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  • REALITY
    • The Nature of Reality
    • You never left Home
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • Univ. Dreaming Itself Awake
    • Is the Universe a Fractal?
    • Evidence That Consciousness Creates Reality: Welcome To The Matrix
    • The Whole of Reality Glows With Life
    • Does time exist? Quantum physics says no
    • Three Scientific Fields That Are Helping to Evolve Humanity’s Worldview
    • Why There Might Be Many More Universes Besides Our Own
    • Paradigms are Made for Shifting
    • The Science of Interconnectedness
    • Distorted Reality – Recalling Different Events After Timelines Merge
    • The Amazing Rise of the Mandela Effect!
    • Expanding Our Awareness to See a Multidimensional Reality
    • The Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of the Earth Game
    • The Next Big Bang – Human Consciousness and the Universe’s Ultimate Secret
    • Reality – Constructing the Separation Game
    • Parallel Realities and the Multidimensional Universe
    • Quantum Phase: Time, Parallel Realities and The Brain
    • The Shift and The Quickening of Manifestation
    • The Three Layers of Your Reality Construct
    • Transcending the Realms of Duality and Separation
    • How to Form Blueprints of Potential Realities
    • New View of Consciousness/Reality >
      • Evolution and Consciousness
      • Life After Death: Verdict
      • Consciousness/Brain
      • When We Die
      • The Body is a Shell
      • Everyone has a Purpose
      • Life: Spiritual Growth
      • The Problem of Evil
      • Multi-Dimension Universe
      • Conclusion and Notes:
    • A Holographic Universe? >
      • The Fractal Holographic Universe: Introduction
      • The Holographic Paradigm : All is One
      • The Spiral and the Holographic Matrix
      • The Unified Field and the Illusion of Time: Understanding the Source of Creation
      • Vacuum Energy: Proof of Free Energy in the Space All Around Us
      • Spiral Vortex – Contemplative Exercise
      • Attention, Intention & the Universe as a Conscious Holographic Information Processor
      • Love Waves In Our Hologram
      • Love, Creation and Morphic Resonance – The Formula for All Matters in The Love Hologram
  • CONSCIOUSNESS
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • The Relationship between Human Consciousness and Earth Dynamics
    • A Call to Conscious Evolution
    • Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness
    • Lumen Octave Principles : Language of the Soul
    • A Door Is About To Open!
    • Accessing A Higher Level Of Consciousness (and The Ego: Our Greatest Teacher)
    • Explorers of Higher Dimensions: The Power of Active Consciousness
    • 20 Transformational Truths From Sages Throughout the Ages
    • Mind Over Matter - Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
    • Beyond Space and Time: Quantum Theory Suggests Consciousness Moves on After Death
    • Neurosurgeon Who Doubted Afterlife Now Convinced It's Real
    • A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Worlds Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander
    • Focus on Possibilities, Not Limitations.
    • Cosmic Consciousness Phenomenon : The Overview Effect
    • We Are Becoming Consciousness ItSelf
    • Dimensions of Conscious Experience
    • Mysterious Light : A Scientist's Odyssey
    • From Science to God
    • ONENESS : Transcending Duality
    • This Body is Not Me
    • The Rise of Empathic Consciousness
    • Your Body is a Projection of Your Consciousness
    • Evidence That Consciousness Creates Reality: Welcome To The Matrix
    • Human Consciousness Is Taking A Quantum Leap: Lifting of the Veil
    • Leading Neuroscientists & Buddhists Agree: “Consciousness is Everywhere”
    • Be Careful, Consciousness Is Listening!
    • Experiencing a Collective Shift Through Personal Transformation
    • The Illusion of Time and Space
    • The Emergence of Connected Consciousness
    • Reality & Experience: Morphic Fields & The Power Of Choice
    • You Are The One – The Universe is Moving Within You
    • Conscious Creation: Becoming an Observer of Your Own Life
    • The War On Consciousness
    • The Multidimensional Self: The Soul, OverSoul, and Beyond
    • The 2020 Parting of the Waves: Which Flow are You Riding?
    • We Have Arrived at the Dawn of the Unknowing
    • The Most Suppressed Technology Today
    • Children/Education >
      • Education and the Death of Creativity
      • A Message From The Children
      • Children of the New Dream
      • It’s Time to Unleash Creativity in Our Schools
    • The Human Heart : The Intelligence of The Heart >
      • Coherence: The Energy and Light from Your Heart
      • The Global Coherence Initiative
      • Enlightenment
    • The Human Brain >
      • The Triune Brain
      • The Split Brain
      • The Holographic Brain
      • Whole Brain Synchronization : Binaural Beats
      • Mysterious Brain Of Daniel Tammet
      • Consciousness/Brain
      • What and Where is Consciousness?
      • The Holographic Paradigm : All is One
      • Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness
      • Exploring the Nature of Mind and our Holographic Brain
      • Six Intriguing Types of Synesthesia
      • Mysteries of the Pineal Gland Ignored by Mainstream Science and Research
  • HUMANITY
    • The Awakening >
      • The Dark Night Of The Soul >
        • Humanity : Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit >
          • Who Are You?:Deepak Chopra
          • Solar Flares Affect Humans
          • Univ. Unconditional Love
          • A Prayer for the World
          • Overcome the Ego
          • Etheric Antenna: Chakras
