“Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.” –Crazy Horse

Your skin may be white, black, brown, red, yellow, or whatever other stereotypical color you wish to marginalize skin color with, but your heart is red. It bleeds red no matter your race, nationality, or creed. We are all united in red, and the red nation has the potential to rise again and be a blessing for a sick world, but only if we can get over our pseudo power and false pride.

The heart is greater than money; but it is also greater than patriotism, nationalism, and dogma combined. The human heart is greater than any perceived color. It is all colors and none...

Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Writer
Waking Times

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” –Khalil Gibran

We live in a culture that’s suffocating under the stifling cross-stitched blanket of state and corporate power, and there is a single word sewn onto that two-sided blanket: Fascism. As it stands, the U.S. fits every single one of the fourteen defining characteristics of fascism, according to Dr. Lawrence Britt. And a recent study at Princeton has revealed that the U.S. is no longer an actual democracy. It is a particularly greedy and underhanded form of oligarchy known as plutocracy. So what are we to do about it? In the past I’ve written about how to unfuck the world, how we’re victims of the state, and how to combat psychopathic tendencies with empathic tendencies, but for now, how about I go into a fascist-blanket-shredding diatribe about how to guard against the rise of American Fascism.

A study out last year from the Imperial College of London shows that our brains display a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind expanding drug trip. This study found that while dosed with psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in mushrooms, activity in the more primitive brain network linked to emotional thinking became considerably more pronounced.

Drugs (if you can even call them that) that have psychedelic reactions when taken can profoundly experience the way we see the world. This new research, published in Human Brain Mapping, has examined the brain effects of psilocybin, using data from the brain scans of volunteers injected with the compound.

“What we have done in this research is begin to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs"...

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Neptune’s influence continues in the transits this week. Saturn and Uranus form an unusual alliance of sorts, attempting to compete with the powerful Neptune’s influence. The strong stellium of planets in Pisces, including Neptune in his home sign and Venus in exaltation, give a watery, dreamy feel to the transits that contrasts with Uranus’ quest for knowledge and innovation. Perhaps the grace and empathy of Venus, in Pisces, can help amalgamate the competing energies into productive manifestations. A fascinating example of one of the more personal planets – Venus – using her qualities in an attempt to harmonize the influences of several planets beyond Jupiter.