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The Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education

Peter Gray, Ph.D., Guest
Waking Times

Forced education interferes with children’s abilities to educate themselves.

In my last post I took a step that, I must admit, made me feel uncomfortable. I said, several times: “School is prison.” I felt uncomfortable saying that because school is so much a part of my life and the lives of almost everyone I know. I, like most people I know, went through the full 12 years of public schooling. My mother taught in a public school for several years. My beloved half-sister is a public schoolteacher. I have many dear friends and cousins who are public schoolteachers. How can I say that these good people–who love children and have poured themselves passionately into the task of trying to help children–are involved in a system of imprisoning children? The comments on my last post showed that my references to school as prison made some other people feel uncomfortable also.

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A New Foot-Powered Washing Machine To Clean Your Clothes Off Grid

Source: www.trueactivist.com | Original Post Date: May 5, 2015 –

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Living “off the grid” is about to get even easier!

This new washing machine from Yirego is powered by a foot pedal and doesn’t need any electricity. This could be just what our off grid friends have been waiting for. It will be made out of 40% recycled material, making this no-electric cloths washer a sustainable solution with very little impact on the environment.

Tesla also recently announced a home battery and utility-scale battery that will power future homes which will make living “off the grid” a lot easier for many people.

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A Mass Initiation of Love

Whatever you are going through, no matter how difficult your life may be for you at this time, remind yourself that underlying everything is a field of peace. Within you, no matter what your circumstances, lies this peace. We can call it Vastness, Stillness, Love, Beauty, Truth, God, Allah, Jehovah, and more. There are many names I go by. By whatever name, individually or collectively, you call this field, it is the same field. This is Oneness. As I exist in your heart, so do you exist in Mine. We are of One Heart. Stay with Me.

When I say to see Me, I don’t mean literally to see, for I am formless. Your heart, however, can see. Whether you have acknowledged My Presence or not, I am here. I am here for you. I do not leave your heart no matter how far your heart may wander. You are made of My Heart, and I am incapable of leaving yours. I am God of the Universe. My love is indelible and, perhaps inscrutable to you.

If you do not presently feel love for Me, then, I ask you, feel the love in My Heart that beats for you. Don’t look for reasons not to feel My love. Don’t replicate non-love to all the human beings in the world. Don’t separate yourself from love on any pretext.

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Tantra Is The Opposite Of Porn – Learning How To Actually Be Intimate

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What if studying tantra could heal our addiction to Porn? What if tapping into our natural abilities to experience ecstasy changes everything?

I was really nervous when I first realized that I wanted to teach Tantra. What would people think? Would they be offended? Talking about sex is such a no-no. I live in a very small conservative community, how was this going to work?

But then a good friend said to me, “Do you realize what you’re offering people? Tantra is essentially the OPPOSITE of porn.” Once I realized this, I never looked back!

Porn is a funny thing. Despite some opinions, I believe that it isn’t inherently evil. Lots of people truly enjoy watching porn, including many couples who use it together to have a new experience. Yet it is seemingly undeniable that there are some real dark sides to porn.

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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think

Have you ever felt like the government doesn’t really care what you think?

Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question: Does the government represent the people?

Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, they compared what the public wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of 90% of Americans has essentially no impact at all.

This video gives a quick rundown of their findings — it all boils down to one simple graph:

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What Bob Marley Really Meant by One Love

By Aurora Clawson Contributing Writer for SoulScience

Love isn’t a commodity.  It is a power that is at the heart of who we really are in this creation.  It is the heat and light of the sons that we are. We cannot exist without it, we ARE love in this creation in truth. Love also cannot create through humanity without us.

The illusion that we need others to give us love is perpetuated in this world out of ignorance of the deeper truths and mysteries of life.  That lie is a learned response, a wholly distorted comprehension.

In reality, we program our own minds to identify what getting love or being loved looks like.  Then, when that scenario is matched,  we allow the love already within us to become unleashed. This is the astounding truth.  People don’t give love to you, they catalyze the presence of love already within you.  When you do the same to them, you both meet in ONE love shared by two vessels.  The two vessels are the illusion.  The one love is the truth. Love is where all of life is connected.

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William Blake is right when he says, "Energy is delight." That's a very profound statement. Yes, energy is delight, and the greater the energy you have the greater will be your delight. It is energy that becomes delight; overflowing energy is delight, overflowing energy becomes celebration. When the energy is dancing in you, in unison, in a deep harmony, in rhythm and flow, you become a blessing to the world.

But how can it happen if you are continuously fighting and your whole energy goes into fight? And nobody is going to win, because all those selves are false. Only the true can win. Only truth is ever victorious, lies can never win; yes, small battles maybe - one lie can win upon another lie - but the ultimate war can never be won by any lie. It is won only by the truth. But we go on choosing this lie and that lie, and we never move towards the truth.

-Rajneesh

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Three Ways We Can Help Everyone Raise Their Vibrations

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Be positive! Distance yourself from negativity! You’re only in a hole if you’re attracting it! Don’t be a victim, wake up!
 