          • Your Aura and 12 Chakras: Keys to the Kingdom
          • The Seven Bodies of Man
          • The Journey
          • A Spiritual Pilgrimage
          • Science of the Soul
          • We are Beings of Light
          • Lumen Octave Principles : Language of the Soul
          • God is Very Much Alive
          • Tao: Your Cosmic Connection and Spiritual Contract
          • The Three Births of the Human Spirit
          • Unconditional Love?
          • The Relationship between Science and Spirituality
          • How Einstein Saw the World
          • Conscious Partnership with Earth
          • Infogr: Control your Dreams
          • Your Cells When You Experience Happiness
          • Aligning the Trinity – Body, Mind and Spirit
          • Being Aware of Our Energy
          • The Greatest Story Never Told
          • The Alchemy of Groups
          • Inevitable Change – Shattering Our Attachment to ‘Sameness’
          • The Biocrystal
          • Life after death: Hospice doctor studies the vivid dreams and visions of dying people that suggest comfort being given from the other side
          • In Life and Death, Love is Our Legacy – The Courage to Open Our Hearts
          • Attuning to the Flow of the Universe
          • Waking Up From Religion
          • Astral Dynamics : The Silver Cord
          • The Spirit World
          • Cycles of Soul Existence
          • The Soul’s Journey After Death
          • Life Between Lives
          • 7000 Souls Recall Their ‘Life’ Between Lives During Regression Hypnosis, The Similarities Are Astounding
          • The Life-Review Process
          • We Are the Universe Becoming Aware of Itself
          • Have You Realized The Profundity Of Our True Nature?
          • Improving Your Connection To Spirit
          • Aligning with Our Soul Purpose
          • Spiritual Inspiration from Albert Einstein
          • Spiritual but Not Religious? Why Spiritual Wellness Does Not Depend on Your Beliefs
          • A Sense of Oneness Leads to Greater Life Satisfaction, Research Shows
          • How to Transform Your Darkness Into Light
          • You Are a Sovereign Being – Start Acting Like It!
          • 5 Steps to Cultivate Patience Within Your New New Normal
          • The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off
          • Chaos Sorcery
          • Science, Spirituality and Religion
          • Shadow Work 101: Just Claim it All
          • Staying Centered in a Wild World
          • How Changing Your Thoughts Changes Your Life
          • Victim or Creator?
          • The “Seer” of all Things
          • Discovering Our Earthly Selves
          • 11 Major Warning Signs From the Universe
          • Living From The Heart
          • Reincarnation: 10 things everyone should know about Reincarnation >
            • Reincarnation: The 35 Steps of Soul Evolution
          • DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid): >
            • DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies
            • Controversial DNA Discoveries
            • Evolution : The Body's Intelligence
            • Evolution is speeding up
            • Human Energy Field and DNA
            • Everything You Are, Have Been And Ever Will Be Is About Frequency, And Your DNA Is The Ultimate Antenna
            • Forgotten In Time: The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies
            • The Human Genome – Perception Directly Controls Gene Activity
            • Leonardo da Vinci and The New Biology
          • Near Death Experiences >
            • Neurosurgeon Who Doubted Afterlife Now Convinced It's Real
            • The NDE and the Silver Cord
            • Rev. Dr George Rodonaia's Unusual NDE
            • Shared Death Experiences
            • Groups of People Can Share a Single NDE
            • 'Shared Death Experience' Study
          • Akashic Records / Akashic Field / Book of Life >
            • A Database That Contains A Record Of The Soul’s Journey: The Akashic Records
            • Edgar Cayce: Readings from Akashic Records >
              • Edgar Cayce : 'The Sleeping Prophet'
              • The Body - Temple of God ; Chakras
              • Angels and Archangels ; The Christ ; Humanity ; Death
              • Mary Magdalene
              • Moving into the New Paradigm
              • The Future
              • The Book of Revelation
              • Consciousness
              • Human Origins
              • The Past Lives of Jesus
      • The Song of the Soul Group
      • The SupraMental Awakening and Planetary Hope
      • Univ. Dreaming Itself Awake
      • When Awakening Begins
      • The Veil of Forgetfulness
      • Pr. of Personal Transformation
      • Time To Pay Attention To Who You Are/Where You Are Going
      • Before Beginning of Universe .. You Were Still There
      • 2012 Visionaries
      • Awaken, Children of Earth!
      • Time : A Musical
      • Waking Up Is So Hard To Do… Alone
      • Swami’s State of the Universe 2015
      • A Need and An Ecstasy
      • Full Moon In Scorpio - An Invitation To Emergence
      • Something Extraordinary Is Happening In The World
      • 3 States of Mind to Embrace the Coming Energy
      • The Sacred Garden
      • Being Our Experience
      • We were made for these times
      • Are You a Bridge Between Two Worlds?
      • Choose Love – and Be the Change!
      • Timekeepers of the Human Experiment
      • The Starseed Mission: A Practical Guide to the Pros and Cons in One’s Awakening
      • What's the Point of Life? Why are we here?
      • Reflections On The Year That Was 2018
      • I’m Not Going Insane: It’s the Universal Awakening!
      • The Dalai Lama’s Morning Prayer
