In this beautiful and inspiring narrative, Whitley and Anne Strieber begin a series on awakening to the worlds of both the living and the dead. The series will continue over the course of the year. In this episode, a song by the choral group Cantus, "Wanting Memories" is discussed, as Anne Strieber brought it to Whitley’s attention on Saturday evening (January 9, 2016) in an extraordinary way.
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While it’s been public knowledge for quite some time that various meditation techniques, such as classical meditation, yoga, and tai-chi, can improve one’s overall health and well-being, a new statistical study shows that these practices have a related tangible benefit to society, in that it appears that they reduce the need for the use of health care services.
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It’s heating up in Antarctica and flooding in the driest place on Earth – Chile’s Atacama Desert. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are higher now than they’ve been in the last 23 million years.
From what can be gleaned from air bubbles trapped in ancient ice, C02 levels have averaged between 170-280 parts per million since our species first emerged on Earth approximately 200,000 years ago. Now, however, they’re reached 400 ppm. At the rate we’re going, C02 concentrations could well reach 550 ppm by 2100. We are all canaries in this coalmine.
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"Mindfulness" is becoming the latest buzz word being applied as a solution in almost every industry, profession and human condition in the developed world. In British newspapers published in 2004, the term was used in articles just twice, yet ten years later that figure had risen to 150 mentions.
But what is exactly is mindfulness and why is it becoming a global panacea?
The practise of mindfulness has been derived from ancient Buddhist philosophies, and is described in the dictionary as "the meditative state of being both fully aware of the moment and of being self-conscious of and attentive to this awareness; a state of intense concentration on one’s own thought processes; self-awareness."
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