We're always happy to hear about people being set free, and it's encouraging to see governments taking compassionate approaches to justice!

The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to release from federal prisons up to 6,000 people whose nonviolent drug sentences were recently reduced, as part of what advocates say is the country's ongoing march towards justice within its "failed" War on Drugs.

According to the Washington Post, which broke the news on Tuesday afternoon, the event marks the largest ever one-time release from the federal prison system.

"The inmates from federal prisons nationwide will be set free by the department’s Bureau of Prisons between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2," the Post reported. "Most of them will go to halfway houses and home confinement before being put on supervised release."

The move follows a decision last year by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a body within the judicial branch that sets federal sentencing policies, to apply new sentencing guidelines to people who are currently serving time for select nonviolent drug offenses.

GFP: I was curious if there was any evidence to back this up, and I found this study.

The, perhaps aptly-titled, website www.hatedentists.com lists many reasons people hate visiting their dentist’s office. Many of those fears come to roost in such dreaded procedures as wisdom teeth removal and, the topic of today’s post, cavity filling.

But what if there were a natural, less invasive and painful way to fill those pesky craters in your chompers?

Read on, good people.

Eggshells – y’know, those things you throw away without hesitation – are actually quite useful for everything from cleaning water to relieving pain.

They’re also great for repairing bone damage – in other words, they can work wonders for repairing cavities.

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is one of the most fascinating, revolutionary, and useful research initiatives being carried out in the world today. Its potential to improve the quality of our life is infinite, with the scientific method being its only hindrance – to prove beyond reasonable doubt that we are all one.

GCP is the brainchild of Dr. Roger D. Nelson, a professor at Princeton University who holds a PhD in Experimental Cognitive Psychology. He has the distinction of being the first scientist to find a way of measuring with mathematical models what ancient spiritual traditions have always claimed: we are all one. Nelson has devised a way to measure the field of global consciousness, a field that unites us, and in doing so has revealed that we are the cells of a single body. That body is humanity.

The scientific name given to this phenomenon is Electrogaiagram (EGG). It is measured through a network of one hundred computers in many different parts of the world that operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, emitting ones and zeros in a predefined random pattern.

I made this video the same day I made the one I posted a few days ago. Here, I share some of the signs of an ongoing worldwide spiritual transformation that I’ve noticed, and we can be a part of it if we open up to it and allow it to become a part of our lives.

Sorry for the noises you can hear in the background occasionally and the noise from my laptop. I’ll work on finding a solution, and thanks for your patience in the meantime. :)

http://wesannac.com/2015/10/07/video-the-signs-of-a-worldwide-transformation/

Scumbag mind.

I’ve had to learn to watch these rationalizations and excuses very carefully, in order to make the changes I’ve made in my life: a healthier diet, regular exercise, meditation, minimalism, writing daily, getting out of debt, quitting smoking, and so on.

If I hadn’t learned these excuses, and how to counter them, I would never have stuck to these changes. In fact, I failed many times before 2005 (when I started changing my life), because these excuses had complete power over me.

Let’s expose the cowardly mind’s excuses and rationalizations once and for all.

First, the main principle: the mind wants comfort, and is afraid of discomfort and change. The mind is used to its comfort cocoon, and anytime we try to push beyond that comfort zone very far or for very long, the mind tries desperately to get back into the cocoon. At any cost, including our long-term health and happiness.