      • Shedding the Layers in Our Collective Expansion
      • Are You Dimming Your Light?
      • Ready To Go Sane In A Crazy World?
      • The Great Transformation: A World Awakening
      • You are Needed: Reclaiming Humanity’s Light
      • Let The Emergence of a New Humanity Begin!
      • Healing a World Disconnected From Its Imagination
      • The Universe Played its Trump Card! But Is President Trump the Worst Curse or a Blessing in Disguise?
      • The Grand Story of the Deep State, the Current Apocalypse and the Battle of Good vs Evil
      • Winning the War on Consciousness – Humanity’s Grand Awakening from Deep State
      • Moving Beyond Awakening Shock Syndrome
      • The 5 Stages of Awakening – Signposts and Pitfalls on the Path of Consciousness
      • It’s Time to Step Outside the Conditioned Mind
      • Global Games That Tyrants Play – and People Who Agree to be Played With
      • The Only Way for Humanity to Survive What’s Happening
      • Before Every Bright Day Is a Dark Night
      • A Guide to Glide Through the Great Awakening – Spread Hope Not Fear
      • Building a Brighter Future
      • The Revealing of the Nightmare Has Begun! (Article–Video)
      • Destiny in the Making: Lightworkers Were Seeded Exactly for these Times!
    • Ascension/Evolution >
      • The Gathering of the Eagles >
        • Foreword and Introduction
        • PT 1 : Chapt 1 : THE LITTLEST HOBO
        • PT 1 : Chapt 2 : "I QUIT"
        • PT 1 : Chapt 3 : WILL THE REAL POST OP NURSE PLEASE STAND UP
        • PT 1 : Chapt 4 : LAST WEEK I WOULD HAVE SAID YOU WERE CRAZY
        • PT 1 : Chapt 5 : ON THE ROAD AGAIN
        • PT 1 : Chapt 6 : THE SPORTSMAN CAFE
        • PT 1 : Chapt 7 : CHANGE OF LIFE
        • PT 1 : Chapt 8 : IF IT'S TUESDAY, THIS MUST BE HOLLAND
        • PT 1 : Chapt 9: NO SHAME TO BE POOR/Epilogue
        • PT 2 : Chapt 10 : FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE
        • PT 2 : Chapt 11 : THE NEW GARDEN
        • PT 2 : Chapt 12 : "WHAT'S MINE'S MY OWN"
        • PT 2 : Chapt 13 : THE GUIDING LIGHT
        • PT 2 : Chapt 14 : THE PEOPLE
        • The Prince of Hope
      • Residing in the 5th Dimension
      • Vibrational Acceleration
      • Homo Divinicus: to come
      • 5th Dimension Consciousness
      • The Ride Has Just Begun!
      • Raising Your Vibration
      • Spiritual Evolution: Divine Plan
      • Ascension: The Larger Picture
      • 2013: The Gateway of LIGHT
      • The “Seer” of all Things
      • Spont. Evolution Has Arrived!
      • Compassion: Ascension Key
      • Who Are We Becoming?
      • Shifting Paradigms
      • Blueprint for Ascension
      • Ascension Revisited
      • 'The Quantum Leap' by Solara
      • I Surrender to the Infinite that is Within Me
      • Ascension and the Fifth Dimensional Network
      • Why It’s Time To Accept Humanity’s Power of Creation and The Soul’s Journey
      • Transformation
      • “We Are Living In The Most Important Time In The History Of Our Universe”
      • Accelerating Our Collective Emergence into a New Paradigm
      • The Greatest Spiritual Event of Our Time According to Rudolph Steiner
      • Dolores Cannon – THE EVENT Information
      • The Three Waves Of Volunteers
      • Raising Vibrations: How To Be The Change You Want To See In The World
      • The Daily Alchemical Process of Ascension
      • The Universal Ascension Process: Our Journey to Oneness
      • The Golden Rule: A Lesson in Oneness Throughout the Ages
      • As the Coronavirus Sweeps around the World, Our Planet is on the Verge of Evolution
      • The Old World Is Falling Away and Making Way for a New One
      • The Art of Ascension: The 7 Stages of Alchemy
      • 5D Ascension: The Pleiadians and the Toroidal Flow
      • Social Transformation – Like Ripples in an Ocean
      • Do You Have a Calling to Heal the World? How to be an Agent of Change
    • Sandra Walter-Asc. Guide
    • Human Body of Light >
      • Spark of Light At Conception
      • Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with, and is Made from Light
      • We Are Beings of Light
      • Are Humans Solar Powered?
      • Cells use light to communicate
      • Your Body Literally Glows With Light
      • Light
    • Ancient Knowledge/Civilisations >
      • Lost Civilizations Existed
      • Houston anthropologist reveals irrefutable proof that recorded history is wrong
      • The Return of the Elder Race & Opening the Gateway of the Fifth Kingdom
      • Quest for the People of the Secret
      • The skeletal remains of giants found all over the world
  • CHANNELLED INFORMATION
    • Archangel Michael speaks >
      • CREATING YOUR PYRAMID OF POWER
      • THE TWELVE SACRED TRIBES OF CREATION
      • THE MICHAEL/MARY CONNECTION
      • A COSMIC VIEWPOINT OF CREATION AND EVOLUTION
      • A RECAP OF THE BEST
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE VESICA PISCIS
      • THE SPIRIT AND THE SOUL AND A NEW PYRAMID OF LIGHT MEDITATION
      • STAGES OF AWARENESS ON PATH OF ASCENSION
      • HOLD STEADY, BELOVEDS
      • WHO YOU ARE
      • VICTIM OR VICTOR?
      • PERFECTING YOUR SKILLS AS A CO-CREATOR
      • THE PATH OF ASCENSION IS THE PATH TO FREEDOM
      • LOVE IS A NATURAL STATE OF BEING
      • 2013 IN REVIEW - A YEAR OF TRANSFORMATION
      • ARE YOU READY TO EMBODY YOUR SACRED FIRE ENERGY?
      • RITUAL OF PASSAGE INTO 5th DIMENSIONAL REALITY
      • CREATING YOUR SPHERE OF HEAVENLY LIGHT
      • SPIRITUAL REUNION
      • ANGELS OF MERCY
      • NEW RAYS OF INDIVID EXPRESSION
      • EARTH’S SEED ATOM RECORD-KEEPER CRYSTALS
      • ENHANCING YOUR POWER TO MANIFEST
      • THE ILLUSION OF FEAR
      • BECOMING SOUL-INFUSED PERSONALITY
      • DOWNLOADING YOUR NEW DIVINE BLUEPRINT
