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Gorbachev warns world of ‘cult of force,’ says all recent conflicts could have had peaceful solution
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Published on rt.com Editor’s note: In this article Gorbachev correctly outlines the fallacy of the military attempts to resolve conflict, but falls into the age-old trap in believing conflict can be solved through political and diplomatic means. In due course a world leader will rise up and announce a consciousness-based solution to conflict in the world; in the…
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Meditation helps calm veterans’ PTSD
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By Tom Corwin, Staff Writer, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016 It is the standard alarm on an iPhone, but when Sgt. Nathan Meisner hears it, he is drawn back to the base where he served in Basra, Iraq. “It sounds just like the alarm when missiles or mortars are being shot into the base,” he said. Meisner suffers…
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How meditating in a tiny Iowa town helped me recover from war
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By Supriya Venkatesan, a veteran of the U.S. Army and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She is a freelance writer based in Princeton, N.J. I didn’t know how to be a civilian after six difficult years in the military. At 19, I enlisted in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Iraq. I spent 15 months there…
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Valerie Gangas reveals her top 5 reasons to learn Transcendental Meditation
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July 14, 2015 On January 25, 2011, I lost the love of my life, my mother. We had a bond that can only be described at soul-mate level. And when she died, I died right along with her. My world went black and all I wanted to do was be with her . .…
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Goodbye to one of the best years in history
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It might not feel like it, but we are safer, richer and healthier than at any time on record [The Telegraph, UK, Thursday 08 January 2015] We are living longer, healthier lives than ever before Photo: Alamy By Fraser Nelson Newspapers can seem like a rude intrusion into the Christmas holidays. We celebrate peace,…
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Believe it or not, this is the best time to be alive
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Though fixated on threats, humans have never been better off, writes Scott Gilmore Scott Gilmore, December 31, 2014. Published in www.macleans.ca Tim Graham/Getty Images By almost every objective measure, 2014 was the safest, healthiest, happiest year in human history. But you probably refuse to believe that, don’t you? And that is actually a problem. First,…
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The world is not falling apart: The trend lines reveal an increasingly peaceful period in history.
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Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times. By Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack. Published in www.state.com. An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobane during a reported suicide car bombing by the Islamic State, as seen from the Turkey-Syria border, on Oct. 20, 2014. The small picture is very bad, but the…
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Interview With David Lynch: His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation
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Interview by Marianne Schnall, published in Huffington Post I can remember being absolutely hooked and engrossed into the surreal world of the cutting-edge television series Twin Peaks back in the ’90s. That was when series creator and director David Lynch became a household name and the show developed a massive and passionate cult following (which…
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Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a zone of peace
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The second Summit of the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Community, known by its Spanish acronym CELAC, is focused on regional integration, the purpose behind its creation in 2011. And on its last morning, the heads of state or government signed a “zone of peace” accord, vowing to reject the use of arms and…
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5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History
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[Source: Think Progress Website] BY ZACK BEAUCHAMP ON DECEMBER 11, 2013 AT 3:34 PM Between the brutal civil war in Syria, the government shutdown and all of the deadly dysfunction it represents, the NSA spying revelations, and massive inequality, it’d be easy to for you to enter 2014 thinking the last year has been…