to break out and do something different, even if you weren’t sure exactly what?

Oftentimes this feeling of restlessness and being an outsider to situations in the external world, is your Spirit’s way of giving you a nudge. It is Spirit’s way of trying to open your eyes to the fact that you are ready to shed your skin and try on a new way of being, thinking and living for size.

Here's the obligatory post promoting coconut oil that all "alternative" health sites are required by law to post:

Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

Coconut oil has long received criticism because groups of nutritionists and scientists had incorrectly labeled it as a promoter of LDL cholesterol, which has since been exposed as not being “bad” at all. In truth, it never did increase LDL cholesterol, but it did increase HDL or good cholesterol. That distinction was never corrected in the mainstream press and the misconception still continues to this day. More research has now brought to light that coconut oil not only burns stubborn abdominal fat, but it also increases thyroid function, improves metabolic markers and is associated with considerable weight loss.

Source: www.wakeup-world.com | Original Post Date: January 14, 2014 –

This message is for the change makers of the new paradigm that’s being imprinted over the old order that was out of harmony with our environment, our universe, and the greater whole of reality.

You are here on Earth right now, feeling you have something to accomplish, correct, and create. You can feel overwhelmed and overburdened given how much damage and suffering is occurring on this planet.  Don’t let your light become dim over anxiety of your vision being too difficult to manifest into reality. If you don’t bring the change, that change may never come.

You may feel angry. You may feel that the matrix of society is something that you need to destroy and build anew. You aren’t alone in feeling this way, as you can see in all the protests, uprisings, and revolutions worldwide of others standing up to the old oppressive and hierarchical authority structure that exists all over this planet.