      • DECISION TIME : THE FUTURE IS NOW
      • YOUR LIGHT CLOAK OF MANY COLORS AWAITS YOU
      • WILL YOU BE AMONG THE CHOSEN?
      • BECOMING A PRACTICAL MYSTIC
      • FINE-TUNING YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY FOR EVOLVING HUMANITY
      • PYRAMIDS OF LIGHT - THE LIGHT PATHWAY OF RETURN
      • OPENING THE SEVEN SEALS OF GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS
      • DEMYSTIFYING DEATH
      • WE 0FFER YOU A STREAM OF LOVE/LIGHT FROM OUR HEART TO YOURS
      • EVOLUTION OF THE BODILY FORM AND ASCENSION IN CONSCIOUSNESS
      • THE SEARCHLIGHT OF THE SOUL * YOUR TWELVE RAY CREATOR WHEEL
      • ACCESSING YOUR HIGHER POWER POTENTIAL
      • WHAT IS SPIRIT?
      • INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE BECOMES WISDOM
      • THE FIVE KINGDOMS/DIMENSIONS FOR THIS ROUND OF EARTHLY ASCENSION
      • THE LAW OF RESPONSIVE RETURN
      • EMBRACING THE POWER OF LOVE
      • WARRIORS OF LIGHT: PROACTIVE, LOVINGLY ASSERTIVE
      • THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
      • OPEN LETTER TO ASCENDING STARSEED SOULS
      • AVATARS * ASCENDED MASTERS * GREAT BEINGS OF LIGHT
      • BECOMING AN EMISSARY OF LIGHT
      • HARMONIZING THE PHYSICAL * EMOTIONAL * MENTAL BODIES
      • THE FIERY FORCES OF CREATION ARE SWEEPING THE EARTH
      • A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
      • UNIFIED SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • ARE YOU A STARSEED WAYSHOWER?
      • THE NEXT LEVEL OF SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • THE PHYSICAL VESSEL: A WONDROUS, SACRED CREATION
      • RELATIONSHIPS AND YOUR SACRED UNION
      • ARE YOU READY FOR LIBERATION?
      • PERFECTING YOUR SKILLS AS A COCREATOR
      • CREATING A 'NEW EMPOWERED YOU'
      • SEEKING PEACE FROM WITHIN
      • THE ECSTASY OF SACRED LOVE
      • ACCESSING THE EARTH’S MEMORY SEED ATOM CRYSTALS
      • ARE YOU READY TO MAKE A COMMITMENT?
      • EMBRACING ALL FACETS OF GOD CONSCIOUSNESS
      • OPENING THE PORTAL TO YOUR SACRED HEART
      • ARE YOU READY?
      • THE SPIRALING PATH OF ASCENSION
      • YOU ARE IN THE MIDST OF A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION
      • YOU ARE A STAR OF COSMIC SACRED FIRE
      • ENHANCING YOUR PERSONAL GOD ESSENCE
      • YOUR CONNECTION TO YOUR HOLY MENTAL SELF
      • THREE GOD RAYS: DIVINE WILL * DIVINE LOVE * DIVINE INTELLIGENCE
      • THE POWER AND MAJESTY OF THE ELEMENTS
      • DEVELOPING NON-ATTACHMENT
      • ENHANCING YOUR POWER TO MANIFEST
      • THE EMPOWERING GIFT OF FORGIVENESS
      • THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUL
      • THE NEW AGE OF SPIRITUAL/HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
      • THE ESSENCE OF CREATION
      • THE MEMORY SEED ATOMS WITHIN YOUR SOUL
      • THE FAST TRACK TO SELF-MASTERY
      • THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
      • NEW RAYS OF INDIVIDUALIZED EXPRESSION
      • WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE WAITING TO ASCEND?
      • THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS * OUR HEAVENLY MOTHER
      • INTEGRATING YOUR NEW DIVINE BLUEPRINT
      • A NEW CYCLE OF CREATION IS IN PROGRESS
      • KEEPERS OF THE VIOLET FLAME
      • TRAVERSING THE LAST SUB-PLANES OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION
      • IT IS TIME TO SHINE YOUR LIGHT AND SHARE YOUR VISION
      • YOU, THE WAYSHOWERS, ARE THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE
      • A GLIMPSE BEYOND TOMORROW
      • THE CELESTIAL WINDS OF CHANGE ARE SWEEPING THE EARTH.
      • ADAMANTINE PARTICLES AND HOW TO USE THEM EFFECTIVELY: A REVIEW
      • THE VOICE OF SPIRIT IS CALLING
      • A WONDROUS CREATION: THE PHYSICAL VESSEL
      • ARE YOU A STARSEED LIGHT UPON THE PATH?
      • LAW OF THE CIRCLE * LAW OF THE TRIANGLE
      • TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY
      • A COSMIC MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY
      • YOU ARE A “WHITE FIRE SEED ATOM” OF ALL THAT IS
      • BECOMING A SOUL-INFUSED PERSONALITY
      • AN OVERVIEW OF THE “STATE OF THE EARTH AND HUMANITY”
      • SEEKING PEACE AND SERENITY FROM WITHIN
      • FINE-TUNING YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • YOUR SPARK OF DIVINITY IS IMMORTAL AND ETERNAL
      • HOLD STEADY, BELOVEDS
      • ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE “HIGH ROAD?”
      • POWERFUL MENTAL CONCEPTS TO INTEGRATE WHILE ON THE WAY TO ASCENSION
      • THE PATH OF INITIATION
      • RONNA’S RITE OF PASSAGE: PART ONE - LADY FAITH
    • Archangel Uriel >
      • Be The Energy for an Ascending Earth
      • The Balance of Creator and Co-Creator
      • In the Acceleration
      • The End of the Journey is a New Beginning
      • You Are Embodied Perfection
      • The 5 Dimensions of Will
      • Shine From Your Radiance
      • A Time of Expanded Light from Archangel Uriel
    • The Angels, through Satya >
      • Who Is Your Angel ?
      • How to dialogue with the Angels
      • The Love
      • The Joy, the Smile and the Gratitude
      • The Nature and the Breathing
      • The Awakening of the Soul
      • Recognize and express own Essence
    • Through Sal Rachele >
      • The Founders >
        • Moving to the Next Level
        • The Founders on the Nature of Timelessness
        • The Founders on the Precession and Galactic Cycle
      • Leah and Sananda >
        • Extending God’s Creation into the Physical
    • Ra and Q'uo: The Law of One >
      • Ra : Ra's History
      • Ra: Before the Veil of Forgetfulness
      • Ra : Wanderers
      • Ra : Harvest
      • Ra: Session 14 of the Law of One
      • The Universe According to Ra
      • Ra's Work on Earth
      • Q'uo : Ascension
