By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World Despite the limitations and constraints of our educational systems, there are some excellent teachers. And there are some not so...
Category - Ethan Indigo Smith
Activist, author and Tai Chi teacher Ethan Indigo Smith was born on a farm in Maine and lived in Manhattan for a number of years before migrating west to Mendocino, California. Guided by a keen sense of integrity and humanity, Ethan’s work is both deeply connected and extremely insightful, blending philosophy, politics, activism, spirituality, meditation and a unique sense of humour. Ethan’s most popular publications include “108 Steps to Be in The Zone”, a set of 108 meditative practices for self discovery and individual betterment, and “The Little Green Book of Revolution” an inspirational book based on ideas of peaceful revolution, historical activism and caring for the Earth like Native Americans. His latest book, “The Geometry Of Energy”, explores meditation and meditative energies through the sacred dimensions of geometry. You can follow Ethan at www.facebook.com/108Zone
The Duality of the Polarity of Kindness
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Is our universe eternal? Or not? Or both? Or neither? ~ The Fourteen Unanswered Questions of Buddha The philosophy of The...
Nuclear – the Radioactive Fly in the Sustainable Energy Ointment
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know...
Individuality and Spirituality in the Age of Institutional Rule
By Ethan Indigo Smith and Andy Whiteley Contributing Writers for Wake Up World Humanity has lost its way, but we were led astray. The very institutions we invented to secure us...
Should Institutions Have a Right to Secrets in a Free and Open Society?
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “In 1984 there are four types of people, based largely on social rank… In reality there are four types of people...
The Matrix of Four Forms of Meditative Breath
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Breath is the basis of all life. Breath is also the basis of all meditation and meditative movement. Breath is the primary manner in which...
Nuclear Truth and Formality: Looking Beyond the Corporate Spin
25th July 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World Truth and Formality Perhaps Japan is the starkest example of a society that prefers to adhere to formality rather than...
Nuclear Experimentation – Year 69
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World On 16th July 1945, 69 years ago, the United States Army set off the Trinity detonation in New Mexico, the beginning...
How to Develop The Fly Eye for Enhanced Awareness
3rd July 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Flies have two eyes, each with thousands of eyes within them. Their extraordinary sight and rapid flight makes most...
The Dangers of Institutional Thinking – Lessons from 1984, The Matrix, and The Allegory of The Cave
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “On the walls of the Cave, only the shadows are the Truth.” ~ from Plato’s ‘Allegory of The Cave’. Some...
Institutional Thinking: Understanding the Mental and National States of War
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Perhaps it’s human nature to form collectives. Our collectives have grown over time from tribal to national. And our collectives have...
The Divine Power of 108 in Buddhism
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World What’s in a number? Only what we project and apply to that number, some would say. I would argue that numbers provide windows...