By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World According to the Hopi, there are red, yellow, purple and white people. Synonymous with the colors of corn, each color is related to...
Category - Philosophy
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...
Breaking Through the Pain of Existence
By Open Contributing Writer for Wake Up World I’d say one of the biggest problems humanity is dealing with right now, is something I call “The Pain of Existence”...
Becoming an Intentional Evolutionary
By Paul Lenda Guest Writer for Wake Up World You would be hard-pressed to find someone that does not feel that there are massive changes happening on our planet, whether they are...
Lucid Living – Creating Your Lucid Reality
By Luke Sumpter Guest Writer for Wake up World Depending upon the culture we are born and raised in, our mind is programmed to perceive the world in a certain way. Many people seem to meander...
Liberation Through Lucid Living – Finding Consciousness Within the Dream
By Luke Sumpter Guest Writer for Wake Up World Lucid Living When we become lucid in the dream state, we become conscious within the dream and this phenomenon ultimately gives the dreamer control over...
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...
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...
The Blind Leading the Blind is Mind
By Harry Krueger Contributing writer for Wake Up World The pristine consciousness acts as nature’s universal voice. Tradition and culture – are they a good thing? The origin of the...
Open-Mindedness: the Key to a Bright Future
By Paul Lenda Guest Writer for Wake Up World Very few individuals can claim to be enlightened and those who are enlightened wouldn’t claim to be so. This curiosity of life leaves us with...
Social and Spiritual Engineering – Don’t Slip and Slide with the Herd
By Zen Gardner Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Following the news and the reactions and comments of friends and fellow activists, it appears we’re in the steep grade of the water...