      • Q'uo : Jesus the Christ and the Buddha
      • Q'uo : Angels
      • Q'uo : Primary Development of the Creation'
      • Q'uo : Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine
      • Q'uo : Are you doing what you came to do?
    • Seth >
      • Seth Speaks about God
      • Creation of Matter
    • Through channel Ken Carey: >
      • The Awakening (that we asked for)
    • Kryon : Who is Kryon? .... and Who are We? >
      • The Future is Quantum | An interview with Lee Carroll
      • About Channelling
      • Light
      • Your Soul is Part of the Creative Source of the Universe
  • EARTH
    • EARTH articles: >
      • Earth Changes and 2012
      • The Relationship between Human Consciousness and Earth Dynamics
      • Earth: Geologic Primer
      • Infogr: Yellowstone
      • Healing Mother Earth
      • Earth's Inaudible Voice
      • The Mysteries of Water
      • Oceans:Shocking Decline
      • Geobiology : Earth Energies That Affect Our Lives
      • Scientists warn that Earth faces severe water shortages within a generation
      • Our Oceans Are Dying
      • Infrasound: "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres"
      • Is Science Finally Catching Up to What the Ancients Knew About Crystals?
      • Can our Intentions Heal the Water?
      • Does Mother Nature Know What She is Doing?
      • The secret life of trees: Thinking, caring and using the 'wood-wide web' to communicate
      • Scientists find jet stream in Earth’s core
      • Scientists: Earth’s Magnetic Fields Carry Biologically Relevant Information That ‘Connects All Living Systems’
      • Waking Up to the Sacred in Nature and Reclaiming Our Earth Soul
      • Conscious Partnership with Earth
      • Honoring The Solstice
      • Vietnamese farmer discovers a spectacular world
      • Humanity is Waking Up to the Intelligence of Nature
      • The Earth and all its Life is a Sacred Gift
      • Will we be the People of the Great Change?
      • Caring for Our Sacred Earth
    • EARTH/SPACE articles: >
      • Space Weather >
        • Tracking Space Weather from the Sun to the Earth (NASA)
      • Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere
      • Unusual Sounds Reported Worldwide - What Are They?
      • Do 'Outside Forces' Affect Earth?
      • Speed of the Earth?
      • Planetary Challenges and Spiritual Evolution
      • PlanetoPhysical State of the Earth and Life
      • Spirals : Earth/Space
      • Space-Time Vortex
      • Electromag. Spectrum
      • Solstices and Equinoxes
      • Earth/Sun Connection
      • Breach in Magnetic Field
      • Change in Earth's Gravity
      • Moon : Effects on Earth
      • Plasma tubes surround Earth
      • Infographic : EARTH/SPACE
      • Infographic : Evolution of Food in Space
  • OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
    • THE SUN - Our Star >
      • The Sun : Solar Activity
      • Infogr: Sunstorms! / Solar Flares
      • How Solar Flares Affect Humans
      • Mystery of the Sun's Corona
      • Massive Plasma Waves Sweep the Sun
      • Lately, the Sun has been behaving a bit strangely
      • Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots
      • Scientists Prove Existence of ‘Magnetic Ropes’ that Cause Solar Storms
      • Sun/Earth Relationship
      • Magnetic Portals connect Earth to the Sun
      • Images From Sun’s Edge Reveal Origins of Solar Wind
      • Total Solar Eclipse 21 August 2017
      • The Awakening Solar Intelligence
      • Revealing the physics of the Sun with NASA's Parker Solar Probe
      • Surprising stillness ensues when the solar wind hits Earth's magnetosphere
    • Infogr: Jupiter and Venus
    • Infogr: Solar System
    • Infogr: Asteroid Belt
    • Evolving Solar System / 2012
    • Galaxy, Solar System and Harmonic Resonance
    • Magnetic Bubbles at Edge of Solar System
    • The Seven Bodies of Man
    • Our Solar System's Tail
    • Water in the Solar System: Water, Water, Everywhere!
    • Something is Affecting the Entire Solar System
    • Solar system replica built by space enthusiasts in Nevada Desert - 11km (7 mi) wide
    • Jupiter : 'Brand-new and unexpected' discoveries
    • The Helical Dynamics of the Solar System
  • MILKY WAY GALAXY
    • Infogr: The Milky Way
    • Infogr: Galaxy Full of Planets
    • Massive Outburst in Neighbor Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
    • Sirius and Human History
    • Earthquakes on Stars in the Milky Way
    • Betelgeuse : Supernova?
    • The Corrugated Galaxy : Milky Way Galaxy may be more enormous than ever imagined
    • Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy
    • Galactic Centre : >
      • Strange Rumblings at the Centre of our Galaxy
      • Massive Outflows Pouring Out Of Milky Way’s Center
      • Milky Way’s Black Hole Shows Signs of Increased Chatter
      • Scientists Identify Cosmic Energy Accelerator at the Galactic Center
  • UNIVERSE
    • The Unified Field and the Illusion of Time: Understanding the Source of Creation
    • The Universe Is A 'Giant Brain'
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • The New Cosmology
    • How Large is Universe?
    • Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster
    • The Interdimensional Universe
    • Universe : YouTube videos
    • Electric Universe/Plasma Cosmology >
      • What is Plasma?
      • Plasma; 99.999% of Universe
      • Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere
      • Elect. in Space: Hannes Alfvén
      • Aether: True Electric Current?
      • The Simple Electric Universe
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This Is What Happens To Your Cells
When You Experience Happiness
May 4, 2014 by DR. MARIANNA POCHELLI

