By Jack Adam Weber

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Our wholeness is our joy, our thriving, our passion, our enjoyment of and creative service to life. Yet, we lose essential aspects of our wholeness in ways that we would least expect. Here I will discuss how denial and hurtful experiences work together to stymie our experience of thriving.

When we are hurt by others, we will often disavow (reject) in ourselves the qualities that hurt us, until we heal that wound. For example, if I have been hurt by another’s anger, I might vow not to be angry and thereby deny anger in myself. But, when I deny my anger, I also deny the ways it can be used to help and to protect myself and others. These life-affirming “ways” I call the vital qualities embedded in an emotion or experience.

By Paul Lenda

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Humanity is now in a period where it faces several serious threats to its survival and conscious evolution. But there is no effect without a cause. Everything affects everything else. There are connections among all manifestations of consciousness, whether it be the proven connection between the Sun and the Earth via magnetic portals or between people – no matter how far apart they may be separated.

The stranglehold that the concept (and energy) of money has on humanity is one of the primary drivers of this disconnect to the interconnected aspect of human consciousness. It can be said that modern society has lost access to transpersonal awareness, but has not lost the ability to do so, which gives us enormous hope, both individually and collectively. Under the proper conditions, most individuals are able to become aware of the somewhat vague (but meaningful) images, intuitions, senses and feelings that come to them from the environment and from others. We can see this happening with greater frequency, which is definitely reassuring.

By Brendan D. Murphy

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Some 2,500 years ago the Buddhist Avatamsaka Sutra described the cosmos allegorically through the imagery of Indra’s net. In the heavenly abode of the deity Indra, there was cast an infinite net reaching in all directions, and at each node point in the net there was a jewel, each reflecting the light of all the others—infinitely. Should any jewel be touched, each of the infinite other jewels would instantly be affected, presaging physicist John Bell’s theorem that everything is interconnected in this interdependent universe. In particular, the Buddhist vision illustrates the concepts of dependent origination and interpenetration (all phenomena arise together and are intimately connected “in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect”). “For the Huayan school, Indra’s net symbolizes a universe where infinitely repeated mutual relations exist between all members of the universe.”...

By Nanice Ellis

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Did you know that every time you talk about an unhealed wound or trauma, you re-activate it in your emotional, spiritual and physical bodies? As you speak, or even think, about an old issue, you experience it as if it is happening right now. Since your subconscious mind does not know the difference between current experience and past memory, for all intents and purposes, the trauma or negative experience is happening now.

When you re-activate old painful memories, your thoughts, words and emotions create a negative karmic energy that you unknowingly project out into your future. This karmic energy manifests in more painful experiences, similar to the original issue. In other words, when issues come up without resolution, a karmic loop or pattern develops...

Seems like every week turmeric is found to treat some new disease...

By Sayer Ji

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Following closely in the wake of recent revelations that the U.S. government endangered their troops by hiding the discovery of chemical weapons in Iraq, new research shows that turmeric extract may provide an ideal natural intervention to relieve the pain and suffering of sulfur mustard-injured patients...