By Dr. Rupert Sheldrake Like many mothers who feared for their family’s safety during World War II, Mona Miller was evacuated from London to the peaceful seaside town of Babbacombe in Devon. It seemed like a wise precaution but, shortly after her arrival there with her young children, Mrs Miller...
3rd February 2012 By Gaye Levy Guest writer for Wake Up World I recently decided that I should up the ante when it comes to the items in my food storage, and holy moly have you seen the price of beans lately? Last summer I purchased a goodly quantity of beans and paid $14.95 for each 25-pound...
By Joseph Castro – livescience.com Nurturing a child early in life may help him or her develop a larger hippocampus, the brain region important for learning, memory and stress responses, a new study shows. Previous animal research showed that early maternal support has a positive effect on...
By Bronnie Ware For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never...
31st January 2011 by Sarah van Gelder – yesmagazine.org 7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy and 7 populist tools to help shut it down. You may remember that there was a time when apartheid in South Africa seemed unstoppable. Sure, there were international boycotts of South...
28th January 2012 Dylan Charles – Waking Times Great revolutionaries inspire others with passionate words and set examples with proper deeds, using their life experience as wisdom to guide others. One doesn’t have to be as well known as Ghandi, or as celebrated as Martin Luther King, Jr. to...
By Michael Michalko 1. You are creative. The artist is not a special person, each one of us is a special kind of artist. Every one of us is born a creative, spontaneous thinker. The only difference between people who are creative and people who are not is a simple belief. Creative people believe...
By David Crane Looking back on his 95 years, there are 11 lessons (from many) that I would like to share from his legacy which would help us make a small but positive mark in our society. Here they are: 1. Determination in fighting for the right thing. Nelson Mandela’s fought against apartheid...
By Nicholas West Guest writer for Wake Up World ‘Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. Throughout space there is energy. — Nikola Tesla, 1892 Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage...
By Michael Snyder Guest writer for Wake Up World Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These...