Too much research has been devoted to the science of stress, depression and the connection to disease and not enough to the biology of joy. If a greater emphasis was placed on why we don't go to doctors when we are feeling optimistic, happy and joyful, there would be less value and importance placed on the emotional states that coincidentally generate more money for those manufacturing medication.
There are many ways to experience pleasure in our brains and happiness might be the one emotion that prevents and reverses the cascade of cellular events that lead to disease.

Artificial Happiness

A lot of people get addicted to chemicals - alcohol, cocaine, amphetamine, heroin and nicotine. Why do they do that, and why aren't they happy? It is because brains have a variety of chemical systems that regulate their electrical activities in waking and sleeping, and the addictive drugs artificially stimulate those systems, but the feelings are not those of joy.

For example, a chemical called 'dopamine' is broadly spread through the brain by specialized nerve cells when a person achieves some kind of reward, such as by satisfying hunger and thirst, winning a game or passing an examination. Dopamine is often called a "reward hormone". Its chemical actions are produced also by closely related compounds such as amphetamine and cocaine. They give feelings of bouyant optimism, energy, power, and knowledge.

This same chemical linked to drug addiction may also contribute to obesity, researchers have found.

It is not surprising that people who have no other avenues to success, living in poverty and hopelessness, will spend their food money on some transient chemical bliss. But that isn't happiness, and even people who are bloated on academic or business success, and who feel elation, aren't liable to confuse that feeling with happiness.

Other chemicals called 'endorphins' act in the brain as natural pain relievers. Their action is imitated by heroin and morphine, also alcohol. Again, it is small wonder that people who suffer from the emotional pains of regret, shame, guilt and despair might find relief from their demons in forgetfulness. But that isn't happiness.

Yet another chemical called 'serotonin' is important in bringing mental relaxation as an important condition for getting to sleep. We don't really know yet what sleep is for, but we know that we can't survive without it. The relief from agitation and anxiety that is mediated by serotonin leads also to recovery from some forms of depression. That is why the chemical fluoxitine (Prozac) has become so popular. It doesn't act like serotonin, but it prolongs the action of what little serotonin the brain is producing, if it is in short supply. But return to tranquillity from anxiety and depression is not the same thing as happiness.

So, is there a chemical for joy? Scientists are beginning to understand that this is a wrong-headed question. There is no such chemical, and even to ask the question is to expose a deep ignorance about how brains - and people - actually work.

Happiness Is Directly Linked To Our Health

Dr Derek Cox, Director of Public Health at Dumfries and Galloway NHS, suspects that for decades health professionals have been missing a big trick in improving the health of the nation.

"We've spent years saying that giving up smoking could be the single most important thing that we could do for the health of the nation.   "And yet there is mounting evidence that happiness might be at least as powerful a predictor, if not a more powerful predictor, than some of the other lifestyle factors that we talk about in terms of cigarette smoking, diet, physical activity and those kind of things."

The science of happiness is increasingly suggesting a link between happiness and health.

Andrew Steptoe, the British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology at University College London, has found that happier people also have greater protection against things like heart disease and stroke.   "We know that stress, which has bad effects on biology, leads to those bad changes as far as health is concerned," said Mr Steptoe.   "What we think is happening is that happiness has the opposite effect and has a protective effect on these same biological pathways".

What Happens To Our Cells When We Are Happy?

The increasing prevalence and debilitating effects of depressive symptoms has motivated intense research investigating the biological basis of mood disorders and negative affect. However, the immense volume of research investigating pathophysiology has yet to be paralleled by research of positive affect.

Specifically this emerging field is focused on identifying contributing factors and various effects of positive subjective experiences and emotions, such as hope, optimism and spirituality. Positive affect is a term encompassing various components, including happiness, contentment, life satisfaction, optimism and well-being. It appears that happy people who are highly effective have the same habits.

The study of positive psychology is encouraging more researchers to study pro-active illness prevention by identifying attitudes and personality traits that contribute to positive mood and increase quality of life.

