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Zapped: Your Brain on Electromagnetic Fields

By Deane Alban Contributing writer for Wake Up World You’ve certainly heard the controversy about cell phones. Some experts think they cause brain cancer, while others don’t. But there is an even bigger issue here — how all your electronics affect your brain health, beyond just cell phone use...

Baptism of Fire for a New Humanity

By  Openhand Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Mankind faces a very challenging future. With the collapse of the financial system possible at any time; with growing challenge to the industrial food chain and heavily overstretched energy supplies, what we’re faced with, is the very...

Is This the Calm Before the Storm?

By  Zen Gardner Contributing Writer for Wake Up World There’s been quite a lull in major events of late, despite all the garish noise and typical bravado of global figureheads and their complicit media. Sure, there are skirmishes worldwide and economies continue to tumble, but the urgency of many...

Ethical Conscious Clothing — Ending Modern Day Slavery

By Trinity Bourne Contributing Writer for Wake Up World I can’t help but feel that there is something terribly wrong with our world when over 1,134 children, women and men fall to their death in a tragically unsafe building in India, designed to churn out cheap clothing for people in the western...

Samsara and Nirvana – the Ultimate Duality

By  Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The more I learn about Buddhism, the more I appreciate the many teachings of Buddha and the subsequent learned people who followed him, and the more I hear people speaking on such lessons – whether they realize it or not. Truth...

What is Chi? Exploring Our Eternal Reality

By Rod Morin Guest writer for Wake Up World Many, many sages, scholars, researchers and laymen have attempted to answer the perplexing question — What is Chi? The simplistic answer most often used is that Chi is “vital energy” or the “life force”, but this answer falls well short of...

Peak Experiences: Seeking Higher Consciousness with Ayahuasca

By Silvia Polivoy Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World Why do thousands of people go every year to Brazil or Peru to experience ayahuasca? Can this magical potion of the Amazon forest help you visit other dimensions? Or help you communicate with other forms of life? Sound too fantastic to be true...

The Language of the Body: How Your Body Responds to Your Emotions

By Mona Delfino Guest Writer for Wake Up World When we go to a doctor we expect to be told what is wrong with us. We receive a diagnosis and then wonder what we will do about it. It’s becoming obvious more and more that drugs are not, and never have been the answer to health. So why do we...

Seed-Starting: a DIY Guide to Growing Your Own Flowers, Vegetables & Herbs

By  Kelly Roberson Guest Writer for Wake Up World Luckily for all you green-thumb wannabees, gardening isn’t a passing fad. In fact, the act and art of growing flowers, vegetables, and herbs is only gaining in popularity. According to Greenhouse Magazine, nearly half of all people gardened in a...