This is the sort of over-simplified advice I see time and time again, in articles, self-help and spiritual books, and out of people’s mouths (brother, I may have even handed it out myself a few times).
 
I get it, I know – when you ‘peak’ or become introduced to a new, unspoiled kind of reality, words no longer have the edge they once did. I… just… can’t… quite… put it into words… Just be positive! It IS that simple, but for those who are still suffering (and those many times in our lives that we slip back and our once perfect advice shrivels up into the empty shell of insincerity) we need to find the individual recipe that’s perfect for them.
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5 Things Your Soul Wants You To Know

When it comes to living life, we spend almost 100% of our time living as an avatar.  We have an ego, a personality, a history, preferences, dislikes, beliefs, opinions, cultural viewpoints, and experiences. These ingredients comprise our ‘person’ and our worldly sense of self. But beneath all of these human ingredients lies one which is the foundation of all of them.  Without this ingredient, this avatar would not exist. This ingredient is the soul.

The soul is timeless, eternal, and infinitely wise. Our “intuition” is really just our soul whispering into the ear of our person.  You soul is not separate from you, but it will feel separate if you live life operating only from a personal or egoic level of consciousness.  Since the soul is the fountainhead of wisdom of guidance, it is always trying to communicate with us, especially in times where we are experiencing great suffering.

Here are 5 encouraging things your soul wants you to know...

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8 Ways Online Democracy Changes Everything

Source: www.medium.com | Original Post Date: May 4, 2015 –

The chances are you’re not going to get the MP you voted for — but that might not matter for very much longer.

There is a quiet revolution taking place in democracy, bringing new thinking to how we take decisions together. For the first time ever, what you want — your preferences, values, and ideas — can be heard locally, nationally, and globally. People power is coming of age on the internet, and it’s changing how we live and work. Is it time to get involved?

Represent has big ambitions. Not only is it changing the way we do democracy, it uses people power to help companies be more responsible. Within seconds of signing up you’re having your say about interesting issues you care about. It’s fast, intuitive, and really quite addictive — and it’s deeply satisfying to be treated like an adult.

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Music Can Show the Way


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By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness

If you read my articles often, you probably know that I think music is one of the most spiritual things we can enjoy. I have reggae music to thank for this opinion, and I’ve always been impressed by how Rastas and other spiritual musicians impart their perspectives and philosophies into their music.

No matter how we feel about life and spirituality, if we practice music in conjunction with meditation or another form of consciousness exploration, it can help us elevate our consciousness while filling us with a sense of excitement and eternal enjoyment.

Music harnesses the sacred power of sound to help us raise our vibration, and like meditation or anything else, all it takes to get the most out of it is commitment. Not only will we get better and better if we play continuously – we’ll also increase our reception to music’s spiritual properties.

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Daily Message ~ Friday May 8, 2015

As you are continuing to shift and move into new navigating systems, a very helpful approach is to simply say, “Let my love lead the way.” Such an intention makes decision making far easier. It helps you to operate from a place of inclusion and unity, which also means loving yourself as an integral part of the process. It is leading by the heart, which honours all and feels wonderful! ~Archangel Gabriel

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Choose Wisely

What will you do today, my love?  Will you spend your day in pursuit of things like gossip, negative self-talk, worrying or, Heaven forbid, hating another human being?  Or…will you spend that time more wisely by loving yourself, releasing old hurts and pains or, perhaps, giving something to another that money just cannot buy?
It is now common knowledge that you were given the gift of free will and not even I can take that away from you.  This gave (and gives) you the best opportunity to experience your Earth plane in a way that only you can experience it.  Remember to choose wisely and lovingly, my darling child. ~ Creator

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42 Ways You Can Make Money And Travel The World

Source: www.wanderingearl.com | Original Post Date: February 18, 2013 –

Chances are that these very thoughts have indeed crossed your mind (they cross all of our minds at some point!) and there’s also a chance that you haven’t found any answers. As a result, you’ve still yet to take that first step and start traveling and as time passes by, you start to wonder if you’ll ever achieve your travel goals.

Here on the blog I’m always making the claim that you can make money and travel much more easily than most people think. But yesterday I realized that I should probably back up that claim with some actual examples. So, that’s what I want to do here. I want to help you answer those questions above.

Are you ready? Here’s a list of 42 ways you can make money while traveling (keep in mind this is just a fraction of the opportunities that actually exist!)…

Teach English – Job opportunities are all around the world and in many cases, you don’t need to be certified. You just need to be a native speaker...

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The Secret History of Astrology

Richard Smoley, New Dawn
Waking Times

The history of astrology is in many ways the history of a polemic. The question of whether astrology works, as crucial as it is, is soon buried under other issues, such as what this might have to say about human free will and whether the stars and planets that govern our fates are benign, malevolent, or neither. These issues have been debated for thousands of years.

Before we get into them, however, we should probably begin with why astrology is the way it is. To do this, we have to imagine what ancient people saw and how they explained it. In the first place, they would have found that there are seven bodies in the sky that move (or, as we would say today, appear to move) around the earth. These are the sun and the moon as well as five planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The rest of the planets are invisible (except for Uranus, under some circumstances) to the naked eye.

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