For example happy people, as compared with less happy people, tend to have greater immune system functioning, a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, and report greater marriage and job satisfaction. It is therefore valuable to develop a deeper understanding of the positive affect by investigating its biological basis. Several studies have begun to investigate potential biological markers of positive affect.

Research investigating the association between potential biological markers indicates that depressed individuals have a lower concentration of prolactin. Most people associate prolactin with enabling women to produce milk, however it is influential over a large number of functions.  Prolactin also plays an essential role in metabolism, regulation of the immune system and pancreatic development.   In humans, prolactin is produced at least in the pituitary, uterus, breast, lymphocytes, leukocytes and prostate. As prolactin response increases, so do the positive effects associated with happiness, and this correlates with cognition and neural connectivity affecting our ability to perceive, remember and reinforce existing neural connections.

To protect the brain from stress it releases a protein called BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor).  BDNF is a neurotrophin which functions to translate activity into synaptic and cognitive plasticity in the adult animal. BDNF has a protective and also reparative element to memory neurons and acts as a reset switch. That’s why we often feel so at ease and things are clear after moments of stress, and eventually happy.

At the same time, endorphins, another chemical to fight stress, is released from the brain. Endorphins main purpose is to minimize discomfort and block the feeling of pain by stimulating pleasure centers, many of which even lead to euphoria.
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BDNF and endorphins are the reasons exercise makes us feel so good. The somewhat scary part is that they have a very similar and addictive behavior like morphine, heroine or nicotine. The only difference? Well, it’s actually good for us.

Endorphins are chemicals that are able to cross through the gaps between neurons in order to pass along a message from one to the next. There are many different kinds, and much remains to be learned about their different purposes and functions, but endorphins can be released with many different types of activities.

Endorphins act as both a painkiller and as the pay-off for your body's reward system. When you hurt yourself (or eat a hot chili pepper), you may get a big dose of endorphins to ease the pain. You may also get an endorphin blast from talking to a stranger, eating a satisfying meal or being exposed to ultraviolet light. (Everyone has different amounts of endorphins, and what may trigger an endorphin rush for one person could very well produce a dud for someone else.) The pay-off in the form of your body tapping into its own stash of "opiates" is to let you know you've had enough -- and convince you to do it again sometime soon.

Overall, the net benefit of cells undergoing all the above changes leads to:

  • stimulating the growth of nerve connections.
  • improving cognition by increasing mental productivity.
  • improving our ability to analyze and think.
  • affecting our view of our surroundings.
  • increasing attentiveness.
  • leading to even more happy thoughts.

Why Happiness Is Not Made By a Chemical

Where we humans find joy is in surmounting this solipsistic barrier (the theory or view that the self is the only reality) between us and sharing our feelings and comforts. We cannot ever really cross it, but, a bit like neighbors chatting over a fence, we can be together. However, there is more to this communion than mere talking. There is trust, which underlies true friendships and partnerships.

What is the chemistry of trust?

Answers are found when we look back on our mammalian ancestors. Raising a helpless infant to childhood requires intensive parental care, which comes with bonding between the parents and the infant. Now, how does a carefree child, when it has grown up, become a parent? This change in role requires a catastrophic change in beliefs, attitudes and values to make new parents. We humans would say that they fall in love, first with each other and then with their offspring.

Scientists have learned that when animals mate and give birth specialized chemicals are released into their brains that enable their behavior to change. Maternal and paternal patterns of nursing and caring appear. The most important is a chemical called 'oxytocin'. It doesn't cause joy. On the contrary it may cause anxiety, because it melts down the patterns of connections among neurons that hold experience, so that new experience can form. We become aware of this meltdown most dramatically as a frightening loss of identity and self control when we fall in love for the first time.

Bonding comes not with the meltdown, but with the shared activity afterward, in which people learn about each other through co-operation. Knowing another person doesn't come with foreplay and orgasm. It comes in co-operative activities during and afterward. Trust emerges not just with sex, but also with vigorous shared activity in sports and combat, through which people bond into teams by learning to trust each other.

So oxytocin is not a happiness chemical but a brain tool for building trust, and this is well known in mother-child bonds. Perhaps a million years ago our ancestors learned how to use this mammalian mechanism to promote social bonding beyond sexual union, in order to form groups and tribes. They did it, and still do it, with dancing, rhythmic clapping and chanting, singing and making music together all day and night, into exhaustion and collapse. When they awaken, they are reborn.

Nietsche realized this. Emil Durkheim and other anthropologists have shown how people engage in Dionysian orgies and religious ceremonies, as the most effective way in which to create group identities. The joy they experience comes in dancing and singing with each other, thereby forming the bonds of trust. Trust comes when we are able to predict what other people will do, and we achieve that by repeated co-operative actions.

Aristotle wrote: "Happiness is activity of the soul in accordance with virtue." That is rather abstract. We can see virtue as a set of shared goals for the good of ourselves and our children. Joy comes with activities that we share with people we have learned to trust, and that enable us to share meaning across the solipsistic barrier that separates each of us from all others.

So happiness is not made by a chemical. That would be the same as treating a violin sonata as nothing but rubbing horse hair on strings of cat gut in order to make a wooden box resonate. Violin makers have to know their materials to make a violin, and physicians have to know about the brain chemicals in order to treat patients, when the chemistry of brains has gone wrong, but they can't give us a pill to make us happy. We create our own joys and we feel happiest in learning to trust each other.

The Power of Positive Thoughts

As far as your brain is concerned, every thought releases brain chemicals. Being focused on negative thoughts effectively saps the brain of its positive forcefulness, slows it down, and can go as far as dimming your brain's ability to function, even creating depression. On the flip side, thinking positive, happy, hopeful, optimistic, joyful thoughts decreases cortisol and produces serotonin, which creates a sense of well-being. This helps your brain function at peak capacity.

Happy thoughts and positive thinking, in general, support brain growth, as well as the generation and reinforcement of new synapses, especially in your prefrontal cortex (PFC), which serves as the integration center of all of your brain-mind functions.

In other words, your PFC not only regulates the signals that your neurons transmit to other brain parts and to your body, it allows you to think about and reflect upon what you are physically doing. In particular, the PFC allows you to control your emotional responses through connections to your deep limbic brain. It gives you the ability to focus on whatever you choose and to gain insight about your thinking processes. The PFC is the only part of your brain that can control your emotions and behaviors and help you focus on whatever goals you elect to pursue. It helps you grow as a human being, change what you wish to change and live life the way you decide!

Why Optimism Leads to Greater Happiness

Neuroscientists have discovered that people who have a more cheerful disposition and are more prone to optimism generally have higher activity occurring in their left PFC. But that's a brain explanation. Interestingly, behavioral scientists have observed fascinating differences between optimists and pessimists. Optimism, for example, involves highly desirable cognitive, emotional and motivational components. Optimistic people tend to have better moods, to be more persevering and successful and to experience better physical health.

One factor may be simply that optimists attribute good events to themselves in terms of permanence, citing their traits and abilities as the cause, and bad events as transient (using words like "sometimes" or "lately"), or the fault of other people.

In addition, optimists:
  • Lead happy, rich, fulfilled lives
  • Spend the least amount of time alone, and the most time socializing
  • Have good relationships
  • Have better health habits
  • Have stronger immune systems
  • Live longer than pessimists

On the flip side, pessimistic people explain good events by citing transient causes, such as moods and effort, and bad events as permanent conditions (using words like "always" or "never"). A study by a University of British Columbia researcher found that some people are genetically predisposed to see the world darkly. Negativity is all-pervasive, it seems.

Pessimists:
  • Automatically assume setbacks are permanent, pervasive and due to personal failings.
  • Are eight times more likely to be depressed than optimists
  • Perform worse at school and work
  • Have rockier interpersonal relationships
  • Die sooner than optimists.

According to Sonia Lyubomirsky, a University of California researcher, unhappy people spend hours comparing themselves to other people, both above and below themselves on the happiness scale; happy people don't compare themselves with anyone.

According to a study from Lund University, a collective picture of what makes us happy is more about relationships and people, and less about things.

The good news is that you can use your mind to train your brain to tamp down the negative thoughts that lead to pessimism, while ramping up the types of positive thoughts that lead to optimism. You can be the master of the neuronal changes that will lead to greater happiness, and the rewiring starts in those teensy miracles known as your brain cells, or neurons.

Even if depression runs in your family you have the capability of improving the way your brain functions, of setting up neuronal roadblocks and diminishing the neuronal patterns linked to negative thinking. You may not be able to eradicate a genetic disposition towards depression, but you can greatly reduce its impact and its reccurrence.

Negative Thinking, Negative Balance

Negative thinking slows down brain co-ordination, making it difficult to process thoughts and find solutions. Feeling frightened, which often happens when focused on negative outcomes, has been shown to decrease activity in your cerebellum, which slows the brain's ability to process new information - limiting your ability to practice creative problem-solving. Additionally, the fear factor impacts your left temporal lobe, which affects mood, memory and impulse control.

Your frontal lobe, particularly your PFC, decides what is important according to the amount of attention you pay to something and how you feel about it. Thus, the more you focus on negativity, the more synapses and neurons your brain will create that support your negative thought process.  ['What you focus on, you create.' - Messenger Spirit]

Your hippocampus provides the context of stored memories, which means the emotional tone and description your mind creates can potentially rewire your brain by creating stronger neuronal pathways and synapses. What you think and feel about a certain situation or thing can become so deeply ingrained that you will have to work hard to dismantle the negative connections and rewire your brain in order to be less afraid, to think positively, to believe that dreams can come true, to trust that your efforts will be successful.

Train Your Brain to Think More Positively

One of the oldest precepts of neuroscience has been that our mental processes (thinking) originate from brain activity: that our brain is in charge when it comes to creating and shaping our mind. However, more recent research has shown that it can also work the other way around: that focused, repetitive mental activity can effect changes in your brain's structure, wiring, and capabilities.

The actions we take can literally expand or contract different regions of the brain, firing up circuits or tamping them down. The more you ask your brain to do, the more cortical space it sets up to handle the new tasks. It responds by forging stronger connections in circuits that underlie the desired behavior or thought and weakening the connections in others. Thus, what you do and what you think, see or feel is mirrored in the size of your respective brain regions and the connections your brain forms to accommodate your needs.

What does all this mean? It means that what we think, do and say matters; that it affects who we become on the outside, the inside and in our brain. Mostly, it means that you can retrain your brain to be more positive.

Start by thinking happy thoughts, looking on the bright side, and refocusing your brain when negative thoughts occur. Your mind has the ability to determine how your brain thinks about what happens in your life. Use it to your own advantage to reframe events and think positively.


Sources:
ubc.ca
berkeley.edu
bbc.co.uk
psychologytoday.com
illinois.edu
bmj.com

Dr. Marianna Pochelli is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine specializing in the treatment of disease through superfoods and herbal strategies. She actively promotes detoxification, colon cleansing, and a vegetarian lifestyle using living foods as a platform